Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

cash and a s3s,ooo’rwdetaoeu« > is by a runaway accident at Mauckport. An eight year old ebn of Ed. Party, hardware merchant of had his thigh broken while coasting. Benjamin Lewis fcoiorwb died at the Knox county poor asylum. It is reported that he. wqa onq hundred yeaiarfsg?. , u . . ran apiece of timber, receivThursday evening, had his right leg broken and was severely injsred. • .

_ Rev. Dr. Gooffioe, of Lexington;' Ky. T has accepted the call extended to hhn to the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church of New Albany. , 9 years, feU through the cellar way at Cornett’S dry goods store, at Madison, cutting her head, but it is thought Is not seriously hurt. Mrs. Apn Kealy, aq aged lady at Madison, slipped on the Ice and fell heavily • while walking in the yard, * 1 sustaining severe and painful injuries. At Plymouth, Mary 8. Ball hung hersejf with a clothes line in an outhouse. Her mind has been affected for some months. She leaves twe small children. . Frank Wild, who : worked at thf glue factory, Columbus, died in con vulsions from the effect wfr bloo<* poison, occasioned by constant contact with dead John Agse, at Augusta, Pike county, while hauling wood, fell from the wagon, his head striking the tire o* one of the wheels, aifd, it is feared, inflicting a wound that will prove fatal. I . Frank Avery, a well-known youny sporting man of Vincennes, attempted to destroy his own life by stabbing himself in the breast. IHe did not di. serious injury to his person,’ but ruined aehjrt front. < W. B. Walls, the Lebanon attorney who has been twite debarred friiin practice dn account of alleged unprofessional conduct, sought to gain . standing at the-Lafayette bar, but failed. s■ ■ '.;; i . .

Says the Logansport Journal: A year ago the report of Mr. Bryer showed the manufacture in this city in round numbers of 900,000 cigars. The above shows an increase of more than 800,000 cigars, or an advance in the business or more than 30 per cent. A movement is now on foot to lead the Scotch emigration to Indiana. A company is already oiganhsed-in Sect- . land with $2,500,000 capital to buy up large tracts of American land-for '< Scotch farmers, and they prefer to locatc in Indiana.

A young man, son of Romeo Wiley living south of Laurel, drew from the bank at Brookville $1,200' for'his father the other evening. Next morning he was found dead in his father’s barn, with, a bullet hole in bis head and the'money missing. Farrfe _Daltou,aged 70, an old cUU, zen of Washington county, was attending the faneral of hls'xtairghtef,' near Prowvilte, and when the coffin' h was opened for the friends, to take their last took at the dead, Mr. DaUqn stepped to the open coffin and immediately fell dead beside ft. ■ s - ■ An election was held in Elkhart h;r the purpose of voting $36,000 aid to’ the Cincinnati; Wabash A Michigan railroad extension. The ajd was defeated by thirty-four majority. This election will not settle the matter. The agitators wIH at once call another ”• election, which they are. positive will i meet with favor. - Kenney Dodd, a young man of Rlsjng .£ Un ’ had -And badly burned by the explosion of some powder In. his pocket. It. seems that-he had some paper caps, a bunch of keys and some matches in the same pocket with the powder, and the matches rubbing against the keys, ignited and caused the powder to explode, with the above result. to »**«•< At Laftivette, John D. BWef and several others were unloading -heavy r bridge timber from a flat ear. wher ; and the tog striking him ott tife back of the head, crushed his brains out. The body waa removed to his boarding house, and will bp sent to his home lh Bloomfield. Mr. Brewer leaves a wife and one child. The safe of Voges A Kreipke, feed T stuff merchants of Evansville, was blown open the other night and tooo in cash stolen. The thieves chiseled through the doors, which were fire, bq| not burglar-proof, and loading ’ with explosive, blew the miter door through a partition and smashed the lights U the windows of the office. Paperewero found at several points • throughout the city. > Two Miami Indians, William Marshall on the reserva- t house to be bn nre. Hurrying over, he discovered Marshall sitting by then fire-place, horribly burned about the and the room on ffre, while the wife was found outside, some distance from the house, with every thread of her clothing burned off, and her body /“I . Bn ?°king. She. died shortly afier belng found: The condition of Marshall is critical.