Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Delphi wants waterworks. Gas has been struck at Dana. Frankfort heeds a sewer system. Richmond wants a new opera house. The cow question agitates Nashville. Laporte will erect a new court house. Goshen is agitating the park question. These are buSTf days on Hoosier farms. Washington wants drinking fountains. Jeffersonville people enjoy frog-catch-ing. Maple tree lice have appeared at South Bend. Eight counties in Indiana have no negro voters. At Washington there is a three-eyed turkey, x • A gang of boy burglars were corralled at Newton. Shelby county has nearly 9,000 school children. Dogs have been killing sheep around Flatrock. Columbus Odd Fellows will erect a three story building. The Ohio river peaches will be ripe in about two weeks. There will be aQO floats in the 4th parade at Michigan City* Wheat harvesting in Harrison county began on the 15th. __ Brick manufacture is an important industry at Seymour. • The State Legion encampment begins at Fort Wayne July 36. A Cambridge man will have 1,000 bushels of cherries to 3ell. An Angola cat h%s just died at the age of twenty-one years. A fine peach crop is reported to be a certainty in Southern Indiana. A popular dog of Warsaw enjoyed a funeral attended.by fifty people. William Cushing of Kendal ville has 110,000 celery plants under cultivation. Three Clay county men were divorced in one day and immediately married. A cavern miles in extent has been discovered in Morgan county, Kentucky. The center of the snake belt this season is in the neighborhood of Crawfordsville. Three thousand men signed the pledge at Lebanon, and are now “Murphy men.’ A deposit of granite has been discovered on J. M. Garlock’s farm near Brownstown. Frank Slavin, of Australia, knocked out Jake Kilrain in nine rounds at Now York on the 16th. Albert Louis, a Chicago traveling man, about 62 years old, died on the train near Logansport. The farmers of Washington township, Clinton county, will have a parade of farm wagons on July 4. Col. John Lee, the oldest native inhabitant of Montgomery county, died at Craw-, fordsville on the 18th. The coroner at New Albany holds Stokes Brown accountable for causing the death of his son by beating him. The Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows at Connersville decorated the graves of dead comrades Sunday. Twenty head of valuable imported cattle were killed in a Wreck on the Chicago & Erie road, near Disko, Wabash county. Amos Stephenson beat his horse to death with a club because it couldn’t pull a load up a hill near Crawfordsville. Officers are after him. Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Russell Harrison, who are now in Europe, are to receive high honors in France next week, and afterward in Germany. While lingering near the banks of the Muscattaluck river, Henry Turmail, of Brownstown, was suddenly stricken with paralysis, fell into the river and was drowned. Some time ago a playmate struck a daughter of John Athert, of New Albany, across the eyes with a switch. She has become blind, the result of paralysis of the optic nerve. “ - William Irvine, a chicken thief, was shot by Grant Hendricks at 2 o’clock Monday morning, while robbing a hen-roost. He will loose an eye, and possibly his life. At least a dozen shot struck him in the face. He is in jail and in a precarious condition. Two brothers, Glen n'andW i 1 Ham Ives, "Sged nine and thirteen, were drowned on the 15th while bathing in the Mississinewa at Marion. A dozen boys were with the bathers, but none were strong enough to rescue the unfortunates. The elder of the two victims lost his life trying to save his brother.

Night policeman Morris and his dog surprised two burglars who were breaking into the Providence Jewelry Company’s store at Peru, Monday morning. The deg had better luck than the officer, holding on to Joseph Wcidener, who will have an opportunity to explain the unseasonable ness of his shopping expedition. As a man was driving across a field near Crawfordsville, last Saturday, a blacksnake over five feet in length suddenly coiled around one of the horse’s legs. The animal ran over a mile before it could be stopped, when the man got out and killed the snake, which was still hanging on and showing a disposition to fight. The mothers of Greencastle who are enlisted in the crusade against social impurity have issued an appeal to parents with a view to securing their co-operation in the movement. The appeal is in the form of a leaflet for public distribution. It calls attention to the snares which beset the feet of the young, and appeals to all mothers and fathers to unite for their suppression. Last summer, while James Stiiebel was engaged in stacking oats near Brownstown, a bright bolt of lightning shivered a tree less than five hundred yards away. Striebel cursed the elements and was himself stricken Instantly. The friends of the deceased erected a nine-foot monument to his memory, and Monday evening light, ning struck the monument and shivered it to the ground. Last week, at Muncie, William Barnhouse, aged eighty-one, was granted a divorce from his aged wife on a plea charging her with abandonment. Sunday the oldman was married to Mias Mary E. Dille, a blushing country lassie aged about twenty-five. The peculiarity of the affair Is thatßarnhouse never saw his young bride, he being blind, and draws SIOO per month pension money. E. T. Jordon, of Portland, Natural-gas

Inspector Of Indiana, who is better posted than any man in Indiana as to the natural gas fields, has just returned from Findlay > 0., and reports a heavy loss of both pressure and volume of gas in all wells there. Several factories have been burned and none of them will rebuild. He predicts that in two years there will be no gas in Findlay for manufacturing, and, also, speaks discouraging of the prospect in the Indiana field. ■■ ■ Score another victory for the Farmers’ Alliance. The largest strawberries grown in St. Joseph county this season, and exhibited in the South Bend markets, are from the Peffer farm in Penn township. Miss Abbie Peffer has named them “Senator Peffer,” in honor of her uncle, who was elected to the United Stages Senate to succeed Senator Ingalls. The “Senator Peffers” are rarifluent, palatable, ponderous and prolific.--South Bend Tribune. The assessment of Wabash county under the new jaw shows that there are in' the county 739 taxpayers who will pay taxes on property assessed at 96,000 or over. The grand total of property assessed, not including railroad stock and bank stock, is 915,411,526, against 910,572,325 for 1690. This is an increase in yalua tion of 94,639,201. The vast majority of this wealth is assessed against farmers thus showing that the agricultural property is far more valuable than the dty and town property in the county. The assessor’s books also shows that 4,640 polls have been listed, and taxes are to be paid on 1,296 dogs. Monday afternoon Stokes Brown, colored, claiming to be blind, living on the Michigan road near Marion, undertook, in a fit of anger, to punish his little eight-year-old stepson for some trivial offense. It is charged that he beat and choked and stamped on the child in suen a manner that it died in a half hour after its inhuman father had ceased his work. The mother of the boy reported the matter to some of the neighbors, who were shocked •by the occurrence, and at once sent for Sheriff Hoagland, who arrested the brute and placed him in jail. Brown claims that the child was subject to epileptic fits, and that the punishment did not cause his, death. A coroner’s inquest, however demonstrated that death was due to the fearful beating received at the hands of the father. Public indignation is great against him. Morelan 8. Seller, who lives ersville, had a terrible fight with lSF:son on the 18th. The women about the house went away after dinner, leaving Seller and his son at home sitting in the room talking. A large dog belonging to the old gentleman was also in the room, and after awhile the two men became angry over some business matters they had under discussion, Finally Seller, Sr., called his son a vile name, whereupon the son rushed at his father, and gathering him around the head with one arm, he commenced to pound him in the face. The father was getting the worst of it, when his large dog, hearing the noise, rushed into the house and attacked the son. The dog flew at his arm and tore the flesh from the bones in a fearful manner. The old man then escaped from his son, and rushing into a room returned with a revolver. He was raving mad, and, pointing the revolver at his son, fired. The ball bored a hole through the boy’s ear, and the latter, seeing that his father was about to shoot again, closed in on him and wrenched the pistol away. This act brought the dog into the fight again. With a bound he fastened his teeth in the boy’s hip, tearing the flesh away in large pieces. Young Sellers at this point shot the dog. The death of the dog ended the fight, as the son was about exhausted. A doctor was summoned and pronounced the wounds very serious. The arm and hip are literally torn to pieces. He is not expected to recover. The father may be arrested.