Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jonesboro wants a bank. Laporte is still boring for gas. Walkerton rejoices in a bank. Mumps are epidemic at Anoka. Elkhart bonds sell at a premium. prevails at Ebenezer. a Waveland is prosecuting gamblers: Michigan City is enjoying sleighing. A law and order league is forming at Wabash. ' A Woman’s Exchange is promised tor Goshen. * Mollie Corwin, of Shelbyville, has just been divorced from her seventh husband. Grazing- for cattle on the Southern Indiana hills is a remarkable result of 'tiie pleasant winter. The Jeffersonville Shoe Co. will' abandon convict labor after April 1. They clann it does not pay to use convict labor in that business. The immense tank, belonging to the Standard Company at Laketon, has sprung a leak, and the oil is contaminating the water of Eel river for miles. Jerry Shoaff, of Fort Wayne, who killed Goelecke, a saloonkeeper, with a spittoon,because the latter attempted to collect pay for drinks, is given but two years in prison for his murderous deed. John Wright, of Atlanta, aged seven-ty-five, and a-prominent resident of Pike county, after* being blind for three years, claims to have suddenly been cured of his infirmity through the efficacy of prayer. The oldest Methodist preacher in the State is said to be Rev. George Schwartz, of Jeffersonville, who was licensed to preach in 1882, when twenty years of age, and who has been continuously laboring ever since. The gross receipts of the Louisville, New Albany & Corydon railroad, last year, were $10,393, through which a dividend of one per cent, was paid on the investment. The rolling stock of the company consists of two engines, two passenger cars and one freight car. The State common-school fund increased during 1888 $83,784,68. The entire increase in all public school funds reached $98,103.56. ■ The revenue derived from all sources during the year was $5,235,031.93. The rumber of teachers employed in the State last vear was 14,202. * . Peter Kempf, a saloon keeper at Russiaville, was tried in toe Circuit Court, last week, for the illegal sale of liquor, and convicted. His fine and costs amount to $260. and in # default of the money he is in the county jail, where he will remain tor the next nine months unless his fine is sooner paid. Sweeney & Bro., of Jeffersonville, have contracted with the Government to build a revenue cutter, tor service on the South Atlantic coast. It will have a steel hull, and will be completed at the Jeffersonville Works at a total cost of $90,000. Heretofore this class of work has always been done in the East. The Indiana Presidential electors met in the House pf Representatives at -Indianapolis, on the 14th, and cast the electoral vote of the State for Benj. Harrison for President, and Levi P. Mo: ton tor Vice President. On the 15th the electors froib Illinois and Ohio visitedTndianapolis and with the Indiana electors called on Gen. Harrison and tendered their congratulations. It ia n’eedless to say the greetings were cordial. The inauguration committee has arranged with the trunk lines west of Washington for round-trip rates tor those who desire to attend the inauguration ceremonies next March. The- following will be the fare tor round-trip tickets from the named points: Cincinnati, 0., $12.50; Fort Wayne, Ind., sls; Indianapolis,lnd., sl6; Logansport.lnd., $16.75; Louisville, Ky., $15.54; Richmond, Ind., $14.25; Terre Haute, Ind., $18.25; Vincennes, Ind., $18.25. While the family of Wm. Woodard, of Muncie, were at supper Thursday evening the little girl, aged fifteen months, crawled up to the chair of her brother, who is four years old, and was looking up and prattling to him, when the little fellow accidentally overturned a cup of tea, the hot fluid falling directly into her face and a great deal of it going into her mouth and down the throat passage. Her sufierings were intense until death relieved hqr Friday morning. A strange phenomenon is noticed in connection with the gas supply at Montpelier. Six hours out of every twenty-four the gas runs down to a minimum, and six hours daily it reaches a maxiinum. While at low ebb the valves are open wide to get a sufficiency, and when at the highest point the smallest turn of the key will supply the demand. The movement is constant with the ocean tides, but whether or not the same influences are The cause is a matter of conjecture with the Montpelier residents. Col. John A. Bridgeland, who went to Washington to complete arrangements tor the accommodation of Indiana people who attend the inauguration, returned to Indianapolis Saturday. He secured quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel, where the .Indiana people will have exclusive use of ofie of the large parlors facing Pennsylvania avenue; he also rented a hall, in which will be placed a hundred cots, tor which a charge of $1 a day will be made, and a vacant lot, where a good view of the procession can be obtained, was secured. Seats will be placed on it tor 250 persons and a charge of twenty-five cents, “as much,” Colonel Bridgeland remarked, “as we would have to pay to see a monkey show,” will be made for their use. There will be no trouble about accommodations, Colonel Bridgeland thinks, as provision will be made for caring for 20flfb00 persons. The visitors from Indiana will probably number 2,500. —~ « A duel was fought, Monday, between Henri Rochfort,editor of I’lntransigeant, and M. Lissargarv, editor of La Bataille. The weapons used were swordß. Both combatants were wounfied. M. Lissar.gary’s wounds are dangerous. Governor-elect Hovey has resigned as Congressman from thetoFirat District, and Governor Gray has relied a special election to fill the held Tuesday; the 29th inst. A British Minister to the United States will not be appointed until after Harrison’s inauguration. Minister Phelps will embark tor his home January 31. __