Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEW S .

Looansport has a populatio no s 15 qqq. Thk wheat prospect In C County is reported to be good. A oolosy of ataond-e- h&| alighted in Indianapol* t 800 cholera of a v | o | en t and fatal type has broken out in vicinity of Martins . villc. More corn h M p i an ted in Randolph County this season than ever before. Ah ins woman at Edwardsport recently ’ giudjtd g fi re burned herself to death , .EvrcASTLE is said by the local press to h ave tost from $30,000 to $50,000 in the late wheat decline. Hugh Mcllaruy, of Shawnee Mound, “has recently donated SIO,OOO to the Central Tennessee College. Dit. llknry A. Stone, of Goshen, has been appointed physician and surgeon of the Northern State Prison. The Indianapolis glove factory, which began operations a few weeks since, gives employment to forty girls. John Hasbrooke, son of Dr. Wm. Hasbrooke, was drowned at Owens’ Mills a few days ago while bathing. Lafayette has organized a lecture association for the next season, with a capital of $3,000, made up of 500 shares. It is claimed that there is more actual work in railroad building now in progress in Indiana than in any other State. The Loogootee Times is the name of a new paper recently started at Loogootee. It is an eight-page, six-column sheet. The steam flouring mill of Hall & Culliver, at Rushville, was burned the other night, involving a loss of nearly SIO,OOO. The very highest point in the State is situated about eight miles east of Elkhart, on the range of hills west of Bristol. It is reported that Indianapolis grain dealers and commission merchants lost $150,000 by the recent decline of wheat and corn. Mary Anderson, while fishing the other day at Morristown, slipped from the log on which she was standing and drowned. Peter Smith was recently run over and instantly killed by a construction train at E‘agle Creek, on the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad. A masked burglar recently broke into George Gregg’s residence at Connersville and got away with S3O in currency and $20,000 in notes. Rev. Mr. Carnahan, of Dayton, on a recent Sabbath delivered his farewell sermon, thus dosing a pastoral relation of over forty-five years.

Andy Randle was killed at Kokomo the other evening by the caving of a ditch in which he was digging. He was covered to a depth of eight feet. An honest German, of Harveysburg, when caught lately in the act of distilling, explained that he was just making a little for his sick wife—just twenty gallons. At a special election held on the Ist at Terre Haute, for Councilmen, one Demo* crat and one Republican were elected, leaving a tie in the Council as before. Mrs. Lander was introduced and commended to the Terre Haute public by the Journal as “a rising young actress.” Mrs-. L. is old enough to be that young man’B grandmother. Editor Phillips, of the Kokomo Tribune, was injured in a railroad accident during the late excursion of the Indiana Editorial Association. His wounds have resulted in paralysis. The potato-bugs are‘said to be making great havoc in the Olive Branch neighborhood. They put in an appearance as soon as the vines came up. Hog cholera is also quite troublesome. Forty-one miles in forty-two minutes was made by a train on the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroad one day ■ lately between Lafayette and Logansport. The object was to make up lost time. Abraham Mayer, of Lafayette, recent ly opened one of the hollow woocTen pillars supporting his porch, and found within more than 400 dead birds in all stages of decomposition. The birds had made an entrance through a small hole at the top of the pillar and been unable to escape. A son of W. D. Malone, of Princeton, eleven years of age, swallowed a chinchbug about a year ago, taking it into his lungs, by mistake. It lived two weeks, and caused the formation of an abscess in the left lung. The boy is thought not likely to recover.

The Winchester Journal says: “Abraham Monroe, residing near Olive Branch, came to this country in 1832, anil, has since that time killed 967 deer. Of these, 965 were killed in this county, and the other two in Adams County last fall. Mr. M. avows his determination to make the number an even 1,000.”. On the evening of the 2d a terrible wind and rain storm passed about six miles north of Goshen, which caused a great deal of damage. Trees were torn up by the roots, fences blown down and several barns unroofed. Mr. E. poster, living near Middlebury, estimates his loss at about (1,090, Other losses range from $lO6 tte|soo. The following postal changes were made in Indiana daring the week ending May 29, 1875: Name changed—Granger, Monroe County, to South Granger. Postmasters appointed—Dyer, Lake County F. Densberger; Glen Dale, Daviess County. Alexander T. Conley; Jackson Station, Tipton County, E. G Elliott; Jordanville, Knox County, Florence Reel; Rono, Perry County, Anthony Little; Slash, Grant County, Sylvester Agnus; Slate, Jennings County, Charles Taulmsn; Springport, Henry County, Charles M. Orr; Williamsburg, Wayne County, Mrs. Emily John son; Wynn, Franklin Gouty, Thomas Hicks; Zinsburg, Madison County, Sarah E. Hammond. *