Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson wants fire escapes. Terre Haute will use electric light Lagrange county wheat looks well. Peru is abundantly supplied with gas. Goshen will have free mail delivery Feb. 1. * Jeffersonville will soon have a street railway. Shelbyville glories in an abundance of natural gas. , ' ' , Monticello will probably pipe gas from Francesville. A car manufacturing company- is being organized at Peru. Shelbyville’s streets will probably be lighted with natural gas. A double secret wedding is exciting the gossips "Of Charlestown. Judges Niblack, Howk and ZoUars retired from the Supreme Court Bench, Saturday. David Fowler, of Jonesboro, was fatally injured by the accidental discharge of a target gun. Jack Fnllorn,an operator, was drowned in Lake Manitou on the 2d by breaking through the ice. Shelby Stagier killed George Jones at Knights ville, on the 2d, with an “unloaded” revolver. Three hundred young men are included in the membership of the Fort Wayne Y. M. C. A, A railroad accident occurred at Goshen, on the 2d, caused by a boxcar jumping the track. One man was killed and seven injured. The Jeffersonville Shoe Co. will abandon convict labor April 1. They claim it does not pay to use convict labor in that business. A ghost—a white shadow in human shape —is troubling the vicinity of Lexington, Scott county. Shotguns have been fired at it, but without effect. Maurice Thompson, State Geologist, resigned, on the 2d, on accoutft of ill health. Sylvester S. Gorby, his assistant, was appointed to succeed him. Eli Talley, a huckster of eeymour, drove over a bluff, by which he was fatally injured, his horses were tilled, and his wagon was broken to pieces. Marcus Horney, of Montgomery county, husked and cribbed 2,328 bushels of corn in twenty-six days, an average of eighty-nine bushels daily. A Washington special of the sth says that ex-Senator McDonald is willing and is probably laying his plans to succeed Senator Voorhees in the United States Senate. C. H. Forbes, of Michigan City, has an amulet and dagger bearing the date 1001, being 888 years old. They were dug up at Westminster Abbey many years ago. Lewis Daily, aged eighty, and Miss Artimacy ‘Clarke, aged sixty-three, of Bippus, have been united in marriage, and it is said to hpve been a case of love at first sight. Seventeen fatal accidents occurred in Indiana coal mines in 1888, and twentyone which were not fatal. In the State there are 217 mines giving employment to 7,404 men. The Murphy meetings at Connersville were a great success, many hundreds signing the pledge. Francis Murphy is now at Terre Haute, and Thomas E., his son, at Goshen. Three hundred men and boys took part in a wolf_hunt near Monticello, and one gaunt wolf and one fox was killed, besides several rabbits. Seventyfive shots were fired at the wolf before it succumbed. A dog at Versailles went mad and bit a number of other dogs before being killed. The town Trustees ordered that all dogs be chained up for sixty days, and that the Marshal shoot everyone found running at large. Madison county Republicans profess indignation because 150 representatives were selected in Marion county to arrange for Governor Hovey’s inaugural ball, and other counties were also drawn upon, but Madison was entirely ignored. The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross, of Morrelville, is afflicted with “hydrocaphalus,” or water on the brain. The head is now thirty-six inches in circumference,and constantly increasing, and the weight is so great that the little one can not stand. The State Statistican finds that in 1887 the donat ons to railroads in Indiana amounted to $548,255 and stock was taken to the amount of $146,252, while in 1882 the donations aggrega’ed $293,741 and stock taken $8,200. The townships voting aid numbered 460. \ The revenues from the Indianapolis postoffice during tjhe last quarter were $50,000 —10 per cent, of an increase over the last quarter of ’B7. This office after paying all expenses, yields Uncle Sam $120,0 0 per annum, net. The government can afford to put some of it back into needed buildings and improvements. At Marion Saturdav afternoon the jury in the case of Edwin Matchett against the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan railway, brought in a verdict awarding the plaintiff $4,000 damages. About a year ago, at Anderson, the plaintiff, while employed as a brakeman, fell from a car and sustained injuries that crippled him for life. He sued, for $20,000. Patents have been granted to the following Indiana inventors: Hears Cooprider, jr., Clay City, traction-tongue for threshing machines; George L. Elder, Wilmington, chart for educational purposes; Edwin H. Ford, Hartford City, automatic gas regular, and cut-off; Christian M. Kirkpatrick, Indianapolis, automatic cut-off for gas; David M. and T. H. Perry Indianapolis, two-wheeled vehicle, Frederick Rupp, Milford, twowheeled vehicle; John Swaim, Newbern car-brake and starter. There have been two elopements at Crawfordsville, within the pa t week. The first was Wallie Peterman, a married man, and Miss Pearl Freeman, his sister-in-law. The second case was last Tuesday night. A. M. Stearns, aged about forty, and supposed to be married, eloped with Miss Minnie Cavenaugh, a girl about fifteen years old. They went to Indianapolis. Stearns was a peddler of lamp wicks, and when he first arrived in Crawfordsville hesaid he had a wife and child living in Missouri. ' Charles Allen, a farmer near the Shelby and Johnson county line, was bitten by a mad dog, a few days ago, and he relieved his apprehension by applying a madstone. Several head of stock be-

longing to him were also bitten, and also a horse belonging to Edward Tucker. This horse showed systems of hydrophobia, Thursday, and bit several hogs and sheep before being secured. Stock belonging to other farmers have also been bitten, and there is great apprehension in the Allen neighborhood. Mondav morning Mayor Russell fined 8. M. Coffman, proprietor of the Crawfordsville Daily Argus-News, $lO, with costs of $26, for publishing the Louisiana lottery advertisement in a certain issue of the paper last May. Cofl man at once gave his check for $36. Within two hourt another like charge had been entered against Mr. Coffman, before Judge Chumeiaso, and after trial, Wednesday, the Judge took the matter under advisement, From the present cutlook it seems that a case is to be filed for every issue of the paper containing said advertisement. If such proves to be the case, and each fine and costs averages $36, the total sum will be about $3,000. The advertisement has appeared twice a week for about seven months.

The annual apportionment of Indiana’s School Fund has been completed by State Superintendent The per capita apportionment remains as it was last year, $1.14. The number of school children in the State is, according to the enumeration reported by the County Superintendents, 757,071, and the excess of apportionment over taxes paid into the fund, proves that the population of children is proportionately largest in the counties where there is the least wealth. It was this fact caused the enactment of the law so as to require the men who accumulate more wealth than family to contribute to the education of his poor fellowcitizens’ children, but State officers and others who have investigated the system find that there are abuses in the method of apportionment that it may be necessary to bring under more rigid legislative restriction, although the principle is all right and necessarily must continue to prevail. Some of the counties, it is asserted, persistenly report a greater school population than they really have, for the purpose of getting a larger apportionment of funds, but the State officers have no power to correct such frauds.

Chairman Fairbanks, of the Indiana Committee on Arrangements for the inaugural, has returned from Washington. Track room for sleepers is still being promised, and it is said that all freight cars will be moved from the side tracks in and near Washington for a few days before the inauguration, and temporary switches will be provided. Persons who desire to make arrangements for the trip may find it to their advantage to communicate with General J. R. Carnanan. Quarters will be secured for all applicants. The committee has arranged for a convenient stand from which Indianians can witness the parade on Pennsylvania avenue. Letters have been received from ninety of the survivors of the Seventieth Rigiment who have decided to go to Washington to act as the guard of honer of the President-elect. The regiment will leave Ihdianapolis on Friday, March 1, at two o’clock p. m., and will arrive in Washington on the second. Colonel Merrill will be in command. No military uniforms will be worn, but a light brown overaoat and derby hat of uniform style. General Harrison will leave Indianapolis ten days before the fourth of March.