Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

It is ostimatad that th« value of the tobacco crop of Spencer county for 1876 amounted to $600,000. G. M. Hewett, of Indianapolis, was SIOO,OOO on the wrong side of operatiena in oorn, took siok and died in a dozen hours. Hon. John Pettit was a prominent personage at, and took an aotivapart in, the republican convention of Lafayette recently. During the month ot March 45,000 cigars were manufactured at Indianapolis, and 50,000 were sold. This would indicate that the balance of trade was hopeful to the manufacturers there. Harvey Burrows and two heathen Chinese reoently engaged in an angry discussion over a disputed laundry bill at Foit Wayne, which resulted in the exchange of about a dozen revolver shots and the wounding of all three. It is thought that both Chinamen were fatally injured in the melee.