Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Brooklyn had a $.03,000 fire Sunday. * A dancing mania has seized Elwood. A great revival is in progress at Noblesville. Loganspprt is getting ready for a spring boom. . ■ Greencastle is to have a hsw opera house. "* Stockport is a new Delaware county postoffice.. She!by county will soon be free of the toil roads. Vanderburgh county wants a separate Circuit Court, Railway section agents will organize a State Association. ’Possum parties are amid -winterattraction at Connersville. Huntington merchants report serious losses by shop lifters. Everybody at Ft. W’ayne is talking about a new city charter. George W. Balser, a resident of Tipton, is in jail on a charge oj forgery. Oppossums are frequently killed white raiding hen coops at Brookville. Theodore Jarcas was fatally injured in a runaway at Shelbyville. Monday. Three men were dangerously burned by natural gas at Muncief Monday. The old Midland railroad is again in trouble from dodging taxes in Madison connty. The Evansville Journal characterizes the Grubbs libel law as a disgrace to the statute book. Tippecanoe county’s treasurer is trying to collect 412,012.60 back taxes from the Big Four road. Sir Richard Owen is dead. He was one of theworld’s foremost specialists in comparative anatomy. Col. I. B. McDonald, of Columbia City, is an avowed candidate for United States marshal oflndiana. 2 The Indiana Ink and Color Co., of Lagansport, has made an assignment. Lia* bilities $7,000; assets 413,000. The Indiana commandery of the Loya; Legion celebrated its fourth anniversary at Indianapolis Monday night. The shaft house of the Schoepperman Coal Company near Brazil, was burned to the ground Sunday night. Loss $12,003. A Tippecanoe county school teacher whipped a little girl shamefully because she had written a slang word on the wall of the class room. The Chicago Natural Gas Company demands $1,200 yearly for furnishing the Howard county court house with gas, and the commissioners have ordered coal. Montgomery county is agitated over the disappearance of Milo Tomlinson, a wellknown breeder of fine stock. He is a defaulter, and is known to have taken a large sum with him. The elevator of S. Barnard & Co., at Martinsville, burned Saturday night. The loss on building and contents is $! 5,030; insurance SII,OOO. Tho building contained fifteen thousand bushels of corn. The young lady clerks in the Portland postoffice wentron a strike Saturday; leaving the early mails undistributed, the alleged cause being the unsatisfactory conduct of the postmaster’s son. While boring a well near Millersburg, a four-foot vein of good coal was struck at a depth of seventy five feet. The ground has been leased to a Ft. Wayne syndicate, which will develop tho find. Andrew Stultz, aged twenty-two, was found dead in a ditch by the road side near Valparaiso, Sunday- night. His buggy had run off the end of a culvert throwing him into fourteen inches of water. He was drowned. An oak tree was cut on the Samuel Scoggln farm, near Bedford, which yielded a log forty feet in length, six and onehalf feet in diameter at the butt and four and one-half feet at the top. The log is

without knot or blemish of any kind. Mrs. Jerusba Truex, a quaint old lady who had reached the remarkable age of more than ninety years, died at Napanee. Saturday. In all her long life the deceased never rode on a railway car nor visited the city of Goshen, although she had lived In close proximity for many years. Gus Black, a well-to-do farmer near Brazil, was caught stealing corn by John Decker. Decker made Black shoulder a two bushel sack of corn and carry it to Brazil, where Black was turned over to tho authorities. Black confessed to hav* Ing been the perpetrator of a systematic series of grain robberies in that vicinity, . Many farmers in the northern part of Madison and Tipton counties in leasing land for gas privileges to the Chicago company supposed they were to receive 1200 per annum, but instead it is only $25. The farmers admit having signed tho leases, but they claim to have been misled. The feeling Is so strong that gas drillers anticipate that the mains, sooner or later, will be blown out of the ground by dynamite.