Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1875 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

I Allen County. I Henry Prangon, of Fort Wayne, broke liis right lee: the other afternoon by slipping upon r sir fey pavement. He was just rocovering from a severe illness, and It is now feared that I this last trouble will cause him to lose his life. Hon. John Hough, of Fort Wayne, a prominent politician, died at Fort Wnyne a few days ago. He was a Republican Presidential lector in 1808. I)r. Hitchcock, ol' Kalamazoo, Mieli., “wss~ riding on the car*between Fort Wayne and KcudailVille the other day, iu attendance upon Mrs. Kanney, of Delphos, Ohio, and Mrs. Markham, of Kalathazoo, the latter of whom was suffering from temporary alteration of mind. As the ladies were quietly seated, the doctor stepped into an adjoining ear, wherr Mrs. Markham, the insane woman, attempted to-leap from the car, then going, at the-rate' of twenty miles an hour. Mrs. Ranney attempted to restrain her and both were thrown violently to the ground. The demented woman was not injured,’but Mrs. Ranney had both legs broken and her head crushed in, sustaining fatal injuries. 77^ “The extensive furniturer faetory-of- NelsonWheeler and the factory of the Fort Wayne Bed Bottom Company were hurried the other morning. Loss about $15,000. Four houses and barns in addition to the above wereconSUined. Henry Burgess’ dwelling-house, at New Haven, was burned to the ground a few day* ago, causing a loss of about $3,000. When the free lodgers were let out of the Fprt Wayne station-house tlje other morning it was found that one of the number, a colored man, had the small-pox, and as they’ were all confined together in a small room it is feared that many of them have become infected. Carroll County. Austin Gregg, of Camden, a well-known business man, lias failed with about $23,000 liabilities. Case County. John F. Reeder, of Logansport, was assaulted the other night on his way home in the south part of the city, garroted -and robbed of about fifty dollars. Clay County. Fifteen hundred coal-miners of the Brazil district quit work on the 2d because the operators proposed to reduce the pay from eighty-five to seventy cents per ton. Daviess County. —- The City Marshal of Washington and the editor of the Gazette engaged in a tight the other morning, which resulted in the discomfiture of the man of letters. The encounter was brought about by an article containingsome severe reflections on the Marshal’s official conduct. A few months ago he whipped the myrmidon of the law, and now honors are easy. Elkliart County. Alfred Williams, of Middlebury, got drunk ..lately, laid put in the cold till morning, and had his legs so badly frozen that amputation of both became _ Floyd County. Charles Goney, of New Albany, recently shot a widow named Eleanor Bruecht, and thinking he had killed her committed suicide by shooting himself. Fountain County. Henry Earl died at Veedersburgli the other night from the effects of a dose of aconite prepared for him by a druggist by mistake. Franklin County. James 8. Osborn, a farmer fifty-three years old, from Andersonville, eloped a few days ago with a Miss Alma Fauratc, aged fifteen, according to a Rusliville dispatch of the 30tli ult. Osborn has a wife and five children, of whom one is married. Henry County. A prisoner, name unknown, slipped from the Sheriff and his deputy, near Newcastle, the other night, and with the train under full hcadway leaped from the cars and escaped to the woods before the train could be stopped to allow the guards to pursue him. Harrison County. The Oorydon Democrat tells the story of an unfortunate affair near Laconia, which resulted in the death of an insane man. It seems that one night, about two weeks ago, Pt’ter Fink, a highly-respectable citizen, was aroused from his slumbers by some one bounding against the door and trying to force it open. Mr. Fink sprang from his bed, and called to ascertain who was there. By this time the stranger made a bound against another door of the house a few feet distant from the former, but failed to break it open. In a few minutes another effort was made to force the door by some ons-bounding against it. Mrs. Fink then sprang to the cfiior and held it while her husband got his gun. They then again called to the party outside and inquired what they wanted, but received no reply. They then opened the door. The stranger started agaiti to run, when Mr. Fink fired at him, mortally wounding him. The wounded man was then taken into the house and proved to be insane. He died in five or six days afterward. Johnson County. Laura Brown, sixteen years old, living near Edinburgh, was recently burned to death from her clothes taking fire from the kitchen stove. Laporte County. About SIOO,OOO will be expended on the outside harbor at Michigan City during the coming season. Madison County. Frank Brewer, thirty-five years old, was fqund frozen to death in the Perkinsville grave-yard a few mornings ago. He had been intoxicated during the preceding afternoon, Marlon County. The Indianapolis Daily Union has made an assignment The concern is heavily in debt, and the outlook for the creditors is said to be unpromising. NoMe County. The wood-shed and water-house of the Lake Shore it Michigan Southern Rai.road at Kendallville were burned a few daya since. Loss $6,000. „ * Randolph County. . ■ ' A hack laden with passengers for Union City recently overturned on the pike between Richmond and that nlace. One of the lady passengers had her arm broken, another a shoulder, and all were more or leas injured. The hack, after the fit only for kindling-wood. Commenting on *he hard times in Union City the Times exclaims: “Look at this week’s Time* and divine the cause. Not enough local advertising is fonnd in its pages to buy a. single editor out of purgatory. Why should times be otherwise than hard jp ■ •

; Tippecanoe County. j A $40,000 poor-house is one of the luxuries t the citizens of the-county are dreaming of. | A passenger train on the I. C. &L.R. R. ' ran Into the middle of a freight train of the L., N. A. <fc C. R. R. at the crossing at Lafayette Junction a few days ago, smashing three freight cars and badly damaging the i passenger engine. No lives were lost. | Vigo Conniy. I A drunken spree in Middletown a few I nights ago ended in the shooting of John j Nash by a young man named Lynch Patton. ! The latter had not been arrested at last accounts. Joseph White, a Terre Haute bar-tender, was found a few days ago beside the track of the Evansville & CrawfordsviUe Railroad, nine miles south of Terre Haute, with one ! leg cut otf, the other badly crushed, and the | rest of liis body frozen. He was insensible, ! aid not likely to recover. ! Wayne County. James Wilson got a quantity of coal-oil upon his clothing while filling a cask with that fluid at Centerville, the other day. After wiping his clothing and the floor with old papers he went to throw them into the stove when the lire ignited his clothing and he was instantly enveloped in flames. I'lie prompt assistance of by-standers, who rolled the unfortunate man in the snow, saved his life. As the ears stopped at the watering-tank at Cambridge City, a few njghts ago, Mr. J. F. Walleek, Superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who was a passeuger on board, stepped off the train, supposing they were at the depot, and fell through a bridge to the ice beneath, sustaining a compound fracture of the leg and several severe injuries about the head. He was not found until some time after the train left, no one having seen him fall.