Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Lp grippe is paying Elkhart county another visit. i The Hebrews of Kokomo have a successful Sunday school. t David Rudictl, of Liberty township, Wabash county, extracted his corns with a knife and died of blood poisoning. | Several cases of malignant diphtheria ! and scarlet fever are reported ip Staunton, Newberg, Carbon and other points, with a few deaths. ' In filling a political appointment in Madison, Hon. Jos. E. McDonald wa|> advertised as the “Gladstone of American Democracy.” ['■ Francis Sargent, a young Englishman, working as a ditcher in White county, has fallen heir to SIO,OOO by the death of a relative in England. The dead body of an unknown man who had IbsUan arm was foundln the woods near Goshen. It is not knowa whether it is a murder or suicide. r Twenty indictments for forgery have peen returned against Freeman Cooper, of Kokomo, the attorney who fled some months ago, but who returned and gave, bond for trial. .Horace Fallis, Martinsville, aged twelve, lied suddenly, and a postmortem held showed that his death was brought on by eating too many pawpaws. The seeds lodged in one of the small intestines and caused acute congestion. Mrs. A. R. Beardsley, of Elkhart, pre •sented the city schools with flags, and the occasion was made.one of public importing; the G. A. R. posts, societies, fire department and 3,000 school children joining in a parade of the streets and other exercises. The farmers’ fight against toll-roads in Henry county continues with unabated vigor. William Herkless forcibly removed the pole at the toll-house on the Knightstown and Greensboro pike, and was arrested for tresspass. A jury of farmers acquitted him, and farmers also contributed to defray the expenses appeal to a higher court. During a political quarrel at Corydon, Captain William L. Purcell struck Col. W. W. Kintner with a stick of wood, knocking him down and breaking one of his legs. Tbe quarrel was kept quiet at first, the injured man reporting that his broken leg was due to an accidental fall, out on the 13lh he caused the arrest of his assailant for attempted murder. The Jackson County Assembly Farmer’s Mutual Benefit Association has elect--4 the following officers: President, W. W. Winkler; Vice President, J. G. Offutt; Secretary. Oliver M, Foster; Treasurer, James Smith! Delegates to State Assembly, J. G. Offutt, W. W. Winkler, James T. Russell, J. A. Foster, James Marsh, John Thomas, Andrew Spry, W. L. Wright. When Governor Hovey and staff reached Petersburg last week, on the occasion of the soldiers’ reunion, be was met by a com nittee and escorted to a vehicle which was attached to a straw-stacker; the stacker to a grain separator, and the latter to a water tank wagop, while the whole was Irawn by a traction engine. The Otwell Brass Band, seated on top of the seperaor, whiled away the time with “Marchin’ Thro’ Georgia.” Patents were issued Tuesday to Indianians as follows: C. A. Bertsch, Cambridge City, shearing machine; B. S. Boydston, Clunette, stethoscope; E. Brettney, Indianapolis, dust collector: E F Clemens, Albion, music notatiqp; C Oomstock, Indianapolis, road cart; M Garwood, South Bend, wheel plow; M C Henley, Richmond, lawn mower; G P Pearson and J A Foster, Attica, barrel stand: W S Ralya, Indianapolis, saw tool and device for jointing and dressing saws; N H Roberts, Indianapolis, devise for jointing and dressing saws; £ F Saverer, Land, combined mower and hay tedder; B C Wickers, Westfield, brick and tile kiln; B B Wright Evansville, bracket or shelf. The Indiana Live Stock Sanitary Commission filed its annual report with the Governor, Tuesday. The amount paid for sixty-nine horses killed Jn the various counties by order of the commission aggregated $2,235, making an average allowance of $33.83. The salaries of the commission amounted to $2,114, and their expenses $1,044.14. Contagious glanders were reported as existing among the horses, and tuberculosis and big-jaw among tbe cattle in many localities of the State. It has been the work of the commission to quar an tine all known cases as far as practicable, and to save the State from paying an excessive amount for animals killed by or der of the commission. The report of the State veterinarian. M. E. Knowles, was embodied in the commissioners’ report He found glanders existing in fifteen of the twenty counties visited, directly traceable in most instances to Texas ponies. In flu-, enza in a mild form prevailed over the eastern and northern portions of the State during the summer. The cattle have been exceptionally healthy, and tuberculosis, when found, and that to small degree, was usually among dairy cattle. Tbe live stock of the State, generally, is reported as very healthy.