Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Owensville has a trombone band. Princeton ls proud of her schools. Diphtheria is abating at Shelbyville. . Scarlet fever prevails at New Albany. Allen county has a banner corn crop. The Miami valley tobacco crop isvery large. ' ... The - New Albany schools are over--crowded. Philip Rau, Sr., of Cannelton, is 102 years old -■ ; " The pumpkin pie season has opened in Gibson county. A small vein of natural gas has been struck near Flora. Goshen claims to be the cleanest city in northern Indiana. The Red Men will build a fine business block at Noblesville. Lebanon stands almost alone in the increase of its tax levy. While on a spree Fred Yeager was robbed of 8430 a,t New Albany. James Hughes, of Muncie, was badly injured by a vicious stallion. Southern Indiana farmers are advised to raise less oats and more rye. - The house of E. H. Bindley at Terre Haute, was despoiled of 8700 by burglars. Bowmuu, of Cha. lestown, has discoveted a vein of cwnenlrnck forty faat in thickness on his farm at Grassy Flats. It Jles immediately on the banks of the Ohio rivet. k Harry H. Francis, editor of the Michigan City Dispatch, a Democratic politician of_promiuence, and a leadingmember of the Knights of Pythias, died atMlchigan City on the 15th inst. John Dewey, a widower, aged 40, and Lorena Ferguson, aged 15, eloped to Illinois from Crawfordsville on the 15th. The parents objected to the union on account of the disparity in ages. Samuel Ball, aged Eighty, of Tiosa, who walks with the aid of crutches, and Mrs. Lucinda Coplin, aged seventy-nine, have been united in marriage. This is said to be the union of the oldest parties ever married in the State.

Mrs. John Wagner, aged sixty, while crossing the railway bridge near North Winchester, was overtaken ;md knocked down by an engine. She fell across the ties, and the train passed over without causing her fatal Injury. The Indiana game laws open as follows; Deer, Oct.l to Jan. 1; quail and pheasant, Oct. 15 to Dec. 29; wild turkey, Nov. 1 to Feb. 1; prairie chickens, Sept. 1 to Feb. 1; woodcock, July 1 to Jan. 1; wild ducks, Sept. 1 to April 15; squirrels, June 11 to Dec. 20. The township trustee muddle in Clinton township, Decatur county, in which Wm. A. Williams (Rep.) and Oliver C. Sefton (Dem.) received the same number of votes, has been decided by lot, Sefton winning. The election was had in April 1890, but the board refused to determine which should have the office, and the matter was carried to the Supreme Court. Several years ago while in a state of mental derangement, Mrs. Nancy Hisey, of Harrison county, deeded away a valuable farm of 347 acres. Afterwards she was sent to the insane asylum, finally she was discharged as cured. Then she found employment as a domestic at New Albany Suit was brought to recover the farm, and this week the purchaser surrendered without further ado. John and Henry Afartin and three women whose names could not be learned were whipped near Hyndsdale Mondey night by White Caps. Petty thievery was the alleged cause. All were bared to the waist and forty lashes with hickory switches were administered. The victims were ordered to leave within twentyfour hours. There is no clew to the White Caps. After the failure of W. G. Houk, of Montgomery county, his wife laid claim to a colt as her personal property, and there was a spirited controversy in the courts. Th® WMOErough the lower courts and to the Supreme Court and back, and after four years’ litigation Mrs. Houk won. Thereupon she sent her husband after the animal, but in driving homeward there was a runaway accident in which the horse stumbled down an embankment and was killed, A new justice of the peace in Mont gomery county has established a new way to dispose of cases and, at the same time place the responsibility upon the jury After the jury was secured for the case, the attorney for the defense arose and pointed out a defect in the indictment, and moved that the case be dismissed. The justice turned to the jury and said: '‘Gentlemen, you have heard the motion. Those in favor of it will say “aye.” The entire jury said “aye,” and the case was dismissed. o Joseph Franklin Toombs, a blind man, living near Holman, possesses in a remarkable degree the sense of locality, backed by a powerful memory. > He is well known in Madison on the one side and McNabb’s station on the other, and he frequently walks the seventeen miles intervening, plodding briskly along the railway track, and crossing cattle-guards and trestles with the same facility as if he was gifted with sight He not only follows roadways, but with equal facility he can cut across fields in the nearest approach to bls home. The Indiana inventors patents were issued as follows: John B. Cleveland, Indianapolis, wire stretcher and tension device; Wm. R. Cunningham, assignor to Wallace Manufacturingcompany, Frankfort brick or tile cutting machine; John D. Kelley, Kendallville, rinsing tub; Geo. Shilltnger, Roann, wire fence stretcher; Wm. L. Silvey, Lima, Ohio, assignor to C. P. and F. Silvey, Castleton, Ind,, and M. Silvey, Dayton, 0., secondary battery; Nicholas Whitehall, Newton, cultivator; Frederick H. Zahn, .Michigan City, barrel truck.