Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Fmnk M. Rwßc?bf Aurora, was the successful candidate for the cadetship of West Point. Dr. Homer Iddings, of Noblecounty, has been appointed physician to the northern penitentiary. Collector Cumback has decided to remove the collector’s office of his district to Lawrenceburg. Mr.F. M. Gilbert has become the owner of the Evansville Argut tit which he has been editor for some time. ' ■ Mr. Ad. Arnold, of the Columbus Democrat, has purchased the Columbian and consolidated it with his paper.

A young colored boy named Dixon, while riding on a switch engine at Terre Haute, fell off and loot ;an arm andleg. Edward Maurer, the twenty year old son of George F. Maurer, of Weet Franklin, was thrown from a hone and instantly killed. i George Watson, who has been in jail at Madison fornix months charged with the murder of George Glass, was acquitted on Saturday.

John Hahn, a German, living at Sunman, aged sixty, cremated himself in a brush ’pile recently. Domestic trouble was the probable cause. . “Uncle Billy” Bpwks, of Anderson, seventy-five years of age, died from starvation, caused by paralysis of the throat, after a fast of sixteen days. Mrs. Mary Smock, of Madison, aged twenty-eight? was found dead lying upon her bed beside her four year old daughter. She is supposed to have died of paralysis of the heart. A farm-house belonging to Amos Drake, who lives about eight miles east of Martinsville, was burned together with its contents. Loss about SI,BOO, Insured for SOOO. Patrick Foley, an unmarried man about forty years old, died at Logansport, from wounds from a pocket knife upon his stomach and intestines, inflicted during partial mental derangement.

The question will be settled at the commencement meeting as to whether ladies shall be admitted to the privileges of Wabash college. The trustees are in favor of the measure, but the faculty are divided. Francis J. Crump, aged eighty-three years, president of the Firn National bank of Columbus, was taken suddenly ill at the bank and died the same night. He was reputed to bo worth a million dollars. A letter received from lioloree, La Platte county, Colorado, states that Frederick Hoffman, once a business man of Logansport, who went west some years ago, was killed by tho Navajo Indians on the San Juan river, April 2. The cause of the state, on relation of Tabitha E. Steen against Franklin McCafferty, for seduction, on trial at Washington, Daviess county, has been decided against the defendant, and he gets a year in the penitentiary and a fine of $5.

A young lady of Rochester, named Demont, aged about twenty years, attempted suicide by drinking two ounqes of chloroform, because somebody twitted her of not being able to talk plain. A. battery was used three hours before animation was restored. The following Indiana postmasters Jiavebeen commissioned: John M. Stewart, at Bethlehem ; Geo. P. Ben, Eminence; John Wagner, New Salisbury; Christopher Moder, St. Lean; Miss Mary Eingle. Einglefield; Arbace Cushman, Grayville. Burglars entered the store room of Cunningham A Boswell, at Ridgeville, carried the safe a square away, knocked the combination off with a hammer and filled the hole up with Sowder, with which they blew the oor open. They obtained SIOO in money and other valuables.

Addison Crowe, living near Richmond. who was bitten by a rabid dog the other day, has no symptoms of hydrophobia yet, but is in a nervous condition. Five dogs, two steers and several hogs bitten st the same time, have gone mad, and were killed. It is probable that other dogs have been bitten.

A new line for the Indiana, Bloomington and Western extension east oi New Castle is being surveyed. It will run farther north than the present one,-passing through Lpsantiville and bearing slightly to the northeast, pass about half a mile south of Huntsville. It will cross the G. R. & I. road at Lynn. i( The: reports*! Logansport in regard to the failure of the Cass county wheat crop are greatly exaggerated. The wheat on corn land looks unusually well, and but little of it has been frozen out on fallow rround. There is a prospect for more than an average crop. Th we were thirteen applicants for the fourth congressional district West Point cadetship at the competitive examination at Madison, but no selections made as none of the applicants reached the required 75 per cnnt. except one who was rejected for physical disabi lites. The bam of Dillard Deming, three miles west of Edinburg was'burned. Loss s®)o. insured for SSOO in the Insurance Company of North America. Four head of horses and one Jack, and a large quantity, of grain, hay. flour, and agricultural implements belonging to Robert F. Prichard, a tenant, were consumed. Loss S9OO, with no Insurance, ,’i ‘