Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — INDIAIA. [ARTICLE]

INDIAIA.

Peter Schmidt, for thirty-five years a citizen of New Albany, is dead with , the consumption. John Penman, a one-armed miner, shot and killed John Kaddy, at Brazil. The • shooting was the result of a drunken quarrel.

Lyman Brooks, aged 21, of Perry township, shot himself through the head and died within ten minutes, on Tuesday. Cause, unrequited affection. «• David Smith, a prominent farmer of BugarCreek township, stepped from a second story floor down fifteen feet and now lies in a critical condition. The wages of the window glass blowers at the DePauw glass works at New Albany, have been advanced 10 per cent., an advance of 20 per cent, in the past two years. Peter Schilling, of Madison, was arraigned'on a charge of rape, Tuesday morning. The com pl ainant is a respectable young married w oman named Elizabeth Carpenter. The fall term of the Central National College, at Danville, opened with 200 students in attendance. The faculty this year is composed of some fourteen accomplished educators. A young man named Caddy was deliberately shot, near Brazil, by John Penman, without an y appaient provocation. Caddy, after living two days in great agony, died from the effects of the .wound.

Mrs. L. M. Wishard, matron at the soldiers’ orphans' home near Knightstown, has resigned her position, to take effect immediately. She has been matron of the institution since its organization. While Rev. Thorp, of Bartholomew county, was returning from church, he was thrown from his sulky by his horse taking fright, injuring him severely. His right leg will probably have to be amputated. ; Mr. Ayfen Nichols, a resident of Lawrence county, ran into his house near Fayetteville, speech less, and remained so until the next morn ing, when he died. It is supposed that h e had been bitten by a snake. Mr. Joseph Rimer, a very prominent citizen and postmaster of Auburn, Ind., and Miss Amanda Condifi, a very highlyaccomplished lady of Clinton, 111,, were married at the home of the bride’s parents on the 7th inst. v.. * John Saidla, residing near Bowers, Montgomery county, on Friday accidentally shot and mortally wounded McDaniel, while fooling with a revolver. 1 McDaniel died next morning from the effects of the wound.

A team attached to a buggy containing Wallace Reddenbough and three others, ran away at Crawfordsaille, throwing the. occupants out and fatally injuring lied denbough, whose skull was fractured and one ear torn from his head. . Sam Cook, a notorious rough of Owensburg, a placq seventeen miles west of Bedford, was found in the woods about three miles from that place, badly shot and unconscious. He had lain so long that his wounds mere fly-blown. At St. Paul. Ind., John H. Eek, a very estimable man, a stone contractor, engaed in building an abutment, was instantly killed by a falling derrick. He was for many years engaged in the stone business here. He leaves a wife and two small children. A posse of Danville, Indiana, officers arrested a notorious character, named Moore, of North Salem. While returning with the prisoner the latter broke loose and ran. He was about to escape, when one Bam F. Wichard drew a pistol and shot, killing him instantly. 0 Kendall, Baros & Co.’s oil (mill, Richmond, was -set on fire Bunday night by spontaneous combustion in the basement, but the flames were extinguished before much damage had been done. -A delay of five minutes would have caused a loss of a hundred thousand dollars.

Jacob Dressier, a farmer of White River Township, Johnson County, has two pigs that are certainly curiosities. One of them is a sow, fourteen months old, having four legs and eight perfectly formed feet Recently she gave birth to a small pig of the same pattern, having a like number of legs and feet The Beardsley school house, in Osceola township, Elkhart county, was broken open by roughs. The seats were torn up and broken, the plaster completely destroyed, and the whole building badly demoralized by them. The damage done amounts to several hundred dollars, as it was a new and fine building. The soldiers of Jennings county have decided to hold a reunion on the 6th day of October next at North Vernon, and have appointed the proper committees to secure that result. For the day, H. Tripp was appointed president; Irby 8. Wagner, vice president; Oliver Shepherd,marshal, and William B. Wilson and Griffin Oliver, assistant marshals. Charles Lair, living near Connorsville, has a three year old daughter who has been suffering for a year with what was supposed to be nasal catarrh. A few days ago some hard substance was noticed protruding from her nostrils, which, on being removed, proved to be a locust pod, an inch long and a quarter of an inch wide. It is supposed to have been placed there by the child through sport. While Sells’ circus was being transferred to St. Louis over the O. &M. road the elephant was put next to the engine. Between Jeffersonville and North Vernon ire became thirsty and made a raid on the water tank on the tender, when the engineer got a c’ub and began beating him. He turned bis trunk aha threw aspr&y of water on the engineer, which came near drowning him. He was compelled to stop the engine to procure more water.