Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1879 — INDIANA STATE ITEMS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE ITEMS

The State fair netted about SIO,OOO to the management. Dog fish have been annoying fishermen all over the State. The Pan Handle folks are preparing to erect a new depot at Kokomo junction. Vincennes batiks show deposits to the amount of $653,601.46 in their vaults. A six pound white fish was caught recently, at Michigan City, and is considered a novelty. Tramps have nearly deserted Wabash since the en foremen t of the ball and chain ordinance. Amos Black, of Noble county recently sold two calves, four months old, that dressed 475 pounds each. Vandals have been raiding graveyards at and near Madison, demolishing tombstones, monuments, etc. A club of twelve persons living in Lawreuceburg, drew $30,000 in the Kentucky distribution company last week. Wm, Rayl, of Kokomo, is holding a slippery, come-easy-go-easy SSOO, recently drawn upon a lottery investment. A Valparaiso citizen was recently awarded a $2,000 verdict against the city for injuries caused by a defective sidewalk. Patrick O’Connell, of Oswego, Kosciuskocounty is 108 years old and as spry as most men of 50. He is a native of Ireland. ' »•, One of Shelby villes recent sensation was the arrest of Harry Raymond fore having an abortion committed on his affianced bride.

Henry Nolle, a New Albany pnuper, was, formerly the cashier of one of the leading banks of the city. Whisky pulled him down. At Muncie, the other day, as a young lady was driving alone in her buggy, a thief got into the vehicle, snatched her fine watch from her person and made his escape. Recently a most gratifying and successful test of the newly-invented audiphone was made at the State Institute for deaf and dumb, at Indianapolis By its use the deaf were made to hear and the dumb to speak. The audiphone, is a fan-shaped instrument of peculiar composition, which gathers the sounds (somewhat similiar to a telephone diaphragm,) and, being held in the teeth, these sounds are conveyed by their medium to the auditory' nerve Mrs Phila Hull, of Anderson, woman of very violent temper, dropped dead, the other day, as a consequence of a paroxysm of anger. The new gas company at Wabash employed about thirty-five men in digging its trenches,nearly all of whom were brought from abroad, as idle men could not be found in that place.

A disciple from Salt Lake has been holding series of revival meetings with the Mormon church, in the north east part of Floyd county, and a number of couverts werte gathered in. "Silvekton,” owned by Dr. Pugh, of Rusliville, and sired by Mr. James Wilson’s famous Blue Bull, got away with first honors at Lexington, Ky., on last Wednesday. Time, 2:22}. James Watkins, an employe of DePauw’s American plate glass works at New Albany, was dreadfully cut in the arm by the breaking of a large f date of glass he was assisting in lifting. Elkhart a few days ago paid five buudred dollars to a young lady who was injured by one of its defective sidewalks. The city refused to pay until the supreme court decided it must Dogs are slaughtering sheep by wholesale in Huntington county. During a recent raid, ninty six were killed in one township,and 192 in the county, all in a few days. Not a dog has been killed.