Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Dnanco October 4,728 can kdea with coal were shipped from Brazil. Slagnus Jackson, an old citizen of Lafayette, died a few mornings ago from the effeeta of morphine taken to alleviate pain. Bra late ordinance again* vagrancy all tramps visiting Richmond are *pttt to work cleaning the streets to pay for their board and lodging. ' A Richmond idiot recently threw a lot of old cartridges into a coal vault, from which they went into the fire, and exploding blew the stove to pieces. . A little girl in Evansville, recently, while swinging in her father’s yard, be* came entangled and would have choked to death had not a neighbor seen and released her. Tns depot of the Indianapolis A St Louis Railroad at Danville was entered by burglars on the night of the 11th and the sale of the American Express Company robbed of $2,000. Burglars went through the Postofflce at Walton, Cass County, on the night of the 14tb, taking all the letters in the box-es-add about SSO worth of goods from the store where the Postoffice is located. Toe mast is said to be uncommonly heavy in Jefferson County. So great is the beechnut crop also that farmers find it profitable to bring it to the city and sell it to the grocers and confectioners like chestnuts. At Richmond, on the 15th, while serving a warrant for the arrest of John Stone, for stealing wheat, Deputy-Sheriff Stratton shot at him seven times. Three of the shots took effect, and then the rascal allowed himself to be taken to jail. A boiler in the Occidental Hotel, at Indjanapolis, exploded a few afternoons a ■jo, tearing out a side-wall and shaking the structure from turret to foundation. * The damage, considering the imminent risk, was light and no one was hurt The accident was attributed to low water. Clara Schramm was recently terribly injured .aLa-Rielnflsnd paper-mill. While washing her bands near the machinery she felt something pulling her dress and put back her hands to feel what it was. Both hands were caught in a cog-wheel and terribly lacerated, one being ground up nearly to the elbow. At Valparaiso, on the evening of the 14th, the express train on the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne Railroad struck & man who was walking on the track, killing him instantly. He was a German, named . Albert Yoglekand, and accidentally walked into a cattle-guard, and could not get out before the train was upon him. The Brigham Brothers, whisky-distill-ers at Evansville, have recently abandoned all claim to their distillery and rectifying establishment, worth $60,000, recently seized by the Government, rather than allow their books to be brought into court and subjected to a trying criticism. In the surrender were also included two distilleries at Patoka. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has offered to settle the matters in dispute with the C., C. & I. C. Railroad Company by giving & definite guarantee of interest on the first mortgage bonds, provided the bondholders will agree to take 6 instead of 7 per cent., and the second mortgage bondholders will exchange their present holdings for new income bonds. D. G. Biggs made his advent into Madison about three years ago. He seiemed an exemplary young man and finally married a very respectable young lady there. After six months of married life he coolly deserted his wife and then sent her a letter informing her that his name was not . only not D. G. Biggs, but that he. had a wife and children elsewhere. It waa a cruel and heartless proceeding. While six men were carefully watching a store m Indianapolis the other night, having received information of a contemplated raid by burglars, a pair of sharp robbers succeeded in entering the store, and carried off a considerable sum - of money. The thieves were captured after leaving the place by the police, the private watchmen remaining in total ignorance of the burglary until morning. The Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. convened in annual session at Indiauapolis on the 17th, and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Grand Patriarch, J. W. Smith, Gosport; G. H. Priest, John Morgan, Madison; G. Sr. Warden, G. A. Milnes, Fremont; G. Jr. Warden, George L. Curtiss, Indianapolis; G. Scribe, B. F. Foster, Indianapolis; G. Treasurer, T. P. Haughey, Indianapolis; Grand Representative, Reuben Robertson, New Albany ; alternate, John W. McQuiddy; G. Sentinel, ChristopherTober, Madison; G. Dep. Warden, Joseph S. Watson, Indianapolis. The grand officers’ reports show 479 effective lodges in the State, and a membership of 26,000. Twenty-three new lodges have been instituted during the last six months. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week ending Nov. 13, 1875: Established—Huntersville, Clay County, Elizabeth J. Hunter, Postmistress; Jasonville, Greene County, Samuel Kelshaw, Postmaster. Discon-tinued-Bowser, Blackford County; Nosh Depot, Vanderburgh County. Postmasters appointed—Bretzville, Dubois County, Charles Ritzman; .Castleton, Marion County, Peter L. Neglcy; Chestnut Hill, Washington County, James W. Bell; Elizavilie, Boone County, William M. Byers; Ferdinand, Dubois County, Mrs. Mina Gohmann; Loudon, Shelby County, Miles A Ashton; Newbern, Bartholomew County, Mrs. Jane Shepherd; Pekin, Washington County, George M. Johnson; Rockford, Jackson County, E. F. Parker.

Not long ago a man named D. Craft, residing at Lake Station, purchased of a druggist an ounce and a hall of worm-seed-oil to give to his four children who were troubled with worms. He administered it to all of them in doses of from four to eight drops three times a day, according to the directions pf the druggist. One of the children refused to swallow the medicine and was saved, but the other three died and were buried in one grave. DoctOmxliffer as to the power of the medicine, and at the inquest some testified that the doses were too large, while others insisted that they were not. No blame is attached to the father, but, ou the contrgiy, great sympathy is felt for him. The jjeople rather blame the druggist, who is thought to have been criminally .93*?-