Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

South Bend will have a new hotel. - Diphtheria edhtinues at Columbus. Elkhart fishermen.catch ten-pound pike. The Posey county watermelon crop is a ‘Teetle” short. J The real, live bear, has been last seen in Boone county. North Manchester will vote on waterworks September 6. TheJbam bn ;? Monroe Jenkins' farm, near Hartford City, burned. Loss, $3,000. Cases of black-tongue diphtheria are reported from Peoria, near the Ohio line. A petrified log cabin has been found eighteen Tee turider ground at Waveland,; The Cass Circuit Court If as decided that the Logansport saloon screen ordinance is not valid. "Incendiaries caused the destruction of Calvin Hull’s threshing machine at North Manchester. -J A new policeman at the town of Hammond rejoices In the name of Joseph Pryzminzlnskf j The spiritualists are still in camp at Chesterfield. They bad a regular old feast of spooks Sunday. There was a reunion of the Clayton family south of Farmland. The combined age of ten present was 655 years. A Waynetown cow is credited with refusing the ordinary.-cow hash, and instead will dine only on hops. It cl ai med th a t she gi yes beer—thi n k-of it—instead of milk. Fire, swept New Providence on the 3d. Fifteen houses were destroyed and a loss sustained of over $16,200. Twelve men were prostrated by the heatin combatting the flamps, two of whom are likely to die. Monday evening while,,Joseph Hiner, living six miles north of unhitching his team hislittle son, four years old, was kicked on, the back and head, -producing injuries from which he died in _a very .few minutes. John Ncely, agood c!tLzen of the magic Muncie, heard Cage Coombs, whipping Mrs. CoOinbs and went in to regulate the family. Mr. Coombs gave Mr. Neely a vigorous lesson in non-interference, and it will be a long time before he does any more regulating. Isn’t the ferule passe ? It would seem so from the fact that Prof. G. A. Hawkins, of the Hebron High School, has been sued for $5,000 damages, owing to injuries-, inflicted upon the hand of Miss Letta Pratt. It is said that the young woman has lost the use of the feruled hand. “Babe” Hawkins? who terrorized Shelbyville Sunday, strolled into town again Tuesday and secured from Marshal Bruce the famous pistol with which the deceased Hawkins tried tp assassinate the marshall “Babe” says he Fas “spotted” eighteen people, and he is likely to have a brilliant fall campaign as he goes., on his path of destruction. ' 7” It is announced for the Jbenefit of Odd Fellows and others that contemplate going to Portland, Orq., in September to the Soy. Grand Lodge, that the reduced rate of $69.50 will be the fare for the round trip, going one way and returning another. The date of sale will be Sept. 10, and excursions will leave Chicago on that date, but persons may go a few days later if preferred. Correspondence may be had with W. H. Leedy, Rep. to Sev. Grand Lodge, Indianapolis. The farmers in Green county will exper. iment in practical eo-operation. They will procure a full thrashing and woodsawing outfit and will thrash and .saw wood for each For thrashing wheat a farmer of the association will be charged 2X cents a bushel. Once a year, during the winter, a settlement will bo effected and a dividend declared. The plan has been tried inthis.same township and found very successful by the. Union Thrashing Conjpany, which has just entered its sixteenth year.

Very few Indianians probably know that at one time tho old city of Jeffersonville was the Saratoga of the South and West. There are springs located there whose healing properties are acknowledged by the doctors and atone time made them quite celebrated. During old times hundreds of visitors would permanently locate at’ the iidtel and in the cottages which were located near the spot. It was here that Gen.tlackson held one of the most celebrated barbecues and meetings during one of his campaigns, and six thousand people were present to hear the old hero speak/ Henry Clay and other Southern and Kentucky notables visited the springs during the heated terms. Now the place has gone to ruin, and a swamp covers the site of the springs, although a largahrook still flows from it.

Rev. Horace Reed, of Danville, 111., occupied tho Methodist pulpit at Crawfords ville, Sunday morning and evening. In both sermons he referred to an unusual experience he had on the Saturday nigh i before. Ih company with C. W. Brown and Dr. O. R. Jones, two deacons the church, they visited nearly all thosaloons in Crawfordsville. They noticed how ffiiany persons were present at each place, and asked—the.proprietor how business was and when it was the best. One jocular host remarked that his business was most rushing immediately after church and just before Sunday school. At several places they were offered beer, whisky and cigars. At one place they saw a stag’ goring father doing his best to get to the bar L' • one more drink, while his wife and boy held his hands and pleaded with him to go home. Mr. Reed estimated from what he saw that probably a thousand persons’ visit the saloons of Crawfordsville every night. Indiana will rank first among all the States in tbiJUnion in her exhibits of., glass, of wagons and carriages, of building stone and of agricultural machinery at tho World's Fair. In’geueral manufactures only the States-of New York* Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts and Illinois will excel Indiana. The State commissioner says that work on the Indiana building at the Fair has been delayed, but that it will be pushed from now on. The outer covering of staff being put upon the walls, and tho roof will soon be completed. The committee on building will meet at Mr. Studebaker's residenca iu South Bend in a day or two to open bids for the iiiside finishing of the butldirg. The -utcrior is to be flu shed in ’ J.'j- u : . .. - y.l■■

Indiana hard wood and other Indiana products. The building, nptn which it was the original intention of ‘the board to expend $25,000 will cost $40,C0). Fully twenty thousand dollars's worth of materials have been donated’for the building so that it will be a structure,. which, had it all been paid for, would have cost $60,000; The walls of thq lower story are of Indiana stone and the entrances are of carved stone donated by stone companies in Indian. A Bedford company is having carved, from a single block of stone, a life sizoelephant. The beast will weigh sixty thousand pounds, and will probably stand in the grounds in front of the entrance of the Indiana building. This will be the only native elephant in Indiana.