Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Goshen housewives are fighting red ants. Elkhart will supply • herself with parks. Grapes in Fayette county will be plentiful. Dogs without muzzles are shot in Seymour. The music of the binder is heard in Indiana. Michigan City Democrats will build a wigwam. Roann, Wabash county,Will build water works. The clover crop in Northern Indiana will be light. The Hendricks club at Mt. Vernon has 200 members. The wheat yield at Columbus is better than was expected. • ■' The saloon-keepers of Michigan City want their license fee of,sloo reduced to S2O. Peach trees about Vicennes are so heavily laden that the limbs have to be braced. Hon. B.F.Shively has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the 13th district. Uncle John Savage, of Connersville, promises to have 100 members in his Tippecanoe Club. Joseph Ilannawalt, of Logansport, fell thirty feet from a tree, and was fatally injured, Tuesday. Daniel McMill,Commissioner of Drain age, of Wabash eounty, is alleged to be short in his accounts. Elkhart county contains 76,683 rods of drain tile in nine townships; seven townships are not reported. Arthur Cavon, a young mill-hand,was fatally shot Tuesday night by James Jewett, for attempting to criminally assault the latter’s daughter.

Mrs. Rose Walsh, of Barr township, Washington county, died Tuesday of blood poisoning, caused by a spider bite on her face three weeks ago. A factional fight among the Republicans of Clark county is likely to spread. Four or five announce that they will not support, the National ticket. The Ohio Falls Iron works at New Albany, employing four hundred men, closed down indefinitely Saturday night on account of a disagreement as to wages. The Republican ladies of Bluffton have organized a Ladies’ Republican Club. It was named in honor of the candidate’s wife, Mrs. Carrie Harrison. S. W. Williams was digging a W’ell on his farm, two miles east of Vincennes, the other day,when he struck a flow of vinegar at thirty feet. Chemists are puzzled at the discovery. ' - V. G. Short, a young man living near Urbana, 111., whose parents reside at Shelbyville, Ind., quarreled with his brother about money matters and then blew out his own brains. Ham Meredith, of Washington, is a very angry man. He missed a fine Alderney cow of which he was very proud, and upon investigation found it had been picked up by a drover and slaughtered. The animal made rather expensive steaks.

The office of Auditor of Hancock’ county, under the decision of the Supreme Court, has been turned over to James Mitchell, the Republican candidate in 1886. James Mannix, the recent Democratic incumbent, has left Greenfield. A shortage ofst;l46has been found in" Tils accounts. While firing a salute in honor of Harrison’s nomination, at Lebanon, George Smith and Jeff Kersey were seriously burned by the explosion of a can of powder. Smith was terribly burned, his eyesight destroyed and the skin peeled from his face, making a terrible looking sight. Kersey was not so badly injured. Samuel Brown, a farmer of Wabash county, some months ago while" performing on a horizontal bar for amusement contracted a peculiar disease resulting in the rotting of the bones of the hands which gradually extended up the arms. Both his arms have since been amputated, but it is doubtful if he can long survive.

A fight, Saturday night, at Taylorsville, Clark county, will result in the death of one of the parties. Samuel Gohn, a Republican, cheered for Harrison ahd w r as jumped onto by Wm. Huller, a tough, who pounded his face to a jelly with knucks. Doctors say Gohn will-die. Huller had been drinking but managed to make his escape. The remains of Samuel Jones, a prominent citizen of Warren, w’est of Montpelier, were disinterred at Good Cemetery for burial at the Masonic Cemetery. It required the combined strength of six men to raise the coffin out of the" grave. The box was opened, when it was found that the body had petrified. The features were the same as at bis death, fifteen years ago. It is one of the most remarkable cases of petrifaction on record. James Haislup, of South Bethany, Bartholomew .county, has two turkey hens that have a natural propensity for laying eggs. Each one laid thirty-five eggs and then went to setting, but they still keep right on laying eggs, and are still at it up to this time, having laid seventy rfive eggs-cach? —They did not stop when the first brood was hatched, nor haye they for the second, which was ; haulkd-afew, days ago,, hut .both, con- : tkiTieto lay* —" . While Louis Lytle and others were fisl ing in the Ohio, Thursday, Lytle hooked a monster catfish. It dragged bin- into the river but he held onto the

line. The fish took him up stream to the utter astonishment of the lookerson. Lytles escaped drowning by being dragged against a pile of driftwood, after an exciting run of a quarter of a mile. Then three men tried to drag the fish ashore, but failed. Charles Murphy was drowned by a fish in a similar manner a week ago. ' Four sisters of Levi P. Morton, lived at one time at Evansville, Mrs. Safford, Misses Electra, Mary and Martha. The last two were twins. All of them were educated in New England, and were fair types of a class known in the West and South forty years ago as “Yankee school inarms.” All were fine women, possessed of some of the higher accomplishments in addition to their practical New England education. They all taught school in Evansville and married well afterward.

A civil suit has been entered in Miami county against James Shaw, a wealthy man residing near Xenia, on account of failure to ’provide “as agreed,” for the family of David Fisher, who was killed some two years ago. Fisher, who was in destitute circumstances at the time was assisting Shaw on his farm driving stakes, and received a blow '■ upon the head from the maul in Shaw’s hands from the effects of which he died some hours Jater.Shaw, who is quite wealthy, agreed to pay funeral expenses and provide for the family, which he failed to do; hlnce the action for damages.

James Shaw, a wealthy Grant county farmer, has been arrested on a charge of murder. He is accused of killing David Fisher, held at the time, and although there were, hints of an ugly character,still it was generally accepted that the killing was purely accidental. The widow brought suit for damages, one incident of which was the holding of an inquest. Thursday Coroner Lord ordered Shaw’s arrest. He was taken into custody at Marion, but released on bond of 15,000 to appear for preliminary hearing on the sth of July. Shaw and his mother own 800 acres of the best land in Grant county.

A ten-year-old son ofJ. H. Wood, four miles northwest of Montpelier, caught a four-pound black bass in a novel manner. He saw the bass in a pool in the rapids of the Salamonie, and conceived the idea that if he went into the water and knelt down the bass would come up to him to get into the shade thus made in the water. He went in, kept quiet, and the big fish, after darting in and out a few times, came up close to the boy and nestled there. Quietly the boy’s hand slipped to the. gills of the fish, one quick grab and the boy and bass were in a big tussle, but the boy held bn and carried his fish in triumph to his mother.

A masked mob went to the home of Wm. Shells, who lives at Hazelton, twelve miles south of Vincennes, last Saturday night, and demanded John Henry Kirk. They were apprised of his presence, and at once ordered him to leave within the next forty-eight hours. Kirk arose from his bed, and jumping through a window, took to flight. He was discovered and pursued, but escaped their clutches and remained hid until Sunday morning. Mr. Shells had no firearms, but, seizing an ax, he marched out among the White Caps and cleared the yard of their hateful presence.

These men recently located there from Crawford county, this State, the home of the night raiders, and it is believed that they were followed here. They are industrious men, and the action of the mob can not be explained. A most remarkable alleged faith cure is reported by Mrs. Adamson, a widow of Anderson. For about twenty-two years Mrs. Adamson has been almost totally blind, being unable to go about without the aid of a guide. She has soughtrelief from various oculists both at home and abroad, but without relief. Last fall incidentally she heard of Dr. Hibbert, a noted Christian scientist of Marshalltown, la., who claimed that he could cure the afflicted by faith and secret methods. Mrs. Adamson resolved to take a course of his treatment and began at the above" stated time. The result of the treatment has proved quite beneficial, as is evidenced by Mrs. ’Adamson’s ability togo anywhere alone, something she has not done for over twenty-two years. She says that while her eyes are somewhat weak, yet the sight has been completely restored, Mrs. Jane Ennis, of Butler’s Switch, Bartholomew county, Tuesday, had a most desperate encounter with a huge blacksnake. She was standing under a cherry tree in her Yard, when the snake dropped down upon her and coiled itself about her body. She was badly frightened but succeeded in wrenching it loose, and had only done so when it sprang upon her again. She again threw it from her, but the reptile seemed determined to conquer, and again sprang upon her, this time coiling itself tightly about her neck and shoulders. "Iler motherboard her screams at this point and hurried to her assistance. It took the combined strength of both to loosen and kill the snake, which measured six "freT;- Mrs-. Ennis never gave way until" the house was reached, when she lost consciousness. It was some time before ■she recorcred from the effects of tbp -frightful occurrence. General Roger’A. Pryor, the ex-Con-federate lawyer in New York, has gone into railroad enterprises.