Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Frank Brooks has been oonvicted of illegal voting at Richmond^sued was fi£edss Greensburg has a superfluity of measles. There are 800 casta in town, half of which are among school children. Riley Hoover, a well known fanner who rertdts as Hoover'll Station, near Logan•port, waa found dead in bed a few mornings ago. The Boom Committee on Public Buiktinn and Grounds will report in favor ot a JubHoboUding at New Albany, to coat E-s-Mayor Humphreys, of South Band, died Sunday, aged sixty-four yearn. He was one of the most eminent physicians in the State. | 4- J oun K men named Logan has been arrested at New Albany pn a charge of steal* tog a horse and buggy from Schofield & ißtyj of Indianapolis. Joseph C. Ashes, living neat Newcastle took refuge under a large elm Won his farm, during a Uumdsr-stoim, and .was killed by a thunder Salt.

Th» residence of Mrs. Hitt, a prominent resident of Vincennes, was burglarized recently of a large amount ot valuable jewelry. No clue to the thieves. Miss Emma Roberts, of Utica, Clark county, was thrown out of a buggy by a runaway bone, and badly hurt internally. The horse fell down and killed himself. The German Methodist church at Hobart, was struck by lightning, recently, an hour after services closed, and was entirely destroyed. Loss, $1,500; no insurance. iys said that in consequence of the unfavorable vote of-Evansville, the terminus of the proposed Evansville, Seymoui & Bel lefontaine railroad will be changed to Owensboro. I. ! ' A. sightless calf is attracting attention at Mtlcheli. The animal is perfect in every respect, except where the eyes should be there is a smooth surface haired over, giving no sign of eyes. Thomas Melhollands, a citizen of the lower part of Decatur county, went away i shout two weeks ago on business, and j has not been heard erf since, tiuspicions j ot foul play are entertained. The drug and grocery store of Hazelrig & Logan, at Adams, was entered by burglars, rnd cutlery, tobacco, jeweliy and money, to the amount of SIOO, were taken. Entrance was effected by taking out a panel in the back door.

A team of horses driven by Norman Rhinner, a farmer living southwest of Covington, Ttammfy a few days ago. Skinnir was Broadly injured that he died next morning. One horse was killed and the buggy totally wrecked. The Lafayette water works trustees who were elected a year ago, but who have been fighting in the courts for their rights, have at last been given their official seats. They have reorganized the water works force of employes, and will henceforth have full control. The prospect for wheat in Delaware county is very encouraging. Last season the average yield in that county was about thirty-two bushels per acre. This reason the best farmers predict a yield of thirty - flve bushels on the average. Owing to the rapid growth of wheat harvest- will come on about tm weeks earlier than in years past. The prospect for all kinds of fruit is equally encouraging. • An effort is being made to get up a reunion of old soldiers and militia companies at Waterloo, June 11. The Waterloo Rifles originated the movement and are rapidly pushing matters. A sham battle will be one of the features of the day, in which Major Bob Emmett, of Indianapolis, will command a storming force, tone composed ot the Sixteenth Ohio National Guards. Loomis’ Battery and the Waterloo Rifles. In Taylor township, Harrison county, twenty miles west of New Albany, a farmer, while plowing in his field, turned over a-pile ot light driftwood, under which, wrapped in an old quilt, he found an infant about two weeks old, with its throat cut from ear to ear, and a batcher knife aloogsido the body. The murdered Child had apparently been* concealed but a tew days, as the body was not decomposed. No clue to the crime or the mother of the child.

It costs the counties of the State $705,078 a year to care for their poor, $*>27,818 to pay their officials, $878,081 for jurors, $465,483 for public buildings; $167,940 foi stationery and printing, $148,272 for prisoners ana criminals and other minor expenses, which, added to these, make a total of $3,492,292. This io exclusive of the cost of supporting the schools, which aggregate an amount similar to the above, the pay for teachers alone being grater than any other State or county expense. Several Indianapolis architects' have received pamphlets from Toronto, Canada, with directions to competing architects in bidding on the P&iliameut and Department build ingß to be built there. The building is to cost $500,000, and the Canucks have adopted the rales used by the Indiana state house commissioners when they invited bids on the new state housescaled envelopes, mottoes, experts and all. Prizes are for designs according their merit, $3,000 for first, SI,QOO for second, and SSOO for third. ' Mrs. Williams, wife of the Governor, is in a fair way to recover from her recent accident She is so far out of dagger that the Governor has returned to Indianapolis The Governor being absent from the oily, and Mr. Downey, his private secretary, being confined to his bed by richness, the duties of the-office fell nponJHlr. Killan. the janitor. During his brief reign Indiana has been exempt from foreign war and domestic broil, and peace and security never before known in the history of the state hfcve prevailed. Adjutant General Ross, however, was under arms, with ten days’ rations in his haversack, maintaining a sleepless vigilance all the while.