Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Indianapolis authorities leap* scarlet (ever epidemic. I Evansville butchers are opposing the sale of imported meat. Judson Turner, of Seymour, was fatally trampled by a colt on the sth. Timothy-Sullivan, of Muncie, dropped dead on the Ist while engaged at work. Eight business houses at Elwood were burned Saturday, causing a loss of $35,000. Tipton school teachers protest against the use of the Indiana school geographies Terre Haute has abandoned the proj&ct of putting a ball club in the Interstate League.

Mrs. Claire Kyler, of Peru, a woman physician, has been arrested, charged witn criminal malpractice . The paper mills of the diamond , Match Co begins operations at Wabash this week, employing 150 hands. A mad dog ran amuck at Huntington the 4th, biting a number of animals, and also the son of Charles McCaughey. The widow of Emmett Early, a brakeman killed on tho O. & Mv, near Seymour, has been awarded SIO,OOO damages. All engagements of Riley, the poet, and Nye, the humorist, have been canceled because of the inebriety of the former. Jacob Heim, a manufacturer of Laporte, has disappeared. He collected up his book accounts closely' and left his debts un paid.

Nelson G. Hunter, of Wabash, and Daniel McDonald, of Plymouth, are Democratic candidates for Reporter of the Supreme Court. Mrs. George Kellar, of Coal Creek, near Covington, choked to death on the 3d, dur ing a fit of coughing brought on by the la grippe James Robison, a prominent farmer of Lexington township, Scott county, has become violently insane, due to religious excitement. No trace has :yet been found of Willie Affelder, aged thirteen, the son of wealthy parents, who disappeared from Pern over a month age, Mrs, Susan Telking, a widow, of Fort Wayne, aged seventy-three, tired of life, committed suicide by drowning herself in St. Mary’s .River. .Henry Patty, near Geetingsville, while hunting, accidentally shot himself in the head and body, and although able to walk home, he soon died, Adelbert L. Brown, of Laporte, who suddenly disappeared a few days ago, leaving many creditors, has returned to straighten out his affairs. Henry Ratliff, son of Joseph Ratliff, of Marion, died, Friday, making the third grown child out of the family that has died of typhoid fever in the last two weeks. Charles Barrett and family, of Deerfield narrowly escaped cremation, Saturday night, thieves first plundering the store attached to the residence, and then setting the premises on fire.

The Pan Handle Road is introducing new poaches on its through trains, which are lighted by gas from reservois under the floors. The improvement over the old oil lamp is very noticeable. Leo. F. Wilson, of Shelby county, has been disbarred from practice before the Pension Bureau, and.all other bureaus and offices under the Interior Department by j order of Secretary Noble. Burglars entered George Lawson’s saloon at Greensburg,.and after rifling the! money drawer, the faucets of the whisky and wine casks were opened, permitting the contents to escape on the floor. I In the case of John Worrell against Wm. 1 A. Peelle, involving the office of State Statistician, Mr. Peelle was refused a rehearing. This action of the court gives Mr. Worrell a clear title to the office.

Mias Stella Swope, aged sixteen, of Clinton township, Boone county, looked into a gun which “wasn’t loaded.” The ball struck her between the eyes and has not been found, though she still lives. The infant daughter of William Major, apromment resident of Shelby county; was terribly burned on the Bth, while in her mother’s arms, by the explosion of a hanging-lamp under which she was sitting* Miss Mattie McCall. 1 of Bogard Township, Daviess county, is dead, of pneumonia. She was thought to be the heaviest woman in the county, weighing 355 pounds, and yet only twenty-one years old. Thursday, Ezra Gard, sentenced October, 1878, for life from Lawrenceburg, died at the Prison South. He killed his ■wife and tried to cut his own throat. He was one of a family of six deaf mutes, and ■the only one who could apeak and who went wrong. I Vincennes is rejoicing over the fact that Edwin Rierhaus, Sr., will erect ajresidence build one costing $20,000, while the new residence under contemplation by Charles Bierhaua will cost $25,000, all to be constructed at an early date. In a case of poisoning in the family of W. Robinson, a colored preacher at Mitchell, the entire family was taken sick and the minister died. Rat poison had been kept on a shelf above a table and had ufteti down, unnoticed, where bread and meat had been made up for the dinner.

Molly Olmstead. colored, of Laporte, has celebrated her one hundredth birthday. She has resided in that city fifty years and more, lives alone in two rooms, does her own housework, and is still active on her ,sect aud bright mentally. Her husband and nearly all of eleven children are dead. Arrangements are making at Bicknell for a monster fox drive, covering the larger portions of Vigo and Washington town ships. Kuox county, the ring to oenter on me farm of Samuel House. The date is nxed for February 15, aud it is expected mat several thousand people will join in 4 tne sport. William S. Robinson, a wealthy farmer, -near liruceville, while temporarily deranged, on the sth, committed suicide by .p.acing the muzzle of his gun in his mouth aud touching the trigger, blowing oil the entire top of his bead. Family nfilicUon. coupled possibly with other troubles, the supposed cause. Bartley Mangan, the present and fifth husband of Mrs. Phoebe Quails, iu Fulton CO inty, angered his neighbors by his free \(ires*ious, und has received a “White i' '/ ' -• araing to settle bis affairs and do-

camp within ten days or take the consequences. Mr. Maagan waa a soldier British army for ten, years, and he has published notice that no pretended “White Capa” can force him to retreat, and that if he is attadked somebody will be slain. Indiana patients; G. J. Cline, Goshen fence; S. L. Cowan, Clarksburg, coffeegrinder; J. J. Hamilton and J. W. Hull, New Castle, seed-sower; J. P. Karr, Montioello, removing incrustation from boiler tubes; J. D. Kurtz, water heating apparatus; J. L. Leeper, Fort Wayne, bicycle; W. A. Watson, Lewisville, farm gate.

C. W.Billmyer, who lately came to Muncie, from Shepardstown, W. Va., and started a novelty store, skipped for parts unknown Thursday, after gutting the stock of goods he had purchased of a Cincinnati firm, who have taken charge of the remainder. Billmyer is but twenty-one yefirs of age, and has made many other debts here. A short time ago a rabid dog bit a cdw and a hog for Johu Hard, living five miles east of Brazil. On Wednesday Mr. Bard started into the lot to milk tho cow, when the animal charged on him, striking him *in the breast, knocking him to the ground. He finally made his escape unhurt, and’ went to look at the hog that was bitten He found the animal dead.

Kokomo, Ind., secured two more large factories this week, one for the manufacture of chewing gum, the other a concern for the manufacture of pumps, with a brass foundry in connection. Each will employ one hundred hands. The latter is the fourth factory secured in the past thirty days and the thirty-second since the discovery of natural gas, three years ago. Miners Thursday, while boring for water at the Mattoon City mills, 4 vein of fine fuel gas was opened, at a depth of ninety five feet. Rocks were blown in the air, and the blaze extended five feet above the mouth of the hole when lighted. The gas will be utilized for fuel under the boilers. Work on the large gas-well south of the city continues steadily downward. Warsaw has a society of girls who meet periodically to compare notes upon the charaoter and Conduct of the young men of their acquaintance. They “keep tab” on the boys on their eligible list, noting how often they attend church, whether they drink, smoke or indulge in other wickedness, and strike them from the list as soon as they fall below the requirements. C. M. Lounsberry, of Elkhart, postal clerk on the Northern Pacific line, injured in a wreck last May, will be released from the hoapital and returned to his home this week. Mr. Lounsberry was terribly turned, and his body has been patched with over one hundred pieces of skin, taken from other persons. The company paid him SB,OOO damages, without the necessity of litigation. Jackon township, Blackford county, is in a bad way. Recently the Trustee was compelled to vacate by reason of his bondsmen withdrawing after making good a deficit, and the new Trustee is now met with a contract signed by the old Trustee, authorizing! lightning rods to be erected on sixteen school houses, the cost of which is $1,427. It is claimed that ,$l6O would have been a fair price. M. H. Tyler, a manufacturer of Muncie -charged some weeks ago with bigamy and, /released on SI,OOO bonds, has been re arrested on the original complaint, his firs -wife arriving .from Bangor, Me., to prosecute. Mr. Tyler’s second wife is a daughter of Patrolman Heffner, of MundU, and Tyler’s explanation is that he married the second time believing his first wife had secured a divorce.

Officers of the Indiana Horse Breeding Association were elected on the 4th for 1889. They are: Dr. C. E. Wright, Indianapolis, President; George Campbell, Rushville, Vice-President; Horace F. Wood, Indianapolis,-Secretary; E. J. Robinson,lndianapolis, Treasurer; Board of Censors, M.L. Hare,lndianapolis; N. A. Randall, George W. Morrison, Conaersvilie; J. N.Dickerson, North Vernon; C. L. Clancy, Edinburgh. The indifferent success of agricultural departments of alleged agricultural colleges is one of the notable things in the educational field. Fifteen years ago Purdue University was established as an agricultural school. It has become a State institution of several departments, all successful exoept the agricultural. The annual report of the institution now on file with the Governor, recognizes this condition and laments so few pupils enter the school of agriculture. President Smart denies that the lack of agricultural students is due to neglect or apathy on theparof the management, and attributes it to tbe supposed fact that farmers themselves are not yet alive to the necessity for educating their sons liberally. The total attendance at Purdue has grown to 439. A very peculiar accident occurred to tjie south bound passenger train op the Evansville & Terre Haute railway, Wednesday Evening. While thundering on at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour, the piston rod on the right side of the engine suddenly gave way and flew around with lightning rapidity, one of the ends striking the boiler and tearing an ugly bole in the side causing the steam to escape in huge volumes, and filling the cab. Engineer Morris Hoffman was badly scalded, and, springing backward, he fell from the end, and was, 1 later, picked up, quite seriously injured i Fireman Robert Skinner sprang from the 1 cab, and escaped unhurt. The train run 1 for a mile or two, and stopped of its own accord, as a result of the escaping steam. Trainmen hurried back and found the engineer and fireman. The train was near Evansville, and was pushed in by a freigh ' * rain that followed. } The Supreme Court handed down Tuesday an opinion reversing the judgment in the Qorby and Collett ease. The opinion was written by Judge Coffey and Judges Elliott and Mitchell dissented. It is held that the Governor hae a right to appoin : the State Geologist, and that tbe statute authorizing an election by the Legislature is unconstitutional The opinion covers much the same ground as the opinions in | the cases of the ChLf of the Bureau of Statistics and the Oil Inspector. It, however, modifies and limits some parts of Judge Beokshire’s opinion in one of the previous cases. So far as the decisions ha»e gone the majority hold that the

- Trustees of the Benevolent Institution may be elected by the liegialstue, that the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics must be elected by the people at luge, and that tiie State Geologist must be appointed by the Governor. At a country dance, held at the home of Columbus Dixlender, Friday night, seven miles south of Martinsville, Wiley and Wick Stewart, brothers, got into a dispute over the latter’s right to dance. The former, who was managing the dancei accused Wick of not having paid for admission. Both were drinking, and, after a few words, decided to go out doors and settle the dispute. Wiley drew his knife and plunged it into Wick’s left side jnst below the shoulder blade. He went im. mediately home and told his widowed mother what he had done. Wick was brought home in a buggy and a physician from that city hurriedly summoned. The physician says he thinks the knife blade entered the lung, and that the young man cannot recover. Wiley is still at large. Secretary Metcalf, of the State Board of Health, has been investigating the sanitary condition of the school houses throughout the State. Reports were received altogether from 3,186 schools, which number is only one-third of the total number in the State. Those reported, however, being from all portions of the State, will serve as an index to all the rest. Eighteen percent, of the schooljionsqs are on low, wet ground and need drainage to make them suitable for school house sites. Seventy-one per cent, are improperly ventilated, that is, no provisions are made for ventilation except such as is afforded by windows and doors, and in some instances, as teachers report, by broken glass in windows, broken transoms or cracks in the floor. Twelve per cent, are not properly heated. In 34 per cent, of the houses the black boards are placed between the windows, thus endangering the eyesight of the pupils on account of improper light, and 3a per cent, of these boards have poor surfaces. Thirty per cent, of the buildings have water supplies that are near some nuisance, rendering them unsafe for use. Only in six per centof the houses are pupils required to be vaccinated before entering school; 52 per cent, are reported as having no rules re. quiringpupils coming from families in which there are contagious or infectious diseases to be excluded from the school; 22 per cent, of the buildings are either too small or seriously out of repair; 1,833 pupils are reported as near sighted, owing, probably, to the faulty location of blackboards and the absence of shutters or curtains.

The annual report as to affairs at the Reform School was filed by President Jordan, of the Board of Trustees, with the Governor, Friday. The report contains an historical statement of the founding of the school, and an epftome of the law governing it, and tho methods adopted in the reformation of bad boys. Especial attention is called to the fact that the institution is not an orphan asylum or place for homeless boys. It is intended only for the incorrigible and criminal class, and tbe trustees say it is a crime to commit those who do not belong to these classes. In ten years tbe Governor has commuted the sentences of sixtysthree young men who had been ordered to State prison, and nearly all of these have been saved. ' The trustees commend this practice and advise the Governor to continue it. Tbe importance of having a visitor to look after discharged boys is set forth at length. The average length of time necessary to reform bad boys is stated at two years. The table accompanyin g the report shows that 2,998 boys have been committed to the school since its opening. The cities furnish Reform School boys very much in proportion to population, the number received from eight counties in which are situated the largest cities being as.follows: Marion (Indianapolis), 603; Vigo (Terre Haute). 152; Allen (Fort Wayne), 126; Wayne (Richmond), 91; Cass (Logansport), 91; Vanderburg (Evansville), 35; Tippecanoe (Lafayette), 63; St. Joseph (South Bend), 63, making 1,274, or nearly one-half. The rural counties furnish a very small proportion of the Reform School population, three of them having never contributed a boy. The same fact appears in the State prison reports. There were 201 boys committed last year.