Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Parka county Prohibitionists have nominated a county ticket. ' , Jeffersonville needs 500 more booses to accommodate its population. Destructive forest fires have been razing in portions of Clatk county. Frankfort has a boating park which 1,000 people visited lest Sunday. Strawberry growersabout New Albany report the proepeot for the coming crop SS excellent. s August Farenheim, a yonng German, was killed in a saloon' browl at LaPorte, Saturday night ' • The Terre Haute City Conncil, Tuesday night voted $25,000 to begin work on the new Normal School building. Hon. George W. Cooper of Coiambus was nominated for Congress by acclamation st Martinsville, Thnrsday, to sneceed Hon. O. E. Matson. While trying to kill a hawk William Holloway, jr., a farmer near Alfordsville, accidently shot ofi his right arm near the Bhoulder. He will probably die from loss of blood. Rev. George Schwartz, of Jeffereonville, is probably the oldett Methodist preacher living, entering tbe ministery in 1822 Himself and wife have been married 66 years. He is eighty years old. A young Indiauian who has been seeking his fortune in Texai, waked from the Lane Star State to Boon ville to get his bride, thinking it belter to save the money required for a ticket tbat they might spend it together. Ae Mary, the three-year-old daughter of Albion Cartwright, a farmer living three miles weet of Plymouth, was playing by the coox stove, her clothes caught fire and her body wae burned to a crisp, death resulting early in the evening. Some vandal took a chisel and ''cut into the corner-stone of the old Baptist Church at Colcmbuß, removing a pot containing a twenty-dollar gold-piece and some old chnrch relics and documents placed there October 3, 1854, at the laying of the corner-stone. Jacob Shaffer,aged eight, accidentally shot and instantly killed Jacob Ludlow, aged eleven years, Wednesday afternoon at Waltan, ten miles east of Laganspovt. Shaffer’s father had borrowed a targetgun with which to shoot rats. Yonng Shaffer was showing the gun to hiß play mate, and did not know it was loaded. The ball penetrated tho region of the heart.

Frank Herwood, a minister of jthe Church of God, of Mancie, was Friday arrested by Marshall Robinson and placed in tiie Delaware connty jail, on the charge of stealing $lO from Mrs. J. Miller, of Muncie. In an interview with him this morning he admitted his guilt. Mrs. Philo Lynch, of Crawford eounty, is the mother of seven children, all under two years of age. Eighteen months ago she gave birth to triplets and a f-w days ago to two hoys ana two girls. The mother and children are doing well. Tuesday evening, Perry Burr, a promnent young man of Mancie, while speeding his horse, had a ruoaway with serious results. His wife wae thrown a.aipst an iron fence and dangerously hurt. Mr. Burr wa3 severely but not dangerously injured. The valuable animal wae impaled on an iron feuce and rained. I A company for the manufacture of plate-glass has been formed in Kokomo, with Monroe Seiberling, of Akron, 0., at its head. The capital stick is SSOO, 000, and the plant will equal that of the famous DaPauw works at New Albany. The buildings will cover fifteen acres of ground and be fire-proof—stone, brick and iron. About 600 mem will be employed. The company has decided to locate at Kokomo, and will commence building at once. At the Democratic primary meetings in Indianapolis Friday night, held to select delegates to the State and National conventions, ex-S’enator McDonald was dtfeated in his district lor State delegate by O. C. McGannon. The result iB attributed to the thorough canvas made by McGannon’s friends, while Mr. McDonald had given the matter no attention. Grey was indorsed for ViceFresident. For Governor the delegates are about equally divided for Matson and Myers. . Patents have been granted. Indiana inventors, as follows: Hesokiah Bridenthal, Vincennes, assignor of elaventwelfths to J. E. Hall, S'. Louis, bolting reel; Wm. M. Dickers n, assignor of one-half to L. W. Holoway, Indianapolis, baud taw-mill; Banton Essig, assignor of one-half to 8. Estig, Disko, harrow; Richaidr Mullins, Newark, tricycle; Winfield 8. Rolfioga, assignor to R. R. Rouse, Indianapoli*, chain wrench; John Nr Sargent, ats guor to himself and G. H. Wymond, Dearborn county, draw band; Alferd TV" Sheets, Germany,ats'gnor of one-half to Birdsell Manufacturing Company, South Bend. ,v At 3 o’clcek Friday afternoon tpariss from a passing Wabash locomotive kindled a fire in the barn at the storage depot of the Standard Oil Company, at Fort Wayne, and the flames spread at cnee over the oil-soaked ground to great -piles of oil-barrels and to the six monster tanks, which burst with deafening rej.or'B, sending their tops across the railroad and high over the beads of 5,000 affrighted spectators ads auce of 200 yarda. Great volumes of flames leaped tip, and a dense black Bmoke, visible for

miles, drifted over the dty and obscured -the sky for hours. The fire department end policemen turned out in full force, bu - not a vestige ot the company’s property could be saved. The burning oil, released by the bursting ot the ran all directions, burning np whatever property the fiery streams enfolded. The tanka contained 12,000 barrel} of oiL of several grades, and shout half as much gasoline. Probably $20,000 would be a fair estimate, on which there i» no insurance whatever. Ei Chamberlain, a well-known yonng man of Reynolds, a village north of Delphi, has wooed Mise Ida Wittenburg-, of the same place, without success. When the young iady had parted from a better favored companion, Tuesday night, after attending a musical rehearsal, sfie was asraulted by Chamberlain. After an nnsnecesefal attempt to overpower her, he shot her, the ball entering her month. She lies in a critical condition. Chamberlain has been captured, and npon pleading guilty to aisiult with in* tent to kill, gave bond in tho sum of $2,000. His father is a wealthy farmer, and the young lady belongs -to one of the prominent families of the county. Republican Del. gates Is Chicago. R-pubiican conventions met in the thirteen congressional districts of the State Thursday and electel delegates to the national Republican convention which meets in Chicago in June. First District—A. A. dweinheim, John Oockrum. Second District—Dr. Gardner, S. N. Chambers. Third District—John Overmyer. W. N. McDonald: alternates, James N. Kemp, Geo. B. Cardwell. Fonr.h District—M. D. Tackett, W. H alternate, Allred Bbaw, Dr.T. W. Forshee. Fifth District-John V. Hadley, William L Dunlap; alternates, Chirks Ham mane, J. S. McPheeters. Sixth District—William A. Cullen. John F. Wildman- alternates, M. J. Townsend, Charles Rock. Seventh District—Elijah W. Halford, Bichard A. Black; alternates, Blisha B. Wingate, Benjamin D. Bagby. Eight District—Jacob D. Farly, Robert H. Nixon; alternates, Samuel Daniels, A. S. Peacock. Ninth Dktrict—Thomas A. Kane, N. I. Throckmorton; alternates, A. F. Travis, D. W. Paul. , Tenth District-E C. Field, A. 8. tills; alternates, M. L. Demott, Thomas Hatch. Eleventh Di-trict—H. C. Cowgill, A. C. Beams; alternates, Leopold Levy, L. C. Davenport Twelith District—lames 8. Drake, Wi Ilian Kinseley; alternates, Hiram Iddings, J. M. Somers. Thirteenth District—J. W. Crumpacker, M. W. Simons; alternates, Dr. Henderson. Cisney. The’delegates will all warmly support Harrisan, though the personal choice of a few is Grisham.