Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1882 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

ShelbyviLe 's <n fresh oysters. Stock hogs are very scarce in Owen county A colored camp meet in? began at Laporte Saturday. Bass fishing is uncommonly good in Wayne county. Beer-drinking among the women is getting fashionable. Henry county’s wheat crop is estimated at 1,000,000 bushels. Peru is to have a military company under the military code of Indiana, Parke county com could not look better where it has been well tended. The last Ohio regiment got $1,300 for camping at Glen Miller, Richmond. A son of Samuel Kits, of Hardenberg, was fatally kicked, Tuesday, by a horse. Henry J, Powell, a Shelbyville grocer, has closed his doors. Liabilities, $1,600; assets about S3OO, The wheat crop in Hendricks county, so far as heard from, will average about twenty bushels per acre. Mr. Alex. McLeod, formerly of the Southern, has taken charge of the Ohio & Mississippi at Vincennes. Ed. Dillon,who absconded from Hart township, Warrick county, last Saturday, it is now known, carried with him money to the amount of SIB,OOO, which he defrauded the farmers of that county of. In an altercation Sunday afternoon at Alvord’s feed yard, at Peru, Frank Hathaway stabbed seriously one Elbertson and ran for the woods. He was overtaken and planed in jail. The assault was unprovoked. The liabilities of the firm of Masters & Ferguson, clothiDg and boot and shoe dealers of Boonville, who failed last week, will reach all the way from $12,000 to $15,000. The heaviest creditors are merchants of Cincinnati. On Saturday, near Goshen, a three-year-old son of Joseph Weaver followed some of the older children to a field without their knowledge. They had to pass through a gate with a broken hinge, and when returning found the child pinned down by the gate, and dead. Mr. Alex Ferguson, of Hanover township, near Madison, while driving a horse hitched to a hay-rake,was thrown from the rake by the running away of the horse, and received severe injuries. He lay in the field for seme time before he was discovered and carried to his home. The United Brethren of Reedsville, have just finished their new church and on Saturday mounted an 800 Bound bell of superior quality. The uildingwill accomodate 500 people and cost $1,500. Uncle George Muth age eighty-three; is pastor, a regular old father in Israel. Catharine Stattler, aged seventy, was terribly injured on Saturday, near New Albany, by her horse runrunning away with the spring wagon in which she was sitting. Her right knee was broken, right hip dislocated, breast bone broken and shoulder dislocated, besides serious bruises. The house of Thomas Newman, a wealthy farmer in Miami county,was burglarized Saturday night of a large amount of valuables. The robbers spent some time in the house, going into every room, and although a large number of people were sleeping in the rooms, none were disturbed. Saturday afternoon, while Wm. Goodrich was running a rip-sa.vat Courey, Waller & Deprez’s furniture factory, at Shelbyville, the piece of wood he was cutting slipped, throwing his right hand against the saw. It was lacerated in a fearful manner, part of the bones adhering to the saw. JohnH. Lawson, of Greensburg, was at Lawrenceburg Junction sitting on the platform so near the track of the railroad that a passing freight train struck him, crushing in the skull. He was taken home on the passenger train, but died soon after. He has a wife and one ohild, a boy about nine or ten years. The dwelling of William Hogin, of Marion, was burglarized, and his vest and pants, with their contents carried away. A small amount of change and nis store key was the burglars reward. The key is supposed to be what they were after, with a view to entering his store house, which from some cause they failed to do. The dry goods store of G. J. Roth & Co., and the hardware and grocery stores of F. C. Hepp and Gus Bchrieber, three of the leading business establishments of Boonville, were burglarized early Saturday morning. The money drawers of each store were forced open and rifled cf contents,and more or less of goods in stock carried away. '■ Charles Eppinghousen, of Terre Haute, has brought suit against Patrick Shannon for malicious prosecution, with damages placed at $150,000. This suit is an outgrowtyi of the court house war somb time ago, as a result of which Shannon sued Eppinhousen for libel, and afterwards dismissed the cases. A 1 vie Wilson, < ! '-'.uncle, was at work on a top of a -i. :*w •hi ack, and having complete lua labors, slid down the side of th- s ack to the ground. Standing agaiust the stack was a pitchfork, handle upward on which ne alighted, which entered the body to a depth of more than twelve inches. His injuries proved fatal, and he died in nine hours.