Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1875 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen County. Anthony Mahon, of Fort Wayne, died the other night from the effects of a blew on the head received a few days before at the hands of a man named Deveney. The parties got intoxicated, fought, and Deveney struck Mahon with a boot-jack. Misses Zimmerman and Meyer, of Fort Wayne, were recently seriously Injured by being thrown from a wagon by a runaway team. An important test case was decided by the Circuit Court at Fort Wayne a few days ago: Jas. k. Edgerton is owner of a large amount of land in the county, on which he had paid one-half of the taxes, in accordance with the law of March 8, 1873. When the other half became due on the 15th. of November he was delinquent, and the lands were so adjudged and would have been offered for sale on the second Monday in February. Mr. Edgerton subsequently offered the Auditor and Treasurer the exact amount due for taxes, which was refused unless he would pay penalty and interest. This he refused and brought suit for an injunction against the County Auditor and Treasurer to prevent their advertising his lands as delinquent. Judge Lowery decided the case in favor of plaintiff, stating that he thought the opinion of the Attorney-General . was not a legal one. As he construed the law of March 8, 1873, it makes no provisions for collection of the second installment of the tax, either by sale or otherwise. Adolph Sputter, of Fort Wayne, was seriously injured lately by his horses becoming restive and throwing him violently on the ground. He was internally injured, and picked up in an unconscious state. Elkhart County. George K. Winters, of Goshen, had four fingers of his left hand sawed off the other day while at work with a circling machine. J. B. Eckhart, of Goshen, a cooper, while cutting staves recently, had his hand horribly mutilated by sliding it under the knife. Greene County. Elihu Hardin was shot and instantly killed a few days ago at Lyons by John Huey. Both were intoxicated, it is thought. Harrison County. The wife of Mr. Herman Evans, living near New Middletown, was recently shot dead in her own house during the absence of the other members of the family. The ball entered the hack of her head and came out at the side of her face, and death must have ensued instantly. The object of the deed was to secure a quantity of money Mrs. Evans had recently received. .Knox County. The Vincennes Sun of a recent date says that a few days ago Mr. Charles Bezot, living near Vincennes, when endeavoring to drive a calf from the yard, called to his wife to come to his assistance. The infuriated animal made a plunge at her, and striking her in the temple with his horn she fell, and died in a few minutes thereafter.

Marlon County* The Indianapolis Sun has just been mulcted in the sum of SBOO for libeling Albert- J. Horrell, of the police force. ....... ZZ_ Leroy Sherman, of Indianapolis, committed suicide by shooting a few nights ago. HugE McManee, a workman on the Indianapolis Postoffice building, recently committed suicide by taking arsenic. The Indianapolis papers note a singular suit in the courts of that city, wherein John Rothart has instituted proceedings supplementary to execution against Mrs. Elizabeth Jolly to get possession of-SSOO alimony recently decreed her by the court from her divorced husband. The petitioner alleges that the defendant contracted a debt prior to her marriage, to liquidate which he asks to have this amount applied. Marshall County. Gottlieb Hesseberger, a German living near Plymouth, after attempting suicide three times at last succeeded in hanging himself a few nights ago. Hard drinking is what ailed him. Morgan County. Henry W. Wintermute, of Monrovia, while out hunting, recently, shot himself in the lower jaw, carrying away one and a half inches of that member and several of his teeth. He bids fair to recover and says he will try it once more. Randolph County. ' ■■ W. T. Thorn berg, of Windsor, recentlycoinmitted suicide by shooting himself while sitting in the parlor with his family. Financial troubles is supposed to have been the cause. Ripley County. A recent fire at Batesville destroyed the furniture factory of H. Schroeder & Co. Their loss is estimated at over SIOO,OOO. Adjacent dwellings worth $25,000 were also destroyed. St. Joseph County. During the recent trial, at South Bend, of Hickman and Bennett for the murder of Cihauski and wife, near New Carlisle, in July last, Bennett turned State’s evidence, and confessed that he stood guard while Hickman killed the victims with a club and set the house on fire. There was but little evidence against them, and that only circumstantial, and it is thought they would have been acquitted had Bennett not confessed. George Coquillard was found guilty of arson in the Circuit Court, at South Bend, recently, for which crime, the jury affixed a penalty of two years’ Imprisonment. The burning was done some months since. Coquillard disappeared immediately after the fire, but returned three or four weeks ago and gave himself up.

Tippecanoe County. Patrick Flnegan, while playing on th j 0 i ce a t Lafayette the other afternoon, broke , through and drowned before assistance c reac h him. The boiler in Rager & Rogers Lafayette burst the other da '/*nd seriously injured the foreman. Ve.y lit Mother damage was done. Vigo County. $ On the 29th Chauncev Terre R made a donation to t' sßstitHtionß located there of $356,000. T , Ha ute S ehool of Industrial Scie leaveg s2o6ioooi and to the Vigo Cou; OiphaTre ’ Home 1150,000. He has before lar g e wmß j n benevoence an c including SIOO,OOO to the Ladies Ai< aD large sum to charities in New ' Ff e has also promised SIOO,OOO to the .ana State Normal School, located at »crre ’j Will <], jydonnjy. u, D’iri ag :a drunken 'brawl at Coesse the other night James Carey struck William Weav< -r <ui the head, inflicting injuries from the es act of which he died." Co' km Drop Cakes.—‘■Mixcornmeal with ng new milk until you have a thick batter ; put in the'patent pans at once and bafae tor Vwantyor thirty minutes.'