Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Measles are epidemic at Terre Haute. Measles are epidemic at ville. Martha Bush, colored, of Jeffersonville, is 101 yeais old arid is still very active. Hogn attacked a live cow near Montpelier and chewed her so badly that she was in a dviDg condition when found. Rev. Butler, of Noble county, hasbJennomiiated for Congress by the Prohibitionists of the Twelfth district. John Angeriew, an old German citizen of Rochester, fell from a second story window, Wednesday, and was killed. Among those spoken of for candidates for Governor on the Democratic ticket are Myers, Mation, Cobb, Manson and Holman. The rich gold and silver finds reported recently from the southern part of the State, are-suspected of -being frauds, and .that the mineß have been “salted.” The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that Bleeping car companies can not be taxed on their earnings in this State, alleging that it would be a tax on inter state commerce.

Mamie Armstrong, a sixteen-year-old girl of Wabash, committed suicide Friday, by taking arsenic, alleging as the cause brutality of her father. He refused to visit her when on her deathbed. Gold is now being dug in Brown county, just south of MorgantowD, in considerable quantities, by Walker & Seaters, old California miners from Ohio. The prospects are good, and farmers are asking double prices for their land iD that locality. Lead is also found there. The parties at Logansport who charged Professor E. M. C. Hobbs with embezzling the funds of the Normal College at Logansport have retracted the charges and acknowledged that their charges ere based on erroneous in" formation. The matter has been amicably ssttlel without a libel suit The annual conference of the Dun’rard or German Baptist Church will be held at North Manchester, beginning May 20. There is a large body of this peculiar sdet living in Piatt county, Illinois. They practice feet-waßhing. and the holy kiss. They baptize their members three times, lacs foremost, and dress much the same as the Quakers. Louis Richter, a rich young farmer, residing seven miles from Evansville, shot and killed Louisa Schmitt, his cousin, about five o’clock Thursday afternoon, and then committed suicide by shooting himself. He,was in love with the girl and she refused to marry him, and he became so enraged that he

enacted the tragedy. His father was clerk of the court of the county. The Democratic State Central Committee met at Indianapolis qn the Bth and fixed April 26th as the date for holding the State convention. Col. Rice resigned the chairmanship of the committee, and Hon. E. P. Richardson, of Pike county, was elected to the vacancy. The representation in the State convention is to be one delegate for every 2CO votes cast for Gray and one for each fraction over 100. The December report of the United States Cqcpmissioner of Agriculture gives Indiana the credit of producing the greatest amount of wheat of any State in the Union in 1887. The figures of the yield, together with those of the production in the States approaching nearest to that of Indiana are as follows: Indiana,'B/02.68acres; 57.525.000 bushels. Illinois, 27415 092 sores; 86/61.000 bushels. Minnesota, 8.129.208 a«resr 80 209,000 bushels, ©bio, 2,740,087 acres; 80,595,000 bushels. Two masked men entered the house of Stephen Irvin, at Marion, Thursday night, and in the absence of Irvin bound and gagged his wife, and threatened her life if she aid not reveal where an alleged sum of money was concealed. Mrs. Irvin, unable longer to stand the strain, although she had made a heroic defense, swooned away. The robbers then ransaeked the house, but got nothing. Mrs. Irvin is in a oritical condition.

A company of alleged counterfeiters has been discovered in Harrison township, Elkhart county. The first information the people of the neighborhood had that anything of the kind was being practiced was at a series of school exhibitions a few nights ago, when a number of bogus nickels were disposed of. The coins bad been tracked to two young men of highly respectable parentage. It is supposed that there are several confederates. Several parties who bad claims against the Western Mutual Life and Accident Assurance Society of Elkhart, having been refused payment, have begun suit forabonlTlOjOOO, and the company’s property and garnished i tg’offi cers and the cashier of the - bank in which the company had its deposits. To add to the confusion thus caused, the board of trustees of the company and secretary have got into a dispute, and the latter changed the combination of the safe and refused to open it. On Monday morning a new suit was began in the Circuit Coart, in which the plaintiff asks for the appointment of a receiver. This demand is based upon an affidavit of the secretary, in which he swears that the company is insolvent. The joint convention of the operators and miners of Indiana has jost closed at Terre Haute, afterhaving reached an agreement upon sevfefal very important matters. The machine question waß not finally settled; the whole question was referred to a joint committee for

arbitration. The machine operators elected D. J. Jenne, of Brasil, President, and adopted, with the aid of the miners, a set of rules by which both aides shall be sovemed. By far the most important is the agreement that the company concedes the rights-of its employes to belong to any or all labor organisation, but at the same time it expects its employes will respect and regard the rights of each other to belong to any cr no labor organization. Another agreement ia that “all differences are to be adjusted by arbitration.” Macy Warner, a convict, was hanged in the Southern penitentiary, on the 9tb, for th# murder of J’rank Harris, April 16th, 1887. He was cool and cheerful to the last—the sunniest person about the place. He kept Up his spirits until the last, and when onr the scaffold took hold of the rope that was to throttle him arid told those present if they were ever tempted to drink to look into the • hotter of the glass to learn if they couldnot see a noose there. He expressed undoubtful faith in hiß conversion. He explained his change of faith from the Catholic to the Presbyterian because bia mother and all his relatives either were or had been members of that church, and that he did not believe it would be treating his' mother right to die outside that chuich. After the execution a disgraceful seene took place by one Henry Cook getting on tn© gallows and catting the rope into Email pieces, amid the jeers of the crowd, who grabbed the pieces like hungry hyenas would flesh. The crime for which Warner died was a most revolting one. He cut the throat of Harris with a shoe knife, alleging that Harris had called him an approbious name. Warner was a hard character though but 25 years oldi

"Tiro Huron Libor Party. A Slate convention of the Union Labor party was held at Indianapolis on the 7th with about 100 representatives present. W. P. Smith, of Marion county, was elected chairman and A. J. Johnson, of Vermillion, Secretary. The usual committees were appointed, that on platform and resolutions consisting of the foliowing: lßt district, no delegate; 2d, George Galloway; 31, Wm. H. Carr; 4'h, J. Lindly; sth, L. V. Keightly- 6th, W. H. Maxwell; 7th, Phil R-ppaport; Bth, M. C. Rankin; 9:h, W. G. Vandever; 10th, J. R. Barnett; 11th, W. P. McMahon; 12th, Frank Wilson; 13th, no delegate. The resolutions adopted declaring in favor of the repeal of the law allowing the voting of aid to railway corporations and the present prison contract labor as now practiced against free labor; that all officials be paid fixed salaries; favor a change in election laws so that the voter will be secured from public observation during the act of voting; call for non-partisan management cf the State benevolent institutions; favor the •State furnishing school books at cost to the townships, to be given free to the pupils; oppose child labor; favor a service pension law, “Pensions shouldbe granted aB diplomas of honoraole service, not as badges of dependence and poverty” favor a law that when judgment is for unpaid wages no property is exempt. The following ticket was nominated: Governor. J. B. Milroy. Carroll. l.ieutenant Governor, J. F. White, Marion Secretary of State, A. U Geyer, St. Joseph. Auditor of State, Jonu IJ.1 J . Hanuegan, Tippecanoe. Treasurer of State, B. F. Doll. Bartholomew. Cleric of Bupreme Court. J. C. Smith, White. Sunerinteudent of Public Instruction, A. J. Johnson, Vermillion.