Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Indiana Baptist Convention met at Evansville on the 2d. Thrk* were daring the. month of October 247 prisoners in the Indianapolis JaH. The assessment of property for taxation in Attica is $144,000 less this year than last A colored barber named Carter cot his throat with a razor at Centerville the other day. Dr. Brooks, of St. Louis, has declined the recent tender of the pastorate of toe First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis. John Lehr an was recently fatally injured at Crapp’s factory, in Loganaport, by a pile of lumber falling on him. Hedied on the Ist At Mount Vernon, on toe 2d, Noah Bishop, a colored man, killed his divorced wife with an ax. The woman was about to marry again. The tumbling-shaft of a threshing-ma-chine recently took in Thomas Graham, in Warren County. He had his arm tom off at the shoulder. A. E. Faber wheeled M. Kaskel from Bristol to Elkhart in a wheelbarrow, the other day, because the people of Ohio elected Hayes Governor. John Haslet, sixty years old, was instantly killed at Dover on the 30th nit, while assisting to raise a heavy timber upon the frameof a wagon. The Vincennes Sttn says Hiram Cox, Trustee of Vigo Township, Knox County, has disappeared, and with him toe township funds amounting to $20,000. While Joseph Rogers, a switchman, was coupling cars at Logansport the other night, his head was canght between projecting timbers and his skull fractured. R. Morton, at Lafayette, has recovered a judgment for $15,000 against the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad for failure to deliver grain according to contract.

John H. Halliday, proprietor of the Indianapolis Evening Newt, waa married on the morning of the 4th to Miss E. M. Rieman, daughter of James N- Rieman, a wealthy Baltimore banker. A jury in a probate case at Union City, after being out eighteen hours, brought in a verdict of guilty, but on polling the jury one member admitted that he had been starved out They were sent out again. Rotten-stone, entirely free from grit, and admirably soited for polishing silver and other metals, has been discovered near Stineville, Clay County. A preacher is the fortunate owner of toe farm on which it is found. The Indianapolis Journal says it is proposed to have a general exhibition in every school-house in the State on the 11th of December to celebrate the fifty-ninth anniversary of the admission of the State to the Union. Judge Gresham, of the United States District Court, at Indianapolis, on the 2d, decided that the law compelling distillers and other liquor-dealers to produce their books and papers in court at the instance of toe District-Attorney is constitutional. The coal-miners in the vicinity of Evansville have struck for four cents a bushel for mming. The present rjite is three and a half cents. The operators refused to yield, claiming that they would open the mines within a week with new hands.

During a heavy thunder-storm on the 3d a valuable barn belonging to Henry Brooks, near Griffin station, was struck by lightning and totally destroyed by fire Two fine horses perished in the flames and a third was badly injured. Loss $3,000. A meld form of epizootic prevails in the vicinity of Madison, which the Courier attributes to the consumption of ergotized hay. It says the excessively rainy weather of the past summer has produced a large amount of erzot in the hay, especially that made from red-top. A mound was recently opened near Knox which contained several skeletons of human beings who were once of great stature. It is estimated that they must have been some seven or eight feet tall while living. Among the other interesting things discovered were several copper arrow-heads. The Board of Supervisors of Madison County have called a special election to be held on the 23d of November to vote upon the question of authorizing a loan of SIOO,000 to rebuild the Court-House. The vote contemplates the levy of a tax of five mills yearly for five years. The Court-House of this county was burned about a month ago. Henry Sinclair, of Lafayette, shot a burglar who was attempting to enter his residence early on the morning of the 28th ult. He found him on the roof of his house, and as he rolled off to the ground he left behind him a pair of boots and a large pool of blood. He was subsequently captured, and at last accounts was thought not likely to recover. The following were the postal changes in Indiana during the week ending Oct. 30, 1875: Discontinued —Mount Liberty, Brown County; Rock Island, Perry County. Postmasters appointed—Clouscr’s Mills, Montgomery County, Nathan Lewis; Elizaville, Boone County, William Byers; Templeton, Benton County, O. H. Hayes; Upland, Grant County, Jacob Bugher; Wild Cat, Carroll County, John W. Penn. The will of Dr. James 8. Athon, a former State official who recently died at Indianapolis, gives to Mrs. Athon onethird of his property for life, and the balance equally to his three children. After the death of Mrs. Athon the third given her will go equally to the children. He made a special bequest of SSOO to Mrs. Athon’s daughter. It is estimated that the estate will amount to’ from $150,000 to $200,000, and is mostly in real estate. The Attorney-General is called upon to answer a rather knotty question in jurisprudence. The village of Lebanon, desiring to put on city airs by taking advantage of the law on the subject, has declared that henceforth it will assume the functions of an incorporated city. By a majority vote of the citizens the town ceased to be, a City Council was elected and ordinances were passed for the city government. According to the law an ordinance cannot go into effect until two weeks after its passage. The question arises, how is is.the city governed in the interim, or is it governed atalj?