Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Hopewell is hopeful of a boom. : \ Greenfield is organizing a ball club. Glanders is reported near Warren. Laporte is taking rank as a horse market The fish law is being enforced in St. Joe county. There is great scarcity of brick at New Albany. :v Mishawaka Is becoming noted for Its riotousness. New quarries are being opened in Lawrence county. There is a plague ol so-called June bugs at Greencastle. No county in the State has escaped the ravages of la grippe. Another flowing oil well has been struck in the Portland field. Girls are wearing boots at Seymour through fear of snakes. Dr. Milton James, a widely-known physician of Muncie, died on the 22d. Herbert Bruce, of Columbus, is thirteen years old, but weighs 216 pounds. Daring the past week there was $65,000 Invested in real estate at Marion. Michigan City is outrageously mad because Laporte gets a. hew court house. Malvern Hill, the famous battle site has been sold to a party in New York. * The infant son of A. C. Covalt, near Kokomo, drank concentrated lye and died. William Lacey, of Shelbyvilie, an aged citizen, ill and relying on the faith cure, died. . -■ Jacob Dischart, of Washington, aged 109, claims to be the oldest man in the State: The LaPorte County Commissioners have determined to build a new courthouse. Judge McNutt, of Terre Hute, has decided the metropolitan police law unconstitutional. George S. Boone, the solo living lineal descendant of Daniel Boone, was arrested for pension frauds. John Dunning, of Yalpara o claims to be the qldest peace justice —he State at theagepfeighty-nine. , Lightning struck tho school-house at Milan, prostrating the teacher and pupils, but seriously injuring no one. "Indianapolis has bean chosen as the place for holding the next national con.ventien of Republican Leagues. Daniel Hollenhead, of Mishwaka, has gone insane over the delusion that he is entitled to 10,000 pension money. A fire at Grandview destroyed the Farm ers’ Alliance co-operative store, the postoffice the Monitor building and a warehouse. Loss heavy. The child of Reuben Heinie, near Huntington, was attacked by a bull dog and dangerously bitten. The dog had to be killed before he would loosen his hold. J. M. Hervey, of Montgomery county, while in the act of addressing the Farmers Alliance, was stricken with paralysis, and will not recover. He is aged seventy. A company is organizing at Fort Wayne to manufacture fine hosiery and underwear, and it is claimed the establishment will be the first of its kind in the country. William Wallace, postmaster, a distinguished and honored citizen of Indianapolis, died in that city on the 9th. He was also a prominent Odd Fellow and has for manyjears been Trustee of Grand Lodge. Charles Alius, who was stabbed by Dan Brusher at Newburg, last week, Is dying, and, realizing the fact, he sent .for Brusher, took his hand and forgave him. Both men were drinking at the time of the affray. There is A great fight at Petersburg over tho question of impounding hogs. Many taxpayers are complaining that it takes a SSO-fcnce to keep out a 50-ecnt-razor-back hazel-splitter hog, and they want the range curtailed. Wm. Benbow, of Anderson, while hunt-" ing, shot a vicious dog belonging to Wm. Cain. The latter revenged the killing with his shot gun, the contents of his gun strikng Benbow in the face and breast, and blinding him in one eye. W. M. Cutshall, at one time publisher of a newspaper at North 'Manchester and later at Huntington, has been arrested for bigamy and taken to Charlotte, N. C. While traveling for a safe company he made tho acquaintance of a young and handsome widow of Charlotte. He has a wife and family at Huntington. Dr. J. R. Etter, of Crawfordsville, has perfected a device in telegraphy that will revolutionize the entire system of sending and receiving messages. His plan Is to nse a common type-writer, from which a person can send a message in the same manner that writing is at present done on paper with a type-writer. Also, messages can he taken off the single wire at as many offices as is desirable, and it is written down in letters on paper exactly like the letters and characters made with the type-writer used at the sending office. Also, the paper at each office upon which the message is printed moves up and backward when the line i 3 full of words at the will of the sending operator, who manipulates the paper while sending a message in exactly the same manner that the operator of a type-writer does, Charles Clements, a young man twentyeight years of age, living at Chesterville, a country village five miles east of Milan, was killed in a most peculiar manner Thursday evening. He was driving a spirited horse in a road-cart and when about a mile from home he fell in an epileptic seizure, with his head in the left wheel of the cart. The horse took fright and ran away, dashing his brains out on the spokes of the wheel. His body was dragged into the wheel and literally crushed to a jelly. Finally the wheel broke and the body was pitched ont into the road, where it was found by his father a short time afterwards, he having instituted a search as soon as the horse arrived home The deceased met with a similar accident when a boy and had a part of his skull re moved and a silver plate put in its place’ Since then he has been subject to epileptic fits. The State Grand Commandery of Knights Templars, concluded its annual session at Terre Haute on the 22nd. The Important business of the session was the election of the following officers: Grand Commander—Sir Irwin B. Webber, Warsaw.

DeprntytJrand Commander—Sir Joseph A. Manning, Michigan City. Grand Generalissimo—Sir Jas. B. Safford, Columbus. « Grand Prelate—Sir James D. Hanley, Terre Haute. Grand Captain-general—Sir Simeon S. Johnson, Jeffersonville. Grand Senior Warden—Sir Charles W. Slick, Mishawaka. Grand Junior Warden—Sir Leonidas Smedley, Greencastle. . Grand Recorder—Sir Joseph W. Smith, Indianapolis. ■ _ Grand Standard-bearer—Sir Winfield Q. Durbin, Anderson. Grand Warden—Sir William Hacker, Shelbyvilie. Grand Captain of the Guard—Sir Roger Perry, Indianapolis. Custodian of the Work—Sir Nicholas R. Ruckle, Indianapolis. Chairman of tne Committee on Correspondence—Sir John E. Redmond, Logansport. Dispensations were issued for the establishment of new commanderies at Columbia City and at Huntington. It was decided that the next conclave will be held at Evansville, Ind., on the third Tuesday n April, 1892.