Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

Fort Wayne is discussing a Brush; electric light proposition. Lafayette will hold its annual Trade; convention September 14.’ James McCauley, who lesides near Cassville, had his pocket picked of SI,OOO near the Howard county fair grounds, on Friday. A new cave has been discovered lu Crawford county 1 , about three-quarters of a mile from Wyandotte cave, with which it is believed to communicate . Marshal Makepeace, of Nobtespilig,! was badly bitten by a. young mau named Ivy, .of Sheridan, Saturday, while the latter was being placed under arrest. ' i. - A i£.‘ At Indian&Dollst on Saturday 1 , Judge Giles, of Baltimore, on his honeymoon trip, got very much Intoxicated and wanted to murder his bride. ' In the morning. he wastsobernnd contrite. .tl \ TbcfemaUs.jiof, .William* who'd isappeared ■mObths ago,' skying be would'.soon dead, were fobnd' in ’ a M s r I k^ % oda /* »lA y#rd*e«.<lf suicide wp& rendered. , A oarn’beltmghlgto Moses in North Marlon, burned early’ StmSday morning, togethw with two horses, farming implements, etc. Lose*ls4,600; no insurance. A boy has been arrested as the incendiary. \ Saturday night, a carpenter of Tetre Haute, named W. C. Wlble, agedf24 years, filled himself with bad whisky, went down to his former home," eight miles below the city, and blew his brains out with a, revolver.

Mrs. Helen M, Gougar, of Lafayette, has challenged Rev. J. O. Mel vepa pastor of the Presbyterian church,Dkyton, Inch, to a pdbiic discussion of thd question .of wohibition and woman suffrage, to both bfWhttttiThe reVeifofic gentleman is opposed. • i- j / county bays bought thlrty-flve'SQres bt. land, two miles from Vincennes for $2,000 from Sarah J. Thorp, and t»IU at once erect a large brick poor asylqm theredn to take the, plaoe of the one recently destroyed by fire.- ■ ' i Rev. W. Corby, for several lyears president of Notre Dame, university, has been transferred to Watertown, WiS4, to the paaorate of Ihe Catholic church. He is succeeded at the uni-, versity by'Rey. Thomas E. Walsh, for. several yedrs vice-president of the university. ’ 1

RosaC. Glassgloss, a young school teacher of Geneva, Shelby county, on Saturday filed a libel suit against *V Scott Ray, editor of the Shelby Democrat, demanding SIO,OOO as a satisfaction- The libel oonsisted in Ray publishing an article reflecting en the plaintiff’s character. Samantha Roberts, colored, was hit by a brick at a Terre Haute ball, Thursday night. She went to Clinton county the next day And on Sunday died James Love, who threw the brick, was arrested, .but an examinati6u /showed tha Samantha had taken laudanum aud he was released.

John Barchett, of Evansville, and his two children were thrown from a wagon by a runaway, tne Ather dav and the two -little ones were badly hart. One received a broken arm and and the other had a hair pin run Into its head to such a depth as to render it temporarily insane. The oily marshall of Laporte and bis force of workman liave just completed burying the dead fish from Clear lake, of which there were estimated to have been 160 wagon loads. The stench was almost insufferable. Investigations are in progress to ascertain if possible, the cause of their death, but no satisfactory result has yet been reached.

,two]ittte colored boys,Harvey and Willie Cox, of Madison were convicted of setting fires to stables And were sentenced by the jury to throe years in the penitentiary for arson. They could not teaent to the houseof refuge because they stood trial instead of pleading guilty. A new trial will >robably be granted and they will be ent to the house of refuge. — 1 •>" t■ * A prisoner lu charge of a constable, who was bringing him to Wabash from North» Man oneeter. Jumped from a train on.the C. M. A W. tosd, while the car window Arid- was stunned for a S shed thnejbati secov«rMg,iaUrfed off, Charles Snyder and George Dlls, who

their gide. On the way they tot* a abort cot through'the melon patch of are not flataL George Waggoner, the first aettler of Salt Creek townabip. £nd the oldest man In Jackson county, fitefi a feW was a man of great physical endurance ami nnffl ttaa Ilia are wbteh tarminaM Tn his death he waa never rick a day in his Ufa. nivirkaew what it was to have a headache, toothache or backache; never needed the attention of a physician and never took a dose of medicine of ariy kind. Thomas Hill, the colored man.whom the knob of teat week attempted to r lynch, between Paoll and ChambersO’Baanan: < oolorei); r«otomai»: IWso-e. Withf'Jl> JBAQadlai Two of tbs mob weld badljr J?fe3i u^S mebi- iifw lurit yfm* jrr-o