Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Ohicaoo has started a mining ex•fcange. In the opening oeremonic* •ne gentleman told of a man who had put $17.60 into a mine and drew out •f it the fabulous sum of $3,000,000. Bare in St Louis this experience oould hardly be matched, but it would be easy to find mines into which $3,000,000 had been put, and out of which the fabulous sum of pfy an had h—n The rule has frwm large input and small output. — fit Louis Globe Democrat Anothsb banker, it is found, went wrong, and had been going wrong for years. He was a New Yorker. snit his bank was a national institu tkm, all of which are supposed to be under supervision which would render long-oontinued and systematic fraud impossible. The discovery, however, was not made until his Wi. which took place recently. Apparently the thefts could hare been carried on for years yet without detection if he had lived. It is the rid story. In a dangerously large number of instances bank directors do not direct and bank examiners do wot examine. Ocb white citizens in the neighborhood of disaffected Indians are accustomed to having guns turned against them, which very likely they themselves sold to the Indians while peace was smiling. The English are having a little of this experience •themselves. In 1887 some cannon were presented with much pomp to the Rajah of Manipur. He accepted the handsome present with a pledge that if ever the guns were taken into action it should be agaiast the ene mies of Manipur and the Queen of England. In the recent uprising, however, these very cannon were used to shell the British residency. It was these guns that made the premises untenable, compelled the surrender of the garrison, and later oatne the terrible massacre in which the British prisoners were slaughtered. It is now asserted that had it not been for Queen Victoria’s handsome present the residency would not have been captured, nor Its tenants exposed to the savage fury of the Manipur soldiery.

It appears that there is art in the shad business outside of the catching of them. And the art which comes after the catching, as practited by huckster James Conley, of Philadelphia, is the real high art of the whole business. Mr. Conley found that his customers had a lean mg for fresh shad as against the stale variety, and to impart are oently caught and fresh appearance jto his goods he applied a few skillful touches of red paint to their fading mils and the thing was accomplished. The careful and discriminating housewife who buys fish would look at the jwautiful gills, blushing like the morning, and with a consciousness of superior wisdom would buy with much alacrity. The redder the gills the more ladies were pleased, regard less of an}' ancient and fisbiike smell that "might be lingering aiound at the time In his anxiety to please his fair customers the artistic huckster daubed on the red paint too plentifully, and sickness broke out in the neighborhood. This led to an investigation and the huckster's great tftldat was disclosed. It is feared that the Board of Health is going to make trouble for Conley. ' The delays authorized by our penal laws are one prime cause of lynching. When a crime has been committed common sense requires that the accused person should be speedily tried. If innocent, he should not be detained; if guilty, he should be punished as promptly as possible. There is no good reason of keeping him in jail a statutory period before Investigating his case, jjor when an appeal is taken is there any good reason for a suspension of proceedings on that appeal for another statutory period. When the right to an office is to be determined the law moves promptly enough, because if delays were allowed the term would run out before the question was decided; and so when irreparable injury to property is threatened the law’s speed is always commensurate with the emergency. In these cases there is no waiting for some set statu tor} day to arrive. The matter is heard «nd determined with the least possible delay, and the same celerity should obtain in capital cases, The law’s delay is the lyncher's stock ex

Thera are only three miles of toll road In Hancock county. James Cowden/of Ellettsvjtla, had a leg broken while scuffling with a friend. * A child of Prank Weber, of Eort Wayne, upset a kettle of boiling water and was scalded to death. Charles King and other lads, while reaming in the woods near Mitchell, ate of wild parsnips, and King died. A Cincinnati leased one thousand acres ofland near New Liberty* in Washington county .containing valuable kaolin deposits, and will erect potteries. Frank Oldham, near Pendleton, while plowing, claims to have been attacked by two biacksnakes, each twelve feet length, which chased himself and horses all over the field. • Frank Mason, near Linden, received a very flattering offer to invest in “green goods” toy parties In New York, but instead of biting he turned the proposition over to the federal authorities. Joseph Micner, of Milford, and Perry Wagner, of Wakarusa, met at Nappanee and effected a trade by which Micner came into possession of a mustang pony. En route home the pony kicked him to deaths

William Beamer, residing near Honey Creek, in Henry county, wanted to many Miss Lizzie Ritter, of Anderson, but the young lady had other views. This so preyed upon Beamer that he took to his bed and Is dying of & breften heart. Frank Harris, a convict In the prison south, Is unaccountably missing. It is believed he is concealed in the yards, and is tunneling his wayoutside the prison walls. Several years ago a convict named Smith laid out for nine days before he was discovered, and eignteen months ago Clay Davidson concealed himself in. the yards for two days before he was discovered. High school commencement exercises were held in the opera house at ville Tuesday night, and shortly after 12 o’clock Wednesday morning fire broke out in the building, consuming the opera house, the barn and dwelling of Robert Martin on the north, the dwelling and barn of A. R. Baker on the south, and d a maging other property. The loss on the opera house is $9,000, with $4,000 insurance. Martin and Baker each report SI,OOO loss, with partial insurance. Otis Courtney, George W. Wilson and Elisha Abney, three Midland railroad strikers, one evening spiked a switch at Lapel, near Anderson, with a train on it. Later they were placed under arrest and brought into the Circuit Court on a charge es interfering with the running of trains on that road. They gave bond for trial on June 2. While the men were in court executions against the road to the amount of nearly SI,OOO was placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Parsons, and he levied upon the locomotive that was on the spiked switch, and now he has it chained to the track.

Soon after the Legislature adjourned Attorney General Smith was called upon to Interpret the mechanic’s lien law. He held that the repealing act of 1891 did not repeal Seetlon 5 of-the aet of 1883 requiring notice to owners. Attorneys who had given the new law some attention dlsa greed with the Attorney General, and hearing of their differences of opinion, Mr. Smith took a second peep at the new act. The second thought was different from the first, and he now announces thßt his first opinion was written under a misapprehension of the new law and is wrong. He holds now that Section 5 of the act of 1883 is repealed, and that men who have furnished material may have a lien without giving notice, except the usual notice filed with the county Recorder. Mr. S. L. Smith, the editor of the Silver Lake Signal, at Silver Lake, is the father of a child who is creating a great deal of excitement in his neighborhood by his wonderful and astonishing powers of what the father is Inclined to think is mesmerism. The boy is almost seven years of age, and is capable even now of performing any of the feats of the famous Davenport broth-ers—rope-tying, chained box trick, tablerapping, reading sealed letters, slatewriting,moving tables with heavyweights on them, etc. The little fellow may be bound hand, foot and neck to a chair, and in five seconds will liberate himself without untying a single knot, no matter how securely he is bound. These, and many other mysterious feats which he performs havegiven him the title of “Spirit Child.’, His powers are all natural, having been in no way developed. On Monday evening the five-year-old son of James Miller, residing near Round Hill; north of Crawfordsville, met a horrible death by hanging himself in the door of a granary. The little fellow went to the barn to hunt for eggs. He got up on a hal;-bushel measure and stuck his head through the opening of the sliding door to the grauary. The door was made to slide up and down, and it fell down after the child had put his head through, holding him fist. The boy struggled hard to free himself, and in his efforts knocked the mcasare from tmder lris feet. This left him hanging by the neck, and soon life was extinct. After his mother had missod him for two hours, she found him in his awful position, cold in death. In hisefforts to release himself the boy had knocked all the skin from his knees and otherwise bruised himself.

Henry Crawford, Superintendent of the Midland Railroad Company, had a narrow escape from a mob at Ladoga Tuesday afternoon. When he arrived at Ladoga he went before Esquire Talbot and swore ou warrants for the arrest of two men on the charge of malicious trespass. The men were arrested by the marshal and the Irial commenced at once. During its progress, however, Crawford ascertained that a crowd was assembling with the determination to run -him out of town. When he learned this he arose and quickly left the office, going to the Mon<>n station, where the south-bound passenger was just starting. He boarded the train and escaped the angry men at his heels. Upon his sudden disappearance the cases against the men were quickly dismissed and the crowd returned to gnard the coaches, of which they have had posMtslon tat time days.

Tfee mail-car wm not detained when th« Midland train came along, at 4 o’clock, aad Uncle Sam seems to be the only officia that has the right of way of the road. The Strike on this road is for payment oi due. The strikers have become desperate over the attempts of the company to continue without them and without making payment The Indiana World’s Fair Commission met at Indianapolis on the 15th and organized by electing Clem Studebaker chairman and W. F. Noble secretary. Tke following committees were appointed: Executive—Clement Studebaker, .Governor Hovey, Charles B. Stuart, E. B, Martindale, John L. Campbell, Edward Hawkins, Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, Mrs. Florence Worley and Thomas E. Garvin. Agricultural—J., B. Conner, Robert Mitchell, John Lee, John Worrell and D J. Mendenhall. Livestock—Sidney Conger, W. A. Ranks, Cortez Ewing, R. E. Purcell and C. M. Travis. Manufactures—J. M. Westcott, W. E. McLean, J. B. White, Mrs. E. P. Hammond and Miss Mary H. Krout. ; State Building—T. E. Garvin, Thomas Hart, B. B. Louthain, Miss Sue Ball and Miss WUhfclmine Reitz. Education—Joseph Wilson, Jasper Packard, David 11. Davis, S. S. Gorby and T. J, Hayden. ~~ r"~::r Women’s Work—Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, Miss Wllhelmine Reitz, Miss Mary H. Krout, Miss Sue Ball, Mrs. S. S. Howell, MrsLaura D. Worley and Mrs. E. P. Hammond. Gov. Hovey was first elected President and accepted. After the election 6l the other officers he declared that some of the officers elected were unsatisfactory to him, and he therefore resigned the position of President. Thereupon Mr. Studebaker was elected by acclamation.