Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Ligonier wants electric light. Winchester has a band again. Lagrange has a building boom. Floyd county wheat looks well. Ladoga will muzzle or kill its dogs. Peru lost but $4,200 worth of property by fire last year. Peru Methodists have been having a successful revival. _ Over 2,500 Muncieites have signed the Murphy pledge. A general slaughter of Montgomery county dogs is imminent. Catherine Kavanaugh, aged 107,-died at Madison, Wednesday. A Good Templar Lodge with sixty-five members has been instituted at Linden. An oil well with a capacity of 400 barrels a day is the lateßt wonder at Portland. ' John Glass, of Evansville, fell thirty feet from a smoke- stack, kiut will recover. W. W. Boatright, of Sullivan, was arrested while manufacturing conterfeit silver dollars. —° . A specialist in South Bend has bees warned by White Caps that he must leave the State. Three young men of Martinsville are said to have been warned by White Caps to leave that section. The building boom at Anderson is awful. Sometimes ,the demand is so great that they run out of sand, f Martin Houseman; of Elkhart, attempted to hasten a fire with gasoline. His wife aud himßelf were frightully burned. % The police raided the gambling rooms of Marion, Saturday night, capturing SI,OO ) worth of “utensils” and about a dozen players. Mrs. Themas Sbeerin, mother of Hon. S. P. Sheerin, Secretary of the National Democratic Committee, died at Logansport, Wednesday. * ' TLe broom vs. the dish rag. was vigorously debated by the young ladies of a Crawfordsville colored club. Thank fortune, the broom won. r Mancie wants parks, lakes, monu-

meats and popular resorts. Good. But why not ask for mountains, oceans and a slice off the moon as well? r ■ Vtola Neealer brought suit against the Methodist church at Hartford City for s6oo for services as organist for the past six years. The jury disagreed. The Barber Match Co., of Akron, 0., will remove to Wabash. A plant costing $300,< 00 will be erected and 200 men jFill be employed. Natural gas did it. Tom Denny, an Anderson sport, has vpagered s2otbat he can eat four pounds Of hog liver every evening between 6 and 7 o’clock for-forty consecutive days. e A marriage license was issued at Peru to James Sas-sa-fras and and Susanna Goodtboo, both Indians. The groom is seventy years of age and the woman fifty-two. »' The Terre Haute mad stone is in great demand. Geo. Bannan, of *New Mayswas the latest tolapply it. It adhered for fourteen hours and then fbr four hours. JohnD. Critchfield, a lawyer of Mt. Vernon, began a suit in the courts Wednesday against his mother-in-law. for SIOO,OOO damages. He claims that she deprived him of his wif’e affections. The Indiana Civil Service Reform Association held its annual meeting at Indianapolis, Wednesday. Lucien B. Swift, of Indianapolis, was elected President. Various papers were discussed. 1 ; . Dr. F. Flaeger, a prominent dentist of Evansville, suicided on the 2 th by cutting his throat with a pen knife. He waß 63 years old. The loss of bis property and failing health prompted the awful deed. The post office at Milltown, a station on the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis R. R., was robbed Tuesday night. Eight registered letters, a large quantity of stamps, copper cents and three gold ripgß were stolen. The excitement over hydrophobia has nearly run its course at Annapolis, there being only one well developed case with the live stock the past week. The residents felicitate themselves that “the disease can not last much longer, as We are about out of dogs.” The Jersey Cattle Breeders Association, the Indiana Wool Growers Assoriation and the Indiana Trotting and Pacing Horse Breeding Association were among the organizations which held annual meetings at Indianapolis on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. For robbing and setting fire to the store of Richard Nash, at Bethlehem, Ind., last week, Mrs. Mack Jefferß and Mrs. Ed. Powell and their four children, the families of the men who committed the crime, were taken into custody near that town on Satnrday. They were found in shanty-boats, and had in their possession sst 0 of the stolen goods. The men made their escape as the arresting party came up. Mrs. JeflerS met the officers with a hatchet, but finally surrendered without a fight. The Commissioner of Agriculture has just issued a report on the crops of the past year, from which the following, relating to farm products in Indiana, is taken: “Heavy rains during the early part of November caused serious damage to corn remaining on river bottoms and low, flat lands. The loss was neaviest in the southeastern part of the State. The weather remaining cool and damp delayed the gathering of the crop, and a very large per cent, of the corn in shock yet remains in the fields.” Concerning the condition of winter grain in Indiana, the report says: “The usual winter grain acreage will be fully maintained, with possibly a slight increase in the area of wheat. The past month has been favorable to the growth of wheat, and the plants are vigorous and appear to be well rooted.”