Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

A man by the name of G iber;, o* Dudley township, Henry county, while moving, was struck by a chain that broke, had his leg broken in two places, and was badly mangled. J. H. Ballard, colored, for ten years school teacher at Jeffersonville, has been appointed, through Senator Harrison, mail agent on the J,, M. and I. road, between Madison and Indianapolis. Elijah Whitten, for thirty years a deputy sheriff and bailiff of Floyd county, wasifound dead in a gutter on Main street, into which he had fallen the previous night, while intoxicated, and drowned. Word has been received of the suicide of Samuel Miller, formerly an aged and respected l citizen of Adams county, but lately of Topeka, Kansas. Bodily infirmity had weakened his mind. He was a man of considerable wealth. A man hailing from Indianapolis has been levying a tax of one dollar on each of the saloons of Warsaw for the alleged purpose of taking a test case to the Supreme court, in the hope that the law requiring licenses to be paid may be declared void. Robert Pierson, the party who took arsenic with suicidal intent at Shelbyville, died at seven o’clock the same night. From the first he resisted all efforts to render him any assistance, being anxious as he expressed it, “to die and be done with it.” Mrs. General Wm. McKee Dunn, of Washington city, has given Hanover college SIOO for the purchase of physical apparatus for the science depart-’ ment of the college. Now a long felt want is a good magic lantern, and a set of the representative rocks of the world to the natural science department. Argus Dean, the Madison peach grower, predicts that the peach blooms will be unusually full, and the only danger is from spring frosts. From the fact that two crops have been gathered in succession, the yield will be less in quantity and poor in quality, unless wise care has been taken of the trees. The prospect for all stone fruits is quite at good as ior peaches. Alex Arnold has just been sent to the penitentary for two years from Terre Haute for horse stealing. He confessed to stealing thirty-four horses since last June, and fifteen of them have been returned to their owners through his confession. A young man named Owens, wlr had been indicted aud was almost sure to be sent to the penitientiary was found to be innocent and was released through Arnold’s confession and the restoration ol the stolen animals.

The stone to be placed over the grave of the late Governor Williams by James 8. McCoy, one of the executors, is to be a shaft of Barre granite, a dark bluish gray stone, susceptible to very fine polish, twenty-eight feet nine inches iu height, and the foundation will be seven feet square, and will be of limestone. The apex of the monument will be surmounted by an ornamental cap, aud the sub-base tearing the tablet for the insciiption will be very ornamental. The contractor is also to enclose the bodies of the deceased governor and wife by walls of stone at the sides of the coffins, aud to cover them with a slab of stone ten inches iu thickness. The work is to be done in June, and costs $2,000. The grand jury of Wayne county have finished their investigation into the Smith murder case. The indictment returned against each of the murderers was, “Guilty of murder in the first degree.” The news has been received with much satisfaction. They were indicted separately, and, of course, there will be three separate trials. A contribution has been raised throughout the county, and a prominent criminal lawyer,retained to assist the prosecution. It is stated that the trjal will begin in about two weeks. Mrs. Smith still seems sanguine as to the result, and she thinks that in a short time she will be at her old home again. Notre Dame university is the fortunate possessor of probably»the only original Van Dyke in this country'

The painting was brought from Engand many years ago and jpre-entd to Very Rev. Father Soriur. It was sup posed to be the work of of the masters, but which one could neyer be detor- ■ mined. When Signor Gregori came to Notre Dame from Rome, Jwhere he had charge of restoring many pictures in the Vatican, and was the highest authority in Rsme on the genuineness of old painting, he took charge o § f the painting and restored it, and found it to be a genuine Van Dyke. The picture, if placed on sale in New York or any of the art centers of the old world, would bring any wherefrom S2O--to $30,000, but of course it will never be sold, but remain the most prominent of the art treasures of Notre Dame. It appears that Mr. George B. Williams, of Lafayette, is deeply interested in the passage by Congress of the Japanese indemnity bill, which has passed the Senate. Mr. W. went to Japan and organized the internal-reve-nue system of that country on the American plan, and if the bill above named passes will receive $300,000 for his services in that connection. Hon. T. J. Foster, of Ft. Wayne, ex-Senator and Representative of Allen county, is reported missing. He had been drinking heavily, arjd declared he was going away never to return, and at the present writing it is not known whether he has vamoosed, committed suicide or gone to visit his parents in the country. Meantime, Dr. McDowell, another notorious exRepresentative of that county, was recently put under bond on charges of criminal practice.