Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Ora Emmons, horse-back riding near Montpelier, was thrown Wednesday and injnred. William Lock, a farmer near Onward,in Cass county, was instantly killed, Thursday, by a tree falling upon him. President Harrison has appointed exSpeaker Warren G. Sayre, of Wabash, a member of the Cherokee Indian Commission. There are eight cement mills in Clark county, employing nearly 1,600 men, while the yearly output is estimated at 2,500,000 barrels of cement. A disease is prevailing among the horses in Porter county,known as “wood tongue,” because the tongue becomes as hard as Pwood before the animal dies. | Malignant diphtheria has made its apI pearance in South Wabash, and the public schools have closed, Several cases are reported. but there has been but one death. Hiram Armstrong, of Hoover’s Crossing, applied for a pension several years ago, and last week the certificate reached him, only to find the old soldier dead in bed. His widow will receive $1,156. Thirty-eight employes of tho Jeffersonville and Louisville Company were fined, Wednesday, in the Clark Circuit Court for carrying passengers to Sunday picnics last summer. The Supreme Court handed down a decision, Wednesday, to the effect that the new law prohibiting the piping of gas from the State to points outside the State as unconstitutional. I William Neal, in Crawford county, stole a chicken valued at twenty cents, and was sentenced to prison for one year. Taylor Bayles was found guilty of attempted murder, and received the same sentence. Muncie people have been notified that a company has heen organized in Buffalo, N. Y., with s2o,ooocapital, to build a piano factory. Other interests at Buffalo have also signified an intention to move to Muncie. Miss Kate Pittman, of Evansville, while dusting a mantle in front of a grate in which there was a lively fire, caught her clothing in the blaze, and she was burned from head to foot before the flame was ex- I tinguished. ’ James Gallion, of Seymour, engaged in a persimmon eating contest with other boys on Sunday Cast, and he won, but on Moq-

cay he was seized with congestion of the stomach, the result of - over-eating, and soon died, —— > . ‘ . .5 The Green school-house in Wayne township, Montgomery county, was raided by vandals, Tuesday night, for the second time within a month, and over S3OO damage done to desks, hooks and windows. No cause is known. About 9 o’clock every night peculiar rappings are heard in the farm house occupied by Lindley Allen, fourteen miles distant from Muncie, and these continue until daybreak, leading the family to believe that ghosts are flitting about. The Cass County Commissioners have ordered a special election to vote on the propsition made by the Wabash railway management, that In consideration of $lO,000 headquarters of the company will be changed from Peru to Logan sport. Charles Clorfc, of Rising Sun,has brought suit against Captain Benj. Calkins, claiming $25,000 for alienating the affections of his wife. The defendant is aged seventy and Mrs. Clore is a lady of forty years of age and the mother of several children. William Kenton, Westport, filled his pipe from tobacco loosely carried in his pocket, Wd a percussion cap was included in the filling. Soon after lighting his pipe there was an explosion of the cap, part of which was driven into his eye, destroying the sight. John Parish, a Panhandle freight conductor, of Logansport, met with a frightful accident at an early hour, Tues ay morning, near Hagerstown. His left arm was cut completely off and his right arm broken in two placos, making amputatioi necessary. - J. W. Marson, of Cambridge City, find lug himself overstocked With watermelons, concluded to crush the melons and m k« vinegar of the juicq. He now finds thal jthe experiment succeeded. The product |is a clear fine vinegar, equal in strength ! to the best apple vinegar. Terre Haute, with less population than Fort Wayne, has 13,600 school children, while but 10,282 19 credited to Fort Wayne. It is claimed that this greax disparity is due to a wrongful system of enumeration by the Superintendent of Allen county, and that it has lessened Fort Wayne’s rightful proportion of the school fund until she is compelled to reduce the number of teachers or else suffer their payment to go by default. The other day Mr 3. Clarquist, in charge of the P. E. Studebaker residence at South Bend, was assaulted by a colored man, who tried to disable her with a sandbag, but she escaped after a desperate resistance. Afterward the police made two arrests, and David Rivers, colored, admitted the assault, and confessed" that, thei’e was a conspiracy between himself and Tommy Strode, also colored, to put Mrs* Clarquist out of the. Way and plunder the residence. Indiana Patents—Peter Anderson, Wayne, wagonreach; John L. Barnes, Peru, dishwasher; Chester W. Clark, Mishawaka, cultivator; John Conn, Valparaiso, door-check: John R. Cook and C. S. Hinchman, Rushville, rotary engine; Melville B. Mahurin, Indianapolis, wheel; William O. Pierce, Winchester, game Frank Schofield and G. F. Penn, assign ors to N. T. DePauw, New Albany spindle of glass-polishers: Henry T Simmoas* Bloomington, packing counter for stores, etc A large chicken hawk on the farm of Mr. Ilougham, in Shelby county, swooped down and seized a little pig which it attempted to carry off. Before it could rise, however, the bird was furiously attacked by tho eld sow, but, instead of fly tog away, the bird dropped its prey and turned on the larger animal, striking it about me head with its wings and endeavoring to sink its talons in its eyes. The brute was bewildered by the bird, and the hawk was getting the best of the fight, until Mr, McCain, a spectator, slipped up and caught the latter by the feet. At the meeting of the Terre Haute Liquor Dealers’ Association a resolution prevailed by which Hon. Levi P. Morton, Vice President of the United States, was elected an honory member, this bid for cheap notoriety growing out of the published dispatches to the effect that Mr. Morton was permitting the sale of liquor in some of his Washington property. A committee was authorized to telegraph the fact of his election to Mr. Morton, among whom was Mr. Mewes, who afterward withdrew his countenance of the proposition.—lndianapolis News. The finest barn in Knox county was burned Saturday night. It was owned by Lee Buck, a wealthy farmer and stock dealer, near Bruceville. The loss will amount to over $25,000. It cost $7,000 to build the structure, and it contained 3,500 bushels of wheat, 2,000 bushels of oats, 100 tons or hay, a stallion valued at SSOO, a large quantity of corn, farming implements, machinery, including a threshing machine, and many other articles of value. Mr. Buck is one of the wealthiest men of Knox county, and was well equipped for agricultural pursuits. He held insurance os follows: On building $3,500, in Connecticut; on grain $2,500, in tho Fire Association of Philadelphia, and $2,500 in the Phoenix of Brooklyn. The cause of the fire is a mystery, but it is believed to be the work of an incendiary.