Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

Th& proprietors oftne. hydraulic at the U. W. at M. railroad for Browing 'Henry G. Blempei*'safr.H>r £*komo, Is ninety-four years old and enjoys comparatively good health. He was a soldier year* agri ffitra took oiteln thcMmouiß battle erf Waterloo,• on lune 18,1816. ,? t

While -J?. M. N.woomb, of Brownstown;, W^eh s aged, ip.making oispußeJor dinner.' she suddenly drop-. P®d to the flon*, dead. Her death is hovnoeu to heart disease- . BJie was tfrty yearn bf age. ' John P. Wilson, a citizen of Hamilton county, was robbed of S2OO on the train, while going Ham Indianapolis to MhnHjyville, Friday night. The officers bavb a good elew and will probably make in Arrest t . Y a Scott BOr'gefT, liViuS ttbodt six’ miles Ifrom Montpelier, committed silicide by hanging himself with a halteivstrap in bis bam. Monday morning. Berger was twenty -eight years has open married No_ cause as At Berwick-upon-Tweed the moral strength of the Gyadstope government was bjHhe election for an M- The Liberal candidate received 1,049 votes (thex Irish ~ voting for him) against 628*votes polled for the Conser’- ative’. On Friday last Mr. and Mrs. -Frank' Worley of -Ehliotts¥ille r gave, a dinner < part/to twelve guests, whose united ages, amohh ted to years. The dinner was served on tare old china, come of the pieces having been la-use over seventy jear< ' The team which was fenpying the household goods of t>r. Hilligoss from Lebanon to Hope, became f.igbteded. and rah away stjatterfng along the road. Among w his effects was a skeleton, jvhich b- cime iwjointtd and was distributed along for miles. . During a drunken row in a saloon at Fort Wayne, Wedpesdty night, German Pistbr was vqry badly injured by beihg thrown head oyg agaftet a spittoon by one Startid Bchtnldt* wher was i arrested to await Pisfor’s Injuries, it’ is believed that Pistor can not recover. William R. G. Clements, who so mysteriously disappeared- from hdifte in Uniontown, Jackson county, on July ISJast, ha* been found, in *u insane asylum in Ohio. Steps will be taken at onco to have blip brought home, and sent to tbe insane asylum at Indianapolis. Whew The L N. A. A &

(old Airline)receiyeds3oo,ooo from New Albany wud S9S,OCb from Floyd eqmtty, It Was the understandiug that lhe shops' were 4p .be constructed at that point The new company now wauta-furCher inducements under threat of re roving the shops elsewhere. '•* -- ' c Mrs. Joanna Armstrong;- of Terre Haute, aged 88, is one of thirteen young ladies who served, as- medds of honor in the reception tendered General Lafajette, in New York city, when be visited th is. country hr .1824. Only one other of the thirteen, besides Mrs. Armstrong, tefrvtves. ---* s. Early Wednesday morning last, ,Mrs.*H. Yerpalllion, who lives at West Point, Tippecanoe county, left her .home to be gone all day, leaving her daughter, by a former husband, Julia WaraUbt home. Oa* her return iAthW evening she found her daughter dead. The cause of her death has not 'yet ascertained. , u .... Twa ex-ireasurere of Adams eoun ty, John Meibei-8 an<TJohn Derkßori,"have taken «d van toga nf

decision in the Gregory case. , During the years 1871,1872, 1873, and 1874 the treasurers were allowed 5 per oeaL the collection of delinquent taxes These two treasurers failed to take theis a bill of several hundred dollars against the county. , t < \ v I J list after dark, on ’Thfirkday nighU Dr. Comstock, of Marietta, Shelby county, he Ard some one call nis name, and went to the door. He was 'im mediately knocked down and seriously beaten with, stones ,by, two men, named James K. P. Shaw atud'George Hunt, Hs JiA-to. a dkogeeobs: <xw , ditlon. An old feud waast the bottom of the trouble. ”' i:i ’ * riT:

Two roughs entered Volfaetaata sateen at Laporte and called j<*‘ ifarfw. JU ing refused they created a disturbance. Mrs. jVpiheim, coming ip. audaektogj them to be quiet, was. struck upon the forehead with a heavy spfftoofi, Drefl& ingher skulU A bystander interfering to rave the woman Wai knocked down ahd bidly hdrtl 'Tbel men Xhau rah; but were pursued by lhe officers ahd Mrs mortal. -W V JamreJ. Perrin, of.Lafkyetto,'Who has been several Jean school board, has accounted* for about 110,030 interest on the funds in his bbiMipemted: tn W: a free public library, and at tte.Jast meeting of the board committees Weft the precedent of years, and of ttibude-* clslou of Jud re Vinton, tn thus bandink over >IO,OOO la eertelnly pigtoa.