Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Pneumonia prevails at Columbus. Marion has attracted the “crooks.” j Laporte will build a street railway, j New Albany expects a building boom Gen. Harrison spoke at Ft. Wayne on the 26tb. 1 . Crawfordsville will erect a Y. M. C. A. building. Wayne county Republicans favor local option. Every cross-road in Indiana is to have a ball club. » : Lagrange is building a $15,000 Meth* odist Church. - The ladies of Evansville have the pedestrian fever,. 1 . Shelbyville has found gas in bounteous quantities at last. r Thre are 678 prisoners in the Michigan City Penitentiary. The lightning rod agent has bloomed and spring has surely come. ' Goshen is infested with tramps, and Elkhart with a band of beggars. Elkhart is blossoming out with suburbs in true metropolitan style. Sunday shaving by barbers is a luxury of the past at Madison and Indianapolis. G. H. Hamilton, of Frankfort, has been elected president of the Indiana base ball league. An Elkhart man has a duck that lays choeolate colored eggs, and her product is said to be of unusually good quality. Indianapolis Lodge, No. 465, I. 0. O. F., at Indianapolis, have just completed a $15,000 block, which they will occupy in a few weeks. Fifty White Caps visited Jack Wright, at English, Crawford county, and requested him to evacuate the country. He complied at once. Logansport millers, heretofore in a ring, have had a falling out, and the price of flour is going down and wheat going up in that locality. A vote taken for President in the Hartford City Township Convention resulted in Blaine receiving 22, Sherman 19, Harrison 18, and Lincoln 3 votes. Hon. T. R. Cobb was indorsed for Governor and William E. Niblack for Judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana by the Democrats of Knox County Friday. Upto date 263 now members have been added to the Christian church at Columbus as the result of the labors of Elder Z. T. Sweeny in the last six weeks. Greensburg’s fourteenth gas well has been successfully shot, and several more are to be sunk. Farmers in the vicinity are having wells bored for their own private use. Will Stephenson, of Kenton, 0., passed through Muncie, Tuesday morning, on his way home from Walla Walia, W. T. He rode the entire distance on horseback, and had been two months on the toad. Some one is responsible for the statement that Cnarles Heffner, the boss clerk at the Kirby House, fell on the ice Sunday night and broke a pane of glass out of his shirt-stud.—Muncie Herald. At the Madison county Republican convention, Saturday, a resolution indorsing the candidacy of Hon. Benjamin Harrison for the Presidency was received with the greatest enthusiasm and was unanimously adopted. Sheriff Hay, pt Jeffersonville, has received a- number of letters from itinerant showmen who desire to purchase the scaffold on which the late Macy Warner was hanged. No attenwill be paid to the applicants. The Northern Indiana M. E. Conference at Wabash, Friday, elected JL. Simpson and O. G. Hudson delegates to the General Conference. The lay dele-' gates elected were Joseph I. Baker, of -Warsaw; and Charles fc.~Henry, ofAfFderson, with J. W, Mcßride,of Waterloo, and Dr. D. L. Overholser, of Logansport, as alternates. At Camden, east of Montpelier, the people were startled Tuesday by a heavy report and a shock as of an earthquake. It was from gas well No. 2. Tne drill at a depth of 600 feet, struck an immense deposit of shale gas and was thrown out of the hole with the velocity of an arrow, crashing through the summit of the seventy-foot derrick and twenty feet above. It is the second “pocket,” one bqing struck a few days ago at 450 feet. Henry Swank, a wood turner, em ployed at the Pennington pulley works, in Fort Wayne,Wednesday met a frightlul death. He was engaged in turning down a large wooden split pullev, using a gouge, when the point of the tool caught in the pulley, which went to pieces, and a part of it was thrown into Swank’s face, killing him instantly. He was a widower and leaves three children. David Wineland,formerly well known in Elkhart county, was shot and killed at Girard, 111., by James, the thirteen-year-old adopted son of W. H. Deitz, a man who was shot and mortally wounded by Wineland a few months ago. On his death bed Deitz charged the boy to kill Wineland, and the deed was committed in pursuance pf that request. He seemed calm and quiet, and lelt not the the slightest remorse for the deed. A half-witted girl named Hester Page, at Delphi, has filed an affidavit against Abner Sines, late keeper of the poorfarm, charging him with the paternity of her illegitimate child. It is said the Carroll county grand-jury is investigating the various rumors which are afloat concerning the management of the institution. Sines was recently re-

moved by the Commissioners. The <aio is set for hearing in the Circuit Court next week. A genuine case of black leprosy is reported from Union township, Madison county. The victim is Frank Smith, a highly respected and wealthy farmer. Mr. Smith’s entire body is covered with large black and greenish spots, and the flesh is rotting and dropping off, leaving the bone perfectly bare. The patient was expected to die at any moment at last reports. Much alarm has been caused in that immediate vicinity over the dreadful disease, as it is highly contagious. The commission of elevt n ex-scl Hers appointed by the Carroll County Commissioners to select a design fora soldiers’ monument, have awarded the prize to Mr* A. A. McKain, of -In Hanapolis. The monument will represent a “Castle of Liberty,’’ an 1 will be built of Indiana limestone. It will be seventyfive feet high, and will be surmounted by a col issal statue. The statury and ornamentation will be in antique bronze. Large bronze pl ites, descriptive of scenes in the soldier’s life, will ornament the faces of the base. The monument is to be erected in the Public Snare at Delphi. John Brownfield, Sr., an old business man of South Bend, made an assignment Saturday. The liabilities are $117,000. and it is thought that the assets will reach that figure. Brownfield has been considered substantial, financially, and his assignment caused more or less of a sensation. Nearly $70,000 is due to farmers, a great number of whom did their banking with Brownfield. He has given up everything he possessed, his business, residence, bank stock, interest in city property, etc., for the benefit of his creditors, and his aged wife has declined to adhere to her dower right and signed the deeds, which leaves herself and her husband penniless. A suit to hold Wm. E. jOsborne and L. W. Reeves responsible'as bondsmen for the large shortage of John McIlvaine, as Trustee of Jackson Township, Miami County, was decided at Wabash Saturday, where it had been taken on change of 'tfanue. The bondemen contested the case on the ground that they were only liable for a certain portion of the amount, as the greater portion of the shortage occurred during Mcllvaine’s first term, and that the sureties on the first bond should beheld tor the shortage incurred during the term of their bond. Judge Conner has decided that Osborne and Reeves are liable for $3,970, a comparatively small part of the sum claimed by the plaintiff.

Patents were issued to Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows: Dempster Beatty, assignor to Beatty Felting Company, Mishawaka, making combined knit cloth boots; George E. Blaine. Dayton, 0., and E. Hill, Cambridge City, assignors to M. Kemper, trustee, Dayton cross-tie and sleeper; Isaac M. Brown, Columbus, railway switch; Charles E. Cleveland and J. Hanson, Fort Wayne, (said 6’eveland assignor to said Hanson), side-dresser for saws; Henry A. Gore, assignor of two thirds to E. W. Walker and H. M. Rutor, Goshen, carpet sweeper; John F. Mains, Indianapolis, corn and fodder compresser; Lewis A. Neff, Middletown, car coupling; John E. Roth, Coal City, combined ironing board and wash bench; Charles M. Young, Eby, sewing machine. The newspapers recently announced the arreet of James Barnes and James Bapt, of Goodland, for counterfeiting. The counterfeit is a $5 silver certificate, of which it is bo ieved several thous* 'and dollars are in circulation. Sixty dollars of it was found in Barnes’s possession. is the most skillful and dangerous that has ever been, issued, and it has had a wide circulation. In Chicago alone there is more than $50,000 of it out, and reports from different parts of the country show that it is plentiful everywhere. It is exceedingly difficult to get any business man in Indianapolis, says an Indianapolis, paper to take a note of this description, for they can not detect the counterfeit from the genuine, and there have been several cases where the genuine bills have been rejected by the banks. With new bills, the differences between them, which are very slight, can be detected with the aid of a glass, but when the bills are worn the differences are not perceptible. It is probable the government will have to call in its entire issue of $5 silver certificates in order to separate the good from the bad. In the meantime, every one should be careful in accepting these certificates, if they accept them at all.