Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Quail are reported abundant in the southern tier of counties. The drought in Elkhart county has been partially relieved by rain. The Madison Gaslight Company has refused $70,000 for it s plant. Mrs. Sarah Hunt, of Andrews, aged seventy, committed suicide by hanging. The Fort Wayne Hendricks Club will attend the State Democratic convention in a body.

Rushville has organized a company to pipe natural gas from the new fields near t,hat city. Ap incendiary’s toren destroyed $15,000 worth of property at North Manchester on the 18thi James Ashby, aged fourteen and weighing 215 pounds, was one of the “sights” at the Jefferson county fair. The Laporte Herald charges that Logan sport has the reputation of being the wickedest city in Indiana. Newcastle, Pa., parties have contracted to erect a ten-pot glass factory on the Vandevenderfarm, near Anderson. A thief stole $403 in gold which the daughter of Jackson Miller, a farmer of Delaware county, had saved up. David Hall, a successful merchant of Elkinsville, committed suicide Monday by shooting himself through the head. S. F. Henry, the retiring Republican trustee of Union township, Montgomery county, is a defaulter for about $3,600. A pair of mules was stolen from Jacob Hazlebaker’alarm, near Muncie, Tuesday, and the barn burned to conceal the theft. Natural gas set fire to the residence at Greenfield occupied By Mrs. J.~li. Ctrr and E. A. Rumrill, causing a loss of SI,OOO. Wm. Ellis, of Wabash, found a burglar in his house late at night and undertook to thresh the scoundrel, but was badly worsted in the recontre. John Whitlatch, of Lexington, employed in a flouring.mill, while adjusting machinery, caught his arm in a belt and it was torn from hisshoude r. Another crime wave is sweeping over Indianapolis. Sunday there was one murder, another almost resulting in murder, and robberies without end. Mrs. Joyce, of Terre Haute, whose husband is a traveling salesman for an Indi. anapolis house, was suddenly seized of heart disease and died in fifteen minutes, j Willie Maney, aged six, son of T. C. Maney, of Clarksville, was accidentally shot to death by a Flobert rifle in the hands of the twelve-year-old son of James Smith." While Rev. L. L. Carpenter, of Wabash, was boarding a train at thief stole liis pocketbook, containing S2OB. The theft was detected and the rascal was

caught. Henry Brown, of Allen county, who has served seven terms in the Northern Prison, has been caught stealing a mule just across the Allen county line in Ohio, and lie will spend his eighth term in the Columbu a (O.) prison. Moses Decker and Louis Puston, two men making Middletown their home, became intoxicated on tho 21st and while walking on the track were struck by a railway train and killed.' Both were frightfully mangled. J. S. Ferguson, a traveling map, is lying at North Vernon with his face horribly torn and his left arm and elbow broken. He was enroute to St. Louis, and while trying to pass from one coach to another he fell off and struck against a fence. T ho late Mrs. Jane M. Swisher, of West Lebanon, bequeathed a fortune of 670,000, one-half to DePauw University and the remainder to church extension, Preachers’ Aid Society of the Northwest Indiana Conference and the Freedmen’s Aid Society. Geo. Taylor and Wm. Barker, both colored, of Warsaw, are rival lovers, and on Sunday night, while Barker was escorting the young lady in question, Taylor stabbed him with a large knife, inflicting several desperate cuts. Barker will scarcely recover, and Taylor is under arrest. The Pan-Handle Company has been enjoined from ballasting the double track laid on Canal street, at Logansport, and numerous affidavits have been filed for street obstruction. The company is trying to effect a settlement with property hold' ers. but little progress is making. The sa'e in W. S. Shislt’s jewelry store, at Anderson, was robbed some months ago. and among the valuables wpro diamonds belonging to Dr. S. C. Burr. The latter has brought suit against Mr. Shirk to recover their value, and he alleges that the defendant converted the diamonds to his own use. Forty stalls on the Linton Fair grounds were destroyed by tire Monday-, and three valuable horses belonging to L. M. Price & Son, and Webster Lucas lost their lives, as well as "Judge P., 1 ' a two-year-old pacing colt, owned by J. B. Terhune and valued at SI,OOO. The Agricultural Society' sustained scoo loss. Joseph Lamb, of Mouroc county, was convicted of larceny and was sentenced to the Prisdn South, where he remained for six months and then escaped. On Saturday he was recognized as a delegate in attendance upon the Farmers 7 Alliance Convention at Bloomington, and was again placed behind the bars. Joseph Gaw, the Union City well-digger who wouldn 7 t answer the census questions, because he believes the government is a bloated monopoly, was fined $5 and costs by Judge Woods to-day. He couldn't pay and the Judge sent him to the Noblesville jail. This is the first man in the State to be imprisoned for the offense. Farmers in the of the State report that young qnail were never so abundant in the stubble-fields as they are this season, and fine sport is predicted when the season opens. Young squirrels see also plentiful in the woods, and rabbits can be seen bounding along every unfrequented country road late in the afternoon Mr. Wm. Reade WUd, of Oldham, Lancashire, England, a young man of ability and enterprise, who has been on a tour of Canada and the United States for the last five years, has just started upon his return journey home for'a vfcit of three months with his parents, intends return* ing to Indianapolis, expecting to make it his home. * ; Joseph Wilkey, a young .farmer near Epsom, in the northern part of Daviess conn

ty» early Saturday morning was assaulted by “White Caps,” but was not seriously injured. The alleged cause was undue intimacy with a neighboring woman, which is denied by Wilkey and his friends. The accused is a man of family,a Methodist and stands high. Frank Wiseman, of Porter County, is experimenting with English full castor wUeat, and his entire crop has been en gaged by farmers for seed wheat. Last year the yield averaged thirty-five- bushels per acre, and this year over thirty,with the kernel plump, red, very hard and overrunning in weight. 'Last year he sold his entire crop for $1 per bushel. Jared Bickell is president of one of the Farmers’ Alliances in Carroll county, and differences having arisen over his decisions, Bickell being a Democrat, Bruce W. Shoemcker, John Graham and Bailey Hali, Republicans;, ejected him from the chair by force, and the Alliance adjourned amid great excitement. Bickell is* now prosecuting these parties for assault. A quarrel between two white men and some negroes occurred on the Big Four accommodation that left Cincinnati at 11 o’clock on the night of the 16th. It began near Coal City, between Delhi and North Bend. It led to a revolver duel,as a resul of which Mrs. Queen Crooks (colored) was killed, George Singleton (colored) and George Godfrey (white) fatally wounded, and two other men seriously injured. Mrs. Sadie Sizlove, of Point Isabel warned Emory Shields, druggist, not to sell liquor to her husband, and the 21st she demanded $25 damages because Mr Sizlove, after drinking the druggist’s liquor until Intoxicated, received a dangerous in - jury in a fall. The money not being forth, coming, she secured a ball bat and wrecked the interior of the drug store, leaving bottles, show windows and what not, in one common ruin. The damage exceeds S2OO. Alf. C. Mayo, a traveling salesman of Indianapolis, has hied complaint against tho Lake Erie & Western Railway Company, claiming SIO,OOO damages. Mr. Mayo was forcibly ejected from a train on the sth nst., en route from Muncie to New Castle, for refusing to pay ten cents extra because of failure to purchase a ticket betore entering the cars. It took the whole train’s crew twenty minutes to put him off, and it was only accomplished after a hot tussle. Lyman Needham was captured at Fort Wayne on the 22d, charged with impersonating a postofflee inspector. He is accused of visiting small postoffices in northern Ohio and figuring out the frightened postmasters from $5 to $lO short, which he would collect and pocket He was form - erly connected with Grannan’s Detective Bureau, of Cincinnati, and Captain Grannan assisted in running him down. An unknown disease has fastened upon several fine horses in the stables of James V. Mitchell, near Martinsville. Tho horses were apparently healthy in everyway when their throats began swelling and have continued until breathing has become very difficult and painful. Nothing as yet has been found to alleviate the suf sering. The swelling is attended with no other sickness. Farmers throughout the neighborhood are using disinfectants, burning brimstone and exercising grept caution to prevent the disease spreading. During the coronial investigation of the causes leading to the death of the little

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis, of Shultztown, a suburb of Logansport, testimony' was had allowing that the child was given no medicine until the day it died, the parents believing in witchcraft. Their mode of curing was by the ‘'measurement" plan. i. e.: The body of a man; woman or child should be seven times as long as its foot. As soon as the little child fell ill it was measured, when it was found that its body was not seven times as long as its foot. The next step was to strip off all the clothing, and with a tow-string measure the body three times, after which the string was hung on the gate-post all night. . This .was done,,but the child continued sick and finally died. It is said there are auLta-A.number of this queerbelieving people in Mr. Davis’s neighbor hood. The Governor, through his private secretary, W. B. Roberts, on Friday issued the following proclamation: “A proper custom having been established for tho observance of one day in eaeti year as a holiday for all branches of labor, and with a desire that cioser relationship between all classes of producers may be established and harmony be maintained between the wage-worker aud the employer, and that a better general condition of labor and needed industrial and social reforms may be obtained, and that labor may bo elevated, and with the belief that whatever can be done to better the condition of the laboriug man will tend to the elevation of our whole people, and with still sympathy with all legitimate efforts of wage-workers in every portion of our State to better their condition, I. Alvin P. Hovey, Governor of the State of Indiana, do hereby proclaim and set apart Monday, September 1, IS9O, as Labor Day, and respectfully recommend that the day be observed as a holiday, and that business be so far suspended as to per. mit all who may desire to participate in the exercises of the day.