Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Two masked men held up the B. &O. agent at Clark’s Hill, Ind., and secured *2OO from his safe. Gen. Harrison rqturned from the East Saturday, stopping at Mnncie, Anderson and other towns, where he made brief speeches. The Indiana Medical College, Scottish Rite building and several adjoining structrues, at Indianapolis, were destroyed bv fire, Saturday morning. Loss, $125,000, partially insured, Purdue’9 foot-ball team defeated the Chicago University eleven, at Chicago, Saturday, by a score of 10 to 6, The Chicago men claimed that their signals were given to Purdue by a traitor in theii ranks. Stephen Enzor, son of Hiram Enzor, ot Angola, whose mind is enfeebled by lonp continued attacks of epilepsy, conceived the idea that his left foot and hand were offensive, and, remembering the scriptural injunction: “If thy hand offned thee, cut it off and cast it from thee,” etc., he severed his left hand at the wrist, and when found by bis friends he had made several attempts to cut off his log just above the ankle. There was a shower of small fish atSngai Grove, four miles east of Elkhart, Friday. Nov. 2. During tho storm it was impossible to see in any direction, so dark was the sky, and when the storm had subsided the residents were astonished to find the ?round covered with small fish, of a :ies strange to tills section, thathad evilentiy been scooped up somewhere by The wind and carried to Sugar Grove. Many persons went out from Elkhart, Saturday tqorning, to see the fish, and numerous specimens were brought back. It is thought they were brought from some ol the great lakes. The Woman’s Suffrago Convention at Marion, Wednesday, was well attended. The resolutions adopted congratulate the men of Kentucky on the defeat of Congressman Breckinridge, and demand the right for women to vote in presidential and municipal elections, and pledge support to Mrs. Gougar in the test case which is to be brought after the attempt to vote Nov. 6. The following officers were elected: President—Mrs. Helen Gougar, of Lafayette, who has filled the office for seventeen consecutive years; vice-president, Miss' Mary G. Ilay, Indianapolis; treasurer, Dr. M, A. Jessup, Friendswood; secretary, Mrs. Iva Wooden, Indianapol is. Miss INellio Ahern, State Librarian, is preparing her annual report of the financial condition us her department. She! will show that the one-thousand-dollar. tppropriation voted by tho last Legisla-j lure is not sufficient to keep the llbrarjt tupplied with new books. Miss Ahern ex-j pects the next Legislature to place the an -I propriation at its former figure, 12,000, a: 4 will make a vigorous fight for it. Twenl iy-three hundred books have been added io the library in the last two yeara and through the effort of Miss Ahern ever?] :ounty in the Stato is represented amonij the periodicals. The shelving capacity is lot sufficient to accomodate the book j tnd desks. The libraries now comprise! 15,000 volumes.