Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Elkhart will celebrate. Delphi wants waterworks. Chicken-pox prevails at Colnmbns. Morgan county has 6,238 school-children Cockfighting is a Michigan City amuse--1 ment. _ i Muncie will erect a new 175,000 opera ■ house. ■-* A, W. Bentley has been an Odd Fellow 54 years. In St. Joseph county 29 divorce cases arc pending. Laporte county reports 11,631 school children. There’s a great prospect for melons in Daviess county. A small worm is ruining the pear crop of Henry county. Cholera is ravaging Jackson township, Hamilton county. A sanitarium at Plainfield is successfully Evansville is becoming one of the best horse-markets in the country. An extensive hat factory will bo moved to Wabash from Newark, N. J. William Cushingof Kendslville has ITT),COO celerv plants under cultivation. The parents of John Wanamaker, Postmaster General, are buried at Leesburg. Oliver P. Badger, a well known Christian minister of Greencastle, died on the Bth. W. P. Marsh of Winamac forged "notes on his father and then left for parts unknown. Several Indian skeletons have been exhumed in the Morris gravel pit, near Westfield. A daughter of John Miller, of Cedar Beach, was instantly killed by falling from a swing. A marriage that occurred last.luiy Iteing made public at Freelandsville, occasioned much interest. Elwood held its first city election, and a Democratic Mayor was elected with four out of eightcouncilmen. Over 221,574 gallons of strawberries have been shipped from New Albany this season, and the harvest continues. C. W. Welman, who has been elected county superintendent of Sullivan county, is editor of the Sullivan Times. Joseph Twinock, aged eighty, of Evansville, is dead. He was one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the State, and was the first Pythian initiated at Evansville. Mrs. Silas Stover, wife of the superintendent of the Harrison county asylum> has been fined $29 for complicity with her husband in ill-treating inmates. While carelessly handling a gun, the twelve-year-old son of Sylvester Lankford, near Clay City, shot off his upper lip and otherwise disfigured his faee. The Chesterton Tribune takes strong grounds in favor of convicts working the roads, and claims that by this method in a few years the State would have the finest highways in ffie world. Rev. John S. Ray was sentenced at Wooster on the 9th to two years in the penitentiary for burglary. He pleaded guilty. Ray has filled charges in Ohio for everal years. Drink caused his downfall The Big Three of Chicago, Armour, Swift and Morris, have issued instructions to begin the work of erecting packing- ■ houses at Tillotson. It is expected that three years will be required to remove the immense plants of these firms from Chicago to Tillotson, and the removal will be a boon to northern Indiana. James Mitchell, of Posey county, went to the home of Marion Townsend, near Mt. Vernon, after nightfall, and calling Townsend to the door, fired upon him witli a double-barrelled gun, loaded with buckshot. Townsend was badly wounded in the legs, arms, and breast, but this did not prevent him from using his Winchester, firing twice upon Mitchell and killing him instantly. Rev. John Ray has been sentenced to the penitentiary from Wayne eounty, 0., for two years for burglary. He was a minister of the diocese of the Disciples Church and worked with success, but joined the Methodists and then went back to his old church, being with one charge six years. He contracted the habit of drinking and robbed a hotel at Orville, O. Ray lias a family of six children. He says lie will again enter the ministry when he serves his sentence.