Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Condensed Reports of the fmtesr Newa from All .Parts of tlieTState. i ~ Seymour ii boring for gas. —Another gas company has been formed at. Pern. • - A IQ4-poi:nd catfish was caught near Madison a ftnrrtlftSTigti. —-—*f—Gas has been struck near Kentland, Newton county. 1 --It costs $3,000 a year to run the City government at Lebanon. —Scott county farmers expect to begin harvesting their wheat crop by the 21st. —The fire loss in this state during the month of May is put at $391,300 by Rough Notts. —A gas company with a capital of $25,000 has been organized in West Terre Haute. —A reunion of the 67th Indiana regiment taxes place at Seymour, Aug. 24 to 26. —A disastrous fire at Vincennes destroyed Glover’s sCSive factory. Loss, $12,000; insurance, $8,500. —Greenfield expects to have horse racing by night during the fair, the grounds to be lighted from the, natural gas well. —Fish are being destroyed in ponds and streams in various parts of the state by the use of dynamite. —For the meat markets of Muncie not less than 20 beeves are slaughtered each week; calves, from 15 to 20; hogs, from 30 to 40; sheep from-20 to 25. —A small boy was playing in a buggy at Galveston a few days ago when the top of the vehicle tell in upon him and broke his neck, killing him instantly. —The new Pittsburgh Coal A' Coke Company, capital stock $300.000, has just been organized, with C. E. Hudson of Chicago as President to operate near Brazil. For 120 acres $87,000 was paid. —That part of the state building occupied by the supreme court judges is in poor condition. The roof leaks and sewer gas is distributed through the building, rendering it unpleasant and unhealthful. —De Pauw’s commencement exercises begin June 16 and continue until the 23d. Hon. .Thm-s Harlan will deliver the annual lecture. The week will be full of interest to the friends of the institution. —A current bush growing in the forks of a mulberry tree is a Richmond curiosity. The seed of the currant in some way found a lodging in the dirt aecummulafeion, and the result is a thrifty bush tilled with fruit. < —The dead body of Mrs. Margaret Faust, of Harrison township, Miami county, was found in a small creek near her residence. She arose during the night, and was not missed by the members of the family until morning. Mental trouble is given as the cause of the snicider — —T —A lot of cattle brought to Evansville en route to Chicago were reported to be affected with pleuro pnemonia. A post-mortem examination was held on the bodies of three cattle which died, when it was shown that the cattle were not affected by pleuro, but their sickness was due to their feed.

—ln a violent storm the residence of George W. Johnson in Vincennes was struck by lightning, demolishing a large chimney and fireplace, setting fire to the sitting-room, knocking the whole family senseless, and dangerously injuring two children. —Charles Williams bears the honor of being the lirst colored person graduated from the Crawfordsville public schools and to say that he ranks at the head of his class in every particular would only be fair, as is attested by his teachers and classmates. —State Superintendent La Follette has prepared the apportionment of the common school revenue to the various counties. The total revenue is $1,045,813.50,and the amount apportioned is $1,034,430.40, leaving a balance in the treasury of $11,373.19. The number of school children in the State between the ages of 6 and 21 is 760,178. —Jacob Samuel and Lewis Sattzman were arrested in Lafayette for making a murderous assault upon James Spechter, a Russian Jew. They said Spechter would not settle an account. They knocked him down, beat and kicked him in the side and abdomen, breaking a rib and rendering his chances of recovery very poor —The title to the old Wabash & Erie Canal bed, lying between Wabash and La Gro, a distance ‘of"five miles, which has long been in controversy, has been settled by the State Supr. mi: Court, which holds -that The title is vested in the Wabash. Hydraulic ConW bythirestablishment of tire legality of the transfer of the interest in fee simple. The Hydraulic C< mpiiny is c mipbsed of Wabash. Logansport, and Peru parties. The canal has long been treated as public property. ~“=='Mary Coffee of Greene county went to Bedford recently, and is said to have put in her time robbing the citizens. No clew would have been had if she bad not gone to a photograph gallery and her picture taken. She had three gold and one diamond ring on her fingers, said to have been takeh from the residence of T. L. Brown. —The death of Henry Blocherat his home, near Wabash, will relieve many individuals in Indiana of their obligations. Blocher was eccentric; 'A few years ago he began loaning money at big rates, receiving as high as 33 per cent. AH the notes were ‘B&ndeJ;o become void at Blocher’s death.- On no other terms would he loan money. Blocher’s estate is rendered practically

worthless by the cancellation of the notes. —The Governor and State officers, SftCr going over the State’s affairs caretmly, have come to the conclusion' that they can command enough money to pay the necessary expenses, excln--B.ve of the cost of finishing the insane hospitals and building the feebleminded institute, with the exception and now they are in, a quandary as to what shall be done to supply theg,deficiency. This estimate is on the expenses for the current year, which ends Nov. 1. It, will be remembered that, the legislature adjourned without making the usual appropriation. —An old man named Lynch lives with his wife and daughter near Corydon, Scott county. They had been accused of immoral practices. On a night recently twenty-five masked “Regulators” broke into the house, stripped the women of their clothing, and whipped them with switches in a most brutal manner. Lynch was compelled to watch the proceedings, trot was powerless to. protect his family. The “Regulators” ordered Lynch to leave the country and then went away. Mrs. Lynch, it is feared, will not survive her injuries. A Cholera hpcclßr. The following is marked as a specific for cholera and like diseases common to hot weather: Take equal parts of tincture of cayenne, tincture of opium, tincture of rhubarb, essences of peppermint, and spirits of camphor. Mix well. Dose, fifteen to thirty drops in a wine-glass of water, according to age and violence of attack. Repeat every fifteen or twenty minutes until relief i» obtained. Betrayed by the Parrot. A well-dressed woman left a pet parrot in a Norwich drug store for a short time while she did some shopping. She had not got out of sight before the bird eyed the proprietor of the shop and let out a double-barreled oath,, which preceded “you,” and said: “I’ll, break your head!” It became apparent at onc3 that the bird had bean reared in a family where the addresses were brief, personal, and emphatfic in character, and had not received much religious training.— Norwich BulletinHow to Klpeu Bananas. Being very much of a democrat, not to say Bohemian, I stopped yesterday to purchase some bananas of a brighteyed son of Italy in ihe neighborhood of the Providence Railroad station. The negotiation was about completed when a horrified voice behind me ejsclaimed, “What are you doing?” “Buying some fruit,” was my meek response. “Well, don't buy bananas of an Italian, whatever else you do.” “And why not, pray?” “Only thisand nothing more,” replied my mentor, , drawing me away, “these descendants of Dante pack the green bananas into--bed with their families because*theheat of their bodies ripen them, that’s all.” “All right; the method is a perfect success,” I said: but 1 ordered some strawberries instead, and we departed, my mentor giving full and substantial reason for his singular information in regard to the banana trade.— " Boston Iff. fa !d. ilc mark able Scene* on fhc Critinnie: A Philadelphia gentleman who was on board the Britannic when she was struck by the Celtic says that no description he has regd of the collision gives an adequate idea, ofdhe panic that ensued among the Four times did he procure a life-pre-server for hi 3 wife, and four times was it torn from his grasp, not in each case by one man alone, but by five or six, who, after obtaining it, struggled, among themselves for it 3 possession. He saw other men deliberately knock women down and rob them of their life preservers. He says that he is prouder to-day of being ' American- [ born than he ever was before in his i life, for the American saloon passengers, with hardly an exception, behaved at the most critical moment with selfrestraint and genuine heroism.—Philadelphia News. .* A Mystery. The question as to who was the first female employe in the Treasury Department at Washington having been, raised, General F. E. Spinner, who resides in Mohawk, was called upon to decide it. The.name of the first lady,, he says, was Jeanette L..* Douglass. Miss Douglass was born in Petersboro, Madison county, N. Y., and was a neighbor of the philanthropist Gerritt Smith, and it was through his influence that Gentrai Spinner made the appointment. Miss Douglass was in 1860 a teacher in Mrs. Smith’s female seminary in Washington, in the building occupied by Jefferson Davis while he was secretary of War. At the outbreak of the civil war the school was broken up and MitS Douglass rented the mansion of Mrs. Gaines and opened a girls’ school. It was not a.success, and she went to Scotland to look after property there to which she had fallen heir. She returned to New York City in 1870, and wrote to her brother -from there, saying she woulcTsobn join him In Ilion.. Since that time neither he nor any of his friends have ever seen or heard of Miss Douglass. Whether she got her fortune or not. whether she was robbed; kidnapped or murdered or Committed - suicide is not known. The mystery of -her disappearance will probably never be solved “ An Old Yiolfe. Mr. William Hames has in his possession a Yiolin made in 1736, which is stamped inside just under the Bridge, r in the bottom, thusp “Cremona A 1736.” Mr. Hames bought It in Denver in 1866. It has a splendid tone, and under his touch has made soid*» fine music, but age has cdused him to hang up the fiddle and bow, and he is now offering it for sale,— GkaksviH* (Ga.) Advertiser. ‘