Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jeffersonville is growing rapidly. Vandalism is rampant at Columbus. Crawfordsvtlle wants natural gas badly. Navigation on the Wabash is almost suspended. jV-. Levi Harshman was run over and killed by a train at Colfax. Middletown and Spiceland have each secured a gas factory. Gathering May apple roots is a profitable Southern Indiana industry. Economy in the use of natural gas is beginning to be agitated in the belt. William Willun, a brakeman, was fatally injured at Attica while making a coupling. '

Richmond contemplates building an auditorium with a seating capacity of 2.000. Miss Williams, an actress, born at New Albany, Ind., is to wed Lord Petre, a rich English baron. Silas S. of Fort Wayne, while chatting with his daughter, fell from his chair and died. Thie Bruederlicher Unterstuetsungsvercin is one of the leading German societies of Fort Wayne. Joshua Williams, an old resident of Henry county, was fatally crushed by a train Thursday. In two years Floyd, Harrison and Washington counties have paids3,ooo on account of sheep-killing dogs. Samuel French, of Posey county, who has been blind for twenty-five years from scrofula, is recovering his sight.

Evansville will celebrate German Day, October 6, the anniversary of the first German immigration to this country 'in 1683. Fish from the United States Fish Commission have been sent to New Albany for distribution in streams about tha 1 city. Ten thousand people attended the reunion of the pioneers of Elkhart county at Simonton Lake. Colonel R. M. Johnson delivered the address.

Two barns belonging to Green Lilly, eight miles southeast of Tipton, were de stroyed by an incendiary fire on Saturday night. Loss about $2,200. Charles E. Polk, the well-known packer of Greenwood, was fatally injured by burning oil at his home in Effingham. He was buried at Green wood.

Eddie McKenna, a six-year-old boy, who was seated under some flat cars watching a game of foot ball, was instantly killed by a switch engine at Fontanet. oamuel H. Beard, a well-known lawyerof Leesburg, 0., committed suicide by throwing himself under a train. He Was cru shed into a shapeless mass. William and Levi Hudson, owners of a stone quarry mill at Spiceland, think they have discovered iron ore- on their ground' and are arranging to test its value. Two colored patrolmen at Evansville have been assigned to the patrol wagon because the commissioners consider it dangerous to place them on regular patrol duty.

Incendiarism caused the destruction of Robert Hunt’s barn, with $3,800 loss, and the barn owned by Mrs. Hannah Montgomery, with $2,100 loss; both in Jackson county. Rev. George Schwartz, born in Clark county June 13, 1802, and the oldest native Indianian at the time of his death, died at Jeffersonville on the 12th inst. He was also the oldest active minister in the State. Nathan Huddleston, of Dublin, an old gentleman, had SI,OOO in bank bills and coin concealed in his house. The other evening while the family were absent, the house was entered and the money stolen. Lamasco, the proposed name for Evans, ville, was made by Macall, Law and Scott, who in laying out an addition to the city, took the first two letters of Law and Macall’s names and the first three of Scott’*

Forty employes in the Greene township gravel pits of Jay county went upon a striae for higher wages, and after choosing a leader they camped near at hand and forcibly prevented other men from taking their places.

There are five townships in Dubois county in which, it is said, no Republican tickets were ever distributed until the last campaign. Many of the voters of the region had never seen a Republican “ballot before 1888.

Johnny Hale, aged eight, near Marion, wandered off with gypsies five years ago, and on Wednesday be was identified by Jacob Weikle, near Elkhart, and restored to his parents. The boy was in rags, and glad to return. William Dawson, the shoemaker astronomer, of Spiceland, died on the 12, aged about fifty-seven years. He had been an invalid and unable to do any work for several years, although he continued his studies and writings until his last sickness. A disastrous fire early Sunday morning destroyed half the town of Shipshewana, ten miles west of La Grange. The loss is $75,000, by the burning of four stores, the church, saloon and livery stable. Several residences were consumed. Incendiarism is suspected. , Horace CL Douglass, who in March, 1887, while postmaster at Plainfield, embezzled $249.18 belonging to the, offico, was committed to the Hamilton county jail for six months by Judge Woods and fined the amount he embezzled. Douglass has always claimed that politics got him into trouble.

Presley Brewer, a Green county farmer, put bis pocket-book, containing SlO3, at the foot of a tree. A cow ate the expensive luncheon thus offered. Cash is plenty in this locality, and Mrs. Albert Giluder put (550 in a stove. The Government repaid the amount upon presentation of the remains at the treasury. The postoffice at Edinburg was entered, the sass cracked and the money boxes carried into a common nearby broken open with a sledge-hammer and robbed of 14,000 2-cent stamps, 3,700 1-cent stamps, and (343 in cash. Night watchman Thomas Brown same upon four men just as they had finished their work, but they all escaped with the booty. Posey county farmers, controlling 500 acres, contracted to furnish melons weighing in excess of eighteen pounds at five cents each, and the agreement proved prof liable both to the fanners and contractor

The farmers realized $15,000. The value of the entire harvest in the county reached $27,500, besides what was retained for home consumption. The of Eli Beekman, of Bans quo, was bitten through the wrist by a dog several years ago. During the present week symptoms of hydrophobia were apparent, and the young lady was placed under restraint, to prevent injury to herself or attendants. Thursday qn improved 1 condition was noticeable, and her recovery is slightly hoped for. j. The Chicago & Atlantic railway was sold at commissioners’ sale at Indianapolis on the 12th for $5,000,000. The purchasers represent stockholders, and it will be reorganized in the interest of the Erie road. It cago and a through line to New York. The road runs from Marion, Q., to Chicago, a distance of 249 miles. •

One of the interesting features advertised for the old settlers’ celebration at Monticello on the 30th of this month is the election of officers of the association ih. accordance with the new Australian ballot law of this State. Booths will be erected on the ground, and the election will be held strictly in accordance with the provisions of the law. The comparative report of the Board of State Charities for the last quarter has just been issued. The report shows that the total cost of the State benevolent, reform and penal institutions was during the quarter for maintenance, $198,787.26; for construction, $66,635.27; a total for three months of $265,422.53. Earnings reduce: the total expenses to $216,115.08. , Fatents were granted Indiana inventors to-day as follows: J. Bogle and J. S. C. Sowar, Brazil, freight car; R. R. Bright, Indianapolis, dumb waiter; C. W. Clark, Mishawaka, plow; H/B. Doolittle, Dooittle’s Mills, gate; d. S. Faulkner, Indianapolis, steam 'actuated Valve; G. W. Rathsam, Indianapolis, flower-pot machine; I. S. Schrop, South Bend, meter, record; C. F. Walters and P. Shellenback, Richmond, roller-mill. The indications now are that Robert Me naugh, trustee of Monroe township, Carroll county, is short in his accounts about He has not been seen since Wednesday of: last week, when he boarded a west-boundj train. He was considered a man of unimj peachable character, and his alleged defal-l cation creates a great sensation. Menaugh' was an officer in the Seventeenth Ohio Regiment, and his bondsmen are old army comrades. He leaves a fine farm in his wife's name.

Unknown scoundrels “rotten-egged” the rpoidpncc of Rev. Frederick Berg, pastor of the German imtnerau CUurcn m the Fuelling settlement, Root Township Adams county. The animus is due to the' expulsion of several members whose conduct necessitated dismissal from the church. Mr. Berg has been pastor for nine years, and is highly regarded.

Johnny Hale was stolen from his home, at Marion, five[y ears ago by Gypsies. .The parents of the lad, after searching for him diligently, finally gave him up as lost forever. Monday the boy applied to Joseph Weikol, near Elkhart, for aid, saying tlffit the Gypsies were maltreating him. The parents at Marion were wired that their boy was found, and by this time he has been restored to them.

William Von Busse, a citizen of Princeton, Gibson county, was shot through the heart and killed by his step-son, Holliday, Monday afternoon. The trouble grew out of the fact that Von Busse was under'the nfluence of liquor, and was abusing his wife, the boy’s mother. The father was remonstrated with, but it seemed to increase his anger and he drew a butcher knife on his wife. The boy then'shot him dead. Holliday gave himself up to the authorities and is now in jail awaiting the coroner’s verdict. It is the general opinion that he was justified in what he did. The following Indiana cantons and in dividuals were awarded prizes at the Chicago I! Q. O. F. triennial cantonment:: Canton Marion, Ist prize, Class A $1,500 OO Canton Indianapolis, 4th prize, Class A. 300 OO Captain Gunder, 2d prize, Class A _ 80 OO Captain Chase. Sd prize, Class A 50 OO Canton Elwood, Ist prize, Class B 900 OO Captain Nezum, Ist prize, Classß 90 00 Canton Kiser, Ist prize, Class D 500 00 Canton Thompson, Ist prize, Class D.... 800 00> Captain Marsh, Class D 30 00 Captain Wise (individual), Class D. 7. 75 (A Chevalier Winter (individual), ClasssD. 75 OO Total prizes $3,9C0 OO

Dr. Joseph G. Rogers, who is getting the Evansville Insane Asylum ready for the reception of patients on the 20th, tells a reporter that the stories about a lack of water are unfounded. In the first place there are a number of cisterns .for the reception of rain water, fordrinking and cooking; secondly, there is a deep artesian well, furnishing a supply of salt water for bathing purposes, and third, there are two large driven wells which will furnish thousands of gallons of good frefch water daily for steam and other purposes. He says the water supply is ample, and there is no necessity to tap the city mains. Republican leaders have carefully com-, piled statistics from their , poll books,, which they assert prove conclusively that in Indiana 98 per cent, of the preachers, 72> per cent, of the physicians, 69 per cent, of the lawyers, 75 per cent, of the teachers, 75 per cent, of the merchants, and 90 per cent, of the traveling men are Republicans. A majority of the men who own farms to rent, says the same authority, are Republicans, yrtiile a majority of the men who live on rented farms are Democrats, Prohibitionists will say these figures are not. reliable—at least not as to preachers, who are, to a large, extent, Prohibitionists.

The differences between the leaders of the Greenback party in this State will certainly culminate on the 27th inst. Frank: 11. Pillet, of Indianapolis, and Richard Gregg, of Aurora, both claim to be chairman of the State Central Committee. Mr. Gregg was chairman when the Greenback party was in its prime, but it was alleged that he did not show enough activity, not even calling a meeting" of the committee: for the last two or three years. Because of this, Chairman George O. Jones, of the National Committee; appointed Mr. Pillet Chairman of the State Committee. Mr. Gregg declines to recognize Pillet’s authority. Pillet, however, rather has the upper hand at present, as he is in possession of all the books and records of the party, the old Secretary having come over to his side.