Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

Farmers are plowing for cor> down in Duck creek valley. Fred Allen and Joseph Brown were fatally wounded l>y the explor alon of a flaw mill boiler near Huntington last Thursday; Walter Rogers, 10 yearn old, of Delphi, executes, with eiise, grace and correctness, the moet difficult and complicated music up violin and cornet. /- Business with the lumber dealers at Michigan ,City i| looking up. Their sales during: the month As February were three times more than those made during January. George McDonald, steward of the northern prison, died at Michigan City on the 24th of February of eongestion of the lungfl. Hie rematis were taken to Bluffton for burial. Mr. G.. W. Deaton baa handed us a small specimen from tire eelebrated meteor, a portion ot which fell near Rochester. It has very much the appeartnoe of common sand which nad been exposed to the intense heat produced by gunpowder.— Woreaw Republican. N. A. Meeker,' Charles'P. Starr and George Rush were badly injured, the latter fatally, on last Friday, by the explosion of a can of powder while firing an afrYH as Portland over the result of the presidential John Keitzer, of piilaski cennty, was superintending a nw mill at Mpqferey last week when the saw burst and a piece Mlruck him in the eye tearing it out and cutting through to the brain. Little hope of bis recovery is entertained. ; The branch office of the Singer aewipg. maabine company Jndianapolis lately detected defalcations In the accounts of Richard Vint their cashier. These defalcations extend over a period of nearly five years, find are estimated to amount to not less tban $25,000. H. W. Smith, of Liberty, Indiana, aged 70 years, recently paid 45,000 for a wife 17 years bld, which was’ divided between the girlhi father and a mutual friend named SUde who negotiated the transaction. Smith afterwards deeded to hia young wife a valuable farm of 200 acres. , In the Teeters-Scott contested election case from the commissioners of Pulaski county, taken to the circuit court of Lake county on a change of venue, a decision was reached favorable to Teeters. lie waa the republican candidate for sheriff at tbe last October election. James H. Rice has upwards of seventeen miles of fence in precess of building in Newiton comity. He lately added a tract of 1,640 acres to bis large possessions and that will also be enclosed during tiie season. One hundred thousand feet of lumber fire already on the ground tor this purpose. Col. Alfred B. Wade, postmaster st South Bend, went out hunting on the Kankakee river on Mflfilday or Tuesday of last week in a boat and was drowned. It is supposed that he was seized with a “diny spell” and fell overboard. Ilia body was found face downward In about eighteen Inches of water, and within a few leet of the where it had probably lain about forty hours. Col. Wade was born in South Bead; was 87 years old last December; was an upright man, universal!v a) ‘d * )U ‘i b« en postmastsr since May, 1869. When the war broke out he enlisted in the 9lli regiment Indiana infantry. Upon the organisation pf the 7M regiment he was made Its adjutant and afterward* vose to the rank of colonel. He was uaptered together with the rest of Straight’* command by the rebel general Forrest in May, >862, and sent to Libby prison where he was confined nearly Wo years. He leaves a widow and .two ‘phjldren. -—,....4