Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1875 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen County. The horse thteji w ho escaped from the officers by going, i n t o a saloon on a passenger train and jumping through a window while tlffi train waß under full headway has been re- ' cap’xired and taken to Fort Wayne. A stock-drover named Orr was recently; robbed by his room-mate at the Fanners’ Home in Fort Wayne. The thief was arrested at Kalamazoo, Mich. Blackford County. Ed Brown was arrested at Hartford City, a fe w days ago, chargedwith robbing his room mate of $75. During the night he succeeded in hanging himself with a chain that was in the cell. 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. The works at Rodney’s coal shaft, near Brazil, were burned the other night. Loss about $3,000. The fire is supposed to have had incendiary origin. Delaware County. During a recent cold Sunday three persons were baptized in the river at Muncie. The ice was about two feet thick. Elkhart County. Jacob Bell’s residence at Wakarusa was destroyed a few days ago with all its contents. Benjamin Cripe, a well-known farmer, living near Goshen, was driving home from town the other night when, mistaking the road in the darkness, he was precipitated down a steep embankment and sustained very serious injuries. Howard w County. John Sprunce and wife, of Kokomo, were quarreling recently. When in the act of striking his wife, his son struck him on the head with a wagon felloe, crushing his skull. The old gentleman died next morning. Jefferson County. The main buildings in Isom, Ross & Sons’ tan-yard, at Madison, were burned a few mornings ago. Loss SB,OOO. Kosciusko County. A young man named Arnold, living near Syracuse, recently accidentally shot his sister while carelessly handling a revolver. Her left arm was very badly shattered. La Grange County. T-he ma.cJiine. shops attached to the carriage factories of Moon & Co., at La Grange, were burned a few evenings ago. Loss about $5,000. Lajforte County. , A small tenement-house belonging to James Ridgway, at Laporte, w’as set on fire a few nights ago by.some evil-minded incendiary. The loss was about SI,OOO. Madison County. A Deputy Sheriff has got into trouble by in suiting a lady.

Marion County. A son of John McCloskey, a baggage-mas-ter in the Union Depot, at Indianapolis, was run over by a freight train the other day and instantly killed. The Boston Block, ; in "Indianapolis, was burned the other morning. It was owned by Russell & Bugbee, and was damaged $25,000 worth. J. E. Mosier, while inspecting some saw logs at an Indianapolis saw-mill the other day, was crushed in a terrible manner by one of the logs rolling over him. An Indianapolis bigamist has become insane through fear of prosecution for his crimes. He left his first wife in the East and was married to a second woman in Indianapolis, who only discovered the wrong done her after the man had become insane. Monroe County. An oratorical contest will take place at the chapel of the State University, at Bloomington, on the evening of March 12,1875, between representatives from Asbury, Wabash, Northwestern Christian, Earlham, Franklin and Hanover Colleges and the State University. It is probable that representatives from other institutions in the State will be present and engage in the contest. Hon. M. C. Kerr, of New Albany, has been selected as one of the Judge*. Morgan County. The Martinsville Republican says: “Last Thursday the engineer of Harrison & Loper’s saw-mill, Hyndsdalc v discovered that a flue in theboiler was cracked near the entrahee and was leaking. The mill was stopped, the hands gathered around to observe, when the flue collapsed, and the boiler moved out endwise like a thing of life, leaving a cloud of steam and dust in its wake. It moved right through the lumber-yard, which was crowded with heavy logs, knocking largesized, green hickory’ logs endwise. After cavorting around among the saw-logs it turned its course, cutting off a corner-post as though it had been a cornstalk. Knocking down the mill-building, it crossed over to the railroad track, tore loose two rails and broke the third in two, and finally stopped half way across the track. All this without injuring any person, although there were a number of people in the mill and in the yard. The boys think that boiler is possessed,” Spencer County. The Rockport Democrat reports the following accident: Last Saturday three brothers, Frank, William and Steve Davis, sons of David Davis, Grass township, were out gunning on their father’s farm. While attempting to shoot a quail on the wing William accidentally shot his brother Frank, the entire load in the gun taking effect in his face and eyes. St. Joseph County. The South Bend Tribune learns that an idiotic boy about sixteen years old, living near Edwardsburg, lately wandered away from his home and, although his friends have since been scouring the country far and near, no traces of his whereabouts had betin discovered up to the 14th. When last seen he was riding an old blind horse and it was feared that the animal may have strolled with him off into the woods and there, overcome by the intense cold, the poor fellow had lain down and frozen to death.' Vigo County. Tiie other evening a farmer named Leslie Jones, living near Terre Haute, fell under the wheels of his wagon, which was heavily laden with lumber, while going down a hill, was scalped and had both legs fractured. His injuries were fatal. Whitley County. 8. F. Kling, for some time agent of the Singer Sewing Machine Company at Columbia City, has been found guilty of forgery and awarded three years in. the State Prison at Michigan City. • “ The power of love receives fresn illustration in the case of a Montreal girl who sold her new bonnet so that her* lover might buy a pair of skates.