Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The potato crop is simply enormous all over the State. Cambridge City talks of sending a colony to Tennessee. There are rumors of another strike ha the Brazil coal region. It snowed briskly at Logansport sot two hours on the 11th. And now they say a email insect is injuring the growing wheat. Throat diseases are quite prevalent just now throughout (he State. The receipts of the Bartholomew County Fair amounted to over $5,000. Dr. Lambert, of Goshen, is making a collection of North American birds, stuffed. A fatal disease is carrying off hundreds of hogs in the western and southern portions of Madison County. The old Western brewery, near Evansville, was burned the other night, involving a loss of about SB,OOO. The report of flie State Prison South for the quarter ending Sept 30 shows receipts $26,285.05, and expenditures $26,158.83. The inmates of the State Prison South now number 492, with fair prospects of increasing to an even half thousand in a few days. Starting a fire with coal-oil at Lawrenceburg was the cause of it. Her name was Mary Kertegen. It is hoped her burns are dot fatal. Some Spencer County farmers think the acreage of wheat sown in that county this fall will be from 50 to 75 per cent less than usual, owing to the drought. The Indianapolis Journal was sold on the 13th to Judge E. B. Martindale and W. R. Holloway. E. W. Halford takes the position of managing editor. The children of the Soldiers Orphans’ Home, at Knightsville, to the number of about fifty are suffering from an aggravated form of the whooping-cough. Tinkler’s grain-elevator at Wea Station, seven miles south of Lafayette, was burned the other morning. The fire had incendiary origin. Loss about $30,000. The soldiers’ reunion at Indianapolis on the 14th and 15th was a magnificent success. It was estimated that fully 50,000 veterans were in the city on the 15th.

Noble County gets the red ribbon on pumpkins. The largest measured seven feet two inches in circumference. They also produced a beet thirty by thirteen inches. The officers of the Monroe County Fair, after paying expenses, found that they would be enabled to pay thirty-three and one-third cents on the dollar of the premiums awarded. The saw and planing mill at Hicks ville, a few miles east of Auburn, was set on fire by tramps a few mornings ago and totally consumed The loss was about $17,000, on which there was no insurance. The prisoners in the Vigo County jail were discovered* the other day in an attempt to escape by sawing loose the iron clamp which held a large stone in its place. Many tools with which they had been working were recovered. Deeds have been filed for record conveying $500,000 worth of real estate to Willard College, at Evansville—the donation of its founder, Willard Carpenter—and the project is now entirely in th« hands of the trustees. Work will be commenced next spring. The claims of the parties who figured in the Deaf and Dumb Institute investigation are beine allowed by the State Auditor, the Board having complied with the instructions of the State officers concerning the same. The proportion of the expenses paid by the State is $2,500. While A. N. Custer was pitching off the stack to a threshing-machine in Clay Township the other day he slid off and struck a pitchfork leaning against the stack. One tine pierced his right side, passing entirely through his lungs. The injury was thought to be fatal. A new phase of the old conflict between the judiciary and the management of the House of Refuge has arisen. Supt Ainworth refuses to receive John Day into that institution, who is sent there under special instructions of Judge Buskirk, of the Indianapolis Criminal Court, because the offender is over sixteen years of age. The matter is to be carried to the Supreme Court for final adjudication. On the evening of the 7th the Indianapolis Banking Company received a telegram from the manager of the Bank of British North America, located in New York city, directing the arrest of any person presenting a circular letter of credit numbered higher than 151. Next day a well-dressed stranger answering to the name of Henry Saunders presented a letter numbered 169 at the bank counter and asked for $3,000. He was locked up. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week ending Oct. 9, 1875: Established—Benham’s Store, Ripley County, Aaron H. Neburgger, Postmaster; Given, Clinton County, Frederick Roush, Postmaster; Hanover Center, Lake County, Frank Massoth, Postmaster; Waterford Mills, Elkhart County, Henry Snyder, Postmaster. Postmasters appointed—Bloomingport, Randolph County, Joseph T. Lanun; Otwell, Pike County, Benjamin E. Dillon.

Thomas Stout, a cattle-dealer living near New Market, in Montgomery County, recently bought $16,000 worth of cattle of Darnall & Carver, of Putnam County, giving a check for $5,000 on the First National Bank of Crawfordsville as part payment. He then shipped the cattle from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh and Buffalo, receiving advances of SIO,OOO from the railroad, and up to the Bth nothing had been heard of him. He had no money in the bank and of course the check was not paid. Geo. Negley committed suicide at his residence in Evansville a few days ago. Negley lived alone, having had trouble with his family, and was well off. When found his body was upright in bed, with revolver in hand, one chamber having been •discharged in liis mouth. On the table, near the bed, was a loaded rifle pointing directly toward him. He had drawn the ramrod and fixed it so that a slight touch would discharge the gun in case the revolver failed, and close by his side was a huge butcher-kflife; but the revolver (lid He work,