Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A fine at Princeton, last Weak, destroyed valuable property. \ —The residence of James Oris sum, south of Shelbyville, was burr ed. —Disappointed-in love, Charles Dunbar, of Colfax, blew ont his brains. —Dr. F. M. Wall, of Urbana, convicted of malpractice, has appealed the case. —The Cigar-makers’ Union of Terre Haute has resolved to boycott Chinese laundries. —The Wabash Importing Company has purchased twelve Norman stallions in France. —Robert Templeton, a miner in the mines near Harmony, was instantly killed by falling slate,. —A detachment of the Salvation Army recently took possession of the village of Sweetzer. —John Fesfner. a farmer living near In- . wood, set tire to his dwelling and perished in the flames; —William Harrison, of Wayne Connty, committed suicide while laboring under a 'fit of insanity. —Mrs. John Joey, of Wabash, recently gave birth to a boy baby weighing only nineteen ounces. —At Hpencer, a large sized pin was extracted from the hip of thp infant daughter of Dr, W. E. Kwigert. —Dh. E. R. Myrtle, of Cedar Point, and his thirteeu-year-old step-daughter are said to have eloped together. . —Judge Berry has set aside the $2,000 judgment against Dr. J. P. Orr, of Rushville, for alleged malpractice. —ln the case of Kreig and HeitzJ charged with manslaughter, at Huntington, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. —The Prohibitionists have decided to call a State convention at Indiannpoiis May 26, and advise the miming of straight Prohibitionist tickets wherever there is any . likelihood of getting votes. —Probably the largest single pension ever paid at the local agency was to Ferdinand Black, of Etna Green, who received $10,763 for blindness.

—Louis Grant, Sr,, of Vincennes, master boiler-maker of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, while engaged at work fell over apparently dead and expired in thre.e hoars. —The people of Milrov last week helped celebrnte the one-hundredth birthday of Capt. John Boyd, who built the first frame bam in Bush county, more than fifty years ago.* —Valentine Kelley, of Clarksville, who has been hunting hidden wealth during the last two years, has unearthed an iron pot, at the bend on Silver Creek, containing $1,500. —Wealthy fanners in the northern peri of Wabash County have become the victims of so many shrewd forgers that they have perfected the organization of a protective association. —The wife of Henry T. Kirk, in the northern part of Hendricks County, while insane, went out into a shed, poured a can of coal-nil over her head and clothes, applied a match, and was so burned that she died in a few hours. —Albert Van Wagner was arrested for seriously damaging and attempting to derail trains of the Grand Bapids and Indiana Company. He confessed, and declared he had no accomplices and no reasons for his act. —Twenty years ago Cnrtis Travis re-‘ ceived a certificate of deposit for $159 on the Bank of the State of Indiana, at La Porte. A few days ago the widow of the deceased discovered the paper, which she presented to the bank, where it was cashed. —An old lady at Zionsville, named Keely, was burglarized of a quantity of money and jewlery, at the pistol's mnzzle, and was so scared she could not identify her assailants, but the next night dreamed a man named Ashley was robbing her, which led to Ashley's arrest and confession, and the arrest and breaking np of a dangerous gang of burglars. —New Holland has been agitated over the appearance of a grizzly bear. The beast is alleged to have been seen on the outskirts of the village by several farmers, but the reports gained no credence. The huge beast was then said to have turned np in the neighborhood of the postoffice and the inhabitants were frightened half ont of their wits. v —A box-car which had some loose grain scattered over the floor was invaded by goats at Columbus, when some of the boys closed the door. Arriving at Indianapolis the brakemen opened the car door, when the goats jumped out, scattering in every direction. The crew, supposing they had been shipped as freight, engaged in a chase for hours. They then went to hunt the agent to see the way-bill, when they discovered the joke. —E. H. Shirk, of Pern, has bronght suit against Keeport A Co. for trespass. In getting out bis kiln Keeport went across the canal-bed line. The farmers owning land along the canal claim that where the bed was abandoned for the purposes for which it was originally used by the Wabash A Erie Company, it reverted to them. The canal-bed, from Fort Wayne to Lafayette, was purchased by the company of which E. H. Shirk is chief. —The annual repqyt of the Site Insane Hospital gives: Number of patients at the close of the year, 1,448; admitted during the year, 774; discharged, 587; died, 128, including two suicides; expenses for maintenance, $173.43 per capita (this is the lowest figure ever touched in the management of the institution). » *» ■ .i. r . * . —W. E. D. Barnett, of Carhop, the new timber agent for Utah, while i n route to Balt Lake City,"was oapiimjd for two small debts, in Terre Haute. ■• . m . ■■ • . . . I TO&Rshs.*'- ,