Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Goshen wants the telephone. J;. Muncie is building a belt railway. Ligonier will construct water works. Brown county fruit prospects are good. Graensburg has organized a Board of Trsde. Goshen schools have 1,400 pupils enrolled. ■Wheat is in bad condition of Miami connty. Fort Wayne has a real estate exchange. Rochester has a new $20,000 school building. Nine Harrison county citizens want to be Sheriff. The Salvation Army is bombarding Valparaiso. There is a great prospect for wheat in Jackson county. There are fifty-five murderers in the Northern prison. Terre Haute will havea bicycle tournament op the 30tn. Marshall county Republicans have endorsed Harrison. There are no graduates in the Anderson High School this year. There have been five suicides within two months at Coehocton,o. ' Colored men have organized a J. A. Lemcke club at Jeffersonville. Delaware and Wayne connty Democrats endorse Cleveland and Gray. The Pelican Club is the nameof anew Terre Haute gymnasium association. A Presbyterian revival of large dimensions is in progress at Greensbnrg. Portland has secured the Hagins furniture factory by a donation of $7,000. Jackson county Republicans endorje Harrison lor President and Porter for Governor. Republicans of Blackford and Huntington counties endorse Gen. Harrison for President. Theo. P. Keater, of Ft. Wayne, predicts the nomination of Porter for the Governorship. W. Scott Ray, editor of the Shelby Democrat, has been nominated for State Senator. Mr. Bynnm has written a letter in which he declares he will not be a candidate for Governor. The Evansville Tribune wants Charles Denby of that city nominated for VicePresident on the ticket with Cleveland. George Baurla, a thirteen-year-old son Frank Baurla, of Jeffersonville, committed suicide Monday. His father had reprimanded him for being tardy at school. Probably the oldest pony in the country, died at Chili, Miami connty, last week, at the age of 52 years. Twenty old settlers of Rash county, who voted for Gen. Harrison in 1840, have organized a Tippecanoe Club. Rush county Democrats have instructed for Matson for Governor and Cleveland and Gray for the Presidential ticket. Twelve factories secured in the good year-of graoe 1888 is the record up to date, says the Kokomo Dispatch, boastfully. .Five runaway weddings took place in Lawreneebnrg last week, three; of the couples coming from Cincinnati and two from Kentucky. Randall Sprague, of Hoagland, was relieved of $1,200 in money and negotiable notes, Thursday, ona Grand Bapidf train near Ft. Wayne. Eastern oil men are flocking to Port land, and will open up the oil field there at once. One local company has been offered $7,000 fir its leases in Jay connty. ■ - , Two boys named Hoven and Yoder, thirteen and ionrteen years old respectively, left their homes in the country near Goshen, Thursday, and started for the wild West. One thousand new houses are needed in Muncie, says the News. The Democrat Herald pred cts that tbe town will be a city of 20,000 inhabitants within **year. A three days’ connty brass band tournament is on the tap's at Jeffersonville. The bands will be placed in position Jnne 10 and given the same piece to render. The band remaining on the ground the longest is to receive a handsome uniform. The celebrated horse-tail suit- was Thursday decided at Scottsburg. J. A. Phillips sued A. M. Peeler for S4OC damages for breaking raid tail. He received $l5O. It has been in court for about a year, and costs are more than the horse and alleged damages are worth- ~ R. C. Johnson, of DePanw University, won first prize in the State oratorical 7«mrtagtnt~-4n<li*napnlfo, on the 13th. Subject: “Principles of PoliticaT Parties,” H. A. Guppy, of Franklin College, received second honors. Subject: “Genesis of Individualism.” Allen Pyle, confined in jail on a charge of burning the Gale school house, northeast of Hartford, has tonfaseei that he partic patei in the robbery of Daniel Daardufi. and old farmer t two year 3 ago, and implicated one Pnotes in tbe crime. The thieves ge cored about $1,200. R. B. Matthews, of Lagans port, has brought suit against Riy Bros., grocers of that city, alleging blackmail. Ray Bros, sent Matthews a statement of an oid unpaid account in an envelope with the Rational Collecting Agency’s form upon it The outcome of the suit if brought to issue, will be watched with interest. The trial of George Jekel, of Jeflenonville, for the alleged murder of his sweetheart, Battie Aldridge, last June, terminated Tuesday in an acquittal. It

was generally believed that the girl committed eukide, and the young man was discharged at a preliminary hearing, bnt afterward idicted by the grand jury. There is reported an apparent deficit in the city treasury of New Albany of $13,943,71. The experts state, however, that there is a posibility that before the work is completed credits- in favor of the Treasurer may be discov ered in sufficient amount to offset the apparent deficiency. Mr. Weir, the city treasurer, has had, the position for twelve years. John Gerdone, aged fifiy-two yearr, a wealthy and well-known fanner of Harrison connty, residing four miles from Corydon, was fatally hurt at New Albany, Saturday evening,by the racing away of his team. He wai caught by the lines anddragged a long distance over the stony street, ran oyer by the wheels and his spine broken, and other very serious njuries inflicted. ‘ Law-Suit John” F.shtorn, a persistent litigant of Peru, who is always engaged in legal controversies, is being tried for the thett of side meat and shoulders from a farmer. A research of the clerk’s docket shows one page having thirty-two cases, and among them the name Fishtorn appeared fourteen times. Fishtorn at one time was quite a wealthy farmer, but since his removal a tew years ago to Pern, has lost his nroperty. A case of tiichinaeeis is reported In the family of John Green at R idgeville, Randolph county. The seven members of the honeehold have been sick for over a week, but only with fever for the first few days, and when the sickness progressed to the tallness of its terrible character it was not known to be the result of trichinae. It was only accounted for Wednesday, after the death of Mrs. Green, which occurred on Tuesday. Then a small pieoe of the one bam left of the hog they had eaten since killing and salting it themselves in the fall was found full of the deadly worms. A band of “White Caps” made a raid Friday night in tbe country back of New Albany. They visited the house of Mrs. Jones, a widow, and whipped soundly her three boys because they would not work. They then visited William Wright, whom they warned to leave the State, and a lawyer from Leavenworth who had been paying attention to Mrs. Jones's daughter. They threatened him with tar and feathers unless he left for home within half an hoar. Patents were granted Indiana inventors Taeeday as follows: George Ford, New Harmony, gate; Enoch Hairis, saw tooth; Nicholas Heniser, Randolph, assignor of one-half to H. Reitenour, Union City, end gate; Samuel E. Johns, assignor of one-third to A. R. Monroe, Indianapolis, machine for gathering and collecting book signatures; Samuel A. Payne, assignor of two-thirds to J. L. Fisher and J. M. Btont, Scottsburg, hand planter; James J. Tamer, assignor to himself and J, F. Miller, Richmond, switch and signal interlocking; Frank D. Walden, Jeffersonville, shoe-upper turning machine.