Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Andeitbn will invest 135,000 In an electric light plau L‘ Huntington capitalists are proposing U erect a ground i oor opera house. The I*'t, Wayne Rides w II organise a eadet corps, from wbicb t > iecruittbetr ranks. —IIL‘ j.-._ . . ... A new high school bulb ling has b'.nn completed at Frankfort. cosl,ing over CoO.OtO. The structure is of stone. John Aikcus. of Gosiieu, wheeled his wife through tire streets cf Goithon in a wheelbarrow, in payment of an election bet. Jolm Mammon, of Elkhart, bitten by a triad dog., went to Waterloo and applied a mad stone, which adhered for tweuty-four hours. A big ditch will be o.tened in Johnson 'township, Knox county, to drain Cypn ss swamp. The ditch will be eight miles in hmgth, and-scveral acres of fertile" land will he redeemed for cultivation. Patents w« r > issued Tuesday to the following Indianians: A. Lammendee, South Bend. straw%tacking iiiachiiie: J. Lehwrand J. O’Connell. Bedford, comb’ned umlirella lock and satchcll fastener; H, I)Nlerrill, Middleber, rood fence-, Frank A. Vogt, Anderson, can opener. William Ramsey, near Francisville, dug a well and walled it with stone. It. wn--36 feet deep and contained an abundance of water. Suddenly, however, the bottom fell out and the stene wall alsod sappeared. Mr. Ramsey now owns an apparently bottomless pit, iu which tbero is not. a drop of water.

During a Democratic jolification at Alexandria it is al.oged tliat Paul Pinch a-id Prcd Lcnteen insulted the wife of a glass ‘•lower and the latter knocked Finch down. Finch secured a revolver, of which newas dispossessed by lien teen, who immediately 'began tiring at the procession which was passing. Tom Boal, I rank Jux, James Swindell, William Jones and in unknown party were .wounded by Lite 'lying bullets, Cox dangerously, l-’inch uid Ben teen were arrested for attempted n order. 5 A New York Times special from Albany -ays tliat on Friday last Governor Flower wrote to each of the throe civil service commissioners and demauded their resigliilious. The commissioners are ~Aiexatiler C. Eustace, of Elmira; William A, Pos'lp, of New Yo,rk. and John A. Sleictior •f Albany,—The latter Is the only Republican on the board. They were all apmiinteu by Governor liiil, Treachery to lieir party is said to bo tlie motive of tho idverpor in tlio case of the Democrats, uni “offensive partisanship’’ In the case >t the heptiblican member. The civil mrvice commissioners are appointed by i,he Governor, and are removable at will. L’lte salary of the olLco is 42.000 a year with expenses incurred iu the line of duty’ INDIANA. ODD FEf.DOWS. The Gran I Lodge and Grand Encamp*mnt I, O. O. U l . of Indiana were in ses•ion at Indianapolis. Both branches •bowed tho greatest" gains ever reported n one terra. Tho total number of inetntfers is n0w.38,6-1. During tho six months 504.750 11 were paid out for relief of rneinlei s. Tho Grahii Eodue elected the foiowlng officers: Grand Matt Jr— Enoch G. Bogate, Dan/i I It).

Deputy Q. M. —W. 11. Talbot, Orleans. '"GPffiiiT"Warden—M. A. Otnipinhu. Ah-• lersoii. ~ j Grand Secretary— B. F. Foster, Madison* Grand Treasurer-Tlico. £’. llaughey tiidliinupoHa. . ? Grand ltepresentativo to S. G. T,.—U, Z. •Wiley; Fowler. ■. ■ Grand Chaplain—Bey. G. Cj Hudson .Voblesville. Grand Marshal—J. M. Lowler, South TfetTJr : - Grand Instructor—W. B. Lcedy.lndiantpolis. Grand Sentinel—D. M. 8011, Dunkirk. Geo. Ford, D. G. M., was elected Grand Master, being In tbo regular line of pronotion. lmt owing to private husiuess was comp died to decline. The Grand Encampment elected J. B Cockran. Booneville, Grand Patriach. Geo. Shirt, Noblesvillo. Gruud High Priest. .1. S. Byers, Now Castle. Grand Senior Warden. James Lang, Sullivan, Grand Junior Warden. W. 11. Lcody, Indianapolis, Grand Instructor. J. C. Zimmermon, Wabash, Grand Sentinel. 74. Kuhns, Camden, Deputy Grand Sentinel. J. W. Cooper, Kokomo, Grand Representative S. G. L.