Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Ohio Falls ironworks has resumed. The Dunkards propose establishing a college at Ladoga. The Gatling gun factory is to be removed to Marion. . St. Paul schools have been closed on aci count of the excessive heat. j Twenty-one divorce cases are pending . in the Howard county courts. I “Hi” Allison, a horse trader, of Kokomo, has been arrested, charged with horse stealing. Since May 1 $52,000 worth of real estate mortgages have been paid off by Morgan i county farmers. I Twenty-one deaths from malignant typhoid fever occurred ia the neighborhood of Columbus in eighteen days. Harrison HogaQ, of Jeffersonville, got a Judgment of S3OO against his wife for nousehold goods that she sold. Matthew Brady, aged nine year's, son of J. P. Grady, of Evansville, fell under a street car and was cutin twain. Riley Smart, a young farmernear Madison. ran into a hornet’s nest and was stung to death by the vicions insects. Miss Maggie Weddell, of Roachdale, has been appointed official stenographer of the Putnam and Clay county courts. G. A. Collins, of Jeffersonville, owns a copy of the Declaration of Independence which was engrossed on parchment in July, 1776. It is estimated that Rev. John E. Newhouse, near Greencastle, will gather eight thousand bushels of apples from an eleven acre orchard this fall. Fred Bronenburg’s barn, near Chesterfield, burned to the ground, and several hundred bushels of wheat and many tons of hay were destroyed. Gas was struck at Monroeville, Allen county, on the 26th, the well showing a flow of half a million cubic feet. This is -the first gas struck in this county. The peach season has closed with shipments from Madison by railroad of 162 car loads, averaging 530 bushels to the car, besides immense shipments by river. Lewis Hufnagle, of Muncie, used vulgar language in the presence of a young girl, and his son-in-law. Charles Bush, slashed him with a razor, cutting out one eye.

John Scott, of Columbus, is said to have swallowed his false teeth while taking a drink, and then regaining them on being thrown from his buggy while driving for a surgeon. A gas well was drilled on Monday two miles west of Cicero. It was a surprise, as no gas was expected in the neighborhood. Good wells have now been developed all around Cicero. The Putnam county grand jury has indicted Henry Manion and Robert Tow, of Lawrence county, growing out of the shooting affair on the Monon train at Greencastle Junction. A large pile of stones was heaped on the Lake Shore tracks at Bur Oaks, near Goshen, with a view to wrecking the Chicago train. The engine was badly damaged but the train did not leave the track. A horse belonging to James Gallion, and two hogs, the property of Daniel Robinson, both living near Kokomo, were bitten by a strange dog and had to be killed on account of developing symptoms of rabbies.

The question of permitting colored children to attend t|ie Charlestown public schools has been amicably settled. A teacher has been provided for the colored children, and an apartment has been divided off for them. While C. P. Lawrence, of Warren, was waiting for a train at the Kokomo depot, he was robbed of his money. Mr. Lawrence was accompanying his little sonin search of a mad stone, the lad having been bitten by a rabid dog. John Dodge and Denny McPhillips, of Evansville.attempted to settle a difficulty, Dodge using a “billy” and McPhillips his jack-knife. Dodge was dangerously stabbed and McPhillips was badly bruised by blows upon the head. Walter, son of “Dock” Duckworth, of Needham station, was seized of pneumonia, typhoid fever followed, and before he left his bed he wrestled with mumps and measles. Then inflammation developed an ulcer in his right side, which had to be drained off by a tube inserted between his ribs. Scarcely had he recovered before a horse kicked him, making a ghastly wound in his face. This week he collided with the separator of a thrashing machine, breakinghis jawandterribly bruising his shoulders, head and body. English is greatly wrought up by the discovery that four of its residents were taken from a resort two miles south, and were soundly whipped by a gang of White Caps numbering forty or more. , The victims were Richard Jacobs, Richard Wells, John Grey and Raymond Brown. Jacobs and Wells are married men; Brown and Grey are eighteen-year-old boys. Jadobs is a class leader in the M. E. church. The victims claim to have identified their assailants, and there is a popular demand for the prosecution of the whitecappers and the whitecapped. The Indianapolis Sentinel publishes estimates of the wheat crop from each county and from these estimates places the total production of the State at 63,441,019 bushels. The yield for a period of years past has been as follows: 1879.. 51,140.653 1880. 49,766,758 1881 31,353,000 1892 45 461,800 1883 28,447,70 1884.. 33,745,000 1885.. 26,650,000 1886.. 1887 37,828,000 1888 28,879,000 1889.. 41,187,000 1890.. 27,928,000 1891 63,441,049 The Charlestown school trustees are having a merry time. Some time ago the Colored people demanded admission for their children into tho jilghThe whites objected. The trustees then pref pared a room for the applicantsand at* ranged for a teacher. It now transpires that only three colored children desire to enter, and the trustees feel that board cannot employ a teachsr for so few. The colored people insist that their children

shall attend the white school, while the white patrons say that if they are permitted to Renter their children shall be withdrawn. Meanwhile Charlestown is much disturbed and Republicans and Democrats alike are indignant over, the atti" tude assumed by the negroes.