Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Ground has been broken for the waterworks at Vincennes. —Martinsville has about determined to illnminate with the electric light. —“Uncle Lneian” Rous, of Thorn town, the first male child bom in Vevay, died recently, aged 82.” —Abram Kahn, a prominent Jew and stock buyer at Sonth Bend, shot himself through the head. —Harry Bannister, proprietor of the hotel at La Fontaine, sonth of Wabash, fell dead with heart disease. —Fire broke out the other morning in a saloon in a business part of Poseyville, destroying the entire block. —At an auction sale of walnnt in Delphi, with bidders present from four States, 120 growing trees brought $0,600. —lt is estimated that 1,000 hogs have died of cholera during the past six months nt Pox's Station, near Wabash. —George D. Wingate, of Thornton, committed suicide by hanging himself with a halter to the rafters of his bam. —A mail irniu struck John Brack, who was walking on the track just east of Fort Wayne, and he died in a few minutes. —The warehouse belonging to the Elkhart Iron-Works Company, containing about COO sulky plows, was destroyed by fir®, —A “Law and Order” League has been organized at Marion, which is backed by all the churches in the town and the temperance element. > —H. C. Holloway, digging a well on a farm east of. La Porte, Came across a large vein of soft coal, samples of which proved to be first-class. A —M. Spangle, a conductor on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, was run over at Elkhart by a switch-engine and instantly killed. L -• —Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks has been chosen a member of the Board of Directors of the Hecla Mining Company, to fill the place of her husband. —Oscar Baldwin recovered $9,90G in the Gibson County Court against the Evansville and Terre Haute, for the loss of a foot while employed as brakeman.

—During the trial of a State case at Upland, one of the jurors crawled out of a window and went home before a verdict was reached. A consfable found him in be^. —Fort Wayne Lodge, No. 14,1.0. O; F., has purchased, for $21,000, corner property within one block of the Court House. A tine editnb will probably be erected next summer. —Fire the other night destroyed the en-gine-house at Mount Vernon, but the apparatus was saved. Citizens had barely got to bed when another alarm was sonnded, calling the department to the cast side of flie public square. Half a block was in flames and destroyed, among which was the Democrat office. i. —David J. Mackey, President of the Evansville and Terre Haute and Evansville and Indianapolis Railways, was arrested to answer the charge of contempt of court. S6me time ago the Daviess County Court rendered judgment of lsl,Soo against Mackey’s road for trespass, bnt Mackey ignored the order, and as the court could not stop the railroad it took possession of the President. —Hon. Hugh McCulloch, ex-Secretary of the United States Treasury, has deeded to the city of Fort Wayne his title to the old Broadway Cemetery of ten acres, from which most of the dead bodies have been removed, and which has become of great value. The condition of the deed, which the City Council has by "ordinance accepted, is that the property shall be kept improved , and be known as McCulloch Park. —Mr. Thornton F. Tyson, one of the oldest residents of Cass County, has completely lost his reason, and application will be made for his admission . into the insane asylum. After years of toil Mr. Tyson amassed a fortune of between §20,000 and $25,000. He recently began to speculate in Chicago margins, and the result was he lost his entire fortune, $17,000 going at one time. The result was mental wreck and rain.

—A decided sensation has been caused by Charley Maurice, a cowboy tough, at Logansport, Ohio. He saddled his horse, filled his hide with whisky, and started out to take in the town. He rode into three saloons, and ordered drinks at the muzzle of a revolver. He attempted to ride up to the general-delivery window in the postoffice, but was headed off by the police, who jerked bim from his horse and threw him in jail. —At the Grand Lodge of the Indiana Knights of Honor the election of officers resulted as follows: Grand Dictator, J. B. Hill, Of Richmond; Vice Dictator, J. B. Wartmann, of Evansville; Assistant Dictator, Adolph S, Lane, of Vincennes; Chaplain, Rev. A. J. Neff; Guide, Richard Bryson, of Clay City; Reporter, James W. Jacobs, of Jeffersonville; Treasurer, Walter B. Godfrey, of New Albany; Sentinel, Jesse Coßk, of Westfield; Supreme Representative, T. H. Clapp, of Indianapolis; Trustees, Herman Kreuger, of Kendallville; Isaac E. Crews, of Greencastle; Allen W. Conduitt, of IndiAnapolis; State Medical Examiner, Dr. T. N. Bryan, of Indianapolis. —Rev. E. W. Osborn, pastor of the Cicero M. E. Church, has brought suit against the proprietors of the Kokoma Dispatch, for $5,000, for the publication of an art cli from a correspondent who stated that Rev. Osbnrn was in jail at Noblesvide upon a charge of bigamy. < —Dick Thompson, a duck hunter, of Marco, killed a beaver near that place, weighing forty-five pounds. This, is the first and only beaver ever seen in that part of the State.