Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1882 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

Nicholas Talheimer has brought su against the city of Connersville, demanding SIO,OOO damages for the death of his child, crushed to death in the street a few days ago. While out coon hunting near Hagerstown, Commodore Foyst and Chas. Stoltz, killed a large wild-cat, the only animal of the kind that has been seen in this section for years. Martin H. Thomas, formerly a well-to-do hardware merchant, was run over by a train while sitting on the bridge across the river at South Bend, and lost a leg. He was intoxicated at the timd. The business of the South Bend post office for the past year amounted to $24,764.03, and as this is nearly $5,000 above the amount required for free de-, livery, an attempt will be made, to secure the carrier system. Mm. Wooster, a noted temperance man of Montezuma, was set upon and

severely beaten by James Rariden, a eloon-keeper, because Wooster had Said, in a temperance meeting, he bad been minors in Rariden’s saloon. ? Daniel Pollard, a farmer residing several miles southwest of Richmond, found his wife lying across her bed, unconscious, on his return from bis work at supper time, and before a physician airrived she was dead. Apoplexy was the supposed cause. Recently some very large plates o* glass have been cast a DePau w’s glass works,New Albany, for business places in Chicago and New York. During the past month several plates 108 by 179 inches have been shipped, and the company has orders for more, Thomas T. Thompson, an old citizen, a bricklayer and successful contractor, at Jeffersonville, where he has resided nearly twenty years, and where he married and has reared a large family, is in trouble. A z former wife, from whom he was never divorced, has turned up. Irwin Hunt, colored, who has been employed in the- Green field Democrat office for the past twenty years,while delivering papers to the postoffice was struck by a sleigh and severely injured integrally. He was taken home unconscious. Mr. Hunt is about one hundred and four years ond. Prof. E. 8. Wayne, of Cincinnati, has sent his report in of the poisoned wine sent by Emma Clifton to Miss Maggie Kelly, at Washington, the other day- He found the wind to contain two and’onequarter grains of strychnia to one ounce of wine, and says one wine-glassful is sufficient to kill. - About 200 men have been discharged from the Pittsburg railway shops jat Fort Wayne, the new management believing they can do as much with 790 men as had been done with* 900. Some of the machinists and other employes, who are discharged, have been in the employ of the company Smany years. 'he horses in Jennings county are idly dying off and a number of farmers from that section report that their cattle are dying from the same disease, or something similar. The strange feature of the cattle plague, or whatever it is, is that it is only good cattle, or those fed for market, that so far have been the victims. Farmers are alarmed. Three Greensburg ruffians, William Welch, William Mullen and James Gaimon went to Rushville on Monday night, got drunk and attempted “run the town.” They went to the Grand Hotel, and the night clerk, Charles Stockdell, and a barber named Charles Fisher attempted to eject them. They resisted, and Welch fired at Fisher, inflicting a terrible wound in the face, fracturing the cheek bone. The sheriff then arrived and the ruffians were pursued, and in the fight which followed Welch was shot three times, and it is believed mortally wounded.

Smallpox is again increasing at Ft. Wayne. Twenty cases were reported Wednesday. Dr. Munhall is conducting a remarkable revival meeting in the Presbyterian church at Elkhart. Senator Garrison has introduced a bill td provide fori the erection of a public building at New Albany. : Riley, the Hoosier poet, is receiving the social and literary indorsement of Boston “culture” and aestheticism. One of Gen. Tom Browne’s constituents has written to him asking for “a package of maccaroni seeds,’* and everybody in Washington is saying, “Where’s Le Due?’’ A Richmond special to the Indianapolis Journal of Monday, gives the details of the horrible murder of an old man named Smith, in the Northern part of Wayne county, by his wife and two sops, and the discovery of the remains in a well near Smith's residence. The guilty wretches were all arrested. A farmer at Lynn, a few miles from Richmond,on the Grandßapids railway recentlyrecpived a letter from Cincinnati containing several smallpox scabs. The man took the letter from the office, placed it in his pocket, and did not open it until he reached home. The only writing was: “I send you some smallpox scabs; now go home and die.” The inclosures were submitted to a physician, who declared them to be what they purported. The envelope was postmarked Cincinnati, and had the word “transit” stamped upon it. This is the only clew the detectives have to the diabolical villain.