Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1874 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

A<Umy OoMtlf. . S__ r u A carrfnjrc containing Mis* Msclcod, Ml** Rice, Mr. Lucas and Mr. Westlake, all of Stock well, was recently upset by a stump in the road near and the occupants were thrown violently to the ground. SUss Maclcod had her leg broken and Mfcs Klee her knee and ankle. The gentlemen were also seriously bruised. , - Allen County. t The tt£ of Fort Wayne for 1874 reaches very nearly the sum of #300,000. J.Tillbcrry, a canal-boat hand, was instantly killed at New Itaven a few days ago. As the boat was passing a bridge he stuck his head out and was caught between the bridge and the boat, smashing his head to a jelly. The artesian well at Fort Wayne is 2,430 feet deep. • i ■ ■ . Julias Vovlal, a farmer living near Fort Wayne, while engaged in walling a well recently, received a severe blow on the temple from a stone falling from above. He died in a few hours. Bar thole ■new County. Joseph Whittier, Recorder of the county, recently died at his home in Columbus. David Young, of Logansport, aged eleven, while testing an unused gun, the other day, to see if it were loaded, received the charge in his head, killing him Instantly. Mrs. Baker, of Logansport, attempted suicide the other evening. A Logansport grocer bought 180 pounds of woman sitting upon a load of corn the other day, and did not discover his error until the money had been paid and the wagon driven off. He consoles himself with the reflection that women at the* price of corn are cheap enough. Mr. Asbury Barnett, of Logansport, claims to have lost $12,000 in currency, the proceeds of the sale of live, stock, in a peculiar manner. He stopped at the house of William Morgan, on Taber’s Prairie, and alleges that at night he placed bis money in the straw bed-tick: Going out in the morning he discovered that he had forgotten his treasure, and immediately returned to find the bed on tire. ( lark Counly. A tumor weighing eighty-five pounds was recently removed from the wife of M. G. Andcss, of Jeffersonville, but she died two days after. day County. The Western Iron Company, at Knightsville, gjve-sdnployment to only one person at the present—the night watchman. Dearborn County. Mt Date, who murdered the Bradley family at LaWrenccburg, last summer, has been sentenced to the State Prison for life. He confessed the murder, but said he was so drunk that be could not restrain himself. Thomas Bennett, a young farmer living near Lawreneeburg, was killed the other morning by a wagon-load of wood which he teas hauling falling upon him. Delaware County. A Mrs. Coffman, residingat Muncie. recentsuicide while in a lit us temporary Insanity, 4 -—--- The dead body of Dan Lee was found near a lumber y .rd in Muncie, the other morning, under circumstances indicating that a murder had Been committed. The carriage shop of C. Goss, at Muncie, was burned a few mornings ago, and with it nearly a square of wooden buildings. Loss heavy. Ayoung lady recently committed suicide at Daleville. C ause unknown. Elkhart County. John \Y. Stutzmann, of Goshen, while at work the other day sawing wood with a horse* power. 1 d his arm badly mutilated and several lhrgas taken off. Floyd County. A very serious accident recently occurred in Mitch .IV slaughter-house. New AlbanyIt appears that Augustus Weber had gone up in the hook-room to watch the process of hogkilling and si:- at tlic north side of the qpen building •v, :;.a..ig out over the hog-chute about thirty JV. ■ below by his arms. While thus engag'd one of the employes whose duty it.is to - ; the hung hogs in place struck t\c:*er witn a hog being rolled into place aml Weber let go hia bold and fell a distance of thirty feet, striking the hog-chute. He was picked up in an Unconscious condition snlk-npon an -exttmmationAiy a Mirgeorr it was found that one leg was broken at the thigh, an arm was broker, jaw fractured, collar-bo::;* broken, in addition to numerous cuts and bruises of a very serious character. Hancock County. —a A betqngtng to Benj. Wilkinson. of€h.r;> itsrfflt, was recently burned. Loss about .#IVkX). Henry County. Benj a min Harvdy, an old pioneer in the State, died at New Castle on the 20th, at the advanced age of ninety-one. Mr. Harvey was one of the nrst white settlers in the countv, and was a highly respected and esteemed gentleman. j. Warren Hatch, one of* the oldest Mason- in the United 'States, died at Newcastle on the 2Sd, aged eighty-four years. ITe.bad'belong u to the Mas mic fraternity for sixty-three vears. Huntington County. i A lew davs since, while :t-pas-enger train on the Toll d . Wabash A Western .llkiiro.nl w'as passing Bo.li O t k. near Huntington. >; v. as fired into by some unknown miscreants, but fortunate 1 v ttie bullet missed she passengers and lodged inside the coach. Johnson County. The furniture factory of Fred. Huber A S n. of Franklin, w as burned the other mo 4 *?!:: g. Loss $12,0)0. Knox County. A receut sensible present to a newly-nu;--ried Vincennes couple was 100 bushels of «oal. A bloody tragedy recently occurred at Vi: - eennes. Two men, named Phillips ard Greene, who held a personal grudge again-t each other,met as they were -coming .into town, and began a quarrel wbich resulted a blows. Phillips commenced striking Greet ? on the bead with a pair of brass knuckle *, when the latter drew Lis knife and pursti I Phillips, striking at him and finally hitti g him in the temple, where a portion of t a blade remained, Laving penetrated the bra’ iV Phillips died the next morning. Koscinaeo County. A man named Da vis recently abscond 1 from his employer, a farmer named 4 Dewo t, living near Pierceton, and took with him $2.0 and Dewort’s coat Lake County. Edward RopcT, of Hobart, has been fined SSO and costs, amounting to #250, for entertaining that notorious gang of Chicago and Louisville cock-fighters last spring. A requisition is to be made on the Governor of lUi-‘ n oU for Jerry Munroe and others engaged in the enterprise.

taforl* County. Julius Eliel, of the firm of Ellcl A Sons, of Lsporte, was recently severely stabbed by Dr. Puffenbcrgcr, o i Walkerton. Lawrrnrr County. The postofllcc at Bedford was rectatly entered by burglar* and the iron s*fe broken open. The scamps got a water haul, a* the money bad all been deposited the night before. V Marlon County. John McCarthy, who wa- charged with burning the Memphis A Louilsville Railroad shops about a year ago. had his trial in Indianapolis the other day, when the jury failed to agree and he was sent back to jail for another trial. • At a late hour on the night of the 1!)fh I). Wagner, an engineer, living in Imliunapolisf attempted to commit suicide by taking half an ounce of arsenic with an oyster stew. * An Indianapolis jury ha* recently given Dr.*r; M. Ga*lbira vcraK'rarfS,rg)o for injuries received in stumbling over some street obstructions last April. A few days since Col. J. Walker, of Indianapolis, requested a druggist to put him up a dose of mix vomica, but by mistake the druggist sold him pure strychnine. The follow ing morning the Colonel took the dose before breakfast, and was immediately seized with convulsions. Fortunately physicians were within calling distance, w ho promptly applied remedies which saved his life. Monro# ConjutT. ■■' John R.- East, late County Clerk, declined to be a candidate for re-election at the recent election on the singular grounfi that the office was too lucrative to be held by one man for more than one term. It is worth $4,000. Morgan County. 4 Henderson, Parks A Co., of Martinsville, recently killed a hog which weighed 1,180 pounds. If there are any bigger hogs in the State these men will give a silk hat to get a sight at them. Noble County. Frank Lindsav, of Albino, was lately buried by the caving in of the gravel while he was at the bottom of a well, and died before lie could be rescued-. _g_ _1” , The shops of the Baltimore, Pittsburgh & Chicago Railroad have been located four miles north of A villa, instead of at Albion, as everybody expected. Parke Counly. A few nights ago at a school-house jicar Rockville a row occurred, sfrbwing out of the act that some one had cut up J. C. Henning’s hat. Some sharp words occurred. Finally Charles Clark cried out: “I am stabbed by Jack Heuuing.” It, appears that he had been stabbed with a knife near the pit of the stomach. Perry County. A Mr. Smith, of New York, lias lately bought the Shoemaker fruit-farm near Rome. Hunli County. Mitchell Gonard, of Rushville, died on the 22d from injuries received while coon-hunt-ing. He was holding: the dogs while bis companions were cutting the tree that fell upon him. St. Jose pi* Counly. - ; The residence of A. B. Miller, editor of the South Bend Tribune, just being completed, caught fire the other night and was damaged to the extent of SSOO. On the afternoon of the 2lst, at South Bend, while some laborers were engaged in digging a trench for the purpose of laying sewer-pipes alongside a two-story sixteeninch wall, forty-five feet long, of Studebaker Brothers’ new wagon works. It fell with a terrible crash, killing two men and seriously wounding four others, one, it is feared, fatally. The ditchers had been warned not to dig deeper than the foundation, as the building was not completed and the mortar still green. They disobeyed orders, undermined the wall, and the catastrophe followed. The two victims were Daniel Donovan and Godfrey Goerst. Less than an hour after the fall of the wall, while a crowd of laborers were engaged in clearing away the debris, a portion of the overhanging roof and flooring gave way, breaking the leg of Paul Cyzilski. Tippecanoe County. The stables of George B. Wiggins, who lives a few miles north of Chauncey, were entered the other night and robbed of a lot of harness. A neighbor of Mr. Wiggins also lost a saddle and bridle, ail'd another neighbor a wagon. The thieves had stolen a horse in mother portion of the county. The Trustees of the Wabash A Erie Canal recently brought suit against Cromie A Co., of Lafayette, to recover a large amount of money claimed as the value of thence cut on the .canal for a number of years past. It was deeidrd in Judge Vinton’s court ou the 21st in avor of the defendant. On the 2" 1, at Lafayette, a young man named Levant Corwin, a brakemau on the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago RaTroad, fell' Horn the pi itform of a caboose ear down '.between it and the passenger next behind, the latter e.tr pasting over liis body, in muling it. pis feitrful maimer aud killing him instantly. It is support d he was ('town from the train by the wand. , Bt'lilaiHier, the absconding Lafayette jewi h r who, last war. folded his tent and silently stok- away like the conventional Arab, has been heard from at Toronto, the Corn- < .•• says. Several fatal eases of some kind of horse disease have recently occurred in the vicinity of Lafayette, and the people are qiixlouVly inquiring if it be the .“ epizooty.” , D. L. Hart fell through the open hatchway . in )T"'>’diu’s •m-.rjt lit Lafayette the other- day ; and sustained fatal injuries. A wealthy citizen of Lafayette has offered i to give SIOO,OOO in aid of the construction of ; a canal turning the water- of Tippecanoe ; River into the Wabash, to flow into the latter ! stream through one of the deep ravines or i gorge- west of the city. „ Vandorburgli County. I Levi I gif hart, of Evansville, was recently - robbed of a gold watch and $l5O in a sleep- : ing-yar. , " J Capt. J. V. TUroop. of the steamer .Silver*i thom, the oldest steamboat-man who ran i from tb.e port Y>f Evansville, died she other day of neuralgia of the heart. ' i A negro eighty-three years old was recently struck over the head with a heavy cane by a lunatic named George Lee, at the county poorhouse, and died from the effects of the blow. Vigo County. A Terre Hautentot was waylaid the other night by two men and relieved of all his money and valuables —fifteen cents and a pocket-knife. -f) The clothing of Johanna Sullivan,of Terre Haute, aged seven years, caught fire from a stove the other morning. Two other small children were in the room at the time of the aecidfent, but were unable to save thu child. ’ Bhe ran down stairs with her clothes blazing and was met by Fire-Chief Mahony, who was attracted by her gwreams. He extinguished

the flames by wrapping bis coat about her. The child suffered great agony until death. Wabash Pout) . The Qdd Fellows are building a slo,ooohall at Wabash.