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

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

> Noblesville will have a new opera house. Anderson will have a pressed brick factory. Zinc indications are prevalent tn Shultztown. A recent revival in Columbus resulted In 218 conversions. Crawfordsville has a surplus of $27,110.67 in its treasury. Several Tipton county orchards were ruined by high winds. ~ A man representing himself as George Kahn has been successfully defrauding banks at Mitchel, Bedford and SeyjapSif by means of forged checks ouCtncinnati banks. . .±— Two locomotives t&d twenty freightcars were wrecked itj a rear-end collision ut ManstieM,_O. The road was-blocked for right hours and the damage is placed at H 90.000. V A tornado in the neighborhood of Farmersbu rg u n roofed George Al ten's residen co and carried away his barn and outbuildings, -~M. Everly’s barn was also wrecked and considerable damage was done to fences ana buildings on I. J. Wall's farm*. J. Berlein’s coal-shaft building was so badly wrecked that |it will have to be rebuilt Little in value in the way of bjiildngs and orchard was left standing on the farm owned by Thirza Woods. At 3 o’clock Sunday morning word camo from Pierceton, a village of 1,2C0 inhabitants, that one of the principal blocks was on fire. Two fife companies were sent from Warsaw. When the fire was at its worst a couple bf the members of the two companies became involved in a controversy. Each company took the side of its member and for a while the fire was forgotten and the companies turned the nozzles on each other In the meantime the building was consumed. Immediately lotion was taken against the members of the companies. There has been another wholesale distharge of men on the Chicago & Erie roadSaturday orders were received in Huntington from headquarters to abandon all work trains on the entire line and to reluce the number of section men to three

men and one boss on each section. This ?reat reduction, following so closely upon the heels of the discharge of so many shopmen recently, created no little surprise. Saturday night the work train at Lima, jn which about forty men were at work was returned to Huntington and the men lischaS’ged. Another train working between Akron aud Rochester, and a third from near Monterey, were called in also. On each of these trains about forty, men were employed. The order regarding section men was put into effect and resulted In the discharge of scores. The Federal grand jury chosen for the May term consists of the following members who iiave been selected by lot and summoned to report for duty on the first Monday In May: E. H. Applegate, Fran:isville; Samuel H. Alverson, Spencer; Lewis A. Botkin, Parker Postoffice; James Brandon. Greencastle; Whitcomb Byfleld. Indianapolis; Lewis Culver, Walcottville; Daniel Davis, Augusta; Christian Grubs> Southport; Jonathan Hollingsworth, New Augusta; A. F. Harn, Cloverdale: Cornelus M. Horney, Monon; ( Jvin G. HosslerWarsaw; Jacob F. Kel. r, Peru; M. F* Long, Butler; Reuben Lutz, Wabash; Geo. W. Maxwell, Cherubusco; Reuben Pettit’ Remington; Nathan Robinson,Metz; Herbeft"V.~RobtrFt;~Wayne7Jdseph Stewa rt, Monticello; William Stuff, Wawaka; John H. Watson, Spearsville.

INDIANA ENCAMPMENT G. A. It. r_ The State encampment G. A. R. opened aLfTt. Wayne on the 6th. The commandenTreport showed the total membership to be 21,687. as against 28,074 a year ago. Dn the suspended Hst are 4,017, as against 2,901 a year ago. Since the passage ot the pension law of June 27, 1890, he said, the requests for relief from deserving comrades have diminished each term, so that we have reported from several posts but M,031.68 expended for relief, against 85,166.92 reported for the previous year. This law, while it does not come up to the measure of justice that the men who saved the Government deserve, has been of great benefit to thousands of needy comrades and their families throughout the department. Comrade Ensley reports 54,182 names on the rolls in this State, and is having paid out 812,439,020.49 from March 1,1891, to March 1, 1892, to pensioners. This is a vast sum, I admit, yet what does it signify when compared with incalculable benefits received through the efforts and energies of those who defended and preserved the Union. Speaking of the Orphans’ Home, he deplored the fact that the law permitted the children to be sent forth at sixteen years of age, to perhaps drift back under old and baleful influences. He endorses most heartily the proposal to establish a home for soldiers and soldiers* wives by the State. The Commander urged the necessity of the department securing rooms in the State House, where records of the department can be preserved; paid a fitting tribute to Governor Hovey; related how the slanders about the cruel treatment of prisoners at Camp Morton had been refuted, and urged that, memorial day be generally observed throughout the State. The report of the monument committee contained much of interest to the people of the State. The architectural parts, it said, including the iron stairway leading to the capital, will be completed during the present season, and the crowning figure “Indiana,” and the upper astragali put in place. The second astragal, representing the navy, will not be added until next spring, owing to the impossibility of having it cast before that time. Meantime the fence and trees will be removed, the grounds graded, and every detail completed to the extentof the available means. A six Inch well has 1 been sunk under the mdlh terrace to the depth of 270 feet, af' fording an abundant supply of pure water which can be used for fountains or other purposes, as circumstances may require. The contracts on the work call for an expenditure of 8213,298,16, and to meet which the Commission have assets as follows: Appropriated by the State 8200,000; contributed by the G. A. R. 817,437,97, leaving a balance of more than 84.000, use of which is readily at hand. The social part

of the Encampment is not being neglected Chase was tendered a reception Tu&fay evening, and the, W. R. C. is acQ|W“in all good works,” holding meetings, and looking after their part of the work. The Gran Council, Royal Arcanum met at Indianapolis Thursday. Report showed an increase in membership for the year, the total now being about 3,000The following officers Wer® .elected: Regent—MurM-.’lteAl&tte, Yalpariso. Vice regent AV-. ,H. Stephenson, Wabash. tffrftor-’Will 11. Tigar, FL Wayne. freasurer-N. S. Byram, Indianapolis. Chaplain—John H. Russe, Lawrenceburg. Guide—John G. Ming, Shelby’Warden—John C, Vtarrfen, Terre Haute. Sentry—James F. Eflder, Richmond. Representative to Supreme Council—S. B. Lewis, Evansville; alternate, James B, Rucker, Evansville. Trustee—G. S. Vafi Dusen, Michigan City. - .

~ The G, A. R. Encampment Thursday elected delegates to f,heNatibnal Encampment, os follows: At Large—James T. Johnston, of. Rockville; alternate, Mayor Zollinger, of Fort JlEaynexi: First District—Delegates. S. M. Holcomb, of ’Fort Branch, and A. J. McCutchen, of Evansville; alternates, Wm. Slaughter, of Warrick, and W. H. Anderson, of’Evansville. Second—Delegates, R. B. Scott, of Bedford, and William Houghton, of Loogotee; alternates, J. A. J. White, of Alfordsville, and Peter Resler, of Newark. Third—Delegate, C. P. Richardson, Madison; alternate, J. H. McGinnis, oil Seymour-. Fourth- Delegates, George S. Dickey, of Greensburg, and Rev. Daniel Ryap; of Milroy; alternates, G. L. Haymond, of Shelbyville, and 11. T. Stott, of Sardinia. Fifth—Delegates, David Wilson, of Martinsville, and David Storey, of Franklin; alternates, W. H, Ragan, of Greencastle, and D, N. Elrod, of Columbus. Sixth—Delegates, W. S. Bedford, of New Castle, and W. S. Richie, of Muncie; alternates, J. W. Hannah, of Connersville, and J. H. Yaryan, of Liberty. Seventh—Delegates, Rev. P. J. Albright, of Alexandria, andnH. B. Snyder, of Indianapolis; alternates, M. G. McLain and A. Miller, of Indianapolis. Eighth—Delegates, J. M. Whitney, Attica, and B. F. Havens, of Tqrre Haute; alternates, J. P. Stratton, Sullivan, and J. H. Kinsley, Crawfordsville. Ninth-Delegates, J. B. Shaw, Lafayette, and J. W. Henoerson. Battle-ground; alternates, Abner Boggs, Kokomo, and John Reice, of Kempton. Tenth—Delegates, R. Strain, of Logansport. and L. Coster, Delphi; altelnates, E. R. Brown, Monticello, and A. Young, Mt. Ayr. Eleventh—Delegates, D. T. Krisher, Manchester, and Ransom Allen,Ossian; alternates, B. M. Cobb, Huntington, hnd W. 11. H. Spaulding, Peru. Twelfth—Delegates, W. H. Brown, Monroeville, and J. F. Lawrence, Columbia City; alternates, W. B. Bingham, Lagrange, and J. C. Freddie, Kendallville. Thirteenth—Delegates, W. H. Mershon, Warsaw, and L H. Houghton, Plymouth; alternates, Henry A. Root, Michigan City, and C. A. Broderick, Elkhart. The election of officers resulted as follow; Commander—Joe. B. Cheadle.Frankfort. Senior-V1 ce—Phi 1 Dickson’, Ft. Wayne. Junior-Vice—Geo. 11. Koch,New Albany.