Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—At LaPorte, -Frank McCollum vrm fatally kicked by almTke. —The Halem Press has change hand*. L. O. Saltmarsh i* now editor and proprietor. , —At New Albany, noth withstanding the cold, colored converts are being baptized in the river. —Fire at Goshen destroyed Hawks Bro*/ furniture warehouse. Loss. $20,000; insured for $3,0 M). —The Lafayette Paper Mills Company has made an assignment. The liabilities are said to be $30,000. —A nigbt AVfitelimnp at the fjonthem Prison shoe-shopslias been relieved'fiom duty because be said ho saw ghosts, —There are sixteen Indiana* men on the pny-roll of the House of Representatives—four more- Ilian any other Slate delegation has. ■ % —There is a gas vein on the Charlestown pike, three miles from Jeffersonville, and prospecting is going on to find an eligible place to tap. —Senator Voorliec* has consented to deliver his lecture on “Jefferson’’ in feu cities in Indiana, shortly after the holidays, in aid of the Hendricks Monument fund. —lt is said that the woman who threw a stone through the depot window, has been sent to the work-house for ton days. Is hanging played out? — J nil iunapol is Journal. —An appeal has been taken from the decision of a Lafayette jndge, avlio ruled that an application for a liquor license published in a German paper was a valid notice. Henry Moore and Joseph Beddlc, in crossing railway traeks jn a buggy neai Lafayette, were struck l>y a train. Moore was instantly killed, and bis companion fatally injured. —A broken rail ditched the engine, bag-•gage-enr, and smoker of a Monon passenger tmin near Putnamville. Three employes were seriously hurt, but the passengers escaped. —The Wabash City Council refused to compromise the, claim of the Wabash Hydraulic Company for water rents from 1875 to the present time, and the company will file suit against the city for $4,000. —A young man named Ewry. baggage master cn a Louisville, New Albany and Chicago train, while assisting in coupling cars at Elliotsville, \vns.so badly squeezed as to make his recovery extremely doubtful. —George Kunstman, a member of the firm of Knobtock, Ginz Sc Co., millers, of South Bend, committed suicide by shooting. lie liad been failing’ in health about a year.

—The Fostofßee at Daggert, Owen County, has been discontinued, and the mail goes to Coal City. The Postoffiee at West Saratoga Springs, Pike County, has beeu discontinued. The mail goes to Oatsvilie. —Within the last year some eight or ten horses have been stoleu from Union Comity, and the County Commissioners have offered a reward of SBOO for the apprehension and conviction of the first horse-thief. - The saloon of Paschong & Co., in the business center of Andrews, east of Wabash, was saturated with coal oil and set on fire. The blaze was discovered barely in time to prevent a huge conflagration. i— - - Edward Bean, a Chicago lawyer, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Clarke County for trespassing on the farm of James Cole, a farmer Irving near Charlestown. He was arrested, and gave bond in the sum of SI,OOO. - In a quarrel in a school yard "at Westfield, John Garvcr, son of Judge Carver, slrnek Harry Steed on the head with a stone, killing him instantly. The murderer is sixteen years old, and Iris victim was about the same age. - By nn explosion of gas in a Terre Haute city building the offices of the City Clerk and City Treasurer were completely demolished, and the Deputy Treasurer seriously injured and burned. The City Clerk was slightly injured. —Near New Era Station, Levi Kessler shot L. II Harrier, placed him on the track, and rifled his pockets. Kessler was arrested and confessed. He obtained from his victim a watch and sfi. The father of the murderer asked the officers to hang him.

- - Mrs. Hendricks’ heart wound was twice made to bleed afresh lately by a telegram announcing the sudden death of a near relative of her deceased husband and another bringing tbe news of the death of a warm personal friend, and whose name is known to every section of tbe State. The first was the death of Paul Hendricks, a cousin of the deceased Vice President, and who dropped dead while conversing with friends at Madison, this State. He died of paralysis of the heart, the same disease which proved fatal to bis distinguished kinsman. The second was the death at Dublin, Ind., of Mrs. Sarah Smith, with whom originated tbe idea of a female reformatory• in this State, and to whose energy and snperintendcncy the institution is a standing monnmenk. This is the institution of which Mrs. Hendricks was long President of tbe Board of Managers, and Mrs. Smith was one of the strongest pil--1:118. r —Mrs. Anna Price, widow of John Price, a revolutionary soldier, celebrated her 'J7tb birthday at Kilmore, Clinton County. There are now living of the descendants of this venerable mother and her husband ho less than PM persons, as follows: Sons, 5; daughters, 2; grandchildren, 42; greatgrandchildren, 12M; great-great-grandchil-dren, 19; total number of descendants, 194. The old lady’s eye-sight is still good, and she is a great reader, chiefly of CTiriatia* hooks ;ind new spapers.