Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Cot. Polk, Auditor of Wabash County, died a lew days ago. , Tiif. tobacco crop of Orange County this year is the largest ever raised there. W. B. Young’s ptaning-mill, at Tipton, waajftirned a few nights ago. Loss about $5,000. The Indiana Baptist State Convention will meet at Evansville on the 2d to 4tli of November nest. An incendiary fire on the morning of the 23d destroyed Haas’ Ctpera-House, at Wabash. Loss $12,500. A vast deposit of superior marble has been found on the farm of Stephen Kirkpatrick, of Cass County. William Russel, living with his uncle near Rushville, committed suicide the other night by hanging himself. A remarkable religious awakening is manifesting itself in Randolph County-, particularly in the vicinity of Winchester, Grave charges have been preferred against the Superintendent of the Vanderburg County Asylum by the County Physician. The Centennial Committee report, already, about 400 applications for space at the Exhibition by Indiana merchants and manufacturers. Valparaiso suffered from a $12,500 fire on the morning of the 24th. Lepell’s brick furniture store was one of the structures burned. At Sweitzer, the other day, Lewis Molt, in getting oft - a moving train, fell between the station platform and the cars and had his back broken. Maggie Benton was [fatally burned at Connersville a few days ago while playing with other children around a fire lighted in the front yard. , William Howard, a freight brakeman on the Cincinnati Railroad, fell from the train, near Lawrenceburg, on the ,29th ult., and w-as instantly killed. John Haslet, sixty years old, was instantly killed at Dover on the 30th ult., while assisting to raise a heavy timber, upon the frame of a wagon. Luther R. Martin, of Indianapolis, a well-known real estate broker, was thrown from his bugy the other evening and fatally injured. He died next morning. Mrs. Hacker, of Marco, gave her two children, the other day, what she supposed to be quinine. It proved to be strychnine and both,died in an hour. A little three-year-old boy, son of H. C. Short, living near Rushville, was burned to death a few morning ago in consequence of his clothing taking fire from a hot stove. Two small children of James Franklin were alone in his house at Marco, a few days ago, when the clothes of the eldest caught fire from the kitchen-stove and she was burned to death. Jas. Mclntosh was fatally injured while at work in Tucker’s mill, at Logansport, the other day, by being struck in the stomach by a heavy piece of wood thrown from a shaping-machine. A four-year-old son of John Spoon, of Moluroeviile. "while -riding with his father on a load of corn, the other day, fell oft and the wagon passed over his bowels. He lived thirty minutes. James Martin, a farm-laborer, twenty years old, came to Terre Haute on the 31st ult. to see his mother, and got into an altercation with John Scader, his sister’s husband, by whom he was fatally stabbed. Samuel Fanning stabbed his brother-in-law, John Clark, at North Manchester, seven times, the other day, and fatally wounded him. The trouble arose from Clark attempting to correct Fanning’s child. During a drunken row at Indianapolis on the evening of the 23d Thomas Meskell was stabbed in the leg by a rowdy named W 11. Howard. An artery was severed and Meskell bled to death in five minutes. On the 4th, at Walton, George Harris, while gathering nuts, fell from the top of a large tree, his head striking on a snag, which drove itself through his skull, inflicting wounds from which he died five hours after. Frank Martin, of Cambridge City, while hickory-nutting the other day-, climbed a tree to shake down the shellbarks. A limb broke, precipitating him to die ground, twenty-five feet below, and (j injuring him internally and fatally. At Cambridge, during the terrific storm of the 29th, a bridge on the Pan Handle Railroad tottered and fell just as a Ireigbt train was passing. The engine and four cars went into the creek, and the fireman and one of the brakemen were killed.

As John Gilmer, of Washington township, Wayne County, was passing behind a young horse in his stable a few days ago he stepped upon a rotten plank which broke under his weight. His foot caught in the hole and while endeavoring to extricate himself the ljorse kicked him, breaking his skull and jaw. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week ending Oct. 23, 1875: Postmasters appointed— Alto, Howard County, William A.. Quick; Ashland, Hemy County, A. V. Lamb; Collamer, Whitley CoujoJy, J. C. Grafton; English, Crawford County, Thomas Hanley; Ross, Lake County, Christopher W. Lander; Springport, Henry County, Hand, ford Benedict; Sweetser’s, Grant County, Emerson Jester; Titusville, Ripley County, Owen M. Breeden. There was a speck of war in Lake County the other day. As the engineers of the proposed line of the I. & S. Railway were about to run their line over the farm of J. H. Beadle he met them with a jrifle and a revolver, and swore he would shoot the first man that stepped on his land. The.,chief engineer ordered his men forward and Mr. Beadle raised his ride, evidently intending to use it. At this juncture the Sheriff wrested the gun from the excited gentleman and the work was allowed to proceed.