Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Waterloo has gts. Munois sighs for base ball. New Castle wants water works. Scarlet fever prevails at Huntington. An Anderson farmer has a three eyed calf. Shelby county fruit prospects are great ... P.ymouth .is arranging for waterworks. Small-pox has killed three people at Osgood. Snow fell in many parte of Indiana on the 14th. Michigan City sheltered 200 tramps last year. The Vincennes Sun is the oldest paper in the State. A hen at Waveland has adopted and is rearing three kittens. Wabash will get gas from a new gas well just struck at Somerset A regular cut worm plague is devastating several southern counties. Tbe Martinsville artesian well water has pronounced medical properties. Tne Cass County Fish [Club is pushing violators of the game law to the wall. Wabash’s new mayor is only twenty three years old, Goshen’s only twentysix. The skeleton of a giant Indian has been unearthed by a Ft Wayne well digger. A bill authorizing the construction of a soldier's home in Grant county was peered by the House Wednesday. Counselman, Dr. Metcalf and Reardon, alleged to have been in conspiracy in the Marion county tally-sheet cases, have been acquitted. The frost played sad havoc in Jackson county, where 500 acres are planted in melons. Melon raisers are replanting. Wheat was also injured. Mrs. Ida M. Wright, the six months’ wife of Silas M. Wright, of Fountain Green, near Carthage, 111., committed suicide because her husband is a drunkard. Grandma Tyer, the oldest person in the Wabash Valley, died at Wabash, Ind., Monday, aged 101, from injuries sustained a few days before by falling down a cellar. Fifteen workmen in the Pittsburg snops at Ft. Wayne have been employed in the same place for ■ twenty years and over. In that time many have risen to positions of trust. Henry Tymberlyn, of Petersburg, en route for Liverpool, to take possession of an estate to which he had become heir, was so overcome by his good fortune that he became insane “t Washington, d. c. ;. ' _ _ < Wm. Roberts has a carrier pigeon, which made the fly from Pittsburg to New Albany in eleven hours and fifteen minutes. The bird was turned loose at Pittsburg at“s:ls a. m. and arrived at 4:30 p. m. Indiana Democrats in Washington are advocating the nomination of Bayard 8. Gray, of Portland, son of Governor Gray, for Congress, against Major Steele. They hold that Gray is the strongest Democrat in the district. The Chimneys of the Keller residence in Terre Haute were so ehoked with swallows, Saturday evening, that all efforts to dislodge them failed. They came from a former rendezvous in the towers of the Baptist Ghurch. United States District Attorney Sellers has had the indictment against James R. Carnahan quashed. He was charged with violating the federal election laws, in issuing a circular in which inspectors were advised not to neglect their duties. William Sears, of Logansport, aged fifty-five, was wrestling Saturday with his son, aged twenty-four, when the two fell together. The old gentleman sustained a fracture and dislocation of the left ankle, and now wishes he hadn’t been so frisky. A new railroad to be called the Indianapolis, Chattanooga & Southern, has been incorporated. It is designed to extend from Ind ianapolis south through the counties of Manon, Johnson, Brown, Jackson, Washington, Harrison, Crawford and Perry.

Judge Sayler, of the Wells Circuit court, was so indignant because his order condemning the old court house was not approved by the Commissioners that he has “struck” until better quarters are provided.. He will hear pressing matters in chambers. Elder James Quintes, editor of the Gospel Messenger of Huntington, Pa., and president of the normal college at that place, while on his knees in prayer at the Dunkard Conference at North Manchester, Saturday, was stricken with apoplexy and died almost instantly. A large barn belonging to Fred Gardiner, near Russellville, was set on fire Wednesday night, and destroyed, with contents. Nine hones perished, among the number being four brood mares valued at SI,OOO. The barn also contained farming imnlements, hay, grain, etc. Loss 53,00 C; no insurance. —■ James Mikeely, of Otto, Clark county, went into the woods, catting rails. He stepped to cut apieceofTobacco, when his plug slipped from his hand and fell through the cleft in the log made by the wedges to the ground. Mikesly reached down for the tobacco and in some way loosened the wedges. They flew out,leaving Mikeely a prisoner. He -was not discovered Juntil the next morning. * " ■ ■ What is known as the Esmond flour-ihg-mills, situated about three miles

south of Fl Wayne, burned Tneeday night. It was built by Henry Esmond, now Mayor of Medicine Lodge, Kan , and owned by Tevis A Proctor. The fire was discovered about 9:30 o’clock, but it had already made too much headway, and nothing could be dons to save the structure. The owners think the fire originated from a camp-fire built by a fishing party near the shed covering the mill race. The loss is $50,000; insured for $17,000, $14,000 of which is in the Millers’ Mutual, of Indianapolis; $3 000 with agency in Ft Wayne. The owners will rebuild. There was a meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee Thursday afternoon to fill the vacancy caused by the death of tbe late chairman, Hon. John R. Gordon, and. by acclamation, Hon. Charles L. Tewett, of New Albany, was selected. A telegram was received announcing his acceptance. Hon. 8. P. Sheerin. was chosen vice-chairman, and the selection of a secretary and an executive committee was left to Mr. Jewett. Resolutions in memoriam of the late Mr. Gordon were adopted, and there were speeches on the general outlook by Austin H. Brown, of the National Committee; Congressman Matson, Tom Brynes, of Evansville, and others. The opinion of grain men in this city on the prospects of the coming wheat crop are also held by Mr. 0, O. Sturte’ vant, Secretary of the Minneapolis Board of Trade. He has given the matter close a'tention, he says, anddoesnot expect more than half an average yield, taking the country over. He also thinks from the increased sale of eorn-cultiva-ting implements in the Northwest and the corresponding decrease in the sale of wheat drills and harvesting machinery, that the farmers have grown discouraged and will turn their attention to raising corn. This discomforting view, however, ia not accepted by all, and a respectable minority of grain dealers here and elsewhere are dis* posed to anticipate a yield of wheat this year which, while below the average, will yet provide an abundance for home consumption and some for export.—lndianapolis News. State Superintendent of Public Instruction LaFollotte,after consulting with the Attorney General on Tuesday, decided the points brought to issue through certain trouble arising from the Fort Wayne school enumeration. The most important point decided was that a. county superintendent has the power to have a new enumeration made in case he finds the one reported by the board of trustees false and fraudulent, just as he would have were none made at all, which the statute clearly provided. The statute does not state exactly what shall be done in the case of a fraudulent enumeration, but it being fraudulentmakesit null and void.. Superintendent LaFollette says the same power would lay in the hands of the county superintendent as if none at all were made. Another important point decided, and concerning which there has never been a question raised before, is that children cannot be enumerated under the headings of commercial corporations, factories, hotels, etc., but must be listed as members of families.