Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

Mrs. Henry Kirk, of Bryantsburg, Jefferson county, has gone insane through infatuation for a traveling jewelry mender, and will be sent to the asylum. Two young children of Hon. Wm. Fleming, of Fort Wayne, got at the family medicine chest and ate enough morphine pills to kill them, but were discovered in the act and pumped out. Owing to the falling of one of the furnaces of theDePauw glass works at New Albany, the firm wiiihave to run their plate department on half time for some months, which will largely decrease their product. It is now believed that Mary French, who was reported burned to death at (he late residence of the murdered John M. Walton, at St. Omer, was first murdered by Mrs. Walton, or with her knowledge, and then burned.

George W. Booker, of Sparksville, hung his pants on the bed-poet with $488.55 in the pockets when he retired at night A burglar entered about half past 10 o’clock and to< k all the cash. Booker pursued, but as yet has been unable to overtake the thief. Gaar, Scott & Co., of Richmond, took the first premium for traction engines at the Atlanta,' Cotton Exposition, over six of the inost popular engines made in the United States. Mrs. A. Steen, aged sixty years, was burned to death in Harrison township, Daviess county, Friday afternoon. She was subject to spasms, and, being left alone, it is supposed she fell into the fire-place during a fit, and being unable to extricate herself was roasted alive. While Mr. Charles \rgus was descending the Whitmore hill, near Madison, after dark, he ran against a stake, which struck him in the mouth,forcing open his jaws and penetrating to the root of the tongue. It make a fearful wound and severed the small arteries, also cutting the muscles. About four years |ago the body Albert Munson was found near the Star mills, in Shelbyville, on the C., 1., St. L. C. railroad, mangled almost beyond recognition. It was supposed be was killed by accident. Now two men are suspected of the murder and robbery of the body, and will be arrested. John C. Russell instituted a suit in the Washington circuit court for $lO,000’damages for injuries received at the hands of a gang of “regulators” last August, who beat, bruised and hung him up by the neck on a malicious and libelous charge of stealing a silver watch. The suit will be tried in Floyd county on a change of venue. The residence of Thomas Witherspoon, at Princeton, was burned a few days since. He had insurance to the amount of $875, which covers half the loss. Mr. Witherspoon had collected about $2,500 during the day, and deposited it in his safe, which consisted of an old rubber boot, thrown into a closet near where the fire originated, and was the first thing the fire destroyed. A gang of three roughs, who were supposed to be white men blacked up for the occasion, went to the toll gate at the south end of Rising Bun, knocked Mr. Baily, the gate keeper, down, bucked and gagged him, and stole about $lO. When found at an early hour next morning. Baily was almost frozen and entirely speechless. No clew.

Miss Mamie Cole, of New Albany, aged fourteen years, has become heiress to half of an estate worth $250,000 at Columbia. Tenn. The estate is left to Miss Mamie and a grandchild of the deceased, by J. W. Brown, who died recently. The income of the property goes to the widow of Brown during her life. Miss Mamie is the daughter of Mr. C. P. Cole, traveling salesman for a leading Chicago firm. According to the figures of the Bureau of Statistics the average yield of leaf tobacco in this State for the last three years has been 6,987,049 pounds, and the average home value or the crop.on the basis of prices in 1880, is $5,958,964. Southern Indiana produces nearly the entire crop. Warrick County leading with 2,268,815 pounds in 1880. The yield in Spencer County, which stands second, the same year, was 1,913,823 pounds. On Sunday night last Elisha Sublett was killed by a freight train on the Vandalia road, near Harnick’s station, five miles south of Greencastle. Mrs. Mullenex, a daughter of Sublett, was killed by her husband in 1856, and be was banged for it. George Sublett. a brother, William Sublett, a son, and Hooten, a son-in-law, have been killed by the cars. Wesley Watson, another son-in-law, was shot dead in a quarrel over his wife’s infidelity. Whisky was at the bottom of it all. One hundred an i eighty-five Indianians are employed,in the several government departments at Washington. In coal production last year, Indiana stood sixth among the States of the Union, showing a product of 1,449,493 tons. In a leading Indianapolis church, last Sunday, the regular, advertised musical programme started off with a “march.”

Nearly 300 persons have been brought into the church by the religious revival gt Eikhait,'which has been conducted by Dr. L. W. Munhall. The Supreme Court in a recent decision holds that the common-labor-on Sunday act of April 14th, 1881, is the law on that subject now in force, and that the act is constitutional. Returns to the State Bureau of Statistics for the years ended May Ist, 1880, show a satisfactory increase of laudowners in this State, and refute the general idea that the lands are gradually absorbed by capitalists. The Bureau of Statistics reports mine and quarry products in this State for the year ended April 30th, 1881, as follows: Sandstone quarriefi 946,047 cubic feet; limestone quarried 2,743,450 cubic feet; lime burned, 1,128,289 bushels; cement manufactured, 144,599 bushels; coal mined, 2,128,977 tons; fire clay, 202,838 tons. The Bereau of Statistic* is authority for the statement, that during the year 1881, there were 246,368 volumes in the township libraries in the State, the circulation of which amounted to 862,455. The number of volumes added was 4,036. During the year 606 private schools were taught in the public school houses. In these schools 233 male and 435 female teachers were employed. The number of pupils admitted was 14,207, the average dally attendance, 6,569, and the average tuition per pupil per month, $1.26. The amount of summon school, congressional and township funds held by the counties, was $5,133,501.88?