Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Tho thirty-thirej annonl conclave of tho Indiana Commandry of Knights Templar was held at Indianapolis, and tbe follow* ing officers were elected: Right Eminent Grand Commander, George W. F. Kiik, Shelbyville. R. E. Deputy Grand Commander, Reuben Peden, Knigbtstown. R. E. Generalissimo, Duncan T. Bacon, Indianapolis. R. E. Grand Captain-General, Henry W. Lancaster, Lafayette. R. E. Grand Prelate, Edward P. Whallon, Vincennes, R. E. Senior Warden, Irwin P. Webber, Warsaw. R. E. Junior Warden, Joseph A. Manning, Michigan City. R. E. Grand Treasurer, Joseph W. Smith, Indianapolis. R. E. Grand Recorder, John M. Bramwell, Indianapolis. R. E. Stand-ard-bearer, James B. Safford, Colnmbns. R. E. Sword-bearer, Simeon S. Johnson, Jeffersonville. R. E. Grand Warder, Charles W. Slick, Sonth Bend. R. E. Captain of the Gnards, William M. Black, Indiannpolis. —Joseph and George F. Boswell, of Indianapolis, have just received a patent on the first fodder and silo harvester ever invented, and are making arrangements to begin the manufacture of the machine in that city. Last year Mr. Joseph Boswell, who is a largo farmer, discovered that cheap cattle food could be bad by cutting np the green corn, stalk and all, as soon as the grain had matured, and then salting and packing it. From some experiments he learned that one ton of it was worth two of hay. He immediately began work on a machine to cat the corn, and has sncceeded in producing a successful one. It can also be used for cutting ensilage. The McCormick Reaper Works, of Chicago, are trying to purchase the right, and the proprietors will probably sell to the company, reserving a royalty on each machine manufactured.

—Patents have been issued for the following Indiana inventors: Charles F. Bassett, Hillsdale, end gate; John* W. Culberson, Indianapolis, inhaler; George Frazer, Williamsburg, wagon jack; Emest F. Grether and C. Mosher, Sonth Bend, treating raw hides; Adam Hoffmann, Indianapolis, harness; Jesse B. Johnson, Indianapolis, bailing press; Jonathan D. Mawhood, assignor, to Richmond City mill works, Richmond, feeding device for roller mills; Aaron D. Miller, Union City, device for operating window shades. —A Ladoga man went to Crawfordsville and requested the Mayor to place him in jail, so as to keep from drinking. He was informed that a complaint must be filed against him before he could be sent to jail. Accordingly, the man went ont and got a drink of whisky, and finally persuaded a policeman to file an affidavit against him for drunkenness. Then the Mayor sent him to jail for fifteen days. He has a wife and several children. Major Jonathan Gordon died at his home in Indianapolis, of congestion of the brain. He had at different times filled a large space in the pnblic eye and played a prominent part in affairs. He possessed talent, genins, great capacity for work and many qualities calculated to win friends and capture the populace. His political and professional services made him widely known throughout the State. —A sad case of poisoning occurred near Stendale, a small town fifteen miles from Huntingbnrg. Two sons of J. D. Lampton, one of G. Wilson, and one of J. Moore, while in the woods, fonnd what they supposed to be spinach, but which proved to be that deadly plant, wild parsnip. Three of the boys died in excruciating agony within eight hours, while the other is ixi a hopeless Condition. —Mrs. Christina Openhoff visited Mrs. Imen, a neighbor, at Fontanet, nine miles east of Terre Hante, and while there fooled with a revolver. The weapon went off, the ball striking Mrs. Imen in the abdomen. She would have become a mother in a few dayß. The child was bom dead, with a bnllet bole through its head. The mother will die. . —The Nickel Plate Railroad has a large force of men and several construction trains in service on the Indiana division, grading and graveling it, and putting in some twenty-five miles of side-track. This supports the statement that the road is to be put in good order, and through passenger as well as freight trains to be ron over it. —One morning recently, whpn the parents of Miss Anna Scott, living two miles north of Mancie, went toller room they fonnd her dying from a pistol-shot in her head. She had covered herself np with several qnilts so the noise would not be heard. She died at noon. Her parents had opposed her in a love affair. —Herbert Mattingly, a young man of Evansville, who has a notorious reputation, while on a drunken spree, attacked John Buchanan, a peaceable citizen, and, in self-defense tbe latter ent Mattingly twice, below and behind the arm, and through the lungs, inflicting fatal woands. —Wm. Reese, of Jamestown, has eued the Western Union Telegraph Company forJFS,OOO damages, on account of failure to deliver a message announcing the death of a relative. He claims that he did not receive the message nntil a month after it had been sent. —An unknown colored man was killed by an Ohio k Mississippi passenger train while walking on the track near Dillsboro. He was walking in the same direction as the train was going, but did not heed the engineer’s whistling. It is thought he was insane. —Elijah Fox,, a young married man, livng nine miles north of Bedford, jumped into Salt Creek and drowned himself. He left a note in his hat on the bank of the creek, saying: “You will find my dead body at the bottom of the creek.” —During the Odd Fellows’ parade, at Madison, a horse ridden by ex-Sheriff Isaac Wagner was accidentally knocked do wn, thro win g Wagner with great violence on bis head, prodneing concussion of the brain, which, it is feared, will result fatally. —Fowler has organized a building association with a capital of $400,000. The stock of the proposed gas well has all been taken, and work will shortly be commenced. -The store of D. L. Lee, at Crawfordsvilla, was ented by burglars, and revolvers and ammunition taken valued at about $75.