Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1876 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Edward Braman, a brakeman on the In* dlanapollc & Vinuennee Railroad, waa killed cfc Worthington, on the 18th, by falling from the train. Policeman Schmitz was shot twice and fatally wounded, at Newtown, the other night while attempting to make an arrest. A lodge of too Sovereigns of Industry was organized at Loganaport on the night of the 18th. Henry A. Flammoxd was arrested a few daye ago neat' Rockville, Parke County, for the alleged murder of Peter Remy, at Junct, Belgium, In the winter of 1873. He had’ keen located at Rockville for the past six months. A few days ago, two Indianapolis cattle dealers wont to Greenfield to purchase fat cattle and milch cows. They spent the night at a farmer’s residence. While they were sleeping, some person entered their room by the window and carried off their pants, containing nearly S7OO in greenbacks. The Commissioners of Warrick County have discontinued paying premiums on foxscalps. The treasury gave out under the heavy drain.

• Robert Dale Owen Is on his mental legs again. He will sail for Europe about Juno 1. Since the May' meeting of the Grand Lodge, F. and A. M., dispensations for four-’ teen new lodges have been issued from the .office of tlifi.fiiMnd Secretary.,. The fruit crop of Washington County is regarded as in a safe condition, except that part of it which is on low land. The Auditor of State is sending outhlanks for assessment-of railroad property. There’s a strike among the coal miners at Carbon, Clay County. . .At Indianapolis,-on toe-night- of thelOtlir during the snow-storm, several very distinct claps of thunder were heard. Thunder in a snow-storm is somewhat singular. The whole of Pike County is up in arms beeause one of its County Commissioners held court for two or three days while get-ting-up a virulent case of smallpox. : *-

Scarlet fever prevails to a considerable extent in Indianapolis. * Secretary Heron is sending out large numbers of circulars calling the attention of manufaettixcrs and exhibitors in general to to the State Fair and Exposition of 1876. The Cass County C< mmissioners are engaged in ditching about 16,000 acres of land in Boone township. The main water course, seven miles long, will be at some places thirty feet wide and sixteen feet deep. The average width will be twelve feet and the depth slX'feet. The ditch will have five tributaries, each several miles long, and almost as large as the main ditch. The average of these tributaries will be ten feet wide and five feet deep. The total length of these ditches will be about thirty-two miles, and the cost of digging them estimated at $26,000. The Sixth Mass Convention of tbe Seventh Congressional District, under the auspices of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, was held in Mooresville, Morgan County,in few days since. The convention was well - attended, all the counties in the district, except Putnam, being fully represented. .The reports from the various unions and other organizations were encouraging. Horticulturists throughout the State, on the 20th, reported the buds of all the smaller fruit as killed. It was thought the buds of the apple trees were not so far advanced as to be affected by tbe lqte cold weather. All toe rivers in the State are full, and railroad men run very carefully now over bridges and trestle-works. There are 280 pupils at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, at present. Up to the 20th, the total receipts from seventy-two counties, on behalf of the State exhibit at toe Centennial, aggregated only $9,766.40, and the Executive Committee of the State Finance Committee have issued a stirring appeal for remittances. A singular freak of lightning occurred at Williamsburg, Waytie County, the other day, by which Thomas Smith was seriously injured. Be was sitting with one foot on the stove, while he “ rode’’ an infant on liis knee, and was talking to an older child who stood hard by. The lightning struck the chimney, and traversing it, followed down the stove-pipe, and tearing the sole completely off his boot, shot through his foot like a rifle ball, producing a very similar wound. The little girl who stood near him was felled to the floor, as was his wife in a far-off part ttf toe room, but both, like the infant on his knee, were unharmed, and no damage was done to either the house or furniture worth speaking off. Upon the farm of Mrs. Agar, pne mile north of Princeton, between a quarter and a hnlf an acre of ground, upon the side of a small hill, has been sinking squarely into the earth for some time past. It is now ten feet below the surface of the ground surrounding, and about, fifteen feet in the middle of the sunk -space, and still sinking at the rate of six inches every twenty-four hours.

The Madison County Democracy have instructed their delegates to the State Convention to vote foe Ltmders every time. At Nbblesville, an .the 23d, a laborer was run over by a construction train while attempting to get oat,of-a cow-pit, and fatally Injured. He lived fcutiwo hours. Tom Barker, win, »vuf sentenced to the Penitentiary from Hamilton County, died recently, und on his death-bed confessed that he was the murderer .c-f Mrs. Foulke, for which her husband was sentenced to a life-long-imprisonment. By some means Foulke secured a second trial and was acquitted. Barker said he shot Mrs. Foulke to prevent her giving an alarm wheat, with others, he \was making the attempt to rob her husband. The latest reports from Cincinnati give ike following as the current prices for leading staples: Flour, [email protected]; Wheat, $1.15@L25‘, Corn, 48@50e; Oats, 87@43c; Barky, duff and nominal; Bye, 78075 c; Pork, [email protected]; Lard—Steam, 18X@ JBMc; kettle, U@UKc; Hoga—Light, $7.75 0&8C; Packing. [email protected].