Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Peter Welle, of Greencastle, was ru over by a loaded wagon. He died soon after. Two schooners were beached at Michifan City during the furious gale on August 2nd. DodS Stickley. a prostitute, shot John Mclntire, at Madison, August Sad. The wound is not fatal. Pike County Democrat: The growing corn in Pike county is said to he consi<£ arable above the average. The two Knightstown papers, the Baa net and Shield, have cooiolidated under the name of the Banner-Shield. W. 8: Brundage A Son’s warehouse, at Yorktown, six miles west of Muncie, was burned July 81st. Loss, <I,OOO. A Dr. De La Matyr died recently at Ps • tersburg, Pike county. He was not, however, the congressman of that name. Rockport Journal: General Veatch captured some brandy at Spring Station, last week. It will give somebody trouble, probably.

Mrs. Tournay, a farmer’s wife, residing near Terre Haute, fell from .a wagon curing a furious runaway, and was instantly killed. The Hancock Democrat, of New Casde a campaign paper, ahd the Orleans Examiner, are two new papirs recently started in this state. ■ Pike County Democrat: The scarlet fever is raging among The children in the neighborhood of Hosmer. Quite a number of deaths have occurred, Rennie Witt, son of J. W. Witt, of Thorntown, quarreled with Thomas Vail. Rennie was struck on the bead with a stone, and probably fatally injured. A four-year-old child of Dr. Olay, reaid ingsex miles southwest of Thorntown, played with loaded. cartridges. One ot them exploded, killing it instantly. Lagrange Register: Sojourner Tiuth,a colored lady from the stale of New York, said to be over 104 years old, lectured at Brown’s Hah on Wednesday evening. George Knox, a colored barber, at Knightstown, Is suffering the pangs ot pain dealt out to deserted husbands. His wife has skipped out with a handsomer barber.

John W. Throop, of Bloomington, swallowed an ounce of laudanum. His physicans have their pumps in operation and may save his life. No-cause known sot the act. ' . » A Lafayette man, named Wilson, in amping from a freight train, fall with hie es foot on the track. His foot was cut io half, lengthwise, and will have to be amP ntated ; . i . o B. F. Havens, of Shelburn, was wounded by a rebel bullet The wound caused an eating sore in hlileg? which finally came in contact with an artery and he bled to death. . The editor of the Seymour Republican is charged by the Seymour Democrat with being an ex-rebel soldier. The Republican editor will sue the Democrat man for libel. < Thomas and James Fitzgerald, of Indianapols, are in jail at Shelbyville, for stealing a revolver and <7 from Thomas Smith, of Greensburg. Their ages are 18 and 17, respectively. A quack doctor named HeHannie, a tape-worm exterminator, administered his decoction to a little girl at Lafayette, and she died from the effects thereof. The doctor skipped out and cannot be found. Ben Hodson, while at work in his father's factory, at South Bend, had his left wrist terribly mangled by the knives of a wood-working machine. It was thought at first it would be impossible to save the hand. ‘

Allen Lybrook, of Richmond, who recently went to France with a lot of Rich mond|horses for the French army, and was offered a clerkship by United States Consul Bridgeland, has been made vice consul at Havre. Two Lafayetters, named Morrison and Wolf, came together on Oakland Hill Morrison accused Wolf of insulting his (Morrison’s) daughter. A fight then en sued, and before the thing ended, both men were about as soft as currant jolly. A little son of Thomas Edmeads.of Greensburg, while attempting to jump on a moving freight train, several dan ago, was thrown under the wheels, rendering amputation of the feel necessary. . Look, jaw set in a day or two ago, and the sufferer died. A row of wooden buildings were burned ’ st Terre Haute, on Sunday morning,' August Ist. In the ruins, after the fire, the charred remains of John Bodine, a young man from Illinois, were found. He bundi’nga* 111 UpPer * WT “ <m * the ■J The .engine of Ferguson A Cones’ steam thresher exploded, at Colfax, ths other morning, while the crew were st breakfast. The separator which stood close by was not harmed in the least, and the fact of the crew bring at breakfast, probably, saved the livesofmany of them.’ The body of Miss Belle Bates, of Seymour, wm found in the river near that place, July Rise. She had left home severa! days before, tat it was supposed she had gone on, the Niagara Falls excursion, it was evidently a case of suicide, though ao cause is assigned for the commission of the deed. F. M. Triwal, of Noblesville, a leading democrat, has sued the Noblesville Independent, 'a democratic paper, for libel. The paper charged Mr. Triseal with having procured the names of some democratic candidates to be omitted from the rtcfa ?2S. 1874 > thCT « b J r causing them to .ose 2,000 voles, and that Triemd was paid money and a pbeeton buggy for so doing.