Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

La port* muzzles it« dogs. Shi4byvilic wants starch works. Kiishviile offers factory sites free. Burglars are infesting Waynetown. e= Petershssrg has the creamery fever. • Evansville’s ball club has disbanded. Water famine is feared at Ft. Wayne. ' rhix israging in Cayuga •and Eugene. Vuiparaiso.needs better fire protection. Hog cholera prevails in parts of Posey couuty.. liorsethicves are ravaging LaGrange county. _ ■ ■ _y. Jack the Kisser is doing business at Ft. Wayne. Ligonicr claims to be a great wheat market. Brown county land is assessed at £>.so per acre. Marion has discontinued natural gas flambeaux. --- Twelve pound carp are being caught at YoNitown. Wyandolt cave lias great crowds of sight-seers. •• - Forest Fires are doing damage in Blackford county. - DoKalb county farms are appraised at £l6 per acre. , : =—— Typhoid fever is alarmingly prevalent in Shelby county. The shipment of frogs is an important Laporte county industry. The great Delaware peach crop has faded away. Only a moderate crop will be marketed. A female brass band and a female baloonist are to be the attractions at the Decatur fair. Southern Indiana is agreatfruit center the output so far this- season being the, heaviest ever known. A regular Kansas grasshopper was found at,Crawfordsville Monday. It is three inches long, and is probably the advanceguard of an army of invaders. Thirty subordinate lodges I. O, O. F. held a district meeting at Mitchell on the sth, conducted by Grand Master W. 11. Leody and Deputy Gland M aster U. Z. Wiley. During the storm Sunday evening lightning struck the wheat ricks on John Hatters farm, six miles south of Vincennes, and seven were eonsumsd. "Fifteen hundred bushels of wheat were destroyed. Mrs. John Sorg, of Huntington,was not prompt in applyiny a lighted match after turning on the natural gas in he cook Steve. and there was a tremendous explosion, partially wrecking the house. She escaped fatal hurt. j While. Mrs. Rose Wright, of Jeffersonville, was closing the front window of her home after nightfall she was seized by an unknown man and dragged to the side- j walk, and the kidnaper attempted to carry of? his prize, while the lady gave one scream and fainted. This was heard by her husband in time to res eye her. Tier assailant was disguised and he escaped pursuit. The first annual encampment of the Patriarchs Militant, department of Indiana, ; will be held at Wabash, beginning on j Wednesday, the, 12th inst., and closing with Friday of the same week. Prize, will be awarded to the best drilled canton consisting of twenty-four chevaliers and three officers, and there will also be prizes for the best-drilled team in Rebekah des gree work. The camp will be commanded j by J. L. Weaver. W, 11. Brevort, formerly a poor school boy at Columbus, owns five thousand acres of fine farming land in the White river bottoms, in Knox county, which he purchased for a song some years ago and improved by constructing the longest levee in the S tate. The yield of wheat this year was thirty-five thousand bushels. There are sixty tenants on the farm, living in commodious Cottages, who support a school with three teachers. A large church has also been erected by MrBrevort. ; _ j AjirbsHy ting 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 Y'oting and polygamy. He addressesall 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, anti he claims that he Was sixteen years in the Methodist, ministry before he became converted to Mormonism. Jacob Scudder. a citizen of'Edwards port, Knox county, is the owner of a fill© stock farm.' All at once he discovered that his cattle began to die in a mysterious way. The shoulder or ham of the animal Would swell up and turn black, and he at first imagined that the poor brute bad been bruised by the ferociousness of the other stock. After a number had died it struck him as peculiar that so many should die from bruises of a similar character, Research into the matter developed the fact that his cattle were dying from that fearful disease known as “black quarter.” By vigorous effort be stayed the fatal malady, but not until he had lost a number of his best stock. __ The farmers of Clay county propose to have what they call a political picnic near Ashboro, on Thursday. August 20. Although the projectors no doubt intend making it simply an affair for the enlightenment of the population of Clay county, yet from its very nature it is bound to attract State if.not national attention. Speakers from five different political parties have been invited to devote one hour each to explaining the positions of thefr respective parties. Ex-Governor Gray is expected to represent the Democrats; Hon. James A. Mount the Republicans; Col. Eli Ritter, of Indianapolis, the Prohibitionists: Capt. Allen, of Terre Haute, the People's party, and John P. Stellc, of Illinois, the F. >l. B. A. They will speak In the Order named, and although it is understood tfiat all Ipartisan bitterness js to be avoids, yet it will bp strange if it does not turn out to be more of a “picnic” than is now anticipated. h T *