Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Whitewater wants a high school. Greene county reports 176 teachers. Several cases of malignant diptheria are reported at Kokomo. __ Thieves.continue to plunder freight cars under the shadow of the prison north. Thomas Baines, near Rockville, was found dead in his bam, having been kicked tc death by a horse. LN. Park planted a single potato on his farm near Galena, and from the hill he dug thirty-four pounds of potatoes. There is said to be but one surviving soldier of the warof 1812 in Indiana—John. Dawson, of Terre Haute. There are 253 widows. * The large dairy barn of Will Meeker, near Muncie. was burned Sunday. Loss $1,200. Believed to have been the work of a tramp. Thomas Johnston, an aged farmer of Fayette county, is a marvel to hi friends, in that his hair, formerly grey, is now turning a fiery red. The Jefferson county Democracy have resolved not to nominate a separate county tickeTETbut. Instead to support the Independent nominees. The Governor has issued a proclamation declaring Oct. 21, Dext, as a general holiday in honor of the dtscovery of America four hundred years ago. _ One hundred and twenty lots were sold Tuesday as a starter for the new town of Whiteley, across the river from Muncie. The average price was S3OO. During a performance of Ringling’s cir cus at Garrett, Frank Ifeliy, boss prop erty man, was called out of thg tent by an party and shot dead. A wreck occurred on the E. &T. H. road at Farmersburg on the 26th. Hon. John Beasley, of Sullivan, a leaderin the Legislature, was probably fatally injured. J. C. McLean, of Andetson, having trouble with his wife,-escorted her to a train, handed her a check for S7OO, and their separation was complete. The lady returned to Paris, 111.

O. H. Deming, of Valparaiso, a contractor, has been fined 50 cents and costs for violating the 1889 legislative enactment providing that eight hours shall constitute a day's-work; Mrs. Ellen Douglas Foster, wife of Rev. B, F. Foster, Grand Secretary of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, died very suddenly on the evening of the 26th at their home in Indianapolis. The Diamond Plato Glass Company, of Kokomo, is erecting a large building for bending and beveling glass. This will be a big industry within itself, giving employment to several hundred men. The nailing department, blacksmith shop and machine shop of the Darnell nail mill at. Muncie were destroyed by fire n the 26th. Loss, 360,000. One hundred men are thrown out of employment. Mrs. Jennie Morton, of Clay county, is dead of supposed hydrophobia. She was bitten by a little dog thirteen years ago and each recurring year has had an attack, presumably the result of the bite. Moses McClure, near Darlington, is dead. He was aged ninety-seven. McClure was a Kentuckian by birth, afid he settled near Rockport in 1825. He claimed to be the oldest active Odd Fellow in Indiana. The 'squire who married a couple at Eckerty is a native of Newport, Ky., the groom a native of Neport, Ark., and the bride a native of Newport News, Va. All were born during tho month of August, 1565. A numbertrf thrashing machine proprietors in Montgomery county will go to the Dakota wheat fields to aid in thrashing the tremendous harvest <>f this season. Tho Northern Pacific offers free transportation from St. Paul, Minn. A frame building collapsed at Dunkirk, and Georgo Moore was instantly killed, while William Anderson and James Smith were seriously injured. The building was in process of construction and the flat roof was insufficiently supported. 1 The K. of P. drill prizes awarded|at Kansas City were principally carried off by Kansas Knights, which took the first three. New Albany Division No. 5 was given tho fourth prize of SBOO. Tcrro Haute Division No. 5 the ninth prize of S2OO, and Many Division No. 18, of Indianapolis, the tenth and lost prize of SIOO. James Gray, of Columbia City, while ly lug in bed. was shot by an unknown assassin, tho charge of the gun striking him. in the leg, necessitating amputation. The shot was fired through an -open window, and bat for the fact that Gray had cliangod the position of his bed, so that his feet lay where his head formerly reposed, the attempted murder would have been successful. Albert Tucker is under arrest as the guilty party. The following patents were issued on Tuesday to lndianians: I. T. Brown Columbus, napkin holder; D. Cady, Indianapolis, shoe horn; Q.J. Cline, Goshen, garment supporter; A. Garretson, Fall Creek, safety coupliug for gas mains; F. L. Glihart,lndianapolis, grass receiver for lawn mower; J. Mitchell, Cayuga, memorial monument; E. Powell, Kokomo, clotlios drier; H. Thiels, Lawrenccburg, machine for beveling barrel heads; O. D. Thompson, Elkhart, lawn sweeper.

In a recent collapse of a building at Hartford City it will be recalled that five men were killed. Four of them were mar vied. The contractor of the work. T. IT. Smith, was away at the time, but he hurried back to Hartford City. Mr. Smith bore the expenses of the several burials, after, which he hunted up the widows, making tfiem and their children not only comfortablo for the present, but giving to each widow SI,OOO and placing their names on the pay-roll Instead of thklr decoased husbands. This was done after the ooroner had returned a verdict of “an unfortunate aud unavoidable accident.” The bitter fight at Falrmount to prevent the retailing of Intoxicants by Luther Morris, has culminated. It is said, In a compromise, by Which Morris obligates to pay $1,200 Into tho village treasury annually for tho privilege. Names of citizens heretofore prominent In opposing are said to bo signed to this agreement, and It has increased the Indignation of those wbo are continuing the fight against Morris. On different occasions, when Morris undertook to sell Intoxicants, ho was forcibly moved outside the corporation, and

the opposition now threaten to:resort to dynamite ts all other agencies fail. The weather crop bulletin for pe week ending Tuesday, issued by the Indiana Weather Service says: Tho rainfall during the week was badly distributed and -insufficient over most fields. Warm-days, cool nights and average sunshine prevailed. The local rains on the 19th were beneficial to suffering crops, and also soft ened the soil, making plowing for wheat, which is at present pushed vigorously everywhere, more easy. Wheat thrashing Is also ended, with an average yield, but not so good quality. Corn stands well after the rain; the fields are clean and the corn is maturing fait.' Clover for seed I s being cut and'.thrashed, yielding a fair crop’s pasturage,-'and live stock continues -in good condition. Grasshoppers and potato bugs arc injuring some fields. A mysterious woman, giving the name of Mrs. Emma Powell, claiming St. Louis as her home,and boasting fabulous wealth, appeared in the eastern part of Howard county some three weeks ago and created a stir among land owners by offering to purchase at good round figures a large lot of land, claiming that she wanted to establish a stock farm She contracted with James Loop for 103 acres, and with others for smaller lots, in all amounting to about, seven hundred acres. Two weeks ago she left, ostensibly for St. Louis, agreeing to send her agent back with money to close up the trade. Neither%ie agent nor the money has yet put in an appearance. The woman has since turned up in Cass county, and again in Miami county,where she made the same offer to farmers in different parts of those counties, and again disappeared. She does not ask iof atrj money, or any written contract which might be transformed into promissory notes, as is usual in tbe “landskin game.” She pays her own.bills,and her purpose in offering to purchase the land has not yet developed. The woman is about sixty years of age, of Scotch extraction, and spoaks with a pronounced dialect. She is pleasing in manner, and displays excellent judgment of land values. In one place she claimed to he the President of the National Woman's Relief Corps and lias made many palpable misrepresentations.