Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Hog cholera rages in parts of ClArke county. 1 Lafayette is still agitated over the court house project.* Hiram Duff, of Windfall, has died of apoplexy, the result of hard drinking. . Thomas Jackson, anold soldier, one legged, of Tcrre Haute, snlcifled with opium. / / , William Jerauld, aged 88, a pioneer of Gibson county and a resident of Patoka, is dead. Thorntown, by 330 majority voted $24,000 in aid of the L£ke Erie and Western railroad. Jeptha 8. Teter, the postmaster of Orleans, Orange county lias just died in his 69th year. A tramp shoemaker, named John McFarland suicided at the Carter Hotel, Petersburg. , / < Dugget’s saw mill near Worthington, on the T. H. &8. railroad was burned. Loss $4,000, Tom Mays, late of Auburn and Pinafore fame, has turned up at Hot Springs as on© of the editors of the Evening Star. v > Terre Haute is asked for SIOO,OOO for a railroad donation, and the Courier proposes td see about it. “Right my >oy.’l Squelch it. * The two-year-old child of Horace Travis, of Shelbyvllle, fell into a tub of water and was scalded to death Saturday, in the absence of its mother. Randolph Coleman, a fanner living four miles west of Thorntown, hung himself. No reason fpr the, act is assigned. Benjaman Bookman, of Vincennes, has been acquitted of the charge of rape upon the person of a girl of ten years or age. The Putman county pacing horse, “Rowdy Boy,” has been sold for $lO, COO and a 2:25 trotting horse to boot, to an Eastern firm. A man by the name of Vineyard, a l rakeman on the Vandalia line, was crushed between two freight cars, and fatally injured. If the taxes claimed to be due from the estate of the late W. F. Reynolds of Lafayette, are collected, the tax “ferret” will get $150,000.

Three men and one boy were almost fatally poisened near Brooksburg, Jefferam county, by eating scorched mistaking it foE burdock. W Prof. Jordan, in connection with Prof* Boisen, of Williams college, will conduct another summer tramp through Europe this year, leaving about June 13. A German farmer residing near Newville in Blackford county, fell from his wagon, while drunk, and the wheels passing over him broke his neck, killing him instantly* Frankfort, Clinton county, has been asked for a $33,000 subsidy for the establishment of the machine and car works of the Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad at this point. Jonathan Hock, foreman in the casting department of the Panhandle shops at Logansport, was crushed to death in the yards. Ho was drunk when caught between the moving cars. • 'jc Robbers are getting in their work ifc Clay county. Winklepeck’s store at Knightnville, was burglarized, the safe blown open, S3OO in money and goods amounting in valve to S6OO or S7OO taken.

William Match, foreman in the car shops of the P„ F. W. and C. railway, at Fort Wayne, shot himself to death Sunday evening. He had been discharged and committed the act while ddspohdent. A building owned by Joseph Barbor, Woodville, Henry county, and occuS led as a store room, was destroyed by re last week. Loss SI,OOO. Origin of the fire unknown. During the fire several kegs of powder exploded with terrific force. Josiah Gwin, after a service covering a period of nearly ten years consecutively, with the New Albany Standard and Ledger-Standard, has retired from journalism, and will take with him the best wishes of the profession. James R. Applegate will now be the editor. Frank Posey and A. H. Taylor got into a dispute during the progress of a trial at Fetersburgh. After the adjournment of the court the dispute ended in blows. Taylor struck at Posey with a chair, and Posey Eromntly knocked Taylor down with Is fist. Posey strikes from the shoulder.

A collision took place near Columbus, on the J. M, AI. railroad, by which two engines and a number of freight cars were demolished causing damage amounting to $30,000, This is the second occurrence of the kind on the same road, both of which were caused by the carelessness of the conductor, William Fredrick, who will undoubtedly have to walk the pjank. , The trial of Dr. Thomas F. Anst, for the murder of his brother-in-law, James Humphreys, has been set for Tuesday, March 1, in the Pike cohnty circuit court. Aust, the murderer, confessed to the killing on the Ist of November last, at Winslow, Pike coaDty, and said: “The papers called it a cold-blooded murder. It was no such thing. I got some of his blood on my hands, and it was warm.” . The police of New York are now try- | ing to prevent pool-playing by.boys.- * *v ' ‘ '■ -r.‘'->T