Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

The Pope’s officials refuse'to allow a telephone in the Vatican. Cyrus Rivers, of Jeffersonville, aged forty years, was found dead in his chair at his shop, Monday afternoon. A customer went in to get shaved, and found him sitting in his cLair stiff'and dead. Mrs. Mary Davis, mother of Jefferson 0. Davis, died on Thursday evening at her home at Memphis, Clark county, aged eighty-one years. Moth • er Davis was an old settler of that county. The barn of f*ameul Spurgen, a farmer llVihg near Milroy, was burned Thursday night with grain aud farming implements amounting in cost to $1,600. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The Supreme Court of this State has adopted a rule that hereafter attorneys admitted who practice in that oourt must pass an examination by a com* gittee appointed for that purpose. The large farm house of Jacob My of a in Harrisou township, St, Joseph toll nty, was fcMrned Piinda-y afternoon. Thte bhiitling Was <hiite esWp»4ve, and the loss is estimated at $6,000 to $7,00p, op which a partial Insurance. ' While Mr. Gn.espltch, of Warsaw, was engaged in handling a large pane o'glass, on Wednesday, he accidentally struck it against a stove, and a piece of glass fell with such force as to cut a hole clear through his boot, severing aratrterv in the right foot. Rbwlaud Hines was found dead about two miles north of Jollettville, Hamilton county, on Monday. He had moved to JollettVille 'into \Vhitestown, Booh cduhty. he&rly a month ago. It la supposed lie died ofhe&rt disease. He was seVehty-four years of a 6. e * Last Batlirdhy, during the ibusy part of the day, and wjple the store of Mr. Hethrington, at Westfield, Hamilton county, was crowded with customers, eome one stepped behind the counter and took from the safe $540 which had been placed there for safe keeping bv N. H. Clark. r * *

The store of fellas Walker, postmaster at Hheldbp, seven miles south pf Fort .Wayne, was entered by burglars yesterday morning the safe blown qpen and.robbed ofs3o in money and S6O in stamps and postal cards. Cutlery, silks and other goods, to the amount of $3 f 0 were taken from the store. The Laporte couuty grand, jury has found a bill against John Lace for passing counterfeit coin. Lace had recently removed from Greenfield to Lbporte, and is supposed to have worked with the Teals at the former place, he being a son-in-law of the elder Teal. No bills has been found against Marion Scott, arrested with Lace. The board of the normal school-at Terre Haute has taken steps necessary to enable high school and college gradu ates, who do not require a three years’, course of study to fit them for teaching, to prepare themselves for the work in a shorter course. The board proposes two weeks’ course for the former and one year lor the latter. This will enable graduates of high schools and colleges to get the normal training and necessarvsreview to fit them for teachers without a loss of too much. time.