Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Connersville has organised a board of trade. Electric light will be adopted in Rockville. Valparaiso is to have an electric street railway. The Greenback party will not nominate a State ticket. John Monschien shot a wild cat in the forest north of Adamsville, last week. The Scott county Democrats Saturday instructed for Jason Brown for Congress and Green Smith for Governor. The Democracy of Shelby county will urge the nomination of Hon. O. J. Glessner for Attorney-General. c The contract has been let for the construction of the new life-saving station at Michigan City, at a cost of SB,OOO. Mrs. Nancy Corothers, of Leesville, aged <5, fell from a hay mow in her barn, Tuesday, and waa fatally injured. Columbus Bolin, of New Albany, pleaded guilty, Friday, to an attempted outrage, and was sent up for three years, * The Fort Wayne master bricklayers have conceded tne demands of the striking union bricklayers, and work has been resumed. The Republicans of Fayette county at the mass convention in Connersville, Saturday, passed resolutions indorsing Hon. James N. Huston for Governor and General Harrison for President. W. L. Hickey, of Elnora, Daviess county, has filed a suit against his fath-er-in-law, J. C. Keifer, of Martinsville, for $20,000 damages lor alienating his wife’s affections. The Loomis Manufacturing Co., of Laporte, has suspended, throwing 100 hands out of work. The company were extensive manufacturers of cutters and buggy bottoms. The postoffice at Columbia City was entered Sunday night by burglars who blew open the safe and got away with about $65 in cash and a number of registered letters. Lightning struck an oak tree three feet in diameter, a mile north of Shelbyville, Friday night, jerked it up out of, the ground, tore it into splinters and scattered them over five acres of ground. The proposition to vote SIOO,OOO in cash to the proposed Terre Haute & Mississippi railroad to run southwest from Terre Haute, was voted upon, Wednesday, in Torre Haute, and after a hot contest was beaten by 222 votes. There was a full vote cast. Sunday night, dogs killed and mangled seventy-eight head of sheep belonging to William C. Losey, north of Indianapolis. He was awakened by the noise about 3 o’clock Monday morning, and reached the field in time to get a shot at two of the dogs, but without success. . Patents have been issued to Amos Barker, Spencer, seed planter; Emery Q. Darr, Shelbyville, sweat pad fastener; Wm. O. Mills, Zionsville, throat protector for horses; Elijah Neff, Rochester, assignor of three-fourths to J. Gilchrist, Lima, 0., and A. W. Felts, Fulton county, pump. The champion horse thief of Indiana is cornered at New Albany. Charles Martin is his name, and he hails from Liberty. He is not only an expert thief but a shrewd business man. He has followed this business for years, and has stolen and shipped horses by the car load. Mrs. Mary Harrod, a kleptomaniac, hanged herself with a towel in the Daviess county j ail Saturday. She was known to have taken various articles, from boarding houses and hotels,in variably giving them away. Her infirmity at last got her into-jail, and unable to bear the disgrace she committee) suicide. Judge Mack has decided the contest over the Vigo county commissionership between Richard J. Sparks, Rspublican, and /sa M. Black, Democrat, in favor of the latter, and an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court by the plaintiff. The contest was a legal ope as to who was entitled to the office.

On Saturday night the residence Of James B. Curtiss, in Sand Creek township, Bartholomew county, was burned by incendiaries. It is the general opinion that this was done for the reason that Mr. Curtiss was one of the juiy that convicted Coy and Bernhamer, the tally-sheet forgers. The parties who set the fire were seen leaving the premises. Arrangements have been made for holding Farmers’lnstitutes at the Court House, LaGrange, Tuesday, February 28; Agricultural Hall, Haw .Patch, LaGrange county, Wednesday, February 29; Mitchell’s Hall, Kendallville, Thursday, March 1; Court House, Angola, Friday, March 2; and Lockhart’s Opera House, Waterloo, Saturday, March 3. There will be three sessions each day—forenoon, afternoon and evening. Stout & Bro. have sold their onethird interest in West Baden Springs to Leo W. Sinclair, of Salem, rating them at SBI,OOO. Sinclair will take charge of his interests there at once and proceed to build a race course and stables and remove his fogfar head of thoroughbred horses. He is the wealthiest man in the county. The Springs are becoming one of the most noted resorts in the State. The Democratic State Editorial Association meetsthere ontbe 16th day of June, and the Republican State Editorial Association the following week. . . Thomas E. Murphy, the great temper-

ance apostle, began a series of meetings in the Opera House at New Albany on Sunday, and so great are the crowds in attendance nightly that many are compelled to stand, while hundreds havs been turned away; One of the thrilling incidents of the meeting Tuesday night was the renunciation of infidelity by Reuben Daily, the editor of the Jeffersonville News. Mr. Daily years has been known as a disciple of Tom Paine, Bob Ingersoll and Underwood, and was known all over Southern Indiana as Pagan Rubs. The farmers around the station of Garfield, Montgomery ’county, on the Vandalia, do not like the action of the company in withdrawing the agent at that place. One day last week seven farmers were coming to Crawfordsville, the fare being 15 cents each. Six of them agreed to give the conductor fifteen pennies, but the seventh would not go into the scheme. When the conductor called for the fare he received fifteen pennies from each of the six. When he came to the seventh man he gave the conductor a dollar. The conductor gave him eighty-five pennies for change. Then the man wished he had joined the penny combination.

The biennial convention of the State Ancient Order of United Workmen, at Terre Haute, Wednesday, elected the following officers by acclamation: Noble J. York, Monon, past grand master workman; N. 8. Byram, Indianapolis, grand master workman; L. H. Garr, Rushville, grand foreman; T. D. Neal, Oicero, grand overseer; Fred Biker, Evansville, grand recorder; 8.1. Vesey, Fort Wayne, grand guide, Joseph Morris, G. I. W.; J. Stempfle, Evansville, G. O. W-; P- H. Ourtner, Hazelton, G. M. E. N. J. York, Monon; J. W. Spain, Evansville; 0. G. Genung, Evansville, supreme representatives; G. W. Hill, Indianapolis; J. T. Francis, Indianapolis; P. H. Barret, New Albany, alternates.

For some time past telegraph wire No. 4, along the line of the Wabash road, has refused to work and was apparently groanded. Line repairers have just succeeded in locating the trouble. About four miles east of Wabash an old man had cut the wire and run a line into his house, where he was utilizing the electricity as a cure for rheumatism. A special from Evansville Saturday, says: The tornado which passed over Vanderburg and adjoining counties late Friday afternoon did great damage in the country. Advices received from townships in this (Vanderburg.) and.. Gibson counties are to the effect that dwellings, barns, Stables, fences and orchards have greatly suffered. Farming implements have been destroyed, and there has been much loss to life to livestock. One church in Armstrong township, Vanderburg county, is almost destroyed. Trees were uprooted and general destructon prevailed. No particular damage was done in any of the neighboring towns.

Washington’s birthday was celebrated by the classes of Wabash College this year in a very queer manner. The fun began Tuesday night, when (he freshmen class, numbering about eighty members, planted their class flag on the cupola of Center Hall. They guarded it until about 5 o’clock Wednesday morning, when a deputation of sophomores attacked. A severe battle ensued in one of the halls, in which one of the freshmen. P. M. Thomas, of Grand Rapids, Mich., was knocked senseless. While this was going on two or three sophomores climbed up on the outside of the building and captured the flag. This ended the early morning fight, with the sopho mores on top. In the afternoon the soph, class paraded the streets, headed by a brass band. The main point in the parade was the representation ot the college in 1900, with coeducation adopted. Part of the class were dressed as girls, the future female students of the college. The flag captured in the morning was dragged in the mud. When the parade was about half over tne freshmen class attempted to regain their flag but were repulsed. This ended the day, with the flag still in possession of the sophs. Trouble is brewing, and a street fight between the two classes is imminent.

“The Scenes ot my Childhood.” Toledo Blade. The Bard was asked to compose a little poem on his childhood, and this is what he produced: “How dear to my heart is the school I attended, and how I remember, so distant and dim, that red-headed Bill, and the pin that I bended, and carefully put on the bench under him. And how I recall the surprise ot the master, when Bill gave a yell and sprang up from the pin so high that his bullet head smashed up the plaster above, and ths'scholars all set up a din. The active boy Billy, that high leaping Billy, that loud shouting Billy, who sat on a pin. .-■■■■■