Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

James H. Cunningham, a millionaire Of Madison, died Thursday. There are 2,000 employes on the pay roll of the Ohio Falls Car Co., at Jeffersonville. From all parts of the State come report* of fires caused by threshing engines. The exposition building at Indianapolis nanowly escaped destruction by fire, Wednesday evening. Salem found gas at 730 feet. At 745 feet gold whs brought up. The specimens were tested by a jeweler and pronounced pure. The President has virtually decided to make short stops a Columbus, 0., and Indianapolis, Ind., on his way to St. Louis in October. The large country residence, barn and personal propert y of Hon. Geo/ge Lozier, at Moore’s Hill, were totally destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Loss $6,000. Richard H. Greenwood, retiring treasurer of Daviess county, is reported SIO,OOO short. Mr. Greenwood will make up the deficiency, if there is any. Dr. W. D. Fouiz, one of the best known physicians in southern Indiana, has not eaten a morsel of solid food for six years. He subsists on nothing but buttermilk, and consumes six gallons a dayr. It is estimated ' hat the serious drouth Clark-county is now passing through will increase the price of hay to S2O a ton and corn to 75 cents a bushel before six months have passed. The hay crop is almost an entire failure.

A couple of cases* of leprosy in one family living about eight miles from Tas well, are reported. Various causes are assigned, the most probable being the use of sugar that came from the Hawaiian islands. Both cases, are women, and they have been known to be afflicted for many years. A report just prepared by the Superintendent of Public Instruction gives the amount of the school fund of this State for the year 1886 to have been $9,458,085 71, distributed as follows: Congressional township fund, $2,471,857.96; non-negotiable bonds, $3,081,904,783.16; amount held by counties, $3,081,444.59. This total amount was increased in by fines from various courts to the amount of $82,537.59. Mrs. Madalene Boggs, of Milton, Wayne county, is said to be the oldest woman in the State. She was born December 22, 1783. Mrs. Boggs has four children living, the oldest being 81 and the youngest 64. She has forty-six grand-children, ninety great grandchildren and twelve great-great-grandchild-dren. One of her grandchildren is over fifty years old and one of her great-great-grandchildren is over twenty-five. He is editor of the Latham Signal, in Butler county, Kansas. Mrs. Boggs is able to make her own bed and does all her own sewing. During the past year she has pieced a dozen quilts. Her faculties are all well preserved. She enjoys good health and has a good appetite.

The State soldiers monument committee held a three days session at Indianapolis last week, and transacted a large amount of important though routine business. The plans for the monument are being rapidly matured, and from what can be learned it will be one of the finest and most imposing memorials in the United States. The committee have employed Prof. W. R. Weir, of Columbia College, New York State, as a epecial expert. He is recognized by architects everywhere, as a leading if not the leading expert in the country. He will be in consultation with the committee at Indianapolis this week. The committee announce that the principal architects of the world are or will be in competition with plans, etc.

There were from fifteen to twenty thousand people in attendance at the soldier’s reunion at Marion Thursday. The sham battle which was called at 2 o’clock was marred and cut short by the probable fatal injuries received by veteran Miles Morris, of Jalapa Post, Grant county. Morris was assisting in manning one of the heavy guns and was ramming a cartridge home, when the man at the breech took his thumb off the touch-hole, producing a premature discharge. Morris’ right hand was blown off and his face and shoulders were terribly burned, blackened and lacerated. His injuries will probably prove fatal. Major George W.Steile, commander of the camp, had a narrow escape by the reckless discharge of another gun while he was standing close to the muzzle. His coat Was torn and the side of his face was slightly lacerated. &Dr. Frisbie reported to the State Board of health, last week, after having made an examination, jails in Lawrence and Perry counties are unfit for human habitation, and in the first named the stench was so dreadful that he was unable to stay in the cells a minute. The sewflrage in both is as bad as it could be, arid he recommended the condemnation of both. He also found the poor house of Lawrence county in a horrible condition, and the overseer pocketing the proceeds of the labor of all the inmates that he could hire out to farmers at the ridiculously low wages of SIJS per week. Young children were forced to sleep with old inmates who were afflipted with all sorts of loathsome diseases. An effort will be made to get the children away from the terrible

place. Perry county is powerless to do anything to aid the poor and criminal classes, as both the County Treasurer and Prosecuting Attorney have been away. The former took all the funds, and the county is about bankrupt.