Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Vincennes is in debt $75,000. * Wabash College has 205 students. The Crawfordsville Y. M. C. A. has 207 members. " Paoli reports that section suffering fo r want of rain. . The Methodists will build a new church at New Albany, Thefis|i in Eel river are dying in immense quantities. -The mayor of Crawforasville is paid STStT per annum and fees. Crawfordsville is arranging for a monster celebration July 4 Anderson proposes ttrtnake Decoration Day a memorable one. Lebanon needs enterprises that will give employment to 500 men. Scrabbletown is the name or a lively village in Hancock county. —- The saw and flax mill at Lewisville was burned, causing SI,OOO loss. Arva Shultz, of Kelso, was 1 bitten by a horse, breaking his lower jaw. —; Reports from every quarter of the State show the drought, to be broken. - ———- For the first time in its history Columbus is controlled by the Republicans, _ The Plainfield creamery will have a capacity of 2,500 pounds o£ butter daily. A wood-working factory will be added to the industrial interests of New Castle. J, B. Gilmore’s saw miil, at Springport, went up in flame and smoke; loss S6OO, Ard Kennard, a boy near Walesboro, bit off his tongue during a severe spasm. John M. Eberlq, a section foreman, fell under a train at Areola, losing both legs. The miners’ strike at Evansville continues, and only one mine is in operation. A natural gas exposition of large proportions is to be heliTsrMarlbn in the fall. All the keepers of gambling houses in Ft. Wayne have been warned to close their doors. Several wells will bo bored at West .Fork, in Crawford county, in the search for oil; There is a great outcry at Anderson because Anderson capitalists are booming Alexandria. ——

The New Albany electric light, heatand power company, capital stock §75,000, made an assignment. □ There is not a vacant tenement house in Lafayette, and many new residences are being erected. The first toward enforcing the Sunday law at Jeffersonville was in raiding ooritz players. The first meeting of the Indiana trotting and pacing circuit will be held at Edinburg beginning June 8. Martin Boyer’s saw-mill at Bowling Green was destroyed by fire, causing several thousand dollars loss. The Cerealine Manufacturing Company, of Columbus, is erecting a twenty-seven thousand dollar elevator. Hartford City reports a tremendous storm in which a number of small trees and fences were dismantled. Indiana stands fourth in school popul a tion and fifth in the number of pupils en rolled and average daily attendance. The humane society of Greencastle has served notice on the firemen that no more useless runs of horses will be tolerated. L. Belle Van Nada, daughter of George Van of Petersburg, and known as the poetess of Southern Indiana, is dead. A syndicate is organizing at Evansville for the manufacture of vitrified brick on an extensive scale, to be used for street paving. Patents were granted Indiana inventors! on the 19th as follows: O. E. Byrd, Crawfordsville, thill support; A. R. Cooper and T. E. Stucky, Mooresville, boiler-tube cleaner; A. J. Dawdy, Goshen, support for photograph printing frames; L. C Hunter, Fort Wayne, book support; C. D. Jenney, Indianapolis,theostat; J. B. Johnson, Indianapolis, excelsior machine; J. R. Johnson, Indianapolis, baling press; E. Leach. Sellersburg, mail bag catcher; A. P. Nichols, Jordan Village, fan attachment for chairs; R. B. Roberts, Indianapolis, Surgeon’s operating chair; J. J. Stedman, LaPorte, artificial denture; W. L. Zumbro, Land, bandsaw guide. INDIANA ODD FEIEoWS. : The Grand Lodge l. Q. Q. F. of lndiaam met in semi-annual convention at Indianapolis on the 20th and 21st. The report of W. H .Leedy, Grand Master, showed an increase of fifteen subordinate lodges and twenty-four Rebekah lodges in the last six months'with all evidence going to show that the order is passing through an era of prosperity unequaled for many years. The report of B. F. Foster, the Grand Secretary, showed the total number of lodges tohe 581 and the membership 33,562. The resources of lodges are $1,918,444.52. Amount paid for relief of brothers, $59,017.12. The Home for Indigent Odd Fellows is making gratifying progress. A memorial to the Sovereign Grand Lodge ip reference t;> saloon keepers was adopted unanimously. A proposed change in the general law prohibiting the loaning of funds by a lodge to its members was acted upon favorably and laid over until the November session. The following nominations for officers to be voted for at the November session w r ere made: Grand Master—U. Z. Wiley, of Fowler. Deputy Grand Master—George Ford, of South Bend. Grand Warden—H. L. Williamson, of Winchester; R. P. Davis, of Ft. Wayne;: W T . W. Canaday, of Portland; W. H.’Talbott, of Orleans; H. C. Beecher, of Lagrange; R. J. Slocum, of Jeffersonville; J. B. Williams, of North Manchester; F. J. McKasson, of Gentryville. Grand Secretary—B. F. Foster, of Indianapolis. r' * Grand Treasurer— I Theo. P. Haughey.of Indianapolis. Representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge—W. H. Leedy, of Indiana polls. Trustees of the Grand Lodge Hall—J. A. Ferguson and J, F. Walliek, of Indianapolis, and George Shirts, of Noblcsville. Grand Master W. H. Leedy was authorized to fill out the unexpired term of John W. McQuiddy, deceased, as Grand Instructor. The following general note on Indiana growing crops is found in the nibntblyreport just issued from the Agricultural Department, referring especially to recent frosts: “No damage to grain. Grapes and strawberries damaged by frosts one-third to one-half. Vary little injury toother

fruits.”! Of the Indiana wheat crop the bulletin saysr “The condition of wheat is better than in ten years at this date. Rye and barley are fully up to 100 per cent, in condition. Jn nearly equal condition to wheat are meadows and. pastures, Excessive rains In early April retarded plowing for oats and corn, but the last half of the month was favorable and farm work is well advanced. In some counties the are a of oats' will be short, but a large acreage will be planted in corn. Considerable corn was planted the last week in April. Fruit of all kinds promises a larger yield than in many years past.”