Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

College turned out no graduate! TheGibson*county apple crop proxnim to be first rate.The wheat was all harvested ia Spenctr county last week. At Washington Mrs, Weddell was fatally injured by a runaway. Only one pupil graduated from tbe Rockport high school this year. Pike coon to sent three representatives to Jeffersonville this term of court. The soda and mineral water factory of C. W. Arnold, at South Bend, burned recently. ,< There are thirty-two Sabbath schools in county, with an enrollment of *.887 members. } A A little child of C. Collet, near Flat Rock, uptet a boiler of hot water and was fatally scalded. . HoreJohaS. Davii, Judge of the Fourth U d ttNewAJbSlny* s?***' ™ry - The first new wh&at of thtf 'season was received at Vincennes Tuesday pf last week. It vrtis threshed in Vincennes township. „j- n 4» The Madison saw uni planing mill contiacted to make. SOjOOO peach boxes for fruit growers thereabouts, who anticipate ad immense yipld. The farmers ar* now harvetting one of tha largest wheat crops that has been raised, ih Harrison county for many years past The fruit crop is also good. The oensuf of New. Albany ie not panning out well, and ia likely to show a population of leas than 20,060, when tho citizens have been claiming 25,900.

Is only E flesh wound. The difficulty was over a game of dice. * ,‘ii -Jilt A a '-.l*. >?!*•. i William Underhill and Mr. Mass were thrown from « buggy While driving in the country near Bullivan. The former is not expected to recover. A runaway caused the accident, • . i-r Gea H. Start, of Evansville, has purchased the Lewis elevator at Princeton, and will be ready to enter the next grain campaign. A brother of Mr. Start will run the elevator. Evansville, which had been claiming a population of 40.000, la dissatisfied because tho census taker has cut it down to 28,000, and held a citizen’s indignation meeting Thursday evening. Charles Joice, a lad aged about fifteen, messenger boy for Master Mechanic Bechler. ot the Ohio & Mississippi shops, at Vinoennea, had his right foot served while. In the act of jumping on a running train. At Burdick, James',Wolf, a section man on the Lake Shore railway, was run over and killed by train No. 71, recently. He waited too long before leaving tbe track. Hia remains were taken to Chesterton, Indiana. An altercation took place near Adams between Frank Auspangh and John Gneas, which terminated by Gneas being shot by a musket in Anspaugh's hands. .Guess ie dangerously, and perhaps fatally injured. No arresta at this writing. The Box family poisoning case at New Albany, has virtually ended with the discharged of the accused poisoner, Moses Box, from arrest. If the family were reallv poisoned by arsenic, it is believed the poisoning was purely accidental. The Woman’s Equal Suffrage convention of Indiana met in the Opera Houae at Lafayette last week. An immense audience was present. Addresses were deliver ed by Mrs. Helen M. Gouger, Mrs. Bexon, Mrs. Anthony and Mrs. Princeton Clarion • Harvest hands have been in great demand. As high as three dollars a day was offered by some parties. The weather of last week was such as to cause the wheat aU to ripen at once, and it wa» impossible to get hands sufficient to supply the demand. The ninth annual convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians for tho state ,ot Indiana was m session at Madison last week, twenty-five lodges being represented. Officer* elected tot the current year are John Byrne, of Clay county, Beerctsry, John Morphy, of Fountain county. Treasurer. < 3 ' The New Albany Ledger-Standard pnbltehe* report* from.Flovd, Clark, HarrijgsaaWßfrfigaca ington counties, of the trowing wheat crop. These reports agree that the proe>ect is that the crop of 1888 will be the heap eat, by twenty per cent, ever grown in tke counties named. '

engaged .in cutting wheat, and had a couple of wild mules attached to-the machine, hoping that after a round or two they would becomer more tractable: but they ran off and throw him down, the driving wheel passing over his bead, cutting the scalp down to the ear, a horrible wound, and severely bruising his body. James Huff, of the firm of Martin & Huff, general traders at Pblmyra, Harrison county committed suicide by shooting himself, the ball penetrating the brain, and almost instantly killing him. The c * llß ® t J 4lie ®Qt is unknown, but it is ■opposed to have been excessive drinking. The deceased was about thirty-five years rfd, arid was highly esteemed tor an who know him. Tfls Is the second suicide that has occurod in this village within tho last peer, both of which we» highly retpected citizens. A large elephant escaped the other day from a circus at Versailles, and indulged in a abort promenade through the afreets, to the dismay of the pedestrians, who hastily took refuge-in the nearest houses. The animal walkedJnto the garden D f the Hotel de France, before steps could be taken for hit removal to the circus. A whole body of police in vain tried to coax him from hit retreat, and the voioe of his came evident that force would have to be used. Accordingly, a number of stout ropes were fetched, and the elephant, being firmly bound by than, was with a great deal of trouble partly pulled and partly pushed to hia stable. So many of Lorlllard’s horses have been scratched in England that one is led to think ftott they have been running for •See.