Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Hog cholera ia reported from Martin county. Inks and Ivory [ts the “battery" of a Goshen ball club. Eighteen thousand people attended the Jay ooonty fair at Portland, Thursday. Two men, unidentified, were killed by a Vandalia work train at Glendale, near Torre Haute. _ Joseph S. Miller, of Danville, the first man in Indiana to volunteer in the late war, died, Tuesday. : James Nichol’s cooper shop at Terre Haute, the largest in the State, .burned Friday. Loss 97,000. '• The total attendance at the recent State fair was fully 150,000. About 914,000 was cleared above expenses. Walter J. Mendenhall, a gravel road contractor, is missing from Tipton, and is ahead of confiding people about 92,000. Nineteen men were seriously injured, two of whom will die, by the wreck of the construction train on the Mackey road eighteen miles west of Bedford, Thursday. J. M. M. McClelland, agent of the Michigan Central Railway, was Tuesday found to be short 91,300 ia his accounts. His father made the defalcation good and he will not be prosecuted. Theodore Foust was playing circus with s number of young playmates in Martinsville, Sunday, when, in doing the flyingtrapeze aot, he fell some distance to the ground, broke an arm and was injured internally.

Some scoundrels broke the leek on the •table of James Turney, who livee nea.* Montpelier, and broke his buggy up, shaved bis horse’s tall and mane, and out the harness te pieess. There is no clue to the persons who did the deed. Mr. Turney is a fanner and a peaoeable man. Eli Howes, of Memphis near Jeffersonville, made 9179 net on one acre of black •op raspberries this year. The fruit growers of this section will plant about 20,000peach trees, not to mention other fruit trees, and set out nearly 500,000 Derry plants. The area of fruitgrowing is rapidly increasing, and it will not be long until •11 the available land on the knobs and bluffs will be ooVered with orchards and ; berry gardens. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows: Msrtha A. Carter, Amo, fruit-can nor; Edward Dawson, Torre Haute* Tise; Ghas. N, Ellis, New Albany, gatelatch; Henry. Fa tic, Middletown, oane •r corn harvesting machine; Phillip J. Harrah, Bloomfield shafbholder for vehicles ; Geo. E. Richotts, Goshen, brush (or moistening the sheets of copying-books; Robert S. Taylor and M. M. Slattery, Fort Wayne, automatic) synchronizing commutator. W. J. Perrin leit on our table, Saturday Bvening, a young twig cut from an apple tree—the second. growth for thia year—that is four and one half inches in length, and bears at the point four young halfblown blossoms, and between them a young apple, also of second growth, that has attained the rise of an ordinary pigeon’s sgg. On tho same limb, a few inches below this “freak,” were several large, full grown and fully matured apples sf the “grindstone” variety.—Seymour Democrat A daring robbery was committed three miles west of Scettsburg, Sunday night i Jim Boatman, a were boy, had recently ; received <B,OOO on the death of his fatoss. Jts was in the house alone with another boy when two persons entered threatening to eh op them up with axes I unless the money was given np. The guests knew the hiding place and produced 9110. The robbers dropped <BO on the ' floor in their hurry to be gone. They i escaped, but a neighbor and brother of | Boatman’s stepfather named Johnson, only fifteen years eld, is suspected. He is j dodging the The Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture for 1888-1889 has been printed and is being distributed. The report and accompanying features j comprise a volume of MS pages, and includes the proceedings es the annual ■ meeting es 1889, meeting of eattle breeders, 1 swine breeders, wool growers,bee keepers, sane growers, State florists and State Horticultural Association. Every farmer in Indiana,and every citizen interested in any es the special vocations above mentioned, should be in possession of one of these volumes, as the papers and discussions set forth will be found an invaluable aid to the intelligent pursuit of these vocations. The Secretary, Hon. Alex. Herron, is deserving of high praise for the careful mah- : ncr in which the book has been edited, j Indiana ought to feel proud of hfir sons Ihi the new States. Of those elected in those States who hail from this State are: I A. C. Mellette, Governor es South Dakota, fromMuncle; John R. Wllsen, member Of I Congress from Washington, from Crawford sville; H. C. Hansbrough, elected to I Congress from North Dakota is a native ' Hoosier, Gideon C. Moody, frees New Albany and Gil. A. Pierce, from Laporte, will be elected United States Senators from South and North Dakota respectively. Jerre R. Celling, elected Treasurer of Montana, hailed from Wabash and Loganspert. The Auditor es State haa completed a tabular statement showing the number of white and colored voters in the State. The statement is compiled from returns made by the County Auditors. According to the statement, the total number of msdes over twenty-one years of age is 061,048. Of this number 540,006 are white aed 11,043 color ed. Marion county is credited with 37,554 voters, of which 34,663 are white and 2,891 colored. Center Township and Indianapolis alone have 31,008 voters, 28,801 of I which are white and 2,696 colored. It will | thus be seen that more thaa one fifth of all the colored men in the State are located in Marion county. Next to Marion county f Yigohas the largest voting population, baI ing credited with males over twenty. J one years of age. Then comes Vanderburg comity with a voting population of 12,717. , - r St. Louis* Man (to New Orleans man)—Got tiny yellow fever An your I town yet? j New Orleans Man— No, but we have the Sal vation Army. —Pittsburg Chronime.