Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Hon. 8. M. StoeSalager, retired Congressman. will open a law office at New Albany. . V ■ —A horseshoe factory is being started at New Albany With a capacity of a horseshoe every second of the day. —A young woman living south of Crawfordsville foufid a $5 gold piece in the craw of a chicken she had killed. —Ths pound is reported literally full of locusts in the vicinity of Indian Kentucky Creek, near Madison. —A Lafayette cow died of a mysterious disease, and when she was dissected a large darning-needle was found run through her heart. —The losses by fire in Goshen for the year ending May 1 were sll,Bll, and the amount of insurance paid $10,460. The fire department cost —James Carroll, a young farmer living near Washington, has been adjudged insane. The cause of his insanity is his inability to pay for a farm he recently purchased. —Charles Baur, of the Terre Haute Bicycle Club, rode, in from Maxwell, fifteen miles, oyer an ordinary country roud, in One hour and twenty minutes. Ed Elder came in a minute later. 1 —Charles Rowland, alias Charles Green, pleaded guilty at Indianapolis to the charge of forging an order on Middlesex, Graybill & Co., and was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten ytars. —The Mayor of Richmond has ordered the police to pull bicycle riders, and to file Complaint against all merchants who violate the ordinance relating to the placing of goods on the sidewalk. —Wm. Passmore, of Martinsville, 25 years old, married Mrs. Hecklen, a widow of 70, she wealthy, he poor. - She fired of him and took up her residence with Andrew Jackson, a distant relative. Passmore sued Jackson for damages for enticing his wife away, and was awarded SSOO by the jury. —Mayor Bringhurst, of Logansport, announces that hereafter no $5 fees will be allowed the prosecutor unless he renders some service in return for the same. Prosecutor Fansler proposes to take the matter into the courts, as it has been the practice to allow $5 fees whether the attorney was present or not

—An animal supposed to be a lynx is sending terror to the people of New Corner. Poultry, young pigs, aud lambs have lately disappeared from coops and pens of their owners by the dozen. Its cry resembles that of a child. The only person. who has seen it describes it as larger and longer than a good-sized dog. —Several months ago James H. Moore, aged 76 years, living south of Richmond, pared a com and placed some verdigris from a copper cent on it The foot was poisoned, and in a week or so more the too was frozen. Gangrene set in, and to save the man's life the toe was amputated. The patient grew worse, and died last week. —The recent train robbery in Indiana shows the danger of putting firearms into the hands of express messengers, In this case the messenger was shot with his own revolver, which was taken from him by a man who came into the car unarmed. It ought not to require many such examples of the danger to put a stop to the practice. —Exchange. —Terre Haute Express: Wm. Rezae and Jacob Rearheilzer, the New York bootblacks; who were arrested Friday night at 11 o’clock, with a whole arsenal of firearms on their persons, were brought to headquarters this morning, and, after registering a promise to leave town without delay, were released. They are abcut 18 and 20 years old, respectively, and are the victims of 10-cent literature and trashy weekly papers. Daniel Fry, a prominent farmer living five miles south of Warsaw, was instantly killed a short distance south of that place. He was walking home on the track of the Cincinnati, Wabash aud Michgan Railway. Being deaf he did not hear the southbound express approaching, which ran over and mangled his body in a horrible manner. The remains were taken to Claypool and from there sent home. He leaves a wife. He was 60 years of age.

—The management for the Indiana State Fair for 1885—Sept. 28 to Oct. 3, inclusive. —have issued their premium list. The pamphlet of sixty-eight pages comprises, besides the programme and list of premium--, general and specific rules governing exhibitors and judges. In addition to the “ premiums by the Fair Association a number of special” by firms and individuals are offered. Parties intending exhibiting at the fair should secure a copy of the premium list from Mr. Alex. Heron, Secretary, Indiinapolis. —Marsh Adams, the minstrel, known the world over by his rendition of “O.'d Black Joe,” died recently at his residence in Indianapolis, of a cancerous affection cf the liver. He was aged 46, and he leaves a wife, whose stage name - is Sus.e Wild. When but a lad id years old Adams was picked up by George Christy at Louisville, as a ballad-singer, and from that time until his death he figured in “burnt-cork" opera. In 18>8-9, in company with Bill Manning, he made a tour of Australia, which netted them $30,000, and upon his return to America he joined Byman, Barney A Holt’s minstrels. - *' —George Morin shot and killed Lee Collins at Muncie. Both were colored barbers. Morin had been too familiar' with Collins’ wife, and, , having been whipped for bis conduct, retaliated by shooting Collins. —John T. Woodard, a lottery-dealer at Indianapolis, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for five years for embezzling a prize of $1,200 drawn bv a customer. —There are 1,765 land-owners in Jefferson County. -