Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Good bass fishing at Swan lake. , Monroe county wheat is looking fine. Columbus will have a mile race course. Ducks abound in the Kankakee marshes. Fort Wayne will ,<have a'handsome club house. A Seymour man is cutting his third set of teeth. i Montgomerylc&unty has a boom in marriages. Richjno&A will have a new telephone Kempton catches a new hub and spoke factory. / 1 Gripp is still claiming victims all over the State. Crawfordsville observed Arbor Day in fitting Style. Alexandria will likely secure the Whiteley reaping works. Evansville is in the throes of a bitter municipal canvass. Richmond reports three deaths inside of twenty-four hours. The life-saving station at Michigan City-has been reopened. There are 823 convicts in the northern

prison. This ishigh watermark.— Sixty-nine new [lndiana State Fair buildings are to be erected this spring. George Reese, of Francesville, claims to be the champion laugher of the State. The first church in Hamilton ebunty was organized near Noblesville in 1820. The carders and spinners in the woolen mills at Yountsvllle are striking for higher wages. ~ Michigan City has secured a site for a park, and the citizens are being interested in tree planting. Mrs. Elizabeth Riley, of Battle Ground, who was burned to death while smoking a pipe, was 103 years old. Daniel Lint, of Goshen, jumped from a moving train at Millersburg and was faally hurt, buying in a short time. Harry Dunlap, of Princeton, who was struck on the head several weeks ago by John Cornelius, is hopelessly jnfane. Lucius B. McKinley, a well-known attorney, of Warsaw, subject to melancholy ( spells, is missing under circumstancesindicatihg suicide by drowning, Fannie Edwards, known as the “little girl preacher,” is only 14 years of age.but she is creating a great sensation at Gosport. • ’ ■ ■ _■ ■ ALAA 8L JL- tralii nrh into an open switch near Princeton, Thursday. A bad smash up resulted. Five men, all employes, were badly injured. Miss Paxson, a beautiful young lady of Anderson, has been removed to the insane hospital as a result of religious excitement produced by Mrs. Wood worth. Two locomotives and twenty freight cars were wrecked in a rear-end collision at Mansfield, O. The road was blocked for eight hours and the damage is placed at 1100,000. The management of the Hartford City glass-works will build a fifty-pot extension*. When completed the factory will be the second largest of its. kind in the United States. — ——

Francis Zinkins, of Daviess county, whom Judge Hefron, fined and sent to jail for attempting to “fix” juries, owns 600 acres of excellent land, and was formerly county commissioner. A representative of Belfast, Ireland, company is at Evansville, seeking a site or a cordage plant, in which it is proposed to invest fifty = thousand pounds, and give employment to five hundred men. Frankfort claims to be the greatest secret society and club town of its size in the State. There are over|half a hundred organizations, the membership bf which equals one-half of the city’s population. . Rev. Lewis Edmundson, of Lewis township, Clay county, has become insan over the hallucination that in preaching to his little congregation millions stand before him, and that nightly there are housands of conversions. Muncie is seeking direct connection with Cincinnati via the Big Four. The project calls for building a line between Muncie and Hagerstown, in length twen-ty-two miles. The proposed route runs through Dalton, Losantville an<T New Burlington. * . The school in the Catt school-house, in Johnson township, Knox county, closed with an entertainment at night, in which the teachers, pupils and patrons joined] As the audience was separating unknown parties threw numerous eggs, and several persons were badly bespattered. '

Nathan Arbuckle, of Bartholomew county, accused of criminally assaulting the little daughter of Henry Schofield, entered a plea of guilty Tuesday at Columbus, and was sentenced for two years. He claimed that he did not commit the crime, and that he pleaded guilty because he had no witnesses. A project is on foot to dredge Little Wea, a good-sized creek in Tippecanoe county, which empties into the Wabash, so as to make it navigable for grain barges. Id this way it is propsed to ship farm products to the Ohio river and thence to a market, thereby avoiding excessive freight charges imposed by railroads. The fountain head of the Little Wea is on the Shawnee prairie, in the Goose nibble neighborhood. Robert Fisk, of Michigan City, a member of the Salvation Army, while on his way to services, was accosted by a highwayman who attempted to rob him. Fisk expostulated add reasoned with the fellow and finally persuaded him not only to forego his purpose, but to accompany him to church, where he sat out the services. Then ho disappeared.’ The highwayman was recognized as Frank Thole, recently released from the prison north. □The Indianapolis & Vincennes railroad owed Morgan county SII,OOO taxes. Tha officers of the Pennsylvania company paid to the county treasuer $3,000 and refused to pay any morp on the ground that the assessment of its property for 1891 If too high. The assessment has almost been doubled in that county. Morgan county will make no concessions and will insist that the law take its course. Emanuel, aged sixteen, son of Henry Snyder, near Onward,,ill of inflammatory rhenmutlsm, while eating his dinner sud* denly exclaimed. “I’m going to die.” In a few minutes the buy began to show

signs of dissolution and his body stiffened in the rigor of apparent death. This continued for over two hours, after which the boy gradually returned to consciousness. While the cataleptic state.continued he claims to have seen things in the world beyond and to have talked.with parties long since dead. The sentence of “J. K. Miller, the wealthy farmer who has been serving time in the Clay county jail for cutting the poles of the Postal Telegraph Company* expired Thursday, and he was Immediately arrested on another indictment. To this he pleaded guilty and was fined <lO and was sentenced to thirty days in jail. Withan air of impertinence. Miller remarked that he could stand on his head that long. The Judge immediately doubled the fine and sentenced him to sixty days’ imprisonment. Four other indictments remain against Miller, and he will be arrested on them as fast as his sentences expire. Thjs will keep him in jail until October. - .-