Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Cashdeilar is the name of a man at Anderson. Knightatown has inaugurated a war on the saloons. Crops about Evansville are reported in, better condition. Benj. Kessler was killed by a Monon train, near Ladoga. The Walkerton- marsh has produced a huge huckleberry crop. Caterpillars are destroying the walnut trees at Crawjordsville. John Husted, aged 90, a soldier in the war of 1812, died at Darlington on the Ist. Both La Grange and Steuben counties have lost population since last censusThe infant daughter of George Munsh was killed by the cars at Elkhart Wednesday. Will Mitchell of Elkhart county threshed 945 bushels of wheat from thirty acres of grontid .... ... — : t The wheat crop of Purdue University averaged thirty bushels to the acre, How many acres? Hon. Allen Zollars Has been made Chairman of the Allen county central Democratic committee. A family named Boldney, living at Sunman, Ind., have fallen heir to an estate of $4,000,000 each in New York. Goshen expects to secure the shops of the Toledo & Western roas as an offset to voting a $50,000 subsidy to the road. The Township Trustee at Richmond is trying to ship poor people away> for fear that they may become county charges. Master IfcOcl Tay Stemlrigor, five years old, is astonishing people at Warsaw by his oratorical abilities and is quite a igyThe population of Bloomington in 1880, according to the census, was 2,756. This year the census makes it 4,100, a gain o 31,44. George Krapt, a veteran engineer on the Big Four road, was fatally crashed between engine and tank at Terre Haute on the 28th. In Monrovia, Movgan county, lives Miss Ann Marvin, now 101 years of age. The aged spinster is spry and walks long dis. tances by aid of canes. ”, Jesse Trueblood, a bad character, in jail at Sullivan for wife beating and other offenses, escaped Wednesday, fooling the jailor with a “dummy.” A movement is, on foot to establish a creamery at Crawfordsville. It will take SIOB,OOO worth of cream per annum to supply the capacity of the works. Joseph Walsh, one of Henry county’s wealthiest citizens, died on his farm, near Newcastle. He was 80 years old and leaves a fortune of nearly half a million. Frederick Winca, a watchman for the Pennsylvania company near Fort Wayne was set upon by tramps and so badly usecl up that he died at the St. Joseph HospitalHe jvas stabbed three times, the blade penetrating and cutting the bowels. Incendiaries set fire to the residence of Rev. David Plumb, in Gale. Ind,, on the morning of the 29th, and it was destroyed. Mr. Plumb was fatally burned, and bis wife and three children perished in the flames. Mr. Plumb is a prominent Methodist minister. A small boy named Smith was killed at Cordonia. He was playing with a number of children in the road when a loose horse passed by. Wheeling quickly, when the party was reached, the horse kicked at the Smith boy, striking at the back of the head, breaking :his neck and causing instant death. Forty cabinet-makers struck in Munk & Robert’s factory, at C< onner sville. The factory has a rule that requires piece-work-ers to remain in the factory until, the vvhistlc blows, whether they have work or not. Friday Peter Kregor left a few minutes before the whistle blew, and was discharged Saturday morning, hence the strike. - __ _'

The family of William Reed, a prominent farmer living ten miles north of New Castle, started to church Sunday morning in a spring wagon, when the hops® hitched to the wagon became unmanageable and, kicking over the dashboard, struck and instantly killed the eleven-year-old daughter of Mr. Reed. wbo„ was seated-ia-the front of the wagon. Superintendent Leatherman, of the county poor farm, at Goshen, and a young man named Slabaugh were poisoned the 29th by a female inmate of the asylum, with whom Leatherman has had considerable trouble of late. She administered the dose in their food. They were taken Violently ill, but were finally brought around, and are about well. Quincy A. Hossler. one of the proprietors of the Warsaw Daily Times and In-diacian-Republican, will soon retire from the active management of those papers to engage in the banking business at Chica go. With several other gentlemen he will start a bank at the Garden City, removing there and taking an official position in the institution. Ho will retain his interests in his Warsaw publications. Muskrats have become so numerous in the vicinity of what is known as Nagle’s ice pond, a mile north of Jeffersonville, and have become so destructive to growing corn, that William Frank and others have employed a man to shoot the animals. They invade a field of growing corn and carry-off the tender ears. The little pests are quite vicious, and will show fight when their houses are attacked by man. Fred Butler, a young clerk in a clothing store at Garrett, has got into trouble for inducing a fifteen-year-old girl, named Edith Young, to go to Adrian, Mich., with him and get married. Ihe yopthful bride’s parents have now taken a hand in the matter and have Miss Young securely locked in her room at Garrett, while herhusbandi young Butler, languisheth in the city bastile, arrested for swearing falsely about her age. A very singular discovery was made re < e ltly in a large apple tree on the farm of Dr. E. Newland, on the Paoli pike, near the city. The apple tree leans considerably. On Saturday a rat was seen running up its trunk, and on Sunday two more were seen going up tho tree. An examination showed that one of the large limbs of the tree was hollow and filled with rats. The work of destroying the rats was then com menced, and at the end of It twenty-eight of them, all of large size, lay dead. The

tree loaned over against the granary, and!' the rats fed from the granary. ’ It has been decided deinitely that the shooting affray at the State liqe dividing Indiana and Illinois, between Harry Trogdon and Road SuperviaorSaunders, took place in Indiana, sixteen feet this side of the oenter of the road which was the dividing line, and Trogdon has been transferred to Terre Haute from Paris, 111., and delivered into the custody of .the Vigo county sheriff. Thus is settled one of the. most peculiar legal questions ever raised in the two States. Both men, however, are residents of Illinois, and happened to get on Indiana soil while the difficulty was in progress. David Logan, of Fairfield, seized a sharp ax and attempted to chop off his left hand. He succeeded ip breaking the bones and severing the tendons, making it necessary for the member to be amputated. As he is nearly ninety-four years of age he will - probably not survive the operation. He was one among the earliest- settlers of the Whitewater valley, and has accumulated considerable property, but for some weeks has-lanciedthat he was coming to want and expressed a desire not to live longer, and a close watch has been kept upon his actions, his relatives being fearful that he would attempt suicide. At a iittle station on the Evansville & Richmond railroad, twenty miles west of Columbus, Peter Brock, intoxicated and quarrelsome, drew a pocket-knife and, thrust the blade into the left eye of a young man named Thompson, who was sitting on a dry goods box whittling, twisting it around tmtil the blade broke off in the eye. Thompson jumped on to Brock and beat him nearly to death until taken off by bystanders. The knife-blade was removed from Thompson’s eye. The eyeball was not injured, the blade having passed entirely around the organ, nearly lifting the eye out of the socket. Both men are in a critical condition. Brock will recover, but it is thought Thompson will die,— A special dispatch from Evansvile, Ind., says: John B, Day was arrested on a charge of having placed two dynamite cartridges, each eight inches long, in a sheaf of rye. As it was about to be placed in the thresher the sheaf fell apart and the cartridges dropped out, thus providentially avoiding a tragedy, as there were six men at work, and all would undoubtedly have been killed. Day, some months ago, eloped with a thirteen-year-old girl, but was overtaken and brought back and warned to keep away from the child. He swore vengeance against the father, and on the 29th came to town and bought the cartridges and placed them in the rye, ex pecting that they would be fed into the machine by the girl’s father. The indignation against Day is very great, and fears are entertained that he may be lynched. Prof. W. C. Latta, Superintendent of Farmers’ Institutes, says that these insti. tutos will be conducted on the general plan adopted last year. The following is the list of counties, forty-two in number, entitled to institutes for the season of 1890-91, with the dates upon which they will be held. Vanderburg... Nov 5-6 [Putnam Doe 30-31 Perry Nov 7-8 Olay Jan 2-3 Pike Nov 11-12 Shelby Jan 9-10 Dubois Nov 12-13 Vigo Jan 13-14 Crawford Nov 14-15 Parke Jan 14-15 Clark..-. Nov 18-10 Vermillion.... Jan 16-1* Washington... Nov 19-20 Hancock Jan 20-2 Lawrence Nov 21-22 Randolph Jan 21-2: Brown Nov 25-26 Jay Jan 23-24 Js/ kson Nov 28-29 Wells Jan 27-28 Steuben-.... Dec 2-3 Adams... Jan 28-29 DeKalb Dec 3-4 Allen Jan *O-31 Noble. Dec 5-6 Benton Jeb 3-4 Ohio Dec 9-10 Newton.*. Feb 4-5 Dearborn Dec 10-11 Jasper. Feb 6-7 Ripley. Dec 12-13 Whitley Feb 10-11 Franklin Dec 16-17 Kosciusko Feb 11-12 Union Dec 17-18 Marshall FeblS-li Bush Dec 19-20 Btarke F bl7-lg Bartholomew. Dec 23-24 Porter Feblß-is 800ne... Dec 26-27 Lake., Feb 20-2] The place of meeting in each county will be determined to a great extent by the local interest manifested. Prof. Latta re? quests that all correspondence pertaining to thb work be addressed to him, and he will, on application, forward instructions for making the preliminary arrangements.