Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

of Prairie Creek Township, in Vigo County, died on the 9th of milk sickness. Thos. Conner, & notorious tramp, fell into Hogues’ Run, at Indianapolis, on ths 6th, and was killed. He was drunk. The store of Dr. Trees, at Manilla, was entered by burglars the other night. They blew open the safe and secured SSOO in currency. Geo. W. Cubby, of Indianapolis, while hunting near the Insane Asylum on the 7th, accidentally and fatally shot himself while climbing a fence. y J ohm Norton was struck on the head the other eveninc, at Terre Haute, with a billiard-cue. He died on the 11th. Elijah Otterback, his assailant, has been arrested. The woolen mills at Aqburu were burned on the evening of the 6th. The fire is supposed to have been the result of spontaneous combustion. Loss about $15,000. A Mbs. Shea has turned up in Indianapolis who claims to have been born in Ireland in 1769. She is now in her 107th year, is hale and hearty and bids fair to live a dozen years yet. On the night of the 10th Mrs. Jennie Berry, the divorced wife of Cal Wagner, the minstrel, attempted to commit suicide, in her rooms at Indianapolis, by taking aconite. A. physician and a stomach-pump saved her. The Chairmen of the severs committees having in charge the late soldiers* reunion in Indianapolis met on the 9th, and found on hand, after settlement, a surplus of $1,134.76, which they transferred to the monument fund. A five-year-old son of Samuel Simmons, residing at Sharpsville, was instantly killed the other afternoon while climbing on a log wagon. His head was caught between the wheels and bolster and crushed to. a shapeless mass.

A sixteen-year-old boy, named Dixon Smith, recently shot J. M. Myers, a brakeman on the Indiana, Peru &• Chicago Railroad, who entered his father’s premises at Tipton to steal turnips. He has been held to bail in SSOO to answer. James Scott, Justice of the Peace at Huntington, en the Bth administered a terrible cow-hiding to William Kocher, a leading lawyer of that place. Tho cause of the whipping was not known. Sam Winters, of the Democrat, attempted to interfere and received several smart cuts for his pains. Two men named Trapp and Riddle, living a short distance east of Hartford City, bad a difficulty on the lOlh about a farm the former had rented the latter. Trapp had sold his farm and tried to induce Riddle to give up possession. Riddle became very angry at Trapp’s persistency, and seizing a heavy club struck him a fearful blow on the head, instantly killing him. The Governor on the 11th appointed the following gentlemen to represent the State at the Railroad Convention to be held at St. Louis on Nov. 23: Hon. Leonidas Sexton, E. S. Alvord, Chas. Viele, Hon. C. M. Allen, Jesse J. Drown, Hon. J. R. Cravens, B. F. Claypool, M. L. Bundy, John Cavin, D. W. Voorhees, Judge 8. C. Wilson, Dr. M. G. Sherman, C. B. Knowlton, Hon. Ochweig Bird, Dr. G W. McConnell. Un account of the disclosures made to the Grand Jury of the United States Court by Gen. Neatch, Collector of the First District, the Court on the 9th issued an order for the seizure of Distillery No. 1, at Patoka, Gibson County, for frauds upon the revenue. This distillery was owned by Brigham Bros., of Evansville, and by them lately transferred to the present proprietors, who, it is understood, will not make any attempt to contest the seizure of the property. In the Supreme Court, on the Bth, an opinion was filed which disposes of the Lafayette intra-municipal jangle. The question presented was as to the power of a City Judge to exercise jurisdiction in a suit for violation of a city ordinance. The court holds that the law under which the office of City Judge was sought to be created was inoperative. There is no pro. vision in tlie act declaring that when a City Judge has been provided for and elected he shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction conferred upon the Mayor by the act of March 14, 1867, or that he shall have any jurisdiction whatever. The court fails to find, from anything contained in the act now in force, that the City Judge, when elected, is to supersede the Mayor in his official duties, for . the plain reason that there is no language of the act which attempts to express such an intention, as the City Judge does not snpen-ede the Mayor, and the Mayor is required to hold court daily and is given exclusive jurisdiction. In cases involving infractions of city ordinances it is held that the City Judge has no jurisdiction. As this implies the creation of a judicial officer without any cases to try, it must be attributed to oversight on the part of the Legislature in failing to define his jurisdiction.

Hon. J. H. Smart, Superintendent of Public Instruction, has prepared a summary of the annual reports of the County Superintendents for the year ending Sept. 7, from which the following figures are taken: Number of white children admitted into the schools during the year, 495,110; colored, 6,651; males, 267,463; females, 241,911; number of school districts, 9,191; colored schools taught during the year, 182; white teachers employed, 18,047; colored teachers, 86; average compensation of male teachers per day in townships, $2.03; females in townships, $1.80; males in towns, $3.25; females in towns, $1.96; males in cities, $4.71; females in cities, $2.28; total revenue received for tuition, $4,797,127.45; amount expended since Sep! ember, 1874, $2,830,747.15; on hand, $1,966,380.34; received on account of special fund, $2,^54,395.45; expended since. Sept. 1, 1874, $1,699,457.44, on hand, $654,932.97; school-houses in the State, 9,307; total estimated valued school property, $10,880,337.58; total estimated special school tax, $1,618,078.77; amount paid to trustees for managing educational matters, $72,983.31, number of school-houses erected during the year, 383; value of school-houses erected, 1641,544; private schools, 949; teachers in private schools, 960; number of punijt ,id Witted during the year, 13,956,