Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

An organized gang of thieves are working Mt. Vernon. Joseph Morris, m nineteen-year-old yonth of Azalia, haa invented a machine to measure 'by weighing it as it runs from the elevator, and haa a fortune in sight. Articles of agreement have been signed at Marion by the terras of which Abram Reese, of Pittsburg, will erect a steel-rail factory that will give employment 10 four hundred men. Mrs. Dr. Hiram Comstock, of Shelby county, committed suicide, Monday morning, by drowning in a cistern. Her husband was buried a few days ago, and this is thought to have unballanced her mind. The Republicans of U nion county met at Liberty, Monday, and organized a Lincoln League. Chairman Huston made a speech and General Harrison was indorsed for the Republican nomination. L

Kokomo has secured a new glass factory which will give employment to 160 workmen. Windows and plate glass will be manufactured. This is the fifth large factory located in Kokomo eioce January 1. Lewis Harlan, a.prosperous cerpenter of Terre Haute, aged fifty, has gone insane on the subject of pensions. He had made application for a pension, and, having trouble in getting it, the matter weighed on his mfnd so that it drove him crazy. Charles A. Munson, of Fort Wayne, who was a candidate for Auditor oi State two years ago, and who was supposed to have a mortgage on the nomination again, has written a letter declining to make the race because of the pieisof private business. Sunday a young man from the country applied at the gas works for a bottle of ‘ gas oil.” supposing it to be a liquid and claimed it to be a core for “rhenmatis.” His [bottle was filled with coal tar and he went on his way rejoicing —Elkhart Sentinel. Smith Stewart, an old man who has keen living off the county for the past few years, while digging sassafras roots near Deputy, unearthed a box containing several hundred dollars m old French and Spanish corn. No one can give an idea how the money came there.

The tusk of a mammoth was unearthed near Losantville, in the northern part of Henry county, by Milo and Rufus Brookout, on Wednesday. It measures seven feet in length and twentyfour inches in diameter, and is a remarkably well-preserved specimen. Mrs. Fred Abrams-, wife of a railroad man, has just died at her home in Sonth Muncie. Mrs. Abrams has been attending a revival at the Chnrch of God. She was overcome by one of the socalled “trances,” and raved like a mad woman for one week before she died. Bhe never for a moment recovered her reason after being affected. The first report of the Purdue Experiment Station is issued. Hereafter quarterly publications on agricultural subjects will be published, which will be sent to any one actually engaged in farming, who will send for them to Professor J. H. Smart, President of Purdue University, Lafayette. The howling of dogs for two days and nights on the banks of Pigeon Greek, two miles from Evansville, attracted the attention of the police,and investigation discovered the body of John Scherle, the son of a wealthy German farmer, under the waters of the creek. He had been hunting, and, it is presumed, lost his way during the rain and windstorm, walked into the oreelrandwasdrowned.

Harry Foreman, a blackemith of Crawfordsville, drove his family from home, Sunday night, and locked himself 4a-the house .Marshall—Ensminger broke down the door and was promptly met by Foreman, who assaulted him with an ax. The officer was slightly alter fchootitrg" into tire dark room a number of times the man surrendered. Officer Brouthers was also severely injured by a blow from the ax. The Attorney General has rendered an opinion in which he holds that money which has once been turned into the common school fund of the State, either by a county or individual, cannot be withdrawn , even though the sum so paid is in excess of the claim of the fund against the county or person paying. He bases his decision o,n the constitution, which expressly says that the common school fund may be increased but never deoreased.

George Parker, who was given 100 lashes on his bare back, by the Crawford county White Caps.a few days ago, iareported in a dying condition, as the result of lya cruel punishment. It is stated that ma back waa bo horribly gashed from the whipping that the shoulder-blades and backbone were laid bare. Parker is a powerful man, weighing 180 pounds, but he waa tied face foremost to a tree, by twenty men, each one 61 whSSi fnive HirnTfive^lashes with heavy, elastic hickory switches. Parker is charged with not properly providing for his wife, to whom he has been married abont one year.

A fatal accident .occurred, Sunday evening, at the reaid ence of J. Kuch in Peru. His two sons, Fred and Karl, were playing at “ladian scouts,” when Karl, who waa snapping a supposed unloaded Revolver at hia brother, diachaged the weapon, tbe ball atriking Fred in the forenead,' killing him instantly. The

revolver had been nuaioadsd, bat Fred, daring the evening, had placed a live cartridge therein, from which he received his death a few moments later. The shooting was done in the presence of the horrifi*l parents, who are dearly crazed with grief. Fred was aged twelve and Karl sixteen. Patents were granted Indiana inventors Tuesday as Delane and 0. L. Cummins, near Colombia City, clod crusher and ground leveler; Isaac N. Elliott and P. A. Reid, Richmond, mechanical movement; Thomas E. Hall, assignor of one-half to D. R. Ennis, Indianapolis, car coupling; Daniel H. Kime, Kendallvilie, and H. Williarns, Toledo, hasp lock; John T. Obenchain, Logansport, turbine; Britton Poulson, assignor to W. D. Shiefer, Ft. Wayne, and J. 0. Hunt, Concord, Mass., devi:e for detaching buttons; Amos Sanders, North Vernon, receptacle for containing classified bills, letters or samples; Wm, D. Schiefer, Ft. Wayne, assignor of one-half to J. C. Hum, Concord, Mass.,device for detaching buttons; John L. Ush, South Wabash, potato drill; Jos. M. Van Mover, assignor of one-half to A. I. Abbott, Terre Haute, sliding or rolling gate; John 0. Voss, Bedford, catting apparatus; Herbert L. , Whitehead, Indianapolip, collapsible chair.

The forthcoming report of the trustees of the Insane Hospital to the Gov---ernor for the year 1887 will show a balance of if 52.26 remaining ot the total revenue of $260,000. During the year $14,904 62 was expended for repairs. Toe number of patients treated in the twelve months was 2,285, with an average daily nnmber of inmates of 1,668. The report states that the “food and care of patients is as good es can be obtained,” and places the per capita tost to the State at $169 68. In 1886 the per capita coßt was $160.02, but the greater expense «f last year is explained by the increased cost of food. Of the 1,087 men treated, fifty-one died, and of the 1,198 women treated, thirty-three died. It will be remembered that an inmate died in the hospital last summer, from the effects of scalding while in a bath, the attendant being absent at the moment. In the report to the Governor this man’s death is put down as caused by general paresis, and it is noticeable that five other deaths were caused by the same disease.