Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

V Xenia is exploring for oil. Brookville has a cooking club. Goshen has free mail delivery, Logansport will have base ball. */ Sonth Bend is enjoying sleighing. Ligonier reports a good ice harvest. Bluffcoa ice dealer* have lost hope. Seymour is assured ~pf water works. Fox chasing is a Hartford City sport. Lagrange claims great church and schoolj? ri vil eges. There are’ 581 cases pending in the Floyd circuit court. Wax. Capp of Columbia City was crashed by a falling tree. , A colony is forming at Greensburg for removal to Washington Territory. Nora, Castieton and Broad Ripple report considerable sickness, and almost an epidemic of measles. A colored man has been drawn to serve as a Morgan county juror—the first in the histosy of the county. Carbon, Clay county, suffered a loss of SSO 000, Friday night. Nearly all the business part of the town was destroyed. Congressman Posey, elected from the first district to fill out the unexpired term of Governor Hovey, will receißa, $1,162,21 for his four weeks labor. The second gas well put down at Marion for the proposed Soldiers’ Home has proven a failure, and the location of the Home is again an \ pen question, k White Cap notices have been distributed in Winchester, warning all “habitual drinkers, wife-beaters and nnchaste women” to reform, or receive thirty lashes. The public schools of Big Lick, Bouchard and Marion townships, Hancock county, Ohio, were compelled to close down Tuesday on account of the prevalence of diptheria.

W. F. A. is a coqvict no longer. He was sentenced a year ago for conspiracy in the tally sheet forgeries cases. He was released on the Ist and arrived home on the Same day, Warsaw is afflicted with black measles. there having been a number of cases with several deaths. After death from the scourge, large black spots, the size of a five-cent piece, come out all over the body. A sad death occurred at Mt. Vernon, . Tuesday night. Miss Ger!rude Burtiß, -the sixteen-year-old daughter of Wm. F. Burt is, died of rupture received from a kick in the side, while asleep, by her little brother, with whom she was sleeping. Frank B. Posey, in his race against Parrett for Congress, in the First District, received a majority of 1,179. Parrett carried Warrick county by 125, but all the others voted for Posey. Vanderburg, 419; Gibson, 255; Pike, 305; Perry, 148; Spencer, 15, and Posey, 27. Two midgets have been born in Martinsville. within three days. Mrs. George Preston gave births Tuesday to a girl weighing three and one-half pounds while Mrs. Corda Thacker went her a pound better by giving birth to a boy weighing but two and a half pounds. Both babies are perfectly formed and ’well. Major Reynolds living near Troy, disappeared from homelast week, and after considerable search the neichborheod abandoned further effort to solve the mystery. This week, while .boys were playing in the woods, near his home, they found his remains concealed under a brush pile, and it developed that he had been beaten to death with a club. J. E. Sullivan, the clerk of Marion county, who failed, last week, for probably $75 000, has fled to Canada. His accounts are in bad shape and many hearts will ache. His flight is due to the fact of his having issued to a large amount fraudulent warehouse receipts. Sullivan was one of the men indicted for the tally sheet forgeries, and his trial is said to have cost him $75,000. The special election in the First Fir«t Indiana district to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gen. Hovey, was held on the 29th. The candidates were the same as at the November election, the face of the returns of that election Hhowing Judge Parrett, D., elected over Frank B. Posey, R, by 26 votes. At this election Mr. Posey is elected by a majority exceeding 500.

Not a vestige is left of the ancient town of New 'London, Jefferson County, which, in 1815, was a busy mart, and which was regarded as “the key of the Indiana Territory for business.” The greater part of the site of the town has been oblitera ed by caving in of the river bank. The remainder of it has been incorporated in a farm, owned by James H. Lee, and called "Riverside.” An interesting series of revival meetings closed a few nights ago at W hite’s Manual Labor Institute, five miles sonth of Wabash, where nearly seventy-five Indian pupils are being educated partially at government expense. As a result of the meetings every one of tbe pupils has become converted. The revival is largely due to the efforts of Dr. Chas. Little. Several students of DePauw University have received notice of dismissal, and others it is thought, will be served in the same manner, m king ten or twelve expulsions in all. Their offenses are insubordination and intemperance. The eight hundred students in attendance are noted for their exceptionally good deportment, and extreme measures were rendered necessary in this instance to maintain the good name of the institution. Patents were granted to the following Indiana inventors Tuesday: Jas. 8~. Alfree, Indianapolis, flour bolt; Jacob Barrow, Windfall, pressure regulator, Jonathan Beeson and J. H. Hirschfeit, Saline City, bee-hive; Rudolph W. Donmoyer, Bouth Bend, wheel;, Brenson Doud, Peru, fence; Horace L. Hewitt, Indianapolis, grain cradle; Jesse F. Feeler, Terre Haute, (2) regulator for dynamo electric machine, and dynamo electric machines; John P. Lancaster, Goshen, rail joint; Ott J. Meisel. guard for step-ladders; George J. Zimmerman, LaPorte. machine for making metal wheels. V At the meeting of the Democratic editors at Iniianapolis Thursday* the following officers were elected: President, J. 0. Henderson, Kokomo Dispatch; Vice President, Bri. Loqthain, Logansport Pharos; Second Vice President, M. U. Ben ham. Richmond Democrat; Recording Secretary, F. A. Arnold, Greencastle Star Press; Corresponding Secret tary, Lather Short. Franklin Democra;-

Treasurer, W.K. Shaffer. Angola Herald. Executive Committee—J B. StoH.South Bend Timer; Royal E. Purcell, Vincennes Sun; S, K. Mores, Indianapolis Sentinel; Dr. W. H. D. Hunter; Lawrenceburgßgister, W. H. Beane, Goshen Democrat.