Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

&tol£ coafl wire .-hipped from Brazil. Maori sJacksw, an of Laftwette, died a few mornings ago effects of morphine taken to alleviate pain. ' - , A Richmond idiot recently threw a lot of o)d cartridges into a coal vault, from which they went into the fire, and exploding blew the stove to pieces. A little girl in Evansville, recently, while swinging in her father’s yard became entangled and would Have choked to death hadjiot a neighbor seen and released iter. The depot of the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad at Danville was entered by burglars on the night of the 11th and the safe of the American Express Company robbed of $2,000. Burglars went through the Postoffice at Wadton, Cass Copnty, on the night of the 14th, taking all tire letters in the boxes and about SSO worth of goods from the store where the Postofiice is Ipcaled. The mast is said to be uncommonly heavy in Jefferson County. So great is the beechnut crop also that farmers find it profitable to bring it to the city and sell it to the grocers and confectioners like chestnuts. At Richmond, on the 15th, wfiile serving a warrant for the arrest of John Stone, for stealing wheat, Deputy-Sheriff Stratton shot at him seveu times. Three of the shots took -effect, and then the rascal allowed himself to be taken to jail. A boiler in the Occidental Hotel, at Indianapolis, exploded a few afternoons ago, tearing out a side-wall and shaking the structure from turret to foundation. The damage, considering the imminent risk, was light and-no one was hurt. The accident was attributed to low water. Clara ScHßAMrf&as recently terribly injured at a Richmond paper-mill. While washing her hands near the "machinery she felt something pulling her dress and put back her hands to feci what it was. Both hands were caught in a cog-wheel and terribly lacerated, one being ground up neatly to the elbow. At Valparaiso, on (lie evening of the 14th, the express train on the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne Railroad struck a man who was walking on the track, killing him instantly. He was a German, named Albert Voglekand, and accidentally walked into a cattle-guard, and" could not get out before the train was upon him. The Brigharm Brothers, whisky-distill-ers at Evansville, have recently abandoned all claim to tbeir distillery and rectifying establishment, worth $60,000, recently seized by the Government, rather than allow their books to be brought into court and subjected to a trying criticism. In the surrender were also included two distilleries at Patoka. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has offered to settle the matters in dispute with the C., C. & I. C. Railroad Company by giving a definite guarantee of interest on the first mortgage bonds, provided the bondholders will agree to take 6 instead of 7 per cent., and the second mortgage bondholders will exchange their present holdings for new income bonds. D. G. Biggs made his advent into Madison about three years ago. He seemed an exemplary young man and finally married a very respectable young lady there. After six months of married life lie coolly deserted his wife and then sent her a letter informing her that his name was not only not D. G. Biggs, but that lie had a wife and children elsewhere. It was a cruel and heartless proceeding.

The Grand Lodge I. 0. convened in annual session at Indianapolis on the 17th, and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Grand Patriarch, J. W. Smith, Gosport; G. H. Priest, John Morgan, 'Madison'; G. Sr. Warden, G. A. Milnes, Fremont; G. Jr. Warden; George L. Curtiss, Indianapolis; G. Scribe, B. F. Foster, Indianapolis; G. Treasurer, T. P. Haughey, Indianapolis; Grand Representative Reuben Robertson, New Albany; alternate, John W. McQuiddy; G. Sentinel, Christopher Tober, Madison; G. Dep. Warden, Joseph S. Watson, Indianapolis. The grand officers’ reports show 479 effective lodges in the State, and a membership of 26,000. Twenty-three new lodges have been instituted during the last six months. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week ending Nov. 13, 1875: Established—Huntersville, Clay County, Elizabeth J. Hunter, Postmistress; Jasonville, Greene County, Samuel Kelshaw, Postmaster. Discon-tinued-Bowser, Blackford County; Nash Depot, Vanderburgh County. Postmasters appointed—Bretzville, Dubois County, Charles Ritzman; Castleton, Marion County, Peter L. Negley; Chestnut Hill, Washington County, James W. Bell; Elizaville, Boone County, William M. Byers; Ferdinand. Dubois County, Mrs. Mina Gohmann; Loudon, Shelby County, Miles A. Ashton; Newbern, Bartholomew County, Mrs. Jane Shepherd; Pekin, Washington County, George M. Johnson; Rockford, Jackson County, E. F. Parker. Not long ago a man named D. Craft, residing at Lake Station, purchased of a druggist an ounce* and a halt of worm-seed-oil to give to his four children who were troubled wath worms. He administered it to all of tyem in doses of from four to eight drops three times a day, according to the' directions of tire druggist. One of the children refused to swallow the medicine and was saved, „ but the other three died and were buried in one grave. Doctors differ as to the power of the medicine, and at the inquest some testified that the doses were too large, while others insisted that they were not. No blame is attached, to the father, but. on the contrary. great sympathy is felt for him. The people rather blame the druggist, who is thought to have been criminally careless.