Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

An oil gusher has been struck at Monk* pelier. The Northern Prison is overcrowded with convicts. •• . . The Farmers’ Alliance will start a cosoperative store at Anderson. There is a scarcity of houses for residence purposes at Evansville. Indiana corn has greatly improved under the influences of the hot weather. E. V. Brookston was nominated fpr Congress at Terre Haute, on the 22d, by acclamation. • -f Deposits of bog iron ore, 65 per cent pure, have been found on the Farley farm, near Broad Ripple. Freeman Cooper, a prominent attorney of Kokomo, has disappeared, owing $17,000, a large part of which were trust funds. Henry Otten,Jnear Richmond, on Saturday evening, while harvesting oats, fell in front of his reaper and was fatally mangled. _ - The State base ball league, consisting of clubs at Anderson, Muncie, Peru, Kokomo' and Ft. Wayne, has collapsed for the season. J. N. Watts, of Pulaski county, has a son twelve yearseld weighing 334 pounds, and another of five years who tips the beam at 130 pounds. Excavators in an old vault at Ft. Wayne found three mail sacks from the Grand Rapids & Indiana railway that had been cut and rifled. Fifteen'hundred men are employed in the Pennsylvania railway shops at Fort Wayne, and on Saturday evening 218 of them were notified that their services were no longer needed. Ex-Lieutenant Governor R. S. Robertson and wife, of Fort Wayne, celebrated their silver wedding on Saturday evening, and it was a marked social event. Numerous congratulatory telegrams were received. John Settle, of Muncie, was sandbagged by a couple of strangers who asked him for a ride as he was returning home Wednesday night. He was found unconscious by the roadside. He had no money about him at the time. A curious aceident occurred on the road near Fredericksburg. A traction engine broke an exposed gas main, and the gas was ignited from the furnace. The engineer, Chris. Wetzel, and a boy were ens veloped in flames and seriously burned. Gotfried Ramp, a prominent farmer living six miles west of Bedford, committed suicide Tuesday night. He took a tracechain, climbed up in a small tree, tied one end of the chain around a limb, the other end around his neck, and then jumped off. Royal Tyler, employed at Tyler’s planing mill, in Muncie, in doing some figuring leaned his right arm on a little circular -saw on a table, and-in-an instant a gash over an inch deep and fifteen inches I.OLg was torn from his elbow to his hand, making a horrible wound. The Republican State Central Committee held a meeting at Indianapolis on the 24th inst. Party workers in considerable Aum. bers were present. The State convention was fixed for September 10. The ratio of representation was fixed at one delegate for each 200 votes cast for Harrison. □Considerable excitement has been created at Columbus by the County Board of Equalization. On account of the extreme high taxes the tax duplicate in the towns ship is short of last year’s assessment by $200,000. Every business man in the city has been cited to appear before the board. While a eon of Dr, George R. Green, of Muncie, was digging awell on his father’s premises he struck a bed of medium hard salica clay, filled with a yellowish bright glittering substance, looking very much like gold. It stood the test of nitric acid, and samples have been sent to chemists for further examination. Saloon doors have swung wide open in Columbus on Sundays for many years, but diT”lhe“ 2(l£H"THe”Mayor enforced the law, and even beer wagons were stopped from delivering supplies. Few back doors swung upon their hinges in consequence of the Mayor’s order, and it was the “dryest” "Sunday”ever knownTn that city.' The following county populations are reported under the new census: Vigo, 49,836; Tippecanoe, 35,169; Clay, 30,402; Montgomery, 27,822; Clinton, 27,580' Boone, 26,416; Putnam, 21,430' Hendricks, 21,030; Parke, 20,243; Fountain, 19,046; Morgan, 18,555; Monroe, 17,629' Owen, 14,907; .Vermillion, 13,130; Warren, 10,829. A peculiar case 6f hereditary deformity came to notice at" Columbus, on the 24th. There is a family residing in Brown county, throe members of which have six-toes on each foot. It is claimed by one of the senior members of this family that this deformity can be traced back through three generations. All the members of this family are robust and healthy.

There was a convention of farmers and workingmen held at Evansville on the 34th to nominate a candidate for Congress. The convention deliberated all day, and finally nominated Col. J. S. Wright, of Spencer county. The resolutions indorse, in a modified way, the single tax idea, woman’s suffrage and equal wages for women Workers in all fields of labor, buttheyare silent on the liquor question. For some time Florean McFeely, a twelve-year-oid boy at Crawfordsville, has been complaining of a pain in hie side. His father examined his side and found a dark, hard substance just under the skin. Making a slight incision, he was surprised to fiud a fish hook firmly imbedded in the flesh. How it got there is a mystery, but it must have b«en working around in the boy’s body for quite a while. The Farmers’ Alliance, of Vigo county, held a convention on Saturday, and placed s ticket in tbe.field, headed by O. P. Smith and Samuel Col tern for tbe Legislature. A number of the members were manifestly opposed to this separate political action and withdrew from the convention. Reset* lutions were adopted in sympathy with the declaration of principles enunciated a- the Indianapolis meeting of farming representatives. A terrible explosion' of a threshing engine occurred on the farts of Jas. Marrow on the 21st, near Princeton. Andrew Creteinger was killed outright. Charles White has since died. Thomas Mohan, the engineer, had his leg shattered, was i&V tern ally injured and scalded. He can not

recover. Hugh Marrow’s head was crushed. He can not recover. Sam Sweeppywas badly scalded. Several horses were killed. The wreck is complete. Patents were issued to Indianians on the 22d as follows: J- L. Brandt, Terre Haute bathheater; A. N. Hadley, Indianapolis corn harvester; P. J. Kern, Frankfort’ vehicle spring; J. F, Mains, Indianapolis, bag lock; E. T. Morgan, Dublin, wire fence machine; D. M. Parry, Indianapolis, short-turning vehicle; Q. A. Poston, New Salem, straw stacker; W. E. Pullen, Indianapolis, shirt waist and garment supporter; H. Wiese, Fort Wayne, feed cutter. Conductor Chas. Wood, of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railway, had a thrilling experience on Saturday evening while his'freight train was crossing the great bridge over the falls of the Ohio, A ladder gave way and he fell downward, but he managed to grasp an iron brace of the bridge, where he hung suspended 100 feet above the water while the train passed. He was missed, and just as he was on the point of giving up in dess pair, to fall into the rapids below, his fel-low-trainmen appeared and lifted him into* safety: The following census totals of Indian towns are made Terre Haute, 31,458; Lafayette, 16,283; West Lafayette, 1,204; Crawfordsville, 6,076; Frarfkfort, 5,950; Brazil, 5,907; Bloomington, 4,020; Lebanon, 3,691; Greencastle, 3,521; Martinsville, 2,686; Attica, 2,317; Spencer, 1,925; Covington, 1,894; Rockville, 1,687; Danville, 1,550; Williamsport, 1,022; Newport, 569; Clinton, 1,368; Dana, 563; Lado ga, 862; Darlington, 465; Waveland, 654: Rosedale, 871; Montezuma, 654- Harmony, 1,010; Carbon, 511; Knightsville, 1,149; Clay City, 1,014; Colfax, 731; Rossville 596; Kirklin, 551. The closing session of the State Board of Equalization was held on the 24th. The report of the assessment of the railroad property in Indiana was completed. Marion county’s valuation is Increased from $3,078,378, last year, to $3,885,745; Lake, from $3,858,445 to $4,055,800; LaPorte, from $3,246,322 to $3,340,269: Porter, from $2,720,094 to $2,829,171, and Allen, from $2,678,675 to $2,850,673. These counties have the largest assessed valuation. Perry .county, with $63,613, has the smallest assessed valuation. The total valuation has been increased from $66,241,532 to $69,762,674. An attempt was made on Saturday night to assassinate Charles Hargus, a prominent farmer of Knox county, as be was returning from Edwardsport, where he had been attending an Odd Fellows’ lodge. He was on horseback. Just as he was crossing the I. & V. railroad track some one fired upon him from an ambush. The first shot took effect in his right arm, part of the shot passing through the fleshy part, then lodg. ng in the arm. A second shot, fired as the horse bounded over the railway embankment, missed him. The wound is seriousand will disable Mr. Hargus for months. Robbery is the supposed cause of the at tack. =~