Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Spiceland has found gas in large quantities. Anderson now has five gas wells, with* a combined daily output of 41,000,000 feet. . It is expected that about 2,000 Indiana soldiers will go to the St. Louis G. A. R. National Encampment. Reny Alienbush, a single man, met with a horrible death near Madison, Tuesday, by being cut in two by a circular saw. j There were four conversions, and 138 kegs of beer sold, Sunday, at the camp meeting at Mott’3 Station, on the Air Line road, hear New Albany. Henry Brown, 13 years old, while walking on the top of a fence at Jeffersonville, Sunday, fell and was pierced through the abdomen by a picket. He will probably die. Rev. Aaron Wood, D. D., the oldest Methodist minister in Indiana, died Saturday morning, at his home in Yountsville, four miles southwest of Crawfordsville, after a long and painful illness from Bright’s disease. The large frame building at Rochester known as the City hotel, owned bv Idward Chinn, burned to the ground at 3 o’clock Thursday morning. There was no insurance. Loss $2,500. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Great exaitement prevails at Misnawaka over the sudden disappearance of John Snyder, a prominent business man and dealer in agricultural implements. A shortage of $2,000 in his accounts with F. Sieberling & Co., of Ohio, has been discovered.

An unusual amount of sickness is prevailing among horses in and around Indianapolis, and many animals have died within the last few days. The liv-ery-stable proprietors especially are suffering heavy losses. The illness seems to be colic or some disease with similar symptoms. . A peculiar disease has attacked many horses in Blackford and Wells counties, and it has proved fatal in many cases. A. G. Hart, a stock dealer, lost a valuable roadster, Tuesday, and two cases occurred on Wednesday. The disease seems to be an aggravated form of colic, and death results in a.few minutes. Dell M. Astry, a machinist of Fort Wayne, a passenger on the excursion train to Rome City, when pasting over the St. Mary’s river bridge stood on the platform and stretched out his head to signal a friend, when he was struck by the bridge and knocked from the train into the river below. He will die. Ben Wells, one of the heretofore most prominent farmers in Randolph county, financially, has disappeared, leaving everybody of whom he could borrow, from a dollar up to hundreds, and in some instances even thousands of dollars, in the lurch. It is currently ruJlttjMtli ttiaLMi. WeHB lbßlTieavllyihifiiiA late Chicago wheat disaster. Thirty-one Sioux Indians have just arrived at White’s Manual Labor Institute at Wabash, where they will be educated. Of the number seventeen are girls and fourteen boys. None of them can speak English. There are now eighty-four students at the school. The government pays $125 a year for the education of these children. The first Methodist church of Valparaiso was dedicated Sunday. It is in the form of a Roman cross, 104 by 640 feet, and of brick. There are three memorial windows of stained glass and a very fine pipe ergan. The lighting is by gas and the heating from furnaces. The edifice cost about $24,000, which sum is almost provided for. This society was organhed in 1840. The church seats 1,650.

State Auditor Carr is having trouble with the mutual assessment insurance companies of northern Indiana, several of which he has persistently refused to give official recognition. The lastast applicant for a charter is the Standard Life Association, of Fort Wayne. An itemized statement accompanying the report to the State Auditor shows that 815 T was paid to the beneficiaries of a policy for $2,000, and SSO on another for fl ,000. Of 830 outoLandin i policies, 72J are ca persons over fifty-five years of age. A telegram to the Indianapolis News, of Monday, says the “White Caps” of Crawford county have now undertaken to regulate love affairs as well as provide punishment for the other short-comings man is heir to; Mw. Jennie Dougherty, a grass widow and school teacher, has been warned to cease wooing one William Morgan, some years her j unior. She claims to have had no matrimonial intentions so far as the young man was concerned, but simply regarded him as a “pet,” he being an especially apt scholar. Anbury Neal, a burly fellow, who has been stopping at the Shelby county poor farm, made a deadly assault on John Clark, superintendent of the place, witharasor. Clark grabbed the man, and in the struggle was severely cut on the hands. His life was in great danger and he was afraid to let go of his assailant. At this juncture his wife, Mrs. Fannie Clark, struck Neal a terrific blow across the forehead with a large .poker, which brought film to the floor. He is now in jail. The county in Indiana having the smallest number of pensioners is Union, which is represented on the rolls by only ’fifty-seven, who receive $895 per month. Marion, the most populous •ounty, has 1,481 pensioners, drawing a

total of $10,005.74 each month or $192,008 yearly. Vigo stands second, having 676 persons who draw $7,474 50 per mcnth or $89,504 annally. Green county gets $78,180 per year, Jackson $74,540, Tippecanoe $80,199 and other counties more or less, according to population. ; ' ——- A double fatality occured at 8 o’clock Monday morning on the farm of Arthur Norton, four miles north of Mirion. A well which Christopher Sisson, the.tenant, was putting down, was thirty-three feet deep. Monday morning when Reece Hullinger, Sisson’s brother in-law, and hired hand resumed work, Hullinger bored an auger down into the clay and when he withdrew it there was the sound of escaping gas. He was rapidly becoming asphyxiated, and called for help, but was uncons ions when the bucket was lowered.' The bucket was drawn up, and despite the entreaties of his wife, Sisson got in and was left down. Before the bucket reached the bottom Sission fell out and in a few minutes was dead. The bodies were recovered two hours later. The following patents were issued to Indianians Tuesday: Donaldson, John E , Montezuma, roofing tile and weatherboarding; Hammond, Isaac W., Hammon.!, tongue support: Harland, Joel W., Frankfort, gate; Hornaday, Thos. 8., Indianapolis, assignor to Yale A Town Manufacturing Company, Stanford, Conn.; electric lock; Macomber, Horatio N., Walkerton, wire-twisting device; Morgan, Bennett W., and J. A. Anderson, Terre Haute, means for strenthening glass w indows; Philion, George, assignor to Dodge Manufacturing Com-

pany, Mishawaka, manufacture of wooden pulleys; Sanders, John P., Bartholomew county, shock fodder loading and unloading machine; Stewart, Joseph, assignor of one-third to J. Israel, Liberty, hand rake; Wintrode, Charles E., Huntington, adjustable wire-twisting wrench; also tension device for use in constructing wire and picket fences. A most cruel affair has just developed at Smiley, a small, station in Allen county. John Waterside, a Frenchman, engaged himself in marriage to Mary Burgman. Bhe wished to postpone the marriage until after the birth of an illegitimate chi d, but he insisted upon an immediate marriage, which took place about ten months ago. The child was born about four months afterward, and Waterside has always had antipathy toward it. He had been heard to say by the neighbors he “would get rid of the brat,” and that he “had almost finished the brat, and would do it yet.” The township authorities, hearing the child was sick, employed two dpctore to attend to it. They found one teg broken and one arm broken in two places below the elbow. The arm had commenced to mortify, and immediate annotation of both arm and leg was necessary. The child was injured early in August and has remained without medical attention until now. Waterside is now’ in jail awaiting the result of the •hild’s injuries. In the Floyd Circuit Court, Tuesday afternson, Sarah Ellen Mclntosh, of Salem, wife of Andrew J. Mclntosh, and the first child of the late Washington C. DePauw, who was virtually disinherited by his will, brought suit to set aside the will. Mrs. Mclntosh strongly resembles her late father, being of the same physical build and the same facial expression. She is a lady in culture as well as by instinct, and is greatly devoted to and much loved by her many friends. The will of her father cut her off with two very poor, badly worn-out farms in Washington county, a possible contingency in some bequests made for charitable or religious, purposes, upon which annuites are to be paid if the legacies be accepted upon the provisions of the will. The filing of this suit, says a New Albany dispatch,has been expected for some time, and it is only truth to say that the public sympathy is almost universal with Mrs. Mclntosh in her effort to set aside the will. She is Mr. DePauw’s first-born child. Her mother was a daughter of the late Major Malott, of Salem, in his life a leading business mm of that town, and also county cte'k of Washington county. It was under Major Malott that Mr. DePauw obtained bis first employment, and became deputy county clerk.

Jnterestiag Fo«tofll*e Utatiitiaa. The annual report of the First Assist-anvPostmaster-general, now being prepared, will contain the following statement of changes in the postoffices during the last fiscal year, ended June 80: Number of offices established, 8,048: number of offices discontinued, 1,800; appointments on resignations and commisaons expired, 5,8f13; appointments on removals and suspension, 2,584; appointments on changes of names and sites, 482; appointments on deaths of postmasters. 580. The total number of appointments of postmasters of all grades during the year 1817 was 18,070. Ths number for the year -1885 was 9,547, and and for the year 1886, 22,747, making a total for the three years of 45,878. The total number of postoffices of all grades in operation on July 1, 1887, was 36,157. _ Stanley Again Report** Dead. A dispatch from Zanzibar vragreceived at Paris Wednesday Vhich said that explorer Henry M. Stanley had been massacred bv natives after having been deserted by his saeort. For what is considered good reasons the reportis generally disrendited.