Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Laporte a street railway. - A lynx was killed nbar Gfirfieid Saturday. Miss Feltie Dows was fatally burned at Seymour. • Eight, people were baptised at Hartford City, Sunday. ’ ’ s==t .. .. ... Logansport and Muncie young men have the polo craze. Fort Wayne - grocery clerks are pushing fer shorter hours. The Rush county Republicans have or* ganized for 1892 business. J • .. . ■< .< There is said to be a gang as counterfeit* ers at work near Anderson. The Shelby ville Republican is crying for moral reform in its municipality. The Huntington Gas Company is to sap ply the neighboring town of Warren. A Crawfordsville man has for his fad the collection of ancient Hoosier farming top* plements. At Ahder&on, Wednesday, Wm. F. P.F.I, a widower, aged sixty, was publicly whip* ped by two young ladies whom hehad.it is alleged, annoyed by his attentions. —Waldo E. Hills, under indictment at Ft. Wayne, for defrauding farmers by the lightning-rod method, has fled and forfeited his bond. A former trial bestowed two years in the pen upon him. Dr. Munhall, the evangelist, has closed a four weeks’ session of revival meetings at the First Baptist Church of Shelbyville. His success was crowned with over three hundred accessions to the diderent churches. ~ . g While Butler’s foot ball club was celebrating their victory at Indianapolis on the night of the 27th the tallyho, on which thirty-five of them were loadea, broke down. Eight of the men were injured, some of them quite badly. The corn crop in Jackson county is bars vested in excellent condition, and the yield is good beyond all expectations. The average run is from twenty-five bushels on the uplands to sixty bushels per acre on the best river bottom lands.

Joseph Lindis, living near Montpelier, lost his three*year«old child on Monday by its clothes catching fire while its mothqr went into the yard for a load of wood. She was only gone for a few minutes, but the little one perished in the meantime. The foot ball game between Purdue and Butler College clubs at Indianapolis, on the 27th, fer> the championship of the State, was won bj Butler a close and exciting contest. Score 12 to 10. Five thousand people witnessed the game. Saturday night Jacob Creed, one of Blackford county’s pioneers and a wealthy farmer, was assaulted on his way home Hartford City, and terribly cut with a knife. His wounds were dressed, and he is now at his heme. Bis assailant is supposed to be a neighboring farmer with whom he was seen quarreling over F. M. B. A. matters, both being members of the order.

> Hundreds of acres of land near Chesterton, on the line of the Lake Shore railroad, are being purchased for factory sites by eastern capitalists. Large tracts of land which formerly sold for |2 and |3 an acre now demand good prices. English capitalists are negotiating for several hundred acres bordering on the shore of the lake. The American car company, capital sl,000,000, will establish an immense plant midway between Porter and Chesterton. Real estate men are reaping a harvest. ' The tenth annual report of-the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Hom?,filed with the Governor on the 27 th, makes a strong plea for more room. There are now 574 pupils and eighty-seven employes in the institus tion. The chapel and main building were built with a capacity of 300 to 350 pupils, and the overflow two years ago induced the Legislature to authorize the erection of six cottages. Superintendent Harris says these are now crowded, "while the applications of over one hundred soldiers’ orphans have been favorably passed upon. Many of these, Mr. Harris says, are now in county asylums in a miserable condition of poverty, awaiting an opportunity to get -into the institution. The Commissioners of the Home say one of three things must be done: A part of the orphans now in the 'institution must be discharged; there must be a refusal to admit others, except where occur, or increased facilities must be provided. It is stated that with the improvements recommended the institution would accommodate 700 children. The institution is in debt >13,511.60, due to a lack of appropriations to cover actual expenses.

The quarterly meeting of the Montgomery county Farmer’s Council convened at Crawfordsville on the | 28th. Mr. Jasper N. Davidson read a paper upon “Farm Fences,” in which he advocated less fencing off the farm into fields. He also favored the use of good, plain wire, and the setting far apart of the posts. By this means it was claimed by some of the farmers that the wire was not so apt to break when the stock ran against it as when the posts were closer together. Their was a divided opinion as to putting coal tar on the posts before placing them in the ground, but the thought, that it was a good plan. Jacob Harshbarger thought it not best to saw off the ends of tbe boards used in building fences, but to lap them—putting one rail in the under board and two in the top one. Capt. H. M. Billingsly’S paper upon “Fruit Culture” elicited quite a discussion upon tbe best plan to follow in order to make tbe apple crop sure. It was thought that tbe best way was to place over the orchard an abundance of fresh stable manure during the winter, and some farmers reported that by this means they had ah abundant crop in orchards that had never borne before. Salt put under the trees was also considered au excellent plan. A report of the beet sugar-raislng experiment was made by Mr. Anderson, of Ladoga. Last spring be received over half a bushel of sugarsbeel seed from the Agricultural Department at Washington, and this bad been divided among various farmers, who planted the sued and raised the beets, which were brought to Mr. Anderson. From these beets he had ob. tained nearly 18 per cent, of sugar, which shows that this kind of beet could be ■ato as industry ot this country. The

only obstacle in the way was the fact that there was no factory near where the beets could be sent and the sugar extracted. Saturday 'night there occurred in Vin cennes a rather sensational clandestine marriage, which was soon followed by an exciting sequel. Miss Emma Callender daughter of Capt. Jno. R. Callender, Jolt her home, saying she was going to the house of a lady friend to spend the evening. As the evening wore away and she did not return, bar brother started out to bring her heme. Just as the young man started the following astonishing note was received: Captain and Mrs. J. R. Callender. You will be surprised to learn I have stolen your daughter. We were married this evening at 8 o'clock. She is now a* my house. . p A T Ryan. Pat Ryan is a oar-greaser, and has on several occasions figured in court for an alleged undue intimacy with women. He lives near the hrme:of the parents of the girl. Captain Callender, followed by his son, rushed to the residence of Ryan to bring his daughter home. On entering the house he met the girl face to face. He took her by the hand to lead her home when Pat Ryanandhis brother, Mike Ryan, pounced upon him, knocked him down and used him in a brutal manner. Just at this time the younger Callender arrived upon the scene and rushed to the defense of his aged father. Both Ryans then turned upon him and he fared no better than the father. In the fight a revolver was discharged and young Callender was shot in the hand. The girl, who is an invalid, was so shocked at the excitement that she swooned, and physicians had to be called to her aid. She is still in convub sions, and her recovery is doubtful. Captain Callender is one of the most highly respected' citizens of Vincennes.