Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The fifth annual meeting of the Indiana Pharmaceutical Association assembled at Lafayette with President Augqst J. Detzer, of Fort Wayne, in the chair. After prayer by Her. A. Marine, the Mayor, Hon.’J. L. Caldwell, delivered his address of welcome, to which President Detzer responded. Thirty-three applications for membership were filed with Secretary J. R. Peiry, with more to follow. In the absence of Emil Martin, the •treasurer, Mr. D. Hilt was appointed treasurer pro tem. The reports treasurer and secretary were read, and referred to the executive committee. A committee on credentials was appointed. Delegates were present from a large number of local associations. The officers elected are, President, Leo Eliel, of South Bend; First Vice President, David Hilt, of Lafayette; Second Vice President, M. Jay, of Stockwell; Third Vise President, G. H. Loesch, of Fort Wayne; Treasurer, 4. N. Hurty, of Indianapolis: Secretary, Frank Hereth, of Indianapolis. —A short time since a man of good address, and about 50 years of age, went to Fort Wayne, hailing, he said, from Buffalo, N. Y., and giving his name as B. D. Daniels. He bargained for a stock of dry goods with T. J. Fleming, and he and Mr. Fleming commenced invoicing said stock. The goods r as were placed on n counter, and the proceeds of the sale of the same, about $l5O, put in a box. Sometime during the afternoon, Daniels took the money and left town, hiring a livery team to take him to Arcola, eight miles west of the city. Learfiing the state of affairs, Mr. Fleming notified the sheriff, who started in pursuit, and Daniels was overhauled at Coesse, twelve miles west on the Fort Wayne road. He puts a bold face on the matter, claiming he had a legal right to take the money. There is no doubt that Daniels is a criminal, and his pretended purchase of the goods an old game. —:Burglars robbed a number of business houses in Hillsboro not long since. The large safe in Heffner & Hayes’ drug store was blown open and badly damaged. The dry goods store of Lenville & Berry, the millinery store of W. J. Gebhart, and the 1.,8. <t W. Railway depot were also entered. The latter place they entered by breaking glass out of a window of the freight and ticket office, and made an effort to blow open the safe. But little booty was secured. Heffner <fc Hayes were damaged to the extent of S3OO by the injury done their safe and the breakage of prescription goods by the explosion. —The Friend Quakers at Richmond, who have been considerably exercised about the death penalty being inflicted upon Bates, the wife murderer, ever since his sentence, have, in their quarterly meetping, taken formal action by appointing a committee, consisting of President Mills, of Earlham College, Timothy Nicholson, Allen Jay, Sarah Morgan and Mahala Jay, to present a petition to Gov. Gray for a commutation of the sentence. —Mrs. Mary Williams, aged 92 years, and the oldest woman in Parke County, died at Rockville not long since. She was born in Greenbrier County, Kentucky, in December, 1794. She was the mother of eleven children. The two oldest persons now remaining in Parke County are Gabriel Haughman, of Rockville, who will be 92 in August, and Mr. Strong, of Bellmore, who will be 92 next fall. —Emmet Bowers, living near Hoover’s Station, Fulton County, was taken to the Insane Asylum recently. The cause of insanity was religion. While laboring under an hallucination he shockingly mutilated himself, and for some time hie life was despaired of, but he is now in fair health, his insanity being his only dangerous feature. —Not long since the dry goods store of Will F. Hoover, at Spiceland, was broken open by burglars, and clothing and other goods to the value of SIOO taken. On the following night the dry goods store of W. 5. Qhamness was broken into, but the value of goods taken was small. —William I. Gray, who hails from Tipton, was caught recently by a clever piece of detective work, with three horses in his possessiqn which he had stolen an Loir before from a farmer near Camden. He was lodged in jail, and a trip north is a foregone conclusion.

—Two of the largest sheets of finished plate glass ever turned out in the West were shipped from the DePauw American Plate Glass Works at New Albany, to St. Louis, measuring 160 by 124 inches in size. These sheets are equal to the best imported glass. —Charles Carver and Charles Morrow attended divine service at Union Church, near . Mace. They became involved in a quarrel, and knocked Carver down with a brick. Morrow was fined $25 for assault, and Carver $1 for disturbing a meeting. —A farmer living norih of Muncie attempted to enter a questionable house and was met at the door by the landlady, who shot him “in the mouth with a thirty-eight caliber pistol. His teeth were all knocked out and his jaw-bone shattered. - —A large frame barn, located ten miles southeast of Muncie, was burned recently. Four excellent farm horses, besides a large amount of hay, com and machinery, were consumed. The loss is placed at $2,500; no insurance. —A. man near Darlington refused to obev an order to set his fence back out of a public highway, and, consequently, he has been fined $5 a day for thirty-three days— $165, and the costs will make the bill over S2OO. —The scheme to bore for natural gas at Loeansport has been abandoned. A company was recently organized, but it could not muster up the necessary courage to —At the Memorial Day exercises at Logansport, Capt. Cyrus Vigus, of the war of 1812, occupied a prominent place on the speaker’s stand. He is now 97 years old, but hale and hearty. —The people of New Providence are asking that their town be named Borden, in honor of Prof. W. W. Borden, whose father laid out the town in 1818.