Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Wingate will establish a bank. —Dunkirk is to have glass works. Peru expects to secure tho Wabash repair shops. Salem claims the best half-mile track in the State. Nearly 7,000 barrels of nutmeg melons have been shipped from Seymour this season. The liquor men of Muricje are making a fight against the passage of a saloon screen ordinance. The Crawfordsville Daily Argus-News has been purchased by S. M. Coffman, a former proprietor. “Cal” Darnell, the greatest sheep expert that ever lived, will judge the qualities of the flocks at Sheridan, Ind. Mrs. John Hughes, of Scipio, Jennings county, was bitten on the hand and terribly lacerated by a mad dog. An epidemic of measles is prevailing in the State Home for the Feeble-minded at Ft. Wayne. In consequence the institution has been closed to visitors. It developes that B. R. Musgravc. who attempted the disappearance-act at Terre Haute, carried *35,000 life insurance, Charles C. Madden, of Lexington, grossly insulted the twelve yea Fold daughter of James Morgan, and Mr. Morgan horsewhipped Madden until he was insensible. Ed Stone, of Anderson, who claims to have-been kicked off a C,, W. & M. train by a brakeman, whereby he was paralyzed, has sued tho company for *5,000 damages. The Ft Wayne branch of the American Wheel Company has been closed down by the receiver, and the great factory is entirely deserted. Three hundred employes are idle. Three months ago Edward Waymuth, of Martin county, was bitten by a copper-, fiead snake. The effect was to cause ado cay of the skin and tissues of fats, and Waymuth died this week. The Eleventh Indiana battery held an annual reunion at New Haven, and among those present was Lieutenant Otto,who is credited with sighting tho gun which Id Hed. therebel ..General PoTJ, a t Keriesaw

mountain. About fifty laborers on the proposed gas line to Chicago struck near Wiriamac Tuesday for higher wages and better food claiming that they were unable to do the work witli the provisions furnished them. The new Christian church at Swayzee has been dedicated, Rev. L. L. Carpenter', of Wabash, officiating. He fonnd a debt of *I,OOO hanging over the congregation and secured pledges aggregating *1.200 for its relief. Ernst Wolf, of Columbus, purchased eight cattle, afterward proven to have been stolen from a farmer named Carter, in Browni county. It was the third drovo stolen within a month in that county and sold on the Columbus market. There were 110,813 cans of tomatoes and gorn canned at J. Polk’s fruit-house in Greenwood Tuesday, making a little over nine car-loads. This breaks the record, being the highest number of cans packed in one day at any factory in the world. An unknown scoundrel is operating with chloroform at,Crawfordsvllle, his method being to saturate cotton with the drug and toss it through open transoms into rooms where persons are sleeping. Mr; and Mrs. Elmer Marsh are the latest victims, Air. Marsh being dangerously overcome. Some weeks ago Prof. J, LeGrand Sirrett, a teacher of penmanship and a comparative stranger at Madison, clandestinely married Aliss Susan Cobb, daughter of Fleming Cobb, one of his pupils. Lastweek the bride, sick and heart-broken, was deserted at Spring Valley, Ohio,, and her parents have gone to bring her home. George Blackburn and Aliss Jennie Stilly abower, of Columbus, were under engagement of marriage and the nuptials were appointed for the 3d. After the guests had assembled, with the bride and minister in waiting, it was discovered that the groom had disappeared without leaving an explanation of his cowardly conduct. An aged widow, who spent her last penny in crossing tho ferry from Louisville to Jeffersonville and was utterly destitute, received notice that she had been granted a pension on account of her late husband, who was killed while serving during the war with the fourth Ohio cavalry. The pension carries with it *3,370 arrearages. Chas. Waterman was arrested at Michigan City as a horse-thief, and he proved to be an ex-convict, having served several terms for various offenses. It also developed that he had been making his home at Three Rivers, Alich., where he had succeeded in gaining the confidence of the community, while he continued his depredations elsewhere. Young Bros., of Laporte, have an eighty dollar bill of Revolutionary times* It is 113 years old. On one side of thebili is the following: “Eighty-dollars. The bearer is entitled to receive eighty Spanish milled dollars, or an equal sum in gold or silver, according to a resolution of Congress of the 14th of January, 1779. Levi Bud.”

The reverse side of the bill has a picture of a tobacco leaf, and the words “eighty dollars” across the top. At tho bottom iaj “Printed by Hail & Sellers, 1779.” Jack Morrison, of Richmond, is the father of a bright five-year-old girl, who, in tripping across the yard, fell into an open cistern, the water In which stood several feet deep. The child, rose to the surface and grasped the Iron pump stock, to which she clung until rescued. When taken out she was almost exhausted, but when her little brother asked her what she thought as slie fell in, she faintly answered: “Me thought, down went Medlnty.”*' The caving in of a sand-bank Tuesday moruing near the Walnut Hill Cemetery, Joflersonville, came very near burying alive two men. Robert Harold, the sexton of the cometery, and Charles Kopp have been running the sand pit for somo time, when, without any tho sliibs way and buried both men under several tons. A number of men were Btandlng around, and, taking iq thejdtuation at a glance, began to dig away tho sand. It took several minutes to accomplish this, and Harold aud Kopp were rescued more dead than alive. Both were

unconscious, and received shocking injur* iek Several of Kopp's ribs were broken, and it is feared that he Is internally injured. Harold’s injuries arcalso of a-dangerous nature. His limbs ar.’ badly crushed, and bis right legwasbrok cn below the knee. Harold has been sexton of the Walnut Ilill Cemetery for a nnmber of years. He has a wife and several children.