Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

A dealer in rabbits, John Martin, of Palmyra, Harrison county, has marketed 2,900 of the “eotton tatls.” During the last six weeks fourteen deaths have occurred in DuMin mostly from diphtheria and scalet fever. Stephen B. Smith was killed near Grayville. by a limb breaking from a ’coon tree, which he had felled, striking him on the head. An eagle measuring six and a half feet from tip to toe was killed byJPhilip Heel, about five miles east of Boonville, while it was carrying away a pig. Crawfords ville is becoming an important stock shipping point, having for a month past averaged forty car loads of hogs and cattle per week. Colonel Robert M. Goodwin, on trial at Brookville, Franklin county, tor the murder of his brother, has been found guUty and sentenced to imprisonment John Wellman Parvin, aged 19, one of the most promising and worthy young men or Carlisle, was killed last Saturday night, at Springfield, Missouri, by a railroad accident. J. Mansur, a leading citizen and large pork packer, of Indlanaplis, is dead. For twenty years he was subject to epilepsy. He was a room mate of Senator Morton at Oxford College. Mr. W. C. Smith, one of the most prominent business men of Marion, lull on the icy sidewalk and injured himself so severely that he di«i in thirty minutes. He was 82 yearn of age. The wifeof Wmr H. Stewnrt wus burned to death at her home, six milos south of Lebanon. While standing in front of an open lireplaoo her clothing caught fire and burned her body to a crisp. • - Pike County Democrat: Four drunken scamps concluded to give Rev. Lewis Loveless a mauling near Mrs. Ash’s, on the Winslow road, Saturday night. His big cane coaxed them to go on. Vincennes Commercial: The company of gentlemen who are now successfully running the roller-skating rink aro talking Beriously of opening a byeicle stable in this city in the spring. CrawferdsvlHe public schools aro closet.! on account of scarlet fever, which lias made its appeatanee in the. family of Mr. Kimball, the jankor, who lives in the basement of fho building. Noah A., a 10 year old son of Noah Stimmcll, residing near Craigvilie, Wells county, while out with his father hunting game, was fatally shot in the abdomen by the accidental discharge, of his gun. ‘ Vincennes Sun: The virdiet of Coroner Merchant, on the body of John Muckinire,found in a straw rick, near Bruceville with his face horribly mutilated by hogs, was that deatlv had ensued from cold and exposure. At Columbus, Benjamin Kunscy, foreman of Wright Brothers A Klliott’s slaughter-house, fell into cue of the scalding vats, and was terlibly scalded the entire length of his body on one side. His condition is critical but he may recover. That portion of Vincennes known as French Claim, the title to which has been so long in legal controversy, has at last been decreed by the court to belong to the government. The property consisting of 88 acres, will be divided up into lots, and sold. John Reese, alias Greaser, a con firmed drunkard, laid down on the I. P. A C. railroad track near Peru, the otli- ■ er night, and felf asleep. He waked up on the other side, the passenger train coming along and killing him instantly by severing his head from his shoulders. Adam Gunkle, his wife and a young lady were thrown from a buggy near Crawfordsville and all three quite seriously injured, Mr. Gunkle having three ribs broken, Mrs. Gunkle her nose broken, together with other injuries, while the young lady received & bad cut belo w the keen. A carpenter named H. G. Platt, while engaged in chopping in the woods near Ligonier, was struck by a felling tree. His skull was fractured and body otherwise injured so that he died about five hours after the accident. He leaves a wife and five children in needy circumstances. Vincennes Commercial: A young man by the name of John Muckmire, who has been at the poor asylum for several months, escaped last Bunday. Yesterday morning his dead body was found near a hay-stack upon the farm of John Wolf, who resides near Brueeville, with his aace eaten away, probably by the hogs. c ; . At Vincennes Edmund Schulte, in the employ of Hack A Simon, proirietors of the Eagle brewery, fell rom the third story of the brewery, through a hatchway, to the cellar, »" distance of forty feet. Fortunately ho struck upon a bed of sprouted malt, and although stunned and bruised, it Is believed he will recover. : A queer freak of a plant is spoken of by the South Bend Tribune, whieh sayi that a wild clematis vine has forced ite way through a brick wail into the south parlor in ex-Mayor Miller’s residence in that city, and is growing like a thrifty house plant. It came into the parlor between the wall and the mop-board, and i a now over two feet hign. I'" 1 Governor Colquitt received a silver watch accompanied by a letter, professedly from one of a gang of pickxjekets which infested Atlanta during 1m recent feir. The letter said that they had met with the greatest success, capturing so many watches that they had no use for the one accom>anying the letter, and had decided to present it to the governor as a memento of the police arrangements of the Gate City which enabled them to ply their avocations without fear of arrest.