Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Wabash has four gas wells. -» Bluffton sportsa building boom. Anderson is improving her streets. Indiana will have a big potato crop. Delaware county has thirty-three gas wells. Opium eating is very prevalent in The Brave Girls Club is a Waterloo organization. The Salvation Army lias attacked Kendallville) A new Catholic church will be erected at Union City. * Lawn tennis is the popular sport at Michigan City. Evtansuille claims a population of 53,(XX) and is still growing? A Goshenite risks a dollar that Harrison will be withdrawn in six weeks. The chimney of the new plate glass works at Kokomo will be 140 feet high. Timothy Keene, of Valparaiso,had 26 sheep kiljed or wounded by dogs last week.

The Rogers mines in Pike county will be abandoned op account of trouble with the miners. Hon. Sid Conger is being urged to contest with Bynum for Congress id the Seventh district. The Sentinel is authority for the statement that there are 200 saloons and half a dozen gambling dens in Fort Wayne. The ruins of the Terre Haute Normal School have been removed and the work of erecting a new building ■ • began Wednesday. W. P. Battorf, of Clark county, threshed 2,040 bushels of wheat frqm 26 acres of land, an average of 40 bushels to the acre. Charles Clapp and brio Barnum, Noble county farmers, have stocked their ponds with 2,000 trout instead of with the common carp. Abraham Gray, ninety-two years old, died near Montpelier, Sunday. He was the father of twenty children, ten of whom are living and have large families.

“Harrison’s Daughters” have organized at Corinersville, the members being enthusiastic little ladies who want to take part in the campaign along with their big brothers. The latest additions to Marion’s manufactories is an excelsior factory and a crayon manufactory, the latter for the manufacture of blackboard crayon, billiard chalk and face powder. Speaking of lake navigation, the Michigan City Dispatch says more than half the docks at that place are empty, while a year ago they were crowded. The prospects for a revival of business before fall are not good. Labelle, arrested at Indianapolis recently for opium smuggling, jumped from a train while being* brought back from Port Huron, Midi., Wednesday, and escaped into Canada. The escape is sincerely regretted, as his capture was a most important one. At ~ Mount Vernon/ Deputy Grand Master S. W. Douglass, of Evansville, is investigating the affairs of Masonic Lodge No. 183. The lodge was instructed to suspend or expel certain members who sold intoxicants. The order was not complied with. The officer took away the lodge’s charter. Henry Umbach, of Utica, N. Y r ., who is supposed to have been the man whose body was found in the Ohio near Madison, and after being identified by his mother and other relatives, was buried, turned up all right, Wednesday? He says that he was sick and delirious, robbed and wandering. A boiler explosion occurred about 7 o’clock Friday morning at Tell City. A portable saw mill boiler burst and killed Charles Mayers, a laborer. The fireman, Wm. M. Kinleyl was badley injured. The boiler and mill which it was attached to were blown to pieces. The man killed leaves a wiie and two children. He was fearfully mangled. Locusts are doing great damage at -point on the line of the Chicago & Atlantic Railway. At one point on the north end it was necessary fdr the farmers to cover their fruit trees with mosquito-net-ting in order to save them. The roar made by the chirping of the insects can be heard above the noise made by passing trains.

The work on the State soldiers’ monument has been delayed for some time because of alack of stone out of which the foundation is being built. -The architect is progressing rapidly with the specifications for the superstructure of the monpmeut and as soon as they are complete** the monnment association will advertise for bids for that work. The foundation, on which the men are now working, will be completed in September or early in October, and it is proposed to make the occasion of the cornerstone laying, which is to follow one of great ceremony. Representative Steele secured an amendment in the House to the bill which passed, Friday, granting aid tn interest to Indiana. The bill gives SIOO a year for each soldier received at a State home- Major Steele secured an amendment including orphans’ homes, and -now tlOOw year will lie given-for edehorpban oi soldiers and Bailors Cared lor everv vear in orpans homes in the various States. This embraces the Orphan’s Home at Knightstown, at which place,* it is said, about one hundred-or-phans of soldiers and sailors are given a home. If there are one hundred in the

Knightstown home, that institution will be entitled to SIO,OOO a year, under this law. - Members of the Womens’; Christian Temperance Union at Anderson, have examined the Madison county criminal records to find how many people have committed crimes through drink. The discovery was made that considerably more than half of the prisoners who have k been committed to the Madison county jail for a number of years past went wrong through whisky-drinking, anti 'a large per cent, of them were boys without parents.

The discharge of John Lynch from the Indiana State Prison South at Jeffersonville, Monday, recalls a list of (Crimes and lynehings in Southern Indiana a few years ago. Lynch has just completed his term for being mixed up with the Archer gang in Orange and Martin counties. While old Archer and his brother were awaiting trial they were taken from jail at Shoals, and old Archer and his brother-in-law, Martin, were hung. Sam Archer was afterward tried and sentenced to be hengeds Lynch got off by turning State’s evidence.—[News. Pension Agent Zollingers annual reI>ort has been completed and forwarded to Washington. It shows that the number of new pensioners placed on the pay-rolls of the Indiana agency during the year ending with June was 5,176, and that the net increase since the beginning of Cleveland’s administration has been 13,087. The amount disbursed in Indiana during the last three years was $10,072,446.55, wlile during the three years previous it was $16,129,150.63. The Indianapolis agency is now the second largest in the country, and with 13,000 more pensioners to be paid than were on the rolls in 1885 the force of clerks has been increaied only four. The quarterly report shows that the largest number of pensioners reside in Marion county, and that four times a year the sum of $55,049.25 is' disbursed among 1,915 residents. Vigo stands second with 698 pensioners, who qriarterly receive $32,654.50.