Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Princeton ha* struck gas. j Anderson owns its own water works. The Akron Eagle has suspended publication. Greenwood will put down an artesian well. Fire in the Crawford Honse, Boston, on the 9th., caused aslo,oo loss. Mrs. Willard Ray, raiding in the soothe ern part of Monroe county, has given birth to triplets. El wood claims to havo been stirred by two slight shocks of earthquake on the evening of the Sd. Failure to win the affections of a young lady at Kirklin was the cause of the suicide of Charles Heiny, of Noblesville. The Robinson hill property, near New Albany, has been purchased by a New Albany syndicate and will be converted into a site for -übur ban residences, to be known, gs Highland City. 4= Eighty men have been dropped from the ‘payroll of the Ohio Falls iron works, at New Albany, and thirty-five at the Monon shops, upon whom over four hundred peo pie are dependent for support. . Orlando Johnson, a young school teaoh"WTbf North Vernon, went first “spree” the other night. During the performance he smashed in the front of a saloon and broke the arm of a Mr. Meyer with a chair. . j John Q. Thomas was fatally burned on the night of the 24th, while playing Santa Claus at the Seoond M. E. Church at M 5.... rion. He approached too close to a gas jet, when his trappings took fire and in a foment he was wrapped in flames. * . Charles Thomas, aged sixteen years, son of Geo. W. Thomas, of Plymouth, shot an American eagle as it was flying oyer their farm. It measured seven and one-half feet from tip to tip, weighed twelve pounds and its talons were seven inches long. ; Two men of cultivated appearance canvassed Tipton county in the organization of mathematical night schools, charging $1 n advance for each pupil. After the field had been well worked they disappeared, leaving a number of unpaid debts and un!taught pupils. , J Prominent Republicans from all parts ! of the State met in convention with tho i 'Republican Stato Central Committee on | the 6th. Chairman Mlchener’s resignstion was received and accepted and John L. Gowdy, of Rushville, was elected to the vacancy. It was proposed to at once begin the work of the next campaign. J A subscription has been started among the business men of Union City, the purpose being to use the money thus raised in causing a re survey of the State line be« tween Ohio and Indiana. It is claimed that, the line is not correct, and that if the boundry was properly set, Ohio would be the gainer by several million dollars. Un ion City is on the State line , j Monday night, during a religious meeting at West Fork, in Crawford county, a riot started among the members of three large families—the Lowes, Wisemans and Baggerlys. Pistols, knives, stones, cudgels and fists were used with a vengeanceFive men are lying at the point of death as a result of the conflict, and others are very seriously injured. Wm. Lowe, Wm Wiseman, John Wiseman, Robert Baggerly and Ed Jones are the worst injured.

The following Indiana i nvefitors wer issued patents Tuesday: D. C. Boruff, Bed. ford, type-writing machine; L. Denny, Advance, hoe; G. A. Hendricks, Bloomington, car coupling; N. A. Hall, Peru, drawer for sewing-machine attachments; ,T. F. Judy and N. H. Wilson, Huntings burg, umbreila or parasol; N. Astler, 'LaPorte, buggy body; D. D. Mayfield, Sullivan, gate; Roann, cultivator attachment; C. D. Shellabergor, Indianapolis, fence; J. C. Sproull. Bedford, pipe wrench The old “Goose Pond,’’comprising 10;000 acres of marshy land, which a syndicate at Linton has been organized to drain, has long been a favorite spot for sportsmen There is one little island therein which has a history. During the war the important councils of the Knights of Liberty were held there, and being in the heart of ’this tract, with secret outlets, it was just such a place as would naturally be selected by them, as mo one not familiar there* with, especially after dark, could enter. There were three notable weddings in the Funderburg family, in Rock Creek township, Huntington county, all on the same day. First, Madison Moll wain and Mrs. Mary Funderburg were united in marriage; then came the marriage of Nellie Mcllwain, daughter of the greom, and Edward Funderburg, son of the bride; and lastly, Jamer Gray and Lillie Funderburg, daughter of the bride. It is now a prob<* lem in Huntington county what relationship the two first Darned couples bear to each other.

Dr. Edward W. Viets, of Plymouth, a physician of standing, was arrested some days ago, charged with attempting a criminal aesault upon Eary, aged fourteen, daughter of Bradiey C. Southworth. The girl was his patient, and had been sent to his office fer treatment. A preliminary trial resulted in the charge being changed to one of criminal outrage, and tho defendant was held under >2,500 bonds for grand jury action. Not being able to give bond, due to the feeling against him, he was committed to jail. All of the parties are very highly connected. Great uneasiness is felt along the lower Mississippi owing to the unfinished and unsafe condition of the levees, and heavy snows North with prospects of a thaw. A - repetition of the horrors of last spring’* overflow is greatly feared. Many thousands of dollars have been expended in the last year on levee work, and it is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible by the contractors, who hope to complete the work before the spring rise, as that would prove destructive to the entire system if caught in an uncompleted condition. The steamer Britannia, from Leith, came into collision with the steamer Bear, from Grangemouth, in the Frith of Forth, Scotland, at an early hour on the morning of the 11th. The Bear sank immediately her crew having no time to launch a boat or make any effort whatever to save themselves . Of the fourteen men on board the Bear twelve went down with the vessel The two othere 'were TesOTed by abdij from the Britannia.