Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1875 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen County. Bailey & Dorley’t blacksmith and wagon shops at Fort Wayne were recently burned, involving a loss of about $1,500. Clay County. The Knights Ville -Fnterprwe says: “It was reported last week that an attempt had been made by some one to burn the Lafayette Iron Company’s furnace. A man was seen in the stock-house with a bunch of kindling .saturated with kerosene and was arrested and brought to town, butnothing could be proved against him, so he was set free. He returned again to the furnace a few days ago and the negroes called a meeting and appointed a committee to attend to him. They accordingly caught him and gave him a severe flogging, and he has not been-seen in these parte since.” Decatur County. James Trimble, a livery-stable keeper at Greensburg, recently fell dead from his chair whilst sitting ih his office. His death was caused by heart disease. Howard County. The Kokomo Tribune of a recent date says: “Mr. Joseph Miller and wife, formerly a Mrs. Higgins, reside on Smith street, this city. They have not lived happily together for some time. One night Mrs. M. was awakened by her husband, whom she saw standing near her with a razor in his hand. She got up and found that he had taken all of her clothing and was about leaving the house with it. Her son drove him away, but he returned on another evening. Mrs. M. was lying in bed when he came in the room, rushed up to the bed and drew a large butcher-knife and attempted to kill her. He was promptly arrested.” Huntington County. Fred Baier, a student at Concordia College, in Fort Wayne, was drowned at Huntington a few days ago. Laporte County. J. Kifourn, of Wanatah, accidentally shot himself through the abdomen the other evening, while taking a gun from a wagon. The wound was thought to be fatal.

Clarion Comity.—_— _ __ A few nights ago an incendiary fired the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad bridge, spanning White River a few miles above Indianapolis, and the wooden structure, 350 feet in length, was totally burned and the piers more or less damaged? The fire was discovered by the outgoing Chicago express engineer just in time to prevent running upon it, and had the train not been three minutes late it could have swept through without trouble. The break necessitates a transfer at the river. Mrs. Fenschew, a" lady seventy-two years old, was killed at Indianapolis the other night by a runaway team. While a party was engaged in firing a salute at Indianapolis the other evening, in honor of the late Democratic victories in Connecticut, the gun prematurely exploded, injuring William Petrie horribly. Part of one of his hands was blown off, bpth eyes were destroyed, and he was shockingly burned about the breast and face. Owen County. A clergyman in church at Vandal",ia, where the old custom of keeping the men.and women separate is observed, recently saw a couple sitting together, and laying his sermon aside he began rebuking them very emphatically. They stood it as long as they could and then left the church Putnam County. Three of the prisoners in the County Jail made their escape a few days ago by breaking a water-pipe and climbing through a hole made in the wall. Shelby County. A destructive fire visited Shelbyyille a few nights: ago, which destroyed property valued at $40,000, on which there was about $20,000 insurance. The, fire originated in the drug store of McCrea & Bishop, whose loss was about $7,000. The Volunteer newspaper office was also destroyed. Loss $5,000. Tippecanoe County. Edward Stuart, a young boy, was run over and killed at Brick Creek, on the Toledo & Wabash Railroad, a few days ago. He jumped from the train while it was in motion and fell stunned upon the track. The train, backing up to the station, ran over him. The receipt of wolf and fox scalps, for which a bounty of five dollars is paid, is rapidly depleting the county treasury. Vigo County. Hulman’s distillery at Terre Haute was recently sold to Crawford Fairbanks, of that city, for $150,000. ' Rev. E. F. Howe, of the Terre [Haute Congregational Church, has received a gift of SSOO from his parishioners and left for Europe to spend it. The enumeration of the school children of Terre Haute has just been completed; The total number of children is 6,492. Of these 109 are unable to read and writer Wayne County. James Reid was thrown from a wagon by an unmanageable horse, at Richmond, the' other day and fatally injured.