Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

--John Riekel. a railroad employe at Elkhart, was killed by the cars. —Louis Doschrt, a Richmond grocer, ma le an assignment. Liabilities, .$20,000; nominal assets about $20,000. —C. B. Johnson, a brakeman on the Chicago and Graiyl Trunk Hoad, way killed near Battle Creek, Mich. He has a wife in South Bend. —George Solomon, eighteen months old, traveled nlo&e from Cincinnati to Vincennes. He* was taken from the train by his grandmother. —Colonel Edward.AVallace, a brother of Gen. Lew Wallace, find a son of Governor Wallace, of Indiana, died at Brownsville, Tex., of pneumonia, aged 53 . years. He whs a veteran of the Mexican war, and s rved with distinction in the Federal army dining the rebellion. —Harry Posey and Charlotte Thompson were lovers forty-six years ago. Something then separated them, bat they have jnst j been reunited and married at Brtreeville, she coming from Michigan and he from Texas for the purpose. He is now sixtyseven years of ijge and she Is sixty-three. —I. N. Pnttison, the retiring City Treasurer of Indianapolis, is nnable at present to make a satisfactory showing of the con- | dition of the funds in his charge. He de- | dares, however, that the city shall not lose | a dollar. The apparent shortage, for which unfortunate investments are said to be responsible, is abont $78,000. It is said that Pattison lost $43,000 by the failure of the Harrison Bank. —lt is hinted that if the elite of Indistti apolis had known in time that New York : exclusives intended to seclude themselves t : at their country-seats and at Long Branch ■ on New Year’s Day, they would have folj lowed suit by withdrawing to Bloomingdale | Glen and Maxinkuekee. The trouble is, , says the .Journal, we never do get the sash- ! ions out here until they are old in New I York. ' ! —Gen. George H. Sheridan, formerly of ' Louisiana, is preparing an address on Gen. Grant, to be delivered before the Grand Army posts of the country, under the auspices of tfae Grant Monument Committee, for the benefit of their fund. It will first be delivered early in January. By a similar plan Gen. Sheridan raised a largo sum for the monument erected to the mem- ; ory of the late ex-Gov. Morton, of Indiana. —Elisha Hyatt, the wealthiest eitizen of. Daviess Connty, died of Bright's disease at Vincennes, aged 72 years. Mr. Hyatt was worth $500,000, and was pne of the most active business men in the State. He leaves a wife and several children. In November, 1884, his bank at Washington failed, leaving Mr. Hyatt, the President, in the lurch; and he, too, was compelled to make an assignment. Mr. Hyatt offered to pay 70 cents on the dollar, but the principal creditors refused and the estate is now in the courts. —Henry Morrison, head clerk in Wile’s dry goods house, at Rochester, has absconded, leaving a host of creditors. Several months ago the young man bega© playing poker, and, after exhausting his own resources, began borrowing various sums from his acquaintances, and by that means secured several hundred dollars. He was also in arrears with the Masonic Lodge, of which he was Secretary, and his accounts as Treasurer of the Knights of Pythias Lodge likewise show a deficit. A few days ago it was discovered that Morrison had forged several notes. «nrT it hi" disappearance was caused by the threats of prosecution. He occupied a high position in society, and hi* downfall has created a sensation. —One day last week the body of a man was found in the woods four miles east of Columbus. The head was horribly beaten, one eye and part of the nose gone, and there were five or six bullet-holes through different parts of the body. The man Kul evidently been dead several days. His overcoat,a revolver with one empty chamber, and a murderous-looking club, all bloody, lay near th:* corpse. The remains were those of Georgo A. Cooper, a man of 20, who lived with his father a few mile 3 from where the body was fonnd. At an inquest sufficient evidence was elicited to justify the arrest of Evan Fix, son of a widow for whom Cooper had been working. Two other persons are suspected of complicity in the crime, but have not yet been arrested. —A telegram from Indianapolis says; “A dramatic incident occurred at Ripley’s ■ Morgne to-night. A neatly attired woman entered and asked to be shown tho dead robber. Mr. Ripley accompanied her to the room where the corpse was still lying on a cooling beard and turned the black covering from the man’s face. The woman gazed upon it for a moment, then burst into tears, and in a moment bent over the form and imprinted a kiss upon the lips of the dead. Taking a pair of scissors from her pocket she clipped a lock from the robber’s hait and turned to leave the morgne. The Coroner was present, and tried to detain her, bat she refused to answer any questions, and hurriedly left the place. A man was immediately' detailed to follow her, bat it is impossible to gain anything concerning the result of his espionage. All indications point to the fact that the man u Charles Fowler, alias Charles Thompson, that his family is one Of respectability and wealth, and reside in a Cincinnati sal arb-” —lt is said that Pennsylvania woods are, overran with bears, twelve having been killed within the past week. With bear in Pennsylvania it is no wonder foreigners imagine buffalo at Buffalo aid Indians in Indiana. . '* li •' —James F. Elder, a pioneer journalist of Indiana, uho was Postmaster at Richmond under Presidents Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, and Cleveland, dropped dead in kis from apoplexy. '