Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Marion claims 12,000 population. Indianapolis is threatened with an ice famine. > ' Indianapolis Republican officers were succeeded by Democrats on the Ist; The McLaughlin natural gas well, near , Kokomo, which was drilled ip last Sunday, F claimed to be the biggest well in Ind- ! ana. . i Twenty-five.cases of the “grippe” are •eported at Sullivan, and among the >atientsis Dr. Crowder, a prominent phy- ' iician. i During 1888 there were but 101 resident I J oaths in Kokomo, and the past year but 92 >ut of a population of 12,000. Kokomo .‘laims now to be a health resort. Frank Morgan, a Ft. Wayne letter carrier, while entering the postoffice Wednesday, slipped and fell from the portico to ! tbe cement floor of the court and was fatal- ' !y injured. > While Ellis T. Campbell, of Ft. Wayne vas enjoying a Christmas dinner with his amily, and eating of goose stuffed with >ysters, a piece of oyster-shell lodged in > iis throat, and he has since been unable to ibtain relief. His condition is critical. Jonathan Everhart and George Patton, , near Scottsburg, whose wagon was struck ; jy a Pennsylvania Central train to their iangerous injury, and who sued for SIO,OOO sad $5,000 damages respectively,have com Promised ttlfelr claims for s4,i*dd an( l fejfroo" A dog afflicted with rabies on Christmas I lay bit several dogs and cattle, and also Clarence Wert, aged eleven, of Dillsboro. The boy was taken to Milton, Ky., and the famous mad-stone, owned by the Tanner heirs, was applied with satisfactory results. Twenty six persons, passengers on the C. & O. train, wrecked at White Sulphur ' Sprjngs, Saturday, have signed a paper , dating that in their opinion, after exam-' ’ mation, the cause of the wreck was rotten lies, a defective rail, and a too high rate if speed. A mob of roughs, headed by one Louden, look the town of New Washington in cowboy style tbe other night, riding their horses into stores, using door knobs for pistol targets, and finally taking possession of the Christian church and conducting the prayer meeting after their own ideas. _ Charles H. Earon y apopu lar young man if Jeffersonville, committed suicide on the : Ist, on the eve of his wedding to Miss Phoebe Meyers, a popular young lady , i Financial difficulty is supposed have prompted the deed. The wedding guests lad arrived, and Miss Meyers was arrayed n her wedding clothes. The suicide of young Byrnes, at Terre Haute, raised such a storm of public iniignation against gambling houses that ;he Police Board is compelled to enforce he law, and all the gambling houses were dosed on the2d. There is a feeling, how3ver, that the gamblers and the police ring will only enforce the law until puolic indig.lation is allayed. Charles H. Faxon, of Jeffersonville, who committed suicide while his expectant bride was waiting for the marriage ceremony, earned a fair salary as a clerk for Messrs. Mabley & Carew, of Cincinnati, but he lived up to his income, and it is tLe impression of his fellow-clerks that ho silled himself rather than confess his im poverished circumstances •to the brideblect. The following patents were issued tp Indiana inventors Tuesday: Louis Bell and W. H. P, Creighton, Lafayette, gov ernor for steam-engines; Delos Cornell' -Boon Grove, grinding-mill; F. Heiney, Huntington, door check; L. Kushner Terre Haute, pedal attachment CA- L. North and H. Howe, Patriot, barrel-head holder; L. J. Rice, Indianapolis, hose coupling; C. F Walters, Richmond, flour packer; A. S Woods, Servia, gunpowder. William F. Weyrick, originally of Cin cinnati, was married at Jeffersonville live years ago and removed to Hudsonville, Miss. Twa weeks ago-he went to Memphis, Tenn., and upon returning to Hudsonville found that his wife had sold his personal effects and decamped, taking with her nearly $12,000. She was accompanied by a stranger, and Mr. Weyrick traced the fugitives to Cairo, Ill.,and after ward to Evansville. He has no idea who her companion is, as his wife never spoke of any one in his presence, and the whole affair is entirely inexplicable.

I A collision of two passenger trains acccurred on the Pan Handle road, one mile west of Kokomo Tuesday morning, while running at full speed. A frightful crash resulted. The two engines were totally destroyed, and four coaches and cars, which were splintreed, caught fire and were burned. George Cummings, engineer, and Isaac Kerlin, baggage master, were killed, and five other train men were seriously hurt. The cause of the collision has not been discovered, as those able to throw light on the matter are killed, or too badly injured to make a statement. N. McCullough, engineer, was also killed The Little River ditch is at last finished, j and the final reports have been approved iby the court. The main ditch extends through Allen county into Huntington, and has numerous branches. It drains 40,000 acres of land southwest of Fort Wayne, and with its tributaries 80,000 acres are affected. It is expected that a goodly por tion of this reclaimed land will be utilized in the cultivation of celery, experiments showing that it ranks with the famous celery lands surrounding Kalamazoo, Mich. A sensational meeting of the most pronounced type is in progress at a church near Gwynneville. Sunday night thirteen w'ent~!nto trances. Upon waking they danced over the house, hugging members promiscuously, and describing the most fantastic visions. They claim to have seen white doves fluttering at the windows, as messengers sent by heaven to warn sinners to repentance. They predict that the end of the world is soon to be, and can foretell the time of demise of their friends. Great excitement prevails in the neighborhood. Crowds are attracted froin the villages of Gwynneville, Morristown, Manilla and Carthage. During the most exciting periods the metriment-seeking portion of the congregation stand upon the backs of the segt*, and shout “Down in front I" as if

witnessing some inferior, but exciting variety show. The meeting has been in progress three weeks-, and every night the same scenes are repeated, with no signs oft the meeting breaking up. The inexperience of farmers in -mr chand ise has been aptly illustrated by an experience of the F. M. B. a .’s in Daviess county. They had discussed the position of the dealer just enough to believe that he was a useless appendage to them, and was nothing more,or less- than a shrewd thief pocketing the profit off the goods be sold to the farmers. They concluded to save this profit to themselves by buying at wholesale directly of the manufacturer, and rendering the middle man without an occupation. This lodge of farmers was not very numerous, but they decided that a car-load of salt would about do them for a year. So they pledged themselves to take the salt and pay for it on delivery. They had little idea just how < much salt a car would contain, but they ordered it. When it was apportioned out, they found they had too much salt, and that some of them could not use up their portion in five years. Then they began to realize that the outlay on the salt was a loss, and that the intereston their investment would more than pay the profit or the middle man. They learned that their theories of business do not operate so successfully-inpractice as they had dreamed, and that a skillful merchant, after all, is a very useful member of the wurtd of business, arid probably in the long run saves them money,