Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1874 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen County. About niidnhfht on the 3fith John Martin, Jr., of the firm of Martin Sons, druggists, fjort Wayne, found two burglars in his store, grappled with them, and succeeded in handing them.aver to the authorities. George J. Anveriue, of Fort Wayne, slipped and fell on Thanksgiving night, his head coming in contact with, the stone curbing. He was picked up insensible, never rallied, and died next morning. A son of Ira Williams, of Fort Wayne, was fatally injured the other morning by being caught between'he sides of a heavy sleigh and a loaded truck. Cass County. H. C. Thornton, a Logansport attorney, recently went into the country to plead a cause, and while there his horse’s tail was sheared and his buggy-top cut to pieces. Clark County. Ben Ferguson, collector on one of the ferryboats running between Jeffersonville and Louisville, was shot the other night by A. H. Singleton, who accused him of insulting liis wife. Ferguson lost the top of his right ear. Elkhart County. A disgraceful riot occurred at Locke Station the other night between the section men of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from Bremer and the section inch at Locke. During tlie tight one man was stabbed twenty' times and several others were quite seriously injured. While a party of boys were skating at Goshen, a few days ago, the ice suddenly gave wa v, and several of the youngsters came near being drowned.

Two men were out hunting near Benton, the other day, when one of them, named Bowman, was shot through the hips by the accidental discharge of a gun in tlie hands of his companion, who was walking in advance with his gun cocked on his shoulder, and stumbled over a shrub, which caused tile gun to go off w'itn the above result. A drunken German recently attempted to commit siiicide by throwing himself in front of a passenger engine at. Goshen. He got off with the loss of his right arm. Floyd County. The Clerk of the county is tormented by impecunious youngsters who apply for marriage licenses without the money to pay for them. He seriously doubts whether it is good policy to take a wife under such circumstances, and wonders how they will manage to pay the officiating clergyman. Fulton County. The postoffice at Fulton was recently entered by burglars and robbed of a little money and about S3O worth of stamps. Jefferson County. Mollie Lockwood, an idiot girl, was recently burned to death at the County Asylum at Madison. She had to be tied fast with a rope, and a blast of wind blew her dress intothe grate. f ' . Import* County. Over 15,000 bushels of potatoes have been shipped from \Vanatah this season. A man named Denahoe recently applied to a Laporte insurance firm for work. It was given him in the country, lie hired a team of Myers & Itticli, and left for parts unknown. Marion County. The work on the Belt Railroad, which is intended to encircle Indianapolis, has been stopped for want of funds. - The-safe of H. W. Hildebrand & Co., Indianapolis, lumber dealers, was blown open by burglars on the night of the 38tli, and $6,000 in currency and $4,000 in United States bonds taken. » Robert J. Johnson, formerly ctnployed by the American Express Company at Indianapolis, was found dead in a stable the other morning. It is supposed he went to sleep w'liile intoxicated. The counsel for Carter has entered a motion for a rehearing in the case involving the rights of colored children to participate in the benefits of the public school fund recently decided in the Supreme Court. ' M. H. Conklin, a Supervisor of Streets in Indianapolis, lias been suspended from office, pending an investigation of charges of carrying two men on his' pay-roll, and of using the labor and interest of the city in the construction of private buildings. Ohio County. Two men recently froze to death near Ris] ing Sun. They were intoxicated. Posey County. There has been great excitement in the New Harmony hog market, to the manifest delight of the farmers. Prices, under the influence of outside competition, one day recently, advanced from six dollars-to nine dollars a hundred. Putnam Connty. i ,' On the 39th Thos. Martin, of Cloverdale, became offended at something said by his wife, and gave her three minutes to retract. At the end of that time he stood in the door of the house, and shot her with a pistol, the ball taking effect in her head, killing her instantly. A man named Stanton was in the house, and'inttirfered to save the woman, when Martin shot him, the ball taking effect in the shoulder. The wife of Martin had a babe in her arms when she was shot, and fell back dead clasping it. Randolph County. E. R. McConnell, of Winchester, lias been held to bail in the sum of $1,500 upon a very serious charge preferred by his own daughter. Vanderburgh County. Thomas Butler, an Evansville sewer contractor, recently went into a sewer lie was Constructing, and not venturing out that way on account of the deep mud was compelled to move on toward the other end, shouting in vain for assistance. When at length the workmen at the other end succeeded in reaching him he had been in the mud and water four hours and was insensible. Vigo Conn*y. John W. Fisher recently walked into the residence of his sister in Terre Haute, after an absence in California of some twenty-tWo years. He had long since been considered dead.