Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1876 — STATE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

STATE ITEMS.

Monticollo is visited by a 72-ycar old Indian doctor. A flax factory ’is soon to be. established at Kokomo. A Kansas City firm recently gave an order for 12,C00 yards of jeans to the New Albany woolen nulls. Jesse Brown, of New Albany', recently bid in the Louisville, New Albany <fc St. Louis railroad at bankrupt sale for SIB,OOO. Mrs. Nancy A. Thornton, wife of Clark Thornton, died at Kcntlaml. ou the 18th instant. Quite a number of relatives live in Jasper county. , The bursting of a flue in a railroad locomotive at LaPorte on the 18th severely scalded Lon Ruumls, engineer, and John Wentworth, fireman.

Charles Svtlow, a Swede, and merchant at Lake Station in Lake county, committed suicide one day last week, by shooting himself through the head. D. W. Lyons, assignee of William Ashton, of Rochester, an nounces that be will settle tho -latter's debts by paying eight cents on the dollar. Liabilities, $73,802. At a dance at Hobart, Lake county, last week a quarrel arose in the progress of which a man named Collins was shot in the left cheek, but without causing a serious wouhd. George McCloska, living a short distance from Logansport, while standing by an open fire, became dizzy aud fell into it, and was so badly burned about his head and shoulders thathislifoisdispairedof. Newton county is afflicted with its bennialcouuty-seat-war. A petition to remove it from Iveutlahd to Morocco was heard by the board of commissioners last week and decided aversely to petitioners. They appeal to the circuit court. A South Bend small fruit raiser has succeeded in developing strawberries to such enormous dimensions that individual specimens mcashfc mrvcti inches around and weigh eleven twelfths of an ounce each. Thirty to forty measure a quart. 'll