Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1876 — INDIANA MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MATTERS.

Residents of the state of Indiana enjoy the facilities of 1,542 post offices. Walkerton will probably ship 10,000 bushels of huckleberries this season. The new Lutheian church at Michigan City has received a 2,000 pound bell. The peach crop is reported to be a plentiful one in Laport county, this season. Brazil shipped 2,917 cars, or 35,000 tons of coal during the. month of July past. • ■ Anthracite (hard) coal is delivered in the bins at Valparaiso for 17.90 per ton. Michigan City boasts of having 42 saloons within her city limits, and yet her citizens are not happy. A man named Daniel S walls was run over and killed by the cars on the Vandalia railroad, near Terre Haute, on the 11th instant. A young farmer, named Patrick Campbell, living near Lagrange, was run over and killed by a runaway team, one day jast week. Baize Muessel fell from a third story window, while asleep, at South Bend on the night of the 15th and was kdled almost instantly.

Last Friday, while the mail train was passing Staunton, a mannamed Duval, stepping off the track, was struck on the head by the engine and killed instantly. In an altercation two miles south of Kokomo, last Saturday night, James O’Dowd struck with an axe and fatally injured a man named French, cutting him both in the breast and back. On the Oth inst., Martin Andrews drove his team over and killed a boy named Frank Kiser, at West Point, Tippecanoe county. Andrews was intoxicated at the time and has since been arrested. Thursday morning, of last week, a young man named John West, while drunk, was run over and instantly killed by a train on the Madison branch of the J, M. and I. railroad, near Wirt Station. Mr. B. B. Patton’s residence and contents, three mites southwest of Rochester, Fulton 'county, were totally destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. Loss $1,600; insured for SI,OOO. Mr. Patton was formerly a citizen of Rensselaer.

Sheriff Nisely offers S2OO reward for the apprehension ot W. D. Reed, who recently escaped from the Tippecanoe county jail, where he was incarcerated, to answer a charge ot forgery preferred against him Uy the Singer sewing machine company.

The Indianapolis street car stables, together with forty mules and horses, and twenty-five cars, were entirely consumed by fire Sunday night last. The loss is estimated to be about $40,000. Robert Hall, a carpenter, received injuries from which he died Sunday afternoon. A blackberrying party in Lake county finding themselves Related ond evening last week took refuge in a school house. Directly they were surrounded by a poise of armed men and compelled to appear before a justice of the peace, who required them to give a note for ten dollars before he would release them floin custody.

A tramp recently stole a horse and. carriage near New Paris. He was pursued and overtaken five or six miles distant, and halted at word of command. Ona of his captors beat him about hi« head with a loaded revolver, cutting him in a dreadful manner. They then handcuffed him, strapped him to the rear of their carriage, and proceeded to test his endurance by brisk driving, he keeping up as best be could. : At Logansport, on the 11th inSt., while some men were engaged in fixing a chain over a vat of boiling water, in Bard's paper mill, the board on which they stood gave way, hurling Mr. Bard and Charles Strobel into the vat below, scalding the former about the feet and legs in a frightful manner, but, however, not seriously. Strobel was terribly scalded from the abdomen down, and it Is feared his injuries may prove fatal.