Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1874 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen County. ' •' Joseph Glade, an old resident of Areola, was recently, attacked by drunken Philip Holland. Glade was severely injured, his le;: * being broken. Joseph Trove! a farmer living near Fort Wayne, the other day fell to the floor of his house, and instantly expired. Organic disease of the heart was what killed him. A sickening monstrosity was left in- the barnyard of a farmer near Huntertown the other night. It was wrapped in a coarse coffee-sack, and was about the height of a year-old child. Its head was of a pale lead color, the body appearing cut and bruised. The nose was inverted, and under the neck. In.-tead of two arms, a crooked limb, similar to an arm, projected from the back. This could be moved backward and forward, but not sideways. Where the feet and legs should be was a long, round, tube-like member, apparently hollow. The body was ribbed and grooved at regular intervalsCast* County. In an altercation at Logausport, the other morning, between Charles Kerns and David Schumach, Kerns stabbed Schumach, inflict, ng a fatal wound. Clarke County. Two negroes, named Chapman and Gravcropt, got into a dispute at a Jeffersonville ork-house the other day, which resulted in he shooting of Dan Carter, a negro who was andingby.and who was not concerned in lie fracas. Clinton County. The corn crop in the county is immense. It is estimated that there will be $300,000 worth of corn, $200,000 worth of wheat, and $350,000 worth of hogs sold in the county during the present year. Elkhart County. Five gamblers were recently arrested in Goshen and locked lip. They came from Elkhart. A few evenings ago a man paired” Aaron Cromiing, in the employ of Thomas & Stafford, millers at GUshen, started with a lighted candle from the first to the third story of the building, for the purpose of oiling the machinery. He had been gone but a few minutes when Mr. Stafford, who was in the office on the first floor, felt an unusual jarring of the machinery. lie hastened to the second floor, but, discovering nothing wrong, repaired at once to the third story, when an awful sigiit niet liis. vic'v. On a cog-wheel two feet in diameter was the lifeless remains of Cromiing. Wrapped around a shaft which connected a small cog-wheel was every strip of clothing worn by the unfortunate man before he was caught in the jaws of death. Mr. Stafford stopped the machinery by shutting off the water, and sounded the alarm. It required the united efforts of several men to extricate the body, which was horribly mutilated. The right leg was completely torn off, a portion of the body and his skull truffled. He must have been killed instantly, as the wheels make sixty revolutions a minute.

Fayette County. Eli Shephenrd & Son, extensive millers and grocers at Connersville, failed recently. Franklin County. Mrs. Win. Bresbe, of Brookville, recently gave birth to a child weighing only two pounds, and having two perfectly formed teeth. At last accounts the babe was doing well and promised to live. Johnson County. The court-louse at Franklin was totally destroyed by lire the other night. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Kosciusko Comity« Jerome B. Carpenter, the bigamist who had been confined in the County Jail at Warsaw, was recently tried, found guilty, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. La Orange County. The La Grange Standard says there is a school district in the- county which refused last year and again refuses this year to have more than three months’ school, though the Trustees offered it eight nr ontlis each year. Shortly after leaving Lima, the other evening, the passengers on the train noticed an emigrant fall from his seat, as was supposed, in a fit. Upon going to his assistance it was found that he had stabbed himself six or eight times in the region of the heart with a common pocket-knife. Nothing is known of his name’ or nationality or what caused the deed. The car was full of passengers at the time, but so quietly was the act accomplished that nothing wrong- was—suspected until befell from his seat covered with blood. Madison County. Passenger train No. 10, bound north on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati <fe St. Louis Railroad, recently struck a hand-car a short distance north of Anderson. Engineer C. D. Luce, who was on the frontof the engine fixing the head-light at the time, was .badly hurt about the feet and legs, and received a gash on the head. The hand-car was taken from Ander. son by unknown parties, who deserted it when they heard the train approaching. Marion County. 8. Joseph, an Italian, recently had SBO stolen from him by one of his countrymen residing In Indianapolis. George Baker, who lost a leg while on duty ♦or the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad, some time since, has sued the road for SIO,OOO.

A few days ago Abraham Clark, an employe of the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Railroad, while engaged in switching a train caught his foot in a frog of the track and fell under the train, which cut off both legs above the knees, producing death within two hours. He was a single man about twenty-one years of age. The total value of property in Indianapolis is valued for purposes of taxation at $7-1,029,-690—an ingrease of $5,500,000 over last year. Martin Burke, a section-hand on the Vandalia Railroad, was knocked under'the wheels of a freight train, at Indianapolis, ( the other morning. Both legs were, cut off close to the hips. In the Indianapolis Criminal Court the other morning Judge Jordan ruled that no penalty can be attached, under the Baxter law, for sales Of liquor after midnight, in violation of the nine o'clock section, The grave of Ji.hu Spear, an o!d resident of the county, was recently discovered to have been opened and the remains removed. Posey County. • The ot: er night, hs a young man named Reynolds was returning frofn chugch with a young lady, near the 'lllinois line, be w as waylaid by a rival named Morton, who shot him three times, from the effect of which he .died tic next day. Morton tied. IV- •. Bush County. , . . . '~ " ■ As a party of young men, consisting of two brothers named Stephens and one named ... . - T . ... , .

; leaving a spelling-match at Fay- ! ettevjile,* recently, three miles south of Vienna, theip horses, from some cause unknown, became throwing their riders, breaking the arm of one of the parly and severely bruising the others. The most curious part of the affair is that two of the horses ridden by the party were found dead a few minutes after the accident. Tippecanoe County. Mr. H B. Cochrane, who lives near Lafayette, has lately lost a half a dozen head of valuable cattle in a rather mysterious manner. The animals were apparently as well as ever until within a few moments of their death. In some eases they dropped down dead without any premonitory symptom. The only explanation which has been suggested ia that there may have been leeches in the mud at the bottom of the pond at which the animals drink, and the water being low they mav have been drawn into the mouth and swallowed by the animals. The tin store of Beunewitz & Co., of Lafayette, was . recently entered by burglars and goods worth $250 carried off. Jacob Huber, of Lafayette, lias died from the effect of the injuries received by falling over the railing at the side of the Heath Bunk building sfome days since. Vigo County. —v— — The Terre Haute Bank, which made an assignment some ;weeks ago, has been thrown into bankruptcy. The liabilities are $40,000, including $20,000 to depositors. Wayne County. A son of James Miller, while coming to Richmond the other morning, had a loaded gun in the bottom of his wagon. The moving of his foot accidentally raised the hammer, and the content., of the gun inflicted a serious wound in his arm, the ball glancing and entering the right eye, making a wound which will probably prove fatal.