Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Popcorn is a Bedford suburb. El wood will celebrate Labor Day. Columbus houses are being numbered. Dog poisoners are bnsy at Michigari City. Taliy-ho parties arc a Muncie diversion. Hun tin gton will a Y. M. C. A. tion. Three Chinamen have settled in Valparaiso. Huntington will probably erect an ice factory. The Valparaiso military company has disbanded. West Muncie has “signed” a new fruitjar factory. Greensbnrg is on the ragged edge of a “boom,” it thinks. Middletown has been holding fairs for twenty - two-years. - _ w. ' Shplby county farmers aro storing their wheat to wait for better prices. The traction engine is getting in its deadly work on Hoosier highways. A crematory, one of the first in the State, has been put in operation at Kauts. The Sixty-ninth Indiana Regiment will bold its reunion at Muncie, August 25. Rain has fallen in Kansas, assuring a corn crop that has never been equalled. Urawfordsyille has enacted a stringent anti-peddlar and anti-traveling-doctor ordinance. Fifteen thrashing machine accidents have occurred near Tipton within tho past few days. A turkey near Portland is said to have hatched out and is now caring for a of fifteen quails. The Greencastle Council refused to enact an ordinauceirequiring the removal of screens in saloons. -- Balloonist Nevcling dropped from his parachute into the top of a high tree at Hartford Qity and received severe bruises. The Wall oil field, near Portland, is one of the best in the State. There are twen-ty-two good paying wells within a radius of five square miles. John Kipper is a Jennings county farra_cr_ who feelfr pretty—walk--thanks. -He raised 700 buShols or wheat this' year on thirty acres of land. O. A. Johnson, of Franklin, has been presented with a quilt, made by his mother, Mrs. FI. A. Jolihson, of Indianapolis, who is 83 years old, which is composed of 7,680 pieces. The bleaching buildings of the Strawboard mills of Kokomo, burned on the 27th. Loss $8,000; insured. A temporay shut-down results, throwing out 800 men for a few days or weeks. Warsaw- entertained in a hospitable manner th« Grand Army committee which Is examining sites for a soldiers’ home. One hundred and forty acres of land on the shoro of Pino Lake are offered by tlie Warsaw people.

Scanlet fever has bfecome-epidemic at Richmond. Four new cases were report ed on the 28th, and there is estimated to be seventy-five cases in the city. For several weeks past new cases have been reported each day. There but sow fatalities. Lizzie Chizzum is a sixteen-year-old girl living at Noblesville. She has been the victim of a curious hallucination, fancying herself the wife of President Harrison*, and having Mrs: Cleveland for her attendant. She has been declared insane, some of the symptoms having become violent , Christen Ilhnsen Schmidt arrived in Hartford City from New York, lie left Germany to go to a brother at Hartford, Conn., but,the ,Castle Garden authorities sent him to Hartford City, presumably because it was the better known Hartford, jiud Schmidtleft Tuesday for Connecticut. .. ,SuitJias,be€b.iiied„ltt,,aa„ Indianapolis court for a receiver for tho Order of tho | Iron Hall, The petition recites that the Order will not be able to meet its liabilities, is paying too high salaries, etc. Tho officers of the Order declaro that they will be able to defeat tho suit and that it is solvent. Jack Robinson was killed at Evansville Wednesday night by William Kurtz. Both were intoxicated. The trouble botjveen them originated in an intimacy between Robinson and Kurtz’s wife. Formerly they had been friends. The dead man was cut in most barbarous fashifn bf his murderer. Dr. John Williams, aged eighty-W years, the oldost. wealthiest and most promiuent physician in Clay county, received a suhstroke. Tuesday, at his home in Bowling Green. Ilis life was saved by prompt medical attention, but it was found that he was stricken blind from the effects of the sunstroke. The committee of the Indiana Department G.A. If. charged with selecting a site for the proposed Indiana,., soldiers’ home last week visited Munclc, Warsaw and Lafayette, aud finally selected the site at Lafayette. The place selected is what is known as. TecUmseh’s Trail, about three miles from “'Lafayette and adjoining Batt'e Ground.

Miss Anna Higsloy was assaulted by ai gang of seven tramps in the suburbs of Evansville. Wednesday, Three of them hild succeeded in their designs, while the others held her. Her screams alarmed the tramps, although they had choked her, and brought assistance. Tho entire gang, after desperately resisting the police, wero arrested and jailed. Miss Rigstey is in a precarious condition. Ed Craig’ of Linden, is a genius. He was married the other day. and desired his change in life to be well advertisedAccordingly, he visited, he says, about thirty of the good ladies of his neighborhood, and told them of the approaching evept under a pledge of secrecy. Mr. Craig states that never In the history of that section was a marriage half so well advertised. It really 1 created quite a furore.—Crawsfordsville Journal. A Hartsville minister who preached the funeral of the wife of a resident of that city sent the husbaud a dnn for the pay a few days atierward. The husband drove to the home of the minister on receipt of this lettei and found that there was no one there. In a day or two afterward another was received; asking that the money, be sent by return mail. Another trip to Hartsville was made and the minister’s bill of 85 was paid. * The thermometer registered 98deg..at

Vincennes on the 2®h. the highest point o! the season. Most all work in the foundries and shops is suspended add several cases of snnstroke were reported from the rural districts yesterday. Threshing ma chines have had to stop work and farmers had to delay their harvest on account of the excessive heat. Many horses in this locality havo boon overcome and died. - Late Wednesday evening Jeffersonville was visited by a severe rain storm. The residences of Edward Heller, S. B. Defender, Ebenezer Davis and James Davis were damaged by electricity. Several persons were stunned, among whom were Dr. Edward Caldwell, James Ford and Mrs. Sarah Patrick. Their injuries are pronounced critical. Mrs. Wm. Geltin, residing in Port Fulton, was knocked insensible. Mrs. Giltner’s daughter was rendered unconscious. The storm concentrated in and about Utica, tearing down houses and doing great damage to corn and wheat.

Magnificent specimens of carp are being taken from the Wabash river at Lagro. The United States Fish Commissioner live years ago stocked a few ponds and the river near Wabash with small carp, and these have grown until the Wabash Is said to be alive with them, weighing from two to twelve pounds.fiMany Of the ponds were washed nut by the overflow of the stream, which accounts for the presence of so many carp. The fish are caught.in large numbers, but , are said to be too fat and rank for table use. Patents were Tuesday granted Hoosier inventors, as follows: E. H. Beckley, Elkhart, vestibule car; T. M. Bissell, South Bend, reversible plow point; W. Callaway, sr., Knox, machine for wiring fence pickets; J. R. Cook, Rushville, steam engine valve; C. S. Fuller, Lafayette, flour bolt; D. Gensinger, Teegardcn, gate; J. B. HaberTe, South Bond, sprinkler; J. J. Kircham, Terre Haute, gas generator; H. J. Schneider, Ft. Wayne, road grader; M. D. Williamson, Indianapolis, adjustable pressure bar for veneer cutting machines. « Star City,on tho Pan Handle road,north of Logansport, was the scene of bloodshed and violence, Tuesday, The Indiana Gas Company, which is laying a pipe line from Kokomo to Chicago,lifts I.COJ men, mostly Italians, working in tho trenches. Monday 250 of the men working near Star City got on a big drunk and proceeded to clean out the town. The officers were unable tq,restrain them. Saloons were broken into, women woro assaulted and insulted, and many of the inhabitants fled in terror. Harry B. Stanton, of the Pan Handle depot, was robbed of his money, stripped of his clothing, and, after a cruol beating, was dragged to a tree, where a rope was thrown around his neck and he was suspended in the air, where tho crowd left him. Ho was rescued by friends before life was entirely extinct, and will recover. No arrests have been made. A remarkable struggle between a fish and a man took place on tho falls at Jeffersonville Friday: Thomas Wright, com-, ing from Louisville to Jeffersonville, saw a one-hundred-pound catfish drifting on top of tho water. He struck it with an par and stunned it, and, grabbing it by the gills, attempted to hurl it into his boat. The fish revived and dragged him out, upsetting the skiff. , Tho life-saving thinking that Wright was drowning, appeared on the scene just as Wright was reappearing on tho surface still clinging to his fish. Ho managed to hold to the skiff, and, with the assistance of the crew, got the fish into -the- boat. -AH qi the men had their hands full in capturing the monster. Wright was nearly drowned and utterly cailapsfed when the captur was having ’been unable to cxc 4t4£ate bis hand from tlre grtls-."^-™-^*”

The State Federation of Labor which was in session at Logansport] adopted a resolution censuring Congress for its failure to pass an anti-Pinkerton bill. A res olution that members of the organization arm themselves at once s croated a good deal of amusement, and was voted down almost unanimously, but later a resolution calling on labor men not to join the militia was adopted. Tho resolutions adopted wore numerous, bufeunimportant. South Bend was selected fqr tho next con J veution. Officers were elocted as follows: President, T. M. Gruelle, of Indianapolis; Secretary, J. P. Hannegan, of Lafayette, Organizers—O. P. Smith, of Logansport; D. F: Kennedy, of Indianapolis, and Miss Belle E. Pearson, of New Albany. District vice presidents—First, M. A Levy* of Evansville| second, to bo appointed;’ third, John Lutz, of New Albany; fourth, to bo appointed; filth, to be appointed; sixth, William P. Fewrey, of Muucie; seventh, John Oreig. Indianapolis; eighth Nelson Rose, of Torre Hauxe; ninth, A. F, Raymond, of Frankfort;' tenth,' William S. Rosier, of Logansport;.eleventh, S. W, Young, of Huntington; twelfth, A. Laemmerman, of Fort Wayne; thirteenth, Al-; bert Harlan, of South Bond. Tho officers of tho Pennsylvania militia wore criticised for tying up a private by the thumbs, and their dismissal was demanded. Governor Pattison will be furnished witli a copy of the resolution. ■ A resolution denouncing the Indiana gerrymander was tabled. A printer from Indianapolis caused much excitement by offering a resolution ro- r questing all laboring men t 6 quietly organize; and defend themselves against capatalists. THE HEAT IX IXDIANA. The beat in northern Indiana has broken its record. For seventy two hours the temperature at Portland has been the, highest ever knbwn. ranging from 100 to 105 degrees in the shade. The death rate in this section has increased two fold, and a number of heat prostrations are reported. Greensburg is suffering, but there have been .no fatalities. Wm, Borden. Harris City; Robert Lavender, yardmasler: Bert Fletcher, fireman;’ Jeff Hale, section boss on tho Big FoUc, were dangcrously prostrated, but prompt attention saved them. Frederick Brange, a young farmer of Allen county, was stricken while at worki in the harvest field and died instantly. James Bert Sch, a farmer living; near Cambridge City, died, the result of sunstroke. -7 Greenfield thermometers recorded 102 decrees in the shade.