Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Monroe County claims immunity from Trnstee frauds. —The Floyd County poor-house has sixty-nine inmates. —Mrs. Mary Young died in Muncie from the effects of a stove falling upon her. —Rev. Milton W. Stetson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Orleans, is dead, < ' t —Henry Chamberlain, one of the pioneers of Fort Wayne, died in that city Monday. —A strange malady, resembling milksickness is prevailing among the cows of Wabash County, —Hon. W. C. DePauw has given to DePanw Female College, in New Albany, an aggreg >te of <525,000. p——A man digging s well near Lafayette came to a vein of petroleum, under which was a stratrtm of lead. General Hascall, of Goshen, was divorced from his wife, to whom he had been married about twelve months. —E. W. McKenna, Superintendent of the Louisville and ludiauapolis branch of the Pau-Handle, has resigned. «’ —A grand jury in South Bend indicted Thomas J aton for murder in the first degree for killing William Snyder. —ln Muncie, Mrs. Swain got judgment of S3O against the F. W.. C. & L. R. R. for being carried beyond her destination. ! —Janies Kerr, an old resident of Lagro, fell into an old lock of the abandoned Wabash and Erie Canal, and . twas instantly killed. ——-A burglar entered the residence of Father Schmidt, in Muncie, covered him with a revolver, and then ransacked the house. —David G. Miles, of Laporte, a patient in the Indianapolis iusaue asylum, hanged himself. His father committed suicide several years since. —A sugar refinery at West Point Was fired by lightning Sunday night, and destroyed, with its contents. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $2,000. —Mrs. Emma Plue has sued John H. Heffner, at Lafayette, for $15,000 damages, claiming that Heffner has at divers times asserted that she steals turkey eggs. —The barn of Stephen O. Dehart, near Lafayette, was burned, together with six valuable horses and a number of farming implements. Loss, $2,500; insurance, $1,200. —lndiana people are much disappointed in learning that Judge Gresham has decided to become a citizen of Chicago. He has leased the residence of Postmaster Judd, on Delaware place, in that city. —Prof. W. J. Williams, of Rochesterg, has accepted the Professorship of Pedagogics in Franklin College. He will assume the duties of this department at the beginning of the next term. Jan. 7. —James DeCamp, of Otisco, Clark County, was getting out stave lumber north of Charlestown, when a large oak tree fell, catching him under it, crushing his legs frightfully and inflicting fatal injuries, —lda Stephenson, a Sioux Indian girl, who with fifty-nine others, is attending White’s Manual Labor Institute, south of Wabash, while playing fell backward and struck the floor with such violence as to sustain injuries which will prove fatal. —Mrs. Electa Haven, who had been cast off by her husband, quitted her home at Loginsport, leaving a note stating that to avoid fu .erai expenses she would drown herself. The rivers have been drugged, but no body has been found. —While playing foot-ball at Wabash, Dorsey Coate, sou County Treasurer Coate, suffered a very severe fracture of the right arm. A young son of Nelson Zeigler, a well-known dry-goods merchant, was also severely injured at the same time. Samuel McDonald, an employe of a Chicago book and map firm, has been imprisoned at Winchester for attempting to bribe a township trustee to perpetrate a fraud. McDonald was formerly Trustee of Niles Township, and stood high in Delaware County. —Last Saturday night Oliver Hutsler, of Webster Township, Harrison County, received the most terrible flogging ever administered .to any one by the Harrison County Regulators. A physician reports that his back was beaten into a jelly and that every portion of his body bears marks of the lash. He is charged with stealing ducks. —The shooting of Harrison Taskel, the colored hostler, by Mem rod Hnendlind is the second homicide that has occurred in the Indianapolis Court House, which was opened in 1877. In 1878 Warren Tate, a well-known character, shot and killed William Love during the progress of the trial of a snit, instituted by Tate, growing out of Robustness transaction, in which Love was a witness. 5 —Dr. Neyro®, Professor of Anatomy at Notre Dame University, is the Nestor of physicians in the country. He is 94 years of age, and was a surgeon in Napoleon’s army during the Russian campaign and at "Waterloo. After the restoration he became a priest, and was an early missionary in the Northwest He is still able to conduct his class, and few men of 70, it is . said, are so strong and active. > —lndianapolis has a man who ought to join the muscular evangelist brigade. He found a burglar in his house the other morning, and commanded him to fall upon his knees and pray like a sinner should, or he would blow out his brains. The fellow hurriedly repeated such fragments of the “Lord’s Prayer,’ “Now I lay me." and other pious invocation»-''as he could remember, which wereinterspersed with exclamations of pain and pleading for hi* life until he was set free under the promise nevex burglarize that house again.— lnter, Ocean.