Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There is not a vacant house in.Noblesville. Wabash has satisfied itself that it is not in the gas belt. Thieves raided the railway depot at Mitchel, Sunday night. Fire has burned an area of nine miles squaie along the Kankakee marshes. Porter county’s cranberry cropia good. The fruit commands $2 per bushel in the local market. There have been more than 15,000 bushels oi apples shipped from Waterloo this season.’’ James A. King, a Madison fireman, was thrown from a reel hose, Sunday, and instantly killed. The first gas well north of the Wabash was struck at Auburn Thursday. It is said to be a gusher. Jackson county corn, it is reported, so far turns out but eight bushels to the acre. Last year it was forty. There was a considerable snow fall, the first ol the season,at Goshen Friday. At times the ground was white with snow, but it al! melted oft. The Grand Lodge I. O. G. T., met at Indianapolis, Tuesday and Wednesday. The reports show a healthy increase in membership, and a large increase in the number of lodges. The postoffice at Columbus was robbed, Tuesday night ©r Wednesday morning, of $75 in money, the contents of several registered letters, stamps, etc., in all amounting to from $125 to $l5O. Miss Ida Stark, of Cayugae, a fifteen-year-old daughter of Thomas S. Stark, took a large dose of poison Thursday evening and died in half an hour, because her father wouldn’t let her keep company with her best beau. The investigation of tne Scott county books revealed that, various officials have, during the last ten years, made clerical errors against the county aggregating $1,766,60. This sum is made up of small amounts from a few dollars up to SSOO. all of whieh have been or are being made good. Patents were Tuesday issued to the following Indianians: Hancock, Matthew 8., and J. Johnson, French Lick, burglar gun and alarm; Neisler, Oscar L., Indianapolis, harrow attachment for cultivator; Raines, Warren L., Montenima, saw-mill dog; Welch, John M., Annapolis, mole trap. This is the season of the year when the streets of the city used to be full of wagons loaded with wood and coal. Now a coal wagon is a rarity and a cord of wood will soon be considered fit for exhibition in a dime museum. Natural gas and plenty of it has worked the change.—Anderson Herald. The depositions of a number of the leading residents of Laporte are now being taken for the purpose of using them as evidence for the defence of complicity in the murder of Sarah Graham. The testimony to be taken is to be used mainly in establishing her reputation previous to the tragedy. The Hendricks Club, of Indianapolis, will celebrate its second anniversary on January S, (Jackson Day), and it is proposed, 'on that occasion, to hold a massmeeting of the young Democracy of the State in Indianapolis. Invitations to be present and deliver addresses will be extended to Governor Hill, of New York; Hon. Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, and other statemen. There are 193 Presbyterian ministers in the Indiana synod, and 311 churches: 147 women's foreign missionary societies, and 53 mission boards. These societies have paid in over $92,000t0 the Board of the Northwest, an average of $6,000 a year. During the last synodical year Indiana Presbyterians gave $14,844 to foreign missions. The next synod will be held «t Rushville. A verdict of hanging has been returned in the Macy Warner case. He murdered Frank Harris, April 11, in the State prison. It was a cowardly murder; he sneaked up behind Harris and stabbed him with a shoe knife. He was sent to the reform school from Indianapolis when a boy; killed a policeman at Indianaoolis and nerved six years in the Northern penitentiary. He then killed a saloon-keeper at Vineenues and was sent for twenty-one years to the Southern prison. Corn husking is in progress. In the rich farming districts of this county the crop is a great deal better than was expected during the dry weather. The potato crop is, much to the surprise of many farmers, but little below the average. A gentleman who planted extensively of the tuber this year remarked that he estimated bis crop before it was dug at not over 200 bushels, but he has already dug twice that amount.—Michigan City News. ' j The warden of the Michigan City prise n has submitted his financial report or the month of July, August and September. The report shows a cash balance of $1,572.85 at the beginning of thb ! quarter. The receipts and earnings for the three months were $26 552.12. The expenditures, including 8,000 remitted to the Treasurer of Bta'e, were $31,961.70, leaving, therefore, a balance of $lO 018.93 on hands for the maintatnance of the prison. The excess of receipts and earnings over expenditures are thus shown to be $2,290.42. A sad occurrence took place foui miles west oLMonon, at Wm. Duncan’s house, where the neighbors had gathered, enjoying a birth-day party. Joseph Cleary and family were in attendance. Mr.

Cleary’s nine-year-old son, in company with the other children, went into the yard to play. He attempted to caress Duncan’s large Shepherd dog, which, no sooner than the boy had touched him, sprang at and gathered the boy by the throat, threw him to the and, before help could arrive, killed him. The dog was known to be vicious. Reports made to the State Bureau of statistics show that in Indiana this year there have been .156,191,775 gallons of milk produced, 33,482,802 pounds of which show an increase over last year. The poultry products were as follows: Dozens of chickens, 720,950; of turkeys, 16,941; of geese, 27,833; of ducas, 29,447, of eggs, 24.096,387. Pounds of feathers, 202,734. There were 1,227 555 gallons of sorghum molasses and 45.942 pound of sorghum sugar made. The maple nroduct was 294,955 gallons of molasses and 123,049 pounds of sugar. The Richmond Pulladium tells the story of a handsome Woman who was granted a divorce from her husband ,a lew days ago tn tha' city. She answered his advertisement for a “lady correspondent” in the Cincinnati Enquirer. A correspondence followed, which in time resulted in treir marriage. She was the daughter of a w< 11-to-do farmer and in heri ed $4,000 from her mother’s estate This money he ran away with, abandoning her in New York City, after a wedding journey of somemonths, paid for out of her fortune. Iler husband, who represented himself as a rich speculator, with an orange grove in Florida, where they were to make their horns, turned out to be a bill poster with Barnum’s show. An organized effort, headed by several of the most prominent and wealthy men of Evansville, has been inaugurated for the suppression of violations of the whisky laws of that city. Two of the police commissioners are prominent Germans, and the saloon keepers feel confident they will not be molested by their verdict; on the other hand, the prominent citizens who have under taken to have the law enforced have declared their intention to resort to extreme measures. If the commissioners fail to do their duty they will either file mandamus proceedings in the courts or proceed against them before the Governor for their impeachment. The Mission Board of the M. E. Church has finally accepted the munificent gift of Elijah Hayes and wife, of Warsaw, Kosciusko county, of propertyvalued at $130,000 in that city and vicinity. Among the numerous provisions made with the gift was one that the property should remain intact for fifty years, and that the rents and profits only should be used for thatperiod. The Board feared that the property would depreciate in value after the demiae-nf. Mr. Hayes, and desired that the objectionable clause be abrogated with his death. Messrs. Fitzgerald and Reid, members of the Board, were sent out to Warsaw two weeks ago to consult with Mr. Hayes and secure a change in the provisions,in accorcance with the wishes of the Board. It is understood that Mr. Hayes agreed to the change. Chaplain McCabe writes that the Hayes gift is the most magnificent one ever made to his society.