Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1882 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

.Washington, Daviess county, has twenty saloons. , “Sang Dlgger’tTltest” is a Warrick county settlement. o h Good kitchen clerkk are said to be very scarce about Princeton. Smallpox has disappeared from Jeffbisonville and New Albany. The wires of the Carthage "And Knightstown telephone lines are up. The Cannelton News has suspended after a career of twenty months. Samuel Wolff, an old citizen of Cass county, was found dead in his bed on Wednesday morning. Mrs. John Ruby, of New Albany, attempted suicide because her seventeen year old boy beat her. Boudebush, a young man of Noblesville, while fishing about four miles north of there, was drowned. The army worm has played sad havoc with the barley crops In Edinburg and thereabouts, many promising fields being almost ruined. ■ Senator Harrison has introduced an amendment to the river and harbor bill, appropriating $20,000 for a steam dredge for clearing the harbor at Michigan City, Henry H. Roberts, of Michigan City, died suddenly. He had held many offices of trust and profit, and among other positions had been mayor of the city two terms. Two chimneys were blown from the county asylum near Indianapolis, last Bunday, and a number of thrirty shad j trees surrounding the building were twisted off. A dwelling and its entire contents, belonging to Solomon Keever, a farmer, a few miles north of Hagerstown, burned the other night, Loss not known; no insurance. Mrs. John Dial, of Plymouth, has just had a piece of glass about an inch in length taken from her foot, where it has been imbedded for a year, giving her very little trouble,[though it had worked its way about two and a half inches from the point where it first entered. A water-spout emptied itself Into Tanner’s creek, near Gullford, the other day, raising the water six or eight feet, aud sweeping away fullgro vn trees and large bowlders. It also swept away the railroad bridge, The sky was cloudless at the time. The water soon ran out, leaving the creek as quiet and as harmless as It was before.

Joseph Lewis and Frank Fowler, two notorious characters, the other day went to a school house near Bartlettsville, in the northern part of Lawrence county, flourished their revolvers, frightening the children, and told the teacher, Miss Norman, they had come to commit an indecent assault. She escaped out of a back door, and succeeded in reaching, a farm house not far off. Reports from all parts of Johnson county agree the wheat crop will be the largest ever harvested. The acreage is forty per cent, greater than last year, the straw unusually thick and the heeds large and well filled. The hay is simply immense, the clover being nearly all cut and cured. In some sections the corn, owing to the wet weather, is considerably injured, but will make a good crop on high ground. A dispatch comes from Ban Antonio. Texas, that a young man named Williams from Terre Haute, was brought there Bunday night from Devil’s River, suffering greatly from a dynamite explosion, that tcre off both arms near the elbows, and mutilated him about the face. Williams says he was fishing with dynamite, throwing it into the water to kill fish by the explosion, when a premature' explosion took off both arms. Tom Marr, a prosperous young farmer living two miles south of Attica, took down his shotgun for the purpose of shooting a hawk that had been preying on his chickens. He had loaded the gun, and, while the muzzle whs pointed towaids him, was in the act of putting the ramrod in place, when the gun was discharged, the entire load passing into - his stomach and out of his right side. When lifted from the ground his entra s were protruding. It is thought he will not live. f John J. C. Schwerin has been a resident of Richmond tor nearly half a century. He came here from Germany. His wife died about a year ago. Although he had reached the ripe age of 73, he felt that it was not good for man to be alone, so he sent across the sea and asertalned that a lady whom he had known in childhood, and loved as a school-girl was single. He gave her an invitation to share the Joys and sorrows of his remaining years. Bhe accepted the 0 proposition and arrived on Thursday, and the coupie were married the same afternoon. The bride is 64 years of age. Twq curious freaks of lightening are reported. Ebenezer Morgan, living in the Morgan neighborhood,about nine mile from Jeffersonville, took a pitchfork and a scythe and went to the rear of his residence to cut down some weeds. Lightniag struck the scythe, throwing it from him a distance of twenty yards, and turning the steel blade to a blackened color. Young Morgan was thrown violently to the ground, where he remained in an insensible condition until his wife resu sc 1 ated him. william Moore, of Veale township, Daviess county, was passing through a field with afhoe on liia shoulder, when a stroke of lightning fell andl knocked his hoe off his 1 shoulder, and sent him whirling back over three rows of corn. He not knocked down, but* was severely shocked.