Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Eeferring to the Inner-State Commerce Bill which has passed the lower house of the Legislature without even exciting the interest of the members, a prominent railway official, who is known to enjoy the confidence of the officers of the Pennsylvania Company, said to a Fort Wayne Sentinel representative thnt’if the bill should become a law the Pennsylvania Company would surely remove to Pennsylvania, as far as is practicable, their great shops at Fort Wayne, Logansport, Bichmond, and Indianapolis. The Pennsylvania Company gives employment at Fort Wayne nlone to 1,200 men and this number it was designed to imediately increase. If so disastrous a result would follow the passage of the bill Fort Wayne would lose its chief manufacturing industry and would be very seriously crippled. —The Muncie Gas Company is taking out the meters which have done duty for so long measuring gas, and will hereafter charge by the month, letting the patrons use all they wish. The prices for stoves will vary in accordance with the size of the room. There are now about two hundred stoves heated with natural gas. The Muncie Gas Company claim to have the best well in the State. The gas comes out so strong that it cannot be measured. When they put the instrument on it whirls around so fast that it measures 400 feet to the square inch in a minute, and they have to take the instrument away for fear it will break. A barrel was placed over the current, and the force threw it as high as the derrick, which is over a hundred feet.

—The citizens of Indianapolis are becoming alive to the importance of the eleventh annual meeting of the Music Teachers’ Association, to be held there during the summer. The various committees necessary to the work of entertaining the visitors, and for arranging for the grand concerts to be given under their auspices, are already organized, and are prosecuting the necessary preliminary work. Music teachers throughout the country take wonderful interest in these proceedings, and the best musical talent of the country willingly offer their services to make the deliberative meetings and concerts a success. —The Southern Indiana Teachers’ Association will hold its tenth annual meeting at Madison, March 23, 24, and 25. M. C. Garber, editor of the Courier, will make the welcome address, to which E. A. Bryan, President of Vincennes University, will respond. Among the eminent educators on the program are Professors Fisher, Boone, Lafollete, Mills, Martin, Hall, Carhart, Carnagey, Jones, Wiley, Hubbard, and Jordan. Dr. Jordan will remain to deliver his popular lecture, “The Ascent of the Matterhorn,” in the interest of the Madison Public School Library, on the night of March 25.

—The farm residence of Oliver Mason, located near Lafontaine, Wabash County, was burned with all its contents. The blaze originated in an out-house, and quickly consumed everything to the dwelling. The inmates of the latter barely effected their escape in their night-cloth-ing, so rapid was the spread of the flames. The loss on building and contents is estimated at $2,000, and there is no insurance.

—Frank Wilson, of Finley Township, Scott County, while in a fit, fell backward into a fire-place, and was so badly burned that he will probably die from the injury. His head and shoulders were burned to a crisp. His little 7-year-old daughter wa the only one present at the time, and she managed to pull her father out in time to prevent his being burned to death then and there.

—Many men have been ruined by politics, but it would be difficult to find a more striking case than that of 8. 8. Hollingsworth, defaulting Treasurer of Knox County. Less than five years ago, when elected Treasurer, he had a valuable farm and was said to be worth $50,000. To-day he is penniless and under sentence of three years in the penitentiary for embezzlement. —William Mabbitt has determined not to take the body of bis baughter, Lou, home for burial at this time, but to place the remains in a receiving vault at Lafayette, to await developments in regard to Amer Green, who made way with her. He expresses the belief that if the body is placed in the grave it will be tampered with and the evidence as to identity removed. —The Clark County Agricultural Association has elected the following officers; George H. D. Gibson, President; W. C. McMillin, Vice-President; W. H. Watson, Secretary; M. D. Reeves, Treasurer; I. N. Haymaker, Marshal. The twenty-ninth annual fair will be held at Charlestown Sept. 5,6, 7,8, and 9. —Adjutant General Koontz has received the roster of the Fort Wayne Veterans who reorganized some time ago. He has also issued commissions to Edwin B. Pugh, as First Lieutehant, and to Harry Collan as Second Lieutenant of the Indianapolis Rifles. —A natural gas company has been formed at Waveland, Montgomery County. Operations will not be commenced until the result of the companies nt Crawfordsville is known, and if gas is not found there the Waveland men will not sink a well.

—At Etna Green, Wabash County, a strange man, whose name was Smith, fell dead from heart disease while nt the delivery window of the post office. No. one in the place knew his place of residence, and he was buried by the county. —George Moore, a well-known farmer, living near Huntington, was thrown to the ground from a heavily loaded wagon by the breaking >of the boom-pole, sustaining internal mjunes which will prove fatal.