Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Tipton is piping for gas. '« The Wabash river is very low. Vanderburg farmers want rain. Ft. Wayne is improving its park*. Michigan City has a Summer club. New Albany strawberries are ripe. •j Goshen will have open air concerts. Jackson county crops promise well. A brick famime prevails at Goshen. Winchester has an abundance of gas. The cow question is agitating Wabash. Frankfort hackmen are having a rate war. Monroe county has 105 colored children. New Castle schools have a young lady superintendent. Indiana roads are lined with bicycles on pleasant days. Logansport has fourteen churches and sixty-five saloons. Ari old grave yard at Evansville is new a public swimming bath. An apple tree at Shelbyville four inches high has four blossoms. Cut worms are raiding cornfields near Hortonville, Hamilton county. Knightstown will give a natural gas display July 4. Very appropriate. Gravel road agitation is suspended until next winter when the mud is two feet deep.

Look out for agricultural implement sharpers. They are abroad in some parts of the State. The gathering of yellow root for the wholesale drug trade is one of the industries about Madison. 4 The 18-months-old child of Frank McCray, of Marion, was fatally scalded in a vessel of hot water. The Monticello Y. M. C. A. will be discontinued. T. I. N. A. I, S. B. Diagram: This is not as it should be. The temperance revival at Seymour under the direction of Thomas E. Murphy has assumed mammoth proportions. -Colonel Shoeler, of Hie Fort Wayne Journal, fought a fight with a base-ball umpire who invaded the sanctum, and whipped him, too. Ed Stinson, a White county farmer, took enough rough on rats to kill himself because some of his neighbors had better wheat than grew in his fields. Warden Patten, of the Southern Penitentiary, was, on Saturday, presented by his employes with a handsome gold watch and chain. He is fifty years old.

James Blair tried to refute the theory of gravitation at Seymour. His bees swarmed on a limb of an apple tree, to which he ascended. He sawed it off and now lies in critical condition. On Wednesday morning, at a point six miles west of Logansport, an eastbound passenger train ran over arid killed Adam Stumbaugh- Stumbaugh was on his way to his farm. He was an old settler, sixty-eight years of age. Frank Bursott, a farmer living near Brownsburg, was struck by lightning Sunday, while in his barn and instantly killed. Two horses were also killed. The lightning first struck the ventilator and completely shattered all the timber in the barn. Bursott leaves a wife and five children. The re-enumeratiori’of the school children of Fort Wayne, as directed by the State Superintendent, has cut down the aggregate from 15,000 to 11,000, and as a result the school appropriation will be reduced about pringglm Terre Haute as a member of the State Board of Education in place of Fort Wayne. A little girl of Terre Haute, who had been sick for many weeks, had been looking forward to the coming of Bamum’s show with great interest. She was very low Tuesday morning and could not leave her bed. At the solicitation of her father, the route of the procession was changed so the pagnant might pass her window. She enjoyed the scene immensely. The little sufferer died yesterday. The Kitts vs. Wilson case, which was first on the Decatur county records in 1874, and has been in the Supreme Court three times, still hangs on, a jury' having, again disagreed about it. There is involved in the dispute 132 acres of land near Osgood, worth perhaps $2,500. The value of the land has been consumed over and over again by the costs, and the end of the litigation is not yet in sight. ’ * On Wednesday a peculiar but tragic suicide occurred at Napanee. After her husband had gone to work, Mrs. George Reed probably in a temporary fit of insanity, took her three-months-old babe in her arms and with it leaped into the well, drowning instantly. She left an affectionate note ijj which she said that she was tired of life in this world and desired rest. She was but twenty-three years old.

A revival has been in progress for a month past at the Vincennes Baptist church. An enthusiast named Flower has made himself particularly ridiculous. He prayed for God to ‘lsrin fire ami brimstone down into the eongregatioir and burn the wicket! bustles off of the; ladies and scorch the ‘ungodlv plumes from their hats.” On the previous night he Braved; “Wend a cyclone-tbmugh this land and sweep away this sinful city.-” _ The “White Caps” of Crawford county made a raid Wcdncsdawrifght. Two of the leading eitisens of Bogard’s Forks, were taken outanTrAy hipped! "Jacob being too intimate with a neighbor’s wife. Salem was the second

victim. They gave him 150 lashes with hickory switches. Hi* offense was not providing for his fanjily. The band called on a number of citizens and ordered them to circulate the news. Frank Shank, age twenty-one of Germantown, out three gashes in the throat of Lulu Penny, Wednesday night, while the latter was on her way home in company with Frank Winter. Her escort, Winter, had jumped over the fence for a moment, leaving the girl in the road when Shank, who was drunk, and had followed them, seized her and slashed her with the knife, then turned and walked away to give himself up. The screams brought Winter to the spot, and the girl was taken care of. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause. Shank has been in jail for shooting with intent to kill, and is a bad citizen. Intense excitement prevails at Germantown, though the girl will live. One of the largest robberies ever perpetrated in Terre Haute, occurred Wednesday night. Maude Brown, a notorious character, robbed her lover, Wm. McCammon, with whom she was living, of $940. McCammon had the money sewed up in his underclothing, and while asleep the woman cut it out and made her escape. She hired a carriage and left for Brazil, in company with the hostler of the stable, and neither have been seen since, although the hostler is not thought to. he in her confidence. McCammon is a salcxyikeeper. Oliver Dyer, through his attorneys, has begun suit tcrrecover $2,500 against Miami Lodge, I. 0. O. F., of Peru. He claims over six years’ sick benefits due him from the Lodge and the Encampment, of which he was a, member, based upon the fact of partial disability from rheumatism. The Lodge officials say that his disability has never been such as to place him upon the permanent sick roll. This suit is undoubtedly the outcome of previous troubles. Some time were preferred against Dyer, upon which he was suspended. An appeal takeh to the Grand Lodge resulted in a new hearing, when he was expelled. It is likely that another appeal will be taken to the Grand Lodge on the decree of expulsion and the case in court pushed to a completion. Dyer was one of the oldest membei-s in the county.