Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Acton and Bethany camp meetings closed last Sunday. A six-foot vein of coal was found Monday at Mattoon, 650 feet under ground. Jackson Center, Laports county, reports a death from cholera, and great excitement prevails. Brown county has ip,ooo people within her borders and but one saloon and not a foot of railroad. Adam Krauss. aged 38, hanged himBelfat Evansville, Sunday night, the result of a prolonged spree. James Summers and wife, near Henryville, Clark county, were killed by lightning Monday morning. Indianapolis Prohibitionists have nominated Dr. Ryland T. Brown for Mayor, and a full city ticket. ;■■? R. G. Stillwell, of Rippus, Huntington county, was a victim of the Chatsworth, 111., disaster. He was buried Tuesday. Drillers in the second well at Huntington, Warren county, struck oil at a depth of 1,025 feet, in Trenton rock. They estimate the yield at thirty barrels per day. The five-year-old daughter of George Fishejyof Bluffton, shot herself accidentally while playing in a room by herself on Sunday. The ball passed through her head and she died instantly.

It is estimated ! bat 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. Hugo Fleming, of Wabash, a mute son of W. J. Fleming, was killed, on Tuesday, in a shocking manner. A horse which he was driving ran away, breaking the boy’s legs, arms and fracturing his skull. He died in great agony. James Cripe, book-keeper and paymaster of the Noble Oval Churn Co., of Goshen, has skipped out, having been detected in stealing under cover of a false pay roll. This had been carried on five years and his stealings must be quite large. Marshal Tom Ellis, of Wabash, was at Marion Tuesday night in pursuit of wheat thieves. He stopped at the Grandview hotel and during the night dreamed of flying, and walked out of a second story window, falling thirty feet. He was severely hurt. There is great danger of a water famine in Columbus. The river has got so low that private consumers have been cut off, and a force of men and teams are at work draining the riyer. Shade trees are dying all over the city, and gardens are literally burned up. The circus was at Columbus Monday and thieves, following in its wake, literally gutted the town. The Big Four ■ depot and the residences of Dan Smith, Fred Miller and others were robbed, and several citizens yfere robbed on the show grounds and in the tents of the sideshows. The excitement caused in Elkhart county by the report that the cattle of that section were affected with pleuropneumonia has been allayed by the statement of C. H. Pritchard, State Veterinarian, that the sickness of the cattle was due to malaria, and not to any contagious disease.

“Old Bob,” the famous war-horse of company F. Third Indiana cavalry, owned by Mr. Pollard Brown, died Sunday, at the advanced age of of -thirtyfive years, on the farm of Mr. Brown, six miles east of Kokomo. This horse has a remarkable history, and was famous for his wonderful endurance. The State Soldiers’ Monument Commissioners have appointed the two additional experts who are provided for by the law. Prof. Campbell, of Wabash College, is to be the expert engineer,and General T. A, Morris, of Indianapolis, the expert The committee have agreed upon a code of instructions to architects. In Warden Patton’s report to the State Auditor, of the affairs of the State prison south, it is shown that during the quarter ending with July, his receipts were $20,927 and expenditures $20,279 Mr Patton says, after his expenditures ia repairs are concluded, he will be able to make the institution selfsustaining. The Crawford county “White Caps” have been making preparations to again

go on the war-path, and have been sending “notices” to a number of their intended victims. A number of the persons who have received warnings have armed themselves, and state that they will not be switched without first having a fight with the regulators. Ex-County Treasurer Greenwood, of Daviess county, who was found short in his accounts to the amount of $13,197 upon settlement with his successor several days ago, made an assignment, Saturday, oi all his notes, papers and other propeity for the benefit of his bondsmen. His assets amount to about $9,000,' which leaves a deficiency of $4,197, which his bondsmen will have to settle. Riley Shinkle, a ten-year-old boy, of Anderson, had both eyes blown out by a powder explosion on Thursday. He and some other hoys had a can containing about a pound of powder, playing [ with it. Young Shinkle dropped a lighted match into the can. A terrific explosion followed. The hoy’a clothing was set on fire and his neck and face At the Mother House of Convent

Chapel, at Fort Wayne, on Friday, sis-„ teen young ladies of that city took the veil and received the nun’s dress, while fourteen more made their profession and took their vows preparatory to becoming sisters t of Charity. Bishop Dwenger presided hi the service, assisted by Rev. Fathers Grener, of Chicago; Keul, of Minnesota, Oechtering, of Mishawaka, and all the clergy of Fort Wayne, Sunday night the vicinity of Staunton was visited by a very heavy wind, hail and rain storm, doing a great deal of damage to the growing fruit, etc. The wind blew fences, hay and straw stacks down and the roof off, and two layers of logs from Adam Hnley’s house about one-and-a half miles south, but fortunately no one was at home. At another place the wind picked up a buggy and carried it over the fence into a cornfield. A disease resembling distemper is becoming prevalent among the horses of Morgan county. It attacks young horses more frequently than old ones, but very few of the latter having been afflicted .yet. The animal’s throat swells to a very large size, so as to make it difficult, if not impossible, to swallow anything. The swollen part rarely breaks, but emits matter freely when lanced. Several horses have died of the disease in the county, and it is spreading continually. It is slow in its effects, but quite fatal.

An unprovoked and cowardly murder was committed at Brazil Friday morning. Wm. F. Lanagan, proprietor of a saloon in the east end of the city, and Joseph Smith, a colored miner, got into a quarrel over a game of cards, when the former ordered the latter off the premises. He left, but was pursued by the proprietor, who shot him in the abdomen, inflicting a wound that will necessarily prove fatal. The murderer escaped, though officers promptly, appeared for, his arrest. Three confidence* men giving their names as Parker, Kerins and Forbs, were arrested at Terre Haute last Friday. They had not done any thing there as yet but were well-known to the police as three of the slickest confidence men in the country, and it was thought best to hold them. The wisdom of this course has been made apparent by intelligence from Jackson county that they were wanted for swindling a farmer named Zach Deputy, of that county, out of $3,000 and a note for S6OO last June. Mr. Deputy identified the men as the right parties, and they will be sent back. Lightning is re sponsible for the burning of the barn of Mrs. David Henry, in

Switzerland county, Monday evening, the destruction including four horses; also the barn of Allen Field near Hanover, including three horses, his crops and farm machinery; also the barn of W.-E. Gordon, of Shelby county, including his crops, machinery and a also the large barn, two . horses, 300 j bushels of corn, a large amount of hay, j and $">00 wortn of wagons and farming implements belonging to Martin Malada, two miles North of Anderson, were horned Sunday night. The loss will reach $3,000, with no insurance. Also the large flour mill near Longnecker’s Station, owned by Miller & Knecht, burned Sunday morning about 1 o’clock, together with 700 bushels of wheat and 100 barrels of flour. Loss about $4,000; insured for $3,000. Several weeks ago Mrs. Belle Horrall, wife of Perry S. Horrall, a prominent citizen of Petersburg, Pike countv, eloped with Dr. G. B. B. Blackwell, a physician of that place. Blackwell was a married man and deserted a large fam ly. Mrs. Horrall also left two children. Saturday night Mrs. Horrall returned secretly, having been abandoned by her paramour. She got a horse and buggy, armed herself, and set out to the home of her children’s grandmother. She begged pitifully to see her children, the oldest of whom Is only six years old. The grandmother refused, when the mother pulled out her revolver and said she would murder anybody who interfered with her. The woman grabbed the babies and left for parts unknown. When the husband returned home next day be found his children had been kidnapped, and he is now scouring the country for them. For several months the authorities at Indianapolis have been pursuing the fellers Of liquor on Sunday with considerable vigor, and the minor Courts have been at times fairly flooded with prosecutions. Usually the saloon keeper was

a witness for himself, and it was seldom he could be found to admit the offense, and so the convictions have not been so frequent as the State desired. Monday there was a new twist of the wheel, In the return of an indictment against James Burns, charging him with perjury, he having sworn that on a given Sunday he neither sold beer to the prosecuting witness, nor did he have any of the beverage in bis saloon. The State developed that he was stocked up as usual, at least that is the claim, and the indictment followed. Burns gave bond. The situation is pretty grave for him, as the State is the witness in the case, so far as his swearing is eoncemdd.> . , _ After Two Years. In 1885 the owners of the Fifth-ave-nue hotel, New York, had difficulty with the painters at work upon the house and a boycott was ordered. Saturday the Central Labor union help in the hotel waa ordered ont on accdunt of the trouble of tyro years ago.