Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Dundee will incorporate. Chicken pox is raging at Columbia City. There is not a vacant house in Rockville. Orange county has ninety-four school houses within her borders. Swayzee had a bad fire Nov. 25. Seven stores and one residence went up in smoke. Terre Haute grain men contemplate erecting an elevator with a capacity for 350,000 bushels. Four horses suffering with glanders were killed at Terre Haute by order of the State Veterinarian. A genuine “gusher” was brought in at Anderson, Wednesday, for the National tin-plate mill. The well will supply much more fuel than the mill can use. The Rev. 8. M. Stimson* D- D., of Greensburg, is dead of heart failure. He was a well-known Baptist minister, and secretary of the missionary society. Thomas Frost, son of one of the wealth - lest men of Knox county, has been placed under $5,000 bond .as an accessory to the killing of Blann Williamson, at Sandborn, by Ed Lankford. The Sheridan gas plant has been sold to the town of Sheridan, the consideration being $19,000. As soon as the plant is freed from indebtedness gas will be furnished to consumers at actual cost. The legality of the appointment of a lady as chief deputy in the office of the recorder of Delaware county is questioned, because-she is not a-voter, and the court will be called upon for a ruling, W. A. Ketcham assumed the office of Attorney-General, Thursday. Merrill Moores, of Indianapolis, is the new deputy. Alexander Hess also succeeded A. M. Sweeney as Clerk of the Supreme Court. H. O. Huffer, a teacher of Farmland, committed suicide, Sunday, by shooting himself through the head with a Winchester rifle. Mr. Huffer had been in bad health Lor some time, and thought he was going crazy. Tipton county elected a mixed ticket by small majorities. Defeated Republicans contested for the offices to which they aspired and the defeated Democratic candidates followed their example. Every office, therefore, which was to be filled by the November election in that county is now in court for final arbitration. W. R. Blanchard, the implement dealer of Clinton, accused of forging notes calling for $20,000, who was arrested in Colorado, after a long search and was placed in jail at Vermillion in default of SB,OOO bonds, walked away while the old sheriff was turning over his qffice to the new. Blanford went out of the front door and disappeared. Neither the old nor the new sheriff know how it happened.