Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Rev; E. E. Green, of Wabash, has fallen heir to $500,000. —The new five per cent, bonds of Jeflersonv.lle have all been taken.' Joy A Co»’s elevator at Red Key burned lately. Loss, $10,000; partially insured. —Escaping coal gas suffocated Simon Steinberg and his wife at Indianapolis. —Joe Spurrier, a brakeman employed on the Panhandle, was killed at North Grove. —George Huff, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Mancie, died in that town. of Washington Connty are taking steps to built a new court house. —The law that the doors of schoolhouses shall open outward is being enforced in Clark County. —W. C. McCray, of Terre Hantc l , has a little, old-style flatiron with which his great-grandmother used to iron Washington's fiilled shirts. —The old Barnett House at Logan sport, one of the oldest hotel buildings in the State, Las l>een condemned’ and sold, and will'be tern down. —Rev. John R. Elmore, of Clayton, having been expelled from the pulpit for bigamy, cut a hole through the ice iu the river and drowned himself. —At Bedford the business places of George D. Gowen, Telford & Co., W. W. Ferguson, and Nathaniel Williams were burned. Loss, $15,000; insured. —Ben. Blanchard, the land speculator, who ran away from Terre Haute to escape a warrant for embezzlement two months ago, has returned and given himself up. —Wilson Spray, a Quaker farmer near Indianapolis, lias made an assignment. Liabilities, $30,000. His farm, residence, etc., are estimated to be worth $50,000. —Joseph Defrees, of Goshen, is dead aged seventy-three. He bad been both Represeutative aud Senator in the State Legislature and a member of Congress ia 1866-7.

—The death in Georgia of Hon. E. T, Johnson, of Indianai>olis, recalls the famous scandal for which he killed Major Henry, of Tennessee, when Mrs. Johnson poisoned herself. --Near Lafayette, Mrs. Betsy Metzger* aged seventy-four, and George Budolph, twenty years old, were united in marriage.' The groom is not rich, but the bride has a snug bank account and owns 160 acres of choice laud. —A few nights ago a committee of the City Council of Vincennes went out on a still-hunt for the police force. One officer was found in bed at his home, another was driink, a third in a house of ill-fame, and a fourth waft discovered sleeping off a debauch in u saloon. —Jndianapolis Journal: The death is announced of Charles H. Clarke, at Louisville, at the nga of seventy. For fifteen years he was connected with the CourierJournal, and for a time acted as the f- - ; # * amanuensis of George D. Prentice. Mr. Clarke is the original of James Whitcomb Riley’s “Remarkable Man,” as he is made to appear in his new book of sketches, “The Boss Girl,” and other stories. Mr. Riley has been asked about it, and says that the surmise is correct. It is said that Mr. Clarke read the sketch in question, which goes far toward explaining his sudden death. —Brookville at present is a quiet little town of two thousand inhabitants or thereabout. Sixty years ago it was the foremost town in the State, nnd was the residence of many distinguished men. The Lund Office was located there, and was in charge of Robert Hanna, a personal and life-long friend of Thomas Jefferson, Other noted personages were Governors Ray, Noble, Wallace, and . Hammond; Hiram Powers, the sculptor; Captain Eads, constructor of the 1 St. Lcui# bridge and the Mississippi jetties; Oliver H. Glisson, Bear Admiral United States navy; Captain Herndon, commander of the ill-fated Central America and father of President Arthur’s wife; May, the architect of the State Honse at Indianapolis; and here General Lew Wallace was bom.

—A divorce suit involving persons prominent in society at Indianapolis, and Well known throughout the State was filed, tried, judgment rendered, and alimony granted and paid the other day in the short space of three hours. Mrs. George \V. Stout was the plaintiff, and her husband, a wealthy and prominent wholesale man, was the defendant. The parties were both in court, and but three witnesses were examined. Stout’s book-keeper testified that he had opened three letters in the course of business addressed to Stout by Mrs. Josie McGee, a divorced woman, making appointments for meetings and demanding money. Mrs. Stout testified to cruel treatment, saying her husband had cursed and abused her, but she had borne this Until she heard of his liaasons with the McGee woman. She charged him with infidelity, and he confessed it and asked .forgiveness* but this she refused. Mrs. Stout’s sister waa a witness to his cruel treatment of the wife. Stout had no attorney, and when asked if he had anything to sav replied negatively. The divorce was then granted and SIO,OOO alimony was,given the wife. Stout immediately paid this by transferring certain city property to her. If cheap prices at, the theaters means to fill the galleries with hoodlums, youngand old, to the discomfort of all who have to listen to cat-calls and guyings, we are not so snrj but the patrons of the- places of amusement would preftfi the old rates. 'lhe owners of the houses owe it to their patrons to preserve order. —Indianapolis Journal. #- • • < Sonth Bend, Jolnr Ungery has been sentenced to twenty years in the penitenti--ry for criminal assault upon his daWghter.