Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Col. Polk, Auditor of Wabash County, died a few days ago. *]?HB tobacco crop of Orange County this ft year is the largest erer raised there. r Jcxx3K Cyrus Wright, an old and high-ly-respected citizen of Shelby County, is dead. . W. B. Young’s planing-mill, at Tipton, was burned a few nights ago. Loss about $5,000. The Indiana Baptist State Convention will meet at Evansville on the 2d to 4th of November next Ah incendiary fire on the morning of the 23d destroyed Haas’ Opera-House, at Wabash. Loss $12,500. A yabt deposit of superior marble has been found on the farm of Stephen Kirkpatrick, of Cass County. William Russel, living with his uncle near Rushville, committed suicide the other night by hanging himself. A bekabkable religious awakening is manifesting itself in Randolph County, particularly in the vicinity of Winchester. Grave charges have been preferred against tbe Superintendent of the Vanderburg County Asylum by the County Physician. Valparaiso suffered from a $12,500 fire on the morning of the 24th. Lepell’s brick furniture store was one ot the structures burned. Maggie Benton was 'fatally burned at Connersville a few days ago while playing with other children around a fire lighted in the front yard. ( f * Y

Lutheb R. Martin, of Indianapolis, a well-known real estate broker, was thrown from his bttgy the other evening and fatally injured. He died next morning. Mrs. Hacker, of Marco, gave her two children, the other day, what she supposed to be quinine. It proved to be strychnine and both died in an hour. A project is under discussion in Laporte and Porter Counties to create a new county out of portions of those two, with Michigan City for the county seat. Thomas Welhat’s barn, near Mechanicsburg, caught fire the other day from the spark of a steam-engine used to run a thresher. The property burned was valued at $5,000. A little three-year-old boy, son of H. C. Short, living near Rushville, was burned to death a few morning ago in consequence of his clothing taking fire from a hot stove. Capt. R. H. Williamson, once a prominent citizen of Lebanon, recently made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide by taking a dose of morphine. He was pumped out. Pifty fat hogs belonging to a farmer near Centerville were killed a few nights ago by some unknown person who fed them corn-meal in which pounded glass had been mixed. Jas. & Mclntosh was fatally injured while at work in Tucker’s mill, at Logansport, the other day, by being struck in the stomach by a heavy piece of wood thrown from a shaping-machine. An incendiary fire was started at Centerville on the morning of the 26th, which was not extinguished until six houses in the center of the village were destroyed. The loss was about $20,000. A pour- year-old son of John Spoon, of Monroeville, while riding with his father on a load of corn, the other day, fell ofl and the wagon passed over his bowels. He lived thirty minutes. E. C. North, Clerk-elect of Ohio County, refuses to take the office because under the new law the fees of the office only amount to from $350 to S4OO a year —not enough to support his family. Samuel Fanning stabbed his brother, in-law, John Clark, at North Manchester, seven times, the other day, and fatally wounded him. The trouble arose from Clark attempting to correct Fanning’s child. During a drunken row at Indianapolis on the evening of the 23d Thomas Meskell was stabbed in the leg by a rowdy named W. H. Howard. An artery was seyered and Meskell bled to death in five minutes. On the 4th, at Walton, George Harris, while gathering nuts, fell from the top of a large tree, his head striking on a snag, which drove itself through his skull, inflicting wounds from which he died five . hours after. Hog cholera prevails in Adams, Fall Creek, Jackson, Lafayette, Richland and Stony Creek townships, in Madison County, and at last accounts was spreading rapidly. . One farmer in Lafayette township had lost $2,000 worth of hogs. Frank Martin, of Cambridge City, while hickory-nutting the other day, climbed a tree to shake down the shellbarks. A limb broke, precipitating him to the ground, twenty-five feet below, and injuring him internally and fatally. Jacob Fuchs, the Milwaukee man recently sentenced to the Penitentiary for three years for obtaining money under false pretenses, cut his throat from ear to ear at Indianapolis a few days ago. He had rather die he said than betaken to the State Prison. Hopes were entertained of his recovery. As John Gilmer, of Washington township, Wayne County, was passing behind a young horse in his stable a few days ago he stepped upon a rotten plank which broke under his weight. His foot caught in the hole and while endeavoring to extricate himself the horse kicked him, breaking his skull and jaw. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week ending Oct. 23, 1875: Postmasters appointed— Alto, Howard County, William A. Quick; Ashland, Henry County, A. V. Lamb; Collamer, Whitley County, J. C. Grafton; English, Crawford County, Thomas Hanley; Ross, Lake County, Christopher W. Lander; Springport, Henry County, Hand, ford Benedict; Sweetser’s, Grant County, Emerson Jester; Titusville, Ripley County, Owen M. Breeden. The Independent Order of Reel Men recently in session at Madison adjourned on the 20th, after the election 6f the following officers: Great Sachem, John Davis, Bourbon; Sagamore, RS. Gregory, Muncic; G. J. S., John A. McGawn, Indianapolis; G. Prophet, J. W. Linek, Madison; G. C. of Records, D. A. James, Lafayette; Wampum, J. W. Sfiirey; Representatives to the Grand Council of the United States, W iilie ; David, lyUjflnanoi»; A. Hock, Jiadfcojj,