Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Huntington has free mail delivery. Wabash clerks have formed a union. Thirty students graduated from the Valparaiso law school. The mayor of Warsaw will have no Sunday base ball tn that city.? “ The business men of Anderson have organized a commercial club. Crawfordsville demands reform in the quality of its soda water. The dead body of a woman was seen floating over the dam at Wabash. ■ Counterfeit gold dollars of the issue cf 1857 are circulating at South Bend. Mrs. David McCrosky, near Laporte, fell down stairs and died of her injuries. TDimitrij Antonovitch Konoplitzsky has joined the Russian colony at Kendallville. Th reeves! den ces at Pendleton have been struck by lightning during the past week. Fire in the cotton mills at New Albany on the Ist did damage amounting to 135,00 P. Hazlewood, a suburb of Anderson, has ordered a new school building, to cost 111.800. '

Thomas Sheppard and wife, of Fort Wayne, have celebrated their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary. .Lightning set fire to Michael Mosbaugh’s barn, in Hatnilton county, and seven horse? were cremated. Petersburg is overrun with Gypsies, tramp showmen, scissor grinders, handorgan men and peddlers. Within the limits of the United States 413 species of trees have been found of which 108 grow in Indiana. The thirteen-year-old son of W. B. Wilsey, of Muncie, fell under a street car, losing one leg at the ankle, and seriously crippling the other, Ex-Senator Graham M. Fish, of Logansport. has sold his farm of 383 acres, near that city, to the Illinois Steel Company, receiving 128,C0J cash. Harry Miller, a school teacher near Ligonier, while a guest at the depot hotel, Elkhart, blew out the gas upon retiring, and narrowly escaped suffocation. Lightning struck the barn of Amos Thomas, near Fairmount, while the own er was standing within 'six feet. He recovered in tfme.to rescue the live stock. Elisha King, an old farmer of Rush county, recalls that the rainy season of 1858 did not close until June 15, and that many fanners did not finish corn planting until June 25. A jury at Wabash found that E. L. Rittenhouse owed the estate of George Knoon 1600 for United States bond coupons that were in an old chest that Rittenhouse had purchased for a song. While Bert George, of Muncie, was shooting at a mark, the weapon was prematurelydischarged, and a bullet struck Richard George, of Mt. Carmel, in the groin, causing a fatal wound. John Hiatt, living near Richmond, is eighty-eight years of age, he and his wife having lived together sixty-eight years, They have had one hundred children, grandchildren and grpat grandchildren. Jack Harrington and John Porter, employedin the Evansville & Terre Haute railway yards at Terre Haute, were catfght by a car Thursday n' rht. Harrington was killed. Porter escaped with a broken

k‘R. , ' The recent havy rains have done an-im-mense amount of damage in and around Indianapolis. All the streams overflowed -their banks and lowlands were flooded. Many families were compelled to vacate their homes. , The carpenters of Elwood propose testing the eight hour law enacted by the last Legislature, and have filed against E. R. Coxen, of whom it is alleged that he discharged men because they refused to work ten hours daily. Twins came to the home of Jas. Thom pson and wife, of Mt, Vernon, the. past week. One’is a boy and the other a girl, and a peculiarity is that the boy has a growth of whiskers. He is healthy and well developed in all respects. Sergt.Thomas Gunn, U. S.A., attached to the army recruiting station at Fort Wayne, has received notice of the death of his father, T. W. Gunn, near Minneapolis, and that he has fallen heir to $38,000The Sergeant will leave the army. Orris Snyder, near?Greentown, while bathing in Sugar Creek, was seized of cramps and drowned. He was trying to save a youpger brother, who had become 1 entangled in the limbs of an uprooted tree The lad was rescued by other parties. A calf belontfing’to a Mr. Houchen.near Seymour, became strangely sick one even Ing this week and in a short time began to whirTrqund and round,, as a pup after its tail, anuwithin two hours was dead. It whirled for two solid' hours, neyer stopping to draw breath or grease the axle. W. E. Sherwood, in the employ of Evansville for nearly twenty years, kept secret lhe map showing the location of the water pipes. The city made an effort to secure it, failing in which, he was dis--giiSsSd±flmtbe office. Mr. Sherwood went out rather than surrender the plat, for which he demands ;SI,BOO. Twelve months ago George Sillings aged thirteen, of Edwardsville, mysteriously disappeared. Wednesday his skeleton was found dangling from a tree in a lonesome piece of woods. He was posed to have run away because of bad treatment, but whether he committed suicide by hanging or was murdered 4s a mys-. tery. the authorities are investigating; The majority of the harness and collar makers of Evansville are striking for nine hours’work and ten hours’ pay. There was a strike for the same cause last season, and after a time the employers acceded thereto. The manufacturers now claim that after trying the" plan for one year find it is against their Interests, and they propose to supply the places of the strikers with non-unionista. In Grant, one df the best cereal producing counties in" northern Indiana, it is estimated thA there, will not be more than half a corn crop this year. Half the planting is not done, and many acrhs plantedin corn Saturday and Monday are ruined "by the Monday night and frequent falls of rain. The growth of wheat is luxuriant but rank and-frail and falling in many places. The American Tin-plate Company, of

Elwood, made a test of its immense works Wednesday. Some fine specimens of bright tin were turned out. The work was mere-

ly preparatory to a grand opening which is to be held later, and at which McKinley will preside. The capacity of the works at present is 1,200 boxes per week. The cost of the plant so far is 8325,000. It is the largest on the Ameri< a i continent. Miss Anna Swalem, employed in the Harrison pants factory at Evansville, while hunting for a lest shuttle caught her hair on the shafting, and almost instantly a large portion of the scalp was torn away. Miss Swalem had a magnificent head of light golden hair, of which she was naturally very proud. The accident necessitated the shingling off what was left. It is doubtful if she ever recovers from the jp jury. The L. E. & W.'fast train due in Indianapolis at 3:30 a. m., Tuesday morning plunged into a washout near Fisher’s station. Three persons were seriously injured, and several not so badly hurt. A still more frightful disaster was narrowly averted. The “Kokomo Pan Handle” follows this train with but a few minutes intermission. land but for prompt action would have crashed in to it. The accident was due to the heavy rains of the night.

A peculiar Dug has appeared near New Ross, and L. O. Howard, assistant entomologist, United States Department of Agriculture, pronounces them as being “scutigeraforceps.”" They live on cockroaches and house flics, and are common in the South. The bug has a body from one to two inches long, and covered with eight plates, and has fifteen pairs of legs, which increase in length from front to rear, the hind onffi being as long as the body. It has large, reticulated eyes, and tsi motions rapid. J. M. Boggs, president of the State Bodrd of Agriculture, said Thursday that wheat is looking fine in.the northern part of the State, but is somewhat in danger from scalding, due to humidity and the hot sun, Oats, he said, will give a full yield. Corn, however, will, be much reduced in acreage, and good, weather and late frosts will be necessary to admit of a fair yield. There is a prospect for a very large yield of apples in Indiana, but there will be few peaches in the northern section of the State. - „

About a month ago Shelbyville purchased a fire alarm system. Since then, bn several different occaslonss, the company and citizens have been greatly annoyed by unknown parties turning in false alarms at various hours of the night, thus bringing out the department and the people from their beds. Finally the Council passed an ordinance on the subject fixing a heavy penalty. On last Sunday night two false alarms were turned in from distant parts of the city. For this William Lane and William Moote were spotted. They were arrested and taken before Mayor Morrison, and convicted of being the guilty parties. Each wefe fined fl(X\ Lane went tp jail, and Moore appealed to the Circuit Court.

Patents were granted Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows; F. M. Archer, Fountaintown, base for honey, comb; F. L. Bailey, Freeport, metal wheel? G. J. Cline, Goshen, attachment for corn planters; C. M. Collins, South Bend, device for controlling the water jets of street sprinklers; H.M. Finch, Michigan City, submarine telephone; T. F. Groves, Kokomo, step ladder; F. A. Hetherington, Indianapolis, film or plate carrier; R. A. Howard, Richmond, race track; E. P. Koontz, Ligonier, rocking chair; H. T. Keith, /Vincennes, holder for post marking stamps; N, E, Miles, Indianapolis, corset; T. C. Moore and S. F. Gruff, Dublin, bicycle; C. D. Secor, South Bend,doffin attachment for spinning mules.

Representatives of the law and order element of Crawfordsville kept tab on the saloons Sunday last, and eighty persons were seen to enter one saloon and sixtyfive another, During a meeting of the pity Council on the 31st, there was an uprising of citlzeng, and a great crowd waited upon the Councilman with why the laws could not be enforced. Individual pledges were received for the passage of a saloon screen ordinance, and the cooperation of the mayor and'Xifficlals were promised, looking to more regard for the law. ’