Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Wingate has a bank. Northern Indiana corn Is safe from frost, Connersville reportsitself In the earthquake belt The temperance wave has now reached Brooksburg. Ft. Wayne reports an unusual, number of marriages. . Diphtheria Is epidemic in portions of Wabash county. Tho Wabash river was never much lowthan at present. ■ The first rain for one month has fallen In Knox county. The Gatling gun factory is to be removed to Marion. The earthquake setall the dogs to howling at Fort Wayne, Electricity is replacing the mule on the New Albany street railway; The Muncie City Council has voted to establish an electric light plant. The earthquake cracked the walls of the Masonic building at Waynetown. The DePauw glassworks at New Albany will not resume until October 15. On Thursday Elder Van Cleave, es Crawfordsville, married his 710th couple. L! A new Sunday paper will soon be issued £t New Albany, to be called the Kodak. Jeffersonville reports many grape vines bearing a second crop of fruit this season, Burglars robbed Jacob Reyher & Co., of Kendallville, carrying off 51,000 in goods. The Fairmount and Kentland postoffices have been raised to the presidential class. A fine output of natural gas has been struck near Alexandria by the Richmond company. The employes of the insane asylum at Richmond are discontented because of a reduction In wages. It is claimed that the Schofield woolen mill at Madison is the oldest plant of its kind in the State. _ _ Diggers in the natural gas trenches at Crawfordsville are striking for $1.50 per day. They have been receiving $1.40. Curtis Bass, of Orange county, whom Henry Tow accuses of attempted assassination, has been placed under 510,000 .bonds. -X-.-Edward Dowdie, living near Shakerville, was flogged by White Caps. It is alleged that he is dissipated and abusive to his mother. The trouble between glassworkers and the bosses has not been settled satisfactor ily to the men, and five hundred are still idle at Muncie. Mrs. James Eucheller, of Ft. Wayne while her husband was absent at work packed her clothing and the canned fruit and disappeared. The name of Calvin Hanna, of Linton, has been struck from the roll of practicing attorneys in Greene county because of alleged embezzlement. During tho recent Montgomery county fair John Singer had S2OO in money taken from him and S7OO in notes. On Thursday the notes were sent to him through the postoffice at Crawfordsville. Henry Williams, a five-year term convict in the Jeffersonville penitentiary, escaped Wednesday night. He was provided with clothing and cast aside his stripes in the prison. This is the third escape within a month. Dr, George P, Barnum, veterinary surgeon, of Ft. Wayne, is dead of blood poisoning. Three weeks ago a corn suppurated on the bottom of one of his feet, and the malady spread to his legs. The intense heat also contributed to his death, Tramps took possession of the home of William Dale, near Crawfordsville, abated their hunger and then retired to bedWhen the family returned they were refused admission and were compelled to pass the night at a neighbor's. The remains of an unknown man were found in the woods near Xenia, the appearance Indicating that he had committed suicide with morphine. In his pocket was a tax receipt Issued at Mt, Vernon, Mo„ in favor of John Carr. He was aged about sixty.

The Van Camp canning establishment at Indianapolis, one of tho largest in tho country, was completely destroyed by fire on the 4th. Loss 01,000. There was an i mmense stock of canned goods 1 n storeage. Four firemen were injured by falling walls. Human bones have been found in a mound on the Hinderlider farm 1 near Medora, which are supposed to belong to a people of a prehistoric race. The mound is known as the “Knoll,” and it is a sandy terrace elevated above high water mark. The terrace is over one mile in length, and there are several minor mounds. Many stone axes and arrow-beards have heretofore been found. Near Sparksville, on top of a high ridge, nearly 300 feet above the river, can be found traces of four mounds, located in a sandy field that for many ears has been under cultivation. The Charlestown school trustees are having a merry time. Some time ago the colored people demanded admission for their children Into the high school. The whites objected. The trustees then prepared a room for the applicants and arranged for a teacher. It now transpires that only three colored children desire to enter, and the trustees feel that the board cannot employ a teachsr for so few. The colored peonle insist that their children shall attend the white school, while the white patrons say that If they are permitted to enter their children shall be withdrawn. Meanwhile Charlestown is mnch,disturbed and Republicans and Dem ocrats alike are indignant over tho atti tide assumed by the Indiana inventors were granted patents as follows: Edward B. Allen, Terre Haute, dish washing machine; Geo. G.FBoswell, one-half to D. A. Boswell, Indianapolis, fifth wheel and car scale; W. J. Buchanan, Huntington, device for printing in colors; Joseph Callantfne, car coupling; Henry H. Dille, Richmond, lawn mower; Benjamin Harvcn, Honey Creek, automatic gate; Isaac H. Henley, Straughn, gate; John L. Herschell, Huntingburg, tube welding machine; John F. Hornberger, Lawrenceburg, assignor of one-hip to E. and J. Schwerkert. r Cincinnati, ear-piercer; George W. Keyser, Indianapolis, fluih’ng tank; Jno

P. Lancaster, Goshen, rail Orth, Fort Wayne, vegetable entter: Jos. B. Pedrlck, Columbus, corn planter attachment; Darius C. Rice and H. A. Gore, assignors toGoshen folding bed company, Goshen, folding bed; Lew Wallace, fishing rod and rail coupler for railways; James Weathers, Indianapolis, sash holder.