Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There are twelve births a year in th< Allen co i.nty poor-house. The coal miners in the coal fields are reported to be uneasy and dissatisfied. The Olay county fair was successful In every way * except as a financial venture. The total uuraber.of pupils attending the Jeffersonville public schools fa 3,484. Of this number ‘JAi are colored. At St Raul, while a trial was proceeding before a Justice luf the Peace, James McCool shot afid mortally wounded Silas Favors The murderer escaped. Randolph Sullivan - , an ex-soldier of the ’WaFaf lSlg and father of John T. Sullivan, 'Mil year, after au illness of four weeks. At I.a Porto, While Marshal Lay and Volieeuuai Fetaer were pursuing a criminal through a d;irk alley, the latter was acci-. dentally shot dead by hfe companion. _ Tur. fornifiiive aria carpet lio'a.-e of James H. A W I*. Ward, of Lafayette, has made an a-sigumeut to LM. Brown. The liabilities amount to s4?,mil, while the assets are estimated at ♦;>(), 3 itO.-Rl. Alexander Gardner, the constable of Jolui'ou towusbip, Knox < ouuty. took Ui lO.y. ar old eon, Enoch, and strung him up in the stable with a halter, and then beat the. child brutally with.a big whip. Mi:. Edward Scrirxer, of New Albany, has shortly alter birth, but which was preserved by a taxidermist The dog is iu the shape of the letter ‘-Y,” the hind parts forming the upper arms, ft has six legs, two tails and oue head. Some workmen digging a ditch near Munpie a few days ago, found at a shallow depth the'skeleton of a huge mastodon, the femur measuring four feet in length and eighteen inches in diameter, and the ribs over four feet in length The bones are in a good • state of preservation. knowing that the Cuvier Club, of Cincinnati, -will at any .time-pay $L -0 to the person , catching, with hook and line, a black bass weighing seven pounds. CoL De Hart, of Lafayette, recently: came within- half a pound of securing the prize. .The residence of -James 11 White, a farmer living near Degonia Springs, east 6t Brookville, was entered during the absence of the family, and robbed of a large sum of money, among which wi re some curious old gdid coins which had been in the family for years. M-vdison Star: ‘ Mrs Kate Manion, aged 101 years, was perambulating our streets "recently,- as happy~iia~~a girl in her~teena~ The old lady is a well-known resident, and lives with her daughter, Mr.a Bridget Manion. Her husband, aged 105 years, died some eight or ten years ago. She is the oldest lady in the State.” , The discovery of a new cave near Marengo, in Crawford county, on the line of the Air-llne railroad, is.-reported. It was said to have been discovered by two boys, who found, thu catr-awce liy hccident. ; Earties have explored the cave a distance of several hundred yards, and pronounce some of the-scenes equal Ter those in Wyandotte or Mammoth cave. In the suit , of Sarah Hazlett, of Greencastle, against tlie Northwestern Insurance -Company, the jure brought in a verdict for plaintiff. The husband of plaintiff had. a life policy for which defendant refused to pay on the ground of ifiisrepre- ~ igentation in inaking Out his policy and that his death resulted from intemperande. The case will be taken to tlie Supreme Court A bright set of officers, whose headquarters are stationed in Terre Haute, arrestedtwo half-witted inmates of the Vigo county poor-house on acharge of-aitemptod burglary, and succeeded in getting the two deranged sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, when the officers suddenly discovered that the prisoners were demented and consequently the wholp thing was na-, dona The bondsmen of Howard A- Denig, contractors for the new State House at Indianapolis, have decided that the work must go on. hoping thfibwtke Legislature will make good the loss of S i 00,00'.'. They have chosen to do this rather than forfeit their bond of tdbO.OOO. E. F. Goebel, of Chicago, one of the bondsmen, will superintend the work. A. Yocum, for fourteen years Postmaster at- f'hertibuKco, Whitney coun?y; npon examination of his accounts recently, was found to be a defaulter 10 the Oovcfhmenf of some 51,400. Yocum is 50 years of age and has a large family. It is alleged that he has made threats to end his life, owing to alleged extravagances on the part of his family. He has not been seen since the exposure, and fears are expressed" that he has carried liis threats into execution. In the spring of 18S3, George M. Blackstock, of the Littlo Wea, constructed an artificial fish-pond aud stocked it with carp two inches in length. Seventeen months later he took one out, aud it weighed five and a half pounds and measured twenty inches in length. Mr. Blackstock saj-s that the meat was solid and mild flavored, something between our native black bass and a buffalo—not so coarse as the latter, nor yet so finer as the bask The pond occupies about one-third of au acre, and Mr Blackstock is of the opinion that it contains at the present time about 1,000 of- tlie carp, of this and last year’s spawn. When William Sehiefer, present Sheriff of Allen county, took the oflice, fie appointed as one of his Deputies Isaac Campbell, who has for years beep a prominent local politician here. About two months since Campbell resigned on account of some trouble in money matters conuected with the office. A suit was commenced by Sehiefer to recover the alleged shortages. The two .meu met and Campbell drew a revolver on Sehiefer for tlie purpose of shooting him.it is su]>jiosed, but wns stopped by a bystander. The revolver ,was snapped and made a dent in the cartridge. Campbell was arrested. The affair causes great excitement in political circlea _ j- /’