Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1882 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

Frank ih Connersville for ntjallnifniniwii. Blfnil'i inspiration. ' Rev. E. J. Scott is arranging to start a religious paper at Marion, under the direction of the society of friends. New Albany *cu>italists propose to start locomotive that city with $1,000,00<! capital. fTife <fit# giving them gribt Encouragement. * Mrs. Harvey Gaddis, of Frankfort, in stepping out on the back porch, slipped and fell.to the floor, fracturing the left thigh bone neat the hip. Charles J. Gregory, who shot ah unruly pupil in his school, some two weeks ago, has been bound over to the Shelby circuit court, at ShelbyviHe. August Bloom, of Aurbra, while drunk, attacked the wife of his brother Alfred. Ttys latter struck idm on the head, from which cause an d whisky he died. f y The school house at Oswego, Kosciusko county, was burned on Wednesday. Some of the scholars who had recently been cupelled frqm eciiooj are supposed to have Set it on lire. The bo&td of comniissioners of Madison county have ordered the erection of a new court house, thp cost of which shall not exceed $150,000, and G. W. Bunting, of TntlianApolls, has been chosen as architect. While John Binge and Jim Blake, of Warsaw, were engaged in a friendly tussle, Binge was thrown upon a broken-backed chair, one of the posts of which entered his body near the groin, injured him very seriously. The safe at the depot, at Worthington, was blown open, by burglars, last Thursday night, arid about $7 in small change taken-; The safe is a total ( wreck. The tickets were strewn promiscuously over jhe room, but none of them were taken.' Robert J. Malaby, who lived a short distance in the country horn Kokomo, had not been seen for several days, and when his house was entered he wafe found dead* upon the floor, apparently having fallen from a chair which lay tilteaover by his side. He is supposed to have died from natural causes. < Joseph Talmier, a young man of Mishawaka, wak accidentally shot on New Year’s eve, the ball entering the skull an inch and a half above the left eye. Apieqeof the skull, more than an inch square, was removed andnearly a spoonful of brain and part of the ball taken out. He has a chance of recovery. . » A man entered a drug store at Madison and cleansed his coat .collar with benzine. After saturating the cloth and obliterating a grease spot, he went to the cigar case, got a cigar, and in attempting to light jt the benzine ignited and a blue Blaze enveloped his chin and face, but did little damage. . Wednesday, Mrs. Bennett, an old lady aged seventynscven years, who has been living with her daughter, Mrs. G. Asher,on the Haw-patch near Ligonier, was burned to death while sitting in her chair. She had been smoking, and it is supposed that a spark of fire fell from her pipe into her lap, lighting her clothing. The other night Mrs. Rothenberger, with her two children thinly Clad, came to the County jail at Anderson and begged to be allowed to remain over night, stating that she was on her way to heaven and was tired out. Her husband is one of the Heading school teachers of Madison county and a worthy citizen of New Columbus. Mrs. Rothenberger is insane on the subject of religion. - TheVineinnes Sun, the first [paper published in the territory now comprised within the states of Indiana, THinoise, Michigan and Wisconsin, has just moved into its new and commodious quarters. It was established as the Indiana Gazette, July 4, 1804, and published under that name for three years, when it was burned out, and * soon after resuscitated under its present name. It has had many vicissitudes and owners, but never was more vigorous and prospers than at present. Over $4,000 in bogus notes against Fountain county farmers have been negotiated in Attica and Covington. The amount of school revenues ap, portioned to the State Normal school and counties of the State this year is $864,844, or $1.20 per capita for each child enumerated. hj > Harrison, the misnamed “Boy Preacher” revivalast, is at work again in Robert’s Park church Indianapolis, and his labors are quite as successful as they were last winter. It is said the Directors of the Franklin Life Insrance Company, of Indianpolis, are taking the preliminary steps to wincj up their business. They say the mortality for the past year has been unusually heavy, policies to the amount of $30,000 in excess of the natural and anticipated death-rate having become due. The Secretary says the company is entirely sound; that it does not owe a dollar beyond one or two policies not yet due. AttorneyJGeneral Baldwin has given an opinion that a license to retail liquors begins from the moment it is granted by the Board of County Commissioners, and not from the tube it is issued by the County Auditor. Also, in response to an inquiry, he submitted the following reply: MThe liquor license fee exacted by incorporated towns is paid into the town treasury, to be used for general purpeses. The fines collected for violations of. the ordinances of such towns are likewise paid into the town treasury for a similar purpose.” The state board of health has extend-

'ed the time for the vaccination of school children until January 30, as insufficient notice had been given in some parts of the state where local health boards had not' been organized. A circular to the local boards from the state board requires that school superintendents shall be given notice in writing of the necessity for vaccination. In case of the refusal of pupils, the superintendents shall make due report to the local shall thereupon serve proper notice upon delinquent pupils or parents, and then, in the event of continued refusal, proceed to prosecution. Dr. Stevens, secretary of the state board, thinks it would be well for cities and counties to map out districts and assign physicians thereto, for'vaccination work and pay them out of the public treasury. A case testing the question as to the jurisdiction of justice of the peace to try certain cases, w%s decided by the Supreme Court, Tuesday. It was supposed the legislature had, at its last sitting, taken these case out of the justices’ jurisdiction. The court holds, Judge Worden delivering the opinion, that justices have jurisdiction in all cases where a fine is the only punishment that must be inflicted, though imprisonment in the county jail might, but need not necessarily, be imposed ; that - j ustices have no j urisdiction in cases where both fine ment must be assessed in p/nishment. This decision is on a case of malicious trespass, and the justice I had jurisdiction. The decision gives justices of the peace jurisdiction in cases ofassault and battery, malicious trespass, etc. Justices are now, in respect to jurisdiction, placed back in the same position tfiey were under the old law and have jurisdiction in accordance with the opinion of Miller'against the State and other cases heretofore rendered under the old statute.