Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Mrs. Hollowell, of Seymour, aged 82 years, was found dead in bed. Thomas Robinson a miner of near Carbon, accidently shot himself while hunting. . r . The store of James A. Easton, at Morristown, Shelby county was rob bed the other night. Fine bass are being caught through holes in the ice near South Bend - . Crawfordsville voted $40,000 to the Lake Erie and Western railway, by 650 majority. The Madison Star says it is doubtfill whether Trow A Co. will rebuild their mill in that city. A postofflee has been established at Bruce’s Lake, Fulton county, Amanda Lebo postmistress. Richard Deane aged twenty-four, was killed by the falling of a tree in the Kaolin mines, near Bedford, Lawrence county.

Henry W. Glendenning, of Rush county, has been missing for two months. He had $1,600 on his person whten last heard of. Five Wabash engineers have been killed within the last six months, more than have been killed before since the opening of the road. Ervin Weller, a young man of Muncie suffered the loss of one of his legs by having it caught In the machinery of the fttx mill at that place. George Mott, of New Harmony, Posey county, was drowned by the upsetting of nis boat in which he was hunting ducks near Fox Island. The son and administrator of the late Governor Williams has contracted for a SSOO monument, to be placed above the grave of the Governor and his wife. Among the social events of last week at Elkhart, was the celebration of the sixty third anniversary of their wedding by Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Clark. Mary Shelvey, a domestic in rhe employ of Rev. W. H. Llpes, of Fort Wayne, fell into a cistern while attempting to draw water, and was drowned. 8. B. McCann, a freight brakeman on the Fort Wayne road, fell from the top of a train and was run over and had both legs cut off. He lived two hours.

Three workmen fell from one of the piers of theC. W.&M. railway bridge, over the Mississinewa river, near Marion, Gram county, and one was so badly hurt that he will die. The finest poplar timber in the State grows in Pike county. Last week M. D. Walts, sold 100 poplar trees, as-they stand in the wooas for $1,200, and Polk Rumble sold 100 for SBOO. Robert Hunt, of Canaan, Jennings county, has been arrested for implication in an attempted abortion on a young lady of that village. Hunt’s son, also a party has fled the coufttfyi The flrm of Pyke A Ford, shoe dealers at Lafayette and Fort Wayne, made an assignment, having been in business twenty-three years. The proprietors say that with time they can pay all claims. Rev. M. V. Snellman, appointed by BishonChatard, was ordered from the churchyard of the Catholic church, at Brownsburg, Hendricks county, by Rev. Dennis O’Donovan, who “holds the fort” against the bishop’s orders. The dam across the Wabash river, at Delphi, has partially been carried away by the current, and farmers in that neighborhood are consequently Jubilant, as at every freshet therr lands would be inundated by back-water. James Ketcham, of Newberry, was badly if not fatally hurt, while hunting. He was resting ou his gun, with the muzzle under his arm. His dog reared up and placed its foot on the hammer, draw ing it back sufficiently to discharge the weapon.

Henry T. Sample, a resident of Lafayette since 1823, died Saturday morning last. He was. an honored and respected citizen and was at the (lime of his death, president of the Tippecanoe Agricultural Association, a position he had held centinusly from the organization of the society. John B. Cobb has been appointed post masterof Columbus, vice William Winkler resigned, and the same created great excitement and much dissatisfaction which resulted in a meeting and the agreement to hold an election the first Saturday in March to determine by vote who shall be the postmaster. Mr. Cobb was a party to the agreement. At Indianaplis, on Saturday, Joseph Wade, charged with assisting Mrs. Brown in the murder of her husband, S leaded guilty to murder in the second egree, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. On a former trial Wade was found guilty and sentensed to be hung, but the Supreme court reversed the decision, and gave him a new trial. ~ Wash Carpenter of Fort Wayne, an engineer on the Wabash road, was killed -at Wildcat creek, near Lafayette, by the breaking of the side rod of his engine which, flying back struck him op the leg and threw him to the other side of the cab. He put on the air brakes and the train being stopped it was found that he had rolled off the engine and down an embankment. He had a severe wound on the head and his ankle and hip bones were so mashed as to protrude through the skin. He died shortly after receiving his injuries. He leaves a wife and six children.