Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Cass county has fifty miles of toll roads. Portland has decided to have waterworks. Brown county is again hopeful of its gold field. A street rail way company has been organized at Seymour. The State law abolishing natural gas flambeaux has left Marion in darkness. Gov. Hovey has decided to appoint4»Y» eral women as World Fair Commissioners Rev. Hayden Rayburn, aged seventynine-, of Kokomo, has married 994 cquplesThe Martinsville revivals have closed with 666 additions to the churches of that ci*y. 5 Sixteen uew Rebekah lodges L, O. O. F have been instituted in this State since Nov. 22d. The two-year old daughter of John Stuppy of Cardonis fell in a well and was drowned. A great religious revival has closed at Orleans, in which 109 persons united with the Methodist Church. New lodges I. O. O. F. have been instituted at Spades, Ripley county, and Ship s sliewana, Lagratge county. 1 ig The seven year old daughter of August Treszkef, of South Bend, burned.tq death while the parents were absent. The Appellgate Court has been organized with James H. Black as Chief Justice. H will occupy rooms in the State House. Reports of an excellent prospect for a good prop come from the peach growing regions in the southern part of the State Captain John W. McQuiddy, one of the best known Odd Fellows in the United States, and Grand Instructor of| Indiana died at Indianapolis on the 16th. Alexander Green was sentenced at Connersville to one year in the penitentiary for telling the combination of a safe and receiving a share of the stolen money. A*. W.. Smith, president of the State Board of Agriculture of Kansas, is engaged in preparing a call for an agricultural convention to take necessary steps for making a display at the World’s Fair. Muuciwciatms ihe most youthful taxpayer in thoStata In the person of masterFred Heath Bowman, agod 5 years, whe is the owner of city lots and looks after th payment of taxes in person. George Osborne, of Fairland, has taken the contract for building the orphans’ home at Shelby ville at SB,OOO, and Capt. E. W. Winans has been appointed superintendent of construction. Work Will begin at once. Perry county is the banner county of State, so far as crimes and misdemeanor are concerned. There is not a single pris oner confined in the county jail, aud, come to think of it, neither is there a jail in which to confine one.

J. C. Amstutz, a wealthy farmer of Allen county, paid S3OO for ac. o. d. package said to contain six gold watches, to a Fort Wayne agent. The package contained nothing but waste paper and a bottle of patent medicine, Samuel Peters, of Roann, conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio road, is lying dangerously ill of trichinae. He attributes his disease to eating half-cooked pork at railway lunch counters- His limbs are terribly swollen, and he suffers acutely. - Clark county has a musical prodigy in the form of Wm. Nqfery. He perfectly imitates the playing of a distant brass band, French horn or harp or other musical instruments, without mechanical assistance; sounds being like those transmit 8 ted through a phonograph. Patents were granted on the 17th to the followingHoosler inventors: G. J. Cline Goshen, sickle grinder; H. M. Crider Knightstown, cue tip fastener; W. Crighton, Fort Wayne, center seat and by-pass valve; F. L. Jones, Columbia City, nut lock; N. Rice, Newmarket, fence; C, Shifferly, Fort Wayne, bake-pan; C. H. 1 Van Epps, Scott, fence-wrench; M. Vanover, Terre Haute, sliding gate.

Francis Murphy’s recent great work at "NewUSSWeTs Dearing TruJL The saloon men make no secret that their business i practically ruined, and one of them closed out entirely. On Saturday the proprietors of the New Bundy House followed suit, in so far as the bar was concerned, Surrendering the license and placarding that hereafter no more liquors would be sold in the hotel. On Tuesday morning when a Vandala freight train reached Crawfordsville th engineer discovered that the fireman, Joh Elliott, Of Terre Haute, was missing. Th engineer returned and found the fireman lying in the gutter about a mile from town, Elliott, while shaking down the oinders. was thrown from the engine and so badly Injured that it is hardly possible that he will recover. It was bis first trip as a fire, man. Governor Hovey on the 18th announced the World’s Fair Commissioner appoint* ments. The appointees are as follows: State at Large—-John L. Campbell,Craw fordsville; Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Indianapolis. First District—Robert Mitchell, Princeton ; Philip Frey, Evansville. Second —Joseph L. Wilson,Washington; Royal E, Purcell, Vincennes.

Third—Jasper Packard, New Albany: Mrs. S. S. Harrell, Brookville. Fourth—Sidney Conger, Shelbyville; Cortez Ewing, Jr„ Greensbnrg. Fifth—John Wotrell, Clayton; Mra. FE. Worley, Ellettsville. . Sixth—J. M. Weacott, Richmond; Thos Hant, Muacie. Seventh John B. Conner, Indianapolis; Edward Hawkins, Indianapolis. Eighth—Daniel H. Davis, Brazil; Join Lee, Crawfordjville: Nirth—D. J. Mendenhall, Westfield! Charles B Stuart, Lafayette. Tenth—Mrs. E. P. Hammond, RensseN aer; W. N. Hailmaa, Laporte. Eleventh— Ctem Studebaker, South Bend;"B. F. Louthain, Logan sport. Twelfth —James B. White, Ft. Wayne? Fred J. Hayden, Ft. Wayne. Secretary Metcalf, of the State Board of Health, is of the opinion that the Legislature failed to make any change in the law regulating the practice of medicine, although it attempted to do so.- One section of the new law was amended so as t 0 provide that a physician who takes out license in one county is entitled to practice in any county in the State, but there was a failure to amend another section in

the bill relating to the same requirement, and Dr. Metcalf does nob believe the amendment sought was gained, “U ~ Men who were drilling a well at the Atlas works at Indianapolis on the 16th, struck natural gas at a depth of about nine hundred feet. The flow from a one-inch pipe gives a blaze several feet high. The well, however, is not a gusher. It was put down for water and a good supply of fine soft water was discovered. By means of a small pipe for gas, inside a large pipe for water, the company will probably utilize both products of the well. About twentyfive gallons of oil were pumped out ol the hole.

Valpraiso will build a memorial hall. Dunkirk has an epidemic of the grip. LaPorte has organized a driving dub. Mrs. Jacob Blake, of Anderson,was found dead in bed. —.- - Foot-pads are robbing street car drivers at Anderson. .... Over three hundred people in Edinburg have the grip. -—----= New Albany claims one of the be9tpublic libraries in Indiana. Five hundred cases of la grippe are reportedatAndersotk T] An 150 barrel oil well was developed on the 21st near Montpelier. Barn-burners are operating in Steele township, Daviess county. Herbert Bruce, of Columbus, is thirteen old, but weighs 216 pounds. George E. Toner, of Edihburg, has a hen that has laid an egg which measures 6Ky9>j inches. ___ Parke county has engaged in a movement looking to the location of manufactories in that county. Randolph county has the only ex-Con„ gressman, .in the person of Gen. Tom Browne, who voluntarily-returned to private life. It is estimated that 25,000 car loads of stone will be shipped from the quarries of Lawrence and Monroe counties during the year 1891. While boring for oil in what is known as Guarantee well No. 6, at Terra Haute, a vein of valuable coal was struckat adepth of 175 feet. The charges of forgery brought against Hon. A. N. Grant, of Kokomo, have been completely disproven in court, and Mr. Grant completely vindicated. Complaint is made that $200,000 of the public funds of Jeffersonvillo were expended between the year 1870 and 18§3, and there is no record of the disbursement. The “regulars” and “liberals” of the United Brethren church at Daleville are still contending for supremacy. The liberals have invoked the aid of the courts. Howard Dayton Stinson, employed in the Church Aill coal mine, near Centre Point, was instantly killed by a premature blast. He was aged thirty-five and leaves a family.

Charles W. Pool bought a ticket atShelby ville, which the railway agent neglected to stamp, and the conductor ejected Pool from the train. Pool is now suing for SIO,OOO damages. The editor of the Mexico ner&ld is being boycotted because he wrote up a strike inaugurated by a pretty church organist, who had been reprimanded by the preacher for flirting. Clalrk Albertson.and Anna Crone, living near Martinsville, were married last week. The bride is thirty-eight years old and weighs 250 pounds; the groom is nineteen and weighs 110 pounds. John A. Long, residing near Linden, accused of wheat stealing and other offenses, stood trial at Crawfordsville, and he has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. His two sons arc similarly accused. The war upon self-binders continues in Daviess county, and the vandals, in trying to wipe out these 'labor saving machines have burned twenty-three barns within the past eighteen months, and eightyseven horses have been cremated, besides other live stock. Property valued in excess of $50,000 has been destroyed, and the Washington Gazette says with reference thereto.; “The record is without a parallel in the history of Indiana, and perhaps there is not a county in the United States where the spirit of organized incendiarism is so manifested as in Daviess county. No farmer goes to bed at night with the least assurance that his barn arid farm machinery will escape the flames. He is so fearful of results that his stock is often barred out of the bams lest they be im_ prisoned in a roaring, crackling furnace before the sun ushers in another day.’> The Gazette suggests that a subscription be taken up, and that a regularly organized corps of detectives be employed toruh down the perpetrators of this villainy.