Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1882 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

The wolva are killing sheep by the dozen in Warren county. Resurrectionists have been at work in the cemetery at Greenfield. A branch of Catholic Knights of America has been organized at Washington. Solomon Sheets, of Monroe town ship, Madison county, is 102 years old and retains all his faculties. Laporte’s new opera house will have a seating capacity of 1,200, and will be one of the most elegant in the state. Burglars injected chloroform through the key hole of Mr. Pettenger’s residence in Deleware county, and when the family were unconscious robbed he house. Hon. Henry S. Barnaby, ex-repre sentive, and Eph Keighwm, a justice of the peace as Jeffersonville, have each been convicted of ing keno and fined $lO. J Mrs. Conroy, of mother of Lizs»e-€onroy—Sister Assumptia—killed by the collision on Virginia avenue, in Indianapolis, will bring suit for SIO,OOO against the railroad company.

At North Madison Samuel Johnson and wife got in to a quarel, when their son Louis broke his father’s skull with a shovel. In a previous fight the old man put one of his wife’s eyes out. The body of Zach Norris, missing from South Bend since November 17, has been found in the river. On the evening of that day a cry of distress was heard in the vicinity of the Grand Trunk railway bridge, and a portion of the railing to the foot walk of the bridge was gone. Mrs. G. H. Hodges, of Fort Wayne, whose husband was recently sentenced to the penitentiary for burglarizing freight trains on the Wabash railroad, attempted to cut one of her children’s throats while eating supper a few nights since. She was overcome with great difficulty. She has been endeavoring 1o secure her husband’s pardon tor seve*al weeks, and it is supposed he r mind had been affected. She has four small children.

The county poor-house and poorfarm, situated five miles east of Goshen, having been condemned as too poor to be useful, the county commissioners have purchased a farm three miles east of Elkhart containing 450 acres, turning over the old farm in part payment. The citizens of Goshen have served an injunction. Dr. J. A. Schwartzel, secretary of the Vincennes board of health, has instituted suit against the Vincennes Commercial company, asking $5,000 damages. The Commercial,in itsjlast issue, accused the M. D. with perpetrating a steal from the city by vaccinating numberless paupers and presenting a bill to the council for $206.50 for such work.

Miss Minnie Cunningham, residing two miles south of Crawfordsville, acciden tally touched a sure spot on her lip with a finger on which there was small amount of vaccine virus. Her face and neck began swelling, and her condition is critical. Luke Francis, of Laporte. is in hard luck. Last spring he fell and broke his arm, last summer lightning struck his barn and burned it with a loss ol $2 000, last Fall he was taken down with rheumatism, and now he has just fallen on his door step and broken both arms and one leg. A schoolhouse in Harrison township Delaware county, burned the other day, in such a hurry that the scholars 1 oatall their books. A German with three daughters,aged seventeen, ten and seven, has arrived at Elkhart, having walked all the way from Arkansas. His wife, who started with them, died on the road. The residence of C. W. Vail, west of Madison, was entered by burgfars during his absence at Edinburg, attending the bedside of his sick wife.and robbed of everything valuable.

Dear little lamb—Grandma (on ma’s side)—“What will you do, if I give you a shilling, Tommy?” Tommy—- “ Why, Jet you kiss our new housemaid like pa does of a morning, and Dot say nothing to nobody. He only gives me a sixpence.” (Grandma thiLks over it,)—Punch. I