Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

| The Quakers of Richmond are hav- | ing a revival. An engine and several cars w&e I smashed up in a collision on the Lake Shore railroad. • Mr. Swing, of Brookville, a dry goods merchant, fell dead, from heart ' disease, in his store. .Columbus has eighteen saloons and eighteen churches, sixteeridoctora and but two undertakers.

Thomas Hastie shot and killed James Bennett in a quarrel, at Markland, Switzerland county. i The great revival at Park Christian church, at Madison, has resulted, so tar, in nearly fifty accessions. Charles L. Ilbach, of Indianapolis, expired after suffering torture from trichi niaMs for eleven weeks. .< A cyclone passed a few miles north of Rushville, tearing down fences, unroofing houses and damaging trees.

1 Thomas A. Meredith, city editor of I the Democrat. Washington, died of p eumonia. He was about 25 years of lags. 1 During a fit of temporary insanity, I Frederick Drue k ami Her, a wealthy I farmer of New Paris, out his throat I with a razor.. 4 Mrs. Courtney, an old lady eighty years of age, living on one of the back streets of Moore’s Hill, was found I dead in her bed. The Cincinnati Southern railroad has contracted with the Ohio Falls Car company for $200,000 worth of coal and box cars. Elliot Lynn, living a few miles east of Rushville, had a pacing mare valued at SI,OOO stolen from his barn a few nights since. Upon theresignation of Mr. E. Fleehart as treasurer of Rushville, Mr. Frank Tingley, jr.;, has been appointed to succeed him. B. F. Wasson, of Crawfordsville, for years cashier of the First national bank is at the head of’a uew bank to be started in that city. George James and Joe Tucker of Jeffersonville got into a quarrel in which the latter was severely cut in the arm with a knife.

Wm. 8. Williams, formerly of Brazil, was accidentally run over and I killed by a train on the Iron Mauntain railroad at Poplar Bluff, Mo. A gang of burglars at Indianapolis, Ind., robbed the residence of Mrs. Samuel'Toggart of SI,OOO worth of jewelry, laces and sealskins.

One of the prominent fruit-growers in the knobs of Clark County says that the hard winter has not injured' the fruit trees to any alarming extent. • Selma was bycloned the other day. ’ It lifted the roofs from several houses, made kindling wood of fencing, but passed off without doing bodily injury.

A brakeman on the L. 8. & M. 8. railroad, named Frank Mastin, was killed by a freight train on the T., H. & L. road, a mile south of Crawfordsville. John Jonas, John During and Charles Young, who attempted to rob Calvin Anderson, at Vincennes, some weeks ago, have been given three years in the penitentiary. t Henry Siebold, who has been missing since Friday night, was found drowned in the Wabash Canal, Fort Wayne, having fallen in while intoxicated. He was 24 years of age. At Washington Crossing, six miies south of Bluffton, the boiler in the saw mill of J. J. Bixby exploded, killing a young eon of the proprietor, and seriously injuring two employees. John Roan, a farmer, with his horse and wagon,, tumbled down a bluff2so feet, on the Corydon pike, four miles west of Madison. Roan and his horse were badly hurt. The wagon was not damaged. A six-year-old boy, named Billings, was horribly burned at Richmond, by his clothes catching fire from a oandle. His flesh from the knees to the head was baked to a crisp. It is impossible for him to live.

Charles O’Callaghan was found iruilty of complicity in the robbery of Sarney Ricking, last October, and his penalty was fixed at four years in the penitentiary and a fine of $25. A little seven-year-old son of M.X7. Leppert, of Madison, was seriously wounded while playing with a pistol. The ball is lodged in the child’s back. It is hot known whether the wound will prove fatal or not, A man who registered at the Spencer House, in Rockport, as John Hollingsworth, was found dead in his room. He complained of feeling badly before retiring, and had, when found, been dead for several hours.

A friendless boy from Talbott, in this state, named Stephen Morrissey, attempted to commit suicide at Paxton, Illinois, by taking strychnine, because he was out of employment and hia relatives were not his friends.

Ed. Broil went to the housed William Hayes, a farmer living sixteen miles east of Petersburg, for the purpose of whipping him. Hayes’ wife nterfered and was roughly handled by Broil. Hayes then got his shotgun and killed Broil. Logansport having rescinded the contract with the gas company, ia now negotiating with the Brush Electric Lighting company, of Cleveland, to light the city. The gas company won't be rescinded, and proposes to keep right on as heretofore, and if the city refuses to pay, bring suit to enforce its demands.