Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fruit prospects are fine. All Northern Indiana has the mumps. Otwell White Caps are threatening an outbreak. v I Incendiarism and robbery is rampant at Columbus. Shelbyville Prohibitionists have nominated a city ticket There are fifteen citizens who pose as detectives. i Thehail storm did considerable damage north of Bluftoh, Frijtky, - Eightring destroyed the Darn of C. Engleman, near Huntington, Friday. The cbaijppion hoop-pole cutter lives in Bartholompw county, near Brown. William Benson will be executed in the prison South under the new law./ Lightning fatally injured Mrs. John Riddle, near Valparaiso, Friday night The plant for the electric street railway at Elkhart is being placed in position. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Bours, of Huntington have been married 59 years. f 1 Morris McDonald’s flouring mill at. New Albany burned, Friday night. Loss $15,t00. , 1 The Huntington poultry men carried off the honors in the Fort Wayne chicken show. FrafffaJiaWitt, Jr., and wife will confer a lavor on the Wbite Caps by vacating Shelbyville. The Huntington flax mill has shut down, for which the jute and bagging trust, it is said is responsible. John Perry, the horse thief, recently captured at Wabash, was, Tuesday, sentenced north for a four years’ term." A jury in the Federal- Court .at Indianapolis, Wednesday, acquitted William Williams of charges of election bribery. Friday a little daughter of George Huntington county, tripped and an, open fireplace and burned her hands to a crisp. Mr. and Mrs. Copp, of Kokomo, recently suffered the loss of four children by diphtheria, and three years ago one of their children was drowned. A midget, tne daughter of L. P. Fisher ftnd-wife, of Columbus, Ind., died, Tuesday, of measles. She was thisee months old and weighed Three poUndg. Albert Woods, of Tiptop county, indicted for election bribery, waft acquitted by the Federal jury Thursday, the jury rendering a verdict without leaving their seats. Jefferson Stevens, of Shelbyville, who died on Saturday aged eighty-six, it is claimed, was the oldest Odd Fellow in the State. He once served as Auditor of Ripley county. Robert Lehman’s barn, at Hanover, was struck by lightning Friday night and consumed, together with four horses, es, three cows, and implements and produce. Loss $2,000. A com stalk, nine feet seven inches to the ear and eighteen feet from root to tossel, is being exhibited at Columbus as shoving the productiveness of Bartholomew county soil. J. A. Duerr, of Ft. Wayne, ran a small splinter into his finger several days ago. Inflammation followed, which has extended to his arm and be will have to undergo amputation at the shoulder. R. L. Schor, assistant cashier of the first hank at Evansville, hung himself inxhe basement of the bank at an early hour, Tuesday morning. His accounts are said to be all right and the cause of the deed is attributed to temporary insanity. Judge Ferguson, of Jeffersonville, has decided that the bondsmen of ex-" Warden of the Prison South, A. J. Howard, for tbe second term, are only responsible for that fixed period. No bond was given for his last term, and the State will have to stand the loss. Terre Hautians enter a vigorous protest against the habit of calling that town “Terry Hut.” Polite society in the Prairie City call it as if spelled “Ter-ra stigmatize “Tarry Hute” as exceeding bgaform, and more inexcusable than “Terry Hut.” The Montgomery Palace Stock Car Company, oh which Jas. Montgomery, of Chicago, is President, has selected a/ site at Muncie for the erection of shops which wilt employ 1,500 men. The Muncie Natural Gas and Improvement Company, of whichex-Governor Abbett, of New Jersey, is President, secured this enterprise by donating fifty acres of land, free Capital stoqk s of Chicago Company, $5,000,000. ceived information that horses in Huntington county are dying of glanders, and aid in checking the Spread of the disease has been asked. Secretary Metcalf says, however, that he can do nothing more than order a quarantine direct the attention of the Live Stock SanitafV Commission to the matter when it orgamzes. The disease is also prevailing in Randolph and Vermillion' counties. A. J. Miller, of the Evansville Tribune, has been selected by a newspaper syndicate, which includes the New, Y'ork Sun, Louisville Courier-Journal, Republic, Evansville Tribune and three others, to take < barge of a scientific exploring expedition into dhe quented portions of the five Republics of Central America. Mr. Miller will be accompanied by Professor Thomas Darragh, naturalist and taxidermist; Professor J. Roy Brown, geologist and antiquarian, and William H. Venable, of Atlanta, Ga., and will sfiil from New Orleans early in May. The Board of Fire and Police Commissioners recently created by the Legislature for Evansville has been recognized by the Evansville City Council and the old board has been .declared “usurpers.” To all appearances the “tangle” is similar to the one w.tlf which Indianapolis was afflicted. An agreed case has been submitted ami appealed to the Supreme Court; however, and the result .will depend upon the decision in the Indianapolis cases. The Alamoine Natural Gas Company of Fort Wayne, which is headed by William Fleming, has made a phenomenal discove y of gas on its leased lands in Blackford county, Thursday two additional wells “blew in,” one showing 80,0 0,000 cubic feet per day, and the other 16,000,000 cubic feet, with a prospect of greater development when the drill has penetrated a greater depth into Trenton rock. The company Aow has eight wells, with a daily of

30,000,000 cubic feet, and it .is from this source that Fort Waynjj points will be supplied. Patents were. Tuesday iestied for Indiana inventors as follows: Peter Andeteon, Fort Wayne, corner iron for wagori boxes; Benjam F. Berger,' South Bend, cultivator, Andrew J. Calloway Chester Hill, com planter and drill combined;\ Clark ChiddisteT, Decatur, gate; Joseph Frenick', Laforte, wheel; Thomas J. Harriipan, New Paris, drive anparatus for piles, etc.; James A. Little, Cattersburg, spade ,qr shovel; Edward J. PUrdy, Michigan City, hunters’ porta, ble stool; George W. Pyle, Geneva, retail case and support for stores; Abbott M. Reeves, Indianapolis, metallic mat; George W. Schock and W. H. Wansbrouah, South Bend, paint mixer; Frederick W. Tremain, Fort Wayne, Wkshing machine. Ihe Muncie Natural Gas Company was the a franchise, and tbe restrictionMffequired that the entire city should and public buildings should bqdurnished free of charge. Quite recently the Central Co-operative Gas Company was organized and proceeded to operate under a special oralnance, but was enjoined bv the Muncie Company. The Circuit Court dissolved the injuctiqn and the effect is to throw down the bass for the new company or for any other which may choose to operate. The effect will be to force the Muncie to lower its rates. Mr. H. E. Kelley, of Marion, corrects the impression that there is a boom at Marion, so far as carpenters are concerned. He claims that there is scarcely sufficient labor to supply the home demand and carpenters from abroad are doomed to disappointment, if they expect to be employed at wages other than the minimum. So great has been the influx that journeymen are working for $1.50 per day, and some $1.25. Mr. Kelley also makes the point that supplies can be purchased cheaper at Indianapolis than in Marion. Charles B. Albertson, fresh from the theological seminary, and a young man of great promise, is uastor of the First Methodist Church, at Goshen, but when he sought admission to the North Indiana Conference, the charge was made that he drew largely for. his inspiring sermons from Talmage. The charge was refuted, and he was admitted by an overwhelming majority, and was returned to the Goshen church. It is said that his rejection by the Conference would have resulted in an independent church movement, at Goshen, so determined were the congregation upon retaining his services.