Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Huntington will have natural gas. Typhoid fever prevails at Ft Wayne. Glanders are reported from Parke county. Cass county adopted toe standard books. Noblesville is enjoying a building boom. Connersville will have a new $12,000 church. A new Methodist church at Huntington was dedicated, Sunday. Typhoid fever is becomUfe alarmingly prevalent in Anderson. . The remains of a mastodon have been found near Fort Wayne. Harrlsqn and adjoinining counties report good crop prospects, far above the average. The Grant county White Caps are being brought to justice. Four arrests haveheeg made. Stephen Harris, a colored convict in toe Jeffersonville pen, hung himself in his cell, Tuesday. Benedict, Field A Co., of Chicago, are proposing to establish a shoe factory at South Bend. The cities of LaPorte and Madison have applied for the establishment of the freedelivery service. There was a colored ball near New Albany, Saturday night, which broke up in a general row, during which Jesse Sims was shot and killed by Wm. Neal. Two highly connected ladies of Broad Ripple quarreled, Sunday night. One of them hit the other above the left eye with a piece of gas pipe and she is dangerously injured. The Daviess County Institute was attended by 146 teachers, and among the resolutions passed was one pledging the efforts of tbe teachers toward enforcing the new school book law. Rev. Dr. W. H. Boydins, a distinguished divine, well known in the west, and especially in Indiana, died at Grand Rapids, Mich., Wednesday, whither he had gone for bis health. His church is iu Cincinnati. There is an elm tree, partially decayed, standing in the yard of James Mclntyre, at Jeffersonville, which is supposed to be over one hundred years old. In the early pioneer days it was used as a look-out by opposing forces. Henry Moorman, of Fountain City, has conveyed to Earlham College SII,OOO in real estate, and "toe funds to be derived therefrom will be known as the “Henry Moorman and daughter, Rebecca Moorman, endowment fund.” The plant which the Terre Haute Gas Company is putting in for the manufacture of fuel and illunqinating gas will have a daily capacity of 5,000,000 feet. The amount of oil required will be five gallons for each 1,000 cubic feet of gas. There is a panic in turnpike circles in Madison, the prosecutor making claim that the Anderson & Alexander Turnpike Company .has failed to comply with the law,and demanding $38,000 damages. Similar suits are threatened against other companies. Wednesday fevening fire flashed from the barn of James Davis, near Brown Valley, Montgomery county, and the structure was soon destroyed. The loss was $4,000; insurance $1,600. Nineteen tons of hay, 1,500 bushels of corn, a binder and other implements were burned. Supposed cause, incendiarism. Tbe Pythian encampment at Spring Fountain Park, near Warsaw, dissolved, Monday, and the various divisions returned to their homes abundantly satisfied with the events of the week. Genral Ross and staff were complimented for their labors in getting up the encampment, and there was kindly remembrance of all who had contributed to its success. “Split* Back,” a Commanche Indian, traveling with the show of Stowe Brothers, was dangerously shot by a Vincennes policeman, Tuesday. The Indian had thrown the officer down and beat hiA savagely with his own macc. Tbe Mayor succeeded in releasing tbe policoman, who then drew his revolver and fired. The Indians, of whom Split Back was one, were dissipating. Wm. Davenport was arrested on the train en route to Cincinnati from Fort Wayne Wednesday afternoon, by Marshal Robinson, on a telegram from Paymaster Coffeenberry, of the B. & O. Railway, from Garrett. It is claimed he stole S9OO from the pay car Wednesday night. When caught, Davenport denied his name, but his clothing and positive description gave him away. Late Wednesday $630 was found on Davenport’s person and he acknowledged the theft. These patents to Indiana inventors were issued Tuesday. Chas. A. Bertsch, Cambridge City, bending roll; Geo. W. Crozier, Muncie, gas pressure regulator; Abram DeWitt, Bluffton, measuring vessel: Theo. Doup, jr., (Jolumbus, road gate; Wesley T. Finney, Bentonville, suspender buckle; Leander W. Freeman, Liberty, hay rake; Hiram H. Gibbs, Indianapolis, road cart; Wickliffß. Mitchell, Owensburg, matchsafe; Simon Shoup, Fish Lake, saw set. Some of the vinegar manufacturers are inclined to test the right of the State Board of Health to analyze their products and put the ban of prohibition upon sales of those that are adulterated. It is proaable that tbe new law under which the board is acting in this respect, will reach the Supreme Court, as lawyers are making inquiries on behalf of certain manufacturers. This, no doubt, caused Sec’y Metcalf, of the Board, to ask the Attorney General, Monday, if the mixing of different vinegars was permissible. After quoting the section of the act relating to adulterated vinegar, passed by the lastjksglslttture, the Attorney General said cider and fruit vinegars may be j mixed. Malt vinegar, and that from harm- * less substances, excepting cider or fruit, can also be mixed. It is the mixing of ciddr and fruit vinegars with other substances that is prohibited. p .»..hn Campbell, of Melrose, 0., was victimized, in Ft. Wayne, out of SIOO, on Saturday, by William Morehouse and John Treadwell, by the old-fashioned sawdust game. The men explained to him that the government had issued $88,000,000 of paper money in excess of its requirements, and was disposing of the surplus in SSOO packages at the rate of. SIOO per package. J Campbell probably does read a news--1 paper, and fell an easy victim to such an | antiquated swindle. He handed oat his j good currency, receiving what he supposed was a package containing SSOO. The swind lers left, and when he opened the bundle he found nothing but old newspaper clippings. No arrests have been made.

• One of toe moat peculiar oases of boycotting ever indulged in occurred In Pike county, south es Vincennes. The new agricultural association, ca,iw the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association, which is spreading out in southern Indiana and Illinois, comprises over a thousand members in Pike county. Owing to violent criticisms of the organization by toe county press of that county, the farmers, at a recent meeting, passed toe following: “Resolved, That the delegates to toe conn-* ty assembly of the F. M. B. A. consider that it is the duty of every member of tho order to withhold his patronage from any :ounty paper that opposes us.” The resolution was adopted and the secretary requested to furnish each of toe county p*. pers with a copy of it The resolution angered the three newspapers of the county, and a red-hot wrangle has resulted. In toe Petersburg News toe editor declare* “They can boycott toe News and be d . The first member of toe alliance in Pike county that withdraws his patronage from this office, and does not first pay up his account in full, we will make it warm for him. We are carrying accounts on not less than six hundred members of the alliance, and whenever such members withdraw their patronage from this paper payments roust first be made. Go on with your boycott.”