Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson has a magnetic well. . Hay is scarce in Allen county. Allen county’s poor farm has eighty inmates. .- . Mormon elders are preaching in Gibson county. Anderson butchers have formed a nocredit trust. ' There are 577 convicts in the Southern penitentiary. English sparrows feast on Morgan county wheat. Logansport has five Odd Fellows lodges; Indianapolis thirteen. . The wheat crop of Clark county is the heaviest ever raised there. The town of Edwardsbnrg, Ind., was badly damaged on Friday by a storm. There was no loss of life. James Parks, a Peru boy, stopped a runaway team at the peril of his lffe and saved two young ladies from serious injury. A wild cat is causing considerable cori sternation among Warwick county farmers. It scares women and eats dogs and sheep. Jeff Hawes, of Union township, Clark county, gathered 700 gallons of raspberries from an acre patch, and realized $175 on the crop. John H. Van Loan,book-keeper in the Second National Bank of Jersey City,has defaulted to the amount oi $14,000 and left for parts unknown. " Attorney-general Michener gives it as his opinion that a town trustee vacates his office if he fails to qualify, after ten days had elapsed since his election. The first wheat to be carried to the Vincennes market was from the farm of Louis Doll, Allison township, Lawrence county. The opening price was 70 cents.

Republican young ladies at Vincennes cut, hauled and erected a Harrison and Morton pole Friday, with appropriate ceremonies before an enthusiastic audience,— John Presley, aged 14, of Seymour, walked out of a second-story door while asleep, falling a distance of fourteen feet and bursting his knee cap. He is crippled for life. Walter Elliott has a farm just north of Shelbyville, the wheat on which will make twenty bushels to the acre. James McCarty finished cutting, Wednesday, and states that the crop will run twentyfive bushels per acre. Daniel McCarty is the Star-route mailcarrier from Muncie to Hagerstown. For the fiscal year just closed he personally made every trip, covering a distance of 9,360 miles, and making three round trips every day except Sunday. Capt. J. A. Lemcke,Treasurer of State, has written to S. J. Thompson, editor of the Lebanon Patriot, that while not a candidate for re-election he would consider a nomination by the convention in the light of a cobimand, and would accept.

The Soldiers’ Monument Commissioners, it has been decided by Judge Sullivan, can expend the full $200,000 appropriated for the monument, and can have their expenses paid out of another fund. To get a final decision the question will be taken to the Supreme Court. Secretary Heron reports that applications for premium lists and exhibition space for the coming State Fair are; more numerous that at any time in the past five years, and that all other, indications lead to the conclusion that this is to.be the most successful year in the history of the Exposition. James M. Crowe, a Booneville merchant, has been strangely, afflicted. For five years he has dwindled away until he became a mere skeleton. The trouble seemed to be with his stomach, and he was induced to try a strong emetic a fe\v days ago. Acting on this, he threw up an animal six inches long and about an inch in diameter, of a pink color. The freak was put in alcohol for preservation, but quickly dissolved into a white pulp. Mri Crowe is feeling better.

A ten-year-old son of J. H. Wood, four miles northwest of Montpelier, caught a four-pound black bass in a novel manner. He saw the bass in a pool in the rapids of the Salamonie, and conceived the idea that if he went into the water and knelt down the bass would come up to him to get into the shade thus made in the water. He went in, kept quiet, and the big fish, after darting in and out a few times, came up close to the boy and nestled there. Quietly the boy’s hand slipped to the gills of the fish, one quick grab and the boy and bass were in a big tussle, but the boy held on and carried his fish in triumph to his mother. Patents were granted Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: John S. Adams and A. W. Morrell, Indianapolis, assignors to Jenney Electric Company, of Indianapolis, electric lamp socket; Wm. Archdeacon, assignor to M. T. Archdeacon, Indianapolis, machine for cleaning pigs’ feet: James Grant, Goshen, brick mold; Melville O. Haldeman, Indianapolis, regulating Frank AJacob, W. M. and L. H. Levy, Indianapolis, bank check file; August Lamipedee, South Bend, straw-stacker; Marvin N. Nixon, Richmond, cuff supporter; David M. Perry, Indianapolis, planter, Jonathan F. Stark, Leota, combined harrow and pulverizer, John I*. Walker, Greenfield, apparatus for heating tires. "A. A. Sparks, editor oi the Mt. Verwasprobablv, jatallyaßsaulted on the 3d by Bidge Duckworth. Duckworth slipped up behind Sparks

and ptracic him over the head with a club, fracturing the skull and probably , inflicting a death wound. The: would-be-assassin escaped to the woods but was pursued. The assault results from the arrest on Jane Bth of a Mrs. Williams, of Mt. Vernon, who was charged with opening a letter addressed to her sister and written by Duckworth. She claimed that the letter was unfit for her sister to read, and destroyed it, and this reaching Duckworth’s ears, he had her arrested for opening mail not addressed to her. J. Mrs 4 Williams was brought to Evansville for a hearing and was accompanied by Sparks. When the particulars of the sensational affair appeared in the Evansville papers .next morning Duckworth charged Sparks with giving the information to the press, and notwithstanding the latter’s denial Duckworth swore vengeance.