Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Indiana is being overran with circuses The fiunillar disease, slanders, has broken outamcmgthehorses in the!northern 1 part of Knox county. A honed frog from Texas has been added to the natural history collection at the State Museum. Mrs. Stone, an emigrant from Moberly, Mo., made a third ana successful site mpt at suicide at Elkhart. John Smith, a wicked and worthless character of Logansport, committed suicutting his' ankles and hanging The Indianapolis hunting dub met recently and decided to hold a grand tournament, commencing May 25th and conlin- ! uing four days. Absalom Knight, a student at Earlham College at Richmond, from Webster, had his skull fractured, by a base ball knocked foul , by the batter. United States Marshal Dudley has in. formation that a party of illicit distillers are operating in Crawford county, and he proposes running them down. Charles H inch man, a twelve-yearold son of ex-Sheriff Hindustan, ot Jennings county, has been appointed a page in the National House of Representatives. Long, the victim of the Harrison county mob, died. He made a dying statement, naming hia murderer and eleven others in tne mob, all of whom will he arrested.

Isaac Gobel, of Lawrenceburg, intoxicated, lay down on the railroad with his arm around the neck of his faithful dog. Both were minced by the next train that [ passed. The Indiana Short Horn convention will convene in Indianapolis at the agricultural rooms, May 25th, and the State Wool Growers’ association on the following day. I ... . . - V-:-,... Lovey Jones and John Mackedy, of Lafayette, quarreled over the affections of a female, during which Mackedy cut Jones twice in the left side, making a very serious wound. John Miner, who cut the throat of James Johnson, near Jonesboro, through jealousy of his wife, took a large dose »t strychnine soon after, and then cut his own throat, ■ A Columbus man went to the circus at Indianapolis, with S9OO in his pocket Ho has less money end more sense now, thieves having taken the former and taught him the latter.'

A valuable horse belonging to David Hewitt, living near Liberty, got loose In the stable and butted its brains out against abeam. It is pronounced a deliberate case of suicide. The trial of McMillan, the Logansport murderer, is in progress at Delphi. Among others, Moynihan, hii accomplice, was taken from Logansport, but was sent back on his refusing to testify. The temperance people of Morristown are determined to rid themselves of Hand’s saloon. Every business man in the place has received a note threatening a conflagration if any violence is used.

Charles Gray, the brakeman who was fWally crushed while coupling cars at Champaign, Illinois, some days ago, proves to be Oscar Williver, of Elizabethtown, Bartholomew county, this Slate. Articles of association of the fiatesville asreffsnsSsrtPttrft company will make brackets, mouldings and picture-frames. Capital stock, $lO,Templar celobrated Ascension Day By street parade In fhll regalia. They repaired to St. James’ Episcopal church, where divine service was held by Rev J. O. Talbot, Bishop " Indiana, assisted by Rev. Thomas A. Austin, Rector of the church. . A strange disease hag recently made its “fPf*™ 0 ® °f Andrew Shaw, of Oxford, which resulted in the death of four of Mr. Shaw’s children during the past week. A swelling in the throat anpears, with a few noun’ attendant aiefcnesa, and death ensues. The doctors sav it is not diphtheria. It is now announced that the corner M?'?® new atato house can not be laid before August, as there must previfour courses of stone upon the outside walls and 600,000 brick in the inner ones. These bricks are yet to be made, and it is supposed they can not be delivered at the oapitol for at least six WC6KBi t , We »*ley, aged eighteen, and Jerome Roles, aged fourteen, were squirrel hunting a rew days ago two miles south of Shelbyville. Wbile walking along in searchof game, Weakley ’s gun was prematurely discharged, and a portion of the contents lodged in young Roles’ face. The wound inflicted was a serious one though not necessarily fatal, -f A thief named Stephen Jones entered tiie residence of a farmer named W. H. Linder, at Danville, and carried away property to the value of SBS or S4O He > l? nted l for b °™*«e«ling f Heiß described as a low, heavy-set man. short dark mustache, rountUhouldered; his ,o Sl Bf 8 f d ’ “ d be *• »bout 27 lion* * * Kentucky imports-

j Mr. Earnest Morris, an enthusiastic ex»bont twenty-one years of age, is now on his third exploring tour among the wild* of the Upper Anil »ou andits tributaries. HeisSteehSS of a party sent out under the auspices of Brazil. It is a matter , s ,y oun * should have so prominent in that line, *t Ab'aham Ingard, a well known farmer liringfour miles from Lagro, Lad., imda leading member of the Methodist and the Odd ‘YiS ide with 8 nLzor ’ but Ihfing to have

Referring to the marriage of the Prinmss Frederica, of Hanover, and Baron Rammingen, a London correspondent 1 IJ* **ke she refused more than one advantageous matclf. She would have him, she said, or remain single. It is said—and the storr is good enough to be true— that when Prince Leopold Began to show something more to her than a mere friendly attachment she determined to appeal to him aa the favorite sofi of the Qums. She told him her story and asked b “ Like a true knight he devoted himseli to her cense.' He urged his mother nntil she caught her son’s enthusiasm; he arranged matters which without him would have been difficult; lie tuned her critics into her partisans; ami go it comes about tta» the stater of a crownlers king is able, with even something like pomp to 'marry for love.’ ”

Negotiations have been entered into for the purchase of Saye’s Court, an old residence of the Evelyn family, near Dartford, on behalf of the Juanita. A number oi the biethren are staying at Arundel as gueau of the Duke of Norfolk, and oihen in the bland of Buie as guests of the Margois ofthat ilk. ' •*• : * On the result of the first day oi the elections being known Lord Beacon sfield, with grim pleasantry, telegraphed to Bla? ***■»* do not think that yon need hurry your return to England.” . 4