Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Hie saw mill of X. Jackson, of Arcadia burned down on Sunday. Loss SI,OOO. No insurance. Measles hss prevailed in very fatal form in several localities of Pike county the past two or three week*. Harvesting in barley hss just commenced in Johnson county, ana the yield promises to do better than last year. The rye and barley harvest is about ended in the southern portion of the State, and the crops in Floyd and surrounding counties are the best ever harvested. Mr. Hervey declares it his intention to complete the Evansville and Indianapolis Straight-line railroad between Petersburg and Washington the present summer. Jesse Addington, a farmer living about four miles southwest of Ridgeville, while out riding, a few days ago, was thrown from his carriage and had, his collar-bone broken. He lain a critical condition. Frank Reis, a New Albanian, was arrested in Madison and held for grand larceny. Dr. Collins and Edward Stanley were held in SSOO each to September court, charged with murderous assault, etc. ' *

The shipment ot strawberries from Floyd county this season, to date, aggregate 00,000 gallons. Raaberries are now being shipped from New Albany at the rate of about 5,000 gallons daily. The high water of White river is doing immense damage on river bottom farms m Greene county. One man, who had a bottom farm of nearly a thousand acres all planted, said it was nearly all under water, in some parts five feet deep. Near midnight, a few evenings ago, the stable of the Hon. Noble Wamtm, five miles east of Greenfield, was entered, and two fiao hones stolen. Mr. Warrum offers a reward of SBO for the return of the ponies and SSO for the capture of the thief. ' Wheat harvest was undergood headway in Pike county last week, and the crop will all be cut this week. The first field harvested belonged to Vincent France, in Monroe township. The harvest is the earliest and the yield the heaviest in the history of the county. Michael Finnegan, a blacksmith employed in one of the blacksmith shops in Crawfordsville,while intoxicated, climbed on a tram on the I. B. & W. railroad, Saturday night about midnight, and, after the train had gone a few miles, was thrown or fell off, and was instantly killed by the train, his head being severed from his body.

One day last week while Albert Shaul, the son ot Asa Bhanl, living five miles south ot Boonville, was plowing, he stop, ped to let the horses rest a little, when a tree-top tell on the team, killing one of the horses, and bruising up the other considerable, and striking the boy on the arm, inflicting some bruises. During the performance of John Robinson's show, at Madison a few nights ago an Elephant attacked" and would have, killed a young man serving as waiter, but for the heroic conduct of the keeper, who beat and cenqured the animal. Terrible alarm prevailed in the audience—ladies tainting, screaming, etc. A very serious and distressing accident occurred recently on the old show grounds near the Wabash depot, at Lafayette. A number of children, small boys and girls, built a bonfire, a* d were playing about it, when the nlothes of Gussio Moore caught fire, and before the flames ceuld be extin. guißhed she was terrible burned. Her physician has hopes of her ultimate recovery-

At Indianapolis an incendiAry recently burned the stables on Davison street, occupied by J. E. Cobb, William Dana, exChief of Police Travis and Henry Luback, also a carriage belonging to Cobb, whose wife narrowly escaped being burned while saving the home. The residence owned by Henry Cobum was damaged, together with a number of sheds and outbuildings in the immediate neighborhood. Total loss, $1,000; partially insured.' Hon. B. F. Clavpool spoke fe a jesting way to B had rack Bash, au-old acquaintance. on the streets of Connersville a few days ago, when the latter suddenly drew a Jong dirk knife and made a murderous assault on Claypool,which was intercepted iby tbe prompt interference of bystanders. Bush is supposed to have been crazy with whiskey at the time, as nothing else will account for his conduct He left for his home in the country, and has not yet been arrested. Gen. James A. Ekln, Deputy Quarter-master-General, in charge 6f the United States depot at Jeffersonville, received an order for the following army clothing oommencing July istvix.,: 16,709 frocks, 7,000 pairs overballs, SgJ® fl “ nel “bitts, 40,000 Jeans drawers, 7,000 pilfow sacks. This will be good news for the operatives of that place as they have been idlefor several weeks past This contract will k«ep eight hundred women busy all winter.

Juba Crawford, of Mitchell, a fireman on a freight engine on the Louisville, ?jT * Chicago railroad, was badly scalded recently, near Putnam vide. The fire box gave way, and the steam sod water flowed out on the engineer and fireman, who had to jump from the engine down am embankment fifteen feet deep as their only escape. The engineer, Samuel Chapman, was slightly scalded about the •bly the Oldest inhabitant of the state * native of Pennsylvania tod y ears. The deceased was the mother of n«nT. en .h« lldre f ’ th ® grandmother of fortymne, the gent grandmother of 155, and JJ* £f at ffTOdmother of thirtythree She rest surviving her two children, twenty-nine grandchildren, 1121 gnat Uld lh£rty *“*««•*