Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Eli Jamcenn, of Peru, was seriously injured by Ite4ng thrown fiom his hearse by a runaway term. E. E. (’oxen, a Tipton contractor, has smhlenly removed to Kansas, leaving many creditors to mourn. Tlie Brazil Argus-Magnet has droptied its hyphenated name, and will hereafter be known as the Democrat. The Iron bridge ever the river, at Carrolton, washed out, taking one of the stone piers. The bridge was 508 feet long, and cost $2,200. Little Daisy, daughter of Samuel Hogue, of Columbus, was thrown from a phaeton by a runaway horse aud dangerously injured. William White, a Terra Haute boy of 16 years, was instantly killed while playing in a flouring mil), by being caught in a rapidly moving belt. Joseph Vanhorn, an old and crippled lunaitc, was instantly killed by being struck by a train on the Panhandle, one mile west of Marion. Walk Dooley, of Sullivan, abused his mother, when his elder brother James interfered and was hit on the head with a brick by Walk, and fatally injured. Cannelton has strong hopes of being connected by rail with tne outside world this summer. It is proposed to extend the Local Trade road from Gentryville to that place. Conductor Hiddinger of the C., 1., C. A St. L. Co. pay car was badly injured tn a collision with a passenger train on the Lake Erie and Western road near Montgomery. The New Albany stove moulders, 75 in number, are on a strike for an. advance of 25 per cent. The proprietors offer to pay Cincinnati and Louisville prices, but no more. Calvin P. Barnett shot and killed James Ellis iu Jacob Kiinmon’s saloon at Hazelton. The cause was an old grudge. Barnett was captured and taken to Princeton. John Nightwine, Western Union telegraph repairer, fell in Sugar creek, near Columbus, and came near being drowned, and afterward cut off* the end of his finger while repairing damaged wire. George Gardner, a twelve-year old son of Dexter Gardner, has just harvested a pistol ball from the lobe of his (est ear, that was planted in his breast by an accidental shot over three years ago. The water in nearly all the cisterns of Madison was so badly impregnated with smoke during the burning of Trow’s mills as to be useless for dnnking purposes. The rain fell heavily during and after the fire. Fred. Lochmiller, who Jives near Smyrna, Decatur county, accidentally shot himself while carelessly handling a revolver. The ball entered his chest Just below the fifth rib, passing entirely through the body.'f Six ladies of Monticello,- while standing on a little eminence watching the fresWet in the Tippecanoe river were surrounded by the rising waves, and were only saved from drowning by the vigorous exertions of the spectators. George Rood, a merchant of Van Buren, Grant county, shot Henry Huff* in the back part of the head. The wound is serious. The provocation was that Huff was making ton much noise in the street in front of Rood’s house.

Two Poles were poisoned by some unknown party at South Bend, who placed P&ris green or arsenic in their tea. One of them also found the bread in his dinner bucket covered with finely powdered glass. A doctor was called in, and both of the men will probably recover. John Peters, of Connersville, picked up a package, not knowing what was in it, and put it to his nose to smell it. He had a lighted cigar in his mouth, and the package contained gunpowder, which exploded, burning his face in a terrible manner. Dorcas Burchfield, who shot and killed her brother-in-law, Thomas Burchfield, at Francisco, in Gibson county, on Christmas night, has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to the woman’s reformatory, at Indianapolis, for twelve years. Miss Kate Coffman, a young lady who has long resided in Madisrn with a relative, her parents being dead, has just found a long lost brother in the person of Aaron Coffin an, of Hannibal, Missouri, who arrived Sunday in search of tidings of his sister, whom he had not seen since she was an infant. '■< ’ A Mrs. Tucker, of Greene county, [awoke in the night to find what she RsUpposed to be a strange dog in the Epouse, but which turned out to be a Koon that had gained entrance through lahole in the roof, and couldn’t find W way out. Mrs. T. was severely Hmtten in the leg before the animal |qpid be dispatched. .ymouth Bend has more than 170 facand shops, which turn out worth of products, and give Vitqwoyment to 3,000 skilled workmen More than 500 buildingvWere added to the city last year. -Aft the manufactories are running on MR wme, and crowded with orders. ’’While J. H. McKeen, of Bedford, wm swimming his horse across a cfKkShis saddle-girth broke and he slicmKT He caught his horse’s tail, hoWever, and came safely ashore with a re&izwg sense of the fact that “tail holtetate better holts than none.” (»eo.l*.wis, of Columbus, bad a similar experience with a mule. ' u K W’'Jr, * ‘