Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1876 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Indianayoijb acknowledges that aha owes 11,900,000. I'hk Brazil coal mines shaped 424,08# tons of coal last year. Thews are fifty-four Young Mena’ Christian Associations in the State. Nattik Haul was Instantly killed by a railroad train near Richmond, a few days ago. Thomas M. Akchkh, ex-United State* Local Boiler Inspector at Eyansvillo, was found dead in his bed, a few mornings ago. Mits. William Lawrence, of Indianapolis, a colored woman, was burned to death on the 2d. Her clothes caught fire while she was washing. At a recent meeting of the clergymen ot Kichmond, It was decided not to take any steps with regard to historical sermons, as requested by the Centennial Committee. Hon. Richard Beardsley, of Elkhart, Consul-General at Alexandria, . Egypt, died in the latter city a few days ago. His health had been very poor for several years. A leap-year party in Jeffersonville, the other night, resulted in a bona-fide engagement between two of those in attendance, the lady in the case exercising her leap-year prerogative. Benjamin Pursail has disappeared from Ridgeville, where it is claimed he forged notes amounting to SB,OOO. Tho notes were negotiated with the First National Bank of Richmond. Benoni Brown und his son William were fatally hurt in the outskirts of of Evansville, a lew days ago. They were felling a tree and it tumbled ujW'them. The old man’s skull was crushed, and the boy had his legs and arms broken. ' The case of the State vs. the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railway, in which the State demands $1,500,000, is in statu guo, awaiting the decision of the Marion Superior Court on defendant’s demurrer to the sufficiency of the complaint. On the 8d the new iron bridge over the canal at the loot of Main street, Lafayette, broke in the middle, taking down fifteen or twenty head of cattle, killing three and badly crippling a number of others. The bridge had only been completed about a month. Herman Johann, an idle, dissolute man of Evansville, lately attempted to murder his wife because she caressed their child in his presence. They were living apart, and the girl was living with him in their separation. Johann’s attempt was frustrated by those near by, and he then fled. A woman named McCollough, living in the southern part of Gibson County, while in a condition of mental derangement induced by typhoid fever, recently, threw her little daughter, aged about eight years, mto a cistern, and then jumped in herself, When found an hour afterward, both were dead. At a recent meeting of the leading agriculturists of Vanderburgh and adjoining counties, to discuss the proper and best method of having their products fairly represented at the county fairs. it wai decided to hold a mammoth fair in Vanderburgh County, in the fall, at which all the counties in the district are to be represented.

At the twenty-ninth annual ssesion of the Sons of Temperance recently held at Indianapolis, the following officers were elected: G. W. P., L. J. Patty, of Carmel; G. W. A., M. W. Boyles, of Idianapolis; Grand Treasurer, William Hannaman; Grand Scribe, the Rev. J. B. Abbott; Grand Chaplain, R. T. Brown; G. C., the Rev. T. A. Goodwin, andG. S., J. H. Batty—all of Indianapolis. On the evening of the Ist, at Indianapolis, while Edward Valentine, a worthless negro, was quarreling with’his step-son, Charles Love, a boy of sixteen, he was shot by the latter and instantly killed. The boy states that they never could agree and when the old man tried to caress him with an axe, he grasped the sbot-gun to frighten him, and in the scuffle which followed it went off. His self-defense story is corroborated. He gave himself up vol. untarily. J. 8. Termer, the alleged Quincy bank robber, died a few nights ago .of consumption. To the last he maintained the truth of his *tory, and gave the names of accomplices—Helsey, a thief oftiyracuse, N. Y-, English Tom, a Cockney burglar, and a man, name unknown, at present in a St. Louis hospital, with a bullet-wound in his thigh. He tried to tell of a diamond robbery in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1876, but died before the particulars were given. Me said $20,000 of the diamonds and jewelry were buried on the Iron Mountain Railroad, near Booneville, Mo. The proper effort will be made to ferret the matter out.

Two men attempted to force an entrance Into the residence of George Anderson, at Logansport, at one o’clock, on the morning of the 2d. Mrs. Anderson was alone with her infant and a little girl who was -visiting her, Mr. Anderson being out of the city; Mm, Anderson threatened to shoot, but without heeding her the men broke in a window with the gate which they had unhanged. This proceeding so alarmed the inmates that they rnshed into -the street in their night clotlTes, the weather being the most severe of the winter and the ground covered with snow. The ruffians searched the house, taking what suited their fancy, and escaped. Mrs. Anderson finally aroused the neighbors, who cared for her and the children. On the Bd, Judge Brownlee, of Grant County, served an Important mandamus upou Auditor of State Henderson, which will bring to a head that old claim for taxes paid on lands purchased of the State on account of the school fund, many years ago, wnen sates wero nrst authorized by the Legislature and purchasers received a certificate of purchase from the State, but no title before the ten years of credit had expired and all notes had been paid. State

and county taxes were assessed lb the amount of $900,000 on these lands, and paid without protest. 'But now certain property- holders of Tipton and Grant Counties mbu to push the claims, and the complaint, which is drawn up in the name of Nathan R. Overman, require* the Auditor to issue a warrant for payment. Mr. Henderson waived service, by advice of Atty.-Gen. Bus Kirk, and the case. whatcver disposition is made of it in the civil Circuit Court, will go tO the Su preme Bench on appeal. i, |