Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Laport has seventeen physicians. It ia said that the farmers are boycotting the Bluffton merchants. Fire at Lawrenceburg badly damaged the Central House bn the 20th. One thousand dollars monthly goes to Boone county in the way of pensions. Charles Stader, of JennTngs'county, reports that be fouudtwo diamonds in the rough on his farm. , > ' , “ The family of Thomas J, Courtney, at Waynetown, were chloroformed and robbed of $360. George Biazier, of Anderson, a drayman, while unloading a heavy safe, was caught underneath and crushed to death. Dr. H. H. Ferguson, of Henry vilie, found a flow of natural gas at a depth of fifty fetft and is using it in lighting his store. A syndicate has been organized to drain what Is known as Goose Pond, near Linton, which will bring 10,000 acres of land under cultivation. The police having failed to capture “Jack the Kisser,” as he is known at Fort Wayne, the citizens are hanging up ,a purse for him, dead or alive. The Hon. J. G. Shanklin, Capt.J W. R. Meyers, Charles D. Jewett, Col. C. C. Matson and Mortimer Nye are mentioned as Democratic candidates for Governor. Jacpb Marsh, of Bartholomew county is aged ninety-two. and has been voting the’ i straight Democratic tickot all his life. He j claims to be the oldest Democrat in the State. „ Two men entered the ticket office of the Chicago & Erie railway at Kent and bouud and gagged W. A. Hoberdier, the agent, at' ; ter which they robbed him of sllßcash, al. Iso taking his gold watch and diamond breastpin. | The Miami county commissioners have ; ordered that $28,657.26 be drawn from the | treasury for tho benefit of the Peru & De- ; troit railway, which is the new Wabash I link between that city and Chili, and forms the main lino to Detroit. A total subsidy of $40,000 was voted. In answer to aninquiry by the State Superintendent, Attorney General Smith Thursday, gave an opinion that children of school age who are inmates of the State/ Reformatory and benevolent institutions can hot be legally included in the enumeration which furnishes the basis for the apportionment of the school fund. These children are given especial educational opportunities in the institution which they occupy. Indiana iuvento rs were issued patents Tuesday, as follows: T. M. Bates, Dublin, alarm bell; J, L, Ackerman, Lowell, clamp; C. G. Conn, Elkhart, cornet; J. F, Haugh, Indianapolis, cushioned car wheel! Jl Hoffman, jr., Ashville. combination table and quilting frame; P. Hook and F. Q. Jacob, wire stretcher; W. I. Hunt, South Bend, wagon rest and watfbn seat support; R. E. Poindexter, Indianapolis, saw jointer; C. Reuter and J. L. Scbruber, Lafayette, bed clothes fastener! C. E. Tower, South Bend, plow, sulky plow and sulky; J. L. Wagner and J. Seath, Terre Haute, car door Mr-. Woodworth again demonstrated her faith cure power at her meeting to day, said a Muuoie dispatch of the 16th when Alfred Chalfant was anparently cured of deafness. Mr. Chalfant is a respectable farmer who had the drums of his ears mutilated during the war, and has since been nearly deaf. Determined to try the woman’s alleged poweis,he went to the altar, and with her engaged in fervent prayer for an hour, when he arose and shouted, claiming to have had restored to him his long lost sense, Several tests proved that he could hear a low whisper. He is a member of ithe Methodist Church In good standing and will make affidavit o; his allegations, A colored woman prayed long for the supernatural power to cure her lung trouble, but to no avail. Sunday a lady here drove to the church in a cab to be healed of rheumatism. She had to be carried from the vehicle into the building, but walked home, and now does her housework.

The F. M. B. A. members who held a meeting in Pern on Saturday last, during which extraordinary precautions were observed to prevent outsiders procuring any information,Wednesday publicly announced the result. They assert that existing -fees hretmrrty offices ore-exorbitant, trnr the legal rate of interest is too high, shd that foreign corporations are drawing vast incomes from the State without taxation. As all political parties in the campaign just closed promised alleviation, they have resolved to call upon Representatives and Senators-elect to keep their promises, and enact stringent laws for the immediate remedying of these wrongs. They demand that assessors take property at its true cash value; that official fees be reduced 10 per cent.; that taxes from toll roads, railroads and pipe lines be divided among the various school districts; that all sheep killed oqtside the county in which owners lives be paid for by tho county in which the owner lives; that a law be enacted permitting debtors to deduct their bona fide indebtedness from their assessments: that mortgages not reported to the assessor become null and avoid in the county where recorded; that county officers’ terms be fix at four years and that they be not eligible to a second, aud also that personal foreclosure^!^made a law. M’BRIDE IS APPOINTED. Judge Mitchell’s Competitor Succeeds to the Vacancy. Robert W. Mcßride, of Elkhart county was appointed as Associate Justice, on the 18th, by Governor Hovey, and is now in the seat on the Supreme Court Bench which his late successful competitor, J udge Joseph A. S. Mitchel, occupied. The appointment, upon the whole, seems to have met the genearal expectation, and to be looked upon with favor. Judge McBride is a gentleman of excellent reputation. Like his predecessor he was a soldier, and rendered distinguished service to the Stafoeefore ha became known as a jurist.. As a DeKalb counfcySeircuit judge; Mr. Mcßride is said to have righted many longstanding wrongy, end to have arroused some iitl e personal opposition thereby. Generally spbbkiug, however, he is a popular aad affable gentleman. R. Wes Mcßride was horn in Richland

county, Ohio, Jan. 95, 1543. He had his schooling in the district school and (he Kirkvillo, lowa, Academy. At eighteen be taught school, continuing tnereat for three years. Then ho was a clerk until Nov. 27. 1863, when he enlisted in the Ohio Union Light Guards. After goingto Washington the squad)on was assigned to duty in Virginia. By an accident Mcßride was abled from active duty on the field. He served, however, faithfully withoutohance for glOry oraisttucticarih detached duty” as clerk to a military commission, and afterward in the Adjutant General’s office in the War Department at Washington. He was honorably discharged Sept 14, 1865. He was appointed to a place under the Quartermaster General, but resigned, and, returning to Mansfield, 0., continued the study of law, which he had, as opportunity offered, taken Up. He earns to Indiana in 1866 and clerked a while at Waterloo. In 1867 he was appointed enrolling clerk in the State Senate, and in the spring of that year he was admitted to the Dekalb county bar. In 1886 he was elected Judge of the Circuit Court, and in 1860 was the nominee of the Republican convention for Justice of the Supreme Court. Early this month Mcßride was appointed commissioner by the President to consider disputed points between the government and the Klamath Indians ot Washington State. This appointment contemplated a short engagement and will not now be accepted. He is a Republican, and all the members of the Supreme Court are now Republican. Judge Mcßride is a Methodist, a Scottish Rite Mason, Knight Templar and an Odd Fellow. He was married Sept. 27, IS6S, to Miss Ida, daughter of Dr. Chamberlain, of Waterloo. There are four children in his family.