Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Connersville has a cab line. Wabash College is booming athletics. Oklahoma is a suburb of Fort Wayne. Goshen rejoices in well shaded streets. Anderson is to have free mail delivery. Logansport is enjoying a new residence business boom. The wheat fields in the bottom lands in Jackson county are being replowod, and will be sown in oats. Madison estimates that it can establish a water works plant, sufficient for the city’s need, for $15,000. The eleven-year-old daughter of Louis Gunn, of Hoosierville, has confessed to burglarizing a store of $27. The family of Leopold Bueltzingsloewen, of Laporta, narrowly escaped suffocation by escaping gas on Saturday. The prohibitionists of the “Burnt District” have nominated William Edgerton, of Henry county, for Congress. A pot of old coins, ebuttons and other relics of a hundred years ago were found near Lawrenceburg a few days ago. Cutsinger & Cp, sold their plant at Edinburg to the new starch trust for $175,000, and the one at Franklinfo r $135,000.

“Sledge hammer” King, as he is styled, is conducting a successful temperance revival in the villages of Miami county. „ Financial embarrassment still hangs over the Ft. Wayne Methodist College, and efforts to relieve the $20,000 indebtedness have failed. Louis Lemmelet, fireman in Cantlivre’s brewery, at Fort Wayne, was disfigured for life Thursday by the premature explosion of natural gas. The Ft. Wayne hod-carriers have served notices on bosses that unless an increase bf wages follows the Ist of May there will be a strike. They are now paid $1.75 per day.

Wm. D. Cothrell, of Ft. Wayne, a railway employe, lost his monthly salary over a faro table on Saturday, after to his home and committed suicide by cutting his throat* Arthur, aged nineteen, son of James Smith, of Kokomo,' was - accidentally and: fatally shot by his playmate,' James Forehand, Thursday, the bullet penetrating hishrain and causing immediate death. Tne sale of the celebrated Belle Meade Stud began near Nashville Thursday*, Thirty-four yearling colts sold for $38,350’ an average of $1,128, and twenty-seven fillies brought $25,175, an average of $969. The pork packing house of J. S. & D Dougherty, on the outskirts of Wabash, burned on Saturday, causing SIO,OOO loss, with $3,000 insurance. The plant had not been used since 1883, and had become a rendezvous for tramps. James Evers, one of the proprietors of the Cottage Steam Laundry at Muncie, caught his right hand between two hot cylinders, where it was crushed and roasted. When released the flesh dropped from the bones in strips.

The story is contradicted that James-M. Dennis, of Montgomery county, left a confession admitting his connection with the murder of James McMullen and wife, at Elmdale, in 1885,f0r which James W. Coffee was hung, or that he is dead. Word received from Terre Haute re-* ports that Mrs. Voorhees, the venerable mother of Senator Voorhees, who is making her home with her son, Henry C. Stone Bluff, has sustained dangerous injuries by an acci' dental fall. Charles D. Cook, of New Haven, has a “drop a nickel in the slot” machine in front of his place of business, by which patrons have provided themselves with cigars on Sunday. This has led to Mr. Cook’s arrest for doing business on Sunday, and the case is pending before Judge France of Fort Wayne.

The barn belonging to Thomas Clemens, in Davis county, was burned by incendiarism on the 23d, the loss including three horses, one blooded bull, 1,600 bushels of corn, etc., altogether aggregating $2,500. Forty*-two head of horses have been burned to death in barns In Davis county in the last fourteen months. The farmers held a mass meeting at Bluffton, during which fears were expressed that the London money power would soon own their farms,and the entire United States. They demanded better prices for their products, with less prices for what they must buy, and resolutions were passed requiring ail candidates to work more for farmers’ interests. The Republican Congressional convention to nominate a candidate to succeed Tom Browne was held at New Castle on the 23d. Perry Heath was made Chairman. Henry U. Johnson, ex-State Senator from Wayne county, was nominated on the 12th ballot, after an exciting contest. The other candidates were Ralph S. Gregory, of Delaware; Mark E. Forkner, of Henry ; and W. A Cullen, of Rush.

The Commissioners of Montgomery county have ordered an enumeration of the county to be taken, in order that the provisions of tho new election law in regard to lav-tog off precincts may bo carried out properly. The enumeration will bo made by squares in tho city and by sections in the county, and.the enumerators will be required to show the number of legal votes# in each, of such divisions... A stone has been uncovered near Muddy Fork, in Clark county, bearing the in~ scription,, “L. Whelzel, October 5, 1812; John Whetzel, lAC. Shelby,” while below there are hieroglyphics whioh can not be deciphered. The name of D. Boon also appears, and it recalls that a brother of Daniel Boone once lived near Laconia, in Harrison county, and at that (ipte the family spelled the uame without the final !“e.” The Whetzels and Shelbys wore 'noted Indian fighters, and tho stone is regarded as'a genuine find. The new coal fields in the southwestern portion of Parke county are proving to be the best yet developed. Stewart, Shirky A Sons, while sinking a shaft on the land of S. L. McCune, at Mecca, on tho Chicago A Indiana Coal railroad, at the depth of 130 feet, struck a four-foot vein of fine block coal. Just below this find is a vein of bituminous coal, which for quality equals .any coal in tho State. The country in this immediate vicinity is rich in coal deposits, and its developmont has only fairly bogua • J Patents were granted to Indianians today: J. C, Baliew, Evansville, brazing

machine; J. A, Becher, Mishawaka, screwcuttingdie head; H. H. Dillieand E. W. McGuire, Richmond,' Pawl and Rachet mechanism; W. Green, Columbus,~SS r chine for sharpening the sickles of har-vest-reapers and mowers; Ludwig GuttmamJPort Wayne, electric railvfay system * A. A. Herman, Terre Haute, fifth wheel; W. F. Marsh, Warsaw, split pulley; C. H. Curdy. Michigan City, rotary chair; J. Remmert, Fort Wayne, gas scrubber and gas washer: D. M. Scheffer, New Castle, veterinary dental forceps; J. Scholfield, Martinsville, light; J. P. Sid well, single action engine: A man who has just spent six week's traveling over the winter wheat growing States, in order to gather crop information for the benefit of a syndicate of Chicago grain dealers takes a very gloomy view of the prospect in a letter to Secretary Heron, Of the State Board of Agriculture. In. some parts of Southern Illinois and Eastern Missouri he thinks the wheat yield of this season will be about an aver age. In Southern Indiana he doubts if the crop will be 75 per cent, of an average, and from Columbus, 0., due west for 300 miles across Ohio and Indiana he does not think the yield will reach one-half an average crop. Many fields which a few weeks ago were green with a omagnifleent growth of young wheat are to-day as lifeless as though it were November instead of April. The cause of this great change; in the condition of wheat is a puzzle. Thej only reason given is the sudden change to cold weather in March, but as the mercury at no time that month came nearer than eight degrees to zero, this cause seemsinaufficient.