Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There are no toll roads in Vanderburg county. An epidemic bf diphtheria is t reported along the line of the Nickel Plate Railway, east of Fort Wayne. The survivors of the war Legislature held a social reunion at Indianapolis on the 25th and renewed old memories. The old warehouse of Snyder’s Richwood distillery at Milton, Ky., opposite Madison, burned on the afternoon of the 2bth, with its contents, 1,700 barrels of tax-paid whisky. Rhinesmith & Simonson’s planing mill carpenters, numbering thirty meh, went out on a strike at. Ft. Wayne Wednesday, caused by refusal to discharge a non-union man. ' . ~— James Kelley, of Berne, has been arrested by the federal authorities charged with impersonating a man of similar name, in the l'ifty-first Oh io r egi men t,and mak-. ing anapplicatiofl *for a pension. Mr. Kelley is a farmer in comfortable circum stances. * , < • A police detachment raided a gambling den at Richmond, Tuesday night, and George Williams the proprietor, and nine players were captured. Wednesday morn-, ing they paid fines aggregating $144. The majority of the defendants are prominent yotmg men. Mrs. A. R. Beardsley, of Elkhapt, pre sen ted the city schools with flags, and the occasion was made one of public import* ance, the G. A. R. posts, societies, fire department and 3,000 school children joining, in a parade of the streets and other exercises. -X——— ; There was a county meeting of the Farmers’ Alliance in Anderson on the 26th to select stores with which ,the Alliance people will trade. Merchants of Anderson,. Elwood, Alexandria, Pendleton, Markleville and Ovid were asked to submit propositions, but the majotity of them refused to de so. = —»—— Reed Meurer, who killed Rufus Blevins during the bloody Meurer-Blevins family battle near Sanborn, has been released on bond. Other principals in this affair have not been arrested, due to the serious nature Of their injuries. The feeling continues exceedingly bitter, and a renewal of the battle is anticipated. Rev. Ernest V. Claypool, pastor of the West Lafay,ette Methodist Church, substituted his uncle, Rev. J. J. Claypool, in the pulpit, and after close of services present-, ed himself before the altar with Miss Nellie Matley leaning upon his arm, and they were united in marriage. The wedding was a total surprise to the congregation. Telegraph operators and freight clerks on the Evansville & Terre Haute, and embracing the entire Mackey system of railroads went out on a strike on the 25th. They recently formed an association, and now claim the company is trying to hire new men to supplant them. After the men had been out three hours their demands were conceded and business on the road was resumed. Ching Lung, a Chinaman of Anderson Wednesday applied for naturalization papers, and was refused by the Clerk, who claimed that he could not issue under the federal statutes to one of his nationality. Ching Lung will refer the matter to the Attorney-General. He is desirous of returning to China for a bride, and fears that if he goes unnaturalized he will not be permitted to return. There was a general cessation of business at Evansville on the 23d, incident to the burial of the late Hon. William Heilman. Funeral services were held at St. John’s Church, with sermons by Rev. Julius Blass in German, and Rev.“ A. B. Meldrum, of Grace Presbyterian Church. A special train was provided by the Evansville, Suburban & Newburg Line for Conveyance to the cemetery. Ai Seymour, Wednesday, the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association of Jackson county met at Brownstown yesterday and nominated the following ticket: Representative, John Horstman; Auditor, Ben F. Scott; Clerk, Rev. David D. Griffith; Treasurer, August Wienckeßecorder, W. B. Miller; Sheriff, Wm. Lambring; Surveyor, Wm. Carr; Commissioners, Frank Fassold and David Colburn.

Emma, the seven-year-old child of Wen dall Beil, died at Peru, Wednesday morning, after a horrible illness of two days of hydrophobia. She was bitten ten . days ago by a dog supposed to be mad, which was killed at the time, and Monday afternoon, while at school, sno was taken sick, and was sent home. The disease rapidly developed into convulsions,culminating in death after great suffering. The population of the following towns are officially announced: TOWNS. POPULATION. INCREASE. Kokomo 8,224 4,182 LaPorte 7,123.2. 927 Logansportl3,69B 2,€00 Michigan City.... 10,704 3,338 Mishawaka 3,369 729 Pera 6,731 1,451 Plymouth 2,723 153 South 8end21,786 8,506 Valparaiso 5,083 622 At Muncie, on the 16th. the jury re turned a verdict of guilty in the case where Mrs. Fannie Wiley, of Indianapolis, and Doane Nichols and Ret Shetterly, of Muncie, were charged with abducting Miss Media Waters from Muncie to the Wiley woman’s house in Indianapolis for nefarious purposes: fixing the punishment of the first named at four and a half years imprisonment in the State penal institution, and sentencing the last mentioned, who turned Slate’s evidence, to thirty days in jail. The verdict meetsv.with geheral approve!. Morton Shoecraft, colored, one of tne witnesses for the defense, by whom they tried to show the bad character of the Waters girl, fled this morning, as there were threats of lynching. The Waters girlcommitted suicide after she had been brought 1 from Indianapolis by her father. She was aged sixteen. ■ ■ * There are now, in round numbers, 52,000 pensioners in Indiana, and the list grows by the addition of scores every day. The amount of money required to make the' quarterly payment at the Indianapolis agency this month was $2,250,010, In four days;beginning September 4, $1,850,000

J was paid out The Ohio agency is the largestin the country and the Indiana agency next largest. The necessity of pay tag a large number of pensioners over the counter on the pay-days retards the work of the agency. For instance, on September 4, about ‘2,000 pensioners received their money across the conn terin the office of tae agent. Had there been none of this to do, and instead hacl the office force been able to do all the work by mail, checks could have been sett to 6,000 pensioners. The State Live Stock Commission met at the Capitol on Thursday to consider what they had done during the year. The secretary reported in detail the investigations made by the board in regard to diseased animals in various parts of the State and the number destroyed under the law to check contagion. Expenses, including amounts paid for condemned horses and hogs, salaries of offiers and their traveling outlay, together ' with that of the other commissioners, reached nearly six thousand doll ars .Payments to bwners ofanimal killed were made principally on account of horses. However, the greater number of these horses were worthless,, many w’ere of small value, and only a few called for considerable amounts. Glanders was the cause of the trouble with the horses, and the disease appeared principally in counties on the Illinois boundary. Sullivan county had forty killed, and heads the list with condemned animals. In Illinois it is assorted that on account of very rigid live stock laws, if a horse is affected with glanders it is shipped if possible into Indiana, which accounts for part of the disease in this State. No cattle were ~ condemned. State Veterinariaif Knowles reported- that the cattle in this State are exceptionally healthy, and that the existence of glanders is due mostly to Texas ponies that have been brought here.