Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Seymour has a candy fackyy. ( Chicken thieves bother Bluffton. There is a great demand for houses ! at Anderson. - ; A death from milksickness is reported from Morgan county. A conspicuous number of Elkhart Children wear glasses. The Fort Wayne -electric light works Friday morning- Loss, $300,000. ’ “ - The corner stone of the new Vanderburg county court house was laid on the 27th. The switchmen at Indianapolis struck Thursday for an increase in wages, less hours, and .other causes Mrs. Lucy Payne, of Seymour, addicted to the use of opium,., died from an ovdrdose of the drug Monday. John Stevens, a wealthy resident" of Martinsville, was thrown from his wagon, Monday, and probably fatally hurt. Govornor Gray has determined not to call a special session of the Legislature, Unless it should be made necessary by some unexpected emergency. A panic has seized Indianapolis people on account of the fear that natural gas will not hold out. There are nearly 10,000 consumers in that city. John Smith, a miner at Knightsville has fallen heir to $9 >,OOO in Wales by the death of a relative. He is going across the water to collect* his little stake. In an attempt to find gas at the site of the proposed soldiers home at Marion, salt water was struck instead, and the Commission will be called upon to relocate the home. It is estimated that the farmers of the bottom lands adjoining Lawrenceburg have lost fully 10,0n0 bushels of corn on account of the recent rise in the Ohio and Big Miami rivers. A new department, that of veterinary surgery, has been added do Purdue. Three exercises will be given each day. The course will be thorough and will include dissection and clinics.

One of the most unique weather bureaus extant is that conducted at Seymour for the good of Jackson county, by Colonel John T. Forsythe, of the Daily Democrat. A steamjwhistle gives the weather signal to everybody within twelve miles. Louis Wilfong was arrested, Wednesday, at Laporte, for a criminal assault on a little girl but eight years old. The crime was committed on Monday, and the victim is in a very precarious condition. Wilfong was captured after a long and exciting chase. It will be remembered that LieutGov. Robertson brought suit against the bondsmen of Green Smith for the expenses incurred in defending his right to the office of Lieutenant-Governor. The Judge has decided that the bonds were a nullity and that, therefore, Robertson cannot recover. Rev. J. J. Emery, a Methodist preacher from England, lately living near Plymouth, has been in the hospital at Ft. Wayne for some time owing to his desire to fast. He thought if he did not do Christian work he should not eat and abstained for nine days. He was cheered up by the doctors and is going back to England. Irvin L. Bible, who lives near Now Richmond, Montgomery county, was twenty years old the other day, and his uncle offered him $1 for every bushel of corn he would shuck that day between sunrise and sunset. The young man went to work in earnest, and in the evening he was presented witn a ehPfik Tor $lO4, having shucked 1 0 bushels of corn. ~T— There was a Belva Lockwood parade at Corydon, Ind., Wednesday, which eclipsecf ail political demonstrations of the season. About a hundred young men, attired in dresses of all patterns, intended as a burlesqe of prevailing female fashions, were in the procession. After the parade the crowd assembled in front of the public square where a fictitious Belva delivered a speech which excited a great deal of merriment and round after round of applause. About 500 persons witnessed the pro-

ceedings. It is doubtful if any man in the public service has done more for his relatives than Hon. S. M. Stoekslager, of this State, the Commissioner of the General Land Office. He .secured the appointment of two of his brothers to good positions, one as examiner pf penV:ions„ at Albany, N.‘ Y., aud the other as receiver of public moneys at Haley, Idaho,•, The Douglass fenjily are closely related/ to him, and he- ba.s secured positions sos Judge B. P. Douglas*, W. B. Donglatw and Ci Ni. Douglass, and besides, hath Anna % Douglass appointed postmaster at Oorydon. His brother-in-law. J. A. MVilcifj is in the mail service, and bis qpusjn, S. D. Lnckett, holds a lifeiative positjou at Washington. ' » Reports in the State Statistician’ < office from fifty-six counties show that I,< <>»' divorces have ’been granted in the past vest, 784 upon! complaint of and 331 at the instance of the 355 -complaints alleged abandonment, 169 cruel treatment, 104 adultery, 9922Tcifiniin.il conviction. The inereasie over iW. when three m»Vrc cpjAtifleA were reported,fa 31. jrn siyty pine county asylums, 2.372. p/rsonp were** reported; 1,451 and -63 whoee sex is noNguVen; blirk>, 478 - insane. deafy ainddumb and old'age. The

county average is 36, an increase of one over last yekr. Forty-five county sheritfareport7,467 person imprisoned daring the past year. The November crop report, published Wednesday, has tho*following in reference, to Indiana crops. Former reports indicated that the yield of corn would be slightly in excess of that of 1887; the quality will be lowered by reason of many fields having been damaged some by drought, the grains being shriveled ffiflrdiooae upon the. ..cab. Fortunately, the area thus affected is not large, as the. reports do not seem to indicate snch condition in the southern portion of State. The yield of Irish potatoes will be somowhat greater than was anticipated, and the quality is fair. The yield of buckwheat will be light, and the quality medium. The crop of apples is jrery little short of a full yield; falling prematurely has reduced the xuantity of winter-keepers, but there will be a large surplus to find a market elsewhere, or make into cider. Recent rains have improved late-sown wheat, and pastures have about recovered from the effects of the drought. The annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, which was given to the press Sunday night, gives in detail the operations of the internal revenue laws, the and the distillers, etc., during the past fiscal year. The aggregate collections in Indiana were $4,139,159. The Sixth district, of which Hunter is collector, paid $2,7' 5,381. Although t :ere were 518 seizures in the territory, and 812 persons arrested, Indiana furnishes none of them. The exhibit relating to the manufacture of tobacco in Indiana is as follows:' Factories, 14; pounds of leaf used, 38,487: scraps, 7.976; licorice, 459; sugar, 627; total, 46,647. Plug tobacco martufactured, 2,629 pounds; smoking, 9,239; snuff, 24,033; exported, 100 pounds: sold, 40,727 pounds; value of stamps used, $3,258. In the State there a e 18 special tax-payers, 5,567 retail liquor dealers, 62 wholesale liquor dealers, 435 manu facturerS' of cigars, 54 dealers in leaf tobacco, 18 dealers in leaf tobacco not exceeding 25,000 pounds, 17,241 dealers in manufactured tobacco, 26j peddle Bof tobacco, 49 brewers, and 184 retailers in malt liquors. One manufacturer of and 1 wholesale dealer in oleomargarine, 32 retail dealers in oleomargarine. There are 26 registered fruit distilleries in the State, of which 24 were operated during the year. Nine hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-one bushels of materials were, used in the manufacture of distilled spirits. There was rectified 1,160,170 gallons of spirits. Number of cattle fed, 6,1 68; hogs,. 5.654. The assessments in the State aggregated $57,882. The exportation of distilled spirits from the State amounted to 60,862 gallons. Spirits in warehouses, 1,6114,626 gallons. Oleomargarine produced in Indiana during the year, 2,884.183 pounds; exported, 9,o4Opoundß; tax on the manufacture, $82,735. The manufacturers of and dealers in oleomargarine in Indiana aggregate 623. I. 0. o. F. OF INDIANA. The Grand Encampment and Grand Lodge I. 0. O. F. of Indiana, met at Indianapolis on the 2 th, 216 t and 22d Inst. The Grand Encampment reports snowed a very general and encouraging increase in membership. Ibe officers elected for the ensuing year were: A C. Daily, Lebanon, Grand Patriarch; J. G. Strdup, Waldron, <->rand Senior Warden; John W. Cooper, -Kokomo, ~~Jtratftr~Waf de n;~B--Fr~Foster,--M adisoft-,-Grand Scribe; Tbos. P. Haughey, Indianapolis, Grand Treasurer. The attendance at the Grand Lodge was the largest ever recorded in the history of.the order. The <5 rand Secretary. B. F. Foster, reported that the net inqrease in membership for the term is 1,345. During the same period there were 1,824 initiations. Nineteen hundred and forty-six brothers and 161 widowed families have been relieved. The sum of $39,2<>4 82 has been paid for thq relief of brothers; $2,966 77 for the relief of.widowed’ families; SOB 97 for the education of orphans; $10,527.03 for burying the dead, and $3 476 09 for other charitable purposes, makipgtbe total, amount of relief $50383.68. is i.T the, largest sum ex-; peuded for relief lit'any one term for several The total number of Odd Fellowiifn $e State undet the juris diction of the■ .'fir'did Lodge is 29,559. ThV%*«iptfi from lodges fpr the year 'wei?e?Sl93)i('7 47, ahtf expenses $69,85.7.2. ■-;'A Vfoh'/eoort of the grand T, P,. Haughey, he assets of Ihe o c|£d ■Lud g£ gen<er# I fund tube: Cash Oh hand. 7,5) Grand L.'iiljfe Flail stock, i32s{m ; total. sll 615.27: The' re-C-ipts of,tfiis fuhl for the year were $19,•'.42 "The receipts of theGraud Lodge Ha)) hind were, ioel-nhn'r a balance of $052;48 at last report, $1 There was ait the dateyjijt he re port this year a balance of $7,46127. From the Gr<md Lodge trustees a repo/t was received agreeing with treasurer’s statement. The electfon of officers resuked as follows: / Grand Master —J. E. O. F. Harper, of Madison. _ " . Deputy Grand Master—C. C. Binkley, Richmond. Grand W arden—W. H. aptolis, Gnhid Secretary—B. F. Foster, MadiKon. (address-Indianapolis, i Grand Treasurer—T-. P. Haughßy, Indianapolis. Trii=.tce«--Wm, Wall ice, J. W. McQuiddy and John Ferguson.