Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson's jail js full of desperate actnjPSPatoka is Mhe oldest town in Gibson oounty. i-- + SpiCeland has a two-pound-two-ounce tomato. A fully developed case of small pox is reported from Cass county, it is not true that the city treasurer of Lapoge -was short in his accounts. Alexander Gross, brick manufacturer, of Seymour, Is mysteriously missing. !_ The cost of conducting a term of the Circuit Court of Morgan County is >I,OOO. James Moody was badly injured by falling slate in the Jumbo mine at Knights 4 ville. George Hoffman, of Logansport. died suddenly of apoplexy, superinduced by la grippe. Gambling has become so prevalent at Corydon that the grand jury has taken hold of tne matter. Miss Katie Lacey, of Muneie, while 4** ranged, drank a half pint of camphor and is in a critical condition. A dairy association at Shiedlcr, Ind., has been incorporated by Nicholas Poland and others. Capital stock, >5 OOOi Labor day was observed at Fort Wayne, Logansport, Kokomo, Huntington, Greenfield and other prominent points. Edward Perkins and Jeannette Moore, colored, eloped from Louisville, Labor day, and were married in Jeffersonville. Airs. Alex Rntherfoi d, near discovered her husband’s barn on fire, and she extinguished the flames with a barrel of vinegar. Stephen Basset, of Scott county, is suing his son-in-law, William Shearer, for >1,890, which was given to the young man’s wife before she died.

The first annual fair of Crawford county was a financial success, nearly ->SOO remaining in the treasury after payment of premiums in full. During the absence of the family of John Wilson, Washington township, Lagrange county, from home, incendiaries burned his house and all its contents. A posse of infuriated Madison county farmers are out with guns in search of Cyrus Crossier, who assaulted the wife of John Cruell near Stony Creek, The Lafayette City Council has notified the management of the electric-line in that city that better service must be provided or the franchise will be revoked. While C. W. Allegaier and Max Nienhardt, both painters, were walking to Ft. Wayne from opposite directions, each was struck by a passing train and dangerously hurt. William Mitchell, a commercial traveler while intoxicated fell from a high sidewalk at North Vernon and was found dead in the gutter the next morning halfcovered with mud and water.

A pippin apple tree, planted seventy years ago on the farm of James M. McClintock. near Redington, is seven feet five inches in circumfrencc, thrifty, still growing and heavily laden with fruit, Morgan county contains 273,093 acres of land. Of this 55,090 acres were sown in wheat last year. The yield was twenty bushels per acre, showing the yield of wheat this season to be one million bushels. .Samuel Felseman, the Greencastle junkdealer, awaiting trial on the charge of receiving stolen brass from railroads, was granted a change of venue Tuesday, His bond was fixed at S3OO. The cases were sent to Clay county for trial. Milo Keys, accompanied by his seven-teen-year old brother, became involved in a controversy with Elijah Booth, of Cass county, over an estray cow, and Booth ordered them off his premises. He enforced the order with a club, fracturing Milo's skull and severely injuring his brother. The contract for piping gas frSm the Sheridan fields to Crawfordsville has been awarded to the Chester Pipe and Tube Company, of Philadelphia. Pa,, which 'company took s3oo,OfX)of the stock. The cost of piping will be $250,000, including <mains. The work is to be completed November 1. ■ •• - • B - John Bennett, a well-to-do citizen of Sellersburg, is accused of a terrible crime, and he has fled to escape mob violenceTwo little girls, named Stroxtile and Smith, aged thirteen, charge that he , locked them in his house and assaulted them at pistol point. There is great exment. William Bullard, the Hope desperado’ who escaped from the Columbus hospital, returned t-» the city and gave himself up to Sheriff Smith. He said lie had a desire to see his folks, and walked all the distance to Hope, fourteen miles, whero he visited at his father’s and then took the train back to Columbus. He was locked in a cell the first time since he was shot, The Odd Fellows and Daughters of Robekah of Northern Indiana, held a Distrii t meeting at South Bend on the Bth. There were 700 present, with degrees staffs from La Porte and Mishawaka. Each degree was exemplified and instruction given therein by Grand Master W. H. Leedy, Addresses were made by Deputy Grand Master U. Z. Wiley, Hon. John B. Cockrum and W; H. Talbott. The mysterious apparition floating over Crawfordsville, which was soon by Rev. G. W. Switzer, of the Methodist church, and others, proved to have been a flock of “kildeers” flying very high and bewildered by the electric light. Mr. Switzer is receiving many letters, making inquiries about the spook, and he Is being “kidded” on all sides. One letter came from Keeley’s institute for inebriates at Plainfieid, in which it said that patients ih that institution frequently saw similar visitations, but after a few days’ treatment the apparitions disappeared. The Indiana Board of Tax Commissioners has about completed its work and the total taxable value of Indiana Is now practically an ascertained quantity. Real estate and personal property in. the State was put by the assessors lit $1,050,500,000 *T6 this must be added Vanderburg county’s total, as yet not computed. This Is the total as returned by the various assessors and does not include increases made by the State board on corporations and real estate. Neither does it include tbe railroads of Indiana. The figures are

subjectU»i*vision and fefves out that it has not yet completed its work. W, T. Kimsey, twenty-dollar biff 115 years old. It bears the date of 1775, Is printed In what is nbw the poorest quality of paper and the type and border are of ancient design. The bill is signed by three men who were also signer!of the declaration of independence. In the upper left hand corner are the words, “North Carolina,” and on the reverse side, “Death tocounterfeit. Printed by Peter Timothy, 1776.” Mr. Kimsey has frequently refused >sofor it. He came in possession of the bill at MeMinnevi.lle, Tenn., in 1862, finding it with several similar bills scattered about the floor of a house which had been deserted by Us owner. 4~

Dates will soon be arranged for a debate to take place in Muneie which will attract attention throughout the country. The topic under discussion will be ‘'Religion vs. Spiritualism.” The members of the latter society will select a man to debate with a .minister chosen by the Christian Church. Elder Clark Brayden will probably represent the church, while Hon. E. Hunt may take the other side. The debate will last from ten days to two weeks, three hours every night, and will Be the hardest fought battles of learning between spiritualism and religion that ever took place in this country. The caving in of a sand-bank Tuesday morning near the Walnut Hill Cemetery, -Jeffersonville, came very near burying alive two men. Robert Harold, the sexton of the cemetery, and Charles Kopp have been running the sandpit for some time, when, without any warning, the slides gave way and buried both men under several tons. A number of men were standing around, and, taking in the situation at a glance, began to dig away the sand. It took several minutes to accomplish this, and Harold and Kopp were rescued more dead than alive. Both were unconscious, and received shocking injuries. Several of Kopp's ribs were broken, and it is feared that he is internally injured. Harold’s also of a dangerous nature. His limbs are badly crushed, and his right leg was broken below the knee. Harold has been sexton of the Walnut Hill Cemetery for a number of years. He has a wife and several children—:—__— ~

The Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association of Vigo county made a demonstration on the 10th for the especial benefit of the city folks of Terre Haute. Not one person out of a hundred in j.he city was aware that there was to be a farmers’ picnic at the fair grounds until the farmers’ wagons began passing through the streets early in the morning, ijiorne of the F. M, B. A. lodges came in a body, {jeaded by their local bands or drum corps, with a marshal and his aides on horseback, and wearing wide red sashes. The. wagons were filled with women and children, and here and there was a transparency on which was printed words telling of the grievances of farmers. Some referred to the imposition of the city people in the matter of county offices. By noon the fair ground Was fillca with farm wagons,’and several thousand farmers put in the remainder of the day picnicing and listening to addresses on questions —of—peculiar- interest, to them Nearly all present were filled with a bitter resentment toward the "V igo Agricultural Society. The agricultural Society this year raised the price of admission to the fair from 25 cents to 50 cenjts. The trotting races were made prominent and the farmers concluded that they were bo ing snubbed. The result was that they boycotted the fair. The gate receipts were larger, but the attendance fell off 10,000 from last Ever since the fair two weeks ago, the farnteesjhave been preparing for a large attendance today to show how they can fill the fair grounds when they want to do so. Alliance lecturers, who are here and who have been traveling through the State attending farmers' piciiics, report that at caoh place they are informed that the crowd is the largest ever assembled at that town or locality. Thomas Wadsworth, vice-presi-dent of the State Assembly , made a thirdparty speech, which was well received, as was the song, “Good-bye Old Parties. Good bye,” by a glee club. M. T. Stillwell, president of the State Assembly, and alsoof the National Assembly, spoke for two hours on the farmers’ condition, but avoided political discussion. F. J. SRobinson a member of the State Board of trustees, and whose vote elected Turpio to' the Senate, also spoke. y . v • ' ■