Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

There are 523 convicts in the State prison south. The number is decreasing. Thk corner-stone of a new library hall at Ft. Wayne has just arrived from Ireland. It weighs two tons. The County Superintendent of Allen county has been oonvicted of criminal libel and fined twenty-five dollars. The Ohio Falls car company, at Jeffersonville, now has on its pay roll 1,400 men, not including the contractors. One hundred and forty-seven new members were received into the*Seoond Presbyterian church at Indianapolis last Sunday. A stone forty-two feet long, four feet wide and three foet thick, was quarried in the Dark Hollow quarries, near Bedford the other day. The comer stone of the Lutheran church, about five mil9s south ot Wabash, was removed and robbed of about four dollars in coin the other night A horse gofloose in a car and jumped out while the train was iu rapid motion, near Cambridge, and took to the woods, hut was captured uninjured and sent on his way. • Dogs are creating great havoc In the Northern burying ground at New Albany, digging into the graves iu such a manner as to overturn the tombstones in some cases. On Wednesday, cugressman George W. Steele, while mowing grass with a scythe at his farm near Marion .severely cut his knee. The iujnry is considered serious. The Howards have 300 men employed at their shipyard at Jeffersonville. They are now building two 300-feet boats forjthe Anchor line, besides other smaller work. James Barclay, of Butler township, DeKalb county, charitably kept a tramp one night last week, and the scamp rewarded his benefactor by stealing $176 from him and decamplug.

The.organ factory at Fort Wayne is soon to be enlarged. The present capacity is forty organs per week. With the new addition seventy more skilled workmen will find employment. TAn eighty pound pig of iron fell on the hand of Paul Neaskutski, an em ploye of the Oliver chilled plow works, at South Bend, mashing it terribly,and running a splinter through it. The national camp meeting for the promotion of holiness will begin at Warsaw, August sth, and last for ten days. Revs. J. H. Inskip, Wm. McDonald, J. A. Wood, and others will be present. The New Albany Forge works has about completed the extensive addition to its works. The company has recaivod a 36,000 pound pair of shears, capable of cutting a-four inch square cold bar of irou. Frank Jenniugß, of Washington, a boy 17 years old, was shot through the leg Thursday night by some unknown person. He will be a cripple for life. No cause Is known as to why the shooting was done. Doc. Eagan, of Attica, was being hoisted out of a well he was cleaning, and when near the surface the windlass slipped and he fell forty-five feet, and alighted in two feet or water, receiving but little injury. James Brown, of Brownstown, aged 18, has been paying attentions to the daughter 'of J. D. Womack, much against the latter’s wishes, and the young man was so informed Sunday morning. He immediately retired to a secluded spot and snot himself fatally. A gang of three robbers set upon W. H. 801 l man, of Lopaz, St. Joseph county, tied and gagged him, and robbed his house of SSO. He was released by a passing stage driver, and headed a party who captured tho robbers after wouoding one of the them In six places, and put them to jail. A|bold robbery occurred near Charlestown on Friday. Mrs. Mary McCoy, a widow, was robbed of $1,900. At the time the money was taken the family were at supper on the porch in the back part of the house, and the thief entered by the front and escaped before the theft was discovered.

Johnson Boxweli, a young man working on a farm in Van Buren towm-hip, Grant county, while out hunting, climbed a tree to get a squirrel, and fell a distance of forty feet, breaking his leg ana receiving other serious injuries. The bone in the leg was driven through his flesh and clothes. John White, a resident of Luce township, Spencer county, was struck by lightning on Wednesday and killed He was caught in the storm that day, and sought refuge and a change of clothes at the houße of Jas. Parker near Richland. While changing his clothes the lightning struck the house and killed him. Col. Charles Denby and George W Bhankllu, one of the editors of the Evansville Cornier, got into a row over a law suit They were standing a store door and knocked each other through the windows on each side of the entrance, and continued the battle on the inside until they were separated. Both were considerably punished. The friends of Hanover college, the faculty and the trustees, seriously contemplate erecting a com odious hotel on one of the beautiful points at Hanover commanding the magnificent view of the river, and keeping it, conducted in first class style, lor a summer resort and as a home for the students during the sessions of the college. Henry county is agitated over the alleged cruel management of its county asylum. The officers are charged with whipping the paupers with a wagonwhip, giving old and infirm women insufficient food, and with detaining the able bodied ones, able to -work, when an opportunity is presented to them of getting work and making something.

On Monday evening at Huagland. nine miles south of Fart Wayne, men were working on an unfinished church, thirty feet from the ground, when a a storm struck the building, tearing it to pieces. Two men were seriously injured, another had his thigh broken in two places and his arm broken near the shoulder. Mr. Kennett, a resident in the near

neighborhood of Osgood, went coonhunting a few evenings sinoe, taking With him his six year old son. While crossing an open field the child was set upon by a large and ferocious dog, which flew at the child, biting it about the faoe and body so terribly that the little fellow’s life is despaired of. Mr. Kennett fortunately shot the dog and aved his child. Ata dance at New Amsterdam, Har rison county, Tuesday night, Halleck Mathers and Clay Cunningham fought about a women, and Mathers cut Cunningham’s hand nearly off at the wrist with a knife. A free fight followed among the crowd, in which Charles France was stabbed in the shoulder by an unknown party and it is thought fatally hurt. William Brennon, living in Martin oounty, ten miles north of Shoals, a rough of desperate character, had a difficulty with his son-in-law, John R. Huff, and threatened waylay and kill him. Next day Brennon was found dead in the road, with a revolver and a pair of knucks near by. It is beiieved that the parties met and Huff wascomSelled to shoot his antagonist in selfe tense.

Charles Waite, a gardener liviDg two miles west of New Albany, placed some bread and butter, poisoned heavily with arsenic, in a buoket in the door yard of his residence, to poison dogs that annoyed him at night. He arose early next morning, forgetting to remove the poisoned bread, and nis two year old daughter ate it, causing her death the same afternoon. - Theodore Pfeaster, of Lafayette, got drunk and insisted on marrying Miss Maiy McOlsen at once. She agreed and they rode to the Clerk’s office and got a license. They then proceeded at break-neck speed, in search of a justice. In turning a corner, the vehicle went over, and the prospective bride received injuries in the spine End head that may prove fatal. ' Tne wedding was postponed. ; Evansville is built over a four foot vein of bituminous coalman d three shafts just outside the city limits are operated by three different companies. For one hundred miles to the north, east, south and west this coal stratum is continuous, varying in. thickness from four feet to eleven feet, and ranging in quality from the best bituminous to the purest and only block coal in the country, and is reached at the depth of from eighty to two hundred and eighty leet. The New Albany Ledger-Standard prints a new theory of the Mauck m'irder which occurred nearly two years ago in Washington township, Harrison county. It is that other parties known to be bitter enemies of the Maucks, committed the murderous assault upon Mrs. Mauck and Sarah Vaughn, and then murdered Mauck ou his way home from the lime-kiln after he had' been informed of the murder. The theory gains strength from the fact that although Mauck was crippled by lime-sores on his sett, and unable to move rapidly, the most diligent search was unable to find him, and his whereabouts still remain a mystery.