Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

. Andersou has a municipal garbage furnace. t The Evening Call is a new daily at Eiwood. Muncie will soon have thirty-six saloons. Michigan City lias nine miles ot paved streets. St Lonis had a million dollar fire on the 17th, Raising black cats is a new Washington industry. 7 Logansport has a new electric street railway. The carpenters have forty local unions in Indiana. There are eleven oil producing wells in Jay county. The State Fair grounds have been sold for $275,100. Counterfeit five-dollars are being circulated at Portland, A Wauatah constable has been found guilty of stealing flour. The Muncie Republicans are organzing for the campaign of ’92. Sheihyville turned out en masse to j_e<|; the eclipse of the moon. George Eden, near Lawrenceburg. was kicked to death bv a mule. Richmond clamors for low-priced gas, but the company only smiles. □ The gig saddle works, of Jackson,Mich.. will be removed to South Bend. Cr R. Mustard, near Hartford City, liad both cal’s badly frost bitten by the cold. The fourth-class postmasters of Hamilton cofunty are clamoring for more pay. Twelve hundred feet of lumbejis iised daily in the prison south in making bird cages, rat traps and brushes Hon. Albert G. Porter, Minister to Italy, arrived at Indianapolis on the 19th on a sixty days’ leave of absence. It is asserted that no section of country on the habitable globe can raise such a diversity of crops as northern Indiana. KeV. D. P. Roberts, colored, of Evansville, was on the 20th appointed Recorder -of the General Land Office,-to succeed MtTownsend.

James Kennedy, auditor of Decatur county, has given way to ins successor, •JohnJ. Puttmann, who defeated him in the last flection by one-vote. - The’warden of the prison north has recently granted permission to convicts to wear mustaches, and every prisoner is cultivating the hair on Ills upper lip with great assiduity. Joseph Hudson, of Bro\vnsburg, entered ProfessorWisehart’s residence on burglary intent, but was seized and held by the Professor. He was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. Mrs. William Vanhorn, of Hartford City, was shot. 1n the hand by her husband who fired through a rear window after she had taken her scat in a passenger-coach, enroutc for Marion. She continued journey. The water dropped eighteen inches in the Michigan City harbor one night ,last week, and for hours the city was seriously inconvenienced in its supply of water. The Michigan Central railway was a,so put to considerable trouble. It is said of Mrs. Dr. Wilson, who recent] y died near Noblesvilie, that, shortly before death she called for paper and pencil, and inscribed her belief that there was no hereafter. During her life she had apparently held opposite views. Mark Denton, of French Lick township has been arrested, charged with criminally assaulting the twelve year-old daugter o* Representative Trimble, and attempting an assault upen another little girl, aged eight. Great indignation is shown toward the accused.

John McCartney, of West Albany, while calling upon his sweetheart, Miss Nancy Lewis, attempted to.explain the workings of a stnall revolvoiv and the weapon was discharged. The bullet struck Miss Lewis squarely between the eyes and was imbedded in the bone of the forehead. The State Fanners’ Alliance of Washington (State;, Friday ifight“gKcttSTßi I*' Ravens president. Resolutions, were adopted favoring the sub-treasury scheme fho third party movement and free and unlimited coinage of domestic silver, a laritf for revenue ouly and the election of Presidents and United States Senators by the direct vole of the people. Daniel Snyder, aged in excesg of seventy fives alone in a little shanty tjn tho borders of a big marsh In U union township! St. Jo.e county. Lata, at night two men ] daor, assaulted him until he was unconscious, and robbed ’’film of SSO cash, aud SOOO in negotiable bonds. It Is probable that Snyder will die. cuses William Oorney, a fisherman, as being one of his assailants, and Gorney has been arrested. A case of malignant diptheria was discovered on the 15th in the family of janitor Dorsey, of the Central school building. Crawfordsville.and this,of course, necessitated tho dismissal of that school and the 850 attending pupils. There are a number of other cases being discovered over the city, and an epidemic is greatly feared. So far, however, there have been no deaths and every precaution is being taken to prevent tho spread of the disease. The pastor @f the Church of St. Martin's In the hamlet of Yorkville, is at outs with the way of these latter days, and he proposes that his flock once moro shall follow the methods of former times. In consequence ho has issued a pulpit edict which decress that hereafter there shall be a division of sexes In church worship. Pews have been Sold accordingly, and beginning with Sunday next husbands and wives must sit apart, and even children will be taken from the sides of their mothers, and sweet-hearts will be separated. Village gossips have set their tongues a-goiug in consequence. A shameful outrage was committed near Piltsboro on the night of the 9th,and the guilty ones are still at large. At New Hope Church, three miles north of Pittsboro, m young farmer was called out during meeting by some men whp tried to kill him. He had hardly got on the outside till he was set upon by unknown enemies, who beat him with stones, fracturing his skull. Some of the would-be as sassius had knives and gavo him several murderous stabs, one blade having penetrated the kidneys. The man was picked

np in almost a dying condition, and it Is more than possible that he will die. Benjamin Farley, of Whitestown, indicted for the murder of Alexander Stew-, art, and triad at Frankfort on a changed venae, was found guilty and sentenced to twenty-one years’ 'imprisonment. Stewart was the tenant df property of which Farley was the ageut, and he was advised, by the owner to pay no money to Farley : The latter threatened to have tiie moqey or Stewart's blood, and meeting him on a vacant lot followed up the demand for payment by knocking him down with a billet of wood. Farley then used a knife, cutting Stewart to death. The defendant is aged sixty. The Depanw Plate (Mass Company, organized to construct and operate a new plant at Alexandria, in connection with the New Albany works, 4ias been] incorporated in Madison county. The stockholders and directors are N. T. DePauw.Chas. W. DePauw, W. D. Keyes, Charles TV Doxey and E. P, SclilaLer. Capital stock, $1,200,000. The plant at Alexandria will cover forty acres, and the buildings will be of stone, irou and brick, with a manufacturing capacity 0f75,000 square feet of plate glass weekly. The New Albany plant has 30,000 square feet capacity. The company has leased a large acreage of gas' lands in the viciflity of Alexandria for fuel purposes. “Little Union.” as it is familiarly called, is one of the banner counties of the v Statc in ail that goes to make enterprising citizenship. Liberty, its county seat, isouo of the prettiest little towns in Eastern Indiana. It has three churches and fine schools. There are but three saloons in the county, two of. which are located at Libert y. A fine court house Is now in process of completion, costing SIOO,OOO, and it is the third court house seen there in forty years. The last two were built since 1850. There is but one toll road loft in the county, and it will soon be purchased by thp county. Although the entire population numbers but. 7,000, the county free marvels of. efficiencvT T ~' ~T A decision rendered by Judge McConnell at Logansport on thelTth, in the injunction proceedings against the Chicago Pipeline Company, makes perpetual the in , junction stopping them from crossing tho bed ou the old Wabash & Erie c anal. The case is known technically as Elbert W. Shirk versus The Indiana Natural gas Company. Judge McConnell held that the plaintlff’s-title is sufficient; that the defendants should be restrained, because they had instituted proceedings to condemn the land after the restraining order had been granted, which was no ground for dissolving the injunction, as the plain, tiff was entitled to the injunction for the purpose of protecting the possession, and that the injunction was proper as an auxiliary proceeding igaid of an action at law. C. P. Richards, of New Albany, on November 11,1839, at the time a healthy, robust young man, was seized of hemorrhage of the nose and mouth, and after the flow had been stopped numerous purple spot 9 appeared on his body. He soon recovered and returned to work. One year later, almost to the hour, the homorrhage returned, and it was accompanied by a blotched appearance of the entire bodyThis attaek—left him .very weak, but he eventually recovered This year so confidently did he expect another attack of this strange visitation that, lie had a physician in attendance, and,sure enough the bleeding returned, together with the attendant spots upon the body. This time he suffered great Toss of blood and was so weakened that he can scarcely speak above a whisper. The hemorrhage continued until the 18th, and his condition is quite critical.