Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Mrs. David Flurry, suing for divorce at Bluffton, asks $30,000 alimony. Frost baa caused considerable damage in the low lands of Blackford county. William Beexton, of Hartford City, was dangerously injured in a natural gas explosion. Marion has.a. population of 8,784, an in" crease of 5,552. Muncie has 12,083 population. John Erwin, of Adams county, while felling a tree was caught by a limb and fatally injured. The farmers and laborers of Monroe county have formed an alliance and placed an independent ticket in the field. The coopers of Torr’s barrel factory, at Logansport, numbering one hundred, are striking against a reduction of 5 cents per barrel. John Stanley, of Muncie, attempted to settle differences iu a horse trade with a< fence rail, nearly beating William Tweedy to death.

Eliza Romine discharged two loads of bird-shot into the body of Joseph Baldwin, of LaPorte county, inflicting fatal injury. He is in jail. Three mineral springs have been discovered on a farm near North Aurora. The water is strongly impregnated with iron, sulphur and soda. James Shannon, a young miner at Rosedale, while squirrel hunting, drew his gun across a log, and the accidental discharge blew the left side of his head off. Incendiarism destroyed John Ott'sbarn, in Union township, Bartholomew county,andLhree valuable horses were included in the loss, which exceeds $2,000. Allison Dreely, aged twenty-three, re" siding near Richmond, committed suicide by cutting his throat. He was just recov ering from an attack of typhoid fever. William Zang,a mailjcarrier, was arrested at Quincy for stealing letters. His peculations had been going on for some timeHe confessed and was bound over in the sum of $3,500.

John Armour, a well known farmer near Kankakee, was thrown from a load of hay last week and suffered a compound fracture of the leg, from the effects of which he died on the 26th. OmerH. Miller, claiming to be the champion walker of Indiana, and Miss May Clayton, holding similar claims on Colorado, have arranged a walking match to come off at Muncia, Sept. 30. The Advent Church, a comparatiVely new structure, at Maxwell, was destroyed by incendiarism Monday night, coal oil having been thrown on the walls before a match was applied. The loss is $1,200. George Gale, of Franklin Grove, as old; settler, while acting as flagman for the Methodist camp-meeting at Franklin Grove, was struck by an engine on the Northwestern road and instantly killed. John Adams, an elevator boy at the Terre Haute house, went to sleep in the elevator with his head hanging out over the floor. The elevator started up, and Adams was caught at the ceiling and his neck broken.

The Governor to- day reappointed Charles B. Stuart a member of the Board of Trus tees of Purdue University, Mr. Stuart is a Democrat and the Governor reappointed him in order to keep tho hoard as it now is, non-partisan. A cat be'onging to Henry Wiese, of Fort Wayne, gave birth to five kittens, all of whom are united together from the middl of their backs to their tails a la Siames twins; the feline quintet was in good health at last accounts. »

An Occident occurred twelve miles east of Sumner on Monday at Orr & Gregor’s saw-mill, which resulted in the death of James H. Foss, engineer. A saw burst and a piece struck the engineer on the head, killing him instantly. John Burgess, living near Newmarket Montgomery county, hasatalf having five egs. The odd leg grows out from the shoulder, and the bending of the knee lets the hoof fall down beside tbe other leg. The calf is four weeks old. John W. Heckman, of A villa, owner of a vicious bull, never ventured near the animal without providing himself with a club. The other day the bull attacked him as usual, his club broke and he was frightfully and dangerously gored. Rachel Fields, of Goshen, was attacked on the street the other night and chloroformed, but not otherwise harmed. A couple of weeks ago she received an anonymous note threatening death unless she consented to marry a young man named Lantz.

The investigation into the books of S F. Henry, the defaulting trustee of Union township, Montgomery county, shows that Joseph Grubb, of Terre Haute, received $2,300, and Harry Snyder, of Joplin, Mo., $263. This still leaves over SI,OOO unaccounted for. The prospect of Orawfordsville raising her portion of the SIOO,OOO to secure a natural gas pipe line, is rather c’oudy. Only about $25,000 has been subscribed, and the interest seems to bo dying out. A final effort to raise the amount is however, being made. , Mrs. Alice Munger, of Madison county, brought suit for divorce and alimony, and Oriu Munger, defendant, fearing the court would award her the custody of the child, carried oif the little one. Mrs. Munger has retaliated by causing bis arrest for kidnaping. The barn of John Ott, in Union town*, ship was set on fire near midnight Tuesday night and burned to the ground. Three valuable horses perished in the flames, together with a large amount of grain and. farming implements. There was no insurance. Loss, about $2,000. The landlord of the Nutt House disputed the acouracy of the bills of the gaa and electric-light company of Crawfordsville, and the supplies were cijt off by the superintendent for his contumacy. The bills were then paid under protest, after which the landlord brought suit against the cohi pany for $2,000 damages. -An audacious daylight robbery was per patrated at Newmarket on Saturday. Thomas Gore and family went visiting leaving hia daughter, Mrs. Bottorf, home. Soon two masked men entered the tfouse, and, on her refusal to tell where Gore’s money was bidden, they best her

nto insensibility and ransacked the house, finding only $35. ' 1 A letter was addressed early in Jane from Andover, Mass., to L. W. Odom Kokomo, .Ind’a, but a postal clerk took “Ind’a” for India, and forwarded the missive across the water. It wen tto Bending and Calcutta and finally to Allahabad, where it was consigned to the dead-letter office and was redirected to America. Mr Odom received his letter the past week. Mrs. Edward Holliday, of Terre Haute, disappeared froin home cne year ago and her husband could find no trace of her until accidentally, while visiting at Anderson last week, he became interested in an account of a woman who had been stricken with paralysis in that eity some months before, and after a long illness had been sent to her parents in Montgomery county Investigation developed that she was the missing wife, and Mr. Holliday left immediately for Montgomery county, with a view of securing the best medical atten tion possible, in case she would accept his kindly offices.

The congressional convention for the Second district of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association was held at Washing--1 on, and every county in the district was represented and the attendance was good. E. H. Crecelius, of Crawford county, was the permanent chairman. A long list of resolutions was adopted, by which the convention declared in favor of the issue of legal tender notes for payment of bonded febt, and the issue of currency to be a fulld legal tender, loanable direct to the peopleDemanded the free and uulimited coinage of silver; a graduated income tax; the reductionxrf all official salaries; the prohibi tion of dealing in “futures;” the exemption of property from taxes to’the amount of indebtedness; the nomination of candidates who have not been office-seekers; the prohibition of alien ownership of land; the passage of the service-pension bill, and recommended that F. M. B, A. legislators should refuse to affiliate or caucus with the old parties. Simpson Cox, of Dubois county, was then nominated for Congress The nominee is forty years of age, a farmer, and a Democrat, or rather was a Democrat before he joined the new party.