Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Elkhart has a bicycle club. Robbery rages rampant in Terre Haute. Npw watermelons have reached South Bend. The new infirmary in Grant county cost $34,000. Crawlordsville has but $9,000 bonded indebtedness. ~' :7 ■ ' . y' Seventeen tramps are prisoners in the Goshen Jail. Wm. Snyder fell against a saw in a mill at Stony Hill and was latally mangled. The State Encampment, Son’s of Veterans, will be held at Evansville, July 15. Spencer’s big hotel and sanitarium was opened amid much enthusiasm on the 12th.

Ed. Holcroffc, near Hartford City, captured a squirrel as white a 9 snow; with pink eyes. Mail carriers have been appointed, and Anderson will have free delivery, beginning July 1. , A six-foot vein of coal has been struck at Scottsburg, at a depth of 300 feet, while boring for gas. The boat “Asher G. launched at New Albany, is the first boat built there for many years. The high license of $350 will probably be the cause of a red uction of a number of the saloons in Brazil.

Walter Row, near Corydon, was flogged by “White Caps ” under suspicion that he had been stealing chickens. ——- Miss Minnie E. Hall, of Danville, has been appointed Secretary of the State Normal School at Terre Haute. A playful stallion kicked D, P. Closser, of Kingsbury, breaking his arm near the elbow, and his leg near the knee. Hutchens Brothers, wholesale notion dealers, of Lafayette, are preparing to remove their entire business to Chicago. Caleb Perkins, of Clinton Township, Putnam county, where he lived over half a century, died on Saturday, aged eighty. In all the prosecutions against the White Caps in Orange, Harrison and Crawford counties, there has never been a conviction. The Democracy of Northern Indiana are urging Hugh Dougherty, of Bluffto*, for Chairman of the Democratic State Centra Committee.

The oil field as developed in Blackford county is six miles loDg and four miles wide, and the wells average twenty-five barrels daily. The oat. crop in Southern Indiana Will prove a complete failure. The stems and blades are turning red and dying from some unknown cause. Two stallions on the farm of Captain B. F. Treater, near Aurora, broke down an intervening fence and fought until one was killed, and the other almost hopelessly crippled. The oldest citizen in the State was taken to the Little Sisters of the Poor at Evansville on the 12th. His name is Jacob Dishart, and he wasa born in Virginia April 13, 1783. Floyd county small fruit cultivators gave a strawberry exhibition at Edwardsville on Saturday, at which strawberries were exhibited some measuring inches in circumference. Shelby county voted in favor of free gravel roads, but the commissioners claim that the board has no right to purchase two roads which run through a township which opposed the proposition. Mrs. Nancy Light cap, of Crawfordsville, is charged □with setting fire to Elmer Marsh’s house because Marsh had whipped Nancy’s beau in a fight. The trial is creating considerable excitement. The watch club lottery cases pending at Crawfordsville, in which the publishers of the several papers’were involved in so far as giving space to the advertisements is concerned, have been dismissed. During the heavy rain and wind storm Wednesday thereof of A. Nixon’s house, south of Muncie, was blown off. The mishap was not noticed by the family until the rain came pouring through the ceiling. The Fort Wayne Democracy is alleged to be howling over the alleged duplicity of Chairman Jewett, of the Democratic State Central Committee, by whose interference that city was prevented from capturing the State Convention. The women of Washington are about to organize the Wimodaughsis, an institution similar to the Propylaeum of Indianopolis. If the ladies are capable of hanging these two words properly their right to vote will be almost undisputed. Patrick Morris, soloonkeeper, and Patrick Morgan of Brazil, have been arrested charged with aiding in the escape of ex' Councilman Kerins from jail. Kerins was awaiting trial for embezzling funds belonging to the Catholic Knights of America. Charles Curtis, of Lafayette, while handling bananas, was stung by q tarant ula taking effect on the little finger of his left hand, near the second joint. The poison rapidly spread though his system, and b.e narrowly escape™ serious consequences. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors Tuesday, as follows: Lewis' F. Case, Jr. Goshen, king bolt for vehicles; Hugo Cook, Indianapolis, adding machine; Samuel H, Gregg, Crawfordsville, post hole digger; George Philian, Mishawaka wood rim pulley; Herman W. Timmons] Groveland, buggy top. Mrs. Charles Collins, of Jofferso nville is lying dangerously ill from a combination of untoward circumstanoes. First her son shot himself In the abdomen with a rifle by accident, and narrowly escaped death after long weeks of anxiety. Then the daughter fell seriously ill of consumption, and lastly the reoent Cyclone demolished their home. Farmers near Scatterville are trying to secure the enforcement of the law against stock running at large, but James Cox, the Road Supervisor, was intimidated by threats of alleged White Caps. Recently •Ethan Stanley was elected Supervisor, and !he began enforcing the law, and in reprisa 'unknown parties have mutilated his stock and broken up his farming implements. I Jobta Garrett, of Muncie, has been sen* itonced to Imprisonment in the Montgomery county court for robbery. Garrett and [one Hudson were arrested for the offense, •and Garrett claims that Hudson gave him S2B to admit the crime,so that he [Hudson] might be released, and then he would

superintend Garrett’s defence and see that' disappeared tt6< *. A * ter his releMe Hnd«m| Democrats of the Fifth Congressional. District met at Franklin on the 10th and renominated Hon. G. W. Cooper. The platform reaffirmed the last national plat-, form, Senator Voorhees was present and. delivered an address. Tile Third District Democratic Convention on the same date enominated Hon. Jason B. Browns Mr. Brown was present and responded in the' speech of his life.” Other speeches were made and the convention is described as being very earnest.

Arthur Demina, of Terre Haute, carried $12,000 life insurance in the Company, and after his death the company resisted payment, alleging that alcoholism contributed to bis demise. Suit was brought and transferred to Putnam conns ty, and the case finally went to the Supreme Court, the company being held responsible. Tqpsday the claim was paid. John Coraty, ah inmate of the Hendricks county asylum, has been granted a pension of $13,500. At the battle of Franklin the 1 rebels had drawn wires tied among the trees. During a cavalry charge Mr. Coraty’s horse tripped against a wire and threw him. His head ostruck on a stone, and after the battle he reported to his command. He had been known as one of the most jovial,men in the company, but he gradually grew morose and sullen, until now he is a hopeless idiot. John Tomlinson, of Plainfield, will qualify as guar dian in the sum of $28,000. The Hendricks’ Monument Commission Wednesday morning received a telegram announcing that the missing parts of the statue have arrived in New York, and will reach Indianapolis early next week. The news was a great relief to the members of the commission, who were beginning to get nervous lest the stones should not arrive in time for the workmen to get the monument in position by July 1. Work had already been suspended on account of the failure of the blocks to arrive. The committees in charge of the arrangements for the unveiling are pleased with the prospect for a large attendance from all Indiana and from other States. It is probable that uniformed clubs will be here from Cincin-i nati and Chicago, and Governor Hill, of New York, expects to be here, if he can possibly get away from official duties.