Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1882 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Recent heavy storms have done great damage in Elkhart and Wabash counties. Elliott Tutt, one of the pioneers of Michigan City, was found dead in his bed—a victim of heart disease. The Republican convention of the s forty-first judicial circuit have nominated William B. Hess forjudge and 8. J. Holley for prosecutor. Flora Belle, the fastest racing mare in the world, who won the Buffalo race, Thursday, is owned by Dr. Wilson, of Jefferson county. Her time is 2:12%. ? . ► Mrs. Dr. R. T. Miller, of South Bend, captured a burglar in her house and he is now in jail. He had on his person a gold watch and other property taken from the Miller residence. He gave the name of William Campbell, and says he is from Cincinnati. A young son of Thomas Hopp, a farmer of Skelton township, Warrick county, fell from a wagon and failing on the tongue, hung and was dragged quite a distance by the horses, which ran away. One of his legs was so badly torn and injured that amputation was necessary. Saturday night melon raiders almost entirely destroyed a fine patch of melons for Marion Wells, a farmer near Brownston. They threw down the fence and left stock roaming at large to complete the ruin. Mr. Wells claims to know the perpetrators, and says they will be prosecuted.

Peter Demien, a German, aged eighty years, residing with his son-in-law, Chris. Crumm, at Laporte, committed suicide by strangulation. He tied a handkerchief around his neck, fastened one end of a short rope to that and the other end to the bedpost, and hands and knees on the floor, pulled back until life was extinct. George Weaver, a grown man, and Al cert Homer, a fourteen-year-old boy, were fatally injured by the exBlosion of a keg of powder in the •utch coal mine in Daviess county. At last advices the boy’s death was momentarily expected, and it is thought the man cannot survive. The accident was the result of carelessness on the part of the lad. John Ritter and Dora Walling, of Gass & Ritter’s carriage shop, at Muncie, thought to play a joke on George Rentz by taking his valuable gold watch, which was then lying in his tool box, and hiding it. Accordingly they removed the watch from the box and placed it behind a quantity of sand paper in a drawer in John’s work oox. Some real thief saw the transaction and stole the watch. There is a general rejoicing in Lafayette over the announcement that the officers of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad company have selected Lafayette as the proper point for the erection of their new and extensive shops. The inducement was fifteen or sixteen acres of land adjoining some already owned and occupied by depot and other buildings, and a cash donation of $25,000. Mr. C. O. Lynk, of Butler, has been awarded letters patent on a bag-. gage-check invented by him. It is four and one-half inches in length by one and three-fourth inches in width, made of heavy plate-brass, and has the names of twenty-eight checking stations stenciled on it, fourteen upon either side, with a simple, but ingenious arrangement for indicating the stations between which the baggage is checked.

At the last meeting of the Tippecanoe county medical society, that body dropped from its roll of membership the name of Dr. W. W. Vinnedge. This is the case that was recently before the state society, where it was recommended that Dr. V. should apologize to the county society for an alleged breach of the code. He didn’t do this, and the society expelled him. He is a member of the state board of health. John H. Sleeter, of Boody, Adams county, reports that he was forced into signing a note for $354.64 by two bulldozing lightning-rod agents, representing the Northwestern Light-ning-rod Company, of Chicago. Sleeter contracted with one agent, B. F. Ford to do S2O worth of work, And the next day J. H. Smith, the second agent, appeared and before he stopped put up 475 feet of rod, 390 feet more than was specified in the contract. Shelbyville was recently startled by the cry of murder from a woman who was in a buggy with a man who was driving the horse in a dead run. Quite a number were following under the lead of one man who, at various times, would fire his revolver at the occupants of the buggy. Upon investigation it was discovered that a patent medicine man, who has been selling his ware on the Public Square there for some time, started buggy riding with Mrs. Bob Melbian, but just as they got underway Melbian made his appearance and opened fire. The residence of Dr. Eli Boyer, at Vincennes, was burglarized, the loss in money, (jewelry and clothing aggregating several hundred dollars. Dr. Boyer lost all his clothing except a pair of trousers, and his son Alonzo all but a coat Dr. Boyer also lost a considerable sum of money. Miss Emma suffered the heaviest, a fine gold'watch aud chain, valued at $l5O, and an elegant set of cameo jewelry being taken. Some was also secured by the thieves, who got into the h use through a transom and probably chloroformed the inmates. No clew to the thieves has been obtained.