Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

R. L. Cowan, surveyor of Vanderburg county, has left Evansville, and his whereabouts are unknown’. There is considerable speculation as to Cowan’s departure, his creditors not being apprised ofthe fact. Mrs. Henry Hanna has commenced suit against the city of FortWayno for SIO,OOO damages for' the death of her husband, caused by a bridge over Spy run falling while he vast crossing last summer; ~ r ; T ’’

A farmer residing in Clarksville found a very valuable relic jin the shape of an urn, a few days ago,in «me of the Indian graves located in that ancient village. A large number ;of skulls and arrow points were also dbg' up. !.T r -' Andrew Van Ausdal, a resident of Posey township, Fayette county! has been fined S6O by a justice of the peace for interfering with and intimidating the employes of another person—the first case in the. county Under the new law. Edith Bryant, of New Corner, an in sane person, formerly one of the best teachers in Delaware county, is missing. Her friends had procured der to take her to the State asylum, anh it is supposed that ste learned of it in some way and hid herself. She was under treatment at the asylum once before, and said she would die before she would go again. S. C. Haser, of New Harmony, and Mort Utely, of Stewardville, got ip to a dispute about some trivial, matter, on. Thursday, and. before a half a dozen words had passed between them. Utley raised a heavy hickory Club he held in his hands and brought it down on Haaer’s skull, crushing it in and knocking him to the floor a corpse. Utely claims that Haser was playfully trying to get the club away from him and the blow was altogether accidental. It has been decided to disinter the body of Lawson Hewett, of Lovelydale, who was murdered on the 13th'of last August. The object of the resurrection is to secure possession of the two bullets which are in his body, and trace the range they took after they entei ed the body. The theory of selfmurder is exploded by the statement of Mrs. Hfcwett that the revolver of her husband was in the house at the time the murder occurred. One Mosby is in jail on suspicion of being the murderer,

One hundred of the female operailvea (weavers) in the Evansville cotton mills marched out of the mill on Monday, when the hou/ for beginning work arrived, and went home without giving any explanation lor their conduct. The superintendent, Mr. Cumnock. could give no explanation, except that he supposed they v were displeased with the overseer, a new man from Woonsocket, R. 1., who, he said, was a thoroughly competent man. No committee had waited on him with any demand-for redress or grievances oi any kind. The Harrison county “regulators” are again committing outrages. On Saturday night they took Philip Borden, of Scott toWnship, from his bed and whipped him unmercifully. A few nights previous'they visited the residence of Georgej Kemper, broke in the door and searched for him, but he was not at home. Jackson township was also visited by a! baud of these masked men who harne&sed up a man, hitched him to a wagon| and made him haul wood all night. In this last case, they claimed that the man’s family suffered from cold beejause he was too lazy to get wood. A prison is never narrow when the imagination cans range in it at will.