Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Additional activity is noticeable in the Indiana oil field. One of the Pinkertcns killed at Homestead was a Wabash boy. The new waterworks at Brookville have been satisfactorily tested. College students at Franklin hereafter may neither dance nor play cards. The eighth annual reunion of old settlers Will be held at Cloverdale on the 28th inst. Congressman Martin was renominated by Eleventh District Democrats atMarlon on the Ist. Peter Gordner, the well-known turfman of Boonville is dead. He was an invalid for many months. . ; . W. 11. Calkins, of South Bond, won the ten-mlle bicycle race from Elkhart to Goshen Monday. The small daughter of Frederick Jacorha, of Logansport, was scalded to death by having coffee spilled on her. Riley Baker fell out of a tree at Otisco a distance of fifty feet and was fatally injured Monday. He was trying to catch a squirrel. Among the attractions of the Fourth at Valparaiso was a firemen’s tournament, in which Company No. 1, of Valparaiso, won first honors and a purse of 1100. Wm. Kynett, seventy years of age, Hving near Lapel, was beaten almost to death on the night of the Fourth, by robbers, who succeeded in getting away with 125. During a church festival at Hope many partook of ice cream made by local dealers, and there were numerous prostrations, Several were critically ill, but there were no deaths. During a heavy tlmndeF stornfat Terre Haute there was a shower of “water dogs,” and after the ram had ceased several hundred were found crawling about, some of them four inches in length. Steward Drake, proprietor of the flour-ing-mills at Bowling Green, met with a serious accident Monday, While harvest ing the binder chocked, and in attempting to unchokc it the needle ran through his hand. - ... ~ William Kirby, an employe in a saw mtil at Independence, was standing near a pulley when the band broke. One end of the band was tilled with tacks, several of which were driven Into his Jntestines. Theinjury resulted fatally. John Strawn, a pioneer of Clinton county, living near Hillsburg, one day last week remarked to his wife, “On Sunday I will go to sleep, to begin my everlasting sleep.”*" Sunday afternoon sure enough, he felHnto a gentle s|eep, which continued until the family tried to arouse him without success.. In that condition he continued until his death. James F. Munford, local agent at the Big Four depot, Cambridge City, is alleged to be short in his accounts between 16 X> and 8700. Some days ago his family left Cambridge City, and more recently he was given a pass to Mattoon, 111. His present address is unknown. Formerly he was local agent at Valley Junction, where he did his work with rare fidelity. Stanley Coulter, of Purdue University, has been chosen totake charge of the forestry exhibit Indiana will make at the Worlds Fair. The ..exhibit of grasses, cereals, and fruits will be in charge of Professor Shroop, of the same institution. W. H. Reagan has been selected to take charge of the horticultural exhibit. Applications for space in these departments must be in by the 15th of this month, Some weeks ago Marion Jayne, City Treasurer of Port Fulton, discovered a shortage of 25 cents in his books. This worried him so that he became melanehoiy surrendered, his-booka to CapU Ed Howard, his bondsman. Since then he has grown worse, and on Tuesday a lunacy commission was called to pass upon his condition. Ho is a prominent Pythian and a man of honor. ... In order to save expenses of advertisement in the newspapers the patrons of the Hoagland postoffice were accustomed to post notices In the postoffice,until the walls were lined with announcements of all descriptions. Postmaster Robinson ordered it stopped, and thereupon charges were preferred against him. This led to an invesligatiori by Inspector Hamilton, who exonerated the postmaster.