Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1892 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

Marien wants a public park. Harvest is approaching rapidly. Pulaski has good crop prospects. Richmond wants a federal building. 3 Ft. Wayne is agitating for high license. Logansport has Sunday balloon ascenlions. Clarksville charges SIOO for liquor licenses. Wabash county’s wheat crop promises id be large. Fish-worms are a plague to farmers in Miiam county. , .. The Kokomo pulp mills were damaged 110,000 by fire Sunday. Mrs. Critvrford, of Ghentj was gored to death by a cow on the 18th. Laporte will lay the corner stone of its now court house on the 30th. Two thousand Odd Fellows hetd a pife oTc at Centerville on the-181h. El wood young ladies gave an onion picnic to their gentlemen friends. Hiram B. Patton has purchased the plant of the Morristown Sun. " A gang of juvenile counterfeiters is supposed to be operating near Muncie. John Warren has succeeded in getting a license to sell liquor at Charlestown. Robert Blum Lodge I. O. O. F., of South Bend, has celebrated its silver jubilee. The bloodhounds at Seymour are proving a great success in tracking crimiaals. The wheat crop in a portion of Clark county is badly damaged by smut and rust. , James Lykens, of Henry county, while overheated, drank freely of ice water and died. Decatur county horticulturists report the cherry crop a failure, and a poor prospect for peaches. Tho small daughter of Frederick Jacorha, of Logansport, was scalded to death by having coffee spilled on her. George Scoville, who defended Charles Guiteau, the assassin, is now living in comparative retirement at Cedar Lake, in Starke county. Nelson Jackson, of Walkerton, aged seventy-eight, frequently walks to "Laporte and back in a day, a distance of thirty-six miles. Mrs. John Taylor, widow, of Anderson, is said to have fallen heir to an immense estate by the death of John Goodman, a bachelor brother, who resided in California The trustees oi Clarksville have not inly passed an ordinance increasing liquor licences to SIOO per year, but a fine o* k-0 and costs is imposed for every yio‘Ltion. While the female oaii players wefe playing a game with a club at Muncie Sunday, they were arrested by the police for desecration of the Sabbath. The gang gaye bond and left for Union City. After three years’ litigation with the Vincennes Gas Company, the city of Ytn:enneS finds itself compelled to observe ihe original contract and to pay the costs. Altogetor they collect $20,000 arrearages. The corner stono of the new Masonic Temple at Wabash will be laid July 4, and th« lodge is making preparations for a calibration of magnificent proportions. The temple will be the largest and handsomest building in the city. The Over window-gkss Works and tliß tlemiugway flint glass factory, at. Muncie, burned Saturday afternoon. Total loss, 1300,000, with $150,000 insurance. Tho fire caught from a spark from a railroad engine. Both factories will be rebuilt. While a crowd of boys and girls were celebrating tho marriage of Lewis Recte r in Perry township, Clay county, _W!lßiam_ Boberts, aged thirteen,was fatally wounded by the discharge of a revolver In the hands of Alfred. Vanness. Another Jjoy was badly hurt by a blow on the head by a flying missile John Glasgow, an official of Hereford, England, has resigned his position, and with his family will remove to Newbergi near Evansville. Mr. Glasgow has three sturdy sons, and after looking over the field he concludes that America, and not England, offers the best opportunity for men of worth. Holmes Fisher, telegraph operator and ticket agent in the Monon railway at Orleans, about 1:3) a. m., Friday, whileseated at>hl3 desk reading, wgs overpowered by two masked men, who bound and gagged kim, robbed him of $9 and plundered the office of $45 and some tickets. Fisher remained bound until 8 when he was released by the conductor of a passenger train stopping for orders. The rolibers are supposed to be ex-employes. Mrs. Louise Bowman McClain, wife of RevTTßomas-R.JM.cCiatn, of the SouthAst Indiana Milton, Is said to have fallen heir to an immense estate in Germany under peculiarly romantic circumstances. Her broth srs, Charles, Milo and Elijah Bowman,are well known residents of Madison, and she is kinswoman of Bishop Thomas Bowman. Mrs. McClain is a gifted woman, of strong literary ability, and she has been chosen as Indiana's representative poet at the World's Exposition. Years ago, in her girlhood, an exiled German officer, who was traveling In this country, paid court with great persistence, bnt his offer wag declined, although twice repeated. T 1& lady afterward ma the man of her choice. Six years ago her German admirer died, and he bequeathed to her his en-, tire estate, estimated at $2,000,000, provided she was alive at the end of seven years. Should her death occur before this period has elapsed, then the estate reverts to a nephew. The lady is now laying claim to the bequest, and her interests are being looked after, it is said, by Bishop Bow map and ex-Governor Cumback. The Indiana World’s Fair Commission has arranged the construction of thq Indiana State building so that it will be an exhibit of Indiana’s best building material,, consisting of stone, hard woods, glass and encaustic tiles. The best archmlogical exhibit belonging to any private individu al in the dnited States is said to be owned by Josfeph Collett,of Terre Haute, and it is understood that he Will loan it for exhibition. The committee on agriculture has formed an alliance with the State Board of Agriculture and with seventy-two .county and district agricultural associa-. Jtions. The educational committee has enlisted the assistance of lndlana’e 15,000

teachers as well as the aid of her fifteen colleges-and universities, ' Especial from Brownsburg to the Indianapolis News on the 15th says: Frank Adams, a farmer and cattle buyer, was murdered at 6 o’clock this morning by a neighbor, Benjamin Wing, a farmer and dairyman. For several days Mr. Adams has shown signs of being demented, which manifested itself, among other ways, in laying down a partition fence and turning bis cattle Wing's premises. This enraged Wing, notwithstandieg he was given assurances that whatever damage was dono would be paid for by the Adams family, and that arrangements were making for ti e transfer oi Adams to the insane asylum. Wing was instructed not to go about Mr. Adams, but this morning he armed himself with a shot- gun and went to the field where Adams was and shot him off his horse, the shot tearing away his nose and eyes and blowing out his brains. Wing claims the killing was done in self defense, Adams threatening to kill him and running over him twice with his horse. Adams was never known to carry a weapon, and none was found upou him after tho murder. Wing surrondered himself to tho authorities, and he was removed to tho jail at Danville. Adams resided on the farm wi th his helpless mother and ho leaves one daughter. Wing has a wife and several children. Owing to the threats made against Rev. i Benjamin Van Cleave and wife, of Moberl/, by friends of the parties whom Mr. Van Cleave is prosecuting as white cappers, they have abandoned the parsonage and are sheltered by friends. In a mass meet ng which was held at AJoberly the whitecappers were denounced in the strongest term. The lady who was slandered by the anonymous circular distributed by the enemies of Mr. Van Cleave was indorsed as a woman of the highest personal character . STATE INSTITUTIONS. Mr. Johnson, Secietary of the State Board of Charities, returned recently from a trip to the Eastern Hospital for the Insane, the School for Feeble-minded at Fort Wayne, the Prison North and tho Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orßhans’ Homo at Knightstown. The appointment of John P. Thistlewnite as steward of the Eastern Hospital was confirmed. When first appointed, several weeks since, one member of the board opposed Thistlewaite. having a friend of his own that he had been booming for the place. The successful appointee is a man of sterling honesty and unusually competent. Though a strong Democrat, his personal popularity led to -his election as Mayor of Richmond by the aid of Republican votes. Mr. Johnson was gratified, he says, to find that Warden French had adopted two new features in prison government, pne was the “free hour,” which means that prisoners in their cells may do as they please—sing, play instruments or talk. It is esteemed a safetyvalve in prison control. .The other innovation is a system of private boxes, one at each door, into which the prisoner may drop a note of any complaints he may have without fear of interference by the guard. The warden alone has a key to the boxes. The plan is said to be working well. Mr. Johnson, strongly denounces the kitchen facilities at the prison, and also the inconvenience and undersize of the dining room and chapel. The prisoners have to sit edgewise at the table when they eat. It is expected., that: tho prison authorities will soon have trouble in the cooperage department. The contractors have introduced a costly labor-saving *inachine, which will require tho daily task to bo twenty-five barrels instead of fifteen, As the prisoners have been granted over"tlmeior their otjrn benefit' heretofore, it is •probable that they will object to th<s increase. In other departments the prisoners have no opportunity to earn anything for themselves, and there is dissatisfaction with the contract labor system on all sides, except that of the contractors.