Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Condensed Reports of ttie Latest New* from All Pqrts of the State. —There are five building associa•tiQns in Frankfort : —There are said to be seventy saloons id Logansport. —The wheat prospect in Monroe county was never better. —Goodbub is the name of a New Albany restaurant-keeper. has fourteen saloons, each paying SIOO a year license. - A monument to Col. W. C. Kise whs recently unveiled at Lebanon. —Three men were struck by lightning in Peru recently. William Heirs was killed. —Strawberries were being sold recently by Elkhart grocerymen at 24 cents per quart. —Frank Patty, a farmer near Winamac, was struck by lightning tffe other day and instantly killed. * —At Decatur J. F. Snow was elected County Superintendent of Schools. He has served two terms. —The forty-sixth commencement of St. Mary’s Academy, of Vigo county, will take place on the 29th inst. —The farm-house of Allen Dehart, near Lafayette, burned a few days agoLoss, $6,000; insured for $2,000. —The decrease in La Porte county taxables since the assessments one year ago is $634,07.0, or 9.4 per cent. —John Scanling, of Oakton, 21 years old, committed suicide recently by shooting. Unrequited love was the cause. —County School Superintendents have been elected as follows: Tipton, Jerry E. Fish; Jay, W. J. Houck: Porter, Homer W. Porter. —Eugene Lefever, a young farmer in Jefferson township, near Fort Wayne, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. He was 25 years of age, and unmarried. —Vevay post-oflice was broken into the other night and robbed of an unknown quantity of stamps and cash. The Cross Plains mail-pouch was broken open and letters rifled. —A. J. Dillon, of Rochester, a Republican, was elected County Superintendent of Schools over Frank Hainibaugh, the present Democratic incumbent. Haimbaugh claims the election was illegal and will contest it. —Morris Lewis, of Indianapolis,who had a most valuable collection of trained ponies and dogs, received news lately that seven of his ponies had been burned by a fire in a Michigan livery stable, where they were kept. —Two miles north of Brooksburg, near Madison, at midight recently sixmasked men took a young farmer, Stout Brinson, his wife, and child from their bed, removed all the furniture, then burned the house and disappeared. No cause is known for the outrage. —The Allen county grand jury failed to'indict Miss Sarah Jane Gunter for drowning her babe, although they did not question the facts. It was established that the girl was subject to epilepsy and morally irresponsible. Her seducer is understood to have been indicted. —Representatives of Madison’s two large brewing companies recently plead guilty in the Circuit Court to charges of violating the law in delivering liquor Sunday and Judge Friendly assessed light lines, in consideration of the brewers signing a contract to not hereafter sell or deliver ale, beer or other liquors between 12 o’clock Saturday night and 12 o'clock Sunday night. —The Indiana Millers’ Association held their annual session in Kokomo: The meeting was well attended and milling interests throughout the State reported In a very prosperous condition. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, William Styer of Kokomo; Vice President, Isaac Miller of Peru; Secretary, A. P. Landis of Lafayette; Treasurer, W. H. Green of Attica, —ln Indianapolis recently Judge Woods disbarred Commodore Clemaus and Woodson S. Marshall from further practice of law in the Federal courts of Indiana. This order was based upon the action of Judge Olds of the Kosciusko Circuit, who disbarred Clemans for giving W illiam C. Matchett a forged note, purporitng to have been made* by Val Hamirion, for SB6. Marshall was disbarred for giving a similar notq to Samuel O’Brien calling for SSOO. —The action the Northern Illinois coal operators in refusing to pay the advance till all the conditions have been met, and of the miners in the stubborn districts in refusing to strike to force scale rates, virtually defeats the advance throughout the State belonging to the Federation. The miners in the Brazil district are holding meetings, addressed by the State and District President, to determine on a course to pursue. There seems to be no other alternative but to submit. —When the trustees of the Indianapolis Insane Hospital met recently, Gov. Grav’s appointees to the places occupied by President Harrison and ‘Triißreg*GajpgßL made a demand for tSem and were refused. The case will now go to the courts. Superintendent Fletcher’s term of four years has expired, and if the present trustees were sure of their positions, they would elect a successor, but as it is action on this matter was postponed for thr?e months. , —At a recent election in Peru for County Superintendent a queer question arose, which will most likely have to be settled by the courts. The vote stands seven Democrats and seven Republicans, with the Republican auditor. On the vote electing a chairman, the L'emocratic side claimed that the aud

iior had no right to vote, and so protested in writing, all signing and withdrawing. The Republicans then voted, as did the auditor, and elected Mr. Woodridge to serve the ensuing term. They claim that he is elected by a majority. * *,,u* -‘-Robert Short, a farmer near Mount Vernon, while attending his brother’s funeral, became violently insane. He was controlled by several neighbors until after the services at the cemetery, when he seemed calmer and was permitted to rejoin his family. The party started for home, and when crossing a bridge spanning a creek twenty feet below, Short suddenly drew a claspknife from his pocket and cut a gash across his throat. Before the occupants of the wagon could seize him he leaped over the bridge Into the rocky Creek bottom. He was picked up in a dying condition. ---During a heavy thunder and rain storm recently lightning struck the residence of Mrs. Ellen Gilbert at Cen tre Square, a smr 11 village near Vevay, and passing down the side into the sitting room, killed two women, Mm,. Jane Gilbert, wife of Thomas Gilbert, and Mrs. Mary Morch, wife of John Moreh. There were three other persons in the room at the time, and they were knocked senseless, but recovered. The clothing of Mrs. Morch was set on fire, but the llames were extinguished by a neighbor. The house was considerably damaged. A chair in which one of the victims sat was torn into splinters.