Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

1 Madison is having a boat-building boom. ~ . The Selma (Delawarecounty) gas vyell is called a “howler from Trenton.” : ’ Anarchist circulars have been posted throughout Logansport by unknown parties. James A. Forest, a nenhew of* Rebel General Forest, is now a resident of Shelby county. Charles Pitzer, of Marion, forged notes to pay his wedding expenses. Sentenced to two years north. Jeffersonville is suffering an epidemic of typhoid fever, one physician having fifteen patients on his hands. Twenty-five car loads of coal, are brought into New Albany daily by the Air line from the-mines along the line. The large barn of James Jones, near Cowan, Delaware county, was burned by incendiaries, Sunday night. Lobs, $4,000. The frosts of Friday and Saturday nights did considerable damage to tobacco in Vanderburg county, and also in Kentucky. \ Wm. Adams, who attempted to rape i a little girl named a Laria Gabriel at i Marion, last May, has been given five years in the penitentiary. Virgo Simpson, who has twice escaped the penitentiary, on the insanity dodge, has been sent up five years from Switzerland sounty for burglary. Ann Gtay, who for sixty-two years continuously has been an inmate of the Dearborn county poor-house, died at at that institution Saturday at the advanced age of one hundred years. The L., N. A. & C. R. R. round house and shops at Michigan City burned to the ground early Sunday morning. Two engines were in the building and were destroyed. The loss exceeds $25,000.

Ice and frost, the first of the season struck tSeymour Saturday morning, doing vast damage. The watermelons, tomatoes, beans, buckwheat, late corn, etc., are about ruined. The last melons were fortunatly loaded the night before. The Quarterly Joint Association of Live Stock Breeders and Farmers met at Greensburg, Saturday afternoon. Rush, Shelby, Bartholemew and Decatur counties have united their associations into one, meeting quarterly, alternately, in each county. Alexander McPheeters, one of the richest men m- Vigo'countyj was fleeeed out of $2,000 by a sharp whq professed to be a son of W. R. McKeen, president of the Vandalia road, and said he had drawn $4,000 in a lottery and needed $2,000 to collect it, but didn’t want his father to know it. L. Presture & Co.’s furniture factory at Evansville caught fire and notwithstanding the efforts of the entire fire department, ’burned to the ground, adjoining property being saved with difficulty. The factory was one of the largest in the city and the loss on the building and stock will be $75,000. Walter D. Sloan, justice of the peace and postmaster at Smithland, Shelby county, who eloped with Mrs. Theodore Lee after the latter had procures a divorce two years ago, leaving his wife, has come hack with her, and they have settled down to live in the community with the wronged wife. Developments are expected. A disastrous fire occurred at the large works of the Haskell k Barker Car works company in Michigan City Saturday morning. Two large shops, one of them being the immense building used for setting up and finishing the cars, are totally destroyed, together with twenty new cars. The total loss will reach $30,000; partially insured. The shops will be rebuilt immedia'ely. The company employs 700 men, all of whom will be thrown out of employment for a few days. Tt is no wonder that burglars frequently get confused and break into the wrong house at New Albany, where here are two Albany streets, two Beech streets, two East streets, two Elm streets, four First streets, four Fourth streets, three Green streets, three. Jacki son streets, two Jefferson streets, two John streets, four Market streets, two Poplar streets, three Second streets, two South streets, four Third streets, two Walnut streets, three Washington treats, three West streets and two Vincennes streets. The industrial display in Evansville, Friday, the closing day of the FederalConfederate reunion, was a grand affair, the procession stretching out from ten to fifteen miles, being two hours passing a given point. The column was led by Gen. James W. Shackelford and staff. There were 150 .floats and about 200 display wagons. At the grounds in the afternoon the crowd was estimated at from 40,000 i o 50,000. Governor Buckner, of Kentucky, and Governor Isaac P. Gray were escorted to the grounds, and the former maeje a brief address, after which the competitive artillery drill took place. The township trustees of Wabash county have received an important decision from State Superintedent Lafollette, that is of interest all over the State. A question arose recently about trustees employing school teachers who did not hold license to teach beyond the time they sought employment. Several' teachers who applied under these circumstances were rejected, and appealed the case to Superintendent Lafolletto. He decides that they are eligible to employment lor a full term, whether or not

their license extends to the end of the term. Mrs. Nancy J. Ridgely, or North Manchester, Wabash county, has filed suit againt George W. Lawrence, August Mills* Wm. Kiraher and J. D. Spurgeon, demanding $3,500 damages for the lose onherßtockof millinery goods in that place, by. reason of the removal of the roof of the building she occupied, hv the defendants. Lawrence, Mills <k Co., are bankersand merchants of North Manchester and owned the premises in which Mrs. Ridgely did business. They notified her last May to move and have siHce refused to receive any rent from her. She failed to surrender possession and Spurgeon was set at work tearing out the building, exposing Mrs. Ridgely’s goods to a heavy rain. Her blind husband was prostrated in the melee and also sues for SI,OOO. The State Christian Temperance unon met in regular semi-annual session at Indianapolis, Wednesday. Not over a score of members were present, but much interest was manifested. Judge Robert Denny is the president and Dr. J, G. L. Myers, of Bloomingdale, secretary. The forenoon session was devoted to routine work, and the afternoon meeting to reports of work over the State. The entire membership of the union in Indiana is now 750, and over S3OO have been collected to piomote the work since the meeting last spring. Over 250,000 pages of temperance literature were distributed last year. The afternoon meeting was addressed by the president, who stated the aims of the organization and the plan of future work. At night Rev. W. H. Hickman, of Crawford3ville, delivered an address. The World’s Friends conference began at Richmond Friday. Friends say that the minute on the ordinance question will surely be reaffirmed, and -the hireling ministry idea will be roughly dealt with AH the yearly meetings oif the world, except Philadelphia, are represented. Philadelphia yearly meeting is too conservative to affiliate with the rest of the Quaker world. Singing in the meetings for worship, prayer-meet-ings, revivals, etc., to which the western Quakers are becoming ad dieted, are the points of issue between them. The first point of contention concerned the admission of Mary Rodgers, of Kansas. She has been baptized,and rejected as a delegate, not being allowed to speak in her own behalf. Her alternate accepted as a delegate. The question of ordinances is thus sure to be sprang.