Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

New wool is being marketed Ft. Wayne will again bore for gas. Evansville is seventy-nine years old. The barbers of Ft. Wfjrne have organized. 1 <• y ■.. A new style of bug infests Elkhart elm trees. Chicken thieves and hog cholera trouble Scottsville, Bartholomew county. • -Several hundred men are now hunting on Bean Blosssom Creek, Brown county. j The body of an unknown man was found in the Ohio river near Rising Sun, Thursday. Harmony Lodge of Odd Fellows at Ft. Wayne has the finest paraphernalia of any lodge in the State. The suit of Montgomery county against Auditor Goben to recover SIO,OOO, terminated in the official’s favor. The temperance revival at Seymour under the direction of Thomas E. Murphy has assumed mammoth proportions.

Elder E. P. Ewing, the Christian church at Crawfordsville, has been offered the office of State Evangelist, and he will probably accept. Lawrence Steerstetter, a saloon keeper of Ramsay Station, Harrison county, has been flogged by White Caps for selling liquor to minors. Lafayette Jamison, the Monon’s agent and operator at Monticello, is only fourteen years old, but has,an astonishingly good head for business. Mirage phenomena are reported frequently at Michigan City by vessel men. A Chicago woman saw Indiana’s chief port last Sunday from her window. Charles Baden, a German farmer, aged seventy, who has lived ip Hamilton county for many years, has fallen heir to an estate of $9,000,000 in Germany. William fynith was found dead in the Ludlow Thomas school house, Montgomery county, Friday. When last seen, one week ago, he had S2OO in his pocket, -and it is feared drenvag foully (fealt with." The w eavers in King & Field’s wool-en-mills, at LaPorte, struck on Saturday night, because of a cut in their wages. The mills, which are the hugest in the State, have shut dow*n to await the result. John H. Ferriter, a Panhandle brakeman, was run over and torn to pieces, near Hebron, early Saturday morning. He fell from the rear of Section 1 and was passed over by Section 2, the body being'mangled beyond recognition.. William 11. Christie, by his next friend, Sarah J. Christie, has filed suit in the Scott Circuit Court against William H. Fllinger, claiming $5,000 damages for slander. The plaintiff is a seventeen-year-old grandson of the defendant, who is seventy-nine years old. * Indianapolis, on the basis that the children between the ages of six and twenty-one years will average“ v ofie-thir(l of the population, claims a population of 133,000, the children numbering 44,441. Evansville has 16,448 children, Terre Haute, 13,660 and Ft. Wayne, 10,282. The fifty-fourth annual catalogue of Wabash College has been issued. The institution is thriving and prosperous, and complete in all its departments. According to the last roster the whole number of alumni is 512, of whom 423 are now leaving. The past year 242 students were enrolled. —The “White Caps;” it is alleged, are about to begin operations in Shelby county. Several prominent Prohibitionists have received notice signed “White Caps,” to keep their “d —d mouthashut” or they would be strung up to a tree. Some of the members of ■ this party are considerably wrought up over it. Pete McCartney, the irrepressible counterfeiter recently released from the Michigan City penitentiary, has again been convicted,this time at New Orleans, and will go up for fifteen years more. McCartney has served a large portion of his long life behind the bars and it is hardly probable that he will ever be a freeman-again. Charlestown, a quiet retreat of 1,500 inhabitants in Clark county, in the early days of the country, enjoyed a big boom, similar to the Kansas City and California affairs. Lots sold at the enormous figure of SIOO a front foot and merchants carried large stocks of goods.. The place was the location of many manufactories, and it was believed it would become the commercial center of the West. Its dream of greatness is past. Speaking of the trouble over the sphool enumeration the Fort Wayne Sentinel says it is prepared to state that Fort Wayne is the second city in the State in population, the first in commercial and manufacturing greatness, and will not tamely submit to the manifestly false inference that she is the fourth city in the State in these respects. D. T. Disney, a member of the Duckworth Cliili, on his way from Cincinnat i to St. Louis, had his leg crushed under the wheels at Seymour, Su.iidayjn.oniing. It was at once amputated. When the train arrived at Seymour, a large number of the passengers got off on the platform. As the train started a rush was made to

Tj?jarcil'Be"lTarn andTh she scramble Mr. Disney fell under the wheels. y George C. Shakspeare, who died in »w Albany, Saturday.■a&sexted.lhaL.-.he. was aiiaeal-descendant of the Bard of Avon, and ins pretensions seemed to have some foundation. He was born at Henley-on-Harden sixty-two years ago, and had a varied and not unromantic battle with the world. He was the eld-

est of a large family of children and lived with his father, Joseph Shakspeare, on a small farm near Stratford-on-Avon. Henry Segeman, of BennettviUe, Clark county, w2fc shocked by lightning a few years ago, and ever since his body has been charged with electricity. He avoids all rapidly moving objects, such as a locomotive or an engine, fpr fear of being' drawn against them and crushed. He suffers no inconvenience, however,except during and previous to storms, when a peculiar tingling sensation is felt in his arms and legs. When this feeling is on him he gqes into a darkened room, and by snapping his fingers makes electric Sparks fly from them. I he Soldiers’ Monument Commissioners have called upon the various counties to each appropriate SIOO to bear expense of placing in the monument memorial tablets relative to the part each county took in the war, and there have already been favorable responses from fifteen. These tablets will occupy a space 32x24 on the north and south sides, beneath the inscription, ,and it is something which it is expected that every county will cordially approve. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: John J. Bishop, assignor of one-third to H. Wood, Greenwood, combined cooking and canfilling apparatus; Micajali C. J. Henley, Richmond, machine for boring, etc.; Wm. H. Hubbard, Indianapolis, fastening for envelopes; John Laser, Bremen, bee-hive; Jacob. V. Bowlett, Richmond, lawn mower; William Sylvester, Ashville, weather strip; M. H. Timberlake, Lafayette, pump; T. F. Vandegrift, N. H. and L. Maple, Shelbyville, fence machine.

The Postmaster General has informed Congress of the allowance of the following claims of postmasters in Indiana for losses of postal funds resulting from no fault on their part; Harry Fisk. Aurora, $283.50, loss by burglary; Albert S. Peacock, Attica, $383.95, burglary; George 11. Linn, Beldon, fire: CliaiTos Kelsey Chandler, $47.50, burglary; George W. Edwards, Clinton, $115.69, burglary; S. Donaldson, Ladoga, $54.73, fire; Timothy D. Caleric, Nashville, $2Ol, funds lost in the mails. The Agricultural Department has been making some investigations as to farm labor, with the following result: In Indiana it is estimated that there are 194,#l3 farms, of which 147,963 are cultivated by the owners. The farms cultivated by tenants are classified as follows: Cash rental 8,582 farms; cultivated on shares, 37,460 farms. In Indiana, it is stated, the farm is usually taken “at the halves;” sometimes two-fifths or two-thirds-is the custom; where uplands are farmed for two-thirds or three fifths, bottom lands are sometimes taken at onehalf. For labor alone the gets in best lands one-fourth. The new enumeration and apporfionment for school purposes by the State Superintendent has been completed. It shows that in 1887 there were 760,178 children of school age in the State, while in 1888 there were only 756,989—a decrease of something over 3,000. The total amount derived from the State school tax for the two years was as follows-*** 1887, $780,321.12; 1888, $779,558.88; interest collected on common school fund since last apportionment, $236,630.86, as against $244,142.63 for the same time the year previous. Total collected* for apportionment— T 857, for 1888, SI ,020,676!45 —a decrease of $25,137.14. The number of children of school age in Marion county in 1887 was 55,327; in 188, 55,835; in Vanderburg county, 1887, 19,930; 1888, 20,676; in Wayne county, ... 1887, 13,798; 1888, 13,405; in Vigo county, 1887, 20,508; 1888, 20,746; in Allen county, 1887,25,849; in 1888, 20,906. Marion county draws from the school fund $73,; 143.85; the next highest county is Alien, with $27,386.86; Vigo county next with $27,177.26. ’