Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1877 — STATE HEWS AND GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

STATE HEWS AND GOSSIP.

Eighteen hundred porsons have joined the Murphyites at Rochester. The judgments taken at the recent special term of court, in Noble county, amounted to $14,000. A craxy man run through the streets of Millersburg stsik naked last week. lie was taken to Goshen. JohnDingmn was caught in a threshingmachine an Wednesday, near Fort Wayne, and severely laooruted. One hundred and twenty odd new oases have been docketed for tho September term of the Benton oouuty court. Oxford, Benton county, and the township in which it is located, propose to vote a tax to aid in the building of the coal road from Attica to Oxford. The road is already completed from tho block coal fields to Attica. Mr. J. L. McCulcheon, a furniture dealer at Oiktown, Knox cmiDty, attempted to commit suicide Weduesday, by cutting his throat with a razot. He had been drinking hard for some time and was wrought to do the deed on account of having delirium tremens. A terrible coal oil accident o courred at Orleans, Orange county, Wednesday. A daughter of Wesley Morgan, aged about ten ycurs, while kindling a fire with coal oil the can exploded, throwing the oil over tho unfortunate girl and setting fire to her body. The poor girl lived three hours. Last Friday while Mr. Rupert, of Salem township, Steuben county, was engaged in cleaning out a swamp on the farm of John Kerlin, Esq., he came across a huge nest of rattlesnakes. Mr. Rupert, on’ discovering the reptiles at once attacked them with murderous intent, and'succeeded in killing the whole pile, which numbered, all told, nineteen rattlesnakes. Witilo Mr. McKinney and his son, aged about ten years, residing near Norway, were rolling saw-logs one day last week, the boy slipped and fell in front of a log while it was passing down a declivity, and it passeil.over his body like lightning. He was taken up for dead, but strange to relate, soon returned to consciousness, and upon examination it was ascertained that, aside from a fracture of the collar bone, ho sustained no.injuries. Tlie log was 27 inches thick and 15 feet long, and his escape can truly bo termed a miracle.—Monticello Democrat. A mast heartrending affair occurrod six miles south of ldavilte, this county, last Monday, in which a woman was shot aud killed by the cureless bundling of a gun, in the hands of her husband. Mr. Philip Miksclland bis wife w.ere out in the yard driviuga lot of chickcus together, Mr. Miksell intending to shoot one for dinner, lie was opposite his wife, and while the gun was lying in the hollow of tis arm, he raised the hammer of the weapon to see if the cap was good, when it slipped from his thumb, and the gun went off, the ball striking Mrs. Miksell in the left side, and ranging upward passed almost through her. Drs. Greer and Spencer were sent for, and done all that experience and skill could suggest, but th* wound was a fatal one, and the poor sufferer expired about 12 o’clock Tuesday night. She leaves six children. Tho grief of the husband is said to be terrible. This is another awful lesson to persons who carelessly handle firearms, and should serve to warn them that there is no safety before the muzzle of a loaded guu.— Monticello Democrat.