Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

• Laporte will have a street railway. *■ Kokomo is organizing a paid fire department ' Gay is the name of a new postoffice in jfioward county. Another fine artesian well has been fetrnck at Mancie. 1 The Chief Fire Engineer of Anderson is paid but SIOO annually. > Counterfeit ten-cent pieces are cireulat in? freely at Port Wayne. The Reeves pulley works at Columbus srill be removed to Kokomo. The Farmers’ Alliance has organized in every school district in Brown county. Edward Alexander’s little daughter near Shelbyville, was burned to death on the 29th. The Creamery Package Factory at Portland, was damaged $6,000 by fire night before last , Isaac Endaily, of Madison, celebrated his 99th birthday on the 31st He was a veteran of the war of 1812.

‘ The bicycle fever has seized the-editorial fraternity of South Bend, without exception to age, sex or size, i William Ferguson, employed in a Kokomo paper mill, was caught by a pulley, breaking one arm and two ribs. William Justice, near Yorktowu, while felling a tree on the 31st, was caught by the falling branches and crushed to death. Rev. A. I* Orcutt, pastor of the Chris tian Church at Muncie, asked for more salary, and the request has caused a wide -division in the church. ' In boring for natural gas at Montezuma, « depth of 1,276 feet has been reached, with no signs «if trenton rock. The boring will be continued indefinitely. John and Lloyd Mase, who stole hogs* from the Treasurer of Vigo county, have; been sentenced to eleven and eight years’; imprisonment, respectively. Wbßeley county farmers are taking strong ground in favor of gravel roads, bompelling a candidate to pledge himself in advance for a gravel-road tax. Rev. Peter aVenetton, convicted at Youngstown, 0., of embezzling $6,000 from a widow, was sentenoed to three years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. "xrAtflunatic named Jacobus-is coaflneddw jail at Goshen, and itis a peculiarity of Ihls mania that he dare not eat unless directed by divine inspiration. He never misses a meal. In Boone township, rCass county, the paloon men triumphed in the township primary, and the antisare putting a ticket in the field called “No Politicians,” Both factions are Democratic. Huntington is alarmed over the belief that it is the most extravagantly managed city in that section Indiana, and that its tax levy is the largest of any city of its class with the exception of Peru. The oyolone cut a swath two miles vwide across the southern portion of Daviess county, and the estimated damage to farm bouses, barns, Umber, live stock, etc., is ($75,000. There was no loss of life. The Franklin College year book shows a (total enrollment of 218 students, with 80 Sn the college department, 99 in the preparatory, and 107 in the art school. *Comgnencement exercises will be held, begin . rning June 6.

1 Grant Sheridan, of (Pulaski oounty, has •'been arrested at Logansport, as a member -of a gang of horse thieves operating extensively in Cass, White, Fulton, Miami and Pulaski oountiea, which has resulted lin the loss of fifty horses. Henry Parker, of Vanderburg county, (borrowed Alexander Darling’s team, un«der the plea he wanted to move his family, but he used it in hauling several loads of •corn from Darling’s cribs, which was sold ito Evansville parties. His arrest followed. The Indiana Unive rsity.is nearing the {dose of its |ixty-flfth college year, and ithe catalogue shows 300 students in attendance, of whom 216 are males. The senior class numbers forty-one. David. (Starr Jordan, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., to {President. - : Mrs. Frank J. Geiger, of Fort Wayne, was frightfully burned by the ignition of her clothing, while working about thej kitchen stove. Her cries attracted Fred Ulmer, a passing street car driver, and by using his overcoat, be was able to smother tbe flames and save her life. Charles Bauer has taken a ten-years 'lease of the Terre Haute House at Terre Haute, paying SB,OOO per annum tbe first two years, and $9,000 per year thereafter, ibesides buying the furniture. It is claimed this hotel covers more space than any other one in Indiana. , Patent*: George Adams, New Albany, ‘steam engine: Joshua Admire, Smith’s Valley, corn planter; Ludwig Gutmann, (Fort Wayne, choking eleotro-magnets; (Daniel Hershoerger, Huntington, for wiring fence pickets; Abraham Kimber, Indianapolis, railway tie; Nathan A. Long, rainwater filter; Samuel Maxfleld, Angola, implement for recovering lost pipe from tubular wells; George R. Morrison, folding olothea-braeket; Oscar E. N. Rich burg, Marion, farm gate; Frank Sohefold, New Albany, means for transferring molten glass, and means for transferring pots {containing molten glass; Wm. L. Smith, (Indianapolis, car-ooupling; Frederick Ullrich, Pern, vehicle axle; Charles H. Van Eppe, Scott, fence wrench; John G. Zeller, Richmond, elevator gate. DePanw University report* in lte general summary of students a not total of 902 of which 896 are in the preparatory school; -268 in the Asbury school of liberal arte,and 70 in the school of theology, while the other departments make this showing; school of >law. 24; school of military tactics, 174; school of music, exclusive of orchestra chorus and sight singing, 190; school of art, 46, and DoPauw normal school, 164. There are at least two well-defined cases of leprosy in Crawford oounty. If tee of the Board of Health has been called to them it is not known. The parties { are father and son. The affliction is de> scribea as appearing in spots. These are whiter than the surrounding flesh and sink below tbe adjacent surface. They are ‘doubtless lepers, and, if investigation is jmade, it is equally sure that other oases (will come to light. One of the patients is well advanced in years. < r William Grimes, of Almo, abandoned his young wife and child, and on the 29th escorted another woman to church. This

angered the ladies of Alamo, and headed by the deserted wife, they waylaid Grimes and gave him a heating, male escorts being present to insure no resistance upon the part of Grimes. Monday, Harmon Deets, who accompanied the ladies, was arrested and fined for assault, although he did nothing hut stand by and witness the attack on the recreant husband. Walter A. Anthony, of Richmond, Va., went to Crawfordsville, Wednesday, searching for his wife, and was surprised to discover that while he had absented himself in Europe she had procured a divorce. This was followed by her marriage to W. H. English, a wealthy resident of Denver, Colo.

Five years ago James Money completed a two-year term in prison at Jeffersonville for larceny. He went to Bridgeport, where India Warman, a wealthy widow, fell in love with him while he worked on her farm. Her relatives told her he was a convict, but she professed to believe in a conspiracy and married him. Growing tired of his spendthrift habits, she refuged him money, when he took one of her horses and sold it. She had him sent down again for two years and then obtained a divorceMoney completed his second term on Wednesday. The farmers in the neighborhood Of Wheeling have been victimized out of about S4OO by a walnut stump shark. This robber represented that he was baying walnut stumps to be used in veneering, and paid $1 each. For every stump he offered in payment a twenty dollar gold piece, and received sl9 in good money, f .From -twenty to twenty-five purchases were made, and then the stump buyer fled the country. The twenty dollar gold pieces which he worked off were all shown ■to be counterfeit.

Several weeks ago a “Mme. Naomi” the Michigan fat woman, five feet high and five feet wide, advertised to appear at a museum in Ft. Wayne, and bestow her hand, heart and deed to a five-thousand-dollar farm to any young man who would marry her. The advertisement met the eye of Thomas J. 'Crowley, a solicitor for a New York life insurance company, who came straightway to Ft. Wayne, was accepted by the fat female, and the two were wedded -on the museum stage on Thursday night before a crowded house. The faculty of Wabash, College held an important meeting to-day to take action in regard to the oration of Perry J. Martin, who secured the Baldwin prize of S4O by using the speech of-another person. Martin had confessed his guilt and returned the money, and said that he never dreamed of securing the prize, and only wanted to make a creditable showing. He asked to be permitted to graduate next June. It was the unanimous decision of the faculty that Martin be dismissed from the college, and notice to this effect was sent to Martin. The first Methodist Church in Muncie was organized in 1896, and the first circuit rider was Rev. G.C. Beeks. Muncie was made a station >in 1851, and Simpson’s Chapel was erected in 1856. In 1886 the membership numbered 377, but the discov ery of natural gas gave a wonderful im petus to the city, the population rapidly increased, and the.membership is now 919. A new church has been completed, costing $32,000, and underthe pastoral care of Rev* Cyrus U, Wadethe congregation is enjoying a wonderful degree of prosperity as a religions organisation. According to an opinion just rendered by the Supreme Court of Anderson the Young Men’s Christian Association is not a religious corporation within the meaning of the law. In Macon county, a man named Hamsher, on his-death, left a will bv which most of his property was bequeathed to the Young Men’s Christian Association of Decatur. The heirs-couteated the will on the ground that under the statutes of Illinois a religious hody-can not hold over ten acres of land. In the opinion of the oourt the Young Men's Christian Association is not wholly a religions body, but is largely a charitable and benevolent organization, jyfl therefore, the amount of property to he held by religious corporations does not apply to said association . This is the first time the question has ever been tested in the oourts. Out of about eighty houses destroyed by the tornado in Jeffersonville, the owners of four-fifths of this number are poor people, whose little homes were their only possessions. All of the homeless ones have been given shelter by their more fortunate neighbors, but the situation over there has been much underestimated, sad it is a mistake to suppose that no assistance is. needed in the little city across the river. In the blocks between Market and Front and Mulberry and Fourth, nearly every home is ruined, and the inmates lost most of their furniture. Some of them succeeded in saving only the clothing they wore npon their backs. Since the terrible accident occurred Dan Phipps has fed and given shelter to thirteen families. John Ferguson, grocer, has provided for an equal number. A meeting of the Commercial club was held at the City hall Tuesday night, and speeches favoring the asking of outside assistance were made. Thus far subscriptions to the amount of only about two hundred and fifty dollars have been sent in.