Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The third annual convention of the Daughters of Rebekah was held recently in the Grand Lodge, I. 0. O. F., at Indianapolis. Mrs. Mary McAlpin, of Evansville, was president and Mrs. Henriette Despa, of Indianapolis, secretary* The report of the committee on credentials showed one hundred lodges represented with one hundred and ninety-eight delegates and about Ufxty visitors. The report of the Colfax monument committee was read. It showed that $2,088 has been subscribed to the fund. A constitution for the government of the convention was adopted and the following officers were elected; President, Mrs. Belle Trester, Aurora; 'iqe President, Mrs. Henriette Despa, Indianapolis; Secretary, Mrs. Malinda Spurrier, Fort Wayne; Treasurer, Miss Mary R. Banks, Noblesville; Chaplain, Mrs. Stough, Evansville; Warden. Mrs. Hunt, Brazil; Guardian, C. H. Hoffler, Knightstown. A resolution was adopted requesting the Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., to instruct its representatives to the Sovereign Grand Lodge to ask that body to prepare a funeral ceremony to be used at the burial of Daughters of Rebekah. —While Mrs. Dr. F. B. Day, of Franklin, and her cousin, Miss Georgia Crawford, of Mooresville, were at the Union Depot, Indianapolis, a spruce-looking young man offered his services in helping take carp of the children of Mrs. Day. As he was a stranger his offers were not noticed, but he insisted that he was used to managing children and kept urging his services. Upon the arrival of the ladies at Franklin, Miss Crawford discovered that a fine gold watch she had carried was missing. It was discovered that the nice youngman who was so accustomed to managing a nursery was a pickpocket. Miss Crawford’s name was engraved on the case of the watch. —Recently, “Bud” Wiley, who lives west of Franklin, got into an altercation at the Magnolia House, and fired a shot at a man named Carr. The ball passed through the left cheek, cutting away some teeth, part of the tongue, and, striking a molar tooth on the opposite side, was stopped. Wiley left and has not been seen since. The quarrel began during a warm discussion over the Knights of Labor, and was the result of liquor. —A bold robbery was committed in Bristol not long ago. A wealthy citizen of that place was attacked in front of his house by two highwaymen, who threw him down and robbed him of S2O, all he had about him. He was known to usually have large sums in his possession, but fortunately on this occasion the amount was small, The robbers escaped. —The jury in the case of the State against Lawson Story, for assaulting Robert Early with a knife, at Wabash two months ago, returned a verdict of acquittal. Early was seriously stabbed in the breast, and for a time his life was despaired of. Story is sixty years of age. —The Indiana Hectic Medical Society elected officers for the next year: President, Dr. J. C. Burlington, Attica; Vice Presidents, Drs. C. B. Blacknell, Petersburg, and W. B. Vicks, Green Hill; Secretary, Dr. T. M. Culver, Indianapolis, and Treasurer, Dr. L. Abbett, Indianapolis. —Philip Grotegut, aged sixty-one years,, who is serving a two years’ sentence in the prison sputh for wife murder, was taken before the board of pension examiners, at New Albany, and examined for a pension for which hemadeapplication sixteen years ago. He has eighteen months to serve. —lt is proposed to convert the old Jeffersonville cemetery into a park. It contains but three acres but it is estimated that no fewer than two thousand bodies have been buried in it. It was opened in 1802, and was used until 1847, when it was abandoned. —A teacber in the Kokomo High School was arraigned recently, and fined $17.55 for unmercifully beating a little 12-year-old boy. The boy’s back and legs were welted and bruised in a shocking manner. The chastisement was inflicted for truancy. —The Monroe City homicide was granted a new trial by Judge Malott, of Vincennes. On the flrst trial the jury could not agree; on the second, the defendant was found guilty of manslaughter and given two years in the penitentiary by the jury. —An Anarchist giving his name as Jakob Hamburger established himself on the public square, at Lafayette, and began making a radical speech. He drew a large crowd, and, to suppress the disturbance, he was finally lodged in jail. —A Harrison County lawyer, who was confined in the Caawford County jail for perjury, dug out last week. He told a friend that he dug out to attend a case .fpr x _a client in a magistrate’s court in Harrison County. —The G. A. R. Post at New Providence will decorate, with appropriate ceremonies, the graves of the soldiers i buried at that place, and at Martinsburg, Mount Pleasant, and Mount Washington, in Washington County. —A probably fatal accident occurred in Erwin Township, Howard County, lately. The 9-year-old son of a well-to-do farmer was kicked in the head by a vicious horse, crushing in his skull until his brains oozed out —A, Jeffersonville gambler knocked down his mistress, kicked her about the head and body, and then attempted to shoot her, but was prevented by being caught from behind by a timely arrival. —A Marion fisherman had the good luck to sit on a yellow jacket’s nest and nurse it to life. His morning gallop across ths country has Bad no charms for him since. —At New Albany, the king of the hoodlums of that city T resisted arrest and attacked an officer, who fired are vol ver bullet into his abdomen, inflicting a wound that resulted in death in an hour. —The Richmond fire department consists of nineteen men, organized into two hose and one hook-and-lndder company. —A fifteen-year-old boy was run over by the cars and killed, at is supposed to have been asleep ou the track. —Thirteen expensive bridges span the Wabash and Eel Rivers at Logansport—hence the name, “City of Bridges.”