Indiana State News Highlights Wild Week Posts and Accidents
A Lafayette drummer faced brutal rejection after a bold proposition to a married woman. In Rochester a shooting attempt left one man wounded. Disappearances worry Plainfield residents as Officer Drake vanishes while searching for a runaway boy. Adjutant General Carnahan oversees a peaceful mustering out of the Light Guards in Terre Haute. A Albany woman’s death results from swallowing two nickels. Rail incidents spark fires and crashes near Templeton and Oxford, with multiple car and locomotive damages reported. Accidents claim workers in Lafayette and Evansville as drought fuels ongoing railroad fire damage. A Walnut Grove youth attempts suicide, while a Derby area man dies in a well incident at Raub. Indianapolis braces for law-driven Sabbath enforcement impacting saloons and streetcars.
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Lyman D. Drake
State Farm
Indianapolis
Plainfield
Carnahan
Terre Haute
Adie
Gus Carter
New Albany
Walnut Grove
Oxford
Rogers
Ohio
I. Horn
Squire Cole
Ambia
Evansville
Suh
Ben Buhner
George Banna
Raub
Hanna
Lenny
Ith
John McKinney
Eugene Sauley
Henry Todd
Shelbyville
Todd
Sauley
Indiana to Parade Heroes with Governor Porter Military Staff
Governor Porter forms a military staff of veteran officers led by Robert Emmett as Assistant-Adjutant-General and Colonel, Dr John A Comingore Surgeon-General, Hugh T Reed Inspector-General, W R R Hamilton Chief of Artillery, with James R Ross Merrill T Smith and James T Diff as Aides-de-Camp. Adjutant-General Carnahan notes Indiana joins the nationwide custom. Also noted are cows grazing on the Indianapolis Courthouse lawn and a life sentence for Dr Thomas Frederick Aust in Winslow Pike County. Grain and markets report mixed quotes from Indianapolis and Cincinnati for Wheat Corn Oats Rye and Barley.
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Porter
Robert Emmett
John A. Comingore
Hugh T. Reed
Richmond
W. R R. Hamilton
Greencastle
James R. Ross
Indianapolis
Merrill T. Smith
Terre Haute
James T. Diff
Carnahan
United States
Indiana
Yorktown
Thomas Frederick Aust
Fred Gibson
James Humphreys
Winslow
Pike County
Cincinnati
Cereal Outlook for 1881 Indiana wheat and corn acreage
John B. Conner, chief of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics, presents figures comparing 1881 wheat and corn acreage with the prior season. The data detail shifts in planted area and potential yields across counties, highlighting crop prospects and farming timelines for the year ahead.
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John B. Conner
Indiana Bureau of Statistics
The White Lick Quarterly Meeting Case Trial
The White Lick Quarterly Meeting of Friends v Allen Hadley et al was tried in Indianapolis on the 2th vlt Circuit Court. The suit seeks trust funds but centers on church identity and rightful property across multiple states. Plaintiffs allege illegitimate organization. defendants claim true society aligns with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and other regions. An appeal to the Supreme Court is anticipated.
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White Lick Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Allen Hadley
Indianapolis
White Lick
Conference of
Philadelphia
Yearly Meetings
New England
New York
Ohio
Iowa
Kansas
Canada
Progressive Yearly Meeting
True Society
Illinois
Supreme Court
Singing Sands of Manchester and Kauai Across the World
A correspondent describes the Singing Sands at Manchester Massachusetts and matches them to similar dunes in Hawaii and elsewhere. The sand’s musical tone arises from rock-derived crystals. dryness and motion enhance the sound, with demonstrations ranging from sliding to dragging a native on the incline. Experiments show the sound fades with moisture. the sand resembles ordinary beach sand but must remain dry to sing.
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Manchester
Mass
Hugh Miller
Bay of Laig
Hebrides
Arabia Petrea
Fort Macon
Georgia
Kauai
Switzerland
Massachusetts
Rockport
Dana's
Grave's Beach
Plain Island
Newburyport
Eagle Head
Honolulu
Lady undertaker in Philadelphia provokes court over burial bill
A Philadelphia court scrutinized a lavish funeral bill paid from a small estate valued around $700. Judge Hanna condemned the excess and reduced the charge from 354 to 100 dollars, ruling reasonable costs must reflect estate value and heirs rights. The case highlighted the duties of executors and the limits on expenditures for burial.
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Philadelphia
Orphans’ Court
Hanna
Funeral costs draw rebuke over wasteful expenses
A column criticizes lavish funeral spending in a deceased girl’s estate, detailing items from a $175 casket to $354.44 burial costs and $40 in flowers. It argues such outlays, paid from the estate, are improper, unlawful, and must be curbed, while noting private funds cannot be controlled.
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Tribune
Indian Robbers Raid Zemindar House For Buried Treasure
A village raid by a group posing as pilgrims overpowers a zemindar and his sons, tortures the elder for treasure, digs up rupees buried in the courtyard fortress like home, and disperses into the countryside before police arrive. Also a vignette shows an Irish clerk outwitting a market sting and a proverb about wearing stockings in mud.
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Zemindar
India
Mahadeo
Mother
Chambers’ Journal
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