Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A large peach crop is assured. Chrisney has a mad dog scare. Lafayette has twelve mail-carriers. Sixty-five widews live in Clay City. • New Albany has *25,000 in its treasury. DeKalb county has *50,000 indebtedness Monroeville Is prospecting for natunrt' gas. Knightstown has contracted for electric lighting. The are White Cap threatenings at Columbia City. Electricity will replace the mule at Logans port. Ft. Wayne claims the finest church edifices in the State. Three-card monte swindlers are operating at Vincennes. □ Kingsland is developing unexpected natural gas resources. Lafontainc Lodge, I. O. O. F., is organizing a cornet band. Logansport has a tennis club limited to left-handed players. The Dunkirk natural gas field is one of the best in the State. Mrs. Phillips committed suicide at New Richmond on the 7th. Karl Moss was killed by lightning at Michigan City on the 6th. Mad dogs are creating a sensation in the vicinity of Bloomington. Leavenworth capitalists will invest*7,500 in a canning factory. The Dwiggins bank syndicate has organ ized a new bank at Jonesboro. Lagrange county is shouting with glee over its enormous yield of wheat. Thomas Orrill. of Seymour, aged fiftysix, is dead of delirium tremens. □One thousand barrels as onions are shipped weekly from New Albany. A. E. Matheney killed his wife and then himself, at Indianapolis, on the Bth. The total increase in valuation of all taxables in Carroll county is *3,290,595. Indian creek, in Floyd county, was never so low as at present, due to the drought. Work has begun on the new seventy-five-thousand-dollar opera house at Muncie. Wilder’s Brigadd will hold a reunion at Worthington on the 26th, 27th and 28th of August. Morgan county wheat averaged twentyfive bushels to the acre, and brought 80 cents. Brady & Russell’s furniture factory burned at Petronia on the 7th. Loss, *60X03. It is estimated that the DePanw orchard in Harrison county will yield 5,000 bushels of peaches. Pettit, the wife murderer is very conspicuous in the religious services in the prison north. A flying bullet, near Crawfordsville, cut off Walter Schepply’s finger and lodged in John Binford’s eye. Rushviile church sextons have agreed to sound but twelve strokes on Sundays,calling people to worship. The largest peach orchard in the State is said to be one of 5,000 acres at Bethlehem, in Jefferson County. An entire wheat field near Noblesville was set on fire by a spark from a threshing engine and destroyed. The petrified body of a miner is said to have been discovered after a blast in a coal mino near Knightsville. Edward Wolverton, near Montpelier, drew *OOO from bank and started for Hart ford City. He is now missinfp The star.d-pipe connected with the Michigan City water-works gave way under pressure, causing *2,000 loss. Two miles of cedar-block pavement are being laid at Crown Point. The town will shortly be lighted by electricity. The Costello candy factory, of West Marion, was destroyed by tire; loss,*lo,ooo. The firm carried *8,250 insurance. A swarm of bees took possession of Lavelle & Bair’s store, at Washington, and for several hours held high carnival. Orange county is said to realize annually more from shipment of eggs than from wheat, hogs and cattle all put together. A curious-looking brown bug has attacked green grapes and apples in Huntington county, doing great damage to the cron. T Lee Berkshire, near Milltown, lost his entire wheat crop by fire, which was communicated by sparks from a steam thresher. Joseph Mitchell, of Clare, has been elected president of the Hamilton county Farmers’ Alliance,and Eli Stalker,of West

fields secretary. Aquilla Jones, nostmaster under Cleveland. and one of the most prominent and highly-respected citizens of Indianapolis’ died on the 12th. An animal of unknown species is quartered in a; cave in Columbia township, Fayette county, and great stories are told of its imaginary ferciousness. Seventeen insane persons have been sent to asylums from Morgan county during the past year. In the majority of cases religious excitement was the cause. The Mishawaka Democrat hgs made its appearance, with P. O’Neil at the helm It is the first Democratic venture In that city since the days of Wilbur F. Storey, in istt. ' The body of an unknown man found on the highway near Los Angeles, Cal., June 10, proves to be that of Jacob Tower, & well-known character at Wabash who went West recently. Washington’s wheat crop 19 in danger of partial destruction by gophers and squirrels. If the devastation continues it is estimated that not less than 17,000,000 bushels of grain will be destroyed. Patents have been granted residents of Indian as follows: Frederick L. McCahn, Indianapolis, friction gearing for dynamos; Geo. W. Parker, Terre Haute, separator for coal and other suhstances, Wm. H. Scholl, Hobart, neckyoke. A Huntington county jadge has decided that Miami Indians living there must pay taxes. Their lawyers objected on the 1 grounds that the original treaty with the Indians exempted their from taxation. The case will goto the Supreme Court. The first wheat of the ’9l crop was threshed In Madison county on the Bth. A field of ten acres averaged twenty-eight bushils per n-cre, and tbo berry j>rohouuced excellent, being hard, flinty and

foil. Madison county contains 450 square miles, and the ’9l wheat crop is estimated at 200,000 bushels. ' "