Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

The six-year-bld child of William Muncie, was kidnapped on Saturday. Marshal Makepeace, of Noblesville, was badly bitten hy a young man named Ivy, of ShtiiJan, Saturday, while the latter was being placed under arrest. ✓ Julius Pornin, a lad of eight years, residing with his parents on a farm three miles north of Monroeville, was almost instantly killed on Saturday morning by a farm gate falling on him and crushing his skull. The yearly temperance meeting at Quakertown, Union county, held Saturday, was attended by A large crowd, between 8,000 and "9,000 being present. Stirring speeches were made by Gov. St. John, of Kansas, and others. . The charge of admission to the State Fair has been raised from 25 to 50 ceqts. An increase in the premiums to be awarded, and the debt of the State Board of Agriculture, are given as the causes of this high price of admission.

A German farmer in fine circumstances, known throughout Benton county as Dutch Louie, living two miles north of Rainesville,on the creek committed suicide Saturday night. During the afternoon, in aquarrel with his wire, he declared his intention to kill himself, and during the evening be took a dose of arsenic and expired shortly after. The largest grain transaction ever Occurring in- Benton County was the sale, by Barnard &, Co , of Fowler, of 240,000 bushels of corn to Richard Godman, of Lafayette. It is understood that the grain cost the firm about thirty cents a bushel. The price paid is said to have been fifty cents per bushel. Thompson’s Bank Note Reporter gives a list of women who are filling positions in banks, as President, cashier, etc. Among them is Miss Sarah F. Dick, cashier of the First National Bank of Huntington, in this State. Mrs. J. W. Burson, of Muncie, Is also said to bs a Director and executive manager of a bank in that city. . The destruction of fish in the Whitewater by dynamite fish torpedoes is not confined to the locality of Richmond alone, but it extends forthiity miles along the stream and its tributaries. It is estimated that ten thousand fish have been destroyed by them. At Cambridge City there are hundreds of them that weigh two pounds apiece or more floating in the old Whitewater canal. Only the best ones are taken by the fishermen; the others are left in the water.

The labor of the convicts in the northern prison has Just been relet for sixty-three cents a day, an advance of eighteen cents. The old contract, by which fifty of the convicts were worked at forty-five cents, did not. expire till May, 1882, and the contract by which the other seventy-five were held, did not expire till April, 1883, yet from some fault in the original contract they were relet at the advance described above, thereby saving to the State some SIO,OOO. August Berm met a horrible death in St- Joseph county the other day. He attempted to Jump from a threshing machine and missing bis footing fell between the cylinders feet foremost. The machine was running at its highest rate of speed, and the cylinder teeth clear of straw, bit into his legs. The right leg was drawn its whole length between the cylinders and was pullea from the hip socket; the teeth cut Into bls lower abdomen, tearing out the entrails. His left leg was also badly torn and broken. In one place his right leg was wedged so tight that, after chopping at the machine, he could not be released, and as it hung to his body but by a shred of akin it was cutfoff. The machine had to be taken to pieces to get the dismembered leg from the cylinders. _ Berm • lived nearly two hours after the accident Workmen employed in making an excavation near the river, at Mishawaka, unearthed a number of Indian skeletons, some of them comparatively near the surface. Some had been buried singly in graves, and others looked as though they bad been hastily thrown in a trench. Some of the older residents of Mishawaka thought they were Indians buried In that spot, at an early day When the small pox raged among them, but it is more than probable that they are skeletons ot Indians who were wounded in a great battle fought in the early part of the century between the Pottawatamies, under Chief Pokagon, and the Shawnees, under Chief Elkhart. Don’t let any one keep your conscience for you. You may have a difficult task on band if you propose to keep it yourself, and to keep it without a muzzle or collar, but not half as difficult as to try io please everybody. The poet says;