Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1881 — THE STATE [ARTICLE]

THE STATE

! H^nry.^rwiton f ,who killed Qqojgg MorijgpaJW&*4ow, coupiy,,!*** August, has bevn-aentenoed lffe%r thdjdfyr ; ' Tins Court decided Mon-v day tkat flogs are property This has heretofore been a debatable question of law in this State, t 'The Chicago and Atlantic railroad te buying quite a number of small farms* in "Wabash and adjoining counties for the timber upon them. It to with great difficulty that ties for the roadway pan be. obtained, and the price has beep forced up lately. , The wife of William Schumacher,of Fort Wayne, was found floating in the canal, where she had committed sui» cide on account of a quarrel with her husband the previous night. She was not missed nntil morning, although it to supposed she left the house about midnight. About two weeks ago William Felds and Toby Carter, two colored men at work on the Jacob Fry place above Utica, got into a difficulty over a pig, and Carter emptied the contents of a shot gun into the breast of Fields. The wounded man has been confined to bis bed ever since, and is now reported as dying. Carter has fled. * As Frank Winter was descending the stairs at his home, near Richmond, with a shot gun in his hands, it was accidentally discharged, and the load struck and killed a cat that his little brother was carrying up in his arms. Only one shot struck the boy, but that carried away the first joint of the index finger on the right hand.

The American Humane society, of New York, is about to establish feeding goints along the line of the Wabash, t. Louis and Pacific railroad, and Wabash appears to be the place which meets with the officials’ favor. The company is organized for the purpose of attending to the feeding and watering of stock en-route to the-east. The Indiana cotton mill managers at Cannelton, Ina., are building an addition to ibeir mill large enough to add 800 additional looms and a 500 horsepower improved engine. The engines, iron pillars, beams, hangers, shafting, pulleys and all other iron work but the looms will come from England, via New Orleans, all the way by cheap ocean and river transportations. Nearly all the work on the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railroad extension between Elkhart and Niles, Mich., to completed. The contract specified that the track should be completed by December Ist, but unforseen delays the work has been retarded. Trains, however will run through between Elkhart and Niles by * January Ist if the weather continues favorable. A contract has been closed with the Brush elctric light company for illuminating a portion of Lafayette. By the terms of the contract the company agrees to erect and maintain an electric light of 20,000 candle power, five lights 4,000 candle power each, on the to#er- of Ford school, lightning and extinguishing by the schedule that governs the gas company, and aggregating 24,000 hours per annum, for the sum of $2,500 per year. The contract is made /or two years. The council expect by the use of the light to do away with 125 gas lamps on the hill, which cost annually $4,750, and effect a saving thereby of $1,230.