Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Seymour will play ball—some. Crawfordsville will have a law and ordej league. The whirr 6f electric cars will soon lx heard at Ft. Wayne. ... The Deans telephone from Madison i lial the peaches are safe. Tree planting is becoming a fad in many towns and villages of Indiana The census committee of the Hoti-e has decided not to investigate Mr. Porter's office, Windsor is piping gas from Park -r, and' Winchester will secure a supply ai Fairview. ‘ >- Two saloon keepers at, Ottu were fined 3500 each for violating t!><rpf<> hibitory law. -..Eight cases of smallpox were reported to the New York Health Bo'. rd from Saturday to Monday. Valparaiso has four municipal tickets in the field—Republican, Democratic, Citizens’ and Peoples'. Three hundred electric linemen struck at New York Monday on the refusal of the demand for higher wages. Fjurteen persons lost their lives in the vicinity of Columbus, Gu., in tlm high waters of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Anderson printers and pressmen have struck for u2> per cent, increase in wages. Other men will take their places if procurable. William Skelton, of Pas.oy county, while horseback riding, was thrown, and his horse falling upon him, he was crushed to death. After coughing up a lapge brass pin, John Haines, of Danville, 111., regained his voice, which had left him sometime previous. In Tillman-Turger family war in Tennessee a Turner was shot down, Mrs. Tillman was shot through the body and her boy flogged. Five hundred armed cowboys are after the “rustlers” (cattle thieves) near Miles City, Mont., and there is a probability of somebody being killed. Brig. Gen. Thos. • W. Sweeney, U. S. A.,' at New York, and Geu, Chas. W. Field, late of the C. S. A., at Washington, were deaths announced Monday. The fourteen insurance companies holding policies in the Central school building at Crawfqrdsvllle, which was destroyed by fire, have adjusted the loss at 322,700. Secretary of the State Harrity, of Pennsylvania, a close friend of Governor Pattison, says that the Governor will not consent to have the State convention indorse aim for President, and that he favors Mr. Cleveland. Chairman Dockery, of the sub-commit-ieeof the House that visited Chicago to investigate the management of the World’s Fair, expresses himself as fully satisfied with the progress and conduct of the work >f arrangement. A leading Roumanian organ, the Rounania. says rumors are circulated that. Roumanian circles anticipate the abdication of the King of Roumania in favor of the Crown Prince, No confirmation of the rumor Is obtainable. ./fhaddeus Hayes, aged eleven, of Rlchnond, lost an arm while trying to board a noving train. The day before his mother ostachlld by sickness. Two years ago bis brother was Killed by the cars, and ihree years ago his father died in an inlane asylum. Hon. J. N. Huston, of Connersville, &nd )ther parties Interested in the new process 'or casting wrought iron, are making an sffort to establish a large plant at Conlersville. It is claimed that this ifew process of producing iron will revolutionize ■be iron industry of the world. At Wheeling, W Va., Mrs. Sarah Ann Shoemaker, aged seventy-five, is suing for i divorce from her husband, who is eighty, md a prominent minister of Romney. She fliarges cruelty and neglect, and it is said hat ’another woman has Infatuated her Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker have ived together for" fifty years, and are great- parents. A family in Franklih has been molested lie past, two weeks with nightly-visita-iions by a ghost. Tliere formerly lived in ibis house a very quarrelsome family, one >f whom, it is said, committed mOrder,and tis her ghost t hat appears. The family .hat. has lieeu occupying the house are linking preparations to move out. Ralpii K. Paige, easliicr, qnd Horace Steele, president, of the wrecked Painesville. ().. bunk, were indicted by the grand jury for forgery. There are two indictments against Paige and one against Steele. The indictments are based on three notes Aggregating 312,000. Steele gave hail in 310,0C0. but Paige remains In jail, where he has been for two w<*eks. Ex-Senator Blau Monday presented a long memorial to the Senate, asking that in investigation be made of the causes which led to his resignation as minister to China. He claims that false representations were made to the Chinese government. while the resident embassador was absent. He asks that the whole, matter be thoroughly investigated. The memorial was referred to the committee on foreign relations. Patrick Donavan, aged seventy-three years, died in hospital at Boston Sunday night, and his wife Mary, aged seventy, and his daughter, aged thlrtf. are in a critical condition as a result of an assault by John Donavan in Charleston, Sunday night. The assailant, a dissipated fellow, was angered by reproaches of his sister, and when she was defended from his attacks by their aged parents he beat all three with a whisky bottle knocking them senseless, then escaped, but was arrested Monday morning. The mammoth central arch of the manufacturers’ building gt the World’s Fair grounds, Chicago, was completed late Monday. This immense steel span, which has a height of 212 feet and a width at its base of 375 feet, is the largest arch ever constructed for any building lu the world. It can be plainly se«n from the center of the city, over seven miles away, "To form some idea of its size," said the chief engineer of the World's Fair,"lf you could put the Rookery building, which Is one of the largest of Chicago's large build lugs, on a wheelbarrow and wheel it through the arch, it would not touch the- sides by several feet” .