Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

John Reed committed suicide by shooting, in Starke county, last week. Over 2,000 feet of gravel walk was laid by citixtms of Morocco last week. Apples a~e plentiful at Winamac where they are sold for twenty cents a bushel. About eight hundred bill* remain, to be disposed of by I e Indiana legislature this session. Only this w< ek is lef; for them to complete their work in. On Saturday night Alfred Smith and Alfred Broderick enuaged in a fight at Tyner City, m the course of which Smith was shot by Brode. ick ami instantly killed. The murderer made his escape. A Chicago boat, brought into this port last Sunday,7l sturgeons, which, dressed, weighed 1,982 pounds. They sell tor (5| cents a pound, ami will net 8128 83, a handsome sum for one day’s work.— Mithtgun City Enterprise. Justice Win. A. I’a'mer, who was sentenced to a term in the Michigan City penitential- : about a year ago lor shooting Mr. Murray, of the South Bend Herald, died in the prison hospital last week of consumption. Interesting revival meetings have been held for several weeks by the Christian and Baptist denominations at Warsaw. On Sunday ten persons were immersed who united with the former chtireb and 'Nineteen who united with the latter. The St. Joseph county jail leaks prisoners like a seive. Last week six or seven inmates traveled boldly out al midday, some of them were recaptured but they remained only long enough to rest themselves after their chase and went through again. Three and three quarter columns of the Indianapolis Sun of last Saturday is occupied by a tqieecb delivered before the Indianapolis greenback lyceum on the 13ih tilt., by Senator George Major. It is abou-t the same uld song that had such soporific effect on his school house audiences in Jasper county last eunuuer. Mr. Henry Spit’al, residing a mile or two southwest of Crown Poim, met with a fearful accident last Friday. He was driving a yokr of oxen, with a wagon loaded with manure. In some way he lent hi--balance and tell with one leg in the wheel and another caught it» the “hounds’' In this condition he was found by Mr. George Krimbill and Dr. Il ggioS. It was found that both legs were broken, one at the hip ami the other below the knee Mr. Spittai is quite an old man, and we hear bis physician thinks his chances for recovery ar* lather meagre.— Lowell Star.