Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

SaJ» blowers are working Marion. Fort Wayne pays her mayor . per rear. 3Noe* AJftmy Is getting out of financial Grand Hand tournament is booked at Seymour for June 6. Victe Churchman, Evansville, is 12 years old and weighs 166 pounds. A “spattering of oil” was struck in the Greencastle well on tbe 3d. Wells county farmers who emigrated to Kansas, are all moving back. Evansville wants the Princeton University removed to that city. Tbe charge is made that Bismarok is intriguing against the Emperor. Dunkirk’s bottle factory, employing 200 men, begins operation Sept 11.

There are two Daviess county sisters whose combined ages are 176 years. Seven mad dogs have been killed in one township in Putnam county this week. The little girls at Warsaw are raising money with which to improve the streets. Geo. N. Thompson, of Columbus, Ind., has left town. Short in his accounts sls, • 000. □James Davis and wife were fatally injured in a runaway accident near Cloverdale. Milroy Sexton, of Jasper county* was crushed to death while assisting in loading sawlogs. Mrs. Mary Stewart, South Bend, was relieved of a tape worm that measured 28 feet in length; Sixty citizens of Lebanon have petitioned the mayor to persuade a circus to come to town. The boat “Asher G. Caneth,” launched at New Albany, is the first boat built there for many years. Danville merchants are realizing handsomely in imprqved business by reason of free gravel roads. G. H. Kasting, aged nine-four, of Seymour a resident of Jackson county over half a century, is dead. A. H. Carrier, of Ft. Wayne, the beat known French resident of Northeastern Indiana, died on the Ist. John Hershman, ex-soldier of Tipton county, and blind, has received arrearages of pension aggregating $8,770. The Louisville & Nashville Railway Company has 468 men on its pay rolls in the Howell shops, near Evansville. Two-year-old son of James Best, Put* nam county, ruptured a blood vessel while vomiting, and died in ,two minutes. D. M. Cavender, Versailles, very wealthy and well educated, has been sent to the pen. for two years for burglary. John Bach, tourist, left his pocket-book containing $l5B in tbe Fort Wayne depot, and when he returned for it it was gone. Mrs. James Saurbery, Anderson, found a burglar in her house, and after firing several shots at him she scared him away. The Washington High School had one colored graduate, Miss Rosa Howard, for whom special commencement exercises were held.

I Wm. Rodenbeck, Jr., of Fort Wayne ( [ afflicted with cancerous growth of the stomach, slowly starved to death. He was thirty-eight. The latest fad at Seymour is black ice ! -ream, it being colored by adding a little powdered charcoal and the juice of Tur kish prunes. Sure enough strawberries are raised around Columbus, one recently gathered measured four and one-half inches in circumference. J. A. Hardin and Carrie Ireland, Pendleton, were married in the moonlight on Fall creek bridge, with only the stars and moon as witnesses. A State organization of the Farmers’ Alliance was perfected at Ft. Wayne on the sth. President, John C. Lawrence, of Columbia City. Edward Evans, aged twenty, of L&fayv stte, has been placed under $5,000 bonds charged with using the mails to oiroaiate and dispose of imitation greenbacks. Monday, at Striugtown, while John Shannon was playing with his little child, he swung the infant by both hands, and in doing so dislocated both its shoulders. Miss Mary Kintner, of New Albany passed what may be called a perfect ex, amination, being marked 100 in all her studies as a pupil in the public schools. An Air Line sleeping coach jumped the track while passing through New Albany Friday.and plunged headlong into a house, tearing away the greater part of the structure. Wm. Kratz’s four-year-old girl, Jeffersonville, was caught on the railroad by an engine and thrown high in the air, landing, on a pile of stone. She escaped without injury. A fourteen-year-old girl at Amboy has been sleeping for two months. All efforts to awake her are futile. She appears in good health, and is fed regularly with liquids. The State Democratic Committee met at Indianapolis on the sth and fixed Aug. 28 as the date for holding the State convention. The convention will consist of 1,307 delegates.

Fred Hollis, Fort Wayne, insane, at tempted to leave a room in his house, and was locked up as a burglar. At the Jail he became a wild, raving maniac on account of the mistake. •Mrs. Elizabeth White, of Rich Valley, a well-known lady, has become possessed of the hallucination that she is making a special fight against satan, 'and she has been declared insane. A syndicate has purchased the old court house property at Evansville for $78,900 and will erect a handsome hotel on the site. The county ia now building a new court house, which will cost $1,000,000. Benjamin Moore, who recently died in Spencer county, lacked but two months of reaching bis 109th milestone. When he was aged 103 he {walked five miles to the nearest precinot, In order to cakt his vote. The burial of Mrs. O. J. Stone and two children and Poe Wimmer, killed'in .a railway acoidept at Marion on Friday last, occurred Monday, at Somerset, and it is estimated that 5,000 people attendedThomas Kerins, of Brazil, who was President, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager of a local branch of the Catholic Knights of Ameriba, until he was arrested for embessliag the funds of

theseciety, escaped from tire Clay county jail on-,Saturday, being aided by outside ■parties. Terre Haute > ■. > 'l ■ caaa ta j to frsut as the headquarters of famouslybred her&es. Bud Doble estimates that $2,000,000 is invested in light harness horses within a radius of three miles of that town. C. L. Jones, of Sullivan, was followed to his coal house Tuesday and was sandbagged and robbed of $3,000. The money belonged to his wife and mother-in-law, and had been drawn from deposit for investment in a farm. The City Council of Evansville held a meeting this week, and for the first time in two years not an angry word was spoken. The contrast was so startling, in comparison with former sessions, that Evansville is dazed. Jennie Bowman, Madison, was sent to a Louisville, Ky., convent She grew tired of life there, made a rope out of bed clothes, climbed from a third story window and escaped to New Albany. She. was arrested and sent back.

- The wheat in Wabash county is generally bad. In the south not more than onethird pf a crop will be harvested, while along Eel River, in the north half, the grain looks well. The entire county will possibly turn out a half crop. The remains of eighteen Confederate soldiers, captured at Fort Donelson, and dy., ng as a prisoners while confined at Terre Haute, lie buried in Woodlawn Cemetery On Decoration Day their graves were also strewn with flowers by the local G. A. R. John Lingard, of Laporte, suffered for years with what was diagnosed as tumor of the stomach. Tuesday, shortly before his death, he vomited a small lizard, which was dead and partially encysted. The long retention of the animal had poisoned his system and death was caused thereby. The wheat stalks are heading out, and what seemed two weeks ago to be good wheat now proves in many fields to be badly mixed with cheat. Some of the farmers have let down the fences, shoved their hands deep into their empty pockets and called the hogs and cattle. “They’re going ter graze her down.” The fruit prospect is good, and some fine berries ar coming into market. At Broad Ripplo the wheat, which escaped being killed by the winter, still has a fair choice to be destroyed. Tho cereal had scarcely headed out before it was found infested with millions of lice, commonly • • died midge, the same that was so injurious to the Wheat crop last year. How much damage these insects will do can not now be ascertained, bu; farmers are hopeful that the plague will not be so bad as last year. B.vron H. Boyd and Miss Vlnneva Bremaker, daughter of Charles Bremaker, of the Bremaker-Moore Paper Company, Jeffersonville, have been secretly married in the above named city, Rector F. C. Jewell officiating. The father strenuously objected to the marriage, and the bride was kept confined at home for several days with the hope of inducing her to give up her choice. The Bremakers are very wealthy, while the goom is poor. While Charles Neff, a young man, was rowing a skiff up the Center and Pike Lake canal, Warsaw on the 2d, some one in ambush fired at him, the shot taking effect in his right shoulder. Young Neff rowed his boat as best be could to the Buffalo-street lending, where he went to a drug store and secured the services of a surgeon, who probed for the bullet and found it to be a rifle ball. The officers are on the track of tbe would-be assassin,who, it is claimed, is known, and is said to be a rival of Neff for the hand of a young lady. ,

Patents were granted Indiana inventors on the 3d as folio vs : W. H. Bennett, Kokomo, saw gammer: D. E. Deeter, Syracuse, wire-fence machine; J. B. Dobson. Indianapolis, bolting-reel; F. B. Hunt, Richmond, plow; B. F, Keeney, Quercus Grove, broadcast hand-seeder; F. H. Love less, Lafayette, buckle; J. A. McCartyLebanon, wire fence; J. McElrny, Madison, pea extractor; C. L. Merrill, Indianapolis, F p.ump; W. Millard, Indianapolis, adjustable base for grooving saws ; D. M. Parry and T. H. Parry, Indianapolis, securing tires to the rims of wheels; O. B. Rockwell and E. A. Rockwell, San Pierre, land marker; C. O. Wilder, South Bend, fueloil burner. Harry Goodwin and Miss Cora Skinner eloped from Lawrenceburg to New Elizabethtown, 0., on Tuesday, it being a runaway match, and her family gave swift pursuit. ’Squire Sterling was called up on to officiate at the marriage ceremony, but upon examining the license it was found to have been issued by an Indiana clerk. There was nothing left but to make a run for the State line, a hundred yards away traversing a plowed corn field and a ravine covered with bushes and briars en route, to a tree marking its boundary, where the ceremony was performed before the pursuers burst upon the scene. The bride was so exhausted by the long run that she could scarcely make the necessary responses, and the fat and plethoric ’squire was also badly winded.

The criminal case pending against Wm. L. Gregory, of West Fork, Crawford county, in which he is charged with takiag Miss Lizzie Davis to a hotel at Louisville and detaining her against her will, has been dismissed by request of George W. Davis, the injured girl’s father, who states that she is mentally and physically unable to appear against Gregory, and he wants the case ended so that she will be troubled no more, and can die in peace. All of the parties resided at West Fork, where Gregory was a man of family. Miss Davis was a handsome girl of seventeen, and the pride of her home. While she was visiting relatives at Louisville, Gregory decoyed her by false pretenses, and accomplished her ruin. For this he was shot by Davis and narrowly escaped dying of his wounds. The young girl is now mentally deranged because of her disgrace, and in a dying condition; her father is both mentally and physically affected, and tift mind of Gregory’s father has become unbalanced from the same cause. The Ninth District Republican Congressional Convention was held at Kokomo on the Bd. U. Z. Wiley, of Fowler, was made chairman, and Sep Vater, of Lafayette, secretary. The resolutions adopted warmly endorses the administration; congratulates

the country eathe admission <jf four sew States; approves the course of speaker Reed, aha “one sky for bat one fiagvyj Present incumbent, Sample B. Cheadlej Judge Daniel Waugh, of Tipton, Harry M.' LaFollette, of Lebanon, Judge Rhoades, of Williamsport, J. T. Lindley, of Nobles- 1 ville,and Col A. O. Miller, of Lafayette,! were placed in representive for the Congressional nomination. The first ballot resulted: Cheadle, 91; LaFollette, 43; Waugh, 50; Lindley, 41; Rhodes, 10; Miller, 5. In all fifty ballots were had. some of them amid considerable excitement, the vote standing nearly the same. Cheaale’s highest was 99; LaFollette’s 65. On the 50th ballot, Benton county led off for Waugh, followed by Tippecanoe and Warren, (Howard and Tipton) were solid for him from the start, and he was nominated, [receiving 133 votes as against tbe field. Pandemonium followed .this ballot,, and one would think the campaign had opened in all its glory. The nomination was made unanimous. Judge Waugh lai well spoken of as a man* and with a good! record as a soldier and citizen.

The State Superintendent of Public Instruction has completed the school apportionment for the next school year. Because of reduction of interest on the school fund from 8 per cent, to 6 per cent., the amouqt of .money placed to the credit of each child enumerated is $1.31, whereas last year It was $1.36. It is estimated that this decrease in the per capita will shorten the j common schools next year about ten daysJ Tha total income of the State for school purposes next year will be, from the school tax, $814,613.01; interest on common school fund $197,400.82; unclaimed fees, etc., $19,-( 071.46; total $1,030,085.29. The Congressional Township fund is in addition to thl* amount. Of the money SIO,OOO will go to the State Normal School, $1,096,053.37 to th 9 counties, and $10,432.92 will remain in the treasury. Of the counties in tho State forty-eight draw from the school revenue more than they pay into it, and forty-two pay in more than they draw out! The method by which all the children of the State are given equal , facilities for obtaining an education is here clearly shown. The poorer communities) receive help 'from the more prosperous! Crawford county pays into the fund this! year $2,588.19, and draws from it $7,035.70 ‘j Harrison county pays in $5,877.39, and draws out $10,406.64; Martin pays iui $3,022.09, and receives back $7,224.65; Orange pays in $4,995.55, and receives l $7,008.50; Clarke pays in $10,515, and receives $1,7,202.92; Brown pays in $2,663.30,, and receives $4,995.03. On the other hand! Fayette county pays in $8,278.52,and draws) out only $4,970.14; Union pays in $5,407.20,1 and receives but $2,813.88; Wayne pays in) $25,345, and receives $16,980.57. For the first time in years, the amount that Marion county pays in will amount to a little more than it receives. Both Vigo and Vanderburg counties receive more than they give The enumeration of school children in thej State shows a slight decrease from thel number reported in 1889. In that year; there were 770,875, while this year there are 770,723. Several counties show a falling off, while the counties, in the natural' gas belt show substantial gains.

knights of PYTniAS. The Grand Lodge Knights of convened at Indianapolis on the 3d. reports show that the order has been joying a very successful year. There aril now 247 lodges with a total membership if 17,897, a gain of twenty-eight lodges anj( 3,246 members in the last year. The rtf ceipts were $162,610.65. The Grand: Chancellor defended his action in issuing a circular asking aid for the striking Clay county miners. He condemned lotteries and gift enterprises. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: ~ Grand Chancellor—A. C. Hawkins, Evansville. ■ y.--^4 Grand Vice-chancellor—Elmer F. Williams, Terre Haute. Grand Prelate—Rev. W. H. Zcigler, -Anderson. Grand Master of Exchequer—C. F. S. Neal, Lebanon. Grand Keeper of Records and Seal— Frank Bowers, Indianapolis. Grand Master-at-arms—R. A. Brown, Franklin. Grand Trustees—Geo. W. Powell, Indianapolis; L. A. Barnett, Danville; E. G.’ Herr, Goshen.