Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Evansville has a cooking school. South Bend is to haves public library. A v ine room is the latest at Anderson. Ft. Wayne is not satisfied with; her concert saloons * ’ There are sixty-students in the Valparaiso high school. Perkinsville will soon erect a‘new Methodist church. Two IWre Haute people—John E. Lamb and Dr. H. W. Taylor—each have a novel in press. Hon. Tom Reed, the Maine Congressman, spoke at Terre Haute Friday night and at Fort Wayne Saturday night. George Mullen, a young farmer of Bartholomew county, fell from an apple tree last week and was fatally injured. South Bend people report a mysterious outlet oi natural gas is thought to be the cause, ,- —— —»—, —-——-

Mrs. Mary Gales, of Jeffersonville, for many years a cripple on crutches, was healed Friday by faith and now walks upright without assistance. A crowd of 25,000 people attended the Shelbyville Democratic barbecue on the 15th, the rainy weather militating against the affair considerably. Ex-Senator Thurman was the principal speaker. The Presbyterian Church of Elkhart is the third church in the State to assume the entire support of a foreign mission. This it has done at a fe'ost of SBQ0 —one-half of which is contributed by one member. The Chatauqua to be established by the Baptist Association of Indiana may go to Laporte. The society wants a subsidy of $5,000. If the report of the committee is concurred in, the Association will purchase seventy-five acres of land on the northwest bank of Pine Lake, on which they will erect an auditorium and other necessary buildings. Hundreds of loads of wood are being hauled weekly from Anderson to the country within four or five miles around to be used by farmers for fuel. This wood is obtained at the numerous mills and heading factories. A farmer living within three miles of Anderson can now buy his wood there and haul it home cheaper than he can cut it. Natural gas does it. Patents were granted to Indiana inventors as follows: William Armstrong, Indianapolis, table; John B. Bennett, Indianapolis, assignor by mense assignments, to A. Andren, Beverly, Mass., mechanical telegraph; Josephus Harper, Louisville; Ky., and T. Clark, New Albany, converting cast iron into steel; David Howard and S. W. Ward, Dublin, fence; August Ruling, Fort Wayne, double-acting pump.-- —— The editor of the Rockville Tribune tells this incident to show what foolish things mortals sometimes do: “We watched a traveling sharp do up a crowd of suckers here last Friday. His scheme was to sell his pills at twenty-five cents a box and then give the purchaser back his money. After he got the crowd interested he raised the price of his wares to one dollar and then forgot to return the money.” John W. Mackenson, a citizen of Warsaw, wentsquirrel hunting last Tuesday, and not returning, his brothers started out to find him. About fifty people joined in the search, and the unfortunate mait’a hody ww in a hollow, where it had been rolled by hogs. It was horribly mutilated. It is supposed that Mr. Mackenson accidently shot himself, though it is impossible to tell, owing to the mutilated condition of the body.

A most remarkable discovery has been made at the Salomonic quarries near Montpelier. The blasts at this quarry are set off by a battery, and are very powerful. Recently a blast opened up a fissure which was filled with clear water, brackish to the taste. The hole wqs about twelve inches wide, ten feet long and eight feet deep, the bottom and sides being solid rock, and completely isolated. The water nr,it was a3in a marble basin. In the water was found numerous fish and frogs, which differed from the ordinary species in that they had no eyes. From the surroundings it would seem that the fish and frogs had lived there thousands of years. Several in these quarries show traces of volcanic action;-

Two changes in the Democratic electoral ticket have been made by the State Executive Committee. The candidate for elector from the Thirteenth District M. A. O. Packard, is a director in a National bank, and, as it was feared that this might possibly cause some question to arise as to his eligibility under the law providing that no elector shall hold office under the Federal Government, it was decided to make a change, ana Andrew G. Wood, of Warsaw, was placed on the ticket in his place. Charles L. Jewett, the Chairman of the State Committee, was named as the elector of the Third District, but withdrew, and the Executive Committee has chosen in his place George Henry Dunn Gibson, of Clark County. In a statement addressed “to the public” General Hovey complains that hundreds of Tettere and documents directed by him to ex-soldiera have never reaehtheir destination through the mails. He adds, “There can be no doubt that some of the postmasters or their clerks have been withholding the mail from those to whom su'ch speeches have oeen sent, piot Biopping at sucn illegal actions, tney

have opened some of the envelopes and inserted private matter not bankable under the act of Congress. He also pub lishes an affidavit, signed by Oliver C. Terry, William P. Wallace and George E. Wallace, who have been employed sending out his mail since September 29, denouncing as false the Democratic charge that copies of a German newspaper, with British flag cardß, had been enclosed with his Congressional speeches in franked envelopes. The State Geologist is preparing his annual report, which he hopes to place in the hands of the public as early as January 1. The ducument will exceed in size that of last year very considerably, and will show a large amount of work accomplished during the twelve months to which it relates. Field work, valuable in its nature, has been carried on in several sections of the State, and a large amount of attention has been given tbfho region knowtrasthe ral Gas Belt.” The report will show that the industrial development of the State in this area has been nothing short of wonderful. It is now known that there are 5,000 square miles of Indiana underlaid by g&s in quantity to be of commercial value, and that the combined ‘ gas producing area of all other parts of the United States is not one-fourth as great nor as promising.