Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1875 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen County. At Fort Wayne, recently, Mr. Benigan, affected with insanity, attempted to murder his wife and children, and was taken in custody. Geo. Dracher was thrown from a wagon into the canal near Fort Wayne, the other night, and found dead next morning with the wagon-box upon him. Casa County. Thomas Hart, residing near Logansport, was recently helping to place a curb’ on a well, when the windlass-posts gave way and the windlass handles flew backTstriking him on the head, knocking him into the well and causing his immediate death. The Logansport Star says: “The largest real estate transfer that ever took place in this city was the sale by JohnT. Mussleman to William H. Standley of all his real estate. The price paid was $101,540. The sale includes the Mussodeon, the homestead, what is known as the Keystone corner, the Sun office property, the corner of North and Sixth streets, and other lots in the eity, and about 800 acres of land in Pulaski, White and Jasper Counties.” Asbury Bennefield had a difficulty with his mother at Logansport the other day and kicked her in the abdomen, knocking her down and making her recovery doubtful. Clarke County. Mrs. Borden, wife of Prof. Borden, Assistant State Geologist, a highly-educated lady, attempted suicide at Providence a few days ago. Family difficulties, which had been made public through the papers and the courts, were the cause.

A man named Hensley fell from the cars at Daleville, the other day, and was crushed to death. . * A few nights ago as Axley Harrison, a farmer living in the country about six miles from Muncie, was sitting in his house, some person fired through the window at him, the ball striking his head and instantly killing him. Suspicion has fallen on a young man named Snell, who had been employed by Harrison, Out, had been lately discharged Elkhart County. Miss Emma Stiver, living near Goshen, went into tbq kitchen a few nights ago to bathe her breast and lungs with rose oil for a cold and soreness. After getting through she dropped the cloth she had been using into the stove, when it blazed out and spread over her hands. In the excitement she clasped her hands upon her bare bosom, when that also took fire, and she came very near being burned fatally before the blaze could be extinguished. Floyd County. The building of water-works at New Albany is now an assured fact. Already the surveys are completed, the drawings for the machinery, etc., finished and adopted, and the location of the reservoirs and pumps for supplying them has been determined. Hendricks County. The purchase of a fire-extinguisher by the city fathers is ’ creating considerable excitement in Danville. The citizens have become divided into two factions over the matter, which are known by the euphonious names cf “The Squirts” and “Anti-squirts.” Kosciusko County. The residence of William Wallis, at Syracuse, was nearly destroyed by fire the other night. A lighted lamp was knocked off an organ and dashed to pieces on the Carpet. The oil ignited and an explosion followed. Mr. Wallis was badly burned. Lake County. P. L. Sullivan, a brakeman, was recently instantly killed, at Liverpool Station, by falling between two freight cars. Laporte County. A shooting affray occurred at Laporte lately, which resulted in the serious wounding of James Finley. It seems that two days before John Holloway and two of his sons had a dispute with Finley, which finally ended in blows, in which Finley had the best of it. .Next morning Holloway’s two sons armed themselves and then went to Finley’s house, They called to him to come out, which he did when they immediately commenced firing at him with revolvers. Some eight or ten shots were fired, five of which took effect in different parts of Finley’s body. Madison County. At Anderson, the other night, Harry Betsford and a negro had an altercation regarding a bill oWed by the negro. The former used a stick of wood and the latter flourished a wood-saw. Betsford was severely cut about the head. The negro was .knocked senseless, with slight hopes of recovery. ,

Marion County* Mandeville G. Lee, late editor of the Evening journal, proposes to establish a new daily paper in Indianapolis. A new weekly paper, to be called the Saturday Evening Courier, is also projected by Jno. O. Hardesty, formerly editor of the Weekly Sun. MoutgomeryCoujaiy. The County Commissioners have authorized the Auditor to offer a reward of {I,OOO for the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Mrs. David Brown. Mr. Brown proposes to turn tfver notes and claims to the amount of {6OO (about all the property he possesses) to some responsible party, to be given as an additional reward for the arrest of the murderer. Morgan County. Near Mooresville, recently, David MeCary, nineteen years old, was found in the. woods with his head blown off and his gun lying by his side. He had been missed for several days, but no attention was paid to it, as he was in the habitof going off on a huntand being absent a week or so at a time. It is supposed his death was accidental. Porter County. The other morning Thomas Murphy shot himself through the head at Valparaiso, the ball enterins- at the ear and causing death in dbout four hours. It is supposed that family trouble was the cause of the rash act. The deecased was forty years old, a cooper by trade' and served during the war in the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment. St. Joseph County. - ” A few days ago Miss Minnie J. Taylor, who was burned some weeks ago by a coal-oil explosion at South Bend, died. The skin on Her right arm was entirely destroyed, and new cuticle refused to take its place, the member becoming a frightful ulcer from her wrist to her elbow. Vigo County. > John Miner, of Lockport, 'has been arrested upon the charge of stealing {2,500 in promissory notes from Hawthorn Brothers. An explosion of molten iron occurred at

the Vigo iron-works in Terre Haute the other day, in which several men were badly burned, and one, Timothy Shea, very severely upon his face, arms and body. Wayne County. Three men, one of them a detective employed by the Pan Handle Railroad Company to detect thieves, were recently arrested at □ambridge City for stealing liquors from a freight car. A little daughter of Mrs. Williams, of Richmond,; recently swallowed a glass pendant of an ear-drop and it passed down into the lungs, whence it could not be removed. She died shortly after.