Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Telegraph communication has been opened to Rockport, Spencer cojuitv. Henry Chase, of Laporte county, has a rooster with three aeto of spar*. The Terre Haute Ledger is early in the field for Hon. Joseph E. McDonald for president in 1884. Mr*. C. F. Smith, for seventeen years postmistress of North Madison, died suddenly of heart disease Articles of association have been filed looking to the introduction of the electric light in New Albany. Jacob M. Wells, of Marion, and John F. Dowd, of Rockwell, were appointed postmaster* by the presiA little six-year daughter of Frank Smith, of Logansport, was fatally burned by her clothes taking fire at a stove. Five persons have been sent to the insane asylum at Indianapolis from Miami county, within the last two weeks. Hon. Daniel Thomas, a member of the legislature during the sessions of 1877-79, died at his late residence near Rockville. Overton A. Fitch, of Madison, a large operator in pork died in Chicago, Friday, March 12. He was quite wealthy. Dr. J. H. Green, of Seymour, a large peach grower, says that hie crop of peaches will be large, if the buds are not injured by late frosts. Edward Raines, a Lafayette boy, in attempting to Jump from an engine fell upon the track and had a foot taken off at the ankle. The celebrated Indian springs, near Shoals, have been sold at administrator’s sale for <3,700 to Mrs. Susan M. Falkner, of Bloomington. Rev. R. O. Post, pastor of the Broadway Presbyterian church, of Logansport, has resigned to take charge of a church at Springfield, Illinois. The printers of the Lafayette Journal are on a strike against some of the internal regulations of the office. The question of wages is not involved. A Bedford jury found John Beasley guilty of shooting his brother Jesse, and fined him <BOO, beside sending him to the county jail for sixty days. Prof. George A. Chase, formerly president of Brookville college, am afterwards of De Pauw college, wastricken with paralysis in Louisvilh recently. ‘

TBie winter has been very destrue tiv* to bees throughout the state. I is estimated that fully half of the col onies that went into winter quarter have diedi The body of an unknown man wafound five miles southeast of Milton where it had apparently lain for weeks, One side of his face was frozen off. A sixteen year old son of Jesse Lane, a wealthy farmer, near Colfax, left his home a few days ago under bus picious circumstances and has gom no one knows whither. Mrs. Theodore Hawes, of New Albany, has a divorce pending against her husband, and recently he complicated matters by seizing her two year old baby and taking it with him to Kentucky. The family of Joe Kopp, of Shelbyville, who were poisoned by eating horseradish sauce containing. a little grated pokeroot, are recovering, all except Mrs. Kopp, who having been in delicate health before, may not recover. Thomas Arwine, of near Holtonsville, Lawrence county, in leaning outward from the platform of a passenger coach, did so just in time to strike his head against the Salt Creek bridge, near Bedford, and was instantly killed. Jonathan P. Adamson, a prominent business man of Muncie, made an assignment, a few days since, foi the benefit of his creditors. The failure was bronght about by the previous failure of Hammre A Adamsen, large dry goods dealers of that city. Louis Ringley, formerly a highly respectable and well to do farmer, of Franklin township, Harrison county, is in jail for a deadly assault upon his wife with a chair. His son-in-law knocked him down with a convenient hoop-pele, and his injuries, added to the delirium tremens, may terminate his life. —i Fred. Fischer, a rising young man of Floyd county, had his nose and his upper jaw containing all his upper teeth, torn off by a piece of wood thirty inches long, which fell on a buzz-saw and was hurled in his face with frightful force. His recovery is hardly possible. Charles E. Freese, of Fort Wayne, committed suicide, recently, at St. Joseph’s hospital in that city, by taking morphine, which he had purchased in small quantities at various drug stores. He was very dissipated, and had squandered a fortune in drink. He had a life insurance policy for <IO,OOO in the New York Mutual, in favor of his wife, against whom he had filed a petition for divorce. 4 Hon. Thomas F. Deßruler, the greenback candidate for lieutenantgovernor in the late election, died at Rockport, on Tuesday of consumption, at the age of sixty. He was born in Orange county, North Carolina, but has been a resident of this state since he was about a year old. He was a lawyer by profession. He served one term in the state legislature in 1847, was treasurer of Spencer county in 1855, and was twice a candidate of his party for congress. He leaves* wife and four children.