Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Tho opening of the new Grand Opera House, at Madison, is set for Oct. 19. Capt. John Boyd, of Milroy, is the oldest person in Rush County. He will be 100 years old next February. - - —S. Bash & Co.’s .w .rehouse, at Fort Wayne, was burned with its contents last Week, the loss reaching s2>,o 0. • —Thomas Burks, an inmate of the Indiana State Insane Asylum at Indianapolis, was fatally beaten by E. Stroble, a fellow patient —lrvin Preston, a f irmer living about a mile and a half northea t of, Terre Haute, in a fi Pof anger, rag a pitchfork through his horse’s heart The horse died without a straggle. —Two cows met on tho Hanover pike below Madison and pitched into each other, when they succeeded in get ing their horns so firmly locked that it became necessary to saw the ends off one of the cow's horns to free them, —-—■ ---•—— —At Liberty, while swinging in a hammock, Nellie, daughter of A. E. Johnson. Cashier of the Union County National Ban fc, was thrown to the ground and seriously injured besides breaking an arm and dislocating her shoulder. —The owners of the old Erie Canal brought suit at Lafayette against the Louisvill", New Albany and Chicago Road for SIO,OOO damages for using the water of the canal since 1876, which the owners think is worth 9 cents per 1,000 gallons. —Wiliam Cherry, a well-to-do farmer living three miles west of Tipton, was plowing in his field the other day when he suddenly became blind. He has never had any trouble with his eyes before. It is supposed he is suffering with paralysis of the optic nerve. He is about fifty years of age. .. _ _J —Finding her husband in a buggy wi h a strange woman at Lafayette, Mrs. B. W. Stewart beat her rival and tore her hair in a furious manner, the woman taking flight to escape further punishment. Mrs. Stewart then seated herself beside her spouse, and the horse's head was directed homeward.

-At a meeting of the McKeen Rifles, at Terre Han e. it was decided to disband immediately, the action of the Adjutant General leaving them noprhilegesas a military organization. C. E. Fuller, Jr., S. C. McKeen and J. H. O’Boyle were appointed a committee to settle up the company’s affairs. The company was organized June 16, 1879, Ed Friend being the first commander. —Workmen in a sandpit on the edge of Terre Haute recently found the skeletons of three human beings hnddled together about three feet from the surface. One was the skeleton of a large man, another of a woman, and a third of a girl about 14 years of age. The skull of the man is crushed, and the positions of the skeletons show that they had been rudely thrown into the shallow grave. The last man to see the great snake at Pierceville, this State, modestly says that he does not think it was more than ten inches in diameter. In view of the fact that serpents even thirty feet long are seldom more than five or six inches in diameter, we think the Indiana min is certainly right in declaring that the Hooser reptile is not more than twice that size. What this State has to fear about this thing is that Indiana whisky will fall into disfavor.—lndianapolis Journal. —A party of hunters discovered the remains of a man in the woods about two miles south of Logansport a few days ago. The hogs had almost completely stripped the bones cf flesh. There was a bullethole in the skull, and a pistol fou<:d close by led to the conclusion that the unfortunate had suicided. From the clothing the remains were identified as those of Horace L. Baker, a well-known railroad contractor, whose mysterious disappearance two m°ntli3 ago created consider .ble excitement and-speculator). Baker was well known in railroad circles, and formerly lived at Terre Haute.

—An interesting story is told of the runaway Daviess County trustees. While en route they stopped at Grimsey station, Canada, to pass another train, and while Mr. Grimgley and Clark were standing on the platform of the depot a countryman jumped off the back end of the train and yelled oat: “By G , here is Grimsey!” and Mr. Giimsley thought his name called instead of the station, and the two made a sadden dash down a side street, endeavoring to escape. But upon looking at the sign they saw that he meant Grimsey station, consequently they boarded the train for their destination. —Claude G. Debrnler, city editor of the Evansville Courier, died in that city, recently. af.er a short illness. Mr. was formerly connected with the Cincinnati Evening Chronicle, and made an excellent reputation as a journalist He removed to Evansville in 1875 and bought an interest in the Journal of th t city, and was editor-in-chief until'lnst year, when he closed ont his interest and became city editor of the Courier. Mr. Debrnler, among his brethren of, the profession, was highly esteemed, and his death in the prime of life (at the age of 38) will be sincerely mourned. He leaves a wife and two children. - —Michigan City fishing interests are alarmed at the decrease in the supply of whitefish from year to year. The spawn and young fish are destroyed by the bigmouthed perch, which are becoming more plentiful all the time. , _ —A small and pecn’iar snake was found in a bunch of bananas in Michigan City, and was killed. It had probably come all the way from Central America. - - -, ■. «> —Fifteen hundred steers are being fattened in the distillery yards at Terre Hanta. . ■ • .