Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

>Hog cholera prevails near Dover. Summerville reports a case of small-pox. Anderson dubs itself *■ the Pittsburgh of White River.” Three horses were cremated in R. Allen’s barn near Montpelier. Loss $3,000. 3 Boys playing , with matches burned* Nathan Hunt’s barn near Maxwell, causing $2,000 loss. Over 2,000 shares of stock, have been taken in the Anti-Gas Monopoly Company at Sheibyville. George Bair, passenger brakeman of Ft. WaynejpwaiTatally stricken with paralysis at Crestline. O. ’ W. H. Schreiber, the Columbus, Ind., absconding bank teller, was sentenced to the penitentiary for twelve years. The Ben Hur tableaux which has been under preparation for some time, will be first produced at Terre Haute. Lieutenant Charles S. Hall, Thirteenth United States Infantry, has been detailed l o open a recruiting office at Ft. Wayne. The barn belonging to Christian Huff, man, of Vincennes, was burned on the Bth, and three valuable horses were crematedTotal loss $5,000. The eight-year-old son of Barney Orndoff, near Oaktown, fell underneath the wheels of a heavily loaded wagon, and his scalp was stripped off. , Louis Griggs, of New Albany, who killed William Carroll, is recovering from the injury inflicted by Carroll before he fell dead, and ho has been removed to jail A number of physicians of Indianapolis and elsewhere are interested in the erec tion of a sanitarium at Garland Dell (Shades of Death) in Montgomery county. Census returns of Indiana towns : Attica, 2,319;.8razi1, 5,902: Crawfordsville, 6,086; Frankfort, 5,918; Greencastle, 4,386; Lafayette, 16,407; Lebanon, 3,676; Terre Haute, 30,287. A second attempt has been made to blow up Musselman’s saloon at Morgantown, and the proprietor is so badly frightened that he will close the place and remove his family elsewhere. Jonathan Paul, aged twenty, son of Henry Paul, of Lancaster to wnship, Hunt ington county, \yas accidentally shot and killed by a friend named Shideler, who was aiming at a target. Six members of the household of Albert Wiler, of Lafayette, were dangerously poisonedT by eating green corn over which paris green had previously been sprinkled, while it was growing, to kill insects, John Patch, a carpenter, of Ft, Wayne accidently fell from a scaffold, and m his descent struck a sharp pointed stake, which entered his right leg below the hip and was forced, upward until it penetrated his abdomen seven inches. A watch dog belonging to Isaac T. Brown, of Wirt, suddenly went mad and bit three of his children, besides several head of stock. The children were taken to Milton, Ky., where a mad-stone was applied with hopeful results. Prof. H. B. Jacobs, on the 10th, resigned the position of Superintendent of the Blind Asylum at Indianapolis, and Prof. E. E. Griffith, of Frankfort, was elected to the vacancy. Prof. Jacobs has accepted a similar position in Pennsylvania. Harvey Holley, aged twenty-three, near Montpelier, while out in the woods, committed suicide by blowing out his brains. The remains were found guarded by his dog, and the animal had to be clubbed away before the body could be removed. Mrs. A. R. Beardsley, of Elkhart, pre sented the city schools with flags, and the occasion was made one of public importance, the G. A. R. posts, societies, fire department and 3,000 school children joining in a parade of the streets and other exercises. Johnny Weiss, of South Bend, aged eleven, climbed atree while nutting, and falling from the branches, he struck thfe ground with such violence that the bones of his left leg were broken in three times below the knee, and pieces of bone were driven through his flesh. ’ While the family of George Hughes, of White River township, Jackson county, were temporarily absent, attending ta farm chores, two masked men entered, and after binding and gagging an invalid daughter, aged sixteen, they plundered the house, securing considerable money "'ssa3*Jewer^r‘.'"“““ The peculiarity of jury work has an illustration in the Mingus murder trial at Lagrange. Eleven of the jurors wanted a life sentence, as the savage killing of his old and defenseless mother-in-law by the defendant was without a single palliating feature, but the twelfth man hung out for acquittal, and finally brought his associates to consent to fifteen years’ imprison - meat. On a partial investigation, it is ascertained that et-City Treasurer James Fitzpatrick, of Terre Haute, is a heavy defaulter. The total, .deficit is $19,000. He paid $4,000. The worst discovery is the fact that Fitzpatrick falsified the reports and cheated Charles A. Robinson, his predecessor, out of $1,300. Robinson, was a Republican, and when he went out Fitzpatrick found a deficit in bis accounts which he alleged amounted to SI,BBO. It develops that the alleged shortage was $1,300 in excess of the actual shortage. Robinson removed to California, and after, ward committed suicide on account of his disgrace. His bondsmen made up the shortage and Fitzpatrick pocketed the surplus. 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 tho quarterly payment at the Indianapoli agency this month was $2,250,000. In sou days, beginning September 4, $1,850,000 was paid out. The Ohio agency is tbe largest in the country and the Indiana agency next largest. The necessity of payings large number of pensioners over the counter on the quarterly pay-days retards the work of the agency. For instance, on September 4, about 2,000 pensioners received their money across the counter in tho office of tue agent. Had there been none of this to do, and instead had the office force been able to do all the work by mail, checks could have been sent to 0,000 pensioners. < The great quantities of sand now being taken away from Hoosier Slide, at Michigan City, at an average of five oar loads a

— r s "( *•' # day, is causing that famous sand hill to go down rapidly. Colonel A.S. Nieholls recently purchased it, and-is shipping the sand to all quarters. The excavations on the east-side have revealed some interesting things. An old house, stilt standing, has just been exposed. How long it has been buried e4a not be learned. Workmen found an ax and a maul there on the 9th, and on the 10th a table fork and a stove hook were unearthed. These, things were taken from the one-story house. At the south-east corner, near the popular path of ascent of sight seers, the corner of a smal two-story house can be seen. This house was built new nine or ten years ago, but the sand soon drove the inhabitants out and buried the structure. The tops of trees are beginning to protrude as the sand goes down: From the size of the trunks it that the roots, must be twenty-five feet further down. Ho one living remembers the one-story house.