Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Gas has been shuck at Winchester. Crawfordsville is to have a distillery. Kokomo has added a wood handle factory. There are no less than 1,003 cases oi measles in Terre Haute. Black-leg has appeared among a herd of Hendricks county cattle. Montgomery county Prohibitionists have nominated a full ticket A well has reached a depth of 1,000 feet at New Albany without gas or oil. There will be a Montgomery county stallion show at Crawfordsville on tbe 14th. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Anderson, of Fort Wayne, have celebrated their sixtieth wedding ann i veraary. They have begun to catct}< four-foot pickerel, with one-foot bai s and a school of minnows inside Of them, at Lake Maxiakuckee. The wheat crop in Vigo county, is reported to be iif bad condition, and most of it will be plowed under and the land seeded the oats. In the town of Alamo, Montgomery county, there are 275 persons, and in that number eighteen of them are over sixty-five years of age. The infant child cf Joseph Hunter, a farmer living near Green Oak, Fulton county, was fatally sia’ded by falling into a tub of hot water. The manufacture of army clothing has been entirely suspended at the government depot at> Jeffersonville. The appropriation isexhausted. A fifteen year old son of Israel Nixon, at Bruceville, was struck by lightning, Friday, while standing in the dooaway of his father’s residence, .and instantly killed. James R. Carnahan, Chairman of the Marion connty Republican Central Committee, indicted by the same grand jury that indicted Coy and Bernhamer, will have his trial Mav 16tb. John Leffingwell, of Montpelier, has a mania for maiming and killing cats and dogs. He fatally maimed a valuable bird dog with a hatched, and is charged with having cut off the fore-paws of a cat. •“ The SIO,OOO soldier’s monument at Logansport was strnck by lightning,Friday, shattering the stone flag staff of the color bearer on the top of the shaft,eighty feet high. J. P. Smith, foreman of the Evans ville Cotton Mills, has suddenly cisappearei. It is alleged that he accomplished the rain ci not less than six girls in the factory. He is a married man and has always borne a good reputation. —— Friday night a cyclone struck the eastern part of Rush county, blowing ciown the houses of George Harold, E. 8. Frazee and George W. Tits worth. A schobl-house, and a number of barns were also leveled. The loss to timber and fencing is enormous. No liven lost. About 10 o’clock, Friday, a tank of nitro-glyc?rine exploded in one cf the buildings of the .E:na powder works near Miller’s station on the Lake Shore road. The structure was blown to at oms and three employes, John Gill, Lawrence Ibsen and Henry Scott were killed. The Hon. Benjamin S. Parker is engaged on a work of much interest, and especially interesting it will be to Indianians. It will be entitled “The Poets and Poetry of Indiana.” ’ Mr. Parker, himself a poet cf rare sweetness, and a most excellent critic, is amply equipped to edit such a work. At Ft. Wayne Sunday morning Mrs. Judge Ziilars, wife of Judge Allen Z ollars, of the Supreme Court, and her daughter, while driving behind a spirited horse, which took fright and ran away, had a narrow escape from death. Mra. Zollars was thrown from the carriage and received a severe contusion on the forehead. Miss Zillarj escaped uninjured. Mrs. John Hunt, of Dorsey Station, was probably fatally burned, Monday evening. Her dress caught fire at the back, and she ran screaming out of the house. Her husband came from a distant field,tore the dress off her, wrapped her in a quilt, and went to Montpelier, two miles, for aid, running tbe entire distance going and coming. His own burns are very serious. Robert Snyder and Guy Huestis, of Crawfordsville, rivals in a love affair, agreed to settle matters with their fists. They stripped and fought a fight of four rounds with bare knuckles. Both the participants were punished and the fight was declared a draw. Snyder and Huestis move in aristocratic circles. John Q Raid was elected Road Supervisor in District No. 1 in Fallcreek Township. Here are the different ways his name was spelled: Rede, Raed, Reede, Read, Reade, Ried and John Quincy Reid. A ballot for “Jonhie” ■ f. was rejected, as his opponent was also named John.—Anderson Herald. James T. Bailey, of tbe Twenty-fourth Indiana,* ieasking a pension. He live s near Petersbu-g. Pike county and enjoyslhe distinction of be ng the only man in the world who 'Was eVer struck by a full e'estrict bolt and survived "the JBhock. -Wn = the—battle-field -of- Stril uh,“ wbi'e s anding under a tree, he was struck by lightning and lay on the ground for six hours, to all appeanncee dead. Tbe electric bolt seared a deep seam down Lit forehead and completely wrecked his nervous sj stem. He is now the most pitiable objeot the eye ever

rested on, says one who saw him recently. The workmen engaged in removing the machinery from the O. & M. round house, in Jeffersonville, while taking np a portion of the floor, found in a secluded place the abandoned nest of a rat, a portion of the material of which it had been made being U. S, paper money? The currency had been mutilated until, of a large handful of it, not one piece •was larger than a quarter of an inch square. Upon inquiry it proved to be the remains of $l2O, the property-cf John Dougherty, who hid it under a plank and it was carried off by rats. Dougherty was so affected by the loss of the money that he disappeared and has never been seen since. Patents were granted Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows: Henry W. Alehouse, Custer, gate; j Beverly W. Duncan,assignor of one half to I. Leedy, Dera, hog trap; William N. Gartside, Richmond, door plate and indicator; James L Henderson, Bloomington, corn planter; Lewis J. Manor, Delphi, tongue support; Antoine Mettler, Terre Haute, car coupling; Elwood G. Phillips, Richmond,asfignor to aA. Warren,St. Louie, Mo., and J. W. March, Cincinnati, tension apparatus; Harvey Richwine, Dora, fence; John W. Rutledge, Shannondale, gate; Louis I. Shrader, New Albany, boot or shoe; Simeon Turner, assignor of one half to H. J. Coles, Warren, barrel lifter; Reuben N. Vanslyke, Hawpatchtire tightener; Meade Williams, Mount Vernon, harness designs; Francis A. Coffin, Indianapolis, writing desk and cabinet. John E. Sullivan, County Clerk of Marion county, Thursday began suit for damages for slander against Louis T. Michener and William Dudley Foulke, asking for $20,000 damages on account of the allegations made in the suit of the State ex rel. Michener against Harrison, Gapen et al., to remove them from office,that Sullivan was given preference over other contractors in furnishing supplies for the Insane Hospital and that he charged unreasonable priced for poor supplies. Mr. Sullivan thinks his good name and business reputation have been damaged to the extent of $20,000 by these charges. Dr. Thos. 8. Harrison, President of the Benevolent Boards, also brought a similar suit against Michener and Foulke, asking for $20,000 on account of the charges made against him in the other suit.