Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Union City has found gas at last. Jackson county’s Hendricks Club has 600 members. Myriads of young potato bugs have suddenly made their appearance in the Upper Miami Valley. L. P. Byrne, Democratic sheriff of Jackson county, has resigned, after serving out a portion of his term. He says he was tired of the office. It was his first term, too. Lightning struck the house of Doi soy Jaquar, near Monon. Jaquar’s son, sixteen years old, was instantly killed. Jaquar was knocked down, and the baby in his arms probably fatally injured. Indianapolis had two big fires Wednesday night—one the Indianapolis Veneer Works cabinet factory and lumber yard 7 totally destroyed; loss $105,000; insurance about $90,000. " The other was the G. R. Root Stove Foundry and adjoining residences. Loss $33,000; fully insured. The remains of Samuel Jones, a prominent citizen of Warren, west of Montpelier, were disinterred at Good Cemetery for burial at the Masonic Cemetery. It required the combined strength of six men to raise the coffin out of the grave. The box was opened, when it was found that the body had petrified. The features were the same as at his death, fifteen years ago. It is one of the most remarkable cases of petrifaction on record.

The excitement in Brown county over the discovery of gold in large quantities along Bean Blossom creek remains unabated. The people have nearly all left their homes and crops and are searching for nuggets and w’ashing the black sand, which is mixed with dust found along the stream. One man accumulated $350 of gold in three week’s labor. There can be no doubt but that the find is a valuable one.

Arthur O’Neil, a machinist employed at the Anderson Bolt Works, met with an accident Wednesday evening that may cost him the loss of his left hand. He was working at what is known as the nut machine, when the heavy pin that is used in stamping the holes through the nuts came down on his wrist, passing entirely through and making a hole about three-quarters of an inchin diameter. The smaller bones of the wrist are badly crushed and broken, and amputation may be necessary. Patents were granted to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: John Bechtold, assignor of one-half to M. H. Dunlevy, Henryville, animal or other power; Marion T. Broady, Bartie, car coupling' John B. Drake, Goshen, pump; John B. Gorrell, assignor to J. and F. A. Hogue, La Otto, windmill; Harrison P. Hood, Indianapolis, straightway valve; Frederick E. R. Malke, Chrisney, grain adjuster for binders; Jonathan B. Mawhood, assignor to Richmond City Mill Works, Richmond, roller-mill; Charles C. F. Nieschang, Fort Wayne, carpetstretcher; Albert B. Sibley, assignor to Sibley & Ware, South Bend, pulley; Seth Ward, Princeton, back-band hook.