Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

William Snyder and his wife, of New Castle, are having a divorce suit, in which the latter claims SIO,OOO alimony. The Tippecanoe County Agricultural As sociation have offered s7,Opp in premiums to be distributed at the next qnnual fair. Tub Terre Haute Express finds consolation in the fact that for twelve blessed months there will be no election to disturb or annoy. Virgil Fleming, a young man of Perry County, was caught by a falling tree, the other day, and instantly killed. His neck was broken and his breast crushed in. One Shank, a Henry Cohnty insurance agent, the Indianapolis Journal says, has stepped down and out, owing large sums to the companies he represented. James Carr, a farmer living near the bridge across White River, which was burned about three months ago, has been arrested upon the charge of being the incendiary. The Prairie Oity, one of the best steamers on the Wabash, was burned while lying at" the wharf in Terre Haute, with part of a cargo of grain. Total loss about $15,000. At Evansville, the other day, Dr. Hiram W. Cloud, an eminent chemist anef a most estimable citizen, died from the effects of chloral taken on his own prescription to relieve a nervous attack. His death has cast a general gloom over the city. . Sallie Taylor, of Evansville, had a presentiment that something would happen to her brothers, who were in the saloon business at Vincennes, and wrote a note urging them to come home. Louis, the elder, fell dead of heart disease, and the note was found in his pocket. .An unsuccessful attempt was lately made to rob the County Treasurer’s office in Perry County. The safe door was blown open, but the robbers failed to get into a small apartment where the money of the county, some $15,000, was safely stowed away. It was a botch job, and the burglars must have been greenhorns in the business. This is the third attempt to rob the same safe. On the morning of the sth the Crescent ’Coal Company’s shaft, located on the South Branch, three miles below Brazil, was burned by an incendiary. Work had been resumed in the mine. Shortly after work began the strikers made a descent on the workmen and endeavored to persuade them to quit the works. The proprietors of the mine ordered the strikers off the premises, and next day the shaft was burned. William White, a grinder in a plow factory at Evansville, was the victim of a singular accident a few days ago. He had left his grindstone for a moment, and was standing on a plank one end, of which passed under the grindstone, when the stone burst, one large section striking the plank with such force that White was thrown to the ceiling by the concussion, and, falling to the “floor, had his collar bone-broken, several teeth knocked out, and his face and body badly bruised.

Gov. Hendricks, on behalf of the Trustees of Purdue University, has interviewed the President touching the appointment of some competent military official who shall have charge of military instruction in the Purdue University. It was also asked that a Government signal station be put up at the university and that this official shall have charge of it also. The President favored the movement, but, said it was only in the power of Congress to grant the request. Upon the assembling of Congress the matter will be brought before it. A young fellow named Mechallas Shannaberger was in Indianapolis a few days ago on a tour of observation around the world. He left his home in Poland in June with but one dollar and a half in his possession, and has since visited London and New York, putting up at first-class houses, and leaving when his credit was exhausted. In all his travels he has done no work and has fared better than those who lack the sublime quality of cheek which he possesses in so eminent a degree. The Richmond Independent has discovered unmistakable signs of the approaching milt lennium. The lion has not beefi observed to lie down with the lamb, but something equal to it has happened. A white cat with four young kittens set up housekeeping in a box where there happened to be two young rats. Instead pf devouring them, as would have been natural, she adopted them, and afforded them the same nourishment that she supplied to the kittens. One of the kittens and one of the rats died. Yesterday, says the Independent, we Called to see the happy family, and found the three kittens and the rats “ tugging away” at the maternal fount. The mother cat bestowed frequent caresses upon her little ones, and the rat came in for a full share. It seemed to enjoy the “love lick,” and responded in as affectionate manner as possible for a rat. After all, as a matter of prudence,‘that young rat had better move before his tail gets too long.