Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson races begin July 18. Christian church circles areal! torn up Lee Neal, of Hartford City, is mysteriously missing. Blackford county will build a new courthouse, costing 685,000. •Six otters wore caught reccnttyta White river, near Petersburg. the total abstinence pledge. The Crawfordqville creamery has been sold to satisfy claims of creditors." • The Methodist church Al Atlanta was badly wrecked by Thursday night's storm. William Finch, of Fayette county, a farm hand, committed suicide by hanging. Eastern capitalists are reported as having purchased the Terre. Haute street railway. : : ~ Ashley new elaims 500 population. Five months ago there were not ten people in the town. The annual reunion of the Thirtieth Indiana Regimental Association will be held at Monroeville, April 30. Enoch Mow, a Republican, was declared guilty at Plymouth of bribery at tho Presidential election. Mrs. Minnie Cramer, of Wabash, has has begun suit against Florence Ransoy for $6,000 for defamation of character. Mrs. Elmina Louisa Johnson, former superintendent of the Woman's Reformatory, died at Indianapolis, Wednesday. The Allen county commissioners have raised thesalariesof the judges of the Superior and Circuit Courts to 63,500 annually. Auburn’s marshal has a neatly cushioned wheelbarrow for taking bums to the “calaboose” when the '‘jag” is a little heavy. Several persons are searching the country near Yountsvillo for an aerolite which is supposed to have fallen there Thursday night. The Westfield furniture factory, which has been controlled by a receiver for the past year, has been sold to a company headed by Levi White. Cyrus Mock, the young man who was taken from his sick bed and baptized in a tank of water at Knox recently, died Friday, as a result Of exposure to cold water. At Tipton the roof of the county poor house was taken off Thursday night in the storm, and the bridge across Whit*-, river at Mitchell was blown from its abutments. Postmaster Tindelph, of Vincennes, moved the postoffiee in to a building owned by himself, and Thursday a telegram from Washington ordered him to return to the old quarters. A female hugger is the latest sensationat Newport. She catches the men at night and hugs them and of course every man now has business down town after dark. The wives are going a gunning for the “hugger.” Sylvester Tcany, a Big Four brakeman, while coupling cars at Columbus, was crushed to death. The deceased recently married the widow Hemphill, of Indianapolis, whose first husband, a Big Four employe, also met liis death by accident. Dan Reese, a young farmer residing on James Ross’s farm, west of Muncie, is the possessor of a young pig that lias five distinct. ears. There are two. ears on one side'of the head and three on the other. The pig is a great curiosity and seems happy. Miss Sarah Smith and Mr. Unverzaght, of Richmond, were betrothed-in marriage.-■ The bride was a Protestant and tfte groom a Catholic, and neither would consent to be married by a minister of opposite faith. Thereupon they compromised by going to' an adjoining State and calling upon a magistrate. A syndicate, which is understood to be headed bv Senator Brice, lias secured option or. several hundred acres of land ton miles west of Mancie, on Killbuck creek, near Reed's station, and ten manufacturing concerns will be located there. The new town!will be known as Brico City or Uricotbn. The Delaware county commissioners have ordered elections in several town--hips April 29, for thephrpose of voting SB the question of gtving a subsidy to two railroads now seeking admission to Mancie. One road is an extension of the Midland from Anderson. The other is a line running from Chicago to Columbus. - Miuring a theatrical 1 performance at Warsaw, Wednesday night, a fly-wheel used in producing the saw mill scene In the comedy of “Josh Sprucoby” burst.’ and a fragment struck Edward Smith, who was assisting behind the scenes, fracturing his skull. Physicians pronounce the injury serious. Grading has begun on the “Mooney Latteral railway’ at Columbus. The officers and stockholders are owners and omployes of the large tanning plant of W. W. Mooney & Sons, the largest tannery in tho world. The railway will fco less than one-quarter of a mile in length, and is being constructed for connection with the Big Four. A dispatch from Jeffersonville to the Indianapolis News, Thursday, says: The prospeets of crops were never better at this season, in tact tho farmers declare the wheat looks too well, and they fear that they will not be able to obtain a price for it when the selling time comes. The peaches and early fruits are budding rapidly and tbc indications are for a great fruit crop.

Christian Snyder, a German residing near Roanoke, claims to have held odice longer than any one in the State. He has been tho supervisor of the roads in Jackson township for over thirty-three years, and, with the exception of one year, these have ail been successive. Snyder is about seventy years old and is a bachelor. He is a candidate for re-election this year. Gabriel Godfrey, the last of the Miami Indian chiefs, has sued Miami county to recover taxes paid by him on Indian lands for tho last twenty years. The suit involves many thousand dollars. Godfrey has always maintained that the assessment and collection of taxes from Indians was illegal, and has paid them under protest. Old residents at Brownsburg say that the Asiatic cholera is preceded by what is know as “cat cholera.” The people there are becoming serionsly alarmed, owing to the fact, that the feline race has been dying at an alarming rate there during the recent warm weather. Tho cholera acts upon the cats the same as upon persons. Michael Caddcn. of Terre Haute, hailed

a motor car, which failed to stop, and he .fired two shots at the motorman and the I conductor, hitting the car but missing the I men. Cadden followed until be found another motor at rest, and he revenged' himself fey drivings the-empleyes from their post. Still later he took two shots -at-another passings car, with equally as unsuccessful results. The Evansville Tribune is authority for the statement that a syndicate of local politicians have made the Shanklfns an offer of $50,000 for the Courier plant, and that the Shanklins are asking 555,000. The Tribune also says that Mr. Shanklin and his friends are determined to establish a daily evening paper at Indianapolis as the organ of that wing of the State Dem--oeraey of which he is the ackntnv lodged leader. On the night of Fob. 21, two Indianapolis young men, named Van Guysling arid Morrison, hired. ajiveryrig and drove in.to the country six miles to the farm of Peter Poland, where they made a clean sweep of the chicken roost, taking away with them six dozen fowls. The thieves were arrested the next day, and in the Marion Criminal Court, March 22. Were sentenced to eighteen months in tho Prison North and fined SSO each.

W. H. HAWKINS, UNITED STATES MARSHAL FOR INDIANA.