Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There ara seven banks fn Montgomery oounty. Oxford was visited by a SIO,OOO fire Friday night. • Greensbnrg has nine gas wells, none of which, however, are gushers. A new military company atCrawfordsville, has been mustered into the > tate •or /ice. Mrs. Josie Stapleton, of Liberty, has brought suit, against her husband for divorce, charging him with bigamy and desertion after two days married life. Che grand juA ot Adams county, which was in ses'tion three « eek», re turned fifty-six indictments, most of which are against saloon keepers an 1 gamblers. Extensive salt works are to be started at the natural gas wells in Boone township, Harrison county, where strong brine and riatiiraTgis are in abundant supply. Mrs. Josephine Kubler, of Conneraville, has sued Herman Jones for $lO.000 damages for alleged rape committed last July, and for which defendant was recently fined S4OO. A meeting of the students of Wabash College, held Friday evening last, elected 8. C. Spencer, of Monticello, to represent the college at the oratorical contest, to be held in Indianapolis, January 3. Some miscreant dropped uncorked bottles of paris green into the well of Ed Chrisman, at Chesterville, a little village five miles West of Aurora, and seven persons were dangerously poisoned. Friday Adam Stine, a -farmer living southeast of Goshen, aged forty-five, while operating a wood sawing machine, was cut half through the waist by the buzz saw flying off ite axle. No hope for nis recovery. James Black, of Windfall, was convicted at Marion, Tuesday, for stealing a pair of mules, and was given two years in the penitentiary. Black is a prominent citizen of Madison county, having been the Republican candidate for Sheriff two years ago. A bomb was found in a box containing holiday goods that was shipped from Chicago to A 1 Queally, of Logansport. It consisted of an iron pipe, five inches long, containing a fuse and some explosive matter. It created a great sensation. Capt. David L. Peacock, of Seymour, a helpless cripple, drew his pension money, a considerable sum, on Friday. In the evening, while walking through a lumber yard on his way up town, he was assaulted by two unknown men. knocked down, badly hurt, and had his last cent stolen. Madison has some tall citizens. Martin Anger stands a little over six feet four and one-fourth inches. Get rge Straub is six feet four and one-fourth inches high. Dr. J. H. Martin, 1. T. Dunlap, Proiessor Carnagey, Mr. Ross and Mr. Samuel Holmes all range from six feet one inch in up to six feet (four. The State Teachers’ Associaticm, of which Mrs. Emma Mont. of Lafayette, is president, will meet at Indianapolis the 28 h, 29th and 30th inst., and an attendanceof 600 is expected. The College Association, the high school section and the Indiana Institute instructors will also meet at the same time. At Lawrenceburg Joseph Sky and Mary Wadsworth were granted license to marry. The groom is a stalwart chief, who came from the Indian Nation, Thursday, to takeas his bride an Indian princess who bas been visiting the family of Indian Inspector Bannister, and who owns in her own name over 1,000 acres of valuable lands. Jesse Reno, Lewis B. Sparkes and* Vores Biakeman,-of Columbus, aged about sixteen, have fbeen sentenced to the House of Refuge until of age They, with several other young boys, formed a “chicken syndicate,” and during the last week stole nearly two hundred chickens, taking from three to a dozen from different persons. A j ury in the Superior Court at Fort Wayne awarded to Mrs. Margaret Mey era, widow and executrix of Policeman Ferdinand Myers, $7,000 damages against the Pennsylvania Company, operating the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne A Chicago Railway, for the death of her husband, who was ran over and killed in the Fort Wayne yards last April. John Roger?, a well-known farmer, living north of Fort Wayne, died a short time since, willing the bulk of hiß property, amounling to $7,000, to two Catholic orphan asylums—St. Vincent’s, of Fort Wayne, and the Immaculate Virgin, of New York City. His heirs, who arc poor, have succeeded in breaking the will, on the ground of undue influence and childishness, and the estate will be divided. On Sunday night Henry Fasset, junior member of the milling firm of Fasset & Sons, of Hillsboro, lost a pocket-book at or near the restaurant ofJßty & Crayton, which he claimed contained cash to the amount of $785. Failing to find it, a great sensation was created by the swearing out of a search warrant, and' causing the premises of Dr. W. R. Stout, SpromineEt Citizenand leading physician, to be thoroughly searched.. It is estimated tnat more than a quarter of a million dollare,*! New Albany capital has been daring the past year in nnformnate speculations in town lots in alleged booming Western cities, in wild-cat mines and banking ventures. One or tws of the

■> •» , • ■ •• - >r . -I. ; •• „ . , ■ - . 1 luckless capitalists have saved a portion of their investments from the wreck,and say that they will as soon as possible commence the erection of dwellings for renting purposes. The jury in the Pensterberg bond case at Vincennes rendered a verdict finding for the city in the sum of sll,057 77. Deußterberg was elected city treasurer in 1885. About a year ago a shortage was found in his accounts of $10,431.86 He was impeached, tried Sfor embezzlement of the city’s funds, and acquitted. The case was tried once before and the jury disagreed. The city offered, last week, to compromise with the bondsmen for fß,ooo,but they would not agree to it.. The judgment included interest on the money since the shortage '»as discovered. N --wk has just been received from English. Gray ford county, of more White Can depredations. An old German citizen named KAus. Thursday night, was taken from his home and unmercifully lashed, after which he was thrown into a creek and left to drown. The old man, in Mis almost helpless, state, succeeded in getting home, where he was properly cared for. He recognized several of the gang, and after their description had been given tne citizens, who had been apprised of what, had been done, organized a posse at once for the purpose of running down the villains, with a view of hanging them. The greatest consternation prevails in that section, and now, it is said, lawabiding citizens have openly avowed their intention of taking the l w in their own hands, come what will. The annual report of Harvey M. LaFollette, Stato Superintendent of Public Instruction, made to the Governor gives some interesting facts regarding the common school system of the Stats. It shows a total enumeration of 760.529 school children, an increase of 15,470 over last year, divided as follows: White males, 381,269; fema1e5,361,237; colored males, 8,897; females, 8,772. The financial exhibit is as follows: Amount held by counties, June 1, 1886, $3,081,444.59; received from county clerks for fines, $35,633 79; from justices for fines, $30,112.63; from other sources, $82,587.69. Total, $3,163,982.18, which, in addition to the $3,904,783 21 of non-negotiable bonds gives a total school fund of $7,068,765 37. The congressional townshi p fund amounts to $2,548,608 39, giving a grand total of $9,617,373 85, an increase of $98,486.12 over last year. The school revenue for the year was as follows: From State school tax, $1,443,176.65; from interest on common school fund, $125,325 89, State interest on non-ne-gotiable bonds, $234 286.28; unclaimed fees, $54,336 89 In the congressional fund the revenue from interest wsb $197,748 67; from local tuition tax, $975,451 89, and from liquor licenses $331,256 89, making the total revenue for the year, $3,460,613 01.