Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

M atthew Turner, a well-known citizen of I Turtle C'reek Township, in Vigo County, died on the 9th of milk sickness. Tnos. Conner, a notorious tramp, fell Into Rogues' Run, at Indianapoiis, on the Cth, and was killed. He was drunk. The store of Dr. Trees, at Manilla, was entered by burglars the other night. They blew open the safe and secured SSOO in currencj* Geo. W. Ccnnv, of Indianapolis, while hunting near the Insane Asylum on the 7th, accidentally and totally shot himself while climbing a fence. John Norton was struqk on the head the other eveniher, at Terre Haute, with a billiarJ-ouc. He died on the 11th. Elijah Otter back, liis assailant, lias been arrested. The woolen mills at Auburn were burned on the evening of the 6th. The fire is supposed to have been the result of spontaneous combustion. Loss about |15,000. ;/_ A Mrs. Shea lias turned up in Indianapolis who claims to have been born in Ireland in 17G9. She is now in her 107th year, is hale and hearty and bids fair to live a dozen years yet. Ox the night of the 10th Mrs. Jennie Berry, the divorced wife of Cal Wagner, the minstrel, attempted to commit suicide, in her rooms at Indianapolis, by taking aconite. A physician and a stomach-pump saved her. -, v .- The Chairmen of the' several committees having in charge the late soldiers’ reunion in Indianapolis met on the 9tli, and found on hand, after settlement, a surplus of $1,134.76, which they transferred to the monument fund. A five-year-oi.o son of Samuel Simjnons, residing at Sliarpsville, was instantly killed the other afternoon while climbing on a log wagon. His head was caught between the wheels and bolster and crushed to a shapeless mass. A sixteex-yeak-old boy, named Dixon Smith, recently shot J. M. Myers, a brakeman on the Indiana, Peru & Chicago Railroad, _wlio entered his father’s premises at Tipton to steal turnips. He lias been held to bail in SSOO to answer. James Scott, Justice of the Peace at Huntington, on the Bth administered a terrible cow-hiding to William Kocher, a leading lawyer of that place. The cause oftlie whipping was not known. Sam Winters, of the Democrat, attempted to interfere unjLycceived several smart cuts for liis pains. Two mex' named Trapp and Riddle, living a short distance east of Hartford City, had a difficulty on the 10th about a farm the former had rented the latter. Trapp had sold liis farm and tried to induce Riddle to give up possession. Riddle became very angry at Trapp’s persistency, and seizing a heavy club struck him a fearful blow on the bead, instantly killing him. The Governor on the Uth appointed the following gentlemen to represent the State at the Railroad Convention to be held at St. Louis on Nov. 23: Hon. Leonidas Sexton, E. S. Alvord, Chas. Viele, Hon. C. M. Alien, Jesse J. Drown, Hon. J. R. Cravens, B. F.. Cl ay pool, M. L. Bundy, John Cavin, D- W. Voorliees, Judge S. C. Wilson, Dr. M. G. Sherman, C. B. Knowlton, Hon. Ochweig Bird, Dr. a. W. McConnell. In the Supreme Court, on the Btli, an opinion was filed which disposes of the Lafayette intra-municipal jangle. The question presented was as to the power of a City Judge to exercise jurisdiction in a suit for violation of a city ordinance. The court holds that the law under which the offioe of City Judge was sought to be created was inoperative. There is no provision in the act declaring that when a City Judge has been provided for and elected lie shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction conferred upon the Mayor by the act of March 14, 1867, or that he shall have any jurisdiction whatever. The court fails to find, from Anything contained in the act now .in force, that the City Judge, when elected, is to supersede the Mayor In his official duties, for the plain reason that there is no language of the act wljich attempts to express such an intention, as the City Judge does not supersede the Mayor, and the Mayor is required to hold court daily and is given exclusive jurisdiction. In cases involving infractions of city ordinances it i 9 held that the City Judge has no'jurisdiction. As tins implies the creation of a judicial officer without any cases to try, it must be attributed to oversight on the part of the Legislature in failing to define his jurisdiction. Hon. J. 11. Smart, Superintendent of Public Instruction, has prepared a summary of the annual reports of the County Superintendents for the year ending Sept. 7, from which the following figures are taken: Number of white children admitted into the schooi s-during the yrarr*9s,v 110; colored, 6,651; males, 267,463; females, 241,911- number of school districts, 9.191; colored schools taught during the year, 132; white teachers employed, 13.047; colored teachers, 80; average compensation of nfale teachers per day in townships, $2.03; females in townships. $1.80; males in towns, $3.25 ; females in towns, $1.96; males in cities, $4.71; females in eitie9, $2.28; total revenue received for tuition, $4,797,127.45; amount expended since September. 1874, $2,830,747.15; ou band, $1,966,380.34; received on account of special fund, $2,354,395.45; expended since Sept. 1, 1874. $1,699,457.44; od hand, $654,932.97; school-houses in the State, 9,307; total estimated value of school property, $10,880,337.58; total estimated special school tax, $1,618,078.77; amount paid to trustees for managing educational matters, $72,983.21; number of school-houses erected during the year, 383; value of school-houses erected j,5'641,544; private schools, 949; teachers in private schools, 960; number of pupils admitted during the year, 18,956.