Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Bedford is now a city. Goshen wants a normal. Measles rage near Terhune. Muncie wants a Work House. ’ —\ Sugar camps have been opened. Anderson gimblers are being raided. The Terre Haute Rifles will join the State militia. A Methodist revival at Peru has resulted so far in 261 conversions. Frank L. Sawyer, a prominent business man of Seymour, is dead. ' The religious revival at Lyons resulted in sixty-six church accessions. Francis Murphy will begin temperance work at Loganooort, shortly. Gee. R. Smith’s $4,000 residence, near Shelbyville, was destroyed by fire. Michigan City has eleven firms exclusively engaged in handling fish. <■ Foxes were never known to be so numerous as now in Morgan county. Col. Martin Adams, who has resided in Clark county since 1808, is fatally ill. Mrs. Anna O. Lakin, Grand Matron, order of the Eastern Star, died at Terre Haute, Tuesday. J. E. Smith, forger and horse ’’thief was sent north from Wabash on the 25th for four years. Charles Vail, of Madison, has been an undertaker since 1826, and claims to have buried 20,000 bodies. John T. Swift, aged 72 and Mrs. Nancy Walker, 52, north people of Seymour were married on the 26th. It is proposed to erect a coal palace in Evansville, as one means of advertising the business advantages of that place. Walter Evans, an aged negro of Clark county, is the father of thirty-one children, eight of whom are still with him. . »

Charles Johnson, of Bryantsburg, twelve months ago sprained his ankle. Quite recently his leg w‘as amputated in consequence. Mueller’s bakery at Shelbyville burned, Saturday morning, and Frank Tolgeth, a baker, lost his life. He was asleep in the building. ' \ _ John Reno, one of the notorious Renos, has applied for a liquor license at Seymour, and his application is meeting witl great objection. Julius Kroll, ot Porter county’ has found the remains of a mastodon on his farm. One of the teeth is in good condition and weighs nine pounds. There was a boiler explosion near Millersburg, on Saturday, resulting in the death of Charles Skeels, of Evansville, the engineer. Pieces of the boilor were blown several hundred yards away. Sylvester Grubbs, the condemed murderer, under sentence of death at Vincennes, wants no appeal made for executive clemency, saying that if he can not be given Ibis liberty, he prefers to be executed. The Supreme Court decided, Saturday, that bicycles are vehicles and must be kept off the sidewalk. A .singular fact in connection with this decision is that it was handed down almost in the same hour that Judge Coffey, of that tribunal, was struck by one of these bestrode by a careless “vehiclist,” and severely injured. Henry Strohm, of New Paris, the young man who left home and shipped on a whaler at San Francisco, and was wrecked on the Phillipine Islands, undergoing extraordinary adventures with the savages before his fras again reached home. His trip covered' ’ two years, and his sufferings enlisted Secretary Bayard in his behalf. It is claimed that Clark county is rapidly becoming the greatest fruit growing section west of the Alleghanies and east of California. During the past season 30.000 peach trees were planted and capitalists are preparing to establish a large canning factory either at Memphis, New Providence or HenryOver two years ago Adolph Wysong’s boy crowded a piece of leather up his nose, where it remained until a few days ago. Meanwhile his parants were put to great expense, doctoring him for nasal trouble, and it was only by accident that the real cause was discovered. Since its removal the boy has flourished. —lndianapolis News. While the Freshmen of Wabash College were banqueting, Friday night, mischievous Sophmores laid out a line of hose, and as the former came out of the banqueting hall they were met with a stream of freezing cold water, thoroughly drenching them. A young man named Christian, of Indianapolis, is said to have been dangerously prostrated by the nervous shock. , Several weeks ago five person’s were taken suddenly ill after drinking water frontea well on the farm of James Owens, in Park county, since which time three have died, while the others are still sick. An analysis of the water has been made by Professor Coulter, of Wabash College, and it was found to be fairly swarming with a peculiar microbe, a germ that produces typhoid fever. Fred. Hoffman,-a farmer, near Kingston, was found dead in bed Friday. Last Christmas he told his wife he would die on New Year’s; and again, last Friday, that he would die on his birthday. Friday was his fifty-ninth anniversary. Previously to going to his room lie took some kind of medicine, and when found by his wife he was lying dead on the floor, with blood running from his nose and ears. Thomas Locke, a country school teacher near-Peru, had trouble with his scholars which culminated a month ago by the pupils refusing to attend school. Since then the teacher has gone regularly to the school building, onened it, gazed all day long at the empty benches and put in his claim for salary. He refuses tp quit, and, as no charges have been preferred against him, the trustee cannot dismiss him or refuse him his salary when due. Patents were Tuesday issued to Hie following Indiana inventors: Buzay, F. T., and a H. Snyder, South Bend, automatic fan; Caldwell, W. L., Indianapolis, advertising device; Creed, W. H.,Manilla, gate; Hoagland, 1., Indianapolis, car wheel; King, 0. C., Montezuma, dumping Car; Mawhood, J. D., Richmond, roller mill; Parry, D- M. and ,T. H.. Indianapolis, two-wheeled vehicles; VanCamp, G., Geneva, weast yoke; Young, F. A., Aurora, wagon brake. ' Nearly a hundred of Indiana Union Soldiers who participated in the siege of Vicksburg, met at Indianapolis, Friday,

and perfected? an organization by the election of the following officers: President— Alvia P. Hovey. First Vice President—W. 8. Shurman. Second Vice President—R. A. Cannon. Third Vice President—A. J. Smith. Fourth Vice President—T. J. Lucas. Fifth Vice President—G. F. McGinnis. Sixth Vice President—J. W. Readington. Seventh Vice President—N. A. Logan • Secretary—C. W. Brouse. Assistant Secretary— J. C. Wheat Second Assistant Secretary—W. C. Lamb. Corresponding-B. Campbell. Treasurer—Nimrod Headington. Reaolutions were adopted expressive of the ggntiments of the members on nensions, past and to come. Hardscrabble, a little hamlet in Jefferson county, was the scene, one night last week, of one of the most despicable raids yet made by tfie “White Caps” in that section of the State; the cowardly ruffians breaking into Willard Davis’s home late at night and tarring and feathering his wife. Tillie Davis, while he himself, was subjected to great indignity. A search was made for Emeline Davis, the divorced wife of his brother, but she escaped from the house and was afterward found nearly frozen to death; she having taken refuge in a small cabin. The cause of the outrage wap due to the fact that the conduct of the women was not approved. J. C. Bladen, of the same county, whom some gossiping woman accused of mistreating his child was also raided by the “White Caps,” who switched him and then made him run in a circle onthe frozen ground, crawl on his hands and knees and do other unpleasant things, Thomas Brayton, same county, accused of mistreatin his family, was also mobbed quite recently. Mention has been made of the tribulations attending the efforts of some Mormon missionaries to proselyte in a strip of country embracing portions of Dubois, Crawford, Lawrence and Harrison counties, where “White Caps” formerly flourished vigorously. These missionaries preposterously > claimed that they could make the lame walk, the blind, see, and could resurrect the dead, and two of them penetrated into Dubois county and boldly proclaimed that they were divinely appointed apostles of God, specially commissioned to bring a lost world back to the Mormon faith. The also professed to work miracles, and people for miles around gathered to see them restore to sight au old woman who had been, blind for half a century. The miracle failed, and the missionaries claimed it was due to the feebleness of the patient. Meanwhile the old lady was wrought to the highest pitch of excitement, and nervous prostration incident upon the discovery of the deception practiced was too much, and she sank with nervous prostration, and was reported in a dying condition. On Friday the Mormons were warned to leave the neighborhood, which they refused to do.' Friday night there was another conference, and while the elders were bidding defiance to the warnings which had been received, they were seized by masked men. Some converts who attempted to interfere were clubbed away, and the captives were taken to the woods and stripped, after which fifty lashes were administered. During the entire castigation the Mormons kneeled and continued in prayer. After the beating, notice was given that if found in that locality by daylight they would be hung. Elder Williams, one ot them, made his way to Winslow, twenty-four miles distant, arriving thoroughly exhausted, and in a pitiable condition. He left his companion by the wayside, the latter being unable to proceed further, and it is reported that he died from exposure and the effect of the punishment received.—lndianapolis News.