Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

Oil has been struck ip Shelby township, Jefferson county. *’" There are thirty-one fully equipped military companies in this State. Two hundred men are now employed on the new State House. • ' It is probable that Governor,Porter and other Indiana speakers, will take a hand in the Ohio campaign next month. William Brio ham, an eccentric old miser, died at Valparaiso Thursday. He appeared to be very poor, but left an estate worth *5; 000. • James Miller, a prominent young farmer south of Rushville,' choked to death from the effects of a wheat-beard lodging in his throat. Money enough has been subscribed for a new First Presbyterian church building at Crawfordsvllle,to cost *ll,000. The contract has been let and the work began. A big burly negro, employed by ,a well-to-do German farmer near Inglefield as a hand,'fell in love with his employer’s daughter and Was discharged, but the infatuated girl folio* ed him to Evansville And married him. Rev. E. H. Sabin, of Conneraviile. is organizing a-troupe of colored 'Jubilee singers, with which he expects to take the road in a few days. The doctor is connected with a church at Austin, Tex.,over wbihb hangs a debt he hopes by this means to pay off If the law of this State against carrying concealed weapons was enforced with even a little vigor, the fearful work of the ready revolver would be greatly diminished, and security for life and property greatly increased. ‘ John Taylor and wife of Centerton, who have figured conspicuously so the Justice’s oburt lately, wefe ort Saturday night taken out by a maskisl mob and torrihly beaten with thorn bushet. The cause is given as cruelty to thsir children and general meanness. Miss Dora,the eleveu year old daughter and only child of Hon. B. H. Burrell, of Brownstown, accidentally run the end of a parasel handle down her throat Saturday, and grave fears were entertained 'for a while that the injury would prove fatal. She is now in a fair way to recover. , On Sunday night, while F. M. Haynes, a lawyer of Washington, was walking down M a ain street, he was struck on the back of the head by some' unknown person with a brick; inflict-, ing what is thought will prove a fatal fracture of the skull. Charley Crossmi, with whom he had some trouble, and who is now missing, is supposed to have thrown the brick. Mrs. Morris Epley, of South Bend, was bitten by a rattlesnake on Friday, while out gathering green corn. The fangs entered at a point a little over tbe heel. She died Monday morning at 2 o’clock, having given birth to a obild about ah hour before. The child is living and apparently healthy, although it k claimed the poison entered its system. On the evening of July 9, at an icecream party at the residence* of. John Roller, Jackson township, Madison county, Dallas Cook threw a stone .through a Window, striking Wm.B, Hougnman in tbe forehead. The blow stunned Hough naan at the apparently recoved, and a few days since he complained of his head, last week was paralyzed, and died on Sunday. Cook lias been arrested for mprrj While a young map named Zimmerman, with his father-in-law were taking home a load of furniture for his new house, near Milton, the fire from their pipes communicated with the straw in which the furniture was packed, and before they noticed it a fierce little conflagration was raging in the back of the wagon. The team became frightened and-ran away, down the n th A tka Mara i/m a# itarair arranH d+irl .A« -- t-tfU hv r- TBSZ3- ttL i. «*«/.: Th* health Of Mrs, Garfield la *ng»ly