Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

’Cyclin 1 therage at Ft. Wayne. Ft. Wayne is proud of her shade tree's. The Jeffersonville Car Works built 126 cars last week. Wabash College will erect a $30,000 library building. i Laporte still pastures cows and geese on the public streets. Bicycle nding is very popular with th ladies of Kendallville. Terre Haute appears to be enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Fontanet claims to have the champion football team of Indiana. A barn with seven houses was burned near Greensburg on the 13th. Laporte County Commissioners offer bounties for woodchuck scalps. Since its organization, St. Joe county has. had but one Democratic Auditor. There is an indiscriminate poisoning of dogs by unknown parties at Columbus. Huntington is alarmed for fear of losing the Chicago & Atlantic Railway shops. Richmond is disconsolate over her failure to receive the State Military Encampment. .--■■-■- - ~

John H. Thompson’s farm residence, near Wabash, burned Thursday. Loss $2,000. The rain has seriously interfered with the work of farmers in Allen county this spring. The Eighth District Republican Congressional Convention will be held at Brazil July 16. Ella Collins, of Cortland, swallowed a pin about two years ago. She is now in a critical condition. A rat plague is troubling Clark county people. At North Vernon white rats infest the depot building. Mrs. Stuckman, of Elkhart county, on Saturday last completed teaching her seventy-fourth term of school. One thousand dollars has been forwarded by the National Brotherhood to aid the striking carpenters of Ft. Wayne. John A. Gray, of Columbus, has been arrested for illegal voting at the recent city election. Beecher Flora is also charged with similar offense. The Indianapolis Music Festival closed on the night of the 16th It was a series of magnificent performances, and was a financial success as well. The out-going City Council of Tipton passed an ordinance increasing the saloon tax to $250 per annum, and the first work of the new Council was to repeal this ordinance. David Munson, aged nineteen, of Shelbyville, was killed by lightning on the 12th, while riding on a load of hay, and the hay was burned. One horse was also killed by the same stroke. Professor Boone, of the Indiana University, is credited with the assertion that of the 6,500 theological students in the United States, less than one fourth are college graduates. An unknown assassin Monday fired two shots at Father E. Andran, of St. Augustine Catholic Church at Jeffersonville, but he escaped injury. The venerable priest is not known to have an enemy. While Etta Wyant, aged fourteen, of Forest, was fooling with a revolver, the weapon was discharged, and the bullet struck her sister Mary over the eye, causing a wound which may terminate fatally. Two hundred and sixty ladies and gentlemen of Wabash have joined in a petition asking the press to refrain from publishing divorce proceedings, that the disgusting details may not come to the knowledge of children. The Supreme court decided on the 15th that John Worrelly appointed by the Governor is the State Statistician. The case was brought by Wm. A. Peele, Jr., who claimed the office by virtue of a forme r appointment. Evansville has twelve large furniture factories, but the local papers complain that the County Commissioners go junketing about the country to find how to furnish the Court House, instead of patronizing the home market. James Gerald, of New Albany, has gone insane, grieving over the murder of his sister, Mrs. Elian Wheelan, by Henry Ritter, her brother-in-law, which tragedy Was swiftly followed by the mysterious death of Mrs. Ritter. Mrs, Edward Bierhaus, Jr., of Vincennes, claims to be one of the heirs to an estate in Germany valued at a fabulous amount. Mrs. William Hodgen, Mrs. Nancy Hornbrook and Mrs. Peroy Boyd, of Knox county, also make similar claims. During a heavy thunderstorm at Hartford City an aerolite fell making a large hole where it entered the ground. The stone-metal object was dug out, and found to weigh four pounds ten ounces, and measured fourteen inches in circumference. There are 9,927 school children in New Albany and Floyd county, of which 250 are colored. It is asserted that but two children in the entire number can not read and write, and Floyd therefore put up the claim of being the most intelligent county in the State. Sunday night Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, of Seymour, aged forty-seven, who has been separated from her husband for ten weeks after a futile attempt at reconciliation,and while despondent over her troubles, took a large quantity of “Rough on Rats"” from the effects of which she died. While Lafayette Barnes, near Minshall, accompanied by his family, was driving through the woods near his home, the wind at the time blowing very strongly, a tree fell upon the vehicle In which they were riding, killing two of his children outright, and seriously Injuring a third child ana Mr. Barnes.James Monroe, postmaster at Zlpp’s Station, was tried this week for criminally assaulting an orphan girl, aged thirteen, and was acquitted. The child made charges several months ago, and Monroe agreed to give $1,200 to keep down the scandal, but after paying SSOO he refused to submit to further extortion, and the prosecution followed. A farmer named Tullis, living four miles west of Rockport, has in his possession a ewe that is twenty-two years old, and in that time has given birth to thirty-eight lambs, all bucks, and coming in. pairs. These lambs he has sold at price* ranging from $5 to $9 each, and still ha* the ewe,

which is apparently in as good condition ar she was ten years ago. Charles Miller, aged eighteen, and his mother, aged sixty-eight, reached Marion Wednesaay, the boy pulling a buggy filled with remnants left after the burning oi their home at Terre Haute, which left them penniless. They are trying to reach relatives in Fort Wayne, and have walked over one hundred miles. They started tc drive but their horse died before going thirty miles. On the night of the 12th a party of masked men went to the house of James Atwood, in Luce township, Spencer county, with the intention of “White-capping” him. Atwood heard of the arrangement, and when they tried to force an entrance to his home he opened fire with a shotgun, most of the load taking effect in the body of William Miller, a neighboring farmer. Two of the others also received a few shots, but escaped. Elder Ludwig, pastor of the Christian church at White water, Davies county, was observed to kiss one of the lady members of his congregation good-bye, in the presence of her husband and on the public street, and the gossiping was severe. On the following Sunday he discussed the subject of kissingin his pulpit, and explained that the kiss given the lady was one of friendship, a sort of holy kiss, and that in all his life he had kissed but five women. After the close of his sermon he called fdr a rising vote of his congregation on the sinfulness of his kissing, and the audience arose en masse and voted him innocent of sinful osculation.

The trio-State Millers’ Association of Fort Wayne, closed proceedings Wednesday night with a banquet. Resolutions were passed denouncing the injustice of the restriction which had been placed on jute manufacturers; favoring the passage of the Butterworth bill; recommending treaties with South American countries, reciprocal or otherwise, which will open, markets for the products of ftie United States; favoring the increased use of the telegraph in connection with the postal system, and commending the proposition of the Postmaster General looking to govermental operations of the lines. “Dealings in futures,” as practiced by “Old Hutch,” of Chicago, and other grain manipulators, was strongly condemned. Patents were granted Indianians, Tues ■ day, as A B Albert, Indianapolis, folding chair; Louis Bell, Lafayette, lightning arrester and system of electrical distribution : C F Blandon, C A Ross and J J Lumm, 1.1 ichigan City, combined cantor socket and corner brace;' J W Bridge, Young America, plow attachment.; Samuel Buskin, Anderson, straw stacker; E M Colles, R C Kitchell and D C Applegate Princeton, washing machine; E O Hopkins, Maxwell, bee hive; J R Lamb, Goodview, post hole boring machine; L Logan, Plymouth, washing machine; J B McKeely, Bro vn’s Valley, wire stretcher; W W Mullen and F M Mullen, Bunker Hill, cultivator; Sigourney Wales, Terre Haute, safety package; Lewis Wallace, Crawfordsville, combined joint bar and railway tie, railway cross tie and metal pad for railway ties; A Wilke, Richmond, china firing kiln. Thefight over the office of State Statistician took a new turn Friday afternoon. Mr. J. B. Connor, of the Indiana Farmer now proposes, it is understood, to step in and make a legal fight for possession of the office. Mr. Connor was State Statistician when the act was passed making the office a legislative one six years ago. At that time Mr. Connor urged Governor Porter to veto the act legislating him (Connor) out of office on the ground of unconstitutionality. The Governor said the question was a doubtful one, and if he should veto it, the Legislature would pass it over his veto. Furthermore, Mr. Connor protested when he was turned out of office and gave it over to Peele, on the ground that the Legislature had no such power; MrConnor not only entered a protest, but he served a month and a half after Mr. Peele was given 4he office. The suit to be filed by Mr. Connor will bring the whole case for trial on its merits. The suit will be for possession of the office and its emoluments since 1884. A prophetess dwells in that part of Harrison county known as “Blunk Knob,” and she is called Mother Bowers. She is a large, fleshy woman, aged about seventy, and the mother of a daughter who tips the beam at 340. Her husband and son constitute the remainder of the family, both of slight build. Mrs. Bowers’s peculiar ability to read the stars and prophecy happenings has wop her a great renown in that region, and even hundreds of people from a distance have visited her to secure information and counsel on personal affairs. She not only predicts affairs of sentimental and financial character, but she is a political soothsayer of no small dimensions. She foretold the election of Tilden and Hendricks, but claimed they would not be inaugurated. When Governor Gray ran for office the first time she predicted his defeat, but prophesied he would be successful when nominated the second time. She keeps a portrait of Gray hanging in her best room, and she boasts that she has been honored by a visit from him, and that she furnished him with valuable political pointers when he was on the eve of a critical canvass. Her most important prediction of late is to the effect that a war of races is impending, that many whites will join the negro demonstration, and that eventually the blacks will be colonized in Mexico, or some other southern country. During the war she made many enemies by her violent denunciation of the Union cause, and there was once a threat to mob her, but she frightened away her assailants by the vehemence of her maledictions. Mr. Powderly has written an appeal to the Knights of Labor for money to support the carpenters belonging to that order in Chicago, who are doing nothing forthemselves because on a strike. In his appeal the writer, after reoitlng that the strike demands recognition of the order, and refusal to employ any not members, adds: “The demands include the formal recognition and strict enforcement of the eight hour day, but the truth is that except insulated cases the Chicago carpenters have only been working eight hours per day, and in the few oases where they worked longer it was, as a rule, of their own accord, so that the eight-hour question had little influence in themiatter.”