Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

, —The first State encampment of thelh--<ll an a division of the Sons of Veterans was held at Richmond. Thtfbloction of officers resulted as follows, leaving the Adjutant and Quartermaster to be appointed:Colonel, E. 8. Walker, .West Lebanon; Lieutenant Colonel, Edward Muhl, Richmond; Major, A. J. Deffenbatrgh, South Bend; delegate to the national encampment, Capt. W. H. Hansche, Richmond; delegate at large, Capt. Garrett, of Winchester; alternate at large, D. W. Wood, Anderson; alternate to national encampment, D. E. Wooden, Greensburg; council-in-chief at national encampment, F.J. Goodwin, West Lebanon. The following were appointed by Col. Walker: D. W. Wood, Judge Advocate; N. W. Swafford, division inspector; F. C. Barrett, chaplain; A. M. Arbaugh, chief mustering officer; J. T. Watterhouse, surgeon. The next encampment will be held on the first Tuesday in June, 1888, at Indianapolis. —The following patents have been issued to Indiana inventors: Ellis C. Atkins, Indianapolis, saw tempering and straightening machine; Perry G. Austin, Hecla, apparatus for setting tires; Charles H. Bartlett, South Befid, bookholder and cover; Caleb Easterling, Friendswood, broadcast seeding machine; Augustin Ellis, Bedford, mowing machine; Elmer E. Hess, Brock, gate; Be jamin F. Jones and J. F. Mays, assignors of one-third to C. C. Caldwell. Indianapolis, bag lock; Joseph Krementz, New Albany, assignors of onehalf to W. N. Escott, Jeffersonville, photographic camera; Albert Maulen, assignor to E. C. Atkins, Indianapolis, saw tempering and straightening machine; John McHale, assignor of one-half to A. H. Teush and I. Lahey, Terre Haute, hydrocarbon generator and burner; William B. Nelson, Richmond, gate closer. —The Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture has issued the annual premium list for the State fair of 1887. It announces an increase in the total premiums to sll,000; serves notice on exhibitors that the State Board has purchased an additional twenty acres of ground adjoining their present possessions, and that there will bo abundance of room for the coming exposition; calls attention to the fact that the fifteen railroads will haul people to the State fair, beginning September 19. at the usual half-fare rate, notwithstanding the new commerce laws, and invites the people to take in the new capitol, the city hall, and market house, the new railway station, and the gas wells in coming to the fair. —The Attorney General has given an opinion to the Auditor of State relative to exemption of taxes on certain lands used for charitable purposes. The question submitted was whether or not the Aged Persons’ Home and Orphan Asylum of the German Baptist Church in Henry County was entitled to this exemption. The Attorney General held that the institution is a charitable one, and is entitled to hold forty acres of land free from taxation. —As the Indianapolis Light Artillery battery was leaving the Exposition grounds after its customary drill, recently, Johnson Holmes accidentally fell off the caisson, the wheels of which passed over one of his legs, breaking it just below the thigh. Although Mr. Holmes was one of the bestdrilled members, the accident to him did not prevent the battery from entering the Washington contest.

—A young man named Quick, while out hunting, near Corydon, shot a squirrel, which, in falling lodged in the branches of the tree. Quick climcd the tree to get the squirrel, and accidentally fell to the ground, receiving injuries which have since caused his death. Quick had only been in the neighborhood a short time, and claimed that he had come from New Albany. —Clem, the 10-year-old sou of Elwood McGuTfe/waSatmostfrig'h'tened'to'deatE and badly hurt by a black Newfoundland dog at Richmond. It chewed up the boy’sarm frightfully and then maimed him for life by completely bitting off the end of his hose. McGuire borrowed a rifle and dispatched the dog, but the end of the child’s nose could not be restored. —A 15-year-old boy, named Arby Hew—titt, living near Danville, was kicked to death by a farm horse, which he tried to mount. His foot caught in the gears, causing the horse to take fright and run off. The horse ran a quarter of a mile,, and when caught had kicked and bruised the lad until he was in a dying condition. He expired in half an hour. —The Christian Church congregation at Crawfordsville have been for some time talking about building a new church, and now the new edifice is an assured fact. At a meeting held recently about ten thousand dollars was subscribed, and it is now the intention to obtain that much more* and proceed at once to. erect the new church. —Greely Palmer, a lad who has been working at Boyce’s bagging factory, Muncie, had his clothing caught in the machinery of a carding machine, and before assistance could reach him his left arm was terribly mutilated to the elbow, and the ends of the fingers' on the right hand were torn off. 1 —Harvey Hines and A Ifred Stevons»both colored, aged respectively 13 and 15, became involved in a difficulty at Cannelton, in which Stevens stabbed his playmate in the throat, cutting the jugular vein. Hines died almost instantly. No cause is assigned- for the , bloody deed, as they werefriends. —Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, has just received another bequest from the Sabin estate at LaPorte, which has given the institution $65,000. Mrs. Sabin has given $5,000 to be devoted to the endowment of alcove of books in the college library in memory of her son Chauncey. —The jury in the case of Blair Mock, of Huntington, who has been on trial at Marion for the murder of Horry Vandevender, returned a verdict charging Mock with manslaughter and fixing the penalty at fifteen years in tho penitentiary. Mock’s father is a rich physician of Huntington. —The monument erected by the Odd Fellows of Indiana to the memory of the late Vice President Schuyler Colfax, in commemoration of his services in establishing the degree of the Daughters of Rebekah, was formaliy unveiled at Indianapolis with imposing ceremori**