Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Blue river is rich inbass. - * Lapel is to be incorporated. A free hospital is proposed for Jeffersonville. , _ The bineberry crop near Michigan City is in fall tide of harvest. / There is a social club at Rockville known as the “Conecocheagae.” Dynamiters are killing fish without let or hindrance In Madson county. A well developed case of glanders is reported from Montgomery county. Muncie carpenters protest against the planing mills employing scab workmen. The State camp Sons of America, will convene at Crawfordsville August 2 and 3. A monster serpent is claimed to have been seen In White river, near Noblesville. In a quarrel near Landosdale, James Barlow was fatally stabbed by Thomas Bates. “W’w. Eeed for twelve years superintend ent of the Hartford City schools, has just Tteen re-elected. _C7- a - A tad named Hawn, in Whitely county, bitten by a rattlesnake, died after inconceivable suffering. marble quarries have been found in the neighborhood of Andrews; The small daughter of Frederick Jacorha. of Logansport, was scalded to death by having coffee spilled on her. -“'Columbus has passed a prohibitory ofdinanew against Traveling salesmen, and Crawfordsville is following suit Anderson is protesting against the quality of the 3,001,000 brick shipped from Canton, O„ to that city for paving pui> poses. “Snake” Kahler, of Muncie, under arrest for robbery, turned State’s evidence and betrayed a gang of organized plunderers, • ■ > □The Soldiers; Monument at Winchester will bb unveiled on the 21st inst. Orations will bo delivered by Governor Chase and cx-Governor Gray. The Eighty-fifth Indiana Regimental Association will hold a reunion at Rockville August 3 and 4.—A sham battle will be a feature of the assembly. g. Mrs. James Lane, near Herbst, commited suicide by jumping into a well. She was aged thirty-fiye and the mother of eight children, the oldest of whom is only ten. It now develops that the Vincennes National Bank is hopelessly insolvent, and that President Tyler, who recently committed suicide, is responsible for the loss of over $250,000. The Grand Lodge of Good {Templars convened at Logansport Wednesday and Thursday. Many prominent members of the Grand Lodge were present, and it was the most successful session ever held.

The farmers of Boone county have pooled interests in the threshingof wheat, which is'to be let by contract; foe committees in charge also having power to make seaboard delivery* It is claimed that.tho Patrons of Industry and other industrial organizations In Porter county formerly had a membership of seven hundred, but that recently disintegration set in, due to political agitation. William Stokes and Jacob Grant, both colored, of Marion, quarrel d and fought ar. dGrautw as k noe ked d< s. u.Sprin gin g to his feet, he used his refo.ver, one shot striking his ; opponent in the arm.inflicting dangerous injury.

—AFa result of a dispute over a small debt W. H. McKee, near New London, as saulted Will Herrell with an ax, striking him overhis head, and narrowly missing burying the blade in his brain, McKee waskierrlbly injured. □ While the engineer was oiling the valves in the steam chest of a Big Four switching engine at Muncie, using coal oil, he reversed the engine and the oil exploded* tearing steam ehest to fragments. Pieces were hurled 203 feet away, t While the Independent Order of Good Templars were in session at Logansport, Urand Chief Templar Wade, at Lafayette, jeverely criticised the religious people and the ministers of the gospel for not taking a more active interest in temperance work. G. W. Banard, a prominent grain dealer and elevator owner of Oakland City, failing to come to supper, his family instituted a search, and his body was found wound around a line shaft in the rear part of the elevator. It is supposed that he was instantly killed. W. Fred Pettit, the wife poisoner, of Shawnee Mound, who was convicted and given a life sentence, in January, '9l, and whose attorneys boasted that he would be as Jiberty in six months, by virtue of an appeal to the Supreme Court, is no neare 1 ’ release now *tban at the time of original conviction. The brief has not yet been filed.

The neighborhood of Adel, Owen county, is bothered by persons who enter homes after nightfall, or while the families are absent, and heln themselves liberally to food. A strange man has been observed in that vicinity for some days. He avoids contact with the people, keeping off the highways, and running upon the approach of any one. • Attempts to capture him have failed. Johnson county claims the most sorely afflicted man in the State in the person of Robert Yates. Last December he succumbed to an attack of grip, which was followed by a long siege of typhoid feyer. Recovering from this hd suffered an attack of neuralgia, and was jnst regaining strength when the malarial fever left him weak and emaciated. As a crowning torture, he is at present undergoing an attack of lung fever, with prospects of recovery. A great crowd of sympathizing friends late Judge Jeptha D. New, of the Appel late Bench, at Vernon Monday afternoon. Elder John Brazelton, a life-long friend, conducted services, and the pall-bearers included Gov. Chase, State Secretary Claude Matthews, Attorney-General Smith, Reporter of the Sepreme Court John L. Griffiths, Clerk A. M. Sweeney, Hon. C. A. Karbley, Hon. Charles L. Jewett and Judge Thomas C. Batchelor. The body of Judge New lay In state in the heme where he was born nearly sixty yean age. He- reaided continuously In

this house during his life, with exception of the time he spent- in Washington as a and a few months in Minncssota. His grave is near that of his parents in the beautiful and picturesque cemeteiy at Vernon.