Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Indiana Baptist Convention met at Evansville on the 2d. There were during the, month of October 247 prisoners iu the Indianapolis jail. The assessment of property for taxation in Attica is $144,000 less this year than last. A colored barber named Carter cut his throat with "a razor at Centerville the other day Dr. Brooks, of St. Louis, has declined the recent tender of the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis. John Leiinan was recently fatffily injured ctCrapp’s factory, iu Logansport, by a pile of lumber fulling on him. He died on the Ist. At Mount Vernon, on the 2d,* Noah Bishop, a colored man, killed his divorced wife with an ax. The woman was about to marry again. The tumbling-shaft of a threshing-ma-chine recently’ took in Thomas Graham, in Warren County. He had his arm torn off at the shoulder. A. E. Faber wheeled M. Kaskel from Bristol to Elkhart in a wheelbarrow, the other day, because the people of Ohio elected Hayes Governor. .The Vincennes 6’«b says Hiram Cox, Trustee of Vigo Township, Knox County, has disappeared, and with him \he township funds amounting to $20,000. While Joseph Rogers, a switchman, was coupling cars at Logansport the other night, his head was caiight between projecting timbers and his skull fractured. R. Morton, at Lafayette, has recovered a judgment for $15,000 against the Pittsburgh. Cincinnati & St. Louid Railroad for failure to deliver grain according to contract.

John H. Halliday, proprietor of the Indianapolis Evening Newt, was married on the morning of the 4th to Miss E. M. Rieman, daughter of James N. Rieman, a wealthy Baltimore banker. A jury in a probate case at Union City, after being out eighteen hours, brought in a verdict of guilty, but on polling the jury one member admitted .that he had been starved out. They were sent out again. Rotten-stone, entirely free from grit, and admirably suited for polishing silver and other metals, has been discovered near Stineville, Clay County. A preacher is the fortunate owner of the farm on which it is found. The Indianapolis Journal says it is proposed to have a general exhibition in every school-house in the State on the 11th of December to celebrate the fifty-ninth anniversary of the admission of the State to the Union. Judge Gresham, of the United States District Court.-iffUndiaifapoTTs; on decided that the law compelling distillers aittl other liquor-dealers lo produce their books and papers in court at the instance of the District-Attorney is constitutional. The coal-miners in the vicinity of Evansville have ..struck for four cents a bushel for mining. The present rate is three and a half cents. The operators refused to yield, claiming that they would open the mines within a week with new hands. During a heavy thunder-storm on the 3d a valuable barn belonging to Henry Brooks, near Griflin station, was struck by lightning and totally destroyed by fire Two fine horses perished in the flames and a third was badly injured. Loss $3,000. A mild form of epizootic prevails in the vicinity of Madison, which the Courier attributes to the consumption of ergotized hay. It says-lhe-excessively rainy weather of the past summer has produced » large amount of erzot in the hay, especial ly that made from red-top.

A mock d was recently opened near Knox which contained several skeletons of human beings who were once of great stature. It is estimated that they must have been some seven or eight feet tall while living. Among the other interesting things discovered were several copper arrow-heads. The Board of Supervisors of Madison County have called a special election to be held onlhe 23d of November to vote upon the question of authorizing a loan of SIOO,000 to rebuild the Court-House. The vote coptemplates the levy of a tax of five mills yearly for five years. The Court-House of this county was burned about a month ago. The following were the postal c.ianges in Indiana during the week ending Oct. 30, 1875: Discontinued—Mount Liberty, Brown County; Rock Island, Perry County. Postmasters appointed—Clouser’s Mills, Montgomery County, Nathan Lew is; Elizaville, Boone County v William Byers/Templeton, Benton County, O. H. Hayes; Upland, Grant County, Jacol Bugher; Wild Cat, Carroll County, John W. Penn. , The will of Dr James 8. Athon, a former State official who recently died at Indianapolis, gives th. Mrs. Athon onethird Of his property for life, and the balance equally to his three children. After the death of Mrs. Athon the third given her will go equally to the children. He made a special bequest of SSOO to Mrs. Athon s. daughter. It is estimated that the estate w ill amount to from $150,000 to $200,000, and is mostly in real estate. The Attorney-Genera! is called upon to answer a rather knotty question in jurisprudence. The village of Lebanon, desiring to put on city airs by. taking tage of the law on the subject, has declared' that henceforth it wifTassume the functions of an incorporated city. By a majority vote of the citizens the town ceased tn be, » City Council was elected and or.dinances were passed for the city government. According to the law, an ordinance cannot go into effect until two weeks after its passage. The question arises, bow is is the city governed in the interim, or is it. governed at all ?