Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Elnora is now incorporated. ~, Kokomo will build a city building. Burglars are oyemming Huntingdon. t Columbus will have-a Pythian jubilee In August ’f Twenty pots will be added to the Anderson window glass works. Covington has contracted for water works and the electric light. Frankfort has cpurchased a tract of woodland for public park purposes. Wm. Duke, of Marion, was sandbagged in broad daylight and robbed of a watch. What with the rain and grasshoppers, Bartholomew county haymakers have the dumps. - The Creseht Paper Mills, at Hartford City, was destroyed by fire on the 12th. t,cf£s $150,000, Jamts McGuire, near Wabash, was damaged $1,200, his barn being struck by lightning and consumed. Skeletons of a supposed prehistoric race were unearthed in an excavation near Flatrock, near Columbus. The small danghterof Frederick Jacorha, of Logansport, was scalded to death by having coffee spilled on her. There is a movement on foot at nersville to secure the removal of tho female college it Oxford. 0., to that city. The Anderson City Council has awarded contracts calling for nearly SIOO,OOO in Brick street pavement. A sixty-thousand dollar extension will also be made to the water works. _ Last season the Methodists of lilufTton added a Sunday School room to their house of worship, the same costing Sfi.ooo. This year material additions will be made to the church proper, the estimated cost of which Is SIO,OOO. The corner stone of tho new Masonic Temple at Wabash will be laid July 4, and the lodge is making preparations for a celebration of magnificent proportions. The temple will be the largest and handsomest building in the city. Odd Fellows and others who may desire to go to Portland, Oregon in September, (Session Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. 0.0. F.,) are requested to place themselves in communication with W. H, Leedy, Grand Representative, Indianapolis. The rate will be very reasonable. During a storm which swept over Carbon the residence of George Pierce was twice struck by lightning. The second time the electric current took effect on the Bed upon which Mrs. Pierce was lying, hurling her out upon the floor. Tho lady escaped injury. While a number of boys were bathing in Peed’s creek, near Piercet.on, the tweivc-year-old son of Dr. F. F. Moody dragged H. Switzer, a smaller boy, into deep water to learn him to swim. In the struggle young Moody went down. Tom Smith, a larger boy. sprang to the rescue and succeeded in dragging out the Switzer lad,but Moody was drowned, - Charlestown is again fighting the proposed establishment of a saloon within its corporate limits. This opposition to drinking resorts covers a long series of years, and there have been a multitude of bitter contests, resulting in victory for the remonstrants in nearly every instance. The breweries are said to be responsible for the repeated attempts to override puhlic opinion. , / William Stoner, a colored preacher of Anderson, one month ago, while in a socalled trance, predicted the destruction of cities in the-oil regions of Pennsylvania by fire and water. Stoner was placed in jail gs an insane person, and ho is still in con finement. Many persons are wondering if he was really gifted with prophetic instinct, for they claim that his prophecy has been fulfilled with marvellous accuracy. Willis Jones, assistant secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, has returned from atrip through the southern part of the State., ,He says that the farmers are still planting corn and will be planting in some localities until the 15tbof the month. ‘I saw some com almost knee high along the J. M. & I. road,” said he, “and it has a healthy color: I believe that with favorable weather the farmers can make a good corn crop. Wheat looks well, and grass and olts neyer promised more. I’— 1 ’— Indianapolis News, 9th.

An effort wiil be made to break the deadlock at New Albany, growing out of the resignation of Mayor McDonald, by an appeal to the courts George F. Penn is president of the Council, and he claims to be acting Mayor, but hie rights to sign warrants on the city treasury is not recognized by the Treasurer. Mr. Penn obtained a voucher from the City Clerk in pay for services rendered, which voucher was dishonored by the Treasurer. A complaint is now in process of preparation in a suit to enforce payment, and this will be tested in the courts. Mayor McDonald resigned because the Democratic party in Council took away all his prerogatives, bus enough Democrats continue to. vote witfr the Republicans to prevent the elec-* tionof a successor. Th,e Grand Lodge K. of P., which met at Indianapolis on the Bth, elected the following officers: Grand Chancellor—Dr. E. L. Siver, 1 1 ’Wayne.

Grand Vice Chancellor—James E. Watson, Winchester. Grand Prelate—J. M. Hatfield, Huntington. Grand Master of Exchequer—Henry D. Grahs, Unldh City. Grand Master-at-Arms—C. F. S. Neal, Lebanou. .. Grand Trustee—George W. Powell, Indianapolis. . . , - ; WHITE CAP OUTRAGE. ..ev B.~T. Vancieave was token from his bed at his home, at Moberly, seven miles «rthwest disguised men Saturday night. Entrance was made into the pastor's house by battering down thu front door with fence rails, and the disguised men entered withflrflwnre volvera. Th£y_iook--- him' from hia house-, * TTFcThTm to a ire® in his front yard aqd inflicted forty lashes upon his bare back with hickory switches. .———vs Rev. Van Cleave is pastor of the Mober ly M. E. circuit, and, beiug a plain spoken man, has made many enemies by his pregphing. Efforts have bben made to have him removed from his charge, and at" ■ . , a ~ -■ ... ... ~.

a recent’service there came near betog'ld general fight over some of his utteranced About ten days ago a circular was eland-* estinely circulated in the community charging the pastor with having Improper relations with the wife of a neighbor. Since that time excitement has been a# fever heat in the neighborhood, and th# church is entirely disrupted. Rev. Yan Cleave came to town Sunday morning and filed affidavits against tha following persons, charging them wlthj Whitecappiitg him Saturday : John V. Loudon, Cort Wolfe, James London, Chast Loudon, Alva Welker, Charles Welkera Cort Muir and Jacob Hannel. They aril all young men aud are of good standing in the cornmunity, all except one of thenam* bor*being members of the M. E. Church and two off heffi'soiis of a minister. The# have been arrested and will have a preliminary hearing in a few days., Revs Van Cleave failed to recognize four of hit assailants. Rev. Van Cleave is about forty-fivfi years of ago, and lias been in the ministry several years, lie is regarded as an able preacher, and has given : atisf iction at other appointments he has fill id. tie showed me reporter lie, wounds, and they are quite severe. His wife was roughly handled when she interfered in her hus- . band's behalf, and is now prostr. . , There never has been as njiicli excitement in the county as this 'affair lias created, and it is hard to tell where it will end,