Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1882 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

The friends are holding s series of meetings at New Castle. John Fordyce, a brakeman on the Ft. W., C. &L. toad, had - his collar bone broken at Montpelier. Mrs. John MacKeasy, of Lafayette, is accused of being the mother of a babe which weighed seventeen and a half pounds at Dirth. New Castle is flattered with the promise of additions to her manufacturing industries in the shape of a flax mill and furniture factory. A board of examining surgeons is to beestablished by the Pensionßureau at New Castle, consisting of Drs. W. F. Boon, 8. Ferns and G. W. Burke. The fruit growers, in the Southern tier of counties, report the fruit still safe, the frosts of the past few nights not damaging it. A new post office has been established in Grant county, on the Toledo Cincinnati & St. Louis Narrow-guage road. It will be known as Sims. Michael Hoff, commissioner of Dearborn county, died at his residence, near Lawrenceville, Saturday evening, after a long and painful illness. - „ „ The anti-vaccinationists of Indiana will hold a state convention in Kokomo on April 22. Dr. Huggart, of Indianapolis, will deliver the address. The acquittal of Garrett, at Vernon, for complicity in the Walton murder caused the greatest excitement and indignation. Not a single man can be found who sustains the verdict. Dr. L. W. Munhall’s union revival at Mishawaka is progressing finely. The meetings continue to increase in interest. There were twenty-one conversions during the first five days and more seeking. Jonas Toomey, waiting in a Decatur saloon for somebody to treat him, attacked an old man named Nicholas Meibers, who refused to divide a. quart of beer with him, beating him so that his life is despaired of. Nothing has been heard from the missing man of Cicero, (T. O. Clifford), except a letter writteii by his companion, Charles Pitcher, from Toledo, stating that they were at Toledo, and would leave next day. J. H. Lewark, of Pendleton, Ind., has a Jersey cow that recently dropped the second pair of twins within twelve months, a bull and a heifer each time. At this rate the dairy herds of Indiana will rapidly increase. John Petit went out hunting on Thursday, and, when at a point two miles north of Jeffersonville, on the Middle road, he came upon an army of snakes. He killed forty-six reptiles in a few minutes, some of them two feet in length. Anthony Keller aged 96, a veteran and pensioner of the war of 1812, died at his residence in Boon township, Harrison county, on Wednesday. He had long been a pensioner for his gallant services. He fought at Tippecanoe, Fort Meigs and tire Thames. A stranger named Brown, while traveling on the Ohio and Mississippi Branch railroad, walked oft the rear car falling upon the track, sustaining very serious injuries. The injured man was taken to Charlestown where he remained unconscious up to last accounts. The rumor that Poindexter Fields, of Geneva, came to his death by foul play is unfounded. In a fit of insanity he eluded his watchers and went to a straw-shed where with a skein of carpet chain he hanged himself to the end of a pole on which a quantity of straw rested. A Logansport boy named Beyea, who had boarded a freight train for a short ride, fell from the top of the train between two cars. In falling he struck against the end of the car in such a manner as to throw him directly in the center of the taack. Eighteen cars passed over him while in that position, and the only injury received was some severe scratches and a crushed shoulder blade.

A fire was discovered in the United Brethren church, at Williamsburg, Wayne county, the other uigbt, and after it was half bushel of newspapers and pine kindling soaked in coal oil were taken out from under it. A copy of the Chicago Inter Ocean, on wliich was written the address of S. N. Meyer, was among it. The citizens raised a purse of S3OO, and the trustees offer that amount for the detection of the person who made the attem pt. The State Bureau of Statistics received the first lot of outfits for taking weather observations, last Saturday, and others are expected this week. The Chief of the Department will distribute the outfits as rapidly as received, aud he will endeavor to have all preparations made for beginning the work the first of next month. The large number of applications now on file for taking local observations will be given attention this week, and the appointments announced. The citizens living north of Lebanon are excited over the death of a man in their neighborhood, Friday morning, by the name of David Montgomery, under suspicious circumstances, and foul playis loudly hinted at. Montgomery’s wife gave the alarm, and when parties arrived at their house he was found dead, with a bruised spot over his right eye, Bhe said'Montgomery was sitting in front of .the fire piece whetting his ax' and suddenly fell forward, striking hishd.id on a dogiron, and when she picked him up he was dead.