Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Goshen is muzzling its dogs. Terre Haute saloon men are fighting the 1250 license. Wheat harvest has begun in the vicinity of Jeffersonville. Plainfield is to have a new Methodist Church. Cost $4,600. A man named Lemon, near Corydon, has been flogged by the White Caps. Evansville is claiming 50,00(1 population, as shown by the census enumerators, HenrvJuergcns. an aged farmer of Allen coUnty, was killed by a fall from a haywagon. * ! Not only the iriidge but the red weevil is plundering the wheat fields in Hancock county. ToCre are 198 schools in Montgomery county and only 192 persons holding teaehj ers’ Hiietiaea Edw.tiu Fowler and wife, cf Columbus. Sat took heartily of oat meal and were jaiii.erou.sly poisoned. A ~A

Cravvfordsville is suffering so badly for a circus that, it offers to furnish the license and hay if Barntim Will only come once. 7 John O’Toole, of Browusburg, among the first immigrants from Ireland to In diaua, died Friday- night at the age of S 3. Mrs. Ewing and child, of Hammond, were struck by a train Tuesday, killing the mother and fatally injuring the little one. A gusher of a gas well was struck at Sheridan, Thursday-. This is the first of six wells to be put down to supply Lebanon. Hiram Marling, who settled in Jackson county seventy-one years ago, aud was one of its valued citizens, died Sunday of la grippe. ' Davis Pegg, one of the early pioneers of Wayne county, and an upright and valued citizen, is dead. He was aged ninetythree. tramp “jour printer,” Wm. K. Barnes, has been arrested at Greeneastle for forging the signatures of. Editors Beckett and Arnold. The oil field as developed in Blackford county is six miles long and four miles wide, and the wells average twenty-five barrels daily.

The Mayor,of Jeffersonville is charged with “dark lantern” work in the allowance of electric light bills, and the town is stirred up over the disclosure. Charles Baker, of Indianapolis, for assaulting a simple-minded colored girl, has been sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary by a Criminal Court jury. Miss .Lillian M. Hanley, of 111., has filed suit in .the United States Court at Indianapolis for $30,000 damages against Francis M. Ferguson for broach of marriage contract. Alfred J. Patterson, a farmer, is under arrest at Goshen, charged with perjury in making an affidavit to obtain money for sheep killed by dogs, -which are alleged to have died of disease. A number of skeletons have been exhumed near Montpelier, together with tools made of stone, apparently used for tanning leather. There was also a quantity of flints and stone' axes.

J. C. Stott, Railway Station .Agent at Amboy, while returning from Marion Sunday, attempted to alight from the rapidly moving train. He was thrown under the wheels and crushed to death. Harry Insley, of Terre Haute, a young medical student, arrested at Greeneastle for alleged grave robbing, has been released on bail. The body stolen was that of a tramp, killed a few days ago by a train.

Two freight trains collided on the Evans • villo and Terre Haute railroad near Vincennes on the 25th. An engineer and a young man who was stealing his way were killed. The damage to rolling stock was very heavy, Valentine Whitehead, a prominent and wealthy farmer living near New Paris, has been fined one cent and costs for hauling chickens to market with their legs tied. He was prosecuted by the Humane Society on a charge of barbarous cruelty. A Cravvfordsville poultry dealer reports having purchased since the of the year 44,069 dark-feathered hens, for which ho paid $15,754.63, and “from which he secured 6,900 pounds of feathers, all of which were shipped to Eastern market-. Hens with white feathers aro not included in this estimate

Major William Jordan, of Lawrenceburg, and Miss Maria Kepner, f Cincinnati, were married on tho 25th, the result of a betrothal entered into thirty years ago. The wedding was postponed on account of the illness of his mother, he beingher sole support. However she is still living, while he is at death(s door. Auburn, South Bend, Ligonier, Goshen Angola, Kcndallville, and Waterloo have joined with Montpelier and Hieksville, 0., in forming a fair circuit, advertising and working in common, The first fair will open at Auburn, September 7, and the others will follow in regular succession, closing at Waterloo, Octooer 10. There has been a readjustment of the salaries of first class postmasters in the country, of which there are now 116, fourteen having been ordered during the yeur. Following are the changes for Indiana: Evansville, from 13,000 to $3,100; Fort Wayne, $3,000 to $3,100; Indianapolis $3,500 to $3,600; South Bend, $2,800 to $3,000. Darlington was incorporated last spring but the new School Board found that tho retiring Trustee had contracted with G. W. \Velty as Principal of the schools, beginning in September next. The new Board, however, engaged__Mrs. Lizzie Morrison, of Crawfordsville, and the rival claims will have to be adjudicated in the courts. Auditor Taggart, of Marion county, has made up his semi- annual settlement, sheet. It shows taxes collected on the first installment, $826,159.89; for which the Treasurer is allowed $3,139.67 fees. Of the amount collected the city of Indianapolis received $801,327.58; Indianapolis School Board, $79,431.52; Marion county, $184,978.15, and the State, $138,404.61. George Baker, a farm hand, was round dead, Monday morning, on the Nickel Plate railway track, with his head and both legs entirely severed. He was twentyfour years old, and was betrothed to a Miss Dick, who was helping him to pay for a small farm, near Claypool,, where hie re-

mains were found. Fears of foul play are entertained by his friends. Lewis Moore,, the Democratic candidate for Auditor of Delaware county, has offered, in case of his election, to' refund $1,500 per annum of his salary to the county, making a total of $6,000 for the term. Claim is made that this proposition conflicts with the new election law, and that Mr. Moore has laid himself liable to prosecution, because it is a bid for the votes of tax payers. > In a Supreme Court decision Tuesday it was held that primaries are included in the meaning of tbe law which provides that saloons shall be closed on election days. The decision was rendered by Judge Olds. Judges Elliott and Coffey gave dissenting opinions. The case was that of Abe State versus, Adam Hirs'ch, and the decision of the Randolph County Circuit Court was reversed. Patents Were granted Indiana inventors -Tuesday, as lollows: W. Cook and 'J. R Gent, Columbus, bolting reel; E. P. Kooutz, Ligonier, refrigerator; A. Lammadee, South Bend, straw stacker; A. 11. Mahaflie aud P. Ivesling, Logansport, corn stalk cutter; E. Neff, Rochester, vetiiele spring; J. Shaw, Haughvilie, adjustable stove back; M. F. Smith, Moilticello, farm gate; W., W. Watson, Lewisville, plow fender; E. C. Westervelt, South Bend, pulp moulding machine. George W. Baines, formerly night,operator at Delphi on the Monoa, .while going home, was caught by a south-bound pas senger train, Monday night. Ho was crossing over a long trestle, and in stepping down on one of the projections of the bridge the engine cut off his left arm,three inches below the the shoulder. In fallingoff the bridge, he broke, liis right armlfi - two places below the elbow. He was thrown on a barb-wire feuee, and his body was frightfully scratched. He walked from where he received his injuries to the city, about half a mile, by the aid of Tennis. Roskuski, who found him. He will likely recover.

WASHINGTON. One of the most experienced and astute reporters on the Washington Post interviewed the Indiana Republican editors now in Washington on an excursion trip, as to tho standing of the President in his native State. The general voice was that of satisfaction With the administration, and that he would be renominated if he wished it. Chairman Conger, of the House Com mittee on Coinage says- “The House will never agree to free coinage, and that that part of the Senate bill must be stricken out. We are willing to accept the coinage redemption and full legal tender features of the measure as it will be amended by the Senate, aud provide for the coinage of $4,500,000 or 4,500,000 ounces a month. I am confident that the Senate will accept the measure which we will pass next week, as sentiment over there has materially changed since the free coinage excite-,, illent.”

The Senate Agricultural Committee has agreed on a substitute for Mr. Vest’s meat inspection bill. It provides for an inspec tion at the place of killing of cattle and hogs, the carcasses of which are the subjects of interstate commerce, previous to their slaughter, in all cases when tbe, secretary of agriculture deems it necessary. A post-mortem examination of carcasses intended to be further prepared for-eon - sumption at canning establishments or elsewhere, may also be ordered by the secretary of agriculture. In case of the discovery of any diseased animal or carcass, it shall be desti-oyed; also any product of such carcass found to be unfit for human consumption. The bill is to take effect in ninety days after passage.

The House Committee on Judiciary, after having under consideration the Senate ‘•original package” bill, has decided to report this substitute: “That whenever any article Of commerce is imported into any State from any other State, Territory or foreign nation, and there held or offered for sale, the same shall then be subject to the laws of such State; provided that no discrimination shall be made by any State in favor of its citizens against those of other States in respect to the sale of an.v article of commerce, nor in favor of its own products against those of like character produced in other States; nor shall tbo transportation of commerce through any State he obstructed except in the necessary enforcement of the health laws of Such State.”

Tlie Northern Democrats in the House havo proposed a formal protest against the Federal election bill. They pronounce it extraordinary dangerous and revolutionary, and declare; (1) It proposes to take fromlcontrol of States and local authorities control of all elections for members of Congress; (2) bavo not needed it and do not now need sucb a law; (3> it is posely a partisan measure, intended to intimidate, hound, obstruct and harass the adverse majorities in the cities of the North; (4) the judiciary will Bo prostituted to the lowest partisanship, and is an invasion of the liberties of the people; (5)-appeal to American freemen to enter timely protest, by public meeting or otherwise, against the measure. The President signed the dependent pension bill on the 27.tb, and it is now a law.