Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The potato crop is simply enormous all over the State. Cambtudok City talks of sending aco!onv to Tennessee. . i There are .rumors of another strike in tlie Brazil bo'al region. * It snowed briskly at Logans port for two hours on the lllli. Axn now they say a small insect is injuring the growing wheat. Tiikoat diseases are quite prevalent Just now throughout the State. The receipts of the Bartholomew County Fair amounted to over $5,000. Dr. Lambert, .of Goshen, is making a collection of North American birds, slutted.' A fatal disease is carry i ng'off h unci reels of hogs in the western and southern portions of Madison County. The old Western brewery, near Evansville, was -burned the other night, involving a loss of about SB,OOO. The report of the State Prison South for the quarter ending Sept. 30 shows receipts $26,285.05, and expenditures $20,158.83. The inmates of the State Prison South now number 492, with fair prospects of increasing to an even half thousand in a few days. Starting a fire with coal-oil at Lawreneeburg was the cause of it. Her name was Mary, Kertegen. It is hoped her burns are not fatal. Some Spencer County farmers think the acreage of wheat sown in that county this fall will he from 50 to 75 per cent less than usual, owing to the drought The Indianapolis Journal was sold on the 13th to Judge E. B. Martindale and W. R. Holloway. E. W. Halford takes the position of managing editor. The children of the Soldiers Orphans’ Home, at Knightsville, to the number of about fifty are suffering from an aggravated form of the whooping-cough. Tinkler’s grain-elevator at Wea Station, seven miles south of Lafayette, was burned the olher morning. The fire had incendiary origin. Loss about $30,000. The soldiers’ reunion at Indianapolis on tho 14th and 15th was a magnificent success. It was estimated that fully 50,000 veterans were in the city on the 15th. Noble County gets the red ribbon, on pumpkins. > The largest measured seven feet two inches in circumference. They also produced a beet thirty by thirteen inches.

The officers of the Monroe County Fair, sifter paying expenses, found that they would be enabled to pay thirty-three and one-third cents on the dollar of the preinlviius awarded. “ The saw and planing mill at Hicks ville, a few miles east of Auburn, was set on fire by tramps a few mornings ago and totally consumed The loss was about $17,000, on which there was no insurance. The prisoners in the Vigo County jail were discovered the other day in an attempt to escape by sawing loose the iron clamp which held a large stone in its place. Many tools with which they had been working were recovered. Deeds have been filed for record conveying $500,000 worth of real estate to Willard College, at Evansville—the donation of its founder, Willard Carpenter—and the project is now entirely in the hands of the trustees. Work will be commenced next spring. The claims of the parties who figured in the Deaf and Dumb Institute investigation rfre being allowed by the State Auditor, the Board having complied with the instructions of the State officers concerning the same. The proportion of the expenses paid by the State is $2,500. While A. N. Custer was pitching off the stack to a threshing-machine in Clay Township the other day he slid off and struck a pitchfork leaning against the stack. One tine pierced his right side, passing entirely through his lungs. The injury was thought to be fatal. A new phase of the old conflict between the judiciary and the management of the House of Refuge has arisen. Supt. Ainworth refuses to receive John Day into that institution, who is sent there under special instructions of Judge Buskirk, of the Indianapolis Criminal Court, because the offender is over sixteen years of age. -The matter is to be carried -to- the-Strpreme-Court for final adjudication. Ox the evening of the 7th the Indianapolis Banking Company received a telegram from the manager cf the Bank of British North America, located in New York city, directing the arrest oHhy person presenting a circular letter of credit numbered higher than 151. Next day a wekfcdressed stranger answering to the name of Henry Saunders presented a letter numbered 169 at the bank counter and asked for $3,000. He was locked up. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week end ing Oct. 9, 1875: Established—Benham s Store- Kipley County, Aaron H. Neburgger, Postmaster; Given, Clinton County, ; Frederick Roush, Postmaster; Hanover | Center, Lake County, Frank Massoth, ■ Postmaster; Waterford Mills, Elkhart County, Henry Snyder, Postmaster. Postmasters appointed—Bloomingport, Randolph County, Joseph T. Lanun; Otwell, Pike. County, Benjamin E. Dillon. Geo. Negley committed suicide at his residence in Evansville a tew days ago. Negley lived alone, .having had trouble with his family, and was well off. When tound 'his body was upright in bed, with revolver in hand, one chamber having been discharged in his mouth. On the tablenear the bed, was a loaded rifle pointing directly toward him. He had drawn the ramrod and fixed it that a slight touch would discharge the gun in case the revolver failed, and close by his side was s huge butcher-knife; but the revolver did it* work. . .•- , •.l; > .-W