Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Fmnk Kelley, of Francesville, 14 years old, died from a horse’s kick*. —Two school teachers of Morgan County have had their licenses revoked because of immorality. —A woman residing at Beacon has attained the age of nineteen and is the widow of four husbands, and now expresses a desire to enter a convent. —A mammoth gray eagle six feet seven inches across the wings was shot and disabled just east of Connersville. It is the first one seen there for many years. —The Indiana monument on the field of Gettysburg will he unveiled about the 25th of October prox. The exact datj has not been settled, but it will be near that time. —George W. Banks died at Greansbtirg of heart disease. He was a member of the Thirty-seventh and One Hundred, and Forty-sixth Regiments of Indiana Volunteers during the war. —ln a dwelling in Honey Creek Township. near Lafayette, three couples were married Thursday, three clergymen, of the Baptist, Methodist,'and Presbyterian faith, performed the ceremonies. —A farmer living two miles and a half from Muncie has a pumpkin-vine which, if stretched out, would measure almost a fifth of a mile, -and which has borne over 1,500 pounds of pumpkins. —Lee L’rmstone and wife, of-Frankton, about a month ago paid a visit to his wife’s parents, who reside six miles dist int, and remained a day or two, when they took their buggy to return, and have not been heard from since. —The Jeffersonville Plate Glass Company has made an assignment of its property, and will go out of business, being unable to compete with Pennsylvania manufacturers. The indebtedness is $160,000, and the assets are estimated to be worth SBO,OOO.

—While Bishop Scott, charged, in connection with h»’ brother and Frank Poor, with the murder of William Haynes, was testifying in court at Muncie he became Violently insane, and was removed to the jail, where a number of men were required to held him. —At Russellville, Putnam Coranty, Thomas and Gborge Wilson, cousins, met in a public .road, and an old feud was settled by Thomas shooting and killing George. The trouble dates back some years, and a woman figures as the chief cause. The murderer escaped. —Henry N. Spaan, a prominent lawyer, and ex-Judge James E. Heller, got into a fight in an Indianapolis court. Spaan charging the ex-Judge with untruthfulness. Armed with chairs, both men came in collision, and intense excitement followed. Spaan was uninjured, Heller bad an eye' discolored, and both were fined $lO for contempt. —Karl Kessler, 15 years old, living at Lafayette, was shooting at a glass tumbler the other day with a rifle. The ball rebounded and struck him in the eye. Fearing to tell his parents how the accident occurred, he said that he had fallen against the point of a nail. The wound healed over and no mwe attention was paid to it until a day or two ago, when a play mite struck him on the same spot The boy fainted, and an examination showed the bullet flattened against his skulL —The County Commissioners might, utilize the Fall Creek mansion as a summer resort for tramps. For such purpose it v well situated, being on the banks of Fall Creek, where the fishing is fair to middling. In addition it may be said that the building is hot surpassed by any of the hotels in modern improvements and conveniences. It contains hot and cold water, luxurious bath-rooms, elegant diningrooms, fine wash-rooms and clo eta, elevators and furnaces. It would, no doubt, be well patronized.— lndianapolis Sentinel.

—An Indian, styling himself “The Star of the Cheyenne Tribe, ” has been delivering lectures in Corydon for some time past. He formed the acquaintance of a very pretty young lady at Bradford last spring, and has ever since paid her marked' attention, at different times giving her valuable presents of jewely, ete. It is now announced that they are engaged to be married, but the laws of, the State are such that they cannot secure a license. The young lady’s parents seem to offer no objection to the marriage, but on the contrary, rather encourage it. It is reported that they are making arrangements to go west to be united in wedlock.

—The magistrates of Jeffersonville reap a rich harvest from the eloping couples, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. There is considerable competition in the business. Each magistrate has his “runner” or agent, who waits at the ferry-boat, and who, by long experience and close observation, can tell an eloping couple at a glance. One agent more enterprising than the rest, has stationed himself at tlie Short Line depot in Louisville, and catches them before they come over. These fellows usually stand in with the magistrates for hklf the. fee. Sometimes, however, the “happy man” gives the guide a fee for showingpthem the ropes. He procures the license, finds a magistrate, swears to the girl’s age, and, in fact, does everything but marry the girt himself. —Ellesley Bennett, the 4-year-old grandson Of Squire Keigwin, pf Jeffersonville, tied a String to a dog, and the animal seeing a pig started after it, dragging his little master along the ground and fracturing his left arm in two places. ' „ —The death of Dr. Thomas Mclntyre, for tiventy-five years Superintendent of the Indiana Deaf and Dumb Asylum, is announced. “ ’ —Quails anef rabbits are more abundant in Wayne County than last year.