Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1875 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen County. William Rutledge, of Monroeville, was shot through the right arm, the ball also entering his body, while hunting the other afternoon. He was not found Until some time after the accident, and then nearly dead from loss of blood. At Fort Wayne, a few mornings ago, John Mohr and his wife were discovered in an unconscious state, caused by gas from a coal stove escaping into a close room where they were sleeping. . 2_> W. M. Bussier, a switchman on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad at Fort Wayne, while in the performance of his duties the other night, caught his foot in a frog and was run down by a train, receiving injuries which proved fatal in two hours. Bussier was a married man with two children. Boone County. Mr. James Riley, living eight miles north of Lebanon, attempted one day during the recent cold'weather to walk from Lebanon to his home and was so badly frozen that lie d led t he folio wing day. Cass County.

Joseph Mflgin, living near Rosedale, about ten miles norUKof Logansport, while rumaging a bureau dlawer where a five-pound can of powder was kept, the other day, accidentally ignited the powder from a cigar he was smoking. The explosion blew one end of the house out, landed Joseph and his brother in the yard, destroyed the eyesight of theformetf" and seriously injured both otherwise. George Bevan, Chief Engineer of the Logansport Fire Department, was stricken with apoplexy a few days ago. Clarke County. Edward Corbin, who, it will be remembered, killed a man in Jeffersonville, named James Boyer, some time last summer, by beating his. skull in with an ale bottle, was convicted in the Clarke County Criminal Court, a~fcw —days ago, of murder in the M-o oid dfaTV-iy ffrHl sentenrcd to thi' State I’rison for life. Clay County. The coal-shafts of the Jackson Coal Company, Smith, Reed & Co. and Veach, Hall & Co., near Brazil, were burned by incendiaries, a few nights since. The miners, out on a strike with little chance of success, had made frequent threats of violence if the owners held out. Mr. Jackson recently gave Sis miners a last opportunity to resume work, and stated that unless they did men would be brought in to take, their rdaees. It was also reported that a lot of colored miners were on their way to sui-er.-ede the strikers and thus precipitated the crime. The loss will probably average §IO,OOO to $15,000 to each mine, with slight insurance, as it is understood that several insurance companies had 'canceled their policies in anticipatibh of trouble. -,-j , Fulton County. A terrible a U ray occurred at Rochester a few nights ago. Late in the evening John Wallace, Amos Selby, M. Green and Jas. De Bolt wen t in a sleigh to the house of John and demanded admittance. This was refused, and Selby became enraged and knocked the door from its hinges. Vanderkarrthen fired into the party with a doublcbAreled shot-gun, killing Wallace instantly and dangerously wounding Selby. Knox County. Police-Officer Watson Keever, of Vincennes, was fatally shot a few days ago while attempting to arrest a negro man named Cox, who was suspected of stealing horses belonging to farmers in the neighborhood.

The Vincertties Sun hears that there is horse-thieving going on in the northern part of. the county. Grange County. Thomas Martin was arrested at Lima, a few days ago, upon the charge of drawing a money order, the proceeds of which should have gone to Thomas J. Martin. Laporte County. A man named Watson, incarcerated at Michigan City, recently, expressed a wish to die, and his fellow-prisoners, desiring to see .every wish gratified, got a little flour of the prison cook which they made into pills. They were offered to Watson on condition that he would not tell who gave him the poisonous pills He faithfully promised, and, taking them with him to the solitude of his cell, he laid his weary hesd upon the hard pillow and swallowed the fatal pills. He laid there four mortal hours, thinking of his past life, and forgiving everyone who had testified to his stealing that horse, and yearning for the poison to take effect. But somehow the swallows did not homeward fly, and finally, very much discouraged, he walked out of Ijis cell, when the smilmg countenances of a score of his fellow-prisoners apprised him that he was the victim of a cruel hoax. Marlon County. y'

. Andrew Dofigherty was found , dead in Pogue’s Run, corner of Ray street, Indianapolis, a few afternoons ago, lying in eighteen inches of water. Mr. L. Barr, an employe of one of the Indianapolis rolling mils, is said to be one of the most powerful men west of tlie Alleghenies. He often picks up a couple of rails, weighing 1,120 pounds, for small wagers, and can handle a 566-pound rail easier than most men handle a fair-sized stick of wood. He is credited with having lifted 1,475 pounds not loi g since. Thia modern Samson wears his hair short, is six feet in height, and magnificently proportioned. , , . . * Vigo County.

John Fellendet, a clerk in the Terre Haute Postoffice, has been arrested upon a charge •of stealing letters coming to the office and containing currency. He is a son of one of the wealthiest German citizens of the place. The Wabash had risen fourteen feet in the preceding twenty-four hours at Terre Haute on the 24th. The steamers Young America and Elk were swept down by the pressure of floating ice. The Young America was caught sixrmiles below in a badly damaged, condition, and the Elk is supposed to be lost Ttie steamer Dolly Varden was sunk at the lauding by the ice. The boilers in William Paddock & Co.'s mill, at Terre Haute, exploded tfie other day, injuring one man. Loss $5,000. The boilerplates were defective. , ■/ Miami County. Edward Jackson, a Peru boy, has been fooling with a pistol, anti escaped with his life and one leg. ’ St, Joseph County. The Thespian Association of Notre Dame

celebrated Washington’s birthday by appropriate dramatic exercises.