Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson will soon owa an electric light plank - .. Elbert Hay ford, of Rockville, Is mysteriously missing. Sanborn, way down in Knox, Is qneranlining against cholera. *• A bed of kaolin has been discovered near Deer creek, in Carroll county. Experts Cracked threo safes at Sharps* Villa in one- night securing but'sso. James Garret, while trying (to awaken bis wife at Fortvllic, discovered that she was dead. old Persimmon Brigade will bold a of October. The resignation"in? Luther Short as representative from Johnson county in tho Legislature has been accepted by Governor Cbase. —— . ” - ■ ’ --- Dr. T. A. Cox, of El wood, believes he has discovered a method which will revolutionize the manufacture of vitrified paving brick. . Scctlonmen on the Lake Erie & Western rail way, near Tipton, found a package of counterfeit money, ail of it comparatively hew. but dated 1877. George Cook, an aged farmer residing near Flat Rock, was found dead In a cornfield Monday night. A bullet hole was in his breast. The indicatioas are that he was the victim of foul play, A blind mac with a hand-organ Is parading the streets of Alexandria bearing a placard on his breast, o-. which Is inscribed: \T am biiud the father of elgh t ch'.ldreu by a horribleaccident.” A railway conductor stopped fit Chester, ion lor orders and found operator Jamison lying unconscious on the table with his face and head cut and bleeding. After consciousness returned Jamison could five no explanation in what manner he wasTnjnrod. The biggest well In the Indiana oil field “came in” on tho MeCollistcr farm, noar tho Wells county lino. When first struck it fiowed at the rate of 0,000 barrels pel day, ami it kce|»s up a steady stream ol •100 barrels pra hour M' ''dllstsr, owner of tho farm, is •a- : aui u of Cll2 per day as his ana. „