Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — Neighborhood Notes. [ARTICLE]

Neighborhood Notes.

A new potash factory has been established at Valparaiso. Mr. Wilson, a telegraph operator of Lafayette, has mysteriously disappeared. A gentleman at Winamac is enclosing his property with an iron fence! at a coat of s6so money enough to buy a small farm. Winamac butchers have found it difficult to buy good beef caille in Pulaski county, most ol the slock for sale being too poor for the block. Timothy Maloney of Merillville, Lake county, was thrown from a wagon recently which was loaded with salt, tbe wheels passing over him causing fatal injuries. Near Terre Haute, lasi Monday, the Vandalia accommodation train struck John Wolfe, a butcher of Brazil, killing him. Both leg* and one arm were broken and his skull crushed. While suffering from an attack of monomania, Saturday, Mrs. Jacob Sheerer, of Booneville, thrurt her fifteen-montha eld babe into the fire, injuring it so thatirdied in a few hours. Collector Will Cumback, a few, days since seized 550 barrel; of sinuous whiskey belonging to J. W. Gaffdi Co. of Lawrenceburg.' It ia estimated that the colleutv” has struck a $50,000 pocket. Cows are permitted to roam in the court house yard in the bticoliu hamlet of Sonth Bend, a secluded retreat where an ex-vice president of the United State* makes hia home and newspaper m v n «re by minuter* of justice. ♦