Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

• Purdue University reopens in September. Knightsville will soon be the city of furnaces. ... The ymy-worm is operating in Dearborn C<ranty. Milk-sickness prevails in some portions of Perry County. Adams County will hold its first fair in ten years tljisdall. , The old settlers of Sullivan give a basket picnic on the 14th/' A new paper is about -to be started at Dublin, Wayne County, Tippecanoe County is to have a dog show during her county fair. The mines near Brazil are being rapid. }y filled with German miners. Grapes are rotting in Hendricks County, especially the “ Copcords.” Moisture prevails to an unpleasant degree in Tipton County real estate. One man is putting up twenty-five rest dences at Connersville this season. The soldiers of Northern Indiana will hold their reunion at Fort Wayne, Oct. 5. Potatoes are selling for twenty-five cents a bushel in Richmond, Wayne County. ' _____ ‘ ~ -• Every mud-l/ole in Wayne County is being analyzed in a search for medicinal springs. l . Mrs. Cass, of Logansport, was recently killed at Windfall, Tipton County, by a runaway team. This year’s growth of apple trees in Greene County isdying as though infected with some deadly insect. The Peru Times says the southern part of Maine County and part of Howard are but little better than lakes. Terre Haute has • a prominent female member of the legal profession in the person of Miss Bessie Eaglefield. James Wright was killed by a recent cyclone, in Hendricks County, and his wife and six children more or less injured. The Evansville Medical Society is still troubled about its code of ethics. Purging itself of an advertising member don’t settle the difficulty. The Knightstown Burial Case Company has erected a new and more commodious building. This company requires more room than its patrons. The annual session of the Vigo County Teachers’ Institute will begin on the 30th of August, under the management of Superintendent Royse. William Campbell, a brakeman, fell under a train at Knightville, the other day, and was instantly killed, his head being crushed into a jelly. There ar* in the State 21,840,350.17 acres of land. Jasper stands at the head of the list with 374,345.40 acres. Ohio is the smallest county, having but 54,742.72 acres. The Grand Lodge of the United States Independent Order of Odd Fellows will meet at Odd Fellows’ Hall, Indianapolis, Sept. 20, and continue in session until Sept. 26. Noble County doctors recently met and resolved —they won’t advertise unless they can do it for nothing, by getting some ed. itor to describe the miraculous operation of lancing a boil, *r something of that sort. The Indianapolis Journal Company and John G. Doughty, bidders for the State printing, have obtained a temporary injunction against the Commissioners of Public Printing for awarding the contract to the Sentinel Company. A freight train on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad recently went through a trestle torty feet high, between Putnamville and Cloverdale, killing the engineer, conductor and head brakeman. The fireman had one arm and one leg broken. Only the rear brakeman escaped. The Trustees of the Indiana Medical College have accepted - the resighatioif "of j Prof. Dugan Clark, who for the past six years has occupied the chair of the prinj ciples and practice of medicine in that institution. Dr. L. D. Waterman, of Indianapolis, has been appointed to and accepted the professorship. : The Soldiers’ reunion will be held at Indianapolis on Thursday and Friday, Oct 14 and 15. Regimental reunions will be in order for the first day, and on Friday a grand parade with an oration by Senator Morton and others. Prospects are very flattering for large representations, pf soldiers from all paps of the State.

The United States keeps two river sig-nal-lights • burning opposite Rising -Sun. every night in the year, one at the head of the bar on the Indiana side and the other at the foot of the bar on the Kentucky side of the river. The compensation of the men having charge of the lights is fifty cents per night, and a barrel of oil is sent to 'each' man every three months. " j Some weeks since Israel Ulrey, of Rising Sun. was robbed of s6,ooo’in money/ the savings of many years; which he was about to invest in a farm. The robbery was committed at noonday Il’s breaking open a desk or bureau in his dwelling, where he had deposited the money. Mr. Ulrey and a detective have been quietly working up the case, and one day recently' five citizens, who have heretofore borne • good characters, w ere arrested, upon i what is claimed as conclusive evidence of their guilt. At a recent session of the Slgte Board ot Education a resolution was adopted: “ That in order to secure a more complete j system of public instruction in the State of Indiana this Board will hereafter issue commissions to high-school teachers to examine candidates for admission to Purdue University upon the same conditions upon which they are examined for the State University.” Also: “That this regulation : be communicated to those Superintendents ’ of high-schools who ha've received commissions from this Board during the present year.”