Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Com is reported in fine condition. Howard county rejoices in a good wheat harvest. New Albany Methodists are erectingra $30,000 church. New Albany epicures dote on English sparrow pie. A good yield of wheat is reported from Jack son county. Gass county saloon keepers have organized an association. 1 New Albany has found grounds suitable for an artificial lake. The corner stone of the State Soldiers’ Monument will be laid Ang. 22. New Albany’s fruit shipments, thus far, foot up in excess of $165,000. Dr. France, of Dunkirk, was fatally poisoned, Thursday, by eating canned hOOf.——: —* • - William Meyer, of Allen county, while harvesting, fell off the reaper and was killed. Charles W. Howey has succeeded Otto Herbst as postmaster of Fort Wayne. A heavy rain fall damaged Terre Haute and vicinity to the amount of $20,000. The Evansvtlle City Council has appropriated $260 in aid of the C’ay coonty miners. Mr. and Mrs. John Studebaker, of Bluffton, celebrated their golden wedding Tuesday.

“ The movement has been revived looking to the organization of a Board of Trade at Huntington. The Minneßeah Lakes, near Goshen, afford great fishing. Fine strings of alack bass are being caught. The Otis Iron and Steel Company, at Cleveland, 0., has been sold to an English syndicate for $4,500,000. The Ninth Indiana will “reune” at Laporte, Aug. 28. and the Fortieth Indiana at Crawfordsville, Sept. 12. O. W. Simons and family, of Huntington, ate heartily of cheese purchased at a neighboring grocery,and all were violently poisoned. Northern Indiana is apprised that John Oscar Henderson, of the Kokomo Dispatch, purposes standing as a candidate for State Auditor. Anthony Henderson, of Lagrange county, was killed last week by the recoil of a singletree, the trace breaking while he was driving a hay rake. Peter H. Bottorff, of Clark county, thrashed twenty-five acres of wheat, last Saturday, which yielded an average of forty-three bushels to the acre. A well developed male child, but with two distinct faces, was born to the family of Reuben Ryan, in Tipton county. The little one did not live. Four valuable horses belonging to George Rozelle were killed by a Panhandle train near Tipton, last Saturday. The animals were appraised at,s7oo. Many of the parrots at Goshen have begun to use profane language, and the owners pretend that it is a mystery where the birds picked up such taik.

Six hundred and seventy prisoners are confined in the Prison South, 173 of this number are employed in the shoe shop, where 500 pairs of shoes are made daily. John F. Cegan, postmaster at Terre Haute, retired Monday, having Berved one month over his appointed time of four years, and he is succeeded by David C. Greiner. The South Indiana peach crop has begun to move. It is extraordinarily fine. Wheat is turning oat unexpectedly well, some of the farmers getting a yield of forty-three bushels per acre. Horeee belonging to 0. M. Elder, Rev. E. T. Rawls and L. R. Elder, at Greensbnrg, afficted with glanders, have been killed by order of the State Veterian. and the quarantine on Elder’s stable has been raised. A number of valuable horses belonging to farmers near Corydon have died during the past few days of a mysterious disease, which terminates fatally only a few hoars after the animals are seized. Poisoning is suspected. Prof. F. M. Webster, of Purdue University, who has been looking up the “green midge,” near Goshen, declares that he finds small black bags following, destroying the midges, and that the work of the pta will soon be stopped. Nathan Haycock, William Hawkins and Mrs. Hawkins, of Bogard’s Park, in Crawford county, have been assaulted by “White Caps,” and it is reported that fifty lashes were administered to the men, and twenty-live to the woman. Samnel Tatem, the Ripley conntv farmer, who was convicted of dealing in counterfeit money, was sentenced on two counts, Tuesday morning. One sentence was ten months with a fine of SIOO, the Other of ten months with $lO fine.

Thomas Reynolds has been arrested at Peru on a charge of bnrglary. When arrested he was in the act of selling some goods. When taken to jail ana searched a complete burglar’s kit and three dozen pocket knives were found in his possession. Nathan Haycock, William Hawkin and Mrs. Hawkins, of Bogard’s Park, about seven miles southeast of ttmlieh. were whipped Tuesday night V the White Cape. The men received’ fifty ashes each and the woman twenty-five. The charge was general worthlessness. It is the object of the Btate tariff reform league to organize tarriff reform clnbs in every township in the State, and this organization will be completed as nearly as possible by November next. Tariff reform literature will then be sent to all the county seats and distributed to the township clnbe. The youngsters st Oorydon caught the mob !1W contagion, arising from the lynching of Deavin and Tennyson, and a lad named Canghlin,accused of stealing a knife from a comrade, was enticed into the woods, and wonld have been lynched by his companions, but for the accidental presence of a man, who stopped proceedings. In the Federal Court, Friday, Judge Woods sentenced George W. Howroy to two years and six months in Michigan City Prison and fined him SSO each on two indictments for passing counterfeit money. Mort Howels was fined S2OO and sentenced for five years for the same offense. There are two more of the Shelby county criminals. + Eighteen convicts in-the Prison Bouth

have been pardoned by Governor Hover, several of Whom had previously served sentences for grave offenses, and this is made the togt by the Jeffersonville News for a severe condemnation of the Governor’s leniency, which it Haim* “is a premium upon crime and an incentive to Crawford county lynch law.” The farmers are in arms against the Fort Wayne Pipe Line Company, growing ont of the fact that one farmer was dangerously injured by s natural gas explosion while lighting his pipe, and petitions are circulating and meetings are being held calling upon the County Commissioners to abate the line as a nuisance. The fanners and grain dealers of Bartholomew connty are feeling very mnch encouraged since the commencement of wheat threshing. The yield is surprisingly large and in this section will average tally thirty bashels to the acre. The grain is solid and plump, and does not seem to have been injured to any great extent by the green midge pest. The corn and oats give promise of a good crop. The Florida gar well, a few iniles north of Anderson, has been giving some extraordinary exhibitions. Within the past twenty-four hours great volumes of water and mud have ~bWHT thrown into the air some forty feet or more. This strange phenomenon lasts for ten minutes, when it subsides and remains dormant for six hours, when it erupts again. This remarkable freak is creating widespread interest. The Jones twin-freak was brought to Tipton Tuesday. Mr.;Jones has contracted with the citizens to remain in Tipton six months. He has his house rent paid by the people and receives all admittance fees {charged to see the wonderfully connected babies. The twins are called by some a monatrocity, but are nothing of the kind. They have quite an intelligent look, fine eyes perfectly developed nose and ears. Take them all in all, with the exception of their peculiar deformity, they are a fine pair of twins. An admission fee will be charged all visitors, and great crowds are looked for.

A new phase of the lightning rod swindle is being successfully worked throughout the State. An agent preesnts himself, claiming to represent the company originally putting up a rod, and saying that he is sent ottt to aee if it is in good working condition, and if not to repair the same free of cost. Of course the farmer is delighted,and when asked to sign what seemingly is a duElicate of the number of feet required, 6 attaches his signature. The signing is followed with the usnal disastrous result: the rod is not repaired, and the farmer finds an outstanding note in the hands of an “innocent party.” Wm. Puckett, a comparative stranger, last fall woed and won Nancy Gregory, of Daviess county, making* his home with his wife’s parents after the marriage, and soon established a reputation as a hard-working, thoroughgoing man. Recently his father-in-law was induced to deed him 100 acres of laud, which he was to mortgage and lift an impending indebtedness. Two hundred dollars of the debt was paid, and tbe other day Puckett suddenly disappeared, taking With him S3OO and the deed to the farm, and leaving his father-in-law in bad condition financially. The Washington Democrat gays that it has since been' discovered that Mr. Puckett .has four divorced wives living. Mrs. Mollie Corrin, of Shelbyville, who enjoys the distinction of having had more husbands than any other woman in the State, was almost murdered late Wednesday night by Charles Battles, who aspired to become her eighth husband. Since she divorced her last husband, Suttles has been a suitor for her hand, but lately there has been a coolness on her part toward him, and late Wednesday night he went to her honse, secured entrance to her room, where she was aslf ep, and awoke her. He first asked her if she would marry him, and on her refusal attacked her with a hatchet which he had concealed in his clothes, cutting her right hand to pieces and inflicting three terrible gashes on her head, one of them almost severing an ear. Leaving her for dead, he made good his escape. While not a beauty, Mollie mast have very winning ways, for she is now under bonds for shooting Gid Parmer and hia son, who, fascinated by her, attempted to force themselves into her house.