Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Canadian journals report good prowith the Weldon bill, which will not only deetroy the popularity of Canada as the boodler's retreat, but which will also lead to the arrestor flight of the defaulting cashiers and other swinlers now posing as respectable residents in Dominon. It is the retrospective feature of this measure which , some-ex-citieens of this country are sparing neither money nor trouble to defeat A toxfbdo boat has at last been constructed which can be kept under control while traveling beneath the The motive power is el r ctricity, and the boat travels rapidly Cither on water or 50 feet below. The small crew necessary to navigate this engine of devastation and death are supplied with aft from reservoirs, in which it is condensed. Such a boat should be able to pierce thestrongest network surrounding an irdnclad and plant a torpedo before the’ doomed crew could note any ground for suspicion. __ . ■ Thb Legislature of Minnesota, says an exchange, is after the trust in earnest. A bill introduced a few days ago covers the ground amply. It is made unlawful to make or carry out any agreement not to produce any article of commerce below a common standard or figure. Any contract made in violation of the provisions of the law is void, and the purchaser of any article whose price is affected by trusts has the rightto plead the act as a detense for not paying for it The penalties are heavy enough to frighten the offenders of corporations or individuals into keeping in the lines. Onb of the most whimsical of strikes is reported • from Hainesport, N. w J., where the Columbia Iron Works have been closed by reason of the the rebellion of the employes against an order that they should wear boots. The boots were a means of protection which it would naturally be supposed they would earnestly desire, since those who did not wear them frequently suffered from burns caused by the molten metal. The proprietors do not appear to have been at all unreasonable, since they offered to furnish boots free to those unable to buy them. Men who strike under such circumstances deserve no sympathy. Their act is one of incredible folly. Ah English syndicate has purchased 2,000,000 acres of land in New Mexico, and is now stocking it heavily with a view to running the largest farm in the world. It is not to be a cattle ranch, but a cultivated farm, and unlimited capital. Is said to be forthcoming to work it. In some States alien corporations can not hold land, and it is a matter of grave doubt whether antenterprise of such magnitude as this is of any great benefit to the locality. After a while the losses will either be too great, or the profits too small, to suit the foreign owners, when the farsi Will, in all probability, be split up and rented out, with all the consequent evils of absentee landlordism. Thb Samoa sensation has called attention to the German navy, which is the weakest of any of the great European Powers. The Emperor’s fleet is composed of 105 vessels,carrying 605 guns. But only twenty-seven of his men-of-war are iron-clads, and not half of the iron-clads are es modern build or capable of either sailing rapidly or undertaking long voyages. It is also worth noting that of the total number named (105), nearly half are incapacitated for foreign or ocean service, and are really school boatsand revenue cutters. The fact is, Germany’s 8 diminutive seaboard has led to a grave neglect of its navy, which the Teutonic colonization policy ot recent years has only in part served to remedy. Japan has gained sometning substantial from the Anglomania of its-ruler and his court The full text of its new constitution shows it to be modeled on the King, Lords and Commons style, and it guarantees to the Japanese far greater personal liberty than they ever enjoyed while the Mikado was an absolute and,in the eyes of his subjects, an infallible monarch. The members of the lower house are to be elected by ballot,and the upper house is partly elective, partly hereditary and partly nominated. For Mikado has been introducing European customs, and he has given a substantial proof of his sincerity by yielding up prerogatives which, have been dear to his ancestors for agea.f Tub girls oT Cornell have won half the scholarships of the year. They have been peculiarly successful in prizes for 8 mathematics, architecture and botany. It is curious that there is no of study in which the feminine mind more often shows supremacy than in the science of figures. Is woman after all more of a logician than man? The papers presented by the girls are said tobe among the best ever presented forexamination. Yet tiie J ournal of Pedagogy insists that this settles nothing, and that we areas far as ever from a settlement of the vexed question of woman’s intel factual equality with man. Success in an examination under the spur of rivalry it holds, does not settle anything. Then make the spurs Of equal length.

Aurora has found gas. Petersburg wants a furniture factory: .a Laporte and Warsaw are boring for 7 A bone meal factory is Seymour’s latest > Whftelaw Reid has relatives at Madison, Ind. . White Capeare annoying Rochester residents. Seven foxes were captured in a Parke county drive. > Joseph Rusk, of Linden, aged 9, weighs 105 pounds. Horsethieves are operating in Harrison and Crawford counties. Indianapolis is anticipating the greatest building boom since the panic. Thomas Huston, of Columbus, “must go to work or take a walk,” say the White Caps. The Terre Haute mad -stone has an authenticated record of over eighty years, And no death ever resulted if it once adhered. Charles Abbot, who committed a forgery in Jefferson county in 1882, and went to Missouri, has been captured and brought back to Madison. Theodore 8, Hunt, alias McCane, is tinder arrest at New Albany for ing falsely to the age of Miss Carrie Ashly. fourteen years old, who wanted

to get married. Lightning rod swindlers succeeded in getting Tracy Evans, an eighty-six-year-old farmer of Elkhart county* to sign a document which turned out to be a note. He was givsn a worthless receipt in return. The revival in the Baptist Tabernacle at New Albany, rustled in 125 conversions. and seventy accessions to the church, while the church itself was brought up to the highest condition of spirituality in its history. “Jack” Collier, of Chambersburg, has been celebrating his eighty-seventh birthday anniversary. He has thirtythree grand-children, and one great-great grand-chiid, makings total of ninety-three descendants. The “boss” sprinter in northern Indiana, is said to be Sheriff-elect Aaron Groves, of Blackford county, it being claimed that upon discovering a red fox by the wayside, he gave chase on foot to the animal and caught it after running half a mile. A street car driver named John Clements shot and killed a printer named Lloyd Nowland in Indianapolis, Monday night. Ciements returned from his work at a latq hour and found Nowland in the room with his wife. Nowland, who is the son of a venerable and respected father, is a man of family and somewhat prominent. A prize fight occurred between Jack Burgess, of Boston, and Tom McDonald, of Elkhart, at South Bend, at 4 o’clock Sunday morning. Burgess weighed 195 pounds and McDonald 180. The fight was for SSOO a side, tight skin gloves. In the eighth round McDonald was knocked senseless and had his jaw broken, ending the fight.

Judge Azro Dyer, of Evansville, has dismissed the fifty-thousand-dollar libel suit which he brought against George W. Shanklin and others, of the Evansville Courier, an answer .having been filed thatAthere was no intention in the articles complained of to reflect upon the personal integrity of Judge Dyer, or charge him with dishonorable conduct. C. C. White, of Charlestown, has in his possession a powder-horn made by hisdather, John White, in 1808, which is handsomely carved and shows but little wear. Captain!. Charles Mathes carried it through the Tippecanoe campaign and used it in. the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. The horn will be deposited with the curios in the State Library. An Indianapolis lawyer has been looking up legislative acts that have been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and has found* that since 1853 there have been ab®ut fifty bills decided by the court to be contrary to the Constitution. The expectation that some of the acts of the late Legislature will be set aside prompted the lawyer’s research. A farmer living west of Terre Haute, was, on Thursday afternoon, stopped by two highwaymen, one black and one white, on the National road west of the Wabash river, and robbed; of 19.‘The robbers were not masked and were very bold. One held a pistol at the farmer’s head while the other went through his pockets. There have been a half dozen such robberies on this road, within a mile of the city, in the last six months. A discovery has been made which is said to invalidate the law passed by the recent Legislature for the protection of miners in the weighing of coal. The bill.required that there should be uniformity in the screening and weighing of coal and provided for such inspection as would be likely to prevent cheating of miners. There was a strong lobby against the passage of the bill. The alleged discovery is now made that the enacting clause was omitted from the bill, and if so, it is doubtless invalid.

Jeffersonville has a community of colored people who are very superstitious. Joe Lewis, a we 1-known negro, died suddenly a short time ago and was buried with great pomp. It is now claimed that Lewis has made his appearance on the earth in the form of a ghost and to a former friend conveyed the intelligence that his sudden leave-taking was caused by a dose of poison administered to him. His friends are ta.king Of having Lewis’s remains disinterred for ♦he purpose of finding out if he really was poisoned. A gang of tramps have been infesting the vu initv of the -Aiidland ' Depot at Anderson for several days. Bunday night they forced the door leading into the depot and took possession. Word was shut to the marshal, and, accompanied by several officers and citizens, each armed with a barrel stave, the the building was surrounded and the V igrants were hustled out, sans ceremony. As each made his appearance he was mostbeverely and roundly “paddied,” the chase being continued for some distance, and until every qne had been driven beyond the city limits. David Irvin, of Reno, while in an intoxicated condition a few nights ago, sat down upon the track in front of an approaching train. The engineer saw him in the glare of the headlight, and sougded a warning, aud as Irvin disappeared, it was supposed he had gotten out of the way. After the engine stopped, however, a voice was heard

I shouting, “Back yer boto off me, will you?” and Irvin was found tightly wedged under the cow catcher, afidtwo men were necessary to hold him by the arms while.the “hose” was backed off. Beyond stripping off his overcoat and other damages to his clothing, no harm resulted. The House Journal, said to be the longest in the history of Indiana Legislature, has been completed and filed With the Secretary of State by Assistant Clerk Crawley, who with the assistance of three of the House clerks, been engaged in the work since ment of the General Assembly. The Journal embraces the evidence taken by the Insane Hospital Investigating Committee, whi.h will make several hundred pages It will be necessary, it is thought, to ipake two volumes of the report of proceedings. In one appendix to the Journal a statement of the expenditures of the House is given. It shows that the total for the sesuon was $66,276,11, while two years ago the amount was $64,212,73. . The Female Reformatory, at Indianapolis, was the scene of a lively insurrection Sunday. On Thursday the inmate known as Henrietta was severely rej rimanded for impertinence and insubordination,and afterward disciplined by consignment to the dungeon. Just as the matron had concluded her reproof, five other prisoners walked ihto the office and declared that if Henrietta had to go to the dungeon they would share the punishment with her. The entire party was then sent to the dungeon. On Sunday, by an act of carelessness, the door to Henrietta’s cell was left open a moment. She took advantage of it, rushed to the kitchen, secured a flat iron and several knives and returned to the dungeon. With the flat iron she broke the locks on the other cells, liberating her confederates and the whole party arrayed themselves for war. The matron was equal to the occasion, however. The fire hose was brought into requisition and with the prospect of a thorough wetting they surrendered their, weapons and were returned to the cells: