Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Police dissensions continue at Ft. Wayne. Michigan City has found a market for its sand at Chicago. The arm y worm is causing great loss to the hay crop in Howard county. Mrs. W- V. Douglass, of Ft. Wayne, has fallen heiress to a handsome estate, iu Germany. Professor Henry Ward, of Daviess county, has been ejected to a chair in -the lowa Univershy. - Several parties have been injured in Jeffersonville the past week by the careless handling of Fiobert rifles. The effort to compel the Street Commissioner of Anderson to perform police duty has led to open revolt by that officer. A cannon ball has been plowed- up in Miami township, Cass county, which was fired in a battle between the settlers and Indians ip 1791. Christian Fritz, of Hagerstown, aged eightv, incapacitated from work, swallowed paris green Saturday afternoon and died in a few hours. 1. Carl SteckijemaH. the young African ex plorer, left j Columbus, Saturday, for Mayumba, on another exploring trip. He expects to be gone three years. The Ft. Wayne tuition fund is.getting very low, and there is a probability that next year direct taxation will be needed to meet the teacheis’ salaries. Calvin Marshall, of Shelbyville, Friday, fell upon a rapidly revolving saw, which split his left arm and both legs to the bone and stripped off part of his Bcalp.

„ The United Brethren dissension has reached Lincoln ville, and seventy-five * liberals” are in possession of the church property and thirty ‘radicals” are barred admission. The first rail has been laid at Elnora in tbe construction of the Evansville & Richmond Railway, and it is expected tbat track laying will continue at tne rate of one mile per day. Charles Cox, of Pittsboro, while examining a revolver, Tuesday, accidentally discharged the weapon, and the bullet lodged in the brain of Richard Parker, eon of Henry Parker, causing instanct death. Nathaniel Brink, of Fontamt, accused Franklin P. Davis of sowing discord in his family, which resulted m a separation of plaintiff and wife, and he sued Daviß lor damages. A jury awarded Mm rone cent damages; : The railway tunnel at Indian Springs "Will lie coinpletedTh ten days, only one hundred feet remaining to penetrate. It will be nine hundred feet in length,and it is said that it will be the longest tunnel either in Indiana or Ohio. "While Sanford Johneonbaughj of Monticello, was unloading hay. his daughter, aged eleven, who was playing on the wagon, ran against his fork, the tine entering her eye and penetrating her brain, causing death in a few minutes. William Tracewell, acting Judge in Harrison county, holds that if a party is incurably insane, this is sufficient reason for granting a divorce. This TOting came iff the suit of Win. Lynch against Alice E. Lynch, an insane patient at the Indianapolis asylum. Patents were issued Tuesday to Indiana inventors as follows: Alfred L. Bernardin, Evansville, toy, Eugene Bretney, Indianapolis, dust collector; William J. Jacobs. Bargersville, shockloading machine: David M. Parry and T. H., Indianapolis, vehicle attachment. Nathan Bond, of Greensfork, died some mouths ago, and immediately his widow began praying that she might follow him, hei- grief continued incessant. Boon after she began to droop away physically, seemingly as if in answer to her constant praying, and last week she died. Daniel Rbinehart owns a store sixteen miles distant from Fort Wayne, and Thursday night, in his absence, burglars chloroformed the family and robbed the premises of 11,140 cash. The inmates remained unconscious irom the effect of the drug until their condition was discovered by neighbors. William H. Osborne, foreman of the weaving department of the Evansville cotton mills, while standing in a saw mill, Tuesday, was seized with vertigo and fell forward on a circular saw, which was in motion. Almost instantly the body was cut in two, the head and shoulders falling to one aide, and the remainder of the body on the other. The deceased was a young man, married butthiee weeks. The swindler who has been personating E. L. McDonnell, Purchasing Agent of tbe Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Line, has finally been captured at North McGregor, lowa, and he will be returned to Elkhart to answer a charge of forgery preferred by several parties. It is claimed that his forgeries will reach thousands of dollars, and that at Wausau, Wis., alone, he succeeded in having a check cashed on the Eastern Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Company aggregating $9,500. The Dental 1 association at Indianapolis Wed ues lay elected officers os follows: President, 8. A. Goodwin, Warsaw; first vice-president, C. A. Budd, Muncie; second vice-president, A. J. Smith, Greenfield; treasurer. Merrit Wells, city; secretary, R. W. Van Valzah, Terre Haute. Maxinkuckee was selected as the place of the next meeting. which will be held on the third Tuesday in June, 1890. P. G C. Hunt, W. H. Chappell, Dr. Elwood Smith and 8. T. Kirk were elected members of the state board of dental examiners. A man was discovered in the suburbs of Evansville early Friday morning, apparently Sitting lip 111 a natural manner against a large tree. Examination proved that he war dead, and bad committed suicide by severing the large arteries in both arms. W hen found blood was still flowing from his arms and the gronnu around him was saturated. His right hand was still grasping the penknife with which he had done the work. The deceased is unknown bore. He was well dressed and a fine looking man, about thirty-five years of age, five feet nine inches in hight, and weighing 160 pounds or thereabout, with dark hair and dark hazel eyes—— Henry Houghton has been released from the Prison South. He was confined for three years for assault and battery with intent to kill. He was at one time a” White Cap,’’and his troubles were caused by withdrawal from the order, which set up a regular persecution. One night, six years ago, they at-

tacked hia bouse and whipped hia wife so that she lost an eye, but Houghton defended himself so effectually that one of his assailants, Gillespie, was knocked into a well and died. His persecutors then maimed Houghton for life in a horrible manner. Afterwards he was attacked in the streets of Leavenworth and barely escaped with his life. He was sentenced for shooting.at a family which had assaulted hia children with -rOC-kS. The most remarkahle natural gas well in the State is at Vernon, Jennings county. The well was drilled more than a year ago, and at the depth of 160 feet a good flow of gas was discovered. The depth of the well, however, was extended to 1,300 feet, but without finding any further supply. The pecui lari tv of the welt ft in its flow. Tbe gas is utilized by about thirty families, who, ou account of the uncertainty of the product, keep on hand a supply of wood or ooal. During the extreme cold weather last winter, the flow became entirely extinct from some unknown cause, but as soon as the warm weather 1 commenced the out put began in a large quantity. The flow is also always greatly affected when a stiff gale blows from the north or northwest. —Despite tbe aimoetincessaßt rain s that have marked the past three weeks, the indications are that, the oorn crop throughout Indiana will be a good one this season. J. B. Conner, editor of the Indiana Farmer, is daily in receipt of correspondence from every part of the State, and he said Monday that if such reports are reliable, as he has no reason to doubt, the wet weather has had little or no bad effect. “The corn got a good start this season,” he remaraed “but it looked as if it would be flooded out almost, in the beginning. The weathei we have been having lor the past ten days, however, has done Infinitely more good than all the harm that was occasioned by the rains. There will be a good crop unless some nnfprseen obstacle prevents. 1 think it will reach about 90 or Do per cent. .We won’t have as mutch corn this season as we did last, for in 1888 there were about 125,000,000 bsshels harvested, but it vgill reaeh a high figure. Wheat is not as good as it has "been, but then it is not going to fall very low. In short, the farmers all over tbe State will have good crops if everything continues as it is at present.”