Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

A company is forming at Fort Wayne to erect a factory for the manufacture of the Langely electric light. • * Oliver P. Abbott, of Reddiugton, lost two valuable horses from lockjaw, caused it is thought, from being overheated. •_ Greensburg is troubled with rabid dogs. A little son of Mace Warthin was bitten by one which was afterward pronounced mad and killed. Jesse Way, a Newlight preacher of Waoash, is under arrest for causing the death of Callie Esterbrook by abortion. She was bis adopted daughter. John Hollis, a negro, who committed an outrage on a German woman near Charlestown, pleaded guilty in the circuit court, and was sentenced to the jtate prison for a term of seven years. The,corn crop in the northern part of 'lndiana is immense. The contrast in the appearance of the fields between this season and the last is wonderfulto to see. The oats crop is unusually fine.

A violent explosion took place the other day in the dry bed of Buck creek near Elizabeth, Harrison county, causing an immense upheave! of earth and stone. The cause of. the explosion is unknown. n Squire Smith, his wife, a colored boy and two children of M. C. Kleine, of Crawfordsville, were poisoned thaother day by eating canned com beef. Mrs. Smith came near dying, but all finally recovered. A little four-year-old daughter Benjamin Richards, living two miles from Spencer, was probably fatally scalded by the upsetting of the supper table, oh which was a pot nf hot cotfee, scalding the face, neck and chfett. George Asire, a steam-fitter iri the Studebaker shops, at South Bend, was was poisoned by some one putting arsenic in the food in bis dinner-pail. The doctors took hold of his case in time to save hiip, but had hard work to do so. ’ Monday evening Mrs. JohnJJßowers a lady living a few miles north of Hagerstown, was attackel by a vicious cow and frightfully gored. The animal ran ife horns entirely through the lady’s body, A large snake belonging to Burr. Robins’s circus, made its escape at Shelbyville, and was found next morning by Mr. Redding Dorenin his stable, who with the assistance of another person succeeded in killing the monster. It measured eight and One-half feet long, and twelve inches in circumference. ,o Mrs. David Paxton, of Camden, Jay county, a few mornings ago was found dead in her bed. The coroner sent the stomach away for examination.: Subsequently, blood-stained garments were found in a straw-stack. The bushand has disappeared. The sheriff with sixty meu are' searching for him.