Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Westville miners are on a strike. Clarksville is one hundred years old. Mooresville has a ealf with six feet. Gamblers are flocking to Ft. Wayne. Mitchell has increased the liquor license to $l5O. ~ Street railway employes have struck at Vincennes. Lewis Gekeler, of Lancaster was fatally kicked by a horse. a Recent frosts have done much damage la portions of the State. Newton Forbe's dwell,eg at Portland Mills burned. Loss, $4,000. George Robb, near Montpelier, accident ally shot away his right hand. Floyd county, outside of New Albany* reports 3,084 school children. i John H. Kohback, of Ft Wayne, was fatally injured in a runaway accident Crawfordsville will issue $30,000 in bonds, in payment of the new electric light. A heavy frost fell in the northern part of Indiana on the morning of the sth. John Evered, of Peru, concealed S3OO in greenbacks in a stove, and his wife started a fire. Crawfordsville reports twenty-one fires the past year, on which the losses were $19,000. A jury has awarded Anson Wolcott, oi Wolcott, a verdict of $12,582.77 against the Pan Handle railway company for failure to furnish him cars for shipment of wheat during a high market in Chicago last fall. L. L. Close, who failed to get a ticket because the station agent was too busy, and who was ejected from a Lake Erie & Western train for failure to pay an extra ten cents, brought suit against the company at Muncie, and has been awarded l SBOO damages. > A monument to mark the center of population was dedicated near Greensburg on the 10th. Ten years ago the center of population was sixteen miles west and four miles south of Cincinnati. Consequently it has traveled during the past ten years forty miles west and twelve miles north. Patents were granted Hoosiers Tuesday as follows, 11. A. Beneflel, Jefferson, farm gate, F. T. Brown, jr., Creencastle, horsedetacher. C. D. Cowgill, Terre Haute,bevel attachment for folding rules; C. F. Darnell, Indianapolis, end or corner structure for wire fences; A. F. Henry, Wingate, vaporizers; E. Neff, Milford, pump; F.N, Potter, Elkhart, folding bed; J. R. Shaffer. Huntington, picket-wiring machine. The Delaware county infirmary, located five miles east of Muncie, burned at 11 o'clock on the 6th, and was a total loss. The fire was caused by defective-regula-tion of natural gas. The inmates, fortyfive in number, were rescued without loss of life, although two sick persons narrowly escaped suffocation,and one insane man had to be forcibly restrained to prevent his rushing back into the flames. The loss to the county is SB,OOO, and there is $3,000 insurance. S. F. Watson, superintendent, was damaged SS&O.