Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

Catharine Roe, of Peru, has a genuine mad stone, warranted to cure all kinds or snake bites and hydrophobia. When John and Mary Mohr, who reside in Hendricks township, Shelby oounty,[awoke the other morning they found their little boy, four months old cold in death. The little fellow was perfectly well on being put to bed. While the family of Christian Ridinger, of Decatur, were at church, the house was entered by burglars and $125 In money, a gold locket, and a gold watch were carried oft. The watch is an especially • fine one, of German make. On Monday Johnny Rentzler, a Lafayette boy, aged thirteen, possessed himself of a gun,and slipped away from home on a hunt, but soon came back with a charge of shot in his shoulder. His clothing was ignited and he came near burning to death. Miss Alice Dunham, the well-known elocutionist, formerly of New Albany, has gone with the Snyder Theatrical Combination. She is the daughter of Judge Cyrus L. Bunham, deceased, who was at one time one of the leading politicians of this State. Thieves visited the residence of Jacob Anslinger, a farmer living near Evansville, Wednesday afiernoon while the folks were absent at church, and carried off $1,200 in cash and notes for SBOO. He kept the money sewed up iu the leg of an old pair of pants, locked up in a wardrobe. The Auburn Courier says that W. H. Becker, an attorney of Butler, De-

Kalb county, has determine to make himself notorious, and left home recently for Washington, where he will offer his services to defend Guiteau. His neighbors burned Becker in effigy before bis departure for Washington. Charles Clark was received at the prison north on Tuesday, for the fourth time. This time he was sentenced at Plymouth for burglary. Samuel Esggett, a young man living two miles west of Galveston, on his return from Kokomo in his buggy on Saturday night, where he had been to buy his wedding suit, was attacked by a brace of villains, wb«* knocked him out of his buggy, and, after rendering him unconscious, robbed him of $26. Another Tippecanoe county murderer ht-s etreaped the gallows. Albert Fee-

ler the ceiored man who shot and instantly killed George Quinlan. About two months ago. was adjudged guilty of murder in the secomf degree. The verdict of the jury was that he be imprisoned for the remainder of bis natural life. > Dr. Kern, a Kokomo man, heard something prowling in the grounds adj lining his residence one night last week, and quietly slipped out with a revolver and shot a cow! It is believed la Kokomo, that the oow was the prin-

cipal of a hellish conspiracy to rob the doctor’s premises, and afterwards born his residence! The Baptist State convention, in session at Terre Haute, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Rev. G. E. Leonar.. Peru; vice presidents, J. A. dosser, Indianapolis, W. W. Gainey, Bloomfield; recording secretary,-Rev. G. H. Elgin, editor Indiana Baptist; corresponding secretary, W. W. Wyeth, D. D.; treasurer, James McMurray, Indianapolis. Robert Howard, the negro who so brutally assulted Mrs. Warner, near Mishawaka, a few evenings ago, was placed on trial in the circuit court, Wednesday,found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of SSOO and serve eight years in the penitentiary. Howard is a hard-looking customer, and is the first negro ever tried for this offense in Bt. Joe county. It turns out the the “strange lady” who visited Madison in June last with a splended horse and Duggy, to sell at a sacrifice, and who sikwpw two unsuspecting Madisonianß, 'W. W. Crosier, of the Courier office, and Andy Fi.-her, the liveryman, to the extent of $65, was no lees a personage than Mrs. Jetse James, wife of the famous bandit o.' James brothers notoriety. Professional cracksmen aud safeblowers entered the jewelry store of C. A. Clouser, at Hartford City, by the transom over the back door, Monday morning about 1 o’clock, and succeeded in blowing open hifi safe, and from which they extracted about $3,000 worth of jewelry and watches. They next paid their respects to A. M. Mix, the druggist relieving him of about 400 cigars and about one gallon of whisky# Miss Sallie Brown, daughter of Mr. George Brown, of Corydon, had a narrow escape from death the other night at the hands of a drunken brute . Darned Thomas Weller, who went to the residence of Mr. Brown after dark knocked at the door, presented two revolvers at her head, and said he had come to kill her. He then snapped ol e es the weapons in the girl’s face,but fortunately, the heavy charge with which it wa9 loaded was.not discharged. The shrieks of the young lady brought assistance, and the would-be murderer was lodged in jail.

In one instance, the Irish Land Court reduced the rent on a three acre holding, from £l9 to £3. The potatoes shipped from the north of Ireland tc this country are inferior in si4e and quality to the home product. j . . \ ' ■ Mrs. Sarah Mosely, supposed to be the oldest woman in the State, died at Madison last Tuesday, at the ago of 110 years. „ The saving’s hauK at Marysville, California, has suspended, but will be able to piy its depositors nearly, if not quite, in full. The editor of the Statesman, the organ of the Liquor Dealers’ Association of Terre Haute, has been sent to Jail and fined S3OO on a charge of crimnal libel. The Kentucky law allows a man to whip his wife with a stick not bigger than his finger, gives the' husband sole custody of children, and endows him with his wife’s estate when'he marries. \ The foreigu trade of the cities of New York, London and Liverpool, is nearly all carried by British ships, and amounts to $900,000 in New York, $931,000 in Liverpool and $944,000 in London.

A newspaper reporter has discovered the certainty that horribly diseased meat is used in Cineiunati, in the manufacture of sausage, aud his account of the ulcers and tumors on lungs and livers, that are chopped up. is disgustiug to the last degree. Jt is reported from (Jape Coast, Africa, that the King of Ashantee has killed 200 youhg girls for the purpose of using their blood in mixing mortar for one of his state buildings. The civilized world should unite in sending a force that would wipe out this monster.

MAYOR E. C. CAKLETON.of PortJluron, Mich., states that the sum required to preserve the sufferers of St. Clair, Sanilac, and Huron counties, during the winter, will bo $220,000. Tue Detroit committee, he thinks, have $130,000, leaving SIOO,OOO yet to be furnished. Daniel Grant, a liberal member of the British Parliament, declared in a speech the other day that the growing sentiment in England is towards a republican government, and that, under the constitution, the land of that country should ba used for tke benefit of those who till it. According to the extra census bul letin just issued, the great wheat States are Illinois, which raised 51,000,000 bushels; Indiana, 47,000,000; Ohio, 46,000,000; Michigan, 35,000,000: lowa, 31,000,000; California, 29,000,000; Missouri, 25,000,000, and Wisconsin, 24,000,000. In these States were produced nearly three-fourths of the whole wheat crop of the country.

According to the statistics published by the Prussian Ministry of France, the following persons pay the highest amount of income tax in Prussia: Baron von Rothschild, in Frankfoit-on-the-Main, pays $17,550 on an annual income of about $625,000; Baron Erlanger, the banker, at the same place, pays $17,050. Then follow Herr Krupp, the iron founder, at Essen, with $14,850 aud Herr von ThieleWinkler, atOppeiu, with SIO,OOO.

The Georgia cotton crop is reported 30 per cent, less than that of last yearl Lefroy, the murderer of Gold, is to be executed at Maidstone, England, December 29th. . In the Chrlstiaucy divorce suit, the ex-Minister identified the handwriting of his wife in the Giro letters. Vienna dispatches report that the Albanian rivers have overflowed, inundating large tracts of land, and causing some loss of life. At Lynn, Mass., a man named Driscoll, put a dose of laudanum in Conley’s beer to quiet him because he was too boisterous. It killed Conley. Thy Pennsylvania Railroad Company has notified other trunk lines that next Monday it will make an advance on west bound freight from New York to Chicago.

R. Kearney, of Maples villa, Mich., died Thursday from alcoholism, aged 38 years. A year ago he was a fir nrishing banker, merchant ami lumber man, but made an assigument recently.

Dr. Carver, the American marksman, at Hendon, England, Thursday, killed 83 pigeons out of 100 for a wager of £IOO that he would not kill 70. After killing 70, he received £SO for each bird killed up to 80. TneNew York Produce Exchange is to have a $2,000,000 building. A Georgia distiller, who had been mulcted of a package of illicit whisky, shot and killed the man whom he suspected of being tke in f ormaut. Commissioner Raum ban issued* orders to use every possible means to secure the arrest of the murderer.

Berlin politicians are surprised at the idea expressed in English and French journals that Bismarck will resign. They assert that he will probably make an alliance with leaders of opposing parties in the and be supported by their mutual differences. Lord Granville, at the Mansion House banquet, London, on Wednesday, referring to the friendly relations existing between England and America, said that he had excellent authority for knowing that, not only native Americauß,.butthe better class oJ IrishAmericans were ‘‘almosWo a man on the side of the great contest in Ireland on which Secretary Foster is engaged.”