Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A lynx is loose In Harrison county. Crawfordsyille hasorganized a band. Fort Wayne is overrun with gamblers. Evansville is claiming recognition as a summer resort. New Richmond is swarming with anew kind of bug, Boone county farmers are storing their wheat for higher prices. A Canton P. M. I. O. O. F. was mustered in at Shelbyville on the 19th. Four hundred new buildings will be erected at Elkhart this season. A cat-fish weighing ninety-five pounds was caught near New Albany. A reunion of old settlers and soldiers will be held at Quincy August 13. Lagrange county has sent twenty-five insape persons to Longcllffe asylum. Ground has been broken at Lafayette for a 540,000 pickle and vinegar factory, Rival ’squires are marrying eloping couples free of charge at Jeffersonville. The employes of the Montmorenci tileworks are striking for an increase of wages. The remains of a tramp were found in the ruins of a barn destroyed by fire at Goshen. ~' /- - - Angola claims to lead all other stations on the Lake shore railway in the shipment of wool. ~ — Mrs. Lucinda Costello, aged 62, and husband, of West Fork, are the parents of a bright, bouncing baby. Minnie B. Natlie, of Columbus, is suing Hal. B. Hughes, of Seymour, claiming SIO,OOO for breach of promise. Muncie has a curiosity in the shape oi a three-legged dog which has given birth to a litter of pups similarly marked. John Rarlck, of Elkhart, fell in front oi a mower, which cracked his skull and inflicted a number of dangerous cuts. It is said that Lena Thair, aged twelve years and seven months, of Miami county, is the youngest mother in the State. The Union Window-glass Company, ol Anderson, will erect a new ten-pot factory for the manufacture of window glass. Jesse Stuitt, the wonderful sleeper ol Seymour, is giving another exhibition of tho strange malady with which ho is afflicted. Ten dollars “conscience rmoney” has been turned over to the treasurer of Harrison county from an unknown source, and the treasury is in a plethoric condition. The superintendent of the Crawfordsville high school will add a printing press, with type and the other appliances, as a means of educating his pupils in the art of spelling.

Sparks from a thresher burned the barn of Cord Eller, near Fisher's Station, together yvith several hundred bushels of yvheat, fifty of corn and other grain and several hogs. A land turtle with this inscription on its shell has been found on the farm of Thos. Kirkham in Harrison county: “James Robinson, 1813.” Mr. Robinson oyvned the farm over seventy years ago. During the past two weeks sixteen persons in Bartholomeyv county have been injured by accident: besides yvhich there wag one shooting affray, several fires, a strike of laborers and a freight wreck to rHieve the monotony. Montgomery county reports two phenomenal yields of wheat. Howard Smith raised an average of a little over fortyfour bushels to the aero from a field of one and a quarter ac-es. The seed was of at neyv variety, called early new Clayvson. Andrew Smiley had a two-acre field which yielded 110 bushels, or an averageof fifty five bushels to the acre. His seed yvas ordinary seed wheat. The average in Montgomery county will not be much less than tyventy-fiy-e bushels. The hay crop is the best in years, and the prospect is that the corn will turn out as well as the wheat. Potatoes is the only crop that is short. Dry weather spoiled them. DEATH OF GEN. TOM BROWNE. Gen. Thos. M. Browne, of Winchester, died at Martinsville on the 17th, where he had gone for relief in his failing health. He yvas born at Neyv Paris, 0., in 1829. He became a merchant’s apprentice at Spartansburg, Ind., early in youth. He removed to Winchester in 1848 and studied layv. After qualifying as an attorney he soon took rank as a gifted and eloquent promoted to Lieut. Col. before leaving for the field. Before the war's conclusion he had earned the promotion to Brigadier General. He was elected Prosecuting

Attorney in 1855-’57V59; to the State Senate in 1863. In 1869 was appointed U. S. District Attorney, resigning in 1873. Was defeated for Governor the same year. In 1876 was elected to Congress and continued in that office until last spring. He was married 10 Mary .1. Austin in 1849. He was prominent in Masonry and Odd Fellowship. He was greatly beloved by a vast number of people. COUNTY INSTITUTES. The dates for the various county institutes have been set, the instructors named, j the arrangements completed, ar.d the lists have been sent out from the State Superin-j tondent's office. The institutes will bo held as follows; . July 27-31—Shelby, Vermilion. Aug. 3-7—Dubois, Newton, Posey, Rush Aug. 23-28—Hendricks. Aug, 10-14—Gibson, Tipton, Jackson. Jay. Martin, Perry, Pike, Switzerland, Washington, Wayne. Aug. 17-21—Bartholomew, Daviess, Decatur, Franklin, Harrison, Henry, Knox, Lawrence, Miami, Montgomery, Noble, Putnam, Randolph, Spencer, Wabash. nAug. f34-28—Adams, Brown, Carroll, Cass, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Dearborn, Delaware, Elkhart, Fayette, Fulton, Green, Hamilton, Jennings, Johnson, Lagrange, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, Porter,. Ripley, Scott, Starke, Sullivan, Union and Warrick. Aug. 31-Sep. 4 Benton, Blackford, Boone, Clinton, DeKalb, Floyd, Fountain. Grant, Hancock, Howard, Huntington Jasper, Jefferson, Lake, LaPorte. Ohio, J Orange, Parke, Vanderburg, Vigo, Wells and White. Sept. 4-S—Kosciusko. Sep. 7-11—Pulaski, Tippecanoe, Vfarren ind Whitley. Nov. 9-13—Steuben. Dec. 21-25-Allen. Dec. 28— St Joseph.}