Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1879 — State Items. [ARTICLE]

State Items.

Net Jpl) tt f>«eli Is going tA ImHuiMpeNff tollt*.— fjtt Porte Argn»< don. Scdlttylt/r CuiUi Wad serUviy ill with eryripelat, hutt week. New ftN'ltS WnphS ejfiip h worth offrf dollar M gallon At Danville. Hon. Robert Gregory, of Lafayette, r«*Wtettiplntoa moving bpl to UlMklltv at off •arly ddy. Twenty-one iirmatea of tho Lafayette >uMf dre under'’sentrncc of impntoOrmoOl M tlMf penitentiary/ Henry Vanvalkdtrbirfg of Plyntotrtb celebrated hla 99th birthday aahiiendtry av the 20th of last monk#. The Register with a Jcettssf disregard 1 tor bloody locale discourages the hmutiutT of a pUning mill at Goodlaud. Judge Solomon Blair, chairman of the' republican state central cotnmittio, died at Indianapolis last Monday, aged 50 years.E, M. Hayes & Son, doaWf 111 beoU,shoes and gents* furnishing goods at Andar■on, have failed for g 9,000 | assets ff^XJOr Mrs, Samuel Shovmlter started a flrW with coal oil and waa burnt to death at Honey Creek in Cass county on the I6tk fatal/ Lagrange county ndvortiso-l only eight tracts of land thia yoar tor delinquent taxes, the aggregate amount of which was only' 9206.16. t t Knight and Jaekson hsvs been sentenced to imprisonment for life by a Vigo county court for wrecking a train on the Indianapolis & St. Louis railroad. William Hiatt and Lincoln Rue, two n' fractory pupils of Delaware county, have been arrested for causing the death of Samuel Cross, their teacher. Mrs. Clitn, the notorious, is again figuring in the Indianapolis courts. Thia time ,for purloining and destroying notes givenby her for borrowed money.

Miss Cornell of White eounty committed suicide Tuesday oflaat week, because the family with whom she waa living objectedto her marriage with their son. A. S. Weston, anperintendent of tbff Starke county poor asylum, has sued W. W .- Garner, of the Knox Enterprise, for alleged 1 libel; and laya bio damage at SIO,OOO, Fred Blanchard and six children of Goodland were nearly asphyxiated (amottered) by the gas escaping from a coal Move in their sleeping room, one night last week/ Mrs. Emma Maloy. temperance specialist, is to become a permanent resident of LaPorts, where ber husband it employed in editorial capacity on the Chronicle news-' paper. A noted courtesan of tbie city presented for redemption a basket foil of the flf checks given to laborer* oft (be ice, oft the lost pay day.— LaPorte Argus. ’Twas an ice transaction. On the Bth day of May last Mrs. Stephen#/ Tipton county matron, gtfve birth to at child which is still living. Eight months' and twenty-three days afterwards she gave birth w bealthy twins. The South Bend window blind, sash,- ioof and scroll factory is to be moved down toPlymouth about tbelret of April. South Bead will reckon her decline from the time' she allows her manufactories temovenway.Henry Kerue while operating n erwft-’ sheller at Boxleytewn, near Noblcsvtlle, one day last week, had a leg cut off end the other mangled so that it will have to be amputated, and possibly vrHI alee lose am arm* w. S. Thornburg, a freight conductor off the L., M & B. road, ran ahoed of hit train at Lafayette, Sunday morning, to change » switch and by some accident wte run over and kitted. His mangled remain* were discovered scattered along the track/ The river and harbor appropriation biff representatives recomc-nda only s2o,ooo|ftr Michigan City harbor. RcpreasnUlive Calkins Will lose prestige unless he enft secftV# something more than that tor Indiana’s moat import tant seaport.