Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Cass county is wholly out of debt. Evansville is being flooded with spurious $2 bills. An artest has been made. A big natural-gas well and a three-foot vein of coal have been struck near Michigan City; in drilling a well for a country school. The Good Templars of Tippecanoe, White, Warren, Clinton and Montgomery counties, were in secret session at Crawfordsville last week. Miss Kate Lowe, of Kingston, is suing Thos. P. Hamilton, claiming SIO,OOO for breach of promise. They were schoolmates, and both belong to good families. John Dawson, of Terre Haute, was 100 years old Friday. He has living 4 children, 30 grandchildren, 64 great-grand-children and 7 great-great-grandchildren. One fruit-distilling firm in Harrison county, has manufactured 180 barrels of applejack during the present season, and is still turning out quantities es the fiery fluid. Marion has organized a temperance alliance, intended to unite all friends of temperance of whatever religious or political faith in the common cause of restricting the liquor evil. A recent murder in Sullivan county is found to have oeen commllted with a turnip. John Bullock threw a turnip at John Farmer, an old man, hitting him on the head and killing him instantly. Peter S. Odell, a well-known farmer of Daviess county, died Thursday of injuries received in an attack made upon him by a vicious ram, which knocked the old man down and butted him to death. Odell was eighty years of age. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Muncie district met at Winchester late last week. The attendance was good. The corresponding secretary’s report shows that there has been a healthy growth in the society and a commendable increase of finances. Reuben Ramsey, near Odon, has an apple tree showing the third crop of blossoms this season, and from which to crops of apples have been harvested. They were of the maiden blush variety, and the first crop was large and perfectly formed. The second crop was smaller, but ripened.’ The blossoms of the third crop came out after the heavy frosts. An unknown crazy man is held in the Madison County Jail. He is repulsive look’ng and entirely unknown, nor can he give any account of himself. When found by the roadway he was eating grass, and a singularity is that he devours hay, corn and straw with apparent relish, while he refuses all kinds of food usually served to human beings. Rabbits are reported so plentiful in some parts of Clark county that boys have no trouble in killing the animals with clubs. The peach orchard men are willing to give permission to all hunters who desire to kill rabbits exclusively. They have become so numerous that peach trees by the hun dreds are killed annually. Last year Commissioner Packwood lost an entire orchard from this source alone. | At Muncie, Tuesday evening, at a few minutes before 6 o'clock, Fred Horn, aged seventeen, caught his right hand in a cording machine at the Muncie Bagging Company’s mills, and the member was slowly chopped oto pieces by the sharp steel teeth. In attempting to free himsel he pulled the muscles out of his arm to the shoulder. It was a horrible sight, and ' the boy suffered frightfully. I Some months ago armies of rate devastated crops near Blue Lick. Several weeks ago they turned up destructively in Floyd county, and now vast numbers of the rodents are overrunning the vicinity of Wat son and destroying corn crops and everything else eatable. They have cleaned out several farmers. The rats are bold and show fight when attacked. Ferrets arete be brought into the localities with which to exterminate them. Indiana Patents—Peter Anderson* Wayne, wagonreaoh; 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, assignors to N. T. DePauw, New Albany spindle of glass-polishers: Henry T Simmons, Bloomington, packing counter or stores, etc I During the past few months unknown parties have been systematically engaged in poisoning cattle on the farm of Hon. F. Legg, in Tipton county, and that gentleman has suffered the loss of nearly $2,000 | worth of valuable cattle from his herd of Shorthorns. Mr. Legg is well known among Shorthorn breeders throughout the State, and was regarded as having one of the finest herds in Itdiana. Some of his most highly prized animals have i been killed within the past few months, and every effort to discover the identity of the guilty parties has proved of no avail Under a law passed last winter teachers who attend the township institutes receive a day’s wages, not from the regular, but from the special fund. The latter is levied by the trustees, and is. for the defrayment of incidental expenses. The new law is makings drain upon this special fund which the trustees were not prepared to meet, and the consequence is word comes to the State Superintendent that money is running short all over the State. This additional demand upon the special fund will amount to from S2OO to S3OO per towni ship, I Mite Desormier, aged twenty, a deaf mute of South Bend, angered because her father would not permit her return to Canada, attempted suicide by starvation, and for two weeks abstained from food. Meanwhile, she was reduced from a plump, rosy cheeked girl to a mere skeleton, and became sullen and morose in disposition, neither argument nor force having influence upon her. Saturday night, however, a physician succeeded in breaking down her determination, and she has concluded to eat and live. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows; C. Baw, Angola, back for vehicle seats; C. Gochenauer. Warsaw, liniment; S. E. Harsh, Wabash, cheek holder and chock spreader; 8. D.

Harvey, Tipton, vignetting attachment for printing frames; C. H. Jenne, Indianapolis, street or station indicator; W. H. McGrew, Peru, fence machine'; R. Q. Pey ton, Terre Haute, straw burning stove; E. W. Root, Wheatfield, cider or wine press; W. L. Slipher, Mulberry, washing machine; W. H. Vajen, Indianapolis, rein support; T. J. Walden, Lebanon, elevator bucket. During the past few days, W. S. Applegate, of New Albany, has received a number of communications from fox hunting clubs of New York, asking him to ship to them as many live foxes as he could secure. Mr. Applegate has made arrangements with a number of farmer boys, residing in the hills near the city, to procure the foxes and numerous traps have already been pre pared. The novel industry will add considerably to the farmers’ revenue, as the animals can be found in profusion in the hills and are easily trapped. | A lawsuit of more than ordinary interest I was entered Thursday in the Knox Circuit Court, by ex-County Treasurer Hollingsworth, against tha county, for a SI,OOO order, issued in his favor in May, 1886, while he was under arrest for embezzle-: ment. Hollingsworth, at that time, turned over all his property, more worth, to his bondsmen. He was a defaulter, to the extent of about SBI,OOO, and served nearly j three years in the penitentiary. Now he is at home, and will sue right and left for the recovery and an accounting of all his property. Some rich developments are looked for. McConnell & Jenkins, attorneys, who are employed by the Cass County Commissioners to look up tax defaulters,' are reaping a rich harvest. In one estate, that of W. W. Haney, $35,000 was paid into the , County Treasury by his administrator and about $24,000 into the City Treasury. ExAttorney General ’ Baldwin has been notified to call and settle a large amount due the county. Mr. Baldwin denies that he has dodged the tax duplicate, and says he will fight any collection. It is estimated that over $150,000 in cash will be collected by the city and courts from tax dodgers. The attorneys, however, will get a large share of it, they receiving 35 per cent, from the county and 10 per cent, from the city. The Methodist Ministerial Association of the Crawfordsville district met at that place last week. The following officers were chosen: President, Presiding Elder W. H. Middleton; secretary, Rev. J. G. Campbell, of Rockville; treasurer, Rev. E. R. Johnson. The temperance question caused much discussion. Rev. J. B. Bell, in his remarks on “The Present Situation of the Temperance Question,” took occasion to show that the ministers were not loyal to temperance because they did not combine prohibition and politics. This created a lively debate, and things were reaching a point where something had to be done to prevent a division, when Rev. E.oR, Johnson offered a resolution to the effect that the association favored prohibi tion, which was adopted. During the debate the charge against Vice President Morton of keeping a saloon was brought up. This was the cause of most of the uproar. The next meeting will be held at Waveland next spring.