Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Goshen will builci a $30,060 city hall. Wells county farmers are selling their corn freely. A vein of coal at Henryville, discovered in 1865, is to be developed. 1 John Q. Beam, of Reynolds,proprietor of a mill, wascaughtina belt, Friday, and probably fatally injured. A man recently presented a bill of,s2 to the Elkhart county commissioners for hauling his father to the poor house. The neighborhood of Montpelier is sail! to be a paradise for squirrel hunters just now, there being an immense number of them. John Glaser, of Jeffersonville, has invented a flying machine, and will soon give an exhibition of it —on himself, let us hope. David Hilderbrand and Fred, hi s fifteen year old eon, were struck by a locomotive near Delphi on the 22d and bolla fatally’ infnred. The principal business houses. .Of""0t well, Pike county, cendiaries, Friday, being the third time this has occurrejHvbhip-flVe years. Irwin Gej>rge, fifteen years old, while Colutnbns, onßaturday evening, went 'under and was drowned The body has notyet been found. The new building for the use of the soldiers’ orphans will be dedicated on Washington’s birthday at Knightstown with imposing ceremonies. The Governor and State officers will be there. From the present indications the great Jeffersonville gas boom has gone up. The company that struck the flow at Beache’s woods has signified -its intention of quitting the premises and going out of the business.'

Mrs. Sarah G. Ewkfg,mother of James Ewing, living west of Shelbyville, went out Saturday night to milk her cows, and was found dead Sunday morning, with the body badly mutilated by hogs. It is thoueht. the animals attacked her while milking, and being quite old and feeble, she was unable to make resistance. Adjoining Jeffersonville is Clarksville, an ancient town chartered by Virginia. It is claimed by some that it is no parr, of Indiana, but rather an independent district. It contains l,(K0 acres and its population is several thousand. A movement is on foot to send a delegation to Washington and demand recognition as a Territory. The district would be the smallest in the Union.

Frank Tribbey, jr., of New Albany, was taken ill Friday night at his home with very strong symptoms of hydrophobia. His physicians were compelled to tie him down to prevent being injured. He made an effort to bite his attendants as well as himself. His physicians are not able to diagnose the disease, although they have no cause to think it hydaophobia except that Tribbey was bitten by a dog about eight years ago. The fight for the Democratic nomination for Goveinor of Louisiana is waxing hotter every day between the factions headed by Governor McEnery and ex Governor Nicholls, and the Re publicans are hopeful of electing a portion of their State ticket, with enough members of the Legislature to give them one of the United States Senators. Governor McEnery, in a speech, pledged himself to a fair count of the vote as cast.

Cyrus Rodgers, a negro livng near Corvdcn. was whipped hv six “regulators” Saturday night, being beaten unmercifully. He lived with a white couple, Kenwe Dooley and wife, the latter of whom had one child by the negro. Dooley, the white man, belongs to a bad set, and is the worst one of the set. He is too trifling to make a living, and he was willing that the negro should share with him a husband’s privileges if in return he would support them feoth. The 104th birthday oi Mrs. Boggs, of Milton, Wayne cgduty, was appropriately celebrated/on the 22d. Among those in attendance was a grand son 54 years old. Mrs. Boggs was married when very young and had eleven children. She now has five children living, forty-five grand children, eightynine great-grandchildren and twelve great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Boggs is remarkably well preserved and bids fair to see several more birthday celebrations. Her health is good and she is able to do sewing Without the a»d of glasses. She is a devout Christian and a member of the {Lutheran Church.

The State Bureau of Statistics has tabulated the reports from all the Counties in the State, excepting thirtyfour which failed] to report, on the number, nativity, sex and color of the people incarcerated in the county jails of the State during the past year. They show that 8,007 people were confined in the jails during the year, an average of 138 to each county, or 12,698 for the entire State. Of the number reported 7,315 were white males, 276 colored males, 263 white females, and 53 colored females; 830 were foreign born, 2,178 native born; 286 were wholly illiterate, and 1,469 able to read and write. The uiosV of WW l inotfemted to? minor offenses. The following summary covers the principal crimes; Arson 20, bigamy 12* forgery 51, manslaughter 16, murder 88, perjury 9. rape 54. _ Tne annual report of State Treasurer Lemcke waa made to the Governor Thursday, setting forth in detail the fans recently made known in the

Auditor’s report It makes the following summary: Balance in treasury November 1, 1886, $409,961.; receipts Irom all Sources; $4,738,198 89; disburse ments for all purposes. $4,784 226 41; balance October 31, 1887, $373,944 21 The principal items of revenue were the following: State House tax, $958,726; delinquent State tax. $115,857; insurance fees, $23,547; earnings <if the State Prison North, $128,951; State Prison South $64,975; sales of temporary bonds, $340,000.» The disbursements from the general fund were as follows: Benevolent institutions, $678,277.67; reformatory, $89,991.73; penal, $190,886 fit State library, $3,648.92; Supreme Court, $32,130; State judiciary, $171,745 50; interest on State debt, $439,394 54 58; educational institutions, $58,360; ''late boards, departments, etc., $1,466.67; public printing and stationery, $12646 48; House ol Representatives, $70,985 13; State Senate, $46,028 61; miscellaneous expenditures. $491,635.51.