Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

NnntTRBR lawyers constitute the of Knox County. Thi small-pox is creating considerable alarm at Orand View. The Worthington Sun is dead. From its ashes the Journal will arise. Assistant State Geologist Borden is about to begin a geological survey of Decatur and adjoining counties. The outrageous conduct of a Knightstown young woman compelled relatives to fasten her to the floor with chain and staple. Crawford Brown, of Perry County, sold a boat-load of produce iii New- Orleans, and had about SI,BOO of the money in his trunk on the Reporter when she burned. A few days ago, at Mayville, a suburb of Terre Haute, a party of roughs, headed by one Serber, kicked and beat a physician named Mercer so severely that he died three days after. Judge Baldwin, of Logansport, will deliver the Alumni oration at Franklin College on the 14th of June. His subject will be “ The Defects in the Constitution of the United States.” The Lafayette Courier speaks of “the Hon. S. S. Cox, President of the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroad.” Sunset will be surprised to find that he is President of a railroad.

Miss Carrie M. Crane, a talented young artist w-ho was lost on the Schiller, was a sister of Milton A. Crane, of Terre Haute. She was on her way to join her uircle, Geo. P. Marsh, Minister to Rome. It was a hardware man who remarked, upon seeing a young Terre Haute lady walking with some of her country cousins of whom she was evidently ashamed, that he hated to see people act so “superstitiously” toward poor relations. Preston Campbell, a young farmer of Sullivan County, bought a dose of strychnine at Shelburn the other morning, swallowed it and died in half an hour. He was unmarried, and trouble about a woman was thought to be the cause. The Madison Courier says: “One of our attorneys was making a red-hot speech the other day before a jury, and became so warmed up in his argument that he pulled off his coat to it. The Judge cooled his enthusiasm by compelling him to put it on again.” The Kokomo Democrat “ doubts if any city in Indiana can boast of so few business failures in proportion to the population as Kokomo. We do not believe there is a city in the State of less than 10,000 population whose business will show up as well or any better than that of our own thriving, wide-awake city.” The house of John R. Bell, in Evansville, was struck by lightning during a recent storm. The occupants did not know that it was on tire until the second story was ablaze and they w-ere almost overpowered by the heated smoke. The servant girl escaped by jumping from the second-story window, but she was terribly and probably fatally burned. The Heptasophs recently held a session at Indianapolis, at which the following officers were elected for the current year: Hon. W. E. Foster, of Virginia, Supreme Archon; It. H. Morrison, of Michigan, Chancellor; O. R. Dudley, of Virginia; Provost; S. B. Wolf, of Maryland, Secretary ; W. S. Cone, of Indiana, Treasurer; U. B. Wilson, of Missouri, Prelate; D. J Grady, of Texas, Inspector-General; J. Ortner, ot Ohio, Herald; J. L A. Green, of Illinois, Guide; J. E. Whicher, of California, Warder, and G. S. Hubbard, of Virginia, Sentinel. The Supreme Conclave will meet in Philadelphia next year.

Bill Rodifer recently made another unsuccessful attempt to escape from the Jeffersonville State Prison at three o'clock in the morning. One of the guards heard a noise as if some one was using a heavy implement on the walls of a cell. On making an examination he was suddenly confronted by the prisoner armed with a revolver. The guard retreated for help, and further examination proved that Rodifer in some mysterious manner secured the keys, unlocked the cell door and silently seized the inside guard, disarmed him and threw him into the cell, locking, him in, and then made an attempt to knock a hole in the wall large enough to escape: He failed and was locked up. Walter H. Wild, Superintendent of the Buckeye Cannel Coal Company, Cannclburg; suicided recently. The Washington Gazette says: “On Thursday morning Mr. Wild purchased a bill-of goods from a commercial traveler, it is said, and a short time afterward the agent, on leaving, called to bid Mr. yfild goodby, and telling him to take good care of himself, which Sir. W. said he would do. He then Walked into his room over the company’s store, where it appears he indited a letter, stating that he had been seeing a great deal of financial trouble of late, and informing his brother Edward, in Cincinnati, the particulars of his imaginary transactions, and giving financial embarrassments as the cause of the rash act he was about to commit. This letter was not signed, but the handwriting was recognized as his. It appeared as if he had not completed the letter, but rose up, seated himself on the bed, and with a navy revolver, the muzzle placed to the side of the head, discharged it, almost laterally shooting the top of his head off. Another letter found in his pocket and directed to his brother Edward was of the same pirnport as the one named above, and this w-as written two days before, one on the 4th and the other on the 6th.” San Francisco boot-hladt: “Shine-er-boots, sir?” Mr. Janies Lick, testily: “ Didn’t I tell you five minutes ago that I didn’t want my boots blacked?” ‘ “ Yer did. Mister, but I didn’t know but what yer’d made a revocation!” Exit imp. The girl whose feet don’t bend the grass” lives in Colorado.