Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Logsnsport has a haunted house, with all sorts of unearthly cuttingsWP- ■ An unknown man was found dead in jallat Aurora, the other morning, where he died during the night He was put in drank the night before. Mr. Theodore Sheckley, a prominent stockndeer, of Moons Hill, bad twen-ty-three sheep killed by the dogs a few nights recently. Four thousand people attended the funeral of W. J. Williams,president of the Vincennes National Bank. W. T. Cunningham was killed at top farm of Wm. Ride now re, while helping to take down an old para. Many Madisonians are sorry to learn through the Courier, that “five Sunday excursions have already been secured” from Jeffersonville to Madison, for this season. -

The other morning George Slever, a German who had a huckster boat between Louisville and Bethlehem, was found in Ide boat with bis throat cut. The murder was evidently Committed for robbery. - ,■ Mrs Peter Raney, Of Cass county, who had been married only three weeks when her husb and died, attempted to follow by taking -strychnine. Prompt medical assistance saved her life.

The famous Arabian ring horse belonging to Prof. River, the equestrian director of Van Amberg’a "circus, which was left at Cambridge City to be treated, has died at the age of 26. He was valued at SI,OOO. Jesse Jennings, the man arrested at Kalamazoo and brought to South Bend, for the crime ‘of arson, gave bail In the sum of $4,000. He will probably forfeit it by going to California. It is understood that be has put up the money to protect his .bondstoeu, . . Dr. Joseph Gardner, of Bedford, has just returned from Dubofe county, where he went at the request of Professor Collett, to examine some mineral lands in search of silica and fine whetstone grits. The Doctor reports his researches as being very satisfactory.

A quiet and strictly family cowhiding took place in the streets of New Albany the other day, in which Mrs. John Rosenbaum was the principal, and her brother-in-law, Oscar Rosenbaum, the victim. Tt was entirely a domestic affair. An Indian burying ground has been unearthed in the nortonfest portion of Shelby county, some two miles south of London, on the farm of Jordan Perry. A number of relics, consisting ol stone hatchets, darts, etc., have been taken out. Several large skeletons, almost intact, have been taken out. Absolem Nellius,treasurer of Fulton county, has been requested by his bondsmen to deliber to them the keys of his office. His securities haVfe accepted a deed of trust on all his property, and placed J. P. Nlllius, his present deputy, a nephew of the Treasurei, in charge. The diflciency is supposed to be about $3,000,

The mysterious and absurdly unaccountable conduct of Morris Fox alias Millenbaugh, who has several times left his wife and is now thought to be in Kansas, creates much comment in Logansport, and cannot be explained upon any theory consistent with the possession of Common honegty apd common sense by its subject A couple of young married men of New Albany, brothers-in-law, engaged in a fight in a Pearl street ice-cream saloqn. While eating cteam with their wives a quarrel ensued and blows were struok. Bystanders separated the young men. and they skulked out, ashamed of themselves. R. B. Milroy, a student at Hanover College, from Washington territory, Vhile geologizing at Cllfty Falls, fell ov.er the cliff and was rendered senseless by the fell. His right leg was badly bruised. He was removed to Hanover and placed under the care of physicians. It is thought he will recover. The injured young mania a son of Gen. Robert Milroy, formerly of Delphi, now Indian agency in Washington territory.

A large barn on the farm of Joseph Koons, in Blue River township, six miles northeast of New Castle,was destroyed by fire at an early hour on Saturday evening. Six valuable horses, 200 bushels of wheat and various farming implements were burned. The eftnse of the fire is a mystery, but it is supposed either to have been incendiary or fmm,matcheg dropped about the mangers. There was n© insurance. The failure of the Great Atlantic Circus to arrive at Vincennes, was caused by the deep interest taken in tht animals by the sheriff of White county, Illinois, who detained them at Carrai. A crowd of at least 2,000 country people were awaiting the show in Washinton on Saturday. The company started on the road week before last, with $3,000 cash in the treasury, but seven days of hard rain soon cleaned this out, and ran them into the hands of the sheriff, p On Friday Thomas Robb, ft young married man, made indecent proposals to Mrs, Nottingham at her own house at WadesvilTe, He attempted to carry out his vlllianous designs by violenee, when the fled for asasstanoe, and on the way fell and broke her arm. The villain then turned upon the husband, who had not left his bed for three months, and began belaboring him. It had a miraculous effect upon the sick man. who hopped lightly from his bed ana ran out into the yard, yelling for assistance.