Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1889 — CONDENSED STATE HEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED STATE HEWS.

Ft Wayne will celebrate labor day. There is an immense big peach crop in Southern Indiana. Columbia saloon keepers are charged •with defying toe law. '—~ Jackson county school Trustees, Saturday, endorsed the new school book law. The Diamond Plat&glass Company, of Kokomo, has struck another big gas well. Mormon missionaries are endeavoring to proselyte In the rural districts of Lawrence county, but are not meeting with success. Wheat in Montgomery county is averaging more to the acre than was expected. It ranges for twenty to thirty-eight bushels to the acre. : A shovel-nose catfish, weighing 104 pounds was caught on a trout-line, near Columbus, by Arty Monroe. The fish brought sll in the Columbus market. The only child of Robert Etherington, of Kokomo, was burned to death, Thursday, the clothing catching fire during the temporary absence of the mother from the kitchen. While several hundred tons of block coal are mined daily at Brazil and vicinity, it is stated that the supply is so small that Jonn Kreiten declined an order of five car loads from Crawfordsville for the reason that it could not be bought at the mines. Cutsinger & Son, living a few miles north of Columbus, recently shipped to Liverpool, England, twenty-four car-loads of the finest beef cattle that have ever beeu shipped from the Indianapolis stoek-yards, so dealers say. The cattle averaged 1,546 pounds each. During the past few years a number of valuable pearls have been found attached to shells in White Rfver, near Rockford. One resident of that village has realized Over S3OO from that source, and a large specimen recently picked up by him sold readily for S3B. Will Schreiber, clerk of the First National Bank of Columbus, who fled to Canada with $70,000 of stolen funds, has forwarded a copy of the new extradition law to his old associates, with the cheerful indorsement: “This act is not retroactive.” He is living at Windsor. The first horse show given under the auspices of the Business Men’s Association was held at Crawfordsville, Saturday. There was a large crowd in the city, many coming Dover the railroads from other places. 'There were 122 entries of horses, no stallions being admitted. There were three entries in imported heavy drafts, nineteen in grade heavy draft, thirty-seven in general purpose, thirty-seven in light harness, four match teams, and twenty-two of most perfect style of horse. First and second prices were awarded in each class. The prizes were donated by the business men of that city, and the judges were from other places. Another horse fair will be held in October.