Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

T. W. Foster, of Osgood, refused to take SIO,OOO cash for his pacing mare “Belle West. Amos McCleary was found dead in the woods near Somerville, Gibeon county. Heart disease. Frank Shutt. of the Elkhart Democrat, contemplates starting a democratic morning paper in Fort Wayne. A goat at Begg’s distillery at Shelbyville, ] Joked off $l7O worth of revenue stamps from whisky barrels, the other day.

Andrew Kay, who started from New Albany to Oregon six weeks ago fell off a steamer in the Pacific ocean and was drowned. B. F. Cunningham, of Martinsville, has been arrested charged with retaining sllO in judgements collected by him while constable. All the stock in the Ohio river bridge at New Albany—one million five hundred thousand dollars, has been taken by wealthy capitalists. Alonzo Hatch, a Vandalia brakeman, was knocked from a moving train by the timbers of a coal shaft at Newburg and fatally injured.

James Reardon, . a youth living a short distance north of North Vernon, was fatally kicked by a vicious horse suffering a fracture of the skull. Miss Elizabeth Horton, aged eightyeight, a respected citizen of Shelby township, is dead. Deceased resided in Jefferson county over half a ryWilliam Wilson, aged ninety, a pioneer citizen of Jefferson county, Iras died. He has resided in that county seventy-eight years. He has been blind for nine years. Lucy, the eighteen-year-old daughter of James Cartwright, of Ossian, Wells county, left her home on the 17th of January, since which time nothing has been heard of her. Burglars entered Grafton Johnson’s store at Greenwood ten miles north of Franklin, blew the safe open and relieved the cash drawer of $1 000. There was also $14,000 in the safe they did not reach.

Robbers, supposed tramps, entered the residence of Isaac Jones, in Salt Creek township, Jackson county, and forced him to give them his money—only a few dollars short of an even SI,OOO. No clew. At a saw mill four miles west of Hagerstown, William Paul was badly injured. A piece of board was caught and thrown with great force by the saw and struck Paul' running entirely through his thigh. Mrs. Ann S. Stevens, aged eightyfive, and widow of tne late Judge Stevens, one of the first supreme judges of Indiana, received a rail at her residence in Madison, which will probably result in her death. Dr. Moorehead, a prominent physician of Peru, died or Bright’s disease at the age of 70, John Harding, of New Point, died aged 91 and Richard Lawson, a pioneer of Madison, died at the age of 75. Misses -Anna and Ella Hubbard, sister and daughter of Hon. Charles Hubbard, of Raysville, Henry county, were nearly smothered by tne fumes from a coal stove. Their lives were saved with difficulty. Howell is to have a new business block forty-six by one hundred feet in size, put up this season. On the first floor will be three stores and on the second an opera house which will seat over 1,000 persons. The plans are furnished by A. C. Varney of Detroit. During December, January and February 8,700 rations were issued to the poor from the 30up-house in New Albany—l2o families being supplied at a total cost of $425. Heretofore the poor of the township have cost about $1,500 for the same period. Two roughs from Connersville, named Hartman, and a gang of Rushville gamblers had a row at the latter place, in which the intruders were badly pounded and chawed up after a fight that lasted nearly all night. One Said Yazoll was also very badly cut up.

Mr. Jessie Rhodes, a farmer of Marion, Shelby county, while drawing water from a stock well fell in head first, the water being nine feet deep. He went to the bottom, but managed by almost superhuman effort to push himself out feet foremost, and regain terra flrma without serious injury, There was an unusual contest oyer the remains of C. C. Freese, who died at Fort Wayne of combined morphine and delerium tremens the other day. His mother, who came on from Pittsburg, insisted on taking his body home with her, while the wife ana mother-in-law resisted, with success. Mrs. Matilda Wharton, the gipsy woman who defrauded *Mr. Jessops, of Qibson county, out of #1,200, at a new trial given her, and on change of venue to Vanderburg county, got two years in the reformatory, ana a fine of fifty dollars.. On the first trial in Gibson county, she was fined #1,200 and sentenced to four yean in the reformatory.

A week or so ago a couple of men passed through Dalton and Perry townships, Wayne county, claiming to be viewers or a proposed extension of the L, C. St W. railroad. The citizens along the proposed route treated them grandly, furnishing them with their best board and lodging. It has leaked out that the “viewers were a couple of sharp tramps.