Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The remains of an Indian chieftain, supposed to have been slain in battle during the early part of the century, have beeh discovered on the Miami Indian reservation, twelve miles south of Wabash, Mr. Daniel Swayzee, a farmer living in the vicinity, while walking along the Mississinewa Biver, observed a human skull protruding from the bank, scoured by the current of Ihe stream. Summoning William Pecongea, a Miami residing near, together they ex- , burned the skeleton, which was wrapped in a coarse woolen cloth and laid in a trough about eight feet long, made of buckeye wood. Interred with the corpse were a silver vessel, resembling a teapot, four silver spoons, two bracelets, a pot of war paint, two pairs of leg bands hung with belle, a rusty tomahawk and scalping knife, and other articles of a trifling character. The men removed the skeleton, and Swayzee declared his intention of retaining the trinkets as relics, but Pecongea objected so strenuously that Swayzee yielded, and the bones and ornaments were returned to the grave. The supposition on the Indian land is that the skeleton was that of a chief killed in conflict with a hostile tribe about the year 1815, when the Miamis were at war with other bands of savages. The bones were remarkably well preserved, and the rude coffin, the woolen cloth, and other articles were almost as sound as on the day of sepulture. The discovery is a fruitful subject of speculation among the residents of the Indian land, and the poor whites who have married and intermarried with the Miamis, now that the location of the grave has leaked out, will not rest content till the buckeye casket is resurrected and rifled of the silver. —A colored woman living near Terre ' Haute said that she had murdered her baby and buried it. She took the officers to the spot, where it was found less than a foot under ground. Its skull was crushed in. She returned to the city with the officers, her feet resting on the box containing the remains, and she laughing and talking unconcernedly about trivial matters. She was never married, and has had four children, two of which, besides this last one, are supposed to have been killed. She gives, as her reason for committing the deed, the fact that her mother and grandmother upbraided her for .having so many children.

—The safe at the depot in Sullivan, belonging to the E. <t T. H. Railroad Company, was blown open recently. The burglars, however, failed to get into the inner vault, and only helped themselves to a small sack of silver and probably a few tickets. There was from S7OO to SI,OOO belonging to the express company in the safe, which -they failed to reach. They pried open the baggage-room door with an iron bar, and from thence got into the ticket office. They were probably frightened off ere they completed the job. —Mr. Wood worth, husband of the noted evangelist, has purchased twelve acres of ground at Lake Manitou, with the intention of improving the same. It is the intention of Mrs. Woodworth to hold a camp-meet-ing there every year, and buildings will be erected for this purpose. The meeting will be held this year for one month, commencing August 27. It is thought that this will give Lake Manitou a great boom, and speculators are already buying up the lots. The place has enjoyed much celebrity as a summer resort. - —At the Wabash County Poor Farm lies a young woman, 25 years of age, whose back was broken twenty years ago by her father, who, while drunk, threw her across a flour-barrel. Her recovery was considered impossible, as the instances of survival of a fracture of the spine in medical annals are very few. She is partially paralyzed, is but four feet tall, and hideously deformed. The case excites much interest among surgeons of the vicinity, who marvel that death did not speedily follow the infliction of the injury. —The safe of a grocer at Elkhart was blown open recently. Holes had been drilled in the top and giant powder used, exploding with such force as to hurl the door fiom its hinges, knock the safe through a partition, scatter the money ail over the room, and make such a noise as to wake the neighborhood and bring them at once to the scene. The burglars, alarmed at their own work, fled without stopping to gather the money. The.damage to the goods and building was quite heavy. —Near Goshen a 2-year-old child of a family of the name of Clawson was playing around her home, and strayed near the pigpen. She climbed a light fence surrounding the pen, and was either pulled in by the hogs or fell in, and was almost devoured before she was discovered. One side of her head was eaten off, the arms were torn in shreds, and the intestines were protruding. She was dead when discovered. tt—

—The Eighth and Eighteenth regiments Indiana Volunteers, and the First Indiana Batten*, composing a brigade in the Union army, will hold their eleventh annual reunion in Wabash on October 19. There are 600 surviving members of the brigade in the organization, of which Capt. Joseph Thompson is President and C. C. Mikesell Secretary. ■i—A man residing near Brownstown, was struck by the engine of a west-bound express train bn the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, near Medora, while it was run-* ntog at full speed, and knocked a considerable distance from the track. His injuries consist of a broken leg and arm, a badly thumped head, and severely lacerated body. A young man belonging to one of the best families in Richmond, was found hanging to a rafter in a bam about ten miles east of that city recently. The act is attributed to melancholy over the possible return of epilepsy, to which he was subject when about 8 years old, he having of late complained of distress in his head. —A pioneer who resided two miles southeast of Cartersburg, died recently, aged about 70. He was Very wealthy, and was the largest land-holder and tax-payer in Hendricks County, he having in his possession about 1,900 acres of land.