Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Scarlet fever lias broken ouf. in Miss. Huddelson’s orphan’s home, at Rnshville. August M. Wiley, who recently died in Arkansas, was the first Sheriff of Tippecanoe county. Fanners hi Dubois county say that so for as they have been able to make examination the wheat is uninjured. Burglars blew open two safes in Reeve’s dry-goods store at Elleteville, and secured $l5O in money and some papers. Charles Link, convicted robber, and William Riedlander charged with highway robbery, escaped from jail at Lafayette. John McCoy was caught on the crossing at Jeffersonville, and badly injured by the engine and his mule was killed. John Summers was fatally injured at Whitings, near Laporte. by being struck by a locomotive, while walking on the track. Max. G. Lade’s gun store, at Fort Wayne, was burglarized of guns, revolvers and money to the amount of SSOO. No clew. JohnGeddis, a pugilist, got into a brawl at Toohey’s saloon, at Columbus, and was badly beaten. His injuries are serious.

A collision of freight trains near Ligonier, wrecked both engines and five cars, killing 130 hogs and injuring some other stock. Mt. Vernon is to have a “ponnd” ball on Valentine’s night. The managers are merry fellows, and their will be a “heap” of fun. At New Albany, a farmer named E. J. Rice, living at Mendon, near Topeka, Kansas, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a knife. The Mt. Vernon Sun is scorching several young married women and older married men, who “trapse” around on dark nights and give scandal. Articles of association of the Electric Gas company of Indiana were filed with the Secretary of State Saturday afternoon. Capital stock, $50,000. A two year old child of Thomas Austin, of Union City, was fatally burned a few evenings since, while slaying with fire with an older srothet. The American starch works at Columbus, have completed their first starch. It is a very superior article, and will equal anything in the market. A new and dangerous $5 gold piece has made its appearance in Fort Wayne. It hasplatinum[in it to give it the true ring, but shows a white line at the edge. The wife of Prof. Hicks, of the Hartsville high school, slipped and fell on the icy pavement, breaking the bones of both arms between the wrists and the elbows.

Dick'M."Barr, on trial at Brmfrnsttown, for beating Lafayette Morgan to death last September, has been found guilty and assessed twenty-one years in the penitentiary. Willis Watson, a prominent stock and grain dealer of Worthington,, Green county, who had bin hand torn offinahay press, died from the effects of the accident. The Vincennes Sun has begun its third year as a daily paper, and gleefully says it is “full of life, vigor, hope, advertisements and news.” Certainly it ha 9 nothing more to wish for. Marion has expressed its choice for xistmaster. James Noland, who has >een postmaster for sixteen years, got 157 votes, Jacob M. Wells 281, and 292 scattering among six other candidates. The measles are prevailing to an alarming extent in Brooksburg, Jefferson county, the schools in the village and vicinity being compelled to suspend during the prevalence of the epidemic. At Louisville, Knox county, Dan Myers and George Banks got into an altereation. Banks acted on the defensive, and cut Myers on Ghe head in a fea‘rful manner, and cut one of his hands all to tatters with a knife. Abel Denny, of Randolph county, attempted suicide by sticking a pocket knife into his throat. He succeeded in cutting hi« windpipe, and may die from the effect of the wound. He is a young man of intemperate habits. George Fitzgerald, one of the victims of the distillery accident at Terre Haute,. on the 20th _pf .October last, died- in great agony. This is the ninth employe who has died from injuries received at the time.

Indiana postmasters have been commisipned'as follows: Frank I. Dale, at Turkey Creek: Wm. Nichaus, of Santa Claus; Belle Rude at Austin. A post office has been established at Voget, Dearborn county with Valentine voget as postmaster. Four prisoners in the Allen county jail attempted to escape the other day, by throwing pepper in the turnkey’s eyes, and rushing past him. He caught'one of them ana bit his thumb so that he had to call for help, and that raised the alarm and prevented the escape. Lydia, the seven-year eld daughter of S. \L. Howe, of Madison, while leaning over the banisters of a secondstory porch lost, her balance, falling a distance of twenty feet, breaking her arm and painfully bruising her otherwise. The boughs of a peachtree through which she fell broke the fall, and probably saved her life.