Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

PljK>oath Uoverran with tramps. Chicken ibievee in feat Indiana * pOAIS. Idatillt t| blsased with five physioians. The State Normal fiohooi is in session this week at Terre Heete. «f t)V«r $200,000 have been paid to pensioners by the Indianapolis agency since the Ist of March. A little son ot Mr. Sidney Moon, p( Rochester, was gored and severely injured by a ferocious cow, one evening last week, A. D. McQormicV & Cc.Y hardware store atWeilsboro was destroyed by an incendiary fire, Monday night of last week. Loss $3,000; in Bnranoe SI,OOO. At Logansport on the 21st instant James RUey, a lad 12 years oK), was kicked in the stomach by C vicious horse, causing injuries which will prove fa*.at. Wooster, Scott county, lias a patriarch who is in his lOSth year. He is blind, but otherwise in full possession ot all hia faculties. He baa been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for fifty-five years. - On the morning ot the 20th in stant, John Bell, conductor on the Ft. Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw railroad, was so badly crushed and mangled while coupling cars at Aubmtt Junction, that he d:ed shortly afterwards. He was, only about 23 years of age. John West, employed in a sawmill four miles west of Fort W syne, was instantly killed on the 2lst instaat by failing across a circular saw while in motion; Ilis body was cut entirely in two, one piece lulling on e*eb side of the saw. He was 32 years of age and leaves a family. A during robber entered tin Indiana Rational Bank at Itiuisuapolis, on Tueeday of last week, and placing a email box whiidi he carried upon the floor, leaped upon it, and, reaching., over the railing, grabbed a package containing $3,000, and made off with it before tho attendants and clerks could give the alarm. So quietly was it „ done that no one is able to give even a description of the thief. Near Worthington, on the lfltb, an explosion happened in the saw mill of Hunter Brothers by which the building wasdemolished, twelve persona were killed and seven wounded. The killed were A. Vande water, James Hunter, John Splits, G. W- Bender, two sons of J>avid Hunter, Roy Hunter, Hamilton Sarver and -Si shaker. The wounded are John Blubaker, AJ- ( Fred Hash, a sou of G. W. Bender, William Bland, a son of James Rland, and another person whose patue is not knowu. pntil a few days ego a Starke county tragedy has been clothed in mystery, but it ia believed the offenders have been discovered and the law will have its course. In, September, JIJdS, John Chapman went to f£nox with the determination of killing four men or being lulled himself. He met Lemuel Collins, against whom he hail a grudge, and proceeded to settle it by firing at him, but missed his jnark. Collins borrowed a revolver, Walked up to Chapman and shot Jiim iu the lace near the no«e, killing him instantly. Collins made uo efforts 4 i escape, nor was h« arrested between that time and the uvxt tsnp ojf court, nearly six months after, the court being* held only twice each year. Then a public dpbatp was held iu the coqßtry school house, and Collins waj on the floor making a speech, whep unknown parties fired from the ou;side, lodging fine buckshot ijt the speaker's brad, causing in’ stant Despite all efforts no coavijaliiig evidence could be ob taiiied against any person, apd- the scarph was afraqdoned until about eigliteen months ago, wheu detectIyes were put to work, and haVe gained sufficient evidence to cause the arreat ot William Chapman,. Ilia tbyep sons, Frank Chapman, Joshua Chapman, and Ifonter Chapman, and Marion Homer, and jmother named Van Kirkirk. They been placed eider bond* to await fhp action of the next grand jury, * * ■ ’ v ' ; ' ■ * ' •' T *» '