Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Darlington needs » hotel. ■: White Caps prevail at StockwelL Incendiaries incite alarm at. Huntington. Patricksburg White Caps are an annoyance. ''/• \ ___ " Logansport anthorties are raiding the gambling dens. -f Laporte has bored down 2,400 feet. Result, Balt water. Floyd county strawberries netted the growers $25,000 this season. Two Mormon missionaries are proselyting in Washington county. Several Virginia deer have been placed in the Scott county court house park. There are only fourteen divorce cases pending in Elkhart county. An unusually small number. A six foot vein of potters’ clay, covering an area of sixty acres, has been discovered near West Union. The Indiana May Musical Festival, which closed Wednesday evening, was an artistic and financial success. Walter Salters, “coal black,” and Miss Rose Surdam, “snow white,” of Terre Haute, have been married. Marauders dynamited a fish pond near Waveland, killing nearly all the fish and carrying away the larger ones. “Center Grade,” a SIO,OOO four-vear-old trotter owned by U. a Treasurer J. N. Huston, died at Cambridge, Wednesday. James Bennett lost his grip and fell sixty-eight feet to the bottom of a well in which he was being lowered. Hia leg was broken. This at Crawfordsville. H. C. Thurman, of New Albany, has a horse seventeen hands high, weighting 1,685 pounds, and with a hoof eight inches broad. The animal is five years old. Warden Patten, of the Southern Prison, has been paid $17,832 for liquidation of the debts contracted by Jacfc Howard while in charge of the Jeffersonville penitentiary. Mrs. Joseph Brand, of Kinesbury, has been notified of the recent death of her father in California, and the fact that she had fallen heir to a valuable estate. Her father had been missing since 1849, and the family many years ago supposed him dead. The peach crop of Southern Indian* will beheavier and finer this season than in any previous year, and in every large orchard forces of men are now at work thinning out the fruit, the earliest of which will reach the market between June 15 and 20. The great drainage contract, known as the “Little River Ditch,” will t soon be completed, by which work it is expected to reclaim 20,C00 acres of land in Allen. Whitley and Huntington counties. The task was begun three years ago, and it will coßt $137,000. School teachers should know that for each teachers’ institute held after March 2,1889, they are entitled to full pay—a regular day’s wages—provided they attended such institute during the entire time it was in session and did the work assigned them by the township principal. Knox county farmers are complaining of myriads of green bugs which have made their appearance, more particularly in the growing rye, and which burrow in the husks, next to the grain.. The wheat is also similarly affected, and the effect is disastrous to growing crops. At New Albany, Wednesday evening, Frank Davis, aged six years, was persuaded by his comrades to smell something lying on the ground, and, as he stooped over what proved to be gunpowder, one of the little rascals applied a match, and an explosion followed. Frankie’s face was terribly burned, and; he will loose his eve-sight. William Robbins, of Franklin, who had his leg amputated above the knee, experienced pain at the point where the limb was removed, and no relief could be obtained. Fiually he went to the cemetery where the dismembered limb was buried to see if it bad been laid away in a cramped condition, and be rearranged and reburred it. Then the pain entirely disappeared, and since then he has not been troubled.—lndinapolis News. The Centlivre brew pry is located outside the limits of Fort Wayne, on the St. Joe River, just above what is known as the Rudisell dam, and the company built a street car line and fixed up a pleasure resort, which was overflowingly patronized on Sundays. The Fort Wayne Street Car Company wants to purchase this line, but the brewery company refuses to sell. The President of the former company, however, holds a similar relation with the company controlling the dam and contingent water privileges, and accordingly the water has been let out of the dam, and the brewery company boats are high and dry. By this means there is an attempt to force the brewery to term* Patents were issued, Tuesday, to Indiana inventors as follows: Stephen G. Baldwin, Marion, ink well; Stephen A. D. Bozell, Atlanta, gate; Oliver H. Cartle, Indianapolis, crank waist and boxing;. Tames K. Augdale and C. E. Martin, Richmond, last and stand; James W. Fierst. Red Key, balanced swinging gate; John R. Fox, Fort Wayne, electric arc lamp; Charles R. Hartman, Vincennes, cultivator; Elwood E. Hiatt, Nobleeville, bed furnace; Theodore Krone, Indianapolis, heating furnace; Frank Lenliart, Brazil, horse detacher, Frank G. Perkins, Mishawaka, bushing for pulleys; Freeman M. Tee garden, Colfax, saw table gauge; Elias W. Tucker and A. P. Orr, Arcadia, clothes pounder; Lewis F, Wickers and B. C. Wickers, Lebanon, fence.