Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Joseph Cam; bell, the oldest resident in Shelby county, Indiana, aged 92 years is dead. Minor Mallery, a Tipton lad, while outtingwood, severed two of his toes from his foot, making a painful wound. „ Mr. J. T. McJimsey ,of Vinoennes, announces that he will supply the poor of that city with coal during the winter months. The city of Bloomington will find its entire Indebtedness- by the issue of new bonds to the amount of $52,000,. bearing interest at the rate of Q% per annum. Henry Fult, an employe of the C., 1., St. L. and C. railroad gt Greensburg while trying to get on a moving tram* slipped and had his right foot cutoff*^. Mrs. Maggie T. Elliott has been conducting* very successful religious revival in the United Brethren church at Bridgeport. She Is a preacher of great power.

While returning from singing-school near Owlton, Daviess county, a night ertwo since, Marcus A. C. Bratton was fatally stabbed by John "Wbodsmall. Officers are in search of the murderer. Mr. Edward Gregory, for 28 years connected with the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago road as fireman, engineer, and passenger conductor, died of dropsy, at his residence, in New Albany. At New Albany the infant child of a poor woman named Blue died from disease caused by exposure to the cold. The physician called to see it at the last moment, gave it as his opinion that the child froze to death. Mr. John Beggs, proprietor of the Shelbyville distillery, during the m >nth of December just ended, paid ss6,49s,7o’revenue on whisky manufactured. For the year 1880, Mr. Beggs paid the sum of $560,794,60 as revenue.

A lion belonging to the Van Amburgh menagerie, which is in winter quarters at Connersville, broke from its cage and fiercely attacked a leopard.but was overpowered and returned to its cage before doing much injury. The other afternoon R. J. Hopkins, proprietor of Austin's Hotel, Rensselaer, obtained about an ounce of laudanum, and took it in two doses. Two or three doctors worked with him during the night, but he died at about 11 o'clock next day. The other evening, while returning to North Vernon from a visit to friends the horse that Samuel Shellie and James Reese were driving took fright, run off and threw both of the occupants over a cliff and inflicted inuries that will result in the death of Shellie and cripple Reese for life. | A Princeton cfispatch says: Thomas McGraw, whose skull was fractured Thursday night during a game of cards in Massey’s saloon, by a blow from a brickbat, thrown by John S. Whltsett, is said to be in dangerous condition, though he will probably recover. Whltsett escaped arrest by flight. At Laporte as the passenger train north on the L. P. and C. railway was leaving the station a boy; aged 14. ' named Richard Dwyer, was knocked down and run over, the wheels passing over both legs near the body and ehrushingthemln a frightful mander, so that death ensued shortly after. Jere Burke and soa John, of Crawfordsvillc, went to the woods during the cold snap to work, but were soon overcome with cold and stalled for home. They succeeded in reaching a house near by, and were thawed out. The old man’s injuries are serious, and the boy’s hands and feet are badly frozen.

Dora Helminger, a country miss of seventeen, of St. Jo county, became the mother of a bgbe last August, and declared a young lad named Decondres, only fourteen years old, to be its father. She carried the case into the circuit court, and the jury recently decided that he was the father of the child. ■ x At'Greensburgh while endeavoring to place Jacob Evans in jail for disorderly conduct, Deputy Marshal Si Sterling received a severe out in the thigh by a knife in the hands of Evans. He then escaped, but was soon overtaken by Jailer Markland, who, with the aid of a dub, disarmed him and placed him in fall. Miss Anna Hazen, aged fifteeen, daughter of Lafayette Hazen, a shipcarpenter at Jeffersonville, fell dead, at Madison while getting breakfast at the house of Jesse Robinson, with whose family she resided, near the poor-farm, west ot the city. Coroner McCoy returned, a verdict of death from heart affection. A distressing accident happened in the fondly of Mr. George Black, of Brazil. During the momentary absence of the members of the family, a little daughter, aboutftve years of age, set fire to her clothing, and before the flames could be extinguished she was fatally burned. She lingered in great agonjr mitil 5 o’clock In the evening Wm. P. Oard ind James Anthony are lying dangerously ill at Taylorsville from a disease that has carried off five or six victims in the last ten days, and which has baffled the skill of the best physicians to determine origin or treatment. It in variably attacks the left lung and runs its course in five or six days, proving fatal in every case.