Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Railroad men of Tipton ask for an increase of wages. f , Henry Lutz and wife, of Greencastle, have been acquitted of the charge of arson. Near the corner of one street at Kokomo j there are six well defined cases of typhoid ! fever,Alt traceable to impure well water. ! The Pettit murder case ended at Craw- 1 ordsville ou the 20th in a life or the unfortunate preacher. His attor- j neys will move for a new trial. The drivers at the Jumbo and Other mining zhafts in Clay county are on a strike, and nearly 1,000 miners are temporarily thrown out in consequence. The drivers demand $2 per day. , U. Z. Wiley, of Fowler was appointed Wednesday a Trustee of Purdue University by Governor Ho vey in place of Judge E. P. Hammond, resigned. The Board of Trustees is now evenly divided politically. An aged lady neur Hortonvifle died very suddenly, and an autopsy developed the presence of twenty-ninesmall, pebble-like s-.ones iu the stoetach, the largest of which was the size a • ,-nll marble. The stones produced infific—-- cn. wMch resulted y* death. Ti.e Auditor and Treasurer of Crawford county have petitioned the County Commissioners for better offices in which to transact business, and this has revived the old county seat war, iu which Marengo, English and Grantsburg are the chief contestants. Two hundred conversions have already attended the evangelistio labors of Dr. Mudk&il at ShelbyyiUe. Tuesday an all day meeting was held, and between I and 2 o’ctoclrthS bus’.iTesa houses ..and dven.tae' saloons closed, in order that men might attend the services. The unknown man found murdered at Fostoria, 0.. has been identified as Wm. L Coffee, of Decatur, this State. When fid left Tiffin, O , for tome he had several hundred, dollars-in-in*. possession,-besides a gold watch and other valuables, and it was bis.intention to stop at Fostoria ou business matter?* r “A farmer named Tomlinson, near Hors ton vi lie, has perfected a maclfine by which corn iu shock can be thrashed similarly as wheat is eared for. Tub fodder is fed to the machine, a d the sulks, husks, etc., are thrown to oho side, while the corn is sheiied off the cob aud flows out ready to be sacked. i As a result of the Munhaii revival meetingsanpraof reform has struck ShclbyVilie. The officers havc clused out all the gambling dens, nnd have served notice ou all the saloons that they must close at 11 o’clock and keep closed on Sunday. The respeetablo people of both parties have oined with the officers in tho suppression of vice of ail kinds. Early Saturday morning a party of White Caps visited Robert Johnson, painter, a few miles north of Hillsboro, and administered a severe whipping. After being released, the report was spread that he bad tried to fire his house, aud the party returned. Johnsou was again Whipped with brutal cruelty until ho was covered with blood. Drunkenness and jWife-beating arb alleged against him as tha,grounds of the outrage, j Quite an ajcciteineut'h a 3 bdeh developed at Huron, a village in Lawrence, county, on the Ohio'S; MississippTrailroad, by the discovery of coal. L. D. Vandyke has » four-foot vein that has been followed fifty feet into the bluff from which it outcrops Several other veins have beeu discovered In appearance it is similar to-Pittsburg coal, except that it has a glassy appearance. It burns well. A vein of kaolin near this village was sold a short lime agu for s,’io,€oo. Iu the Lafayette Superior Court Wodncs*. llay~ morning; Judge Everett mad a an important ruling in regard to omitted property that has been placed upon the duplicateby the auditor acting under the direction of a firm who had been given the contract by both city and county for the listing of omitted property. The judge holds that the amendatory act of lStsO repealed and superseded the act of 1831, and that ••the act of 1899; upon the Aub]4cfc~of the assessment of omitted property, is prospoe.tiveonly in its operations, and thatthe county auditor has no power to make assessment! of omitted property for any year prior to that of ISB9.

About six months ago George Harris apparently a boy of nineteen or twenty yearsef age, came to Kniehtstown and en. gaged iu the log hauling business with Milton McCray, with whom he roomed. He luter procured work as a delivery boy in M. T. Hibben’s grocery store, and late r filled the same place for C. C. Williams. He has suddenly disappeared, and the fact that “he” was a female has just come to light. A few days prior to her departure she and McCray had been closely watched by oitizens whose suspicions had been aroused. She played the role of a boy well as only a few persons ever doubted the genuineness of her masculine gonder. She is said to be about thirty years old and hails from Indianapolis. INDIANA ODD TELLOWS. Indiana Odd Fellows met iu annual convention at Indianapolis on the 19th and 20th. Attendance 800. The Grand Secretary’s report show a net gain in member ship m the last six months of 1,524. Tho total membership in this State now being more than 33,000. Amount paid for relief of brothers, 151,257.87; widowed families, 82,378.90; education of orphans, 8208.66; for burying the dead, $11,680.14; other charitable purposes, $3,271.05, making the total amount of relief $68,796.03; total expenses including relief, $140,415.10; total receipts, $9,103.06; total expenditures, $3,163.03. The following officers were eleoted and installed: Grand Master—W. H. Leedy, Jndionapolis. Deputy G. M. -U. Z. Wiley, Fowler. Grand Warden—George Ford, South Bend. Grand Secretary—B. F. Foster, Indianapolis. —l—-'' - j—- 1 —— — Grand Treasurer—T. P. Haughey, Indianapolis. Grand Ckaplaia— Rev. D. M. Brown, Knights town. t Grand Instructor—J. W. McQuiddy, Indianapolis. _ • . < Grand Marshal-H. H. LeFever, Union City.

r Grand Guardian—W. R. Tousley,Anoka. Grand Conductor—J. T. Caughey, Shelbyville. Grand Herald—O. W. Traester, Aurora. riKMEhs’ ALUiNCr. Two hundred members of the Farmers’ i Alliance met at Indianhpolis on the 20tb and considered various matters of interest. Committees were appointed on legislation pn resolution, trades unions, and a newspaper organ. Resolutions making (demands as follows were pa&sed: That allcourt officers be paid a sa’ary in proportioned the business transacted and it be proportionate to the amount paid for similar services and responsibilities in ordinary —That such legistatiohffie enacted as - will secure the debtor an eqitable exemption from taxation against bona-fide indebtedness. That all tne free gravel roads be placed under the control of the district supervisors, to be kept in repair oy them the sarna as other public highways. The enactment of a law making it the duty of teachers to take the enumeration j of their respective districts and report to i the trustees at the close of the school term, That the law be repealed giving commissioners to grantspecial elections for vo’ing aid to railroads and corporations. The enactment of a law prohibiting the office of townshinschool trustee from being filled by any person in the corpora tion of any town or city; also prohibiting voieis in such towns from participating in such elections. The following resolutions were also adopted:

We favor a bi-metallic system of coinage, and the free and unlimited coinage of silver with the character of full legal tenders the same as gold, and we recognize the fact, however, that t.he question has au internaii nal bearing; and we de mand that our National Government exer else 'itself iqjthe utmost to bring about such international regulations us shall make this possible without disturbing the business conditions of the jjpuntry or placing us at a disadvantage in the world’s commerce. W,e also ilemand the aboiit on of the national banking system, and the substitution of the United States Treasury uotesri-n a sufficient vo unye for tho trans-ao'-ion of tfiii bosiuess of the country in a nraTmerthat wTttffieThistTo the debtor as" vye.il as the creditor hia. : s, and that all the money issued by the Government be a legaltender for uli debts, public acd private. We consider the liquor t raffic detrlnsental to our iaVeiesis, morally, meriufly and financially, and are. therciore, unalterably opposed to it in all its bearings. We demand-a thorough and radical re- . tax laws f whteh-stmlT provide for an equal and fair assessment of ail kinds of taxable property, real, perclasses.shall contribute in maintaining the public burdens; that mortgages and other incumbrances upon real estate shall be assessed as a part of-the realty, thus relicving the mortgagor from a double taxation. Wo are in favor of just and equitable pension legislation and are opposed to private pension bills.: We demand that the means of con; mutiication and transportation shali he. under such government coutrol as may be accessary to secure fixed and reasonable rates. We demand that gambling in products which are articles of foot! he made a criminal offente. We indorse the sys'em of secret ballot, known us the Australian system. We are iu favor of a graded income tax. 1 :«A¥bercas. The Indiana. Fanners Alii-ance,'de-iring to c i-onernte with ail kindred farmers’ and labon iV associations: Kesoived. That the officers of the State, ■ county and local organizations of t iis | State be:mstruc(fcd to. seek to accomplish tU : s resu tjn their several localities, and further, that the delegates• td; the National Assembly of the Fanners’ Alliance ami the Tudustr A v -U:iicnareUoreby instructed .to w. r'i-fer National i.'O.oyv-fition ••v.’h tt'O ultimate object of consolidating these or gani atious. Tho following .officers were elected: President, Thomas W, Farce, Shoals;, vice-president, D. H. Yeoman, ReuseUaer; secretary W. W. Prigg, Middletown; | treasurer. T. 13. Hunt, Ashland- State lecturer, F. Ham, Miclugaatpwn; chaplain, J, W. Nolan, Biaok-ford; stoward, L. E. Leyvai'k, Center; doorkeeper, J. B. Greetnan, Guy: State erzau iron, Thomas S. East, Anderson; member oxocutivo committee, JaSres Welsh. licnssaluor.