Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Henry Beavey’s livery stable and adjoining buildings burned in Hnntihgton last woik. Loss, $1,00.). —City Marshal Ancbrson, of Brazil, shot and fatally wounded Jesse Varner, who attempted to escape from his custody. —Henry Hahn, a musician, who came to this country witk CarL Schnrz, was killed by a train at Indianapolis Monday morning. Some persons assert that he committed suicide. —William Ripley, assistant ticket agent of the Monon Route at Indianapolis, decamped, taking $478 belonging to the railroad, and jewelry and diamonds belonging to private parties. —Charles Bizzy ran a knife two inches into the head of Charles Gebhart at a picnicrin Harrison County. The blade broke and was buried in Gebhart’s head. They quarreled over a game of chance. —Thomas A. Marshall committed suicide at Indianapolis by shooting himself. He was a farmer, bnt had been living in Indianapolis with his father for some months. He recently married his stepsister, and this, it seems, caused family troubles, to which his suicide is attributed. —Wesley Mayfield shot and instantly killed George Lyton near Sullivan. An old grudge had existed for some time. They met, and Mayfield, being armed with a double-barreled. shot-gun, fired both barrels in Lyton’s face. Mayfield has given himself up to the authorities. Lyton, it is claimed, was unarmed. —John Rosenmeyer, a farmer liv.ng in Dearborn County, : rmed and barricaded himself in his honse in a fit of delirium tremens and then mounted a heap of furniture which he had fired. When finally overcome and rescued his eyes were burned out and be had received other injuries from which he cannot recover. —The ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the new City Hall occurred at Laporte under the conduct of the Masonic fraternity, and preceded by a street parade, participated in by the city authorities, Fire Department, and other civic societies. Gen. Jasper Packard delivered the oration, and was listened toby a large concourse of citizens, —Two young women, members of prominent families at Seymour, were determined to “see the world for themselves,” and disappeared from their homes. Their absence; was soon noted by friends, who sent telegrams to neighboring towns. and they were discovered in a box-car “beating their way on the railroad - ’ and returned to their parents.

—William Wilson, living in the southern part of Shelby County, told his wife that as soon as he got some money for a job of work he proposed to get drunk, shoot the whole family, and flee the country. He came home afterward drunk, and commenced to abuse liis wife, who fled for the house of a neighbor, Albert Wright. Wilson following in close pursuit, armed with a shotgun. Just as she got into Mr. Wright's house he fired at her, the load of shot lodging in the door and on each side, but she escaped injury. —The special delivery system of the Postoffice, which goes into effect Oct. 1, does not apply to all postoffices in the United States, bnt to between 50) and 600. Selected from the list are the Indiana postoffices where letters to which is affixed the extra postage will be delivered immediately upon their receipt They are as follows:

Andarson, Jeffersonville, New Albany, Aurora, Kokomo, Pern, Columbus, Lafayette, Richmond, Crawfordsville, Laporte, Seymour, Elkhart, Lawrenceburg, South Bend, Evansville, Loeansport, Terre Hante, Fore Wayne, Madison, Valparaiso, Goshen, M.cbigan City, Vincennes. Indianapolis, Mancie, Washington. the post town of Hickory Grove. Dubois County. He is the Postmaster of that place, pension agent, notary public, storekeeper, farmer, and fur-buyer. In early life he married the daughter of Ezekiel Rutherford, one of the wealthiest men in Marion County. By her he has six children now living, one of them married. It is reported that he has deeded his farm ta his wife and eloped with a grass widow named Lizzie Willetts, who has two children, whom sha left behind, after appointing a guardian for them. At the same time a sister of Potts’ eloped with a married man named Randall Corbin. —lndiana's vast army of school ohildren are again about to be marshaled for active service. During the month about to begin the many schools of this State will reopen, aftey the and the active wort of education will be resumed. But, meanwhile, the leaders, the superintendents and teachers, have not been idle. All through the summer new methods of instruction have been considered, and the best of them selected. The county institutes held during the past few weeks have been the best that the State ever had. The attendance has surpassed all those of the past, and it has been demonstrated that there are more applications for schools than can be accommodated. This affords school officials an Opportunity to choose the best, and to secure good teachers. The future of education in Indiana was never better, and with proper management the State may easily retain its position in the fotemost rank of education. —lndianapolis Journal. —Rev. Father Peytbien, of St Francis Xavier Cathedral at Vincennes, startled his congregation by preaching against night promenading of women on the streets. Shopping expeditions, he thought, should be made in the daytime. —ln an accident on thp Indiana and Illinois Southern Railroad, near Newton, one &an was fatally hurt and twelve or fifteen other persons more or less injured. —The mother of a Fort Wayne infant weighs 537 pounds.