Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

York town is in the.boom belt. Years ago Fort Wayne was a military post.' Ladoga has passed a saloon-screen ordinance. >■■■■ , ' .. ' Logansport has twelve miles of cement sidewalk. The blue ribbonites in Boone county number nearly one thousand. Simon Conn and wife, of Muncie, have celebrated their fifty-fourth wedding anniversary. An incendiary burned the Bruce tenement property ot Aurora, and two families narrowly escaped with their lives. Two virulent cases of typhoid fever have been directly traced to the dirty, filthy river water usetUby South Bend people. A circular saw in one of the Crawfordsville mill sheds made short work of a huge black snake curled up in the hollow of a log. • • . J. B. Bowman, whose home is supposed to be Edinburg, was found wandering the streets at Kokomo in an insane condition. Loose bunches of hay, borne by the wind, floated over Greencastle last Tuesday, some of it dropping on the public square. Farmer Gernhart, near Mishawaka, discovered that an incendiary had tried to burn hte wheat, standing in shock, failing in which the remaining shocks had been sprinkled with Paris green. A fool joker mixed powder with tobacco used by Harvey B. Davidson, of Evansville, and while Mr. Davidson was smoking there was an explosion which blinded him in one eye and permanently disfigured his countenance.

A wife at North Marion entertained a rival|in her husband's affections at supper: together they visited a place of amusement in the evening, both greatly enjoying the performance, and then slio cordially bade the woman good night and went home and An instance of the rapid transit of mail is shown in the case of Wendell Brown, o s Port Fulton, who recently paid a visit to his relatives in Germany. He ordered a copy of the Jeffersonville News forwarded to his German address, and the paper preceded his arrival there by thirty minutes. Prof. W. Z. Love for six weeks past has loon at Eairview Park, Indianapolis. On the 21st the ropes of the parachute became tangled, and the aeronaut was precipitated to the ground. He may recover from the awful fall, but if so will be crippled for life. Twelve months ago Paul Journey, of Clark county, injured his foot while alighting from his buggy. Gangrene set in and the foot was amputated at the ankle. Several months later there was another operation, the leg being cdt off between the ankle and knee. Recently the trouble spread to the right foot, which' has now been cut off. Adam Brower, of Hamilton, is aged and is still lvale and hearty. He is the father of thirteen children, nine j• • 7 iof whom are living, and he is one of the few men who can say, “Daughter, go to your daughter,for your daughter's daughter has a daughter.” He has not touched a razor to his face for half a century, nor has he ever seen an elephant. Jame§ Mr ‘Barlow, one of the leading farmers in the neighborhood of Plainfield, (exhibits the statements of his neighbors iand the men who threshed his crop of wheat to the effect that off of a field of ieight acres he threshed 430 bushels, or 83% bushels per acre. Mr. Barlow does not believe that yield can be beaten in the United States. The wheat was of the early red closser variety. A proselyting Mormon is meeting with great success at Tom’s Hill and Swan Pond, Davies county, at both of which points he has established churches. He professes faith in Joseph Smith as the prophet, but denounces Brigham Young and polygamy. He addresses all members of his churches as saints and the outsiders as brothers, and forty members have been received by baptism. The missionary gives his name as Daniels, and he claims that he was sixteen years in the Methodist ministry before he became converted to Mormonism. The Dearborn county Board of Review will add many dollars of sequestered property to the tax duplicate, of which $250,■COO is estimated to come from the banks. One prominent resident of Aurora finds, in the estimation of the board, that he is richer by $35,000 than he originally mad affidavit to, while another is caught so $30,000. The board has also taken a list of five hundred [depositors, concerning whom the banks will be compelled to testify. .. ' • 7T

Tho new American steel steamer, Chas. W. Wetmore, Captain Saunders, which sailed from Duluth,.Minn., during the latter part of June, arrived at Liverpool on July 11. The Wetmore is an inland-built steamer, and her cargo, which consisted of 95,000 bushels of grain, is the first grain cargo shipped from a .lake port direct to Liverpool without being rehandled, Her route was down the lakes from Duluth through the Welland Canal, and thence down the St. Lawrence river and across the Atlantic The success of the voyage is evidence that the proposition to establish direet communication between European and other ports and the port of Chicago is entirely feasible. The following patents have been awarded in Indiana: M. F. Bagley, Evansville device for tilting buckets in water elevators; F. M. Brown, of Shelbyville, clevis; E. Dawson, of Terre Haute, screw-driver; D. S. Fisher, Valiev City, combined loader and press; D. R. Fisher, of Valley City corn-harvester; S. K., Gimbel, of Vincennes, combined paper-holder and cutting and printing device; F. W. Godeke, of Evansville, knock-down table frame; J. H. Howenstinc, of Fort Wayne, stapleforming and setting machine; J, S. Kenyon and O. W. Williams, of South Bend, sand papering machine; T. V. Maxedon, of Crawfordsville, curtain roller; <*. W. Smith, Montpelier, washing machine. Chestnut Ridge, near Greenville, in Floyd county. Is the scene of a tremendous sensation. While Prof. J. W. Sturn, a teacher; attd Martin were picking blackberries, they became separated, and 4

Mr. Martin suddenly found himself confronted with 1 a singular-looking beastpossibly four feet in height, .with broad shoulders, head and face much like that of an ape, color black, fur long, with a bunch of long stiff hair covering the back and top part of the head. It stood with it? feead thrown over its left shoulder, holding a short stick in its clawsMr, Martin started to run, bat tumbled and fell, and when he regained his feet the amnia! had disappeared. The alarm was given and the neighborhood rallied with dogs, guns and pitchforks, but no trace of the animal was found. Mr, Martin is regarded as a gentleman of unquestioned integrity, and his story is credited.

The last stone was placed on the Indiana soldiers’ monument oh the 21st. There is yet fifty-six feet of iron and bronze to be placed on the shaft. The wall around the observation platform is to be four and a half feet high, and spikes will probably be driven in to keep the ever reckless small boy from clambering up and seating himself on the parapet. The turret will be made of heavy steel beams and will be eight feet square and eighteen feet high. It will be inclosed in copper and sustain the weight of the globe and the crowning figure—twenty tons of bronze in all; In a few days the scaffolding will be removed from the top of the monument as far down as the upper window. At this point the upper astragal will be placed and the outside’scaffolding is needed for that work. When it comes to setting the crowning figure next year, scaffolding will be built up from the observation platform.