Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Six inches of snow foil on the 28th at Goshen. A fine gas well has been brought In at Sharpsville. —"ro — New and large glass works are to be built at Bedkey. North Marton is raising $20,000 to be used In locating factories. i A supposed American lion was killed in i Dubois county recently. I The fourth-class postmasters of Tlamili ton county are clamoring for more pay, i The Elkhart riverwas frozen over to a ■ depth of two inches during the past week, i Geprge Feeee, of Ord,while felling a tree : near Valparaiso, was eaught and crushed . to death. . ' ----- = Ten of his neighbors have been indicted for white-capping George Matlock, of Jackson county, some months ago. Hunters in the vicinity of Temple “treed” an infant in a hollow tree. It was only-two or three days old add alive and well. A company, headed by John W. Payne, will erbet a large factory at Spiceland for Ihn manufacture of bottles, fruit-jars and .glassware j A glacial find in tho shape of well-pre-served logs of a kind not now found in the vicinity were recently unearthed at a depth of fortyTeet-, near Hayden. A Kokomo saloon keeper has been held responsible by the coroner for the death of a minor to whom he sold 1 iquor and who, being drunk, was killed by tho cars. - ■ While repairing an old stable at Winchester Edward Neff uhearthed a tin can containing $1,600 in gold, Friday. No one can explain the mystery that surrounds its being hidden there. Marcus L. Sulzer, of Washington, Ind. has been appointed a special agent to make allotments of lands to the Indians, by act of Congress, approved February 8, 1387, vice Joseph R. Gray, deceased. Wesley Scott, at Scottsville, In Floyd county, has received official notice that ho is the oldest postmaster in continuous service in tho country. ' Mr. Scott was originally appointed over thirty yearsago Congressman Bynum, of the Indianapolis district, has withdrawn from the Speakership contest and is throwing his influence to Mr. Mills, of Texas. It is said that in the event of a deadlock Mr. Holman may be the compromise candidate. While fiaward S. McLaughlin and family, of West Fork, near English, were go-? Ing home in a wagon, a tree blown down by the wind struck, the wagon and Mr. McLaughlin and his wife had their legs broken, Tho children, seated in the rear part of the wagon, escaped unhurt. Two Mormon missionaries from Utah arc proselyting with such success in Daviess county that they propose to erect a chinch at Tom’s Hill, three miles distant from Washington, and arc soliciting subscription's to that end. Although theyprofess to be anti-polygamists, there is considerable ill feeling, and threats are freely made against them. A shameful outrago was committed near Pittsboro on the night of the 9th,and the guilty ones are still at large. At New Hope Church, three miles north of Pittsboro, a young farmer was called out during meeting by some men who tried to kill him. He had hardly got on the outside till he was set upon by unknown enemies, who beat him with stones, fracturing his skull. Some of the would-bo as sassins had knives and gave him severs murderous stabs, one blade having penetrated the kidneys. The man was picked up in almost a dying condition, and it is more than possible that he will die. About 2ro’clock last Tuesday morning, while tho rain was pouring down and the wind was blowing a hurricane, section foreman Thomas B. Crunch, on the Cambridge City branch of tho Pennsylvania lines, fear Falmouth, went overJiis soc-_ tion on the lookout for fallen timber and other obstructions. While passing through i swamp near Glng’s, a .large animal denly came out of the morass and sprang upon the car. The section mon thought it was a Newfoundland dog, but upon closer examination the animal proved to be a good sized black bear. Tho brute was cl.ubbed off twice before he abandoned his perch and took himse’f to tho swamp. The Depauw Plate Glass Company, organized to construct and operate a new plant at Alexandria, in connection with tho New Albany works, has been incorporated in Madison county. The stockholders and directors are N. T. DePauw.Chas. W. DePauw, W. D. Keyes, Charles T. Doxoy and E. P, Schlater. Capital stock, f 1,200,000. The plant at Alexandria will cover forty acres, and the buildings will be of stone, iron and brick, with a manufacturing capacity of 75,000 square feet of. plate glass .weekly. The New Albany plant has 30,000 square feet capacity. The company has leased a large acreage of gas lands in the vicinity of Alexandria for fuel purposes. PATENTS ISSUED. P. H. Ackley, Rol.lng Prairie, bee-hive; H. A. Burgess, Goodland, combined hayrako, loader, unloader and stacker; C. RJetlne, Ft. Wayne, enlarging camera; J' R. Johnson, Lagrange, swfnging-chalr; C. P. Lancaster, Sims, railway gate; J V. Mitchell, Martinsville, toe-weight; 11. C. Schultz, Hamlet, axle; R. L. Woodllng, Logansport, check row corn planter.