Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

The Oliver chilled plow works at South Bend turn out a plow a minute. • The fruit crop in Clarke county is reported to be uninjured, but wheat on wet, flat lands is badly frozen out. The house of Mrs. Witt, a widow at Goshen, burned with all her household goods. Loss SI,OOO. insured for S7OO. Rev. Wm. A. Webbe, of Fort Wayne, has received a unanimous call to St. Andrews Episcopal church, Chicago. Smallpox prevails to an alarming extent in some parts of Marshall county.’ At Monroeville ten cases are reported. Janies Armstrong and Henry Keller sawed through the bars of the jail at Winnemac the other night and escaped.

Wheat in the eastern part of the state is reported to be in excellent condition, and the prospect of a large yield is unusually good. The funeral of John Keating, the victim of the Columbus fire, was the largest ever seen there. The remains were interred at Edinburg. The Lebanon Patriot has developed an extensive system of county correspondence, having full reports from all towns and villages. The Cambridge City car work employ 375 men, pay $150,000 per month lor labor and material, ana turn out over 2,000 box cars annually, Tom Donahue, Bill Collins and a traveling man, name unknown, were badly and perhaps fatally used up in a row at a disreputable house at Muncie. Tom Langley, a mulatto, shot and dangerously wounded a negro named Harry Parsons, in Finley’s saloon, at Evansville, without known provocation.

Oscar Addington, son of a widow at Stone Station, Randolph county, was crushed and killed by a falling tree, and his brother Frank was dangerousljr hurt. Two 16 year old girls of Logansport, named Caroline Schubeck and Julia Eckert, have run away from home and their parents are greatly distressed. The Lafayette county commissioners have purchased the fair grounds adjoining Connersville for $9,000 to keen them from being divided and sold in, lots. A carpenter of Muncie, named Hale, has woed and won Atuptin Wacanona, the belle and heiress of the Miami reservation. The wedding took place at Peru. Congressman Matson has determined to hold a competitive examination at Greencastle on the Ist of May to decide whom to appoint as cadets at West Point, and cadet midshipman at Annapolis. Thieves are so plentiful at Shelbyville, that all a citizen has to do when he wants any rubbish taken away is to put it under lock and key, and it promptly disappears. The lease of the old fair ground, at Knightstown, by the Union agricultural society, has been broken by some misunderstanding, and the society find themselves without grounds.

James Conrad, of Orange township, Rush county, died suddenly in convulsions the other evening,’just after taking a dose of medicine. It is thought the medicine contained poison. Blasting for a sewer in the vicinity broke the glass in the rose house of Noah S. Leeds, the Richmond rose grower, and caused a damage to his stock by frost to the amount of $7,000, for which he now brings suit against the city. An old gentleman by the name of Mitchell, of Washington township, Ripley county, got up from the dinner table, walked into another room, and hung himself while the family were finishing their meal. Mr. C. Nichols, for a longtime landlord es the St. James hotel at Peru, has taken the Doxey house at Anderson. He has thoroughly refitted the Doxey, and intends to make it one of the best hotels in Indiana.

A daughter of Jacob Hessians, who lives six miles from New Albany r was attacked by a dog which was suffering from hydrophobia. She caught him by the neck and choked him to death. She is but twelve years old. Samuel Spurgeon, aged 44, residing near Bryantsburg, Jefferson county, While attempting to climb a fence on his farm, slipped and fell, and his head being caught between the palings, he strangled to death. He leaves a family. The Putnam county bar adopted appropriate resolutions on the death of fudge Turman, in which a feeling tribute is paid to him as an honest, able and upright judge, a public spirited and honest citizen and a generous and faithful friend. A man by the name of Thomas Snodgrass was killed on the farm of John Moon, near Clayton, by a tree that he was cutting down falling on him. Mr. Snodgrass was living at North Belleville, and leaves three or four children. The officers of the Union agricultural society of Henry, Rush and Hancock counties have completed a lease for ten years for the grounds north of Knightstown, where they have held their exhibitions for several years. They have also deeided to advertise for bids for building new halls and a tenant house on the grounds.