Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Appt.™ are plenty m> KW ile County. They have a femate msr rance agent in Howard County The operatives in the Vandalia Railroad shops, at Terre Haut e, are talking of aco operative store. Wm. Powell’s tannery at Valparaiso was recently burned to the ground, involving a loss of $16,000. A boy at the Pike County Fair was made sick by drinking festive lemonade, and died the next day. The next session of the Southeastern Indiana Conference of tl le M. E. Church will be held at Greensb' arg. Over $3,000 have.been paid as royalty for coal on one farm in Brazil, and there has never a pound of coal been taken out yet . Michael Bott, a laborer in the Madison Brewery, after whipping his wife blew out his brains with a double-barreled shotgun. Indianapolis, with a population of 100,000, lost by death only twenty-six of her inhabitants during the week ending Sept 18. Barney Aaron, the pugilist, was recently arrested at Richmond in the act of picking a stranger’s pocket A “ pal” put up SI,OOO cash bail and the couple traveled. Lafayette is suffering from a persistent attempton the part of fire-bugs to destroy her. On a recent night not less than five attempts were made to fire buildings in the Fourth Ward. The last proved successful, resulting in the burning Of the office and lumber yard of Monely & Co., and involving a loss of about $30,000.

A daughter of Samuel Lefever was burned to death at Fowler, a few days ago. She was lifting a skillet of hot lard from the stove with her apron, when the lard caught fire. In her fright she dropped the skillet, spillingthe lard on her clothes, which immediately blazed up in a mass of flames, burning her so badly that she died in a few hours. While Joseph Tutzwiller, a boy fifteen years old, was going to water horses on a farm near Evansville, the other day, the animals became frightened and the boy was thrown. His foot caught in the traces and he was dragged more than half a mile. His body was found ten hours after the accident horribly mutilated and scarcely recognizable. There are forty-three Young Men’s Christian Associations in the State, an increase of twenty-three during the year. The membership last year was 1,159 and this year It is 2,537, showing an increase 1,378. Last year the amount expended was $5,796; this year $12,436 —an increase of $6,640. There were held during the year 1,058 cottage prayer-meetings, and over 2,000 conversionshave been reported. A few nights ago Lashley’s saloon, the only one in Milton, was attacked by a mob and badly riddled. They destroyed everything Inside, carried the doors and windows away, tore the weather-boarding away from the front of the building, and finally caught Lashley and beat him severely. His bar-tender escaped through a back door and “jumped” the town. The fate of eveiy saloon started in Milton has been similar.

Dr. Evarts, Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane, announces the complete restoration to health of Robert Dale Owen, who he says will speedily return to his home in New Harmony, where he will, under advice, continue for a time to rest from labor. The doctor adds that he sees no reason why Mr. Owen may not, in a short time, resume his work with all the vigor and ability incident to his age and habits of life William S. Wood, President of Greenfield Manufacturing Company, and a man of prominence and influence in Hancock County, recently committed suicide in Indianapolis by taking 180 grains of morphine and a bottle of chloroform. In a letter left behind he acknowledged that in his business transactions for the past two years he had committed numerous forgeries, principally in his father’s and father-in-law’s names. The Attorney-General has rendered another opinion on the Fee and Salary act. He says: “In addition to the fees prescribed in the Fee and Salary act of 1875 in behalf of Sheriffs for the taking of insane persons to the hospital for the insane, I hold that such assistants as are appointed by Circuit Clerks, under Sec. 31— (Ist G. and H., page 385)—are entitled to eight cents mileage. Sec. 31 and the Fee and Salary act are to be construed in sari materia. See Dumm The State, 4th Indiana, page 280.” The State Archaeological Society was recently formed at Indianapolis with the following officers: J. D. Hough, Indianapolis, President; Vice-Presidents, Dr. William Blount, First District; Dr. A Patton, Second; W. F. Glick, Third; M. A. Garish, Fourth; J. C. McPherson, Fifth; E. T. Fletcher, Seventh; John Collett, Eighth; T. D. Brown, Ninth; T. Hlg. ley, Tenth; D. C. Darrow, Eleventh; Col. S. N Robinson, Twelfth; Col. James Colgrove, Thirteenth; L. R. Case, Richmond, Secretary; Dr. R. T. Brown, Treasurer; Prof. E. T. Cox was elected Curator for one year. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the two weeks ending Sept 25, 1875: EstablishedRiver, Huntington County, John O. Frame, Postmaster; Circleville, Clinton County, Samuel Merritt, Postmaster. Discontinued—Jasonville, Green County; New Brunswick, Boone County. Name changed—Woostertown, Scott County, to New Frankfort, and Richard Stoaker appointed Postmaster. Postmasters appointed —Battleground, Tippecanoe County, James P. Clute; Bloomfield, Green County, Edward Eveleigh; Chrisman, Porter County, Chas. Seytel; Courier, Miami County, D. H. Smith; Cutler, Carroll County, Wm. Green; Dow, Cass County, Jacob H. Rhine; Fillmore, Putnam County, M. A. Braun; Markle, Huntington County, David McCance; Nappanee, Elkhart County, John B. Pettycord; Northfield, Boone County, H. W. Nichols; Reese’s Mills, Boone County, Mrs. M. J. Woffandale; Reno, Hendricks County, Thomas M. Wilson; Sanburn, Knox County, Louis A. Clauss; Stilesville, Hendricks County, Davis Boswell, Jr.; West Liberty, Howard County, Joseph Parker; Wooster, Kosci. usko County, Andrew Cochenour; Zionsville, Boone County, George F. jL, JSssex.