Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Columbus now has street cars. ' Canada thistles are proving a pest in St. Joe county, . A strange malady is affecting-cattle in Adams county. ' Silver torehas been found near Petersburg yielding $75 per ton. New Albany is rivaling Jeffersonville as a Mecca for eloping couples. Counterfeit bills, from $2 upward, continue to be circulated at Muncie. The Huntington public schools start off with an enrollment of 1,206 scholars. Daviess county farmers realized over SIO,OOO from the melon crop this season. Willie Estes, of Redford, a week ago, ran a rusty nail in his foot.. On the 11th he died of lock-jaw. Christian Eberwine and wife, of Vincennes, have celebrated their golden wed ■ ‘ ding anniversary. Natural gas consumers at Kokomo claim to be taxed higher than is the rule of other cities in the gas belt. Tne striking miners in the Lancaster and Smith mines, near Clay City compromised on 70 cents per ton and returned to work. McClellan Jacobs, of Tipton county, While assisting in felling a bee tree on the 14th, was caught in the fall and crushed to death. The Farmers’ Alliance held a picnic at Rockville to-day, and it was the largest demonstration Parke county has witnessed for years. A sophomore at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., was probably fatally injured on the 11th by a mob of freshmen, who were “hazing” him. The Monroeville saloon-keepers have decided not to apply for either State or municipal license, but sell liquor by the quart under government licenses. In 1880, as shown by the census, Boone county had a population of 23,925. A carefully prepared estimate by the enumerators of this district now gives the county 26,850 —again of 2,926. The Prohibitionists of the Thirteenth Congressional District have nominated Rev. R. D. Clarke, of Laporte, for Congress andsare trying to secure his indorsement by the Republicans. - . John S. Donham. of Cory, sadly afflicted with rheumatism, i*» testing the Austrian theory, and he claims to have secured permanent relief by permitting himself to be vigorously stung by bees. Loren Castor and wife, an aged couple of Cassville, disagreed, and the wife secured a divorce with $2,000 alimony, Mr. Castor making no defense. He is well-to-do, but rather than pay the alimony he has gone to jail. Last evening while Hugh Goodman, an old employe at the blast furnace at Terre Haute, was assisting with a blast, a stream of molten metal struck him in the face, burning out both eyes. He is in a critical condition. Ed. Dickerson borrowed a horse at Osgood, which he sold at Greensburg and fled. On the 14th he surrendered himself to the Sheriff of Decatur county, because ■he was tired of skulking about the country to avoid arrest. The insurrection against an increase of prices by tne natural gas company supplying Shelbyville has been suppressed; the company making no concessions, and the patrons accepting the result with reasonable submission. Bud Ashby, accused of forgery, was found guilty by a Floyd county jury and the penalty was placed at two years’ imprisonment. While the jury was filing into the court room, however, Ashby slipped out and is still at large.* Four burglars robbed the clothing house of Bowen Bros., at Lynn, and attempted to escape. They were followed by Elihu Bailey, an employe in the store, and he captured Frank Ryan and Frank Williams with part of the stolen goods in their possession. Mrs. Charity Coffin, who died some few days ago in Randolph county, was the widow of the late Stephen Coffin, and the mother of seventeen children. Her descendants number 104: forty nine grandchildren, thirty-seven great grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. Hon. B. W. Hanna had three light attfLP.ir*, Monday; of paralysis, and for sev eral hours was unconscious. After the physician gave him several hypodermic injections of medicine he recovered consciousness, and is now resting easier. His friends consider his condition serious. For some time past the farmers along Eel river, near the Owen county line,have suffered from the overflow of its water, caused by the dam at the mill, at Grove Mill, in Owen county. At midnight on the 14th, the dam was blown up with dynamite, it is supposed by persons who had suffered in the manner indicated. A tremendous out-flow of gas has been struck on the farm of E. G. Becker, near Tipton, and it is estimated that the supply will reach 20,000,000 cubic feet per day. It is thought to be one of the largest and strongest gas wells in this State. Friday night it caught Are, and in the explosion several persons were badly scorched, Developments indicate that Robert C. Menaugh, the defaulting trustee of Monroe township, Carroll county, raised township orders calling for s3ll so that $8,407.75 was secured thereby. He also borrowed as trustee SSOO from one of the Delphi banks. His defalcation was estimated at $4,000, but recent discoveries place the total at $6,000, and it leaves the affairs of the township in bad shape, with no money with which to pay teachers and defray other expenses. The Sul’ivan Democrat has entered upon the thirty eighth year of its existence. It was established by Murray Briggs, who continues as editor and publisher, in 1854, at a time when was an unpromising village, without court house, brick dwellings, paved streets, daily mails pr 1 other appliances of civilization. Mr. 1 Briggs has lived to see the town lift itself : out of the mud, build churches and school ] houses, establish telephones and electric lights and bore for natural gas. I Harry Hull was telegraph onerator at Aurora in October last, and through his error there was a collision of trains, with a loss of life. Overcome with remorse, the young man went away, and recently

under the name of Williams, he signed as a sailor on a Norwegian bark, loading at Brunswick, Ga., and will go abroad. Mr. Hull imagines that he is bound to answer for the souls of those killed in that col z Jision, and that he is doomed to eternal punishment. Late last night the body of Alfred Slin*. ny, a boy seventeen years of age, living with his parents seventeen miles east of Lagro, this county, was found in the Wa. bash river near Hanging Rock. The lad, with Alonzo Williams, had gone to Andrews Saturday night, and there obtaining liquor, became very drunk. Upon returning to Lagro Williams propped his companion up in the buggy, fastened the reins over the dash and started him homeward. The horse reached Sliany.’s but the buggy was vacant. “Professor” Robert Hill, parachute jumper, made an ascension at Crawfordsville on the 10th, and narrowly escaped with his life. There was a brisk wind and he did not cut loose until he had reached.an altitude of 3,000 feet,,and the parachute dropped 500 feet before it opened. Hill descended with extraordinary swiftness, and was swept by the wind over the city, narrowly escaping collision with the court house, and finally landing in a tree top, from which he was rescued in a stunned and helpless condition. The Marion County Agricultural Society enjoyed an unusually pleasant meeting Saturday at the residence of J. G. Kingsbury, at Irvington. There was a dinner on the lawn, after which Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, of Cambridge City, read a charming paper on “Dreams and Realiities 1 ” and Mr. Kingsbury read one on “Farmers’ Organizations.” Indiana farms at present, he said, are mortgaged for $4,604,000. The remedy will be found, he thinks, in farmers’ organizations. The F. M. B. A. now numbers 20,000 members and the Alliance 50,000, and both are growing and spreading through many States. Two weeks ago Colonel Anderson, the Government scout who induced Old Sitting Bull to return from Canada and surrender after the Custer massacre years ago, became converted at a camp meeting in Pierre, since which time he has been preaching among the Sioux, and the result is that hundreds of the Indians are becoming converted. Some 200 families of these new converts from the interior parts of the reservation have started for Sizeton Agency in the eastern part of the State, 200 miles distant, to attend an Indian campmeeting. Colonel Allison remains with the reservation Indians, and if his health permits will continue to preach and teach with the more savage and backward tribes A subject of special importance to the silver-producing States which found no place upon the order of business adopted Fridaj' was Senator Teller’s joint resolution directing the President to invite the "goVefnmenEs' oTTEe“c6ufiEFTes comprising the Latin Union and such other nations as he may deem advisable to join the United States in a conference to adopt a bimetallic arrangement. The author will make an effort, however, to secure action at the short session. Senator Teller says of the “slump” in silver Friday that it is but temporary, due to stringency in the money market, caused by payments for large importations in advance of the taking effect of the tariff bill, and that he expects to see the white metal at. 51.20 again inside of a month. Republican Senators held a caucus on the night of the 11th and concluded upon the consideration of the following measures during this session: First, anti-lot-tery mail bill; second, bill to repeal the timber culture act; third, bill to establish private land claim courts; fourth, bill for the relief of the Supreme Court; fifth, bill for the adjustment of claims of labor ers, etc., under the eight hour law; sixth, bill making eight hours a day’s work for laborers, etc., in government employ or employed by contractors doing government work; seventh, bill to transfer the revenue marine service from the Treasury to the Navy Department; eighth, the Paddock pure food bill; ninth, bill for the settlement of claims arising from Indian depredations ; tenth, Torrey bankruptcy bill; under the operation of the inter-state commerce law; twelfth. District of Columbia, bill.

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