Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

Anderson is really moving into the ranks of thriving towns. Since January 1, 1881, the has expended >IOO,COO in substantial improvements. Christopher Quinn, molder by trade, was found dead and horribly mangled in the Muncie railroad yard, at Fort Wayne. He had br en on a spree and lay down on the truck to sleep. Perry Alexander, of Evansville, intended to shoot a dog, and the piece was discharged before be could get it out of his pocket. The bullet plowed a furrow in bis thigh where it still remains. Typhoid fever has appeared at Rushville in a most malignant form. In the family of Wm. J. Bebout (six in number,) all save Mr. Bebout are victims of it. Mrs. Bebout has died and the others vre dangerously ill. The Snyder wife murder case, transferred from Tipton to Muncie on change of venue, resulted in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and a life sentence. The nrisoner was very sanguine of acquittaf. Henry Hooper,of Lafayette,has been arrested, charged with the murder of bis brother, John Hooper, who was assassinated last Tuesday night. A Kokomo gentleman named Clark, had occasion to chastise bis mother, when his meddlesome siste interfered. With'a few adroit blows he reduced her nose to pulp, and left a few other marks of his prowess on her face. He was escorted to one of the most substantial buildings in the place by a a high public functionary. On Saturday, at noon, the family of J. K. Marsh. Esq., of Jeffersonville, were, taken suddenly ill from something eaten at dinner. The symptoms were so serious at first that it was thought they were fatally poisoned. But the physicians subsequently discovered tiie illness was due to muriatic acid taken in the stomach, from artificial vinegarused upon the table. David Willi Ams was killed at the Gibson bounty (fair grounds the other day, while training a horse. It shied and threw him from the sulky, but his foot caught in the wheel, and be was dragged a considerable distance. His head was dashed against a tree, scattering his brains in every direction.

On a farm three miles from Muncie, on Saturday afternoon, while Horatio Guthrie’s seven year old son was engaged in driving a team attached to a land roller on his father’s farm, the team became frightened and ran away, throwing the boy off and in front of the roller, which passed over him, killing him instantly. The largest railway tunnel in Indiana is the one on the Louisville, New Albany and St Louis railway through the knobs, under the village of Edwardsville, five miles west of New Albany. Its total length is 4.563 feet The excavation is through limestone the entire length, and the tunnel has been worked from both ends and from two shafts proceeding in both ways., Mr. Hudson of Jefferson county recently cut down a tree in an open field. When the tree fell it broke, exposing a cavity, opt of which fourteen snakes

came squirming and crawling, and were killed by Mr. Hudson. He says be could find no opening leading to the cavity, and the snakes seemed to be tatfnd fr»m long- 'emfl&ement In the dark. Hbw they got thereto a conundrum. j VW Judge W. B- Loughridge, once a judge of the probate court at Huntington, and later for several years up to 1827 editor of the Miami County Sentinel, an old pioneer of northern Indiana, has been declared insane. The charge of insanity before the court was made* by hto wife, who asked to be made his guardian. This was the occasion of a hotly contested suit, defended by parties claiming to be creditors of Judge Loughridge. A daughter of Thomas Casey, of South Bend, while punching a shoe with a pair of sharp pointed scissors, let them slip and perforated her thigh to the depth' of. an inch and a half, lacerating the femeral artery so badly as to cause what is known in surgery as traumatic aneurism.,--. The blood caused a pulsating sac about the size of an egg, which was constantly Increasing in size. The surgeons ligated the artery above and below the wound, and the patient is doing well. The. operation under skillful hands is not considered extra hazardous.

John C. Russel, living about three miles north of Campbellsburgb, was accused of stealing a watch from a man named Elliot, and arrested. While being brought to that place by an officer they were met by a mob who took charge of Russel, and tried to extort from him a confession of the theft by hanging him to a tree, raising and lowering him by intervals by means of a rope. He persisted in his innocence despite their horrible trea ment,and was finally released. Russell now brings suit for malicious prosecution and for damages in assault and battery. Several of the assaulting party are known.

The executors of the estate of Governor Williams, one of whom is James 8, McCoy, a son-in-law of the deceased governor, some time ago determined that the contract made by a Pittsburg marble firm with some of the relatives of Mr. Williams for a SSOO monument should not be carried out, and that the shaft should not be piaced over the grave. The contractor has completed his Job, however, as near as he was allowed to, and has a very fine Italian shaft to put up. It is in the shape of two upright columns supporting an arch. The apex of the arcnis crowned with an urn. On the face of jthe arch in rustic letters are the words “Our Parents.” On the right column is chiseled the name of the Governor, James D. Williams, and on the left column his is wife’s. Nancy Williams. The work is said to be a fine job for country skill. Employes of the marble firm went tp the Williams cemetery a few days ago and laid a foundation for the monument. Afterward they went back to place the shaft in position, and to their astonishment found that the foundation had been torn up and a plank fence placed around the graves by Mr. McCoy. The marble men did not attempt to remove the obstructions, but placed the monument on the lot of John Williams, a son of the late governor, and within six feet of the latter’s grave.