Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

1 Crows eat Elkhart county watermel- \ ons. ■ The count in the prison north is again above 700. An Evansville police officer wears a No. 14 boot. An iron and steel factory, to employ 250 men, is talked of for Anderson. Deer Creek village, Cass county, has a smart dog that takes h.orees to water. Three hundred people will be employed in the Kokomo canning factory shortly. The 4th Indiana Cavalry will hohj its reunion at Terre Haute, September f, 8 and 9, with several other organizations. A lazy guest of a Shelby ville hotel went to bed sucking a cigar. The flames any great ■ of Illinois, was a pony The Eagle and Lion Hotel at Tem? Tlaute, a,landmark; m being ’after sixty years’ existence. President was a guest of the place in 'St ■ - ' W/7ftinthe next four weeks the labor pay toll oYopr factories will be increased at least; StD.ftOO per week, which will give our inerchants' A.trade that will be very satisfactory.—Miifrefolterald. Calvin Mitchell, colored, was run over by a J., M. & I. train Tuesday night. His mangled remains were founct one mile south of He had been employed at the Seymour Republican office. "he trustees of the Christian "Church at Crawfordsville, in order to save a lawsuit, paid $l5O for a strip of the original church lot which had been fenced in by the owner of an adjoining lot and thus occupied for twenty years. John McKee, a well-to-do farmer of Warren, shot his brother. The ball passed through the lower maxilliary bone and lodged in his neck. Little hopes are entertained of his recovery. The brothers had been quarreling for some time about the settlement of an account. Elizaville has a new postmaster who has some strange ideas. He has no boxes, but in lieu of these much-needed arrangements, he has in the back part of the office a bench in which he has driven a number of twenty-penny nails, between which he piles the mail for each individual. -----—t— Reports of glanders among horses near Monticello halve reached the State Board of Health several times of late, and. Friday, in response to a telegram which stated that the disease is spreading, Dr. Pritchard, the State Veterinarian, went to the scene of the trouble. A few animals near Lebanon are also afflicted with the same disease, one Thursday having been killed according to Dr. Pritchard’s orders. The large barn of the Spring Valley stock farm, located nine miles south of Indianapolis,was destroyed by fire Tuesday evening, together with eighteen -ttiurough bred horses and seventy-five tons of hay, 600 bushels of oats, 2CO bushels of corn and all the fixtures and appliances for a breeder’s barn. The loss,notcountingthe4ive-stoek,aggre-gates SIO,O0 I '. The barn was 200x70 feet. Among the horses burned and their value were “Ina,” $6,000; “Mary C,” $5,000; “Lenora,” $3,000; and “Vassar Girl,” SI,OOO. The proprietor estimates his total loss at $50,000. The Crawford County Republican, printed at Leavenworth, pays its respects to newspaper correspondents who are writing White Caps stories. Here is a piece of the Republican’s mind: “It may be asserted that these canker-mind-ed ingrates, by their willfuLmisreprer. sentations of the facts —by their wanton, untruthful statements concerning our county and people,have contributed more to blacken the character of our people, retard our progesss and bring our county into disrepute than the White Caps could ot wouM have done fn a long term of years.” > Wednesday evening, while plowing a stubble-field, on Stony Prairie,in Pulaski county, George Shelhart encountered a nest of bumble bees. He threw some dry grass over the nest and set it on fire. The fire spread, and in fighting it to save his fences Mr. Shelhart became overheated and fell to the ground, a blood vessel having probably buret. The only person in the field with him Was an adopted boy, about seven years old, who ran to a neighbor and related the circumstance. When the neighbor reached the field the stubble fire had - reached Mr. Shelhart and burned his body to a crisp. He was nearly seventy years old, and one of the oldest living residents of the county.

John C. Patterson, of Indianapolis, recently released from the northern prison, make serious charges against the management of that institution. He de-clares-that the contract men are treated no better than animals, and that the prison authorities have favorites who are shown efterv attention. He says that Coy and Bemhamer are being treated like princes. “They do nothing,” said he, “but live in the hospital, where thev live on pie and cake, and when we filed past them on our way to the wash-room they amused themselves by blowing smoke into our faces. ’ Mr. Patterson also says that the prisoners are halfstarved during the greater part of the year, although just at the present time

they are biting fed better because of the frequency’of visitors to the prison. He sayß that on Sunday they eat dinner at 10:45 o’clock, return to their cells, and remain there without another bite to eat until breakfast at 6 o’clock Monday morning. In regard to the cruelty practiced he cites the statement of a young convict named Thompson, who was sent up for assault with intent to kill. About six weeks ago Thompson applied to the guard to go to the hospital, as lie was sick, and the guard, although it was not his place to judge, refused to let him go. Thompson then assaulted the guard,and was placed in the dungeon for four weeks, being released when the directors m&de a visit to the prison. As soon as the directors were gone, Thompson Was thrown back in the dungeon, although he had wasted to a skeletpn, and Patter>qp says he will not be surprised to hear ofTsfcffl*ith at any time. All of which, DOSsimyvßafterspn can’t substantiate.