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

SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

Jackson county nutmeg crop is great. Evansville colored coachmen Lavs a club. . . ' ■ ..» 2 The public debt was reduced $1,197, in July. Huntington is to have a bi-chlorido of gold'lnstitute, - "A rattlesnake 6 feet, 5 inches, was killed at Winchester. The wheat crop in Kansas will reach nearly 85,000,000 bushels. The Nebraska wheat crop will average thirty bushels per acre, and other crops are promising. , ' The President has signed tho bill making eight hours a day’s work for ail government employes and those working urt der. government contracts. 2 If old Tecumseh had taken his trail with him Lafayette would not have been in it on the soldiers’ home question, remarks the envious Muncie Horaid. 2Richaid Tenbrock, tho famous horseman, who was over eighty years of age, and who had been a confirmed invalid from gout for forty years, died at San Mateo, Cal’, on the 2nd. Private Drieman, of the Vincennes Infantry Company, swung his feet from tho baggage-car door en route homo ffom tho Frankfort encaifipment. A cattle guard came along and broke his leg at the knee. 2 Jesse Wilson nearly killed James Reed fWllson, IBs father, at East Connersvilie, Saturday night. The elder Wilson came home drunk and abusive, and Josse proceeded to pound him With a billot of stove wood. The injuries are thought to bo fatal. The entire non-union erew of tho bark Richard 111 was kidnaped by unlonftailors al - Nanaimo, B. C„ Sunday, cind made prisoners for - several hours. Two ofthe union sailors were arrested, tried, found guilty and sentenced to. fourteen months’ imprisonment, x,The extehsive barns of Hon. Tliomas Wilhoit, a well known cattle breeder livinp hear New Castle, burned on the 30th. Many fine animals were .burned, together with a fine lot of farm machinery, feed, etc. Among those burned were the very finest short e horns in the world, which were being prepared for exhibition at the World’s Fair next year. i-The loss is placed at, $25,003. * It is probable the Ohio Falls car-works of Jeffersonville, one of the most extensive of the kind in the country, is about tb change hands. Maitland, Phelps & Co.* New York bankers, havo an option on the plant. Tho offer was made to President T. Smiser in New York. Tho capital Stock of the company is $600,000. If tho j sale be made tho present - officers will be retained, and the capital stock increased to $1,250,000. ■-* . About 2 p. in., Monday, a largo barn belonging Uu William Purkiser, six miles south of Russiaville, was destroyed by fire. The eleven year old son of Mr. Purkiser was playing in tho in the afternoon: The child was feeble minded, and as a lire shovel was found in the ruins it is supposed that ho had taken- fire to tho barn set fire to it. Tho body -ofthe boy found in tho wheat bin, Avith his hands, feet bond burned off. On the Ist, near Hickory Flat, Term., James Martin and Miss Mary Lessenbcrry eloped and woro married. The enraged father of the bride aiid two brothers, armed avitlx shot guns, Avcnt to the groom of an hour, and at the point of the gun made him swear to relinquish all claim to the girl, they agreeing to pay him one thousand feet of oak lumber, a cow and $lO. The trio bore off the girl in triumph, secured the marriage license and returned it to tho county clerk.