Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A postoffice has been established at Ellistoi, Green County. —Dr. J. Yargerlennere, of Pleasant View, died very suddenly from paralysis. —A. N. Knee, a brakeman on the Wabash Road, fell between the cars at Andrew#, and was killed. ,—The late Vice President Hendricks paid taxes at Indianapolis on property appraised at $65,1)80. —The family of J. C. Adams, an attorney of Vincennes, was poisoned by taking morphine for quinine. ' —Michael Enden, clothier, o flndianapolis, made an assignment. The liabilities are SB,OOO, and the assets, $7,000. —A number of colored youths, sons of ex-soldiers, have organizer! a society of Sons of Veterans at Jeffersonville. —The 1 ippecanoe Paper Mills, near Delphi, were burned. Loss, $50,000; insurance covering half that amount. —John. E. Beale, a Washington banker, was last week married to a daughter of Hon. Frank Landers, of Indianapolis. —Mary B. Brown, an eye-witness of the launching of Fulton’s first steamboat on the Hudson River, ended her days at Saline City. —A freight train dashed into a hand-car filled with section men, near Lafayette, fatally wounding one man and seriously injuring another. i

—James Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana poet, who thinks and writes in the peculiar dialect of the State, was launched into life, as a sign painter. —Henry W. Taylor, of Terre Haute, has recovered SIO,OOO damages from Harrison J. Rice, who charged him with having procured an abortion. The report of the Treasurer of Clark County shows that there has been $20,175.44 collected, and that there is a delinquency of $10,953.75. —M. Fletcher’s branch clothing house at LaSalle, 111., was closed on attachments by Chicago creditors. Fletcher’s principal store is at Lebanon, Ind. —At Purdue University a stock-barn is to be built, in which choice breeds of cattle will be kept, upon the fine points of which the students will be instructed. Ananias Calahan, of Washington, has discovered gold on his farm. Mr. Calahan’s first name 1 is unfortunate to have his mine “pan-out” very big.— Exchange. —At Green Springs, a station on the Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railroad, two car inspectors named Burke and Weitz were ran down by a switch engine and killed.

—Some fifty fanners living in Washington Township, sent a communication to Eckert Burket that if he did not get out of the county in twenty-four hours they would hang him. —lsaac Latchem, a farmer near Wabash, secured a verdict of SI,OBO against Dr. F. M. Wall, of Urbana, for malpractice in the treatment of his wife. Latchem sued for SIO,OOO. —A shortage of about $3,000 was discovered in the accounts of John Wharton, Trustee of the township in which Wabash is situated. He is not charged with Issuing any illegal warrants. —An Indianapolis dispatch announces that a Chicago bank had authorized the bringing of a suit there to recover $10,024 on account of fraudulent township bonds. The name of the bank was omitted. —Miss Louise Mather, daughter of a wealthy Chester township fanner, Became suddenly ill after retiring Sunday night, and died in a few minutes, the remains immediately swelling to unnatural proportions. , . , ■

—Perry Snurr, an old penitentiary bird of unsound‘mind, in the insane ward of the county asylum at Fort Wayne, made an assault on Tom Clifford with a shovel he had managed to g?t hold of. He had to be put in irons. —Wabash is excited over the doings of highwaymen., Tuesday night ex-Post-master Sayre was robbed and thrown down a steep hill, add Wednesday evening an unsuccessful effort was made to rob President McCrea, of the Citizens’ Bank. An Eastern paper says: “Mr. Hendricks solved the monument question so far as he was concerned in a very plain and an entirely Jacksonian manner. He erected his own monument several years ago, 'and paid for it.”

—Senator Voorhees, o£ Indiana, will be one of the principal speakers at the dinner of the Holland Society of New York, to be given Jan. 8. He is descended in thie direct male line from Stephen Coerte Van Voorhees, who came from Holland in 1660. -A man supposed to be Andrew Coppelin, from Kansas City, on Ins way to Europe, jumped from a train on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad, near Richmond. When picked up he was unconscious. His skull is fractured and his condition is critical-

—Leroy Snyder, a South Bend boy, seven t ears old, while romping about the house, ran against his mother, who had a knife in her hand. The blade struck him on the right side of the face, cutting an artery and making a wound an inch and a half long and through to the bone. He will be disfigured for life. —Mr. Hendricks had an old-f-i»hioned, ugly honesty, and our townsman, Dr. Chaffee, tells a, good story of the time when he was in Congress and Hendricks was Land Commissioner, illustrating this fact. On his first visit to the Land Office on publie business, Dr. Chaffee got there just in time to see Mr. Hendricks turij out of his office a party who had approached him with a corrupt proposition. The Land Commissioner’s indignation overflowed the Presbyterian limits of speech.— Springfield Republican.