Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Uniform' Rank No. 6, Knights of Pythias, of Kokomo, winners in the prise drill at Toronto, Cs., was o*ganlz*d in I*Bo, with A. N. Grant ae Captain, and sixteen men in line. Col. I. E. Kirk, Capt. C- A. Jay, and the present commander, 11. C. Davis, have succeeded each other as commanders in the order named. This fiamous division has won prizes as follows: Ari Lafayette, in 1881, third prize, $150; at Detroit, in 1882, second prize, $300; at Bt. Louis, in 1884, first prize, SSOO, and SSOO for best military appearance, and commander’s prize, a gold ring; the August following they won first prize, SSOO, at Cleveland, and have just returned from Toronto with the big SI,OOO prize, making in all $3,000 won on fields of contest. Commander Dari* has been offered SI,OOO to go to Philadelphia with his division and give three exhibition drills in that city in October. The record is one of w hich Kokomo, and the entire State may well feel proud. —Patents were issned to Indianians recently as follows: William L, Ames, Terre Hante, cork extractor; William R. Fowler, Lafayette, milk cooler; Jacob Gearhard, New Salem, tile kiln; Natbnn Harris, Wabash, railway gate; Leonidas C. Howden, Lawrence, wire-fence machine; Edith A. Marsh. New Albany, egg beater; Edward D. Meagher, assignor to Economist Plow Company, South fiend, sulky plow; Henry H. and C. W. Olds, Martinsville, book-case; James Owens, assignor of one-half to 8. Durr, Russellville, cutting attachment for plow; Thomas Toske, Richmond, pocket cigarette machine; John S. Zeller, South fiend, plow. —Rev. Adrian Foote died at the residence of his son-in-law, in Rochester, at the advanced age of 99 years and 3 months, Mr. Foote wafr the oldest Baptist minister in the United States. He leave a wife, who is over 80 year old, and three children. Mr. Foote was torn at Pittsfield, Mass., April 2, 1787, graduated from the Theological College at Hamilton, N. Y., about 1819, and began preaching the next year. Having become seperanuated several years ago, he retired, and led a quiet life. —Recently at Bunker Hill, a shocking accident occurred. The 13-months-old child of a section boss on the Wabash Railway, fell head foremost in a small lard can containing about two quarts of water, and died in about three minutes from strangulation. The mother had only just finished cleaning the husband s dinner-pail, arid poured the residue of the water into the can; she stepped outside for a few moments, returning to find the child dead. —A man at Lafayette has a genuine curiosity in the shape of a four-legged chicken, batched a short time since. The legs and feet are perfectly formed, and are attached to the bo# the same as any fourfooted beast. ’ Sometimes the chick walks upon one pair of legs and sometimes on the other, and when in a hurry, or frightened, goes on all fours. It was hatched from what was supposed to be a doubleyolked egg. —The remains of a girl 7 years old were picked up in the lake, near Michigan City, recently. The child was clothed in a redchecked calico dress and checked gingham apron. The hair was gone from the head, and the body gave every indication of having been in the water many days. It is thought the Corpse is that of a girl who has been missing from St. Joseph, Mich., for a month past. —The surveyor recently appointed to ascertain the probable cost of a levee at Lawrenceburg says that a sixty-two foot levee can be built around that city, from the junction at Hardentown to the foothills southwest of town, for $45,000. A seventy-three foot levee, built over the same route, would cost SIOO,OOO. No action has as yet been taken upon the rer— —— —The Lafayette City Council has ordered the corporation attorney to proceed against the street railroad company to compel them to vacate the streets as a means of compelling the company to repair their tracks, and thus save the city from possible damages on account of the condition of the highways. —A tremendous flow of water has been struck at the North Vernon gas well, at .a depth of 1,500 feet, and the work has been stopped on account of the impossibility of forcing the drill further. The company are much encouraged, and propose sinking another well near the location of the present one. V —While ihrathing wheat on a farm four miles south of Wabash, a new separator, worth S7OO, and a quantity of grain wetp destroyed by fire, which originated fro® § hot box. In endelvoring to save the property, a man was dnngeionsly burned. The loss is about SI,OOO. —The Grand Lodge of the German order of Harugari will meet in Terre Hante on August 4? The local order has made extensive preparations for meeting and entertaining their grand officers, and tho Indies and gentlemen who will accompany them. : '. —A farmer, about 50 year of age, committed suicide at bis fnrm two miles from Windfall recently, by banging himself with a leather strap to the limb of a small oak tree in a corn-field. Domestic and financial troubles are supposed to have caused the act. " J M —The Lafayette oil well is down to a depth of 1,066 feet, with no indications of either oil or gas. There is now a solid twoinch stream of water flowing from it—eight gallons per minute—which will probably be utilized by the paper-mill company. —A handsome colored girl of 17, a domestic in the family of Judge Mellctt, committed suicide at New Castle recently, by taking arsenic. She bought The drug at a drug store, saying-it was wanted for the. purpose of killing rats.' —Farmers in Clark County are pitying $1.25, and dinner for men during harvest, and in spite of the alleged idleness of many people, are unable to procure enough hands. —The National Association of the Local Preachers of the Methodißt Episcopal Church will meet in Fort Wayne September 12 to 14. • ■ 1 • • -'. in--.. •