Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — STATE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

STATE ITEMS.

The Odd Fellows* Mutual Aid Association of Indiana elected the following officers on the 22d instant: William Wallace, president; Leonidas Sexton, vice president; John W. McQuiddy, secretary; J. 11. Hanghey, treasurer; A. L. Isgriggs, medical examiner. The receipts of last year were >87,046--54; expenditures, >86,707.29. On the morning of the 24th inst. neighbors going to the house of Daniel Killer, five miles north of Fort Wayne, found him lying dead on his bed. Life had been extinct several hours. He lived the life of a hermit, being seldom visited except on business. He had accumulated a large amount of property. Joseph Debus, living seven and a half miles northeast of Mount Vernon, met with a terrible death on the 15th instant He was hauling saw-logs, and riding on the log; the wagon went into a rut rolling the log from the wagon. Mr. Debus was caught under the log and crushed terribly. He - died two hours afterward.

Thomas Huff, night yard master of the St. Louis and Southeastern railroad at Evansville, was run over by a switch engine, on the night of the 16th instant, and killed. The body was horribly mutilated, being severed in two parts. He leaves a wife, to whom he had been married only a few months, to mourn his untimely death. The president of the board of trustees of tbe state university has filed his report for the year, showing the receipts and expenditures and resources of the institution. The finance committee on this showing say that in order to liquidate the debt and avoid the creation of further indebtedness it has been decided to reduce the salaries of professors each >2OO per annum. They also find themselves without means to continue the law department —

Never in its history has the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago line done such a heavy freight traffic as at the present time. Coal is moving over the line northward in immense quantities and lumber southward. Within a few weeks 10,000 tons of iron ore from Lake Superior have been landed at Michigan City and been transported to Brazil furnaces, whence, after being converted into “pig,” has been shipped to the Joliet rolling-mills over the same line.— lndianapolis Journal. Mrs. Clem, the noted murderess, who has been living in comparative quiet since her release by the courts, has again come before the public as a defendant in a suit brought by Eliza J. King and Lorena Miller, to recover >8,500, alleged to have been advanced to her for herself, her husband, and Deloss Root, all of whom are made parties to the suit. The transaction out of which the suit rose was exactly similar to those in which Mrs. Clem was engaged prior to the tragic affair which gave prorninece to her name, and which resulted in the death of Young and his wife. Root denies all complicity in the affair, and says be believes Mrs. Clem is insane.

At Delphi, Friday night, Theodore Brough left his overcoat in a hall at Mrs. Rogers’ boardinghouse. While at supper two tramps stole the coat. On discovering his loss, Brough mounted a horse and started in pursuit, overtaking the tramps about four miles west of Delphi. Upon demanding his property, he was attacked, knocked from his horse, beaten, bucked and gagged, and his revolver, memor-andum-book, and 123 in cash taken by the thieves, who mounted his horse and rode rapidly away. Brough’s friends, fearful of trouble at bis absence, mounted horses, followed him, and met him a short distance from the scene of the encounter. Parties were eeut in different directions in pursuit. One party traced them towards this city. Near Wild Cat they learned that the tramps bad left Brough’s horse and taken a fresh one from the stable of John Guyer. They were traced down the canal toLafayetle. Mr. Guyer’s horse waa found in the street m the eastern part of the cUy yesterday morning, but (he tbjeyeyhayy Rotyet beendiscovered.