Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS: [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS:

There are 121 Chinese in Indiana. ’' The Union City Eagle has entered upon its twenty-ninth volume. ~ Terre Haute is enjoying the luxury of electric street railway service. □ Marion Potts, of Willow Brance, attempted to cross in f rontof an approachin train, and was crushed to death. Michigan City will make a strong effort to wrest the honors of being the county seat of Lsj.crte county from Laporte. fne ’rdi.v.a State Teachers’ Association or. the 31st urged legislation making edu* cation compulsory and providing free texts books for use iu public schools. With the new year a number of saloon me.i in New Albany declined to renew their license and they retired from the business fift celling intoxicants. Terre Ms’.tts saloon keepers continue to defy the la w relative to the sale of intoxicants on Sunday and after 11 p. m., and the feeling against the police is bitter. Ttn Evansville postmaster threw out of the mails one day’s issue of the Evansville Courier because it contained a report of distribution of prizes in a local lottery. Johnny Wonderlich, of South Bend, a juvenile, bled to death from a wound in his mouth, near the root of his tongue, caused by a small whistle. His brother died from a like injury one year ago. Frank Carr and Robert Miesso,juveniles, of Noblesville, secured a can of powder with which to oelebrate the new year, and in u premature explosion both were badly injured and Miesse was blinded for life. John Q. Thomas was fatally burned on the night of the 24th, while playing Santa Claus at the Second M. E. Church at Marion. He approached too close to a gas jet, when his trappings took fire and in a moment he was wrapped in flames. ; Fort Wayne Gazette canvassed the Republican editors of the State on their preference for President in 1892, finding ten favoring Blaine, sixteen voting for Harri son, one each for Gresham, Reed and Sherman, while the others were for the nominee.

While Miss Blanche Cressie, of Crawfordsville, was sitting under an overhanging lamp, the fastenings of the latter gave way and the lamp fell into her lap. The oil was spilled, and, catching fire, she waa practically enveloped in flames. With rare presence of mind, however, she succeeded in smothering the flames by the folds ol her garments, and escaped serious injury. James Kimseyrof Ylgo county, attempt ed to whip his wife in the presence of Mrs, Sarah S. Acton, his mother-in-law, and - Mrs. Acton blacked one of his eyes. Thereupon he knocked the old lady down. She sprang toller feet and knocked him down, I and then she seized a chair and belabored him without mercy, disarmed him of a knife which he attempted to Use, and threw him outside the house. The members of Bear Creek Lodge, Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association, near Rome City, held a mass meeting and Uitbdrew the lodge from further membership with the Alliance, claiming that it was being perverted from its original purpose, and asserting that Bear Creek Lodge still stood by the administration, the national banking system, the tariff law, etc., besides favored the force bill. In answer to an [inquiry 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 not be legally included in the enumers ation which furnishes the basis for the apportionment of the school fund. These children are given especial educational opportunities in the institution which they occupy. “I dreamed of a wedding last night what is that a sign of!” asked Otto Schrieber, Saturday evening, as he stood dispensing drinks behind the bar of a Bowery hotel, New York. “Death,” was the reply of the pat,re ns of j the place. “Well, the bar-tender continued, “I don’t believe I’ll furnish the corpse, for I never felt better in my life.” Four hours later he dropped dead in the street from apo* plexy.

Ft. Wayne draws iti natural gas supply from the Blackford county fields, nearly forty miles away. Recently the management of the company gave notice that, beginning with January 1, manufacturing establishments and the railway shops must resume the consumption of coal. It is explained that this order is promulgated, not because of any diminution of the supply at the base, but because the capacity of the main would be absorbed by manufacturers to the detriment of private cons

sumers. Patents were issued to Hoosier invent* ors, Tuesday, as follows: D. Barkdall, Ins dianapolis, washing machine; A. L. Bess nadin, Evansville, bottle disk; S.F. Bow* ser, Fort Wayne, portable siphon; J. D. Gibbs, Jeffersonville, ticket machine: B. O. Haugh, Indianapolis, tension governor for wire fences; B. H. Holmes, Goshen, type cleaning device for typewriting ma* chines; F. B. Hunt, Richmond, bicycle; C. C. Polk, Richmond, piano attachment; D. Railsback, Indianapolis, machine for making Ice cream, etc.; J. W. Weathers* Indianapolis, sash holder. The Indiana State Teachers! Association elected the following officers to serve the ensuing ye*r: ... ,, 'v. President—E. A. Bryan, of Vincennes. Chairman of Executive Committee—J R. Hart, of Union City. Recording Secretary —Mrs. S. E. Lemon of Bloomington. Permanent Secretary—D. E. Hunter, of Glasgow, Ky. «*• Railroad Secretary -Nelson Yoke, »f Indianapolis. Vice Presidents—Second district, Frank Axtell, Washington; Fourth district, Miss Maggie Malone: Sixth district, T. A. Mott, Dublin;,Eighth district, S. E. liar* wood, Attica; Tenth district, Miss Annie B. Laßose; Twelfth district, W. C. Palmer, Columbia City. Executive Committee—First district, Robert Spear, Evansville ;Third district, D.G. Fenton, Vernon; Fifth district, J. A. Carnsgey, Columbus; Seventh district, T. G. Alford, Indianapolis; Ninth district, A. D. Malsbery, Thorn town; Eleventh district, M. W. Harrison, Wabash; Thirteenth district, O. U Galbraith, Laporte,