Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1876 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

Henry county pippins weigh twenty-six onncee this year—at least one of them did. A. J. Newsome harvested 30,000 bushels of corn this season on his farm in Green county. Mathew Robinson lives in Lafayette, and the Journal says ho was 109 years old last August. A workman in South Bend has made a beautiful stand top of 11,840 pieces of ash, walnut and oherry. A South Bend gentleman recently kicked his wife out of a drug store because she wanted to buy some chloroform. Starke county will erect a new dwelling house in Knox, for the occupancy of her sheriff, at a cost not exceeding SBOO. Robert 11. Vinton, son of Judge Vinton, of Lafayette, recently bad a foot so badly mangled by the cars as to render amputation necessary. Hon. E. L. Furness hss been selected by the Grangers of Porter county to represent them in the state Grange, which will convene at Indianapolis next month.

A safe belonging to Pressler & Richey, merchants at Cherubusco, Whitley county, was blown open by but glars last Saturday, and |2,000 cash and securities stolen. Ingram Brothers' livery stable at Logansport was burned last Wednesday morning, destroying 14, 000 worth of property, including six horses and several carriages and buggies. Dennis Foley, drunk, laid down on the track of the Fort Wayne, Muncie A Cincinnati railroad, near Muncie, on Saturday night of last week, and was run over by the cars and killed. He was a section boss. Lewis Shendle, a laborer on a construction train, was killed at Warsaw, last Friday, by being caught between the engine and a car. Both legs were badly crushed, and he was injured internally, and died one hour after the accident. He leaves a wife and one child at Plymouth. A' Bartholomew county farmer, named Bates, has 14,000 bushels of wheat in bin. It is the product of his farm this season. A gentleman by the name of Bowman in the same county has 9,000 bushels of last year’s corn to turn off this season which is worth 35 cents a bushel. These are newspaper reports; but the wheat story looks as though it might drop a cipher and still sound well.