Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

A Oonnersville horse fell dead .from fright at a locomotive. v The farmers of Knox county feel gloomy over the wheat .prospect, The State House contractors have just S ‘J* i . The crop prospects in Sullivan county are very flattering. The acreage of wheat. Km is much larger than test year, aad crop promises to be Rally as lam, if not laeger. Charles Shilling, a boy eleven years old, waa drowned in White water, three miles note of Lafayette, while swlmmikg, a few days ago. The body was recovered the same evening. Norris aad Maber, the two men arrested for the terrible assault on Barnhart Meyer, at Laiqyette, have been held in the sum of $6,000 each. Their victim is alive and may recover. The barn ol Dr. Inlow, of Manilla, was set on fire by an incendiary, a few nights ago, and completely destroyed. Five valuable horses perished in the flames. Loss nearly $2,500. A new town clook costing sss6 has been purchased for Asbury University and will * placed in tee tower next week. The hell, costing SBOO, is a gift of the graduating class of 1879 . / Colonel Smith Vawter says that on the 14te of May, 1884, a cold snap overtook vegetation in Indiana, killing the wheat and many forest trees. Ice froze to the thickness of several inches.

The residences of Mrs. Lon Vance, Mat Leifman and John Biehenbach, formerly of the City Hotel, Madison, were partially burned a few evenings since. The losses aggregate $8,000; not fhlly insured. Bishop Chstard goes to St. Mcinrad, Spencer county, to install. Rt. Reverend Mundweiler, O. B. B-, Abbot pf St. Meinrad’s monastery, vice Martin Marty, who was made bishop of Colorado, last February- - George Cochran, a farmer livingseveral miles southeast of Shelbyville.was thrown from a wagon, i few days ago, during a a runaway, and seriously hurt. One *1 his thighs was broken, and he was badly bruised; Mr. Gabriel Bchmuck, Clerk oCthe Supreme Court, has sent out the docket for the May term to the attorneys ove* the State practicing in tint court. It took 700 to go round. . V\‘ - : Hesse s drug store, at Middletown, with about half of the stock, was destroyed by fire recently; also, a dwelling house adjoining, used as a millinery shop. The oss-is estimated at $8,000; mostly insured. The State Auditor has settled with several counties, St. Joseph paying into the state treasury $28,375 53; Adams, $8,803 • 66; Porter, $17,645.76; Bartholomew, $21,. 107.78; Carroll, $15,681.95; Huntington, $16,219.93; and Delaware, $21,680.90.

Saturday was a big day for the wool sellers of Washington county. The Salem woolen mills bought from farmers’ wagons on that day 8,339 pounds of .wool,for which over $2,500 was paid. This is tee largest day’s wool sales ever known in that county. A w Louis Sihier, a convict sent from Vanderburg county, February, 1879, to the Prison South, to remain four years, for grand larceny, was, on Friday, pardqued jy Governor William*. Sihier was at odo time a successful manager of a variety theater in Evansville. George Bolman, son of a wealthy Lafayette banker, has been raising tee wind by laying in a stock of oroide watches, and raising considerable money by pawning teem, his victims supposing they were gottiDg his genuine gold repealer for security. He has disappeared. While the family of Andrew Brenning, of Peru, were away at a picnic, they scut their little son home at 7 o’clock to make the fire. The child used coal oil, and soon the building was ablaze, the boy barely escaping death. The building and contents were entirely consumed. Loss $3,000; no insurance. . - ■ ’

Colonel Jack Templeton, of Benton county, informed a representative of the Lafayette Sunday Times that out of a lot of 1,308 hogs recently purchased he has lost 600 by cholera. He sold 400, and has about 300 left, most of which he expects to lose. Four hundred of the lot died at the distillery in Lafayette. - Mrs. Nathaniel Coggshell, of Marion, is likely to die from a rat bite inflicted about (our months ago. She attacked the rat with a broom and it bit her through the fleshy part of the right hand. The wound healed over in a few days, after which it festered and became very painfnl. She has been growing worse ever since. y. ~ . . A party o( Ku-Klux visited Lexington, Scott county, recently, creating considerable consternation. They worelong,black gowns and maths. A conflict ensued, and bricks, clubs, locks, etc., were thrown promiscuously. In the conflict B. M. Wilson was knocked down and severely hurt, as was Cyrus Passwater, after which the KuKlux departed in haste.

There will be no strike among the iron workc rs of New Albany on acoount of the reduction in wages consequent upon the decline in the price of iron. The men in the mills of that city woik upon a sliding scale. They enjoyed the boom while iron was up, and are willing to put up with the decline, now that prices are down. The mills are fnll of orders, and are running to full capacity. The DcPauw American plate ghtn works in New Albany, after lying Idle since February Ist, on account of the strike ot the operative*, resumed operationa a few days ago, the men returnlag to work at the wages paid when the strike occurred. The wages lost te the men during the strike aggregate $66,600, while the {iroduction of the works, had not this enforced idleness occurred, would have been equal to about $250,000 of plate glass. During the strike SIOO,OOO worth erf the property of the works was destroyed by fire.

Potter Palmer, ot the Palmer house, Chicago,has sued the Tribune of that city Tor libel, claiming $25,000 damages. The Tribune said that “a prominent citizen and an equally prominent democnfWflfr. Potter Palmer, connected with the family of the ex.president by marriage, offered hi *ote, and inaiste-i violtaely Upon voting, he entire force of hotel servants in his employ in the Fftst ward, notwithstanding the notorious and admitted fact that many of them were non-residents.” A ConsUtinople dispatch says much alarm has been produced in the Bristish community by an attack on an Englishman, named Burn ess, and two ladies walk, ing in the suburbs, by three Mussulmeu robbers, armed with knives. Burneas was severely wounded and lies in a precarious condition. Two of his assailants have been arrested and will be court martialed.