Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Mrs. W. B. Jackson, 81 years did, died al New Albany. . —ln the northern* counties of the State about two-thirdy of the bees died last winter. • • Hon. Francis Wilson, Judge es the Bloomington Judicial District, died suddenly at Bedford. ' ■ —Richmond clsfJfiW more miles of pavement anil a gieater ntmher of shade trees than any city of its popu'ation in Indiana. —The candidates for city offices at Shelbyville pledged themselves to have nothing to do with traffic in votes, or make any contribution fop that purptfie. —William D. Bousel, of Milan, was arrested at Aurora, while attempting to pass counterfeit money, dftver one hundred counterfeit dollars were found in his possession. —Amos E. Buckley, of Thornton, who has aided in hiking charge of the Indiana educational exhibit at New been elected Superintendent of Schools in Fort Worth, Tex. —Hany Kocher, a carpenter of Co'nmbus, had his lower jaw nearly torn off by a vicious mare. He entered the stable where she’' had a young colt, and was caught by her and terribly mangled. —An Indianapolis watchman of an iron fonn dry has put in his spare time cuiving excellent figured -representing the cross and crucifixion, all excellently done, and inside of a glass bottle holdihg a little less than a pint. —Albert . Norton a three yeais' convict from Vigo County, has made his escape . from the Jeffersonville prison. Norton is I about 2G years old, five feet eight and a naif ’ inches high, blue eyes, sandy complexion and red hair. —Miss Clara Brown, a quiet and respectable young lady of Washington, danghter of H. C. Brown,, miller, is mysteriously absent from heme. She disappeared recently, and it is not known whether she has been abducted or left of her own accord. —The banking firm of Hyatt & Levings, of Washington, has been able to strike a dividend, and instead of paying twenty-five cents on the dollar, as was atfirst thought, it now can only pay lO per cent. It will be remembered that the firm failed list autumn, with liabilities estimated at $125,000. —Mark Vinnedge, a well-known young man of Plymouth, nged 10, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. He had been a wild young man. He was at the Reform School for one term, father tried to make him go to scnoojf but he said he would die first And he. did. —At Fort Wayne, Ephraim Fox, while in his barn feeding stock during a heavy thunder-storm, dropped dead. At first it was thought his death was caused by lightning, but at the Coroner’s inquest it developed that death was the result of heart disease. He was 56 years of age, and leaves a large family. —Justin Study, Superintendent of the Richmond Public Schools, in attempting to kick a football which carifej near him, while his scholars were at play, lost his balance and received a heavy fall upon a brick pavement It is thought no bones are broken, but his injuries will lay him up for several days. ” ’ —At Metamora, a German, about forty years old, who could not speak English, was run over by the cars and killed. On his person was found an envelope postmarked Richmond, Ohio, addressed to V. Kasen, care of C. Rausch, Falmouth, Ky., also a bill for books bought of Max Wiel & Co., 412 Vine street, Cincinnati, dated Jan. 30, 1885, and shipped to VaL Kasen, care of C. Rausch, Falmouth, Ky. Nothing of value found on his person. —Out of about two thousand pupils in the Richmond schools, Dr. Moore finds that nearly three hundred, or 13.8 percent, have defective vision, while 26.1 percent of these, or 3.6 per cent of all, are afflicted with myopia—short-sightedness—and a very large majority of these are girls, there being nearly two hundred girls and a little over one hundred boys with defe stive y vision, while about fifty of the girls amithirty of the boys are afflicted with mopio. Adolph Lindeman and Charles NeUin, two 12-year-old boys of New Albany, who have been reading dime novels until their heads were filled with a desire io travel, disappeared from their homes Monday of lost week. They were heard of at Coalsbnrg, Ky., and arrested on a telegram. Lindeman had taken S2OO belonging to his brother, and when found only SIOO was recovered. The, boys were armed with three revolvers, hooks, keys, and other articles of doubtful character. —lt has been discovered that the law passed by the last Legislature to reduce and regulate the public printing of the State provides that the reports of the State Bureau of Statistics and of Geology shall be printed only biennially instead of annually, as heretofore. The result will be that the work of the statistical bureau will be almost useless in every alternate year, as there is no way of getting the information it collects disseminated. The cutting off of the regular report was probably made through t a mistake, as the bill was very carelessly amended in the House. —James liiley Graham, the canvasman of Miles Orton's circus, who was alleged to have struck Margaret Eversole, a child, in the face, for looking under the canvas at Jeffersonville, was acquitted, the evident not being sufficient —New Al >any fishermen caught in the Ohio River a golden carp weighing thirteen pounds. It probably escaped from some fish-pond during an overflow. —Maurice Thompson will read a poem at Woodstock, Conn., on July 4.