Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Frankfort is boring for gas. * Tree planting is a fad at Evansville. Sound Bend is enforcing the 11 o'clock liquor law. - J The Atkinsonville postoffice was plundered by burglars. Water in the mineral wells at Orleans has ceased wflor. " The St. Joe court house is exclusively in Democratic hands. Memphis is exercised over the possible presence es natural gas. Allen county farmers are complain! ng of fly in the winter wheat. Track laying is under way for theelectricstreet rai 1 way at Kokomo. The fourth-class postmasters of “Hamilton county are clamoring for more pay, □ Mack W right, near Dunkirk, is the third recent arrest in that vicinity for w heat •teal i ng, °® ‘ Ross Wyatt, near Kennard. State Treas urerof the Farmers’ Alliance, is dead of consumption. Two rival towns along the southern extension of the Elkhart railway are known as Dead Dog and. Tail Holt, !Z Rev. James Ferguson, of Warrick county, aged ninety-two, has taught school every w inter w ithout break since 1847. A four-foot vein of coal within sixteen feet of the surface has been found at Steamboat Landing, Ripley county. The Marion city council passed an ordinance keeping bicycles off the sidewalk, and a w oman was the first to be lined. Clem Luke, of Ferdinand township, Dubois county, is now’ teaching his thirtieth year in the same school without missing a term. Uasper Mohr, of Evansville, while slaughtering hogs, fell into a vat filled with boiling water and was terribly scalded. r .. The Anderson tin plate mill, at C oiling wood, is daily turning out thirty’ boxes o terne, or roofing tin, which will be handled by an Indianapolis house. William Little, of Union townshipHuntington county, blew into the muzzh of hlTgu%. ZHTsloot Slippedoff the trigger, the gun was discharged and he was killed. Burglars entered Postmaster Thompson’s store at Manson, bound and gagged the clerk, who was sleeping therein;And robbed the premises of $75 in stamps and a quantity of merchandise. The glory of the Kankakee marsh as a duck shooting range is rapidly passing away, owing to the indiscriminate slaughter of the birds. There is little observance? of the game law s in that region. Farmers in Floyd and adjoining counties. sufferers from therecent terrible devastation by forest and field fires, attrib ute the cause to egfelesshnnters,and they are organizing to prosecute parties hereafter trespassing on their farms. There will be a meeting of the Trustees of Wabash College, at Crawfordsville during the week preceding Christmas, and it is stated that the educational committeeappointed in June last,, will make a report favorable to the co-education of the sexes. William Sutton, aged fourteen, of Muncie, employed in a brick yard, attempted to press down the dirt in a mixer with his feet, and his left foot was "caught between the rollers, which drew him in until the leg was crushed half way to the knee. The breakage of a belt saved his life. His leg was injured so badly that amputation followed. Alexander Belcher, of Taswell, while -mixing syrnp for medicinal purposes, boiling therewith various kinds of bark, accidentally discovered that he had an admirable substitute for maple molasses. He was so overjoyed that Jio could not-kt ep his own counsel, but instead he gossiped over it until another fellow applied fora patent thereon. The State Y. M. C. A. convention in session at Indinnapolis Tuesday, elected the following officers: President—O. M. Gregg, Craw fordsville Vice-President—ll. H. Babcock. Evansville. Secretary—S. E. M. Coulter, South BendFirst Assistant Secretary -B. O. Tippy. Terre Haute. Second Assistant Secretary—ll. SWhite, Irvington. Treasurer—J. F. Wallick. Indianapolis. The State executive committee is: L. H. Dunning,lndianapolis; H. P. Townley Terre Haute; J."F. Wallick. Indianapolis; W. B. Pratt, Elkhart: W. C. Nunemacheft New’Albany: W. V. Story. Lafayette; E. A. Hackett, Ft. Wayne; President, J. M. Coulter Bloomington. Judge Hefron, of the Daviess county Circuit Court, has denied the application of William H, Bailey for a divorce from his first wife. The case is complicated. Bailey, supposing that he was legally divorced from his first wife, whom he left in Ohio, married Miss Hanafin, of Philadelphia, Pa. Four weeks ago No, 1 applied in the Daviess county court to have the original decree set aside because she had not been given notice that it wa« pending. Her petition was granted. Baiiey then found himself w ith twb wivos, and he renewed his application for a divorce from the first named, which the court refused. He cannot file the suit anew for six monthsHe continues to care for the second wife. Secretary Fortuno, of the Indianapolis Commercial Club, received a telegram on Thursday, informing him that the Central Traffic Association, at its monthly meeting in Chicago, had decided to grant the Farmers' Alliance and Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association, to meet at Indianap11s November 17 to 24, the one fare for the round trip rate asked, The telegram stated that the rate would hold from the 16th to the 23d, which is a day too soon, ns the convention is from the 17th to the 241 h. The tickets w ill be good coming to Indianapolis the 16th and 17tb, and good returning the 23d.,, With the securing of the Ctflttral Traffic Association and Western Traffic Association no doubt is entertained of being able to secure all the roads outside of these clannish organizations, such as the Louisville & Nashville and Cincinnati Southern roads.; . - Henry McCormick, a farmer residing near Scottsburg, went to Jeffersonville Saturday with bls wife to do some ping. The old gentleman became Involved in a quarrel, having imbibed too freOh* which resulted In his being badly beaten

> fr -*l> . - - . Inp. When the afternoon J., M. &I. train left for Indianapolis Mrs. McCormack re- • turned on it alone, the trainmen refusing to permit the Fiusband to enter the car because he was intoxicated. Sunday morning at 11 o'clock while wandering around drunk McCormack approached the dinkey track just west of the penitentiary as tfiv train in charge of conductor Lewis was going toward Ncw-Alhany.’and was struck before engineer Whittick could put on ® brakes. McCormack’s right’ leg was crushes! into a shapeless mass, so that am- , putation was necessary. An unexpected termination to whr.t w as intended as q wedding occurred in Justice ? II all's office. - Jefferson vi lie. j uSV i >cforc ehurelr-Sjtmdgy e ven fng, AI >o slls< >’ c ] oek Mr. George Baker and Miss Mary Moore, of Louisville, came over to be united-’ They were accompanied by iCharles Ixmcli and .Miss Jennie Saunders as witnessesWhile crossing the river on the ferry boai Miss Saunilers. conceiving the brilliant idea of a double wedding, proposed to Mr Louch. The blushing young manjva: taken by surprise, but as soon as he conk gather himself together he fidgeted a lltth bit and then openly demurred. The prop•sitioii was respectfully but firmly de dined. Now it happened I hat. M iss Saunders an d M i -~s ~M eon Hiad dccu ‘ Vo: n rad a? ever since they were born," and loya comrades, ks-shoAVU by tire sequel. Mis? Saunders, after failing to snare a husbdnc off-hand, was consumed with a desire foi revenge. She made a Hank movement by persuading Miss Moore to refuse to inarri Baker tiiiless. Louch xoiiM be Firougiit t,terms. In spite of the entreaties of boil young women, however, Louch' provet obdurate. Mr. Baker, who was to have been a groom, was the picture of despai: when he became convinced that Mis. 1 Moore had really made up her mind not t< marry him. The outcome of the affai was that the part Jes returned to Louisvill' aftertspending an hour at. Justice HaTi’.office trying to effect a comjtroraise.