Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

The '*tatO convenes today. Lebanon hila only nine agloona row. ,Ooe froze oat. Indianapolis is now enjoying the sensation of two first clans scandals. Tha Northern Jndianian is now old enough to rote, being twentyone year* of ageu Mr*. Hinds, mother of J. W. Hinds, coal merchant of Madison, fell down stair* Sunday night and was killed; Governor Hendricks has appbinted Jacob B. Julian judge of the circuit court in Manon county, vice L. Howland, resigned. Rev. D. D. Gitchett, a pioneer ot Methodism in the St. Joseph valley, died at Mishawaka, last Wednesday, aged 7$ year*. H* was a .minister over forty years.

A member of New Albany Lodge No. 10, I. O. O. F. ha* been *iok twenty-four years, during which period the society ha* paid him over $6,000. He is still a charge upon them. The pofltoffice at Kendallvill* was entered by burglar*, Wednesday night of lest week, and the safe blown open and robbed of 8200. The sam* safe was blown open and robbed last August. Niek Stanb, a young farmer living near Fvarttville, went' celling with e crowd ot boys New Year’* morning. At the house of e men named Weishaimer, another man named Chi Ist Wiggera accidentally discharged a shot gun* The load went through St sab’s head, kitting him instantly. The coroner returned a. verdict of cocidctwt shutting.

Joaph T. Tedrcwe, five feet four inches in bight, weight lOb pounds, jand Zoe Lindley, four fret nine laeße* In bight, weight 84 pounds, were married at Indianapolis, on Christmas day. They are said to be the smallest married ooupie in that city. Albert Atkins, a brakeman on tbs Madison braoeh of the J., M. and I. railroad, was killed Tuesday ,afternoon, at Ssipio, a lew miles 'below Columbus, by falling bw tween tbs ears while ia motion. One pair of trneks passed over bis body, killing him instantly. t Conrad Arnnan, employed in the car shop* of the P. F. and C. R. R. at Fort Wayne was injured last Thursday by a plank be was sawing being thrown violently by the saw and striking him m the abdomen, causing internal injuries which it is feared will prove fatal. Frank Minton, a lad fifteen years old, living in Hardinsborg, Washington eounty, recently stole 8600 from a man named Andy Mack, of that place. He was arrested and 8380 of the money recovered, bat the incorrigible youth escaped from jail a day or two since, and has not yet been captured.

The proprietor of the Potter house at Dayton, Tippeoanoe county, is a model democrat Since the election whenever ike news has been favorable to Mr. Tilden’s trlf nmpb he has demonstrated his satisfaction by displaying the flag ot the late Confederate government from a staff erected for that purpose on the top of the hotel. George Kramer, a well-to-do saddler of Terre Haute, committed suicide, last Friday night, by cutting his throat with a razor. Two years ago he was sun struck and since then has been subject to mental aberration, and while in this state took his life. He died almost immediately. He was forty-six years of age and leaves a wife Snd five children, the joungest two, and the oldest twelve years of age. He. had lived in Terre Haute about fifteen years, and bad amassed considerable property. Professor Kirkwood, of Bloomington, says of the recent celestial phenomenon: The mateOric group passed vertically over the northwestern part of Indiana, at an elevation of forty-fiv* to forty-eight miles. To an. observer in the vi oinity of Plymouth, Marshall county, the length of its visible track was probably not. less than 800 miles. The least distance of the group from Bloomington was kbout 185 miles. Its length was 20 degrees, its breadth 8; the true length of the oiuster was therefore 42 miles, and its diameter 8 miles.