Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Angola will hags electric light The Brazil miners strike is at last declared off. - -T. • A snow blockade in northern Indiana delayed many trains, Friday and Saturday. South Bend will make an effort to secure the 1890 encampment of the Indiana Legion. • I . _ The Supreme Court of Indiana convened n November term, Monday. Hon. Joseph • A. S. Mitchell was elected Chief Justice. The case of Lee Wilson,of Shelby county, eharged with receiving illegal pension fees, was dismissed in the federal court at Indianapolis, Tuesday. Rev. DeLorme, recently pastor of a German Reformed church in Adams county, committed suicide at Huntington, Friday, He was probably non compos mentis. Philip M. Gapen is on trial at Indianapolis for embezzlement. He is charged with lending John E. Sullivan $3,600 while Treasurer of the Insane Hospital Board. While Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Butcher, near Bryant, were temporarily absent from home, leaving their children alone the clothing of two of them caught fire and they were fatally burned. The Billet-bending and Spoke Works, which have just started at Portland, and which give employment to one hundred persons, is claimed to be the most complete establishment of the kind in the country. Representatives of the Evansville & Richmond Railway Company have closed contracts at Greensburg for fifteen acres of ground, on which will be located, shops, depot, and other accessories to railway traffio. : Elias Heustis, one of the pioneers of Dearborn county, and a resident of Manchester township since 1819, died this week, aged nearly ninety-two. While he lived there was not one older pioneer in the State. A reunion of the surviving members of the Forty-first General Assembly took place at Indianapolis, Tuesday, with about thirty persons in attendance. The session named is known as the war session of 1861. A permanent organization was effected and arrangements made to hold reunions an- , nually. While Robert Slocum, a widowed farmer, near Thorntown, was away after his second wife, his neighbors gatnered at his homestead, repaired the fences, cleaned up the surroundings, improved his home, and burned all the old vehicles, played-out farming implements, etc. They also left word that they hoped everything would be kept clean in the future. Dan McDonald, of the Plymouth Democrat, after a prospecting tour which car ried him largely through the West, editorially says: “We have no hesitancy in advising our friends who are making a living here to let well enough alone, and stay right where they are. While a few may better their condition by going West, we candidly believe nine-tenths of those who do go regret it in less than a year.” There was a little flurry of snow at Elkhart, Wednesday, which practically dem onstrated the inefficiency of the electric motor as applied at Elkhart to propel street cars. The wheels slipped upon the tracks as if the rails were greased, while the electricity spluttered and flashed among them and along the wires overhead, and the oars made exceedingly slow progress, frequently coming to a dead halt. The annual meeting of the State Prohibition League was held at Indianapolis Friday. The various- reports showed that encouraging progress was being made. The following officers were elected: President—G. W. Hagans. Vice-president—Wymond J. Becket. Secretary—El wood C. Siler. Treasurer—Mrs. L. E. Scott. Trustees—Jesse T. Hutchens, Dr. John J. Baker and Mrs. J. A. Pollack. Harrison county White Caps are again on duty. In one instance they compelled the ownsr of a poor and neglected horse to perform the duty of a horse for a whole night. When they brought him to the stable from work the hapless victim facetiously remarked that he always curried his horse after working him hards. The obliging White Caps complied with his request with alacrity, and with the largest and coarsest curry-comb they could find they groomed the human pony until the blood ran. Patents were granted Indianlans Tues as follows: N. Clymer, Bloomingsburg, bridge; C. Freshour and G. W. Lake, Marion, roofiDg paint; W. Gilbert, Kendallville, photograph frame; A. Gore and H. W. Ruton, Goshen, carpet-sweeper; Me Neal, Mishawaka, split pulley; A. Minnick Elwood, fence machine; Henry Gold, Fort Wayne, vehicle seat loop;M. Parry, Indianapolis, vehicle shaft; Max E. Richter, Fort Wayne, rotary vegetable cutter ;Wm. P. Sheffield, Zionsville, fence; Wm. Smith andC. H. Dill, Danville, grocer’s canister ; Wm. H. Trammel, Huntington, fender for plows. J. Dobson, of Osgood, was killed by A. Bishop, his father-in-law, Wednesday Dobson has mistreated his wife, and her father persuaded her to return home. Dobsou swore vengeance against all concerned in the separation, and he presented himself before the house and fired five shots through the windows. He then set fire to the bouse and barn, but the flames were extinguished without loss. Meanwhile the father-in-law armed himself with an axe, and assaulted Dobson, continuing the fight until he had dashed out his brains. Bishop has the sympathy of the community, and at last accounts had not been arrested.