Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1881 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

More buildings are being erected in Bedford this season than have been during the past ten years. Rosa Jack, a young lady living one mile north of Ridgeville, was ran over by a cow and her collar bone broken. The Indiana graduates of the Michigan state university at Ann Arbor, will hold a grand reunion at Rome City, on the Bth of July. Over one hundred new buildings are under contract in Seymour, and more are talked of. Seymour has doubled in size and population in ten years. Dolly Thornburg, a ten-year-old boy, living with John Dolly, of Hagerstown, was severely and perhaps fatally kicked by a horse. His injuries are internal. A young daughter of A. Fetters, of Ridgeville, while engaged in play, jumped on to an iron rake and ran one of the prongs through her foot. It is feared lock-jaw will result A stone-cutter by the name of Peter Buffel, while crossing the railroad bridge near Heath wood creek, south of Bedford, fell off the rocks below, a distance of nearly thirty-five feet. He was seriously Injurerd. Wm. Marland, a Terre Haute hack driver, made an infamous attempt up- * n Agues Glynn, a girl of fourteen, while driving her about town on pretence of finding employment for her. He has been arrested and jailed. James K. Chamberlain, a citizen of Sharpsville, Tipton county, while walking ou the I. P. and C. railroad Thursday evening, at that place, in a state of intoxication, was run over and killed by the evening express train. The body dt James Bedson was found in an old well in Hart township, Warrick county. He Jiad been mysteriously mi-sing for several days. The girl he loved jilted him, and he leaped into the well to end the heartache. The fruit crop in Pike county is a failure. What few peaches and apples there were are falling from the trees. (Rferries were all killed. Wheat looks badly. Many farmers plowed up their wheat and planted the ground in corn. John White, a resident of Luce township, Spencer county, was struck by lightning and killed. He was caught in the storm and sought refuge and a change of clothes at the house of Jas. Parker, near Richland. While changing his clothes, the lightning struck the house and killed him. Woodford Baker, while hunting near Alfordsville. Daviess county, accidentally shot himself. The ball from a squirrel rifleentered the left side and ranged upward to the right shoulder from where -it was extracted. He died next morning. He was about twenty-four years old, and unmarried. The bitter contest between temperance and anti-temperanae people that has been in progress in the commissioner’s court, at Vernon for the past ten days in thematter of granting licenses was brought to a close by the commissioners grantipg license to three parties, and refusing two The difficulty between the ironworkers at the Ohio Falls Don Works, New Albany, and the proprietors, caused by the strike at Cincinnati!, has been adjusted, and the card'rates for the ensuing year have been fixed at 10 per cent, above the Pittsburg card rates. The mill resumed operations yesterday moaning. Two months ago, at a log rolling in Pike county, James Stevens got into a fight with his father-in-law, James Nance, concerning their respective strength, in which Nance was the aggressor, attacking Stephens with an ax. Stephens defended himself with a handspike, infleting a blow on the head which proved fatal in a few hours. Stephens was acquitted Saturday on the ground of self-defense.

For the past few weeks stockraiders in Ripley county have sustained heavy losses by having their sheep killed in large numbers. It was the work of dogs, that would kill and wound a whole flock in a single night. Friday night John Cravens heard the murderous dogs at work on his flock, and, hastening to the field, sudbeedec in killing three large ones that had already killed thirty of his sheep. A curious bird was killed the other day in Morgan coupty. Its beak measures four inches, and from the point of the beak to the back of the head seven inches, and has no sign of a tongue. The head and neck is a beautiful green color, with wings and tail of the same, and the body is as white as snow. It mensrued nearly five feet from point of beak to tip of toes when stretched out, and had a neck eighteen inches long, including head and bill. Its head without the bill resembles that of a dog, with fine feathers representing the ears of a good looking cur. The hunters cutoff the head and neck, foolishly leaving the body in the woods.

While the workmen were engaged in tearing down the roof of the old court house at Lafayette, the timbers upon which the men were standing suddenly gave way, precipitating the men to the floor below, where they were instantly covered with the massive timbers of the roof. Daniel O’Connel, the foreman of the gang was found to be but slightly injured; William Huey, Peter Cook ana Samuel Bringham all being terribly mashed about the head. Cook died in about an hour. Huey lingered until 7 o’clock in the evening, when he breathed his last. Samuel Bringham had a severe gash cut in h»s head,* and was crushed about the breast, two heavy timbers having fallen on him. It is extremely doubtful if he recovers.