Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1882 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

Michael Hennesy, intoxicated, wg shredded by a train near Perry viUe the other day. While William Reprogle, a young farmer living near Hagerstown, was driving a nail, it broke, and a flying fragment struck him in the eye, entirely destroying it.

Mrs. Jennie Ogden was laboring under a fit to temporary insanity when she left her home, in Jeffersonville, the other day. She has returned now, and is in a fair way of recovery. A small boy named Jones, while fool Ing with a revolver at Muncie. fired it off, the ball striking a boy standing nearby the name of Sulivan, in the face, making a fearful flesh wound, The building occupied by John C. Hiatt, drug store and Masonic lodge, at Monrovia, were burned Thursday morning. It is supposed to be the work Of an incendiary. Insurance, $1,300. Frank Briggs, aged thirty-three, employed on the farm of William Clary, three miles from Wabash, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a corn knife. He will not recover. James Lyons, of Rushville, died of typhoid fever on the same day and at the same hour that he was to hayebeen married to Miss Rachel Seward, who was at his bedside almost constantly for foiir weeks. Wiliam Bloom hart, of Rush Creek, while chopping struck the ax into his knee, splitting the knee cap, and Ira Pruitt made a mistake and fell down stairs, , dislocating his shoulder and breaking his collar bone. The regularly located preachers of Indianapolis, finding that the revival meetings of the Rev. Mr. Harrison (the boy preacher) are weakening their congregations, have withdrawn their support from him. Methodist circles are excited over the matter.,

There was rather a singular wedding in the court house at Booneville yesterday. Among divorces granted was one to David Gentry and one to Mary Crow, both from the country. Within fifteen miutes after their marital bonds had been served the couple met in the corridor of, the court-house and were married by a justice of the peace. The grajiad jury has returned an indict ment against John J. McCourt, ex-po-liceman, of Evansville,for conspiracy to defraud an insurance company out of $16,000, in connection with Julius A. Coleman, Charles Lucas, Jessie Upfleld, and others. McCourt was on the police force and was suspected of beingparticeps criminis in the conspiracy. He has been arrested at Brownsville, Tenn.

The store of Mrs. L. Hair at New Albany, a hair-dressing establishment, was entered the other night by a burglar, who used a false key, and the drawer was relieved of S2OB. Mrs. Hair found a note in the room left by the burglar, but foolishly destroyed it. The money consisted of a one hundred dollar bill, three twenty dollar bills and notes of smaller denominations. Ne clew to the thieves. The Statisticaljßureau has completed a table showing the different vocations of women and the number engaged therein as returned by the various Township Trustees of the State. Women are engaged in fifty-two vocations, among which are the following: Apiarists, 37; authoresses and newspaper correspondents, 16; bar tenders, as an occupation, 52; boarding-house proprietors, 533; book agents, as an occupation, 107; farmers, 2,253; clerks, as an occupation, 522; physicians, 98; printers, as a trade. Si; preachers, 126; bookbinders, 27; basket-makers, 20; anil many other vocations where womeahavenot heretofcr& Leen known professionally. John McCelland, of Jeffersonville filled three pop bottles with powder, attaching fuses and set fire t»4jie fuses in his back yard. The thing would not go off as he expected. QHe concluded tohave another trial. He removed the bottles to his kitchen, placing them on the table. Soon afterward MfS. McClelland attempted to remove the lamp cnimney to light the fuse of a fire cracker, when the lamp exploded, setting fire to the fuses of the bottle, and a terrific expidsion occurred. Mrs. McClelland was frightfully burned by the coal-oil setting fire to her cothing, and will probably die. Mr. McClellan was burned in several places, and one fragment of glass from the exploded bottles was so deeply imbedded in his flesh that the surgeons could not remove it. A littlegirl named Barry, aged thirteen years was badly hurt, a piece of glass entering her side. She can not recover.