Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A black ghost has frightened Newcastle out of her wits. The wool clip in Montgomery county, this year, amounted to 66,000 pounds. Alonzo Ham, a farmer near Huntington, was arrested, Tuesday, for forging his wife’s name. ( Rev. M. Swadener, conducting a revival In the Mt. ./Etna Methodist Church, baptized fifty-seven converts on Sunday last Hiram Marling, who settled in Jackson county seventy-one years ago, and was one of its valued citizens, died Sunday of la grippe. 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 eight-year-old son of Marvin Reynolds, near North Vernon, ran against a grass mower Wednesday, and both feet were cut oft. James A. Mount, a fanner of Montgomery county, was nominated for Congress, at Brazil, on the 16th, for the Eighth district, on the first ballot. The new blood which has been infused into the management of Taylor University, of Ft. Wayne,will reopen the institution during the first week in September. The postmaster at Burrows has been warned by White Caps to resign and leave the place or they would “roa-t” him out at night. The “White Caps” are known. John Winnings, aged fifteen, of New Castle, attempted to convert a gas pipe into a cannon. The first discharge caused an explosion, and his skull was broken by flying fragments.

A youth in Johnson Jcountj killed his father and mother at night by shooting, that he might coine into possession of their property. He is in jail. He once before attempted to kill them by poisoning. The Crabbs & Reynolds elevator at Crawfordsville was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss, $15,000. It is tho second time within a year that the firm has been burned out. Both fires were of incendiary origin. This last was a new structure, being occupied but a few weeks. At Servia, Wabash county, a station on the Chicago & Atlantic ioad, George H. Cook, head freight brakeman, was instantly killed at 11 o’clock last night. His train was side tracked to meet the and Cook had gone ahead to open the switch. He sat down near the track and was evidently asleep when the fast express came through. Hie skull was crushed. Tho Madison County Farmers’ Alliance held a picnic at the fair grounds in Anderson, on tho 18th. About 1,000 people were present and listened to an able address by Colonel Harper, of Illinois, and others. The Alliance seems to be in a healthy condition, and the institution is growing in strength, many of the most prominent farmers in Madison county being identified with the organization. ~ In Montgomery county there are 2,773 sewing machines, 1,099 organs and 337 pianos. This year there are 57,555 acres in corn, 11,471 in oats, 23 in barley, 55 in buckwheat, 158 in rye, 233 in potatoes, 18 in watermelons, 9 in tobacco, 10 in cabbage. Last year 3,839 gallons of sorghum molasses was made, and 42,015 rods of rail fence erected, 5,581 rods of board fence and 10,447 rods of wire fence. Charles Neibrecht and Morton Cook, of Pendleton, while fishing in Fall Creek on Tuesday, hooked a large catfish, but in attempting to land"theprize the fish was dropped on a pile of drift-wood. The young men hastened to secure tho prize, when suddenly an enormous snake appeared and swallowed it. They fled in haste and report that the snake bad a mouth as large as an alligator’s opening. Marshal Rosebrough, of Huntington, yesterday attempted to arx-est Marvin Koontz, who is wanted at various points for horse stealirg and other crimes, and there was a lively exchange of pistol shots, during which Kociutz was wounded in the hip. However, he succeeded in escaping. Last Thursday Koontx and his brother were arrested near Columbus, 0., but en route to the jail they cracked the officer’s skull and escaped. Adam Bach, a Harrison county fruit dis. tiller, fell under suspicion of revenue agents, and on the 15th the government officers found a number of bai-reis of apple brandy concealed in an underground vauiti on which no tax had been paid. The liquor was seized, together with his stills and other machinery for distilling liquor. Mr. Bach was placed under arrest. He has been distilling fruit brandies for many years, and until recently enjoyed the full, est confidence of the revenue agents Kokomo closed the contracts Wednesday for two more factories, to employ one hundred skilled workmen each. One will be known as the Kokomo Wood-enameling Company, which is capitalized at SIOO,OOO. The plant is to embrace four two-story brick buildings 60x125 each. This concern will manufacture enameled wood handles of all kinds, furniture knobs, etc. The other factory secured is the Kokomo Saddlery and Harness Company, with a working capital of ♦50,000. and will employ one hundred, men. Articles of association have been filed fot* both, and work on the buildings commence at once. •; What is popularly known as tho “German question” was decided by Judge Howland this'week at Indianapolis. The decision is in the suit of Theodore Sander against the board of school commissioners of tho city of Indianapolis, in which the court was asked to issue a mandate requiring the board to have German taught in lower grades of tho public schools. Judge Howland holds that German must be taught; that the school commissioners have no discretionary powers in the premises, and therefore cannot abolish the teaching of the languages in any of thd lower grades of the public schools. Patents were granted to the following Hoosier inventors: B. H. Barnes, Muncie penholder; C. M. Bennett, Logan sport, torpedo; R. C. Berry, La'ayette, anglo piston engine; S. E. Chase, Wolcottville, grain separator; C. Comstock, Indianapolis, short-turning vehicle; J. P. Coulter, Aurora, and J, Hibbett, Cochran, draft and buffing mechanism for railway cars; J. E. Donaldson, Montezuma, die for form l ing roofing tiles; A. Ellis, BeUford, culti-

vator; E. Goldthwaite. Elkhart, bolt cub* ting machine; J. Hull, Elkhart, wrench; E. Peck, Wawaka, wind-mill; B. Poullson, Ft Wayne, cabinet folding bedstead; S. C. Reiley, Tierre Haute, hydrocarbon burner- H. Segur, Decatur, saw-mill feed; W. B. Silvers. Indianapolis, spring tracehokler; W. A. Timberban, Delphi, machine for fliing and setting saws; W. C Walda, Ft. Wayne, safety-valve.