Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Of the five prisoners in the SuPivan jail, three are held for outrage. —The house of Daniel Hosea, near Henryville, ha* burned. Los*, S6OO. E. F. Smith’s factory near Mancie was destroyed by fire, cansing a losa of $15,C00. —Toadleap and Lickskillet are the euphonious names given to two places in Shelby County. —George Kleespies, of Jeffersonville, has been fined $250 for leasing a boose for gambling purposes. —Robert E. Fleming dropped (Rad from apoplexy at Fort’Wayne while preparing to attend an entertainment. -7-While Edward Coule was feeding his team at his farm, a few miles from Evansville, he was fatally kicked by a vicicHW mnle. —The veteran drag house of*Browning A Sloan, of Indianapolis, has keen placed in the hands of a receiver, becanse the head of the firm is a bondsman for Pattison, the defaulting City Treasurer. —lsaac Kahn, proprietor of clothing stores nt Bloomington, Muneie, Greencastle, and Rnshville, gave chattel mortgages to secure preferred creditors. His liabilities are about $50,000.

—Andrew Hoppe, a farmer living in Union Township, Vanderbnrg County, while digging into an Indian mound on his farm unearthed a large number of stone implements and curious utensils, besides human bones. —Gibson County has a female school teacher Avho has been engaged in school teaching for abont thirty years, and for about fourteen years of that time has bee® employed in one school,-where she is still engaged. m —John Bryant was brought into the Mayor’s Court at Terre Haute as a vagrant. He .claimed to be a contortionist. Upon giving quite a remarkable exhibition of athletic skill in the presence of the court he was told to go. '—There are 300 students attending the Normal School at Terre Haute. Robert G. Gillum, the Principal of the Anderson schools, has been elected General Assistant, md will take the position at the beginning >f the spring term.- ' —A contributor to a New Albany paper lakes the position that municipal governments ra Indiana are a fnilure.andhe suggests that the Legislature abolish them and provide for their government by three Trusses selected from men who have successfully managed their own business. —Kinder Parks, a well-to-do Dnliois County farmer, who lived near Newton Stewart, went to Foswell to collect some money owing him. ‘He collected the money. As- he was drinking heavily, and has not oeen seen since, it is feared he has either been foully dealt with or has wandered into j snow-drift in the hills and perished. —Kewanna, a few miles west of Roebister, has a double-barreled postoffice. The new postmaster moved to quarters in the other end of town, leaving, his wellequipped predecessor, who is sow has deputy. Those who are in favor of the deserted postoffice have deputized the minister of the village to receive their mail and redistribute to them at the old stand. —Chris Spiker, proprietor of a large store it Spikerville, Wabash County, early the other morning captured a burglar, who had gained access to his establishment, rifled the cash-drawer, and begun drilling the safe-door. When Bpiker arrived the fellow ran nnder the building, whither Spiker pursued him with a shotgun, and, by threatening to shoot, induced him to surrender. Spike then searched him, recovered his money, secured a revolver and other implements of the profession, and then marched him to Wabash and turned him over to the authorities. 4 Concerning Faith Core*. Mrs. Charles Wilgns and Mrs. John Moore, respectable ladies of Indianapolis, whose husbands are well-to-db business men, have had an experience as subjects of a “faith cure,” which possessed some remarkable features. Both have been under medical treatment for some time, and thongh not confined to bed, have suffered much from disease. A newly made acquaintance, a lady who became aware of their ill health, persnaded them to try a “faith enre,” which had once, she said restored her to health, and with which she was familiar. So, unknown to their husbands, Mrs. Wilgus and Mrs. Moore engaged their friend to assist them in the matter. She required them to give her a number of rings, and these she apparently placed between the leaves of the family Bible, which was then Arrapped with* a handkerchief and securely tied with a cord. Next she took from the two ladies SSO in bills, and these she placed in small rolls, wrapped them with red yam and tossed them into a closet. Then a cake containing nine kinds of fruit was baked, and this was to be buried at the roots of a tree. When all this was done she led in prayer, and enjoined Mrs. Wilgns and Mrs. Moore the necessity of not tonching the Bible .or the balls of yarn till nine days bad elapsed. But the ladies’ curiosity got the, better of them, and they peeped into the Bible only to find some black buttons instead of the gold rings, and an examination of the halls showed that there was no money in ihem. They then went to the house of the woman and fonnd that she had left the city. It is possible that she is searching the forests to find a tree nnder which to bnry the cake, but the ladies think were swindled. At any rate they have concluded to take Paul’s advice aud ask their husbands hereafter when they want .to know anything. ; , —The loss by the homing of I. P. ' Evans A Co.'s oil mill at Indianapolis, has been adjusted, the insurance companies paying the firm $114,055 on a total insurance of $115,250. The total loss was appraised at $131,844. Of this, $03,000 was on flaxseed. ThexC was oa hand at the time ' of jhe fire 105,403 and 48,848 bushels was saved. The firm are considering a proposition to move to Chicago, and until that is decided upon nothing will be done toward rebuilding the wosks. •’ -C- ' I SHI