Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Tit® Gibson County National Bank will pay a4O per cent, dividend to its creditors about the Ist of November, they say. J. D. Pratt shot and killed J. Warurck, nt Tampico, the other night. They were quarreling about the property. The three-year-old* daughter ofC. Mullen Irving, near Indianapolis, was burned to death the other night in consequence ts herclothing catching fire from a hot stove. An elevator in a Terre Haute spoke-fac-tory fell the other day a distance of thirty feet. Three men were standing upon it and are very badly injured—one of them fatally. Durwalt & Co.’s planing-mill in Lafayette was burned to the ground on the morning of the 14th, involving a loss of SIO,OOO. The fire wad the work of an incendiary. The fine new* union schqpl-house at Auburn was burned to the ground on the night of the 16th, involving a loss of about $15,000, upon which there was only $3,000 insurance. Martin L. Pierce, of Newport, was thrown over the head of a horse which Jie was riding after cattle, a few days ago, and instantly killed. He was a promi. nent Odd Fellow. Mrs. Rufus Schoolcraft, of North Manchester, asked her servant-girl to give her a dose of quinine the other day. She gave her a dose of morphine instead, and on the 15th it was thought Mrs. Schoolcraft would die. The Board of County Commissioners of Gibson County have ordered the sum of $7,000 to be expended for the purpose of furnishing work to the families made destitute by the high waters. Each laborer is allowed $1.50 per day. The annual report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shows that the State school fund has increased $87,000 during the last year and now amounts to $8,798,000, besides 11,507 acres of unsold Congressional school-land, valued at $105,000. . An exhibit of the receipts and expenditures of the late State Exposition shows: receipts, $28,646.45, expenditures, $28,539.37. This showing does not include tlie building or interest account, but is merely a financial statement of the exposition and fair.

The following were the postal changes in Indiana during the week ending Oct. 16, 1875: Discontinued—Stephensport, Warrick County. Postmasters appointed— Indian Village, Noble County, Henry Knightstown, Henry County, John F. Bell; Reynolds, White County, John A. Batson;. Solsberry, Green County, Thomas R. Cook; Whitleyville. Jackson County, A. W. Draper. The Supreme Court has just decided unconstitutional so much of the law of March 5, 1875, as requires Sheriff’s sale and other notices to be published in German newspapers. The court holds the law to be in conflict with Sec. 22 and 23 of Art IV. of the Constitution, requiring that all laws regulating the practice in courts must be uniform. It is thought this doctrine will apply to all legal notices of every kind The Independent Order of Red Men recently in session at Madison adjourned on the 20th,-after the election of the following officers: Great Sachem, John Davis, Bourbon; Sagamore, R. 8. Gregory, Muncie ;G.J.S., John A. McGawn, Indianapolis.; G. Prophet, J. W- Linck, Madison; G. C. of Records, D. A. James, Lafayette; Wampum, J. W. Shirey; Representatives to the Grand Council of the Jin i ted States, Willie David, Indianapolis ; A. Linck, Madison. A runaway team hitched to a heavy road-wagon ran into a buggy, in Lafayette, on the 17th, in which were seated Gen. J. J. Reynolds and W. S. Lingle, editor of the Lafayette Courier. The team apparently tried to jump over the buggy and came down upon it, crushing all to the ground. Gen. Reynolds was cut in the head and otherwise injured, but not seriously. Mr. Lingle was insensible Ar some hours and, at first, he was thought to be fatally injured, but he revived on the following day, and at last accounts he was thought likely 7 to recover. The Grand Council of Royal and Select Masons recently in session at Indianapolis elected the following officers: Daniel McDonald, of Plymouth, M. PGrand Master; Samuel B. Richardson, of Logansport, D. P. Grand Master; Charles H. Butterfield, of Evansville, Grand Third Illustrious Master; Albert P. Charles, of Seymour, G. P. C. of the Work; Charles Fisher, of Indianapolis’, Grand Treasurer; John M. Bramwell, of Indianapolis, Grand Recorder. The Grand Chapter elected the following officers: Lucian A. Foot, G. H. P.; Ruben Heden, D. G. H. P.; Simeon 8. Johnson, G. K.; Martin H. Rice, G. S.; Charles Fisher, G. T.; John M. Bramwell, G. S.; Francis M. Symmes, Crawfordsville, Chaplain; Edward S. Ross, R. C. H.; Wm. Roach, G. R. A. C., Ander-' son; Wm. M. Black, G. G. Quite a sensation was produced in Indianapolis social circles the other day by the report, afterward verified, that Wm. G. Munson, who was to have married Miss Adele Robertson on the evening of the 20th, had on the morning of his bridal day fled from the city, after writing a note to his lady-love bidding her good-by and transferring to his mother property to the amount of $22,000. The lady was overwhelmed by his dastardly conduct, for cards were out and her parents had made great preparations in a social point of view to give their daughter a and fashionable send-off. An unusual number of presents had been ordered and engraved for the event So far as possible the invitations for the wedding were countermanded, but there were a large number of guests from Shelby County and other points who could not be reached in time. Munson, it is said, had been paying his respects to the fair Adele for eight years.