Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1876 — INDIANA MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MATTERS.

r«n. liu thre® lodge! of Odd Typhoid fiver i* raging to an alarming extent in Indianapolis. A German swallowed forty raw eggs the ether day, in Indianapolis, on a wager. He still Inpes. Jn Lake ooanty Death, Coffin and Graves, live, move and have a being, and make themselves agreeable to other people;# ; F. Cooper, of Richmond, is Hkaaocerafal candidate from (he Hh dietriot for the appointment to a West Point cadetship. Country watermelons oholio Cass county communities. A local editor of a Logansport paper looked upon a load of these luscious fruit and languished with longing. Thomas Parley committed suicide at Marion, on the 17th inst., by taking morphine. He was in the employ of a mercantile firm in Chicago, and is supposed to have lived at Fort Wayne. At Colfax, one day last week, a boy named Elmer Spenoer attempted to iump on a moving train bat missing his hold fell under the wheels, receiving injuries which render his reoovery exceedingly doubtful.

A sou of Sheriff Savery, of Stark county, was carrying a pistol cartridge in his mouth, recently, when chancing to bite too bard it exploded, sending the bsii out through a cheek and terribly lacerating his tongue and mouth. On the 17th instant the town marshal of Merom, Sullivan county, * attempted to arrest a man named George Newman. The latter resisted, whereupon the offieer of the law shot him, inflicting a wound whieh caused his death in a short time. At Fort Wayne on the morning of the 10th inst , a desperado entered a saloon and oalied for a glass of beer, at the same time declaring that be did not inteud to pay for it. The bar-tender refused him the beer oa those terms, whereupon the daring wretoh drew a revolver and fired, the ball entering the bar-tender's thigh and making a very dangerona wound. The villain made good his escape. A man named Woodkirk was run over by the cars, near Rochester, on the 10th inst., and his body horribly mutilated. His head was out to pieces and nothing but his ehln whiskers were left by which he could be identified. Roth legs and an arm were out off and his entrails strewn over the ground for quite a distance. The railroad company is exonerated from any blame whatever, the victim having laid down upon the track while in a state of intoxication, thus virtually causing his own tragio death. Elgin watches for sale by Willey A Sigler.