Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Frankfort is boring for gas. Mnncle has nineteen churches. □Princeton will erect water works. Diphtheria among adults is reported at Martinsville. Frankfort will haye free mail delivery January Ist. The “cornstock disease” is killing stock in Warren county. Burglars are having a harvest in many sections of the State. : *. . - Counterfeit five-dollar gold pieces are circulating at Anderson. The Wabash has just recovered from the lowest depth in its history. Thfi Farmers’ Alliance" will establish a People's party paper at Valparaiso. The fourth-class postmasters of Hamil* ton county are clamoring for more pay, ... Glass workers continue toleave New Albany becansmof insufficient employment. Thousanbs of tons of hay were destroyed by marsh fires recently near Hanna and Hamlet. Oil has been struck at Monroeville, but it will not rise nearer than one kuudred feet of the surface. beet can be successfully cultivated in Hamilton county. Michael Koplin. of South Whiteiy, accused of criminal assault, has been sentenced to ten years. Franklin water works and electric plant were recently turned on anti they jubilated over the event.

Angle worms have gone down two .feet below the ground in Daviess county, and a hard winter is predicted. Dr. J. R. Monroe, editor of the Iron Clad Age, an Atheistic paoer of some note, died at his home in Indianapolis on the 9th. Porter J. Foxworthy and Margaret Foxworthy, both seventy-six years old, were married in the city clerk’s office at Frank • lin. A bod of fine molding sand was found on the farm of S. E. Thomas, in Fayette county, through the operations of aground hog. - . A District meeting of I. O. O. F. was held at Huntington on the 11th, tho twelfth since W. H. Leedy became Grand Master. Charles Roab, treasurer of Clarksville, has nine honorable discharges from the United States army, showing a consecutive service of thirty yfears. Evansyiile has organized to contest the authority of the State Tax Commissioners in addinghiO per cent, to the taxables of the township in which that city is located. i “Jack. the Groaner,” is the latest freak at Ft. Wayne. The follow howls about residences, delivering unearthly groans 4 and occasionally lie annoys ladies on the street in the same manner. In the pockets of clothing discarded by a burglars at Crawfordsvillb was found a translation from Caesar’s Commentaries and an example in algebra,indicating that the night prowler was a student. A tramp who had been refused a supper set fire to a straw stack belonging to G. A„ Briiiheart, near Goshen, and burned up three thousand dollars’ worth of wheat, corn, hay and farming implements. Tho employes in the Pennsylvania glas s works at Anderson have struck against a reduction of wages. The company is cooperative and non-union, and last year is said to have paid a dividend of 64 percentThe Ranking Manufacturing Company’s. wholesale clothing house has made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. Assets, $193,000; liabilities, $133,000. Lightmoney and bad collections are said to be the cause Sheep-killing dogs on Terrce Coupee prairie, in St. Joseph county, killed 99 head in oiffi week, and afterward they ! raided the farm of Ed 'Wykoff, killing 60 head in one night. Every dogin the township is under the ban. Prof. John Collett, of Indianapolis, has * donated his old home-place near Walnut Grove, in Vermillion county, for the main j tenance of indigent women and children I in that count v. and he will erect com- i modious building? for that purpose. The i tract includes one hundred acres, and was Inherited from his father. i Tho Court of Claims have renderel a decision dismissing the suits of the States of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois against the United States to recover the two per centfund retained from the proceeds of the Cumberland Gap road, aggregating sl,500,000. The court held that the fund in question is not a trust fund, and that if. is ! barred bv the statute of limitation. An ; appeal will be taken. A paragraph has been floating about for several days that Miss Maggie Donniger, Of Shelby ville,, Hi of consumption, is being treated to a diet of dog meat as a cure, It Is claimed that dog flesh, in tho course of assimilation, is converted into a lymph of more than ordinary vitality, which, being absorbed by tho blood corpuscles, supplants the decayed tissue and adds new strength and vigor to the patient. Phvsicians make light of the treatment. While James L. Jones was laboring in a field in which once stood a trading fort, at a timo when English was known as “Three Rivers.” he found a Spanish doubloon bearing date of 1703. Many relics have been found on this site, but none of them are more highly prized than this. English was originally called ‘‘Three Rivers” because of three creeks which form the head waters of Littje Blue river. A shameful outrage was committed near Pittsboro on the night of the 9th,and the guilty ones are still a£ large. At New Hope Church, three miles north of Pitts-* boro, a young farmer was called out during meeting by some men who tried to kill him. He had hardly got on the outside till he was set upon by unknown one- j uiies, who beat him with stones, fracturing his skull. Some of tho would-be as sasslns had knivos and gavo him several murderous stabs, one blade having penetrated the kidneys. The man xjfas picked j up in almost a dying condition, and it is more than possible that he will die. —*: A warehouse at Miller's station, containing twenty tons of powder, exploded at an early hour Wednesday morning The buildings were totally demolished,and he loss will be in the neighborhood of ,30X Large powder works are located I

at Miller’s station, w h'ch is on the If a* of the Lake Shore railway about twenty miles out of Chicago. The little village of Hobart, about five miles from the wrecked plant, was badly shaken up, windows and plate glass fronts being shattered into fragments with the fearful shock. Chimneys toppled over, and even houses were wrested from their foundations. Many of the people of the village thought. the mil-, lenium had arrived. In Valparaiso the shock was distinctly felt, many supposing t to be an earthquake, A secret cave has recently been discovered in'the vicinity of Valparaiso. It is the second one discovered within the past ten days. A secret entrance admits horn and rider to an under ground passage forty rods in length. It was found that rude stalls had beeu constructed, there being space enough for quartering twenty or more horses. Several little rooms roughly furnished were utilised as hiding places of the thieves. The sand, whicli covered all tracks of mantend beast, has always prevented the successful t racking of the gang but tlie discovery of this secret rendezvous has probably cut short the operations of the most daring gang of thieves in northern Indiana. '