Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

rihocks of earthquake were felt last Friday in various parts of Elkhart county. _ Charles L. Holland was struck by the west bound passenger train a Washington, and instantly killed. Mrs. J. W. Keith, at Seymour, fainted when her hoose caught fire the other night, and soon after, died of heart disease.

* The state grove of the united ancient order or Druids, will convene in La&yette, May 24. The session will last three days. : Peter Biphnger, a very old citizen of North Vernon, dropped dead while working in his garden, from the effects of heart disease and old agfj^l; John Thomas, despondent on isocount of a love affair, put a bullet through his brain at Lafoiitainc. His hometo at Springfield, Missouri. i Bartley Davis, of Liberty, aged about forty-eigtg, was found dead in his field lying besid* his plow. It is supposed to be a eaee o* heart disease. Warren Tebbs, of La>F react burg, has beep appointed administrator df the estate or Gau.' Ben. Sphohef, deceased, and filed his bond in Cke sum of $50,-

“Doc” Lawson, wh|fe whitewashing the Seitz house kitcheil at Greensburg fell fifteen feet from "m defective stepladder', receiving very severe inju- • The jewelry store Of Samuel Hawkins, of WindtollyffiraS ! entered by thieves by breaking through the window, and about SIOO worth of goods taken. The residence o<" |?at? Woods lust west of North Vernon, was burned on Sunday morning, with Its contents. Loss about 4#1,10Q, with no insure nee. i Alexander Cambeil a leading member of the United Brethren church, in Liberty toknship. Wabasb oounty, has become insane from religious excitement. * lit;©sir ‘ *Tlja steamer Signor, ofTerre Haute, too heavily laden With walnut lumber, sank iu tjie Wabash at Merom and was almdot totally ruined. The lumber was 84ved. T, Kate Myers, a young Woman living in the family of Amos Durbin, four miles south of Franklin, was fatally burned on Sunday, by going too close to an open fire. Frank Kdapp, a clerk in Milton A Ebit’s drug house, at South Bend, suspected fol- seme time of stealing from the safe, has been arrested, ana confesses to stealing about S3OO. Father Dennis O’Donovan, the exc</umuuicated priest of Browusburg, removed Bishop Chatard’s notice from bis churchMonr, and conducted Easter services to a large congregation..

A lady of Seymour, while on her way to Rockford, two miles north, found twenty live snakes in a heap on the’ sidj? of the railway track. The lady was lucky and killed them all. A lad named James Copeland, aged teq claiming Vallonra as his home Was found ili a forlorn condition at Cincinnati looking for his uncle Frank Green, and was placed in the childred’s home to await news from his friends. £| Mr. Joseph Padgett, a well known .Citizen of Edwardsport, accidentally shot himself in the leg while examining a revolver the other day. It is feared that the wound will fiecesaitate the amputation of the leg. V- • ' John Moulton has filed a suit in the county clerk’s office at Greensburg against Henry L. Doggett for libel, claiming $5,000 damages for being called “a low stinking thief.” The parties reside near Adams, Deqptur county. The Indiana manufacturing company, formerly the Howe machine company of Peru, failed to pay its employes, and has gone iuto the hands of a receiver, Mr. Aaron N. Dukes. After lying idle a,week, work has been resumed. Peter Worder, a house painter of Vevay, received what will probably strovef trove a fatal injury by having a faintng fit and falling a distance of about thirty feet from a scaffold to the ground below, crushing his thigh in a.teirible manner and inflicting serious injuries. Joseph Miller and David Merriwether quarreled about ditching, four nfHes north of New Albany Merriwetlier beat Miller savagely over the bead with a club and stabbed him through the right lung. The wounds are .probably mortal. Merriwether was arrested. *.

i Mr. \VTT. Newsom, of Columbus, -was married last week to an estimable lady. He*begins married life with a SIO,OOO suit hanging over him for astray the wife of Barb. Payne, who lived pn Newsom’s term, and-i-boarded Him in hie bachelor days. Reports from about one-third of the countfcfe In the stats make it appear that the: grain crop will he about medium, toe acreage being considerably 4ee* than last year. The fruit|crop was been badly damaged In The elassis ofifichigan of the Refoirndfinmorcfc of America, In its semiannual session fit South Bend, passed resolutions heartily approving President OsidoM’autterances in his inaugural address in regard, to polygamy, and calling upon ooagxeee to enact laws for ite extermination.