Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

■A Catbouc college it to be erected io Benton County. It will have a frontage of 700 feet, and coat $200,000. j Is Daviess County $45,000 have been secured by private jubscription for the building of a new Court-House. 1 Daniel Schumaker’s store at Twelve Mile, Cass County, was burglarized on the night of the Ist to the tune of S3OO. Mbs. Kitzmiller, living in the country, near Lafayette, was fatally burned the other evening by the explosion of a kero-sene-oil lamp. Morris Smits, residing near Richmond, accidentally jumped upon the prongs of a pitchfork the other morning before daylight, receiving fatal injuries. At a corn-husking frolic near Sunman, recently, two little boys, aged nine and eleven years, found a jug of whisky and drank from it. The elder recovered but the younger died. The body of George Luy, an aged German stone-cutter, was found in Uhl’s millrace at Logansport the other morning. It was the inglorious termination of a Thanksgiving spree. Judge Holland, of Richmond, died almost instantly on the morning of the Ist. About six o'clock his wife was awakened by a rattling sound in his thtoat, and before she could give an alarm he was dead. State Superintendent Smart decides that the law permits County Superintendents to examine the books and records of county officers and Justices, and provides that they shall have pay when so engaged. At Logansport, a few days ago, a boy eight years old, named Corcoran, was run over and instantly killed by a switch engine on the Detroit, Eel Biver & Illinois Railroad. His body was cut completely in two.

The establishment of the Presbyterian Church in Indiana and the completion of the first fifty years of her history will be commemorated by the Synods North and South, conjointly, at Indianapolis, Oct 18 —2O, 1876. Bertrane Menden, aged five years, daughter of the proprietor of the Forest coal mines, twelve miles from Evansville, fell in the fire on the evening of the 28th, during the temporary absence of her mother, and was burned to death. On the morning of the Ist a fire occurred in the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western round-house, at Indianapolis, involving the partial destruction of the building and serious damage to eight locomotives, the whole loss aggregating about $15,000. Rt. Rev. M. De St. Palais, Bishop of Vincennes, has purchased from the Sisters of Providence the Terre Haute Hospital, to be used as an orphan asylum for girls, and in a few days the 140 orphan girls now at Vincennes will be removed to Terre Haute. Wm. Nelson’s saw-mill, near New Harmony, Posey County, was the scene of a terrible accident on the Ist. By the explosion of a portable engine boiler, Thos. Nelson, engineer, and Solomon Enlow, sawyer, were killed, and four others badly scalded. The boiler was defective. A woman named Foster, while suffering from small-pox at Evansville, the other evening, escaped from her attendant and passed the entire night in the storm lying in a gutter. She was found in the morning thoroughly saturated with mud and water and ice aud entirely helpless. The Indianapolis Journal, of the 29th, says an old lady named Smith, eighty-four years old, is dying in the City Hospital of cancer, her son, who is the keeper of a toll-gate a short distance west of the city, having refused her shelter and maintenance.

Mrs. Bloomfield, a widow lady living three miles from Kendallville, was terribly gored by a cow the other evening. She went into the yard to milk the cow, when it became enraged and, catching her on its horns, tossed her over a high fence, tearing her bowels completely open. During the May term of the Supreme Court, beginning on the fourth Monday of May and ending Nov. 19, there were 198 cases disposed of. . The cases pending at the beginning of the term numbered 843; filed during the term, 357; total number 1,200; disposed of, 198; pending at the beginning of the November term, 1,002. J. W. Bingham, the Evansville distiller, was lately surrendered by his bondsmen and taken to St. Louis to answer to an indictment found against him in that city. Owing to representations from Washington he was released on his own recognizance, so as to enable him to answer to the indictment found against him in Indianapolis. In the important action brought by the trustees of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad Company against the Lafayette, Muncie & Bloomington Road, in which the former sought to enjoin the latter from crossing its tracks at Lafayette Junction, Judge Graham, of the United States District Court, on the 29th ult., ruled that the injunction could not be granted. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week ending Nov. 27,1875: Established —Fort Ritner, Lawrence County, Columbus H. Dixon, Postmaster. Discontinued—Spray, Hendricks County. Postmasters appointed— Evans Landing, Harrison County, Miss C. H. Roberts; Keystone, Wells County, James Bell; Libertyville, Vigo County, Peter Wilhoit; Lock, Elkhart County, Salathiel Lightner; Spring Hill, Decatur County, Thomas E. Trusler. A few nights ago a barn and contents belonging to Mrs. John W. Korman, near Lawrenceburg, were entirely consumed by fire. After the discovery of the fire a search was made for the supposed incendiary, which resulted in the discovery of John W. Korman in a hothouse on the premises bleeding from four self-inflicted wounds. He at once confessed that he had fired the barn, because, as he said, his wife had got him “too much in anger.” Judge Buskirk, of the Supreme Court, has lately decided that a person receiving money in payment must use diligence to ascertain whether it is genuine, and if it proves to be counterfeit must return it within a reasonable time to the party from whom he received it, in order to make said party liable. The necessity for prompt, ness exists in all such cases, and, where it appears there has been any delay beyond what was reasonably adequate under the circumstances to enable the party to inform himself, he should not recover,