Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1883 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

A New Castle man paid a traveling swindler 1450 for the Stater -right of a patent egg stimulator. Emily Deck, daughter of Henry Deck, of Noblesville, wad drowned in White river at the edge of town- D® was accidental At Portland; William Pitzenberger, while in the act of throwing a belt in Kant A English's stave factory, had a leg torn off. Miss Nettie Hornes, of Marion, has performed the feat of writing 2,060 words on a postal card, every word being perfectly legible Thebe are 9,566 school-houses in Indiana against 8,090 thirty yean ag0—5,481 of these being brick. The log school-houses have decreased from 1,128 to 4L Andy Fisher, of Madison, has perhaps the oldest horse known of at present He is forty years old, and was foaled within the walls of the City of Mexico. Ex-Judge B. F. Schermerhorn, for years an ornament to the Delphi bench and bar, and Major of the Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteers, died very suddenly there. The fir«t marriage license granted in Grant county was issued Oh Sept 5, 1831, to John Smith and Mary Ann Thomas, who are still living and enjoylpg good health. A Louisvuxe young man while in New AL bany, recenty, had an attack of delirium tremens, jumped out of bed and ran down the street with no clothing on but a shirt A Pike count hunter claims to have killed, one day last week, three geese at one shot, four at another, and five at another, making a total of twelve geese in three shots. There are eighty-six Postmasters in the State appointed by the President, and their salaries combined amount to #158,900. The aggregate gross receipts of these offices are ♦719,96 a The Wabash City,Council has decided not to purchase any additional electrio lights, on the score of economy. A portion of the city is well lighted, but the balance is left in darkness. , John Montgomery, watchman at the Ohio Falls car woik?, Jeffersonville, met a mad dog at the door of the works on Thursday, and killed him just as he was about to bite a workman. The new Game la w in this State prohibits the killing of wild ducks between the 15th of April and the Ist of September, and the exposing of ducks for sale after April 15 is also a finable offense. Clark 0. Moore, of West Point, and James O’Brien, of Toledo, a canvasman in Van Amburg’s circus, were killed at Lafayette. Both accidents occurred on the Wabash tracks, inside the city limits, by switch-en-gines. The following Postmasters have been commissioned: H. E. Wells, at French lick; D. Hall, at Funk’s; Thomas Towle, at Lieber; G. W. Weeks, at Newville; Henry Core, at Woodburn; J. M. Thomas, at Marble Corner, and Alfred Clapp, at Marysville. Reports from Brazil are that the coal trade has fallen very low. The mines are running about half-time, and it is feared that it will be so all summer. The rolling-mill is stil 1 running, employing from seventy-five to 100 men and boys. The furnace has blown out for repairs; it will probably be idle from four to five months. The,Northwestern and Central Synods of the Reformed Episcopal church have confirmed the selection of a location at Fort Wayne for the proposed Orphan Asylum, as recommended by a commission which recently visited that and other cities The land selected comprises a tract of fifty-seven acres, and lies /two miles northeast of the city, on the banks of the St. Joseph river. Fifteen thousand dollars will be expended this season in buildings.

Thb twenty-ninth annual convention of the Grand Oommandery Knights Templars of Indiana was held at Indianapolis last week, there being a large attendance of grand officers and delegates The Grand Treasurer, Charles Fisher, presented the following report for the year ending April 21, 1883: Receipts, balance in treasury April 24» 1882, #2,444; dues for 1881, >337; dues for 1882, ♦2,871; Incidental receipts, #500; total #5,858.. Total expenditures, #2,702. Cash balance in treasury, #2,955.56. He also presented some statistical tables showing the following totals: Total membership of the Order in the State for 1882, 2,006; for 1888, 2,223; increase, 217. The deaths during 1882 numbered twenty-two. Municipal elections were held in the following cities of Indiana on the Ist Inst, with the results as follows: Vincennes—The entire Democratic ticket elected. Delphi— Democratic ticket elected. Greencastle— The Democratic ticket elected J>y 225 majority.’ Greenfield—The whole Republican ticket re-elected. Logansport—The Democrats elected the Mayor, Treasurer, Clerk, Marshal, and four out of five Oouncllmen. Muncie— The Independent ticket was elected. Kokomo—The Democrats elected the mayor and marshal The rest of the Republican ticket was elected. Madison—The Democrats elected the Treasurer, Marshal and Assessor, and four of the six Oouncllmen. New Albany— The Independent candidates tor Mayor and Clerk were elected, defeating the regular Democratic nominees. The Democrats elected the Treasurer and Marshal, and two Councilmen; the Republicans two Oouncllmen, and the Independents one. Columbus—The entire Democratic ticket elected. Richmond— The Republicans elected the Mayor and Marshal and seven Oouncllmen. The Democrats elected-three OOundlmen. Terre Haute— The Republicans elected the Mayor, Treasurer, Marshal and three Councilmen. The Democrats elected the Clerk and three members of the Council Wabash—The Republican candidates were all elected. Elkhart—The Republicans elected the Mayor and four out of five Aidermen. Fort Wayne —The entire Republican ticket elected. La Porte—The Democrata elected the Mayor and a majority of the Council