Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Huntington sighs for a boom. Mancie will soon have street can. Evansville needs a (public) bath. Pern Methbdiate are erecting a $30,000 church. Counterfeit silver is circulating at Martinsville. •- -•••- •* -. Blackberries are being sold at Columbus at 15'cents per gallon. James Vinton, a convict, escaped from the Southern prison Friday. Five juvenile alleged car breakers have been arrested at Greencastle. The first annual encampment of the uniform rank K. of P. will be held at Warsaw, Ang. sto 12. - y ___ The Smith bent-wood works at Mancie, were totally destroyed by fixe, Thursday, causing a loss of $62,000. —There are twenty beneficiary lodges and mutual aid associations in Jeffersonville, and the aggregate membership is nearly 3,000. The output of the Bluffton gas well is estimated at 3,000,000 cubic feet per day.. The gas escapes with a roar that can be heard three miles away. The Sunday law was closely observed at Corydon, last Sunday, even the barbers, the confectioners and small dealers generally closing up. A rabid dog ran loose in the streets of Columbus, Tuesday, and fully twentyfive doge were bitten by it. An outbreak of hydrophobic canines is expected soon. While a case was on trial m Fort Wayne, on Tuesday last, the fire bells were sounded, and the jury rushed ofi to the Beene of the fire without permission of court. Mr. Jackson, of Odesse, was Btruck by lightning while asleep in his honse after nightfall, and tWb of his toes were so bfcdly burned that amputation was necessary. Several boys played at Wild West show, Wednesday, at Jeffersonville, During its progress Roy Howard accidentally shot Will Payne in the jaw, breaking the bone. The wound is fatal. A number of little children of Goshen played doctor, Thursday, and administered a dose of poison to Mamie, the two-year-old daughter of Wm. Roppe, from the effects of which she died, Friday. The Putman County Educational Board met Wednesday and decided to adoDt the school books published by the Indiana Company. The change will be made complete, instead ol by gradual introduction, at the fall opening of the schools. “Grandma” Bowers,dfSouthMuncie, aged seventy, died very suddenly, Monday. Many years ago her husband,long since dead, was swindled out of a saw mill, and the old lady was continually calling upon the authorities to recover the property. A corps of engineers, employed in the United States Geodetic Survey,has been sent to secure the topography of Brown county and are now encamped on the summit of Weed Patch Hill, where a tall signal tower was erected by the government a few months ago. A lad aged fifteen, son of Henry Pettinger, of Cason, was seised by two unknown men, last Saturday night who chloroformed him, threw him into a carriage and drove rapidly away. Pursuit was had, and the lad waa found in an unconscious condition lying in a fence comer some mile* distant The supposition is that it waa a case of mistaken identity, and that the wrong boy was kidnapped.

Andrew Greenderg, n painter employed by the L. E. & W. railway, met his death in a peculiar manner Thursday. He wm employed in painting the railroad bridge over Fall creek, north of Indianapolis, and had suspended his ladder by a rope. The 1:20 p. m. passenger engine severed the ropes and he fell under the baggage oar, and wm so badly crashed that he died Thursday evening in the city hospital. Allen Grifty, the half witted man who stole a hone and buggy from the public rack in Pern at midday and abandoned the same near Indianapolis, wm arrested late las* night at Rich Valiev, this connty, and lodged in jail. He is also charged with stealing the property of Wm. Ringer and A. Wright, of Broad Ripple. Griffjr will be taken to Wabash for trial. His mania lies in stealing horses, this being his fourth offense.

Benjamin Moore ofaChrisney, is said to be the only lirinc man who voted for Jeffewon. He was bom in North Carolina in December, 1781, and he removed to Salem, Ind.. sixty-two years ago, after which he changed his residence to Spencer county, where he now resides. He is six years older than the constitution of the United States, and he was bom the same year that Cornwallis surrendered. He voted for Jefferson in 1804, and he has not missed a Presidential election since. He is a Democrat. In a letter received, Wednesday, from Albert G. Porter, Minister to Italy, he gives the results of several visits to the Royal Foundry at Rome, where the bronze work on the Hendricks monument is being done. He ooncludee that the figure of the late Vice President, which is now being finished, is a striking likeness, and ‘’that the triends of the distinguished statesman wiU be weU pleased with it. ’ The artist, Mr. Park, by the same mail, says all friends who have seen the work pronounced it good. There is a local celebrity at Mancie, known as “Ginseng Sol,” who makes his living by gathering ginseng. The root commands $2.76 per pound, and is mainly shipped to China, where it is highly prized. “Ginseng Sol” knows every piece of woods in Delaware county, and be has become so skilled in the searoh that the plant, which is quite small, ean be detected by him fifty feet away. He tramps from twenty to forty miles a day searching for it, and last summer his services netted him SBOO. There are no indications at present of a break in the miners’ strike at Brazil. The miners seem determined to hold out for arbitration to the end. The operators, on the other hand; claimed to have offered their highest price fink in order to not interrupt work with delays of any kind, and that their competition is of a nature that wiU not admit of any advance. The failure of the Board of State Charities to effect a settlement, after having gone there and investigated the situation, is against an adjustment by arbitration. ' Rev. C. C. Palmer, a graduate of Franklin College, who was pastor of the Baptist churches at Brocket on and Chalmers, according to report has

abandoned his pul pita, as well as his family,nnder disgraceful circumstances, and he is also accused of taking with him $1,600 bv means of notes upon which he had secured the indorsement of his peris ioners. The ministers of the Baptist denomoni nation at Delphi are taking action on this matter, end the indoreera upon the notes will endeavor to secure his return. - The Hamilton county school board decided, Saturday, to continue the old school books, until forced by law to nse the books of the Indiana Bchool Book Company. Their excuse for not using the books is that the maps of the geography are not accurately made. They parsed the following resolution: “Resolved, that this connty continue the nee of the readers, arithmetics, geographies and copy books now in use until the time for whieh they have been Adopted shall have expired or until we sha 1 be compelled bv law to use some other.”

The Huntington Herald says that Major 81 earer, postmaster at that place; is physically unable to dress himself, or even feed himself, and mentally he is unable to comprehend the slightest details of his office, and for several months he had nothing to |do with hie official work, save to ride there occasionally. Recently he was granted a liberal pension, his ailment arising from injuries received while a soldier, and this gives him a comfortable provision for the remainder of his life. Because of hie mental and physical condition, the Herald demands a change. A horrible affair is reported to have occurred at Xenia, in Miami county, Wednesday night, Jesse Overman of Amboy, aged twenty-two, murdered a Miss Maggje Smith, aged eighteen, of the former town. He nas been a suitor for Miss Bmith’s hand for quite a long time. The couple were seen standing n the yard talking together about 9 o’clock, when suddenly Overman pulled a pistol and shot twice at the young lady. She tinned and ran around the house calling plaintively for protection. She fell finally to the ground, and died in a few moments. Overman then put a ball into his head and died soon after. jQne of the historic trees of Indiana stands within a stone’s throw of the railway tracks, near Summit Station, in Scott county. It is a sassafras, and probably the oldest of its kind in the State. The trunk is partially dead, and only a couple of straggling limbs have put forth leaves. It marks the site of the burial of Henry Collins and wife, Mrs. Jeremy Payne and eight children, Mrs. John Morris and one child, Mrs. Morris,'Sr., Jeremy Payne and one Coffman, all of whom were slaughtered by the Shawnee Indians in September,lßl2; in the bloody Pigeon Roost massacre, the only Indian massacre of special note which occurred in Indiana.