Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1876 — State Gossip. [ARTICLE]

State Gossip.

The Fort Wayrife pension agenoy annually disburses $600,000. New Buffalo, Michigan, peaches are retailing from wagons at LaForte, at the rate of sl.soabnshel. A young man named Theodore Feldman, was found dead in an Evansville saloon one morning last week, a victim of excessive drink. Topp White, the negro who tried to kill his wife and then himself, in Clark oonnty, not long since, died in the Charlestown jail, recently. Alfred Walker’s barn, Jtalf a mile west of Anderson, was destroyed by lightning on the njght of the 7lb. Lobs, $3,50Q; insured. vir., A little five-year-old girl at Michigan L’ity recently fell from her chair and expired almost instantly. Heart disease is suggested as the probable cause. Harry" Douglas a prominent business man of Terre Haute, was seized with a severe fit Of coughing; on the 4th inst., and died from the effects thereof. ■ Hiram Bores, of Rushville,xtook a dose of strychnine, thinking 4t quinine, and almost died iu consequence of the poison. He thinks hia system will be free from ague symptoms for the next fifty years. EHza Jackson, of Greenfield, recently buried her, new-born infant alive in a potatoe hole, where it remained undiscovered twenty tour hours. When found it was sliU living, but fly-bloWn, with the maggots working in its head and e»r*» The child died a few hours afterwards, and its molbfris ih a critical SUpditi on.