Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Seymour will build an opera house. New cranberries are in the South Bend market. ' 7.- . The humane society is doing good work at Goshen. Wheat thieves are reported from several points in the State. Angolo is undergoing a temperance revival of large proportions. Robert Walker’s country home near Evansville was destroyed by fire on the 4th; loss, *7,000. 1 Charles Roberts, of Muncie, accused of being an army deserter, swallowed a fatal dose of poison. The Lebanon natural gas line has been completed. It is fourteen miles long, and cost *IIO,OOO. Forty visionary gentlemen of Chicago have undertaken the formation of a boarding house trust. Profanity has become so pestilential in Anderson that anti-profane societies are being organized. - > The State Assembly of the Farmers’ Alliance will be held at Washington during the second week in October. Fourteen stables on the Vigo County Fair-Grounds- were destroyed by fire last evening, causing *5,000 loss. Thieves stole seventy-five bushels of peaches from the orchard of Jacob Ream, near Yountsvill’e, on the 3d. A portion of the city of Richmond is infested with snails, fouror five inches long, and nasty and slimy to touch. —One hundred miners, white and colored, have come from Kentucky to work in the Coxville mines, in Parke county. Hervey Pickerill, a farmer near New Goshen, sheltered from a storm under a tree. Lightning struck the tree and he was killed. Tuesday night Mrs. Harmon Schulte, of Seymour, gave birth to three large and hearty children, all daughters. The entire family is doing well. The Catholic Knights of America, of Indiana, in session at South Bend, on the 3d, completed the organization of a new uniform rank for the society. Silver ore has been discovered on the (William Barber farm, near Art, and a company has been organized to sink a shaft and put in a smelting furnace.

j A son of J. F. Scott, near Warsaw, undertook to drive a colt to a stable, and was (kicked in the forehead, destroying his eyesight and mashing his face into pulp. I Wesley Warren, brakeman, of Terre ■Haute, caught his arm Monday while makiinga coupling, and the flesh burst open (from the wrist nearly to the shoulder. While section men on the J., M. & I. railroad were working near the bridge over Genius creek, they killed forty-four icopperhead snakes found hibernating in the warm sand. The Michigan Sand Brick Company has succeeded in making good brick fremsand taken from the great hill in Michigan City, and when mixed with cement and certain chemicals it makes very desirable curbing, ornaments, etc. Sherman Hubbard, an ex-convict, and ffatie Cheek, aged twelve, of Terre Haute, were married, and the next day the bride prosecuted her husband for striking her and he was fined $lO and costs. The old American starch works, at Columbus, will be started up .by a company including James E. Bradley, of Indianapolis, James E. Mooney, of Cincinnati, and Ed Mooney, of Columbus, it not being in* eluded in the stare hjpqtfl. -L—_ John Kapple, one of the wealthiest German residents of Ft. Wayne, was fatally injured in a runaway accident on the 3d. His back was broken afid ten of his ribs were fractured,the bones being driven into his lungs and internal organs. W. H. Davis, telegraph. operator at Crawfordsville Junction, carelessly pointed a pistol at Miss Mary Roach, employed in the Junction Hotel, and it was discharged. The bullet struck Miss Roach in the back, eausjng fatal injury. Argtis Dean, aged eighty, of Otto, Clarke-county, died Sunday. He was proprietor of the celebrated Dean peach orchard, one of the largest in the country, and he was also greatly interested in navigation of the Ohio River, on which he was considered authority. Another case of Christian science malpractice is engaging the attention of the people of Elkhart, and excitement is at fever heat over the matter. The two year-old son of William Sanders, a prominent citizen of that city, died Tuesday night, attended only by Mrs. John Lesher, a supposed “healer.” The trouble in the trusteeship in Clinton township, Decatur county, in which the Republican and Democratic candidates each received the same number of votes and the Election Board adjourned without casting lot,will be appealed to the Supreme Court. Attempts to satisfactorily adjudicate the matter have failed. I

Eli Pitman, of Harrison county, reports that he killed twenty-fcur snakes a day or two ago. He unearthed a nest of the reptiles while plowing, and seized a club and went to war with them. They ranged from eight inches to four feet in length, and were of different varieties,there being a few copperheads among the number. Mrs. Charles Graham was frightened to death Thursday night, at her home, a short distance from New Albany, by the violent c actions of a drunken neighbor, George Blust, who threatened her life. Medical aid was summoned, but the woman came out of convulsions only a few minutes before death came. The last words she uttered were: “He has frightened me to death I" Blust killed an unoffending German nearly seven years ago, on Main street, while drunk, and was sent to State prison for two years for the crime* tie shouldered a gun, shortly after the death of the woman, and fled to the woods west of the city, where he is in hiding to escape the vengeance of the neighbors. The mail clerk on the Big Four train on the night ot the 4th, after leaving Anderson, was robbed of a mail pouch at the muzzle of a revolver in the hands of a negro. The negro pulled the rope and he got off when the train stopped at Pendleton. The mail clerk then reported the robbery. A search was made and the pouch, with a robber’s outfit, was found on the side oi

the track in Pendleton, the pouch being Intact. » The population of cities and towns of the first supervisor’s district of Indiana are given by the Census Bureau as follows: Bedford. 3.373, an increase of 1,175: Evansville, 50,674, an increase of 21,394; Mount Vernon, r 4,710, an increase of 98; Princeton. 6,493, an increase of 3,928; 2,222, an increase of 61; Tell City, 2,074, a decrease of 38; Vincennes, 8,815, an increase of 1,135; Washington, 6,052, an increase of 1,729. When the case of Mrs. Elma C. Whitehead. an accessory to the murder of Mrs. W. F. Pettit, was called at Lafayette, the prosecuting attorney entered a nolle prosse ana the case was dismissed. The reasons given were that the evidence of witnesses out of the State was not obtainable now. The real object of the prosecutor’s action, however, in dismissing the case was not to disclose the evidence against W. F. Pettit, charged as the principal in the murder, and whose case is set for trial October 8. Quite a number of representative farmers met at Greensburg Thursday and organized a “Farmers 1 League.” L. L. Donnell presided and Woodson Hamilton was secretary. Editor Kingsbury, of the In* diana Farmer, delivered the principal address. A set of resolutions was adopted, in which almost everything connected with the management of public affairs met with more or less condemnation. Among a number of the interested spectators was Hon. Will Cumback. He was persistently called upon for a speech, and finally re-, sponded briefly, taking the ground that the farmers generally did too much grumbling, while they were better off than many others in other callings. This aroused a spirited discussion for a time. ■» . A Greensburg Methodist minister startled his congregation Sunday by advancing a new theery of prayer. He embraced the fallowing propositions as his view of what the Bible teaches on the subject under consideration: 1. That the commands to pray were (with two exceptions) prayer for those in the kingdom-and the saints, and that the two places Where prayer was recommended for others it was not to be for their conversion, but that they might live in peace, etc. 2. That Christ did not pray for the conversion of sinners. 3. That the apostles and disciples of Bible times did not thus pray. 4. That Christians generailv are not commanded to pray for the conversion of the individual sinner. 5. That it is the duty of Christians to pray for one another and for backsliders, and them only. A daring band of wheat thieves are plundering the farmers of St. Joe county in the vicinity of South Bend. Afew days ago on one of the sidewalks, early in the morning, thirteen sacks of wheat were found piled up, which proved to belong to a dairyman living a short distance outside the corporation line. On Monday night thieves visited the farm of a man named Carpenter,, and stole a team of fine horses, with a wagon and forty-five bushels of wheat, and, the grain was afterwards recovered by the Sheriff outside the city limits. The wagon and team were followed into Michigan, where the trail was lost Soon after this theft a suspicious looking character was found lurking about the Carpenter place and he was arrested, but nothing definite could be learned rom him.