Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jay county is a good oil fieldA saloon war rages at Angola. Seymour wants an opera house. Delphi girls flirt with drummers. * Greehsburgh has a checker club. Terre Haute needs a Sam Jones. Jeffersonville has the whist fever. Burglars are abroad in Jeffersonville. Elwood is debating religious subjects. Muncie will have free mail delivery Jan. 1. There are twenty Y. M. C. A’s., in Indiana. December violets are gathered in Goshen. Lagrange calls itself the city of churches. « Terre Haute has added a monkeywrench factory. Odd Fellows are building a fine hall at Leavenworth. The fashion of secret marriages is becoming popular at Goshen. Charles Fyffe and Nora Wilkerson, of Bainbridge, eioped, Thursday. The O. A M. shops at Washington cover nearly three acres of ground. Lew's Woods, a young man of Bartholomew county, was accidently killed while hunting. -?■ The six-year-old child of Wm. Truitt, of Muncie, fell into a natural gas fire and" can hardly recover. Hon. B, F. Claypool, a prominent lawyer and highly’ respected citizen of ' onnersville, died on the 11th and was buried on the 13tb. The First National Bank of Columbus has recovered the larger part of the money and securities stolen by Schreiber, the teller. , Miss Sadie Kirby, of South Bend, is said to possess a marvelous voice and gives promise of being the greatest prima oona of the age. William Williams,of Delaware county, is charged by indictment with criminal intimacy with one of his daughters, and the arrest has been made. Warden Murdoch, of the Prison North, suggests the appointment of a State agent, charged with finding employment for ex-convicts. John Martin, of Duck Creek township, Madison county, was attacked by two catamouts and by the time he had succeeded in dispatching both of them, he was severely injured. A blacksmith working in Switzerland county is said to be a modern Samson. He declares that he can goto any hillside and carry a heavier log than any team of horses or mules can pull up the hill. Revised list of candidates for Legislative plums: For Doorkeeper, Ed. S. Hayes, Posey; Felix Monroe, Dubois;W. L. Hewitt, Montgomery. For Assistant Clerk: W. P. Turner, New Castle; C. E. Crowley, of Sullivan. John N. Turner, Marion, gave employment to three colored men, and he also employs white labor. Last week he was notified: “You must not hire negro laborers, for White Caps and Regulators are in the county.” The 11th was th* 72d anniversary of Indiana’s admission into the Union as a State. The event was very generally observed in the public schools. The ceremonies were especially appropriate, usually being made up from the writings of native authors, with patriotic Bonus interspersed. The annual meeting of the tile makers of the State was held at Indianapolis on the 11th. About sixty delegates were present; Various subj ects of interest to the members were discussed. It was, developed that Illinois tile was sold at only about half of what Indiana tile could be bought. Argus Dean, of Madison, is the largest peach grower of the world. He has 125,1 00 trees on 775 acres of land. This year 75,<iQ0 trees bore 50,' 00 bushels of fruit. The trees are sot a* rod vated in corn, so that two crops are produced simultaneously. Dr. Harrison, President of the State Benevolent Board, willnot.be a candidate for re-electiOn. He. complains of ill health. There are six or eight candidates for the including Messrs. Gapen and Burrill, members of the present Board; Thomas Markey, James B. Ryan, of Indianapolis; Dr. Carson, of Shelby county, and Dr. Matthew James, of Muncie. William Benson, a farm hand, murdered Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Motweiler at their home, near Edwardsville, Floyd county, on the morning of the 10th, because they objected to his courting Callie Snyder, who made her home with the Motweilers. The murderer is in jail, and has made a confession. Miss Jnyder has also been arrested as an accomplice, but she denies having any knowledge of the crime. David Overmyer left Jennings county a few years ago and located in Kansas, where the Democracy allowed him to figure as a Congressional candidate this fall. He now explains his recent overwhelming defeat for Congress thus: “The Republicans are like bees. Ordinarily you can see a few flying lazilv about their hive, not taking much interest in anythingapparently. But let some fool come along and hit the gum a whack, and they come out by the million, and he must run or die. I hit the gum.” Smaller towns throughout the State are complaining of an ingenious soap swindle which is being worked. Female agents claiming to be from Chicago canvass from house to house, leaving a cake of soap as a sample. Then they return and ask th/jady to sign a printed “testimonial,” the same to be presented to the grocer to influence the latter to handle the trade. These testimonials afterward turn up as “orders,” calling for soap in various quantities at fancy prices. The wording of the so-called “testimonial” is very ingenious. Sheriff Robert L. Jones, of Grant county, who took his office less than a month ago, was probably fatally shot Sunday night by John Fleming, a horse thief, who escaped from the Grant county jail on the 20th of last September. Word came to the Sheriff that Fleming had returned and could be found at a house in Jerome, a village across the line in Howard county. The sheriff and a deputy went out to arrest him. The sheriff confronted him with nothing but a billy, when Fleming drew a revolver and fired two shots into the officer. The deputy rushed in and } secured Fleming, t The Indiana State Horticultural So-'

ciety met at Indianapolis on the sth and 6th and transacted business and considered matters of interest to fruit growers. A resolution was adopted urging Upon General Harrison the appointment of a Commissioner of Agriculture, when he becomes President, who shall represent the agricultural interests of the country. Allen Furnas, C. M. Hobbs and Daniel Cox were re-elected President, Secretary and Treasurer respectively; The .new Vice Presidents ate Jesse C. Stevens, Centerville: G. W. Grant, Pulaski; I. D. G. Nelson, Ft- Wayne; A. Glenn, Columbus; W. A, Workmyn, Greencastle, and Joseph A. Burton, Mitchell; J. J. W. Billingsley; Indianapolis; W. H. Regan, Greencastle, and L. B. Custer, Logansport, compose the Executive Committee. The display of fruit was superb. Candidates for positions in the Legislature are growing numerous. For Speaker there are M. J. Niblack, of Knox: Gabriel Schmuck, of Marion; J. H. Willard, of Lawrence; Lee Wilson, of Shelby; C. G. Conn, of Elkhart; Mr. White; of Johnson; Harrell, of Franklin; and Shambo, of Allen. J. B. Wilson. of Marion, and W. H. Steinbaugh, of Fulton,are candidates for Doorkeeper of the House, and*Thomas Wewkirk, of Rush, Clerk. Wj-J. Craig,of the Indianapolis Sentinel, and Wm. M. Moss, of the Bloomfield Democrat.are candidates for the Secretaryship of the Senate. For Assistant Secretaty, John D Carter, of Orange, and T. W. W. Sunman, of Ripley, are named. Frank Hamilton, pt Martin; Thos. Cottrell,and M. H. Daniel, of Marion, would like to be Doorkeepers of the