Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fire bugs are at work at Martinsville. Jeffersonville’s jail has sixteen prisoners. Pike county wheat and fruit prospects are excellent. Cholera is ravaging Jackson township, Hamilton county. I Blight in wheat is reported from Bartholomew county. Clark county has 11,193 school children, against 13,132 last year. Excellent quality of limestone has been found near Petersburg. Ten thousand gallons of strawberries are shipped daily from New Albany. Mary Watkins and daughter, of Paolt, have been notified by white caps to getreligion. George Blessing, of Bartholomew county. clipped 160 pounds of wool from twelve sheep.

A Democrat will succeed to the superintendency of the Fayette county schools for the first time. Elwood is in the swim for a number of valuable factories, foremost among which is one for building and silvering plateglasss mirrors. Hundreds of chicken 9 are reported to have been killed by the recent hail-storm in Delaware county. . . A sneak-thief plundered the cash-draw-erof Bash & Co., at Ft. Wayne, during the noon- hour, securing S4OO in cash and notes. Walter Gould, aged sixteen, of Peru, convicted of criminally assaultiug Leona Thayer, his cousin, has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment. There is a broad spreading elm at Corydon, under the branches of which it is claimed a session of the Indiana territorial legislature was ondf held. , Michael McCarty, of Crawfordsville,was fined 520 and costs for giving beer to a boy. The lad, while intoxicated, fell from a train and was badly injured. John Davidson shot George Becker through the brain at Terre Haute on the 27th, with a pistol that he “didn’t know was loaded.” Both were boys aged sixteen. While Martin Spillman and wife were driving across the railroad track near Greensburg on the 27th, they were struck by the east-bound train on the Big Four road and both were fatally injured. J. H. Boehm, one of the jurors in the Elliott murder case, at Columbus, was fined $25 and discharged fr im the jury for writing on a box in the jury room the words: •‘Hang, Bill Elliott, until you are dead, dead, dead!” During the prevalence of a thunder storm at Wabash, lightning struck the residence of Rev. L. L. Carpenter, tearing off the plastering and knocking over furniture. A ball of fire fell to the floor and exploded with a tremendous report. Two children were injured. Two men entered the American express office at Carroll, la., on the night of the lath, bound and gagged an employe named Matthews, robbed the money-box of 53,000 and then escaped. The only description which Matthews is able to give is that one of the men is tall and the other short. James Jarrett, one of the most prominent farmers of northeast Georgia, was poisoned by his pretty sixteen-year-old laughter because he whipped herforSteal‘ng away to a neighboring meadow and 'oing to walk with Robert Mcßea, a suitor, whom her father opposed. The next lay the girl put rat poison in her father’s soup-plate. Near Terhune, unknown parties tied two heavy fence posts in the form of a tripod and placed them on the Monon crack. The obstruction was seen by a passenger train engineer, but he was powerless to stop until after the pilot and headlight of his engine had been carried iway. Trains are frequently stoned in that vicinity. The Anderson butter-dish factory was lestroyed by fire Monday. Three bunired girls ancLone hundred men are out of employment in consequence. The loss will reach $30,000. The fire originated in the lecSfid story, and a number of the women employed on that floor had narrow escapes. It la said tfaafr a cargo of one hundred thousand pounds of opium, brought from China on the yacht Halcyon, has been smuggled into this country. The opium was transferred from the yacht to a small steamer, which in turn loaded the drug on a lumber schooner in Puget Sound. The iuty on opium is sl2 a pound. Two months ago night operator Hubert xt Anoka, received a white cap warning to lecamp, and the following night a bottle was hurled through hjs window, narrowly missing his head. He called the detective of the road to his assistance, and last week James Bolen was arrested. He confessed that he was one of the white caps figuring in the case. The Kokomo authorities have concluded to press the cases against the American Straw Board Company because of the acids drained into Wildcat creek. Farmers complain that the hair Is eaten off the fetlocks of cattle which stand in the water and that they will not drink from the creek; further, that the fish are poisoned for miles below. It is said here that ex-Congressman Owen, with ex-Treasurer Huston, of Indiana, is about to embark in the business of fruit-raising in Central America. He and Mr. Huston have secured some large land concessions in Colombia, and intend raising bananas and other tropical fruits there. This business, however, will not take either of them away from home, but will be conducted through resident agents and overseers. Patents were to-day issued for Hoosler Inventors as follows: A. Annes and W. M. Ring, Liberty, thill coupling; A. J. Bobbs, Marion, suspenders; E. Boud, Anderson, house-door letter-box; E. Bretney, Indianapolis, water purifier; W. F. Cornelius, Indianapolis, seat for bicycles; N. Harris, hub uox attachment; W. H. Johnson and T. Kruse, Indianapolis, urinal; A. Mendenhall, Unionport, tricycle; S. P. Stoddard, Brookville, picture frame; A. L. Teetor, Brookville, bicycle; C. F. Webster, Shelby vllle, counting machine, i Fifteen hundred miners in the Terre Haute bituminous field were granted their

-. I ■ demand for last year’s scale on Monday and will go to work. This is TO cents a tor $2:10 for day labor. At the recent conference of State operators and miners the former dfured 67J£ cents and $1.95, anc the conference ended in a disagreement. Since then ■some of the operators in the southefn part of the State agreed to lasi year’s scale and were getting the yearly contracts. This forced the other operators to yield rather than lose their customers.

INDIANA MASONS. The Grand Lodge of Masons met at Indianapolis un the 26th and 27th. The report of the grand officers were made, showing great prosperity of the order in this State. The following officers were elected: Grand Master—N. R. Ruckle, Indianapolis. Deputy Grand Master—Sidney W. Douglas, Evansville. Senior -Grand Warden—Daniel Noyes. LaPorte. Junior Grand Warden—Frank E. Gavin Greensburg. Grand Treasurer—Martin H. Rice, Indianapolis.

Grand Secretary—W. H. Smythe, Indianapolis. Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, near Kokomo,wa burned to death at an early hour on the - morning of the 24th, by falling into a fireplace in her house. Sliewas seventy year old. Her son, about thirty-five years old was the only other inmate of the house and he was in bed asleep at the time. A neighbor boy called at the house about 6 o'clock and made the discovery of the old lady’s horrible death. They were very poor, and lived' in a dilapidated old log cabin. It is supposed she was building the morning fire, and being old and weak, fell and was unable to save herself. For 102 consecutive nights, up to and including last Sunday night, a man named Spicer has been carrying on a protracted meeting at Mt. Olive Church, in the northern part of Brown county. He has had a full house at each meeting, and has at times excited some of his hearers very much, and some very foolish actions have occurred while his hearers are under “the power.” While in prayer he prostrates himself upon the floor, and has of late divided his sermons between the opposite sexes, first preaching to the males and then to the .females;; Some have grown tired of his manifestations, and talk is loud of the members closing, the church, against him. Many of the young people go for fun, but. there are some thatara hypnotized by him. In his meetings with the male part of the congregation his conduct was such as to arouse a feeling against him to such an extent that some of tho husbands and fathers forbade their wives and daughters from attending the meetngs.