Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Seymour has a street railway. Pera will have free mall delivery. Muncie has organized a trades union. Buchanan reports a good* blackberry ci op. Evansville is suffering from an epidemic oftai -e - . - r "The Anderson flint bottle works vfill be enlarged- _ ‘ . Anderson is negotiating for a gatlinggun factory. ‘ Muncie glass factories have closed for the summer. Hamilton county reports an enormous yield of wheat. Steel ship-building is now an industry of Jeffersonville. The army worm has made its appearance in Howard county. A violent storm greatly damaged wheat and corn in Putnam county. Bainbridge has organized a militarycompany, headed by George F. Scott. Muncie ordered a car load of fire works for its municipal celebration of the Fourth. A yellow catfish weighing fifty pounds was caught at Martinsville on a trot line. Thirty-six coaches car-tied 2,4oopicnickers from Fort Wayne to Warsaw SaturdayMichigan City claims to be the most prosperous community in northern Indiana, ' * Robert McCutcheon, of New Albany, fell from a cherry tree and was paralyzed by spinal injuries. ;; A district meeting of Odd Fellows will be held at Lafayette July 10, and at Logansport July 23. Thomas Worrell, of Clark county, Inas a shepherd dog that knows the name of every horse and cow on the farm. The bones of a man six feet in height, representing an unknown race, were found in a mound near English last week. John Torbett, of Patoka township. Orange county, has been whipped by white caps for mistreatment and non-support of family. A copper box filled with continental! scrip was unearthed at Leavenworth a few days ago. The box was inscribed “H, 8., 1822,” J — ; W’llliam Maguire and his step-daughter, living in the of Leavenworth, were whipped by white caps for alleged cohabitation. \ The Ohio Falls iron works shut down for repairs Saturday. In the meantime the wage scale formulated at Pittsburg will be submitted to the Western iron masters. -> There are sixty thousand acres of wheat being cut in Montgomery county, which, on an average of twenty-five bushels to to the acre, will bring the yield up to 1 J. 03,000 bushels. A number of gas regulators in Howard county have been recently struck by lightning, and local meteorologists are trying to figure out the affinity between electricity and natural gas. Miss Grace Forney, of Wabash, who was persuaded to elope with Prof. Walter Koenig, and was made the victim of a pretended marriage, was recovered by her friends, at.Russiaville. *—““ 1 Three time deer make their home in the court house and grounds at Scottsburg They are so tame, that they wander all over the building, and are often found sleeping on the stairways. The main building of the Creamery Package Manufacturing Co., at Portland, Ind., was destroyed by fire on the 28th. Loss, 510,000. This is the largest creamery package company in the world. Thomas Kelly, a farmer near Pilot Knob, owns a ewe but four years old which is the mother of twelve lambs, having dropped four lambs each spring since 1889. The ewe is of the Cottswold Southdown breed. Annual Shroud, of Crawford county, caged three large copperhead snaks and undertook to show his prowess as a snake charmer. While exhibiting the reptiles one of them sank its fangs into his hand and hung on until it dropped off dead. "SMTOud 1 was'tmhai'iued.' William Nash, Edward Bowles, Thomas Groves and Thomas Palin, young boys, near Birdseye, found an old coat in the roadway, and w hile pounding one another ‘with it, the old garment fell to pieces. Several bills dropped out, and altogether c 1,711 dollars was fotind in the several pockets. The 500,000 stock to secure a natural-gas pipe line to Crawfordsville has been secured, and the company furnishing the balance of the necessary funds will commence work at once. The line will start from the Sheridan gas fieldsand will be thirty-five miles in length, Three more bags of brass stolen from the repair shops and freight cars of the Vandalia and Monon lines were Recovered at Greencastle. Two of the thieves, Davidson and Kelly, arraigned for trial, entered a plea of guilty and waived examination. Morristown bitterly complains of the character of the picnickers infesting Blue River Park every Sunday, charging that they are “the worst trash of Indianapolis and Cincinnati.” It is also charged that beer is shipped there by the carload and that the day is spent in drunken carousal. Twenty-eight thousand copies of the Detroit Commercial Advertiser and Home Journal, issued June 26, were held in the postoffice at that place as unmailable under the lottery law. Tho president, vicepresident, secretary and treasurer of the company were arrested and fined 5500 and costs. Z v In the suit brought by the First National Bank, of Evansville, against Charles IL Ritter, the defaulting paying teller,and his bondsman, judgment has been entered for 570.000. of which 554,752.55 is against the bondsmen. The ■‘defense entered a general denial, claiming Ritter had simply borrowed 550.000, The busy, brick-making village of Little Ferry, has a sensation. Charles Miller, the village barber, fell off into a doze in his shop Monday. Charles Blazel, who wanted a shave, awoke the sleeping bar* ber. u He was startled by Miller exclaiming: **My God. I can't see. I am blind!’* And the man was totally blind. James Myers, aged fifteen years, adoptoi sen ofTames Larimore, near Anderson, was attacked by a bulldog and horribly

bitten. The lad would have been killed but a shepherd do* went'to his assistance and, seizing the bulldog by the throat, Anally compelled him to release the boy. Myers was bitten fourteen times in one arm, and the other was alsojbadly torn. Isaac Montgomery, aged twenty-two, died at New Amsterdam, Harrison county, Tuesday morning. His death was the result of a fiendish prank played on him a few nights ago. Some of his companions nailed him in a box and told him they were going to throw him in the river. When he was released it was found that he was badly hurt by having a nail driven in one of his .shoulders. Next morning- he had lost his reason, and before he died became a raving maniac. The wheat crop in Knox, Daviess and Gibson has been put in shock, and a trip across the land is a cheering sight, for the crop is unparalleled. The farmers are rejoicingin the bounteous harvest Such a yield was never before known in that part of the country. Good judges place the yield of Knox county at about a million and a half of bushels, and in each of the other two counties named the yield will not fall behind that of Knox. Already the threshing has begun, and shipments of new wheat East are being made. Delaware county claims the honor of having among its citizens the oldest born Hoosier. He lives near DeSoto; his name is Asail Thornburg, and he is ninety-eight years old. He voted for John Quincy Adams for President, and has voted at every Presidential election since, Re was at Greenville When Gen. William Henry Harrison negotiated the treaty with the Indians, and was a delegate to the convention that nominated Gen. Harrison for President; he also had the pleasure of voting for the grandson, Benjamin Harrison, for the same office. His history is a part of the history of Indiana. Mr. Thornburg's health is reasonably good, and he promises well to round out a century. He lived over seventy years with the wife of his youth, she having died about five years ago. A son, Joab Thornburg, lives in the same house with his father, who is well up in the seventies and was the first white child bom in Delaware county. Otto Krause, aged two years and* a half, was fatally poisoned by drinking whisky Tuesday at Seymour. The child was the son of William H. Krause, a prominent business mau of this city, w’ho left Monday morning on a visit to relatives in Germany. The day before leaving Mr. Krause purchased a,quart bottle of whisky a part of which he had put into a pocket flash for use on his journey, leaving the rest in the bottle for medicinal use in the family in his absence. He was in the habit of giving the children a teaspoonful each morning as a tonic. Mr. Krause left on the 4 o'clock train Monday morning, leaving the whisky on the table within the reach of the little child. An older brother discovered little Otto lying on the floor asleep, with the bottle of whisky in his arms, and failing to wake him, told his mother that his brother had been drinking whisky. The mother found him as described. She tried to bring the child back to consciousness, but failed their efforts were unavailing. At 8 o’clock Wednesday morning the Tittle boy died, of what the physicians term passive congestion of the brain, caused by whisky. The story is again revived that the ghost of Mrs, Pettit, victim of W. Fred Pettit, wife murderer, is haunting the church at ShaWnee Mound, over which Mr. Pettit formerly ministered. The ghost-walk is between the parsonage and the church, along a private path first made by Mr. Pettit, and after the appari tion enters the church it is never seen t< leave it. It is also claimed that after th< apparition enters the church the strains o the organ can be heard playing the tune:which Mrs. Pettit loved so well while it life. Among those claiming to have see: the ghost is Jonathan Meharry, father o Mrs. Whitehead, the woman who ft go rrd so conspicuously in the trial of Pettit. Mr Meharry describes the apparition as re markably life-like, tho face looking troubled, with the lips moving in prayer, while the hands are wrung in a supplicating manner. He also heard the organ playing “Rock of Ages,” which was Mrs Pettit's favorite hymn, but the music wa>unearthly and grewsome. He also describes another selection as unfamiliar ineffably sweet,dying away in a strain which filled his soul with rapture. Others claim an experience similar to that related by Mr. Meharry.