Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

John L. Sullivan is on a big spree at Belfast, N. Y. A cyclone struck Ligonier, Sunday, doing considerable damage.'' A tank and pipe line company has been organised at Terre Haute. Francis Murphy has closed remarkably successful met t ngs at Columbus, i Forty-four alleged Chicago capittHsts were entertained by KokomO Saturday. Since Oast March three wolves and twenty foxes have been killed in Porter county. Emory Stone, a despondent farmer of Allen county, drowned himself in a well last week. Richard Roselle, a young man of Anderson, is insane on the subject of inventions. It is claimed that the Farmers’ MutuaV Benefit Association is doing great damage to the merchants of Mt. Vernon. Samuel Taten, of Jefferson county, is another who has been arrested for complicity in the ten-dollar counterfeit conspiracy. Bond, $5,000. Charles Blink, of Fort Wayne, has been indicted and arrested by a U nited States marshal for voting while under sentence of disfranchisement." Sunday, the two Ft. Wayne breweries gave a picnic for the alleged benefit of the Johnstown-sufferera. Wholesale arrests will follow, as beer was dispensed freely. Lewis Battorff. of Charlestown township, Cl irk county, who was swindled out of $2,000 by two sharpers recently, thinks Tennyson, who was lynched at Corydon, was one of the pair, . Dora Geffin.who has been personating mermaid in Glradv’s New York Museum for three years, was married at Fort Wayne last week to W. M. Gurney, another museum freak, whose home is at Terre Haute. Odd Fellows’* decoration day was observed at many points in the State. Rev. DeWoolpert delivered the address at Hartford City, Grand Secretary B. F. Foster at Walton and W. H. Leedy, Grand Warden, at Sullivan. •The election of Miss Anna V. La Rose as Superintendent of the Logansport city schools is regarded in Cass county as a radical departure in the management of school affairs. She is said to be fully competent for the place. While laborers were digging a trench in the streets of Fort Wayne they uncovered the skeleton of an Indian chief, and lying near were the remains of ah iron tomahawk, the barrel of a rifle, an iron pot, and other aborigine treasures. Morton Howell, of Shelby county, loaded down with counterfeit ten dollar bills, was captured on the train Tues day afternoon just as he was alleged to be going hence. He was arrested and placed under six-thousand-dollar bonds. Wm. Rvan, aged 68, a prominent farmer of Morgan county, was shot in the head and back Saturday and killed by some unknown person. He lives in a tough neighborhood, and has always aidedin bringing the law to bear on acts of lawlessness. Rev. Z. T. Sweeney, of Columbus, recently appointed consul general to Constantinople, is exceedingly popular, and is receiving hearty congratulations from his neighbors. He has been pastor of the Christian church at Columbus for several years. The sale of shorthorn cattle, under the auspices of the Bartholomew County Shorthorn Association, was largely attended. Tne stock all brought g®od prices, the aggregate amount paid for thirtj-six head b»inj; nearly $2,000. A few of the cattle brought as high as $l3O. At New Carlisle, last Friday, J. B. McComber, the recently discharged station agent of the Lake Shore road, addressed the farmers of St. Joseph county, saying he had been discharged because he declined to steal as much of their grain by false weights as the company’s officers required should be taken. Colonel I. B. McDonald, of Columbia City, and Mias Bechtel, daughter of a wealthy farmer in Whttley county, went to Chicago last Sunday, accompanied by the pastor of the Second Baptist Church, of Columbia City, and were united in marriage. Colonel McDonald is a veteran of two wars, and his bride is many years his junior. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors T-esday as follows: Willard Bell, Greencastle, sad iron; John W. Biackledge, Indianapolis, show-case. Chester W. Clark and T. D. Keasey, Mishawaka, bushing for pulleys; William Conwell, Neff, hoof-parer and trimmer; Geo. W. Gilbert, Kendallville, soda-water apparatus; Ed ward L. Hilderbrand, H. Rostand C. L. Davis,Sullivan, draft-spring; Joseph D. Norris, LaPorte, cutter-bar guide for harvesters. A final settlement Of the B.F.Shuttuck estate has bten made at Brazil. In 1871 Neal McDougal and Isaac M. Compton were named as executors, the trust to continue until the child was of age. The estate was then valued at SIO,OOO. In 1881 McDougal moved away, leaving Compton in charge, and he died three J ears later, and was succeeded by 8. M. IcGregor. The latter has now made an accounting of the trust, turning over to the heirs SIOO,OOO personal property and $40,000 in real estate. —Indianapolis Some days ago Gearge Cicil, of Delaware county, was found in possession of a seine which he used for seining purposes, and the case was tried before ’Squire Eiler. The point was raised that the law under which the defendant was prosecuted conflicted with section 16, article 4, of the constitution, which provides that everv act shall embraces but one subject, the ’Squire held the point good and discharged the defendant. Sheriffs of counties, under the new Jaw, are required to provide a proper femal<, attendant when conveying female insane persons to the hospitals. Another important change is that it is made the duty of the Trustees of the hospitals to make inquiry as to the value of the estate of every patient now in and hereafter admitted co the hospitals, and if their estates are competent to nMMBt the exp«n*6S of the care of the patient at the hospital, it is maae the duty of the Board of Trustees to see that the money is collected and paid into the general fund of the State Treasury. This may have the effect of decreasing the number of insane in the hospitals. An insignificant stream known as

Pony creek, across the border of Huntington county, and in Chester township Wabash county, was raised to such an extent by a cloud-burst, during a heavy storm, last Sunday afternoon, that it flooded its banks, washing out road Culverts, fences, etc. A farmer named John Maple was driving to his home, near Pleasant View, LaGro township, from Liberty Mills, with his wife, three children and a servant gifl. In crossing one of the culverts it gave way, and alt, with the vehicle, were swept down the stream. Mrs. Maple and two of the children were drowned. Maple managed tp save his life and tliatof one of tLe children, and the girl was also rescued. The bodies of Mrs. Maple and the children drowned had not been recovered up to 9 o’clock Tuesday morning.