Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

j Tipton has voted for water works. The town cow is an Issue at Franklin. i North Manchester will have waterworks. ■ '%•. ->7 •: • 6 Six horses stolen ih Hamilton county have been located at Dayton, O. I Coal miners at Coxville and Rosedale are out on an independent strike. The Tucker oil well just drilled in at Portland, is yielding 300 barrels a day. The Western works, of Michigan, wilt be removW to Gas City. • A J»ol or trust of the coal operators Is bffing formed at'Teste Haute. There are 3,286 children of school age'in ■ Crawfordsvilie, a gain of 164 over last 'year. The Indiana Literary Union began a three days’session at Ft. Wayne, Wednesday.,. . Lightning burned the- railway depot at Westport, causing several hundred dollar# damage. | Hagerstown fruit, growers report the crop badly by the unpropitious weather. Joel Roesse, severi-year-old, of South Bend, attempted to board a moving train jmd was killed. The new Methodist church at Noblesville, erected at a cost of $20,250, was dedicated, Sunday. Red Key and Dunkirk will be joined together by an electric railway. They are biit three miles,apart. V . 7 7,~r | A new postofflee will at Mt. Jackson, Marton countyi at the request of Congressman Bynum. A Keeley institute was opened at Liberty, Monday. Ex-Governor Chase made an address indorsing the Keeley care. The fakirs and shell workers who fbl-

low in tho wake of Sells Bros.’ cftQus reaped a rich harvest at Columbus, Tuesday. ! ! - ’ 2 A new real-estate syndicate was drgaaized at Anderson., Monday, with a capital of $500,000. S. P. Sh J eerin, of Logansport, is President. .. V_. . . Governor Matthews has ordered an investigatlon rntOithe affairs and condtiqt es the Home for Feeble-Minded Chlmren at Fort Wayne. The bricklayers of Terre Haute are now paid 50 cents per hour, nine hours Constituting a day. The hod-carriers b&vp also secured a slight increase. %, v The Italians employed by the Pari Ifahdle Kai)v*y .Company as common laborers improvements at Richmond are striking forsl.4o per day. I Counterfeiters are getting ip their work at Elwood, and officers ore on the track of home talent who are thought to be doing the work, which Is exceedingly rough. Ex-Governor Gray arrived at the City sf Mexico, Tuesday, and assumecljhe duties of United States Minister to that country. A banquet in his honor was given by the American residents. The Indiana Bloclc Coal Company, with headquarters at Chicago, has been organized, with Leslie Thomas, of Terre Haute, president. It js proposed to handle the entire output of the block coal during the coming year, 1 The syndicate owning the tract of land sn which Maynard is located have laid out thirty thousand lots on the Indiana side and forty thousand in Illinois. Several targe manufacturing plants have been contracted for. The Vigo county commissioners have unanimously refused to increase the salaries of Judges of the Superior and Circuit Courts, as provided for by the act of the last Legislature. The Judges will appeal to the Supreme Court, G. H. Higdon, of New Castle, has been granted patents and trade marks on a compound psed to make lemop pies.]. He has already commented the jpaniMafctiure of the stuff and several tpns of sugar and many thousand Contracts , have been let for the new building of the State Normal School at Terre Haute, to exhaust the forty-thou-sandMiollair made by tl!0 Legislature. The cbmpletiori'wjjl await, additional appropriations twoqrears hence.

At the meeting of the board of trustees ojf thue fitate Normal School at Terre Haute, Tuesday, Sphumacher, Qf Indianapolis, was the lowest bidder for the work of constructing and inclosing the new building. The bid was 136,000. This leaves 13,400 of the amount appropriated by the Legislature to be appliea toward finishing the interior. Great damage is reported, by flood in Orange and adjoining counties; Lost river is out of its banks and is covering a Wide sweep of farm land. The flood carried out ninety feet of the Little Monon road-bed on the Lick creek curve, stopping the running of trains. The bridge over the dry bed of Lost river was carried away. James Hudson, who was convicted of bigamy at Madison two weeks ago, and sent to the penitentiary for two years, has now been proved to be an innocent man. His attorney has secured a certified copy of the divorce that wasgranted his former wife in 1892. Ho will go before Gov. Matthews to have his client pardoned. Silas Middleton, nehr Nora, has a Van-derver-pippln apple tree In his orchard which measures Might feet eleven Inches In circumference twofeet from the ground. In the fall of 18C1 he harvested thirty-fivo bushels from this one tree. Joshua Humbles, of Hamilton county, hai a, tree of the same vatlety which measures nine ..foot six Inches' in .circumference. John A." McDonald, near Otis, was awakened sonpe nights. ago by * terrible pain In his leg L-lag. fho limb was swoUen'threovtJnm tts, normal size, and hadtiimed tithetr. set in and two days later he underwent am- , piitatldn Umfc Mr. McDonald had ,o(mifiUl of Boast aisoase, nett tbc surgeons ' rfefMrfthatf’4 #i%uSsid grSWta had become cßjtached from the heart, and passing into the circulation, had lodged In tho main artery 3 < The second pf the tour district meetings to be held by todiMd '6( Indiana was held at Columbus; ultardday."' Teams were present from Indianapolis, GreenhmWSi'mW'W, Seymour, Grand Master E. G. Hog&te, of Danville; Grand WardenM. ArtAipman, of AndepMiii. and Grand Intsructor Leedy,. of i Indianapolis, weris '<#««• A welcoming Mdrepawas delivered by Marsharnadker. of ladles, representing the were also there* Several months ago Phillip Hart, a tramp, went wandering around Fulton

county; Aria | was gitefi •employment' on ■lhMirm of jjohn Robbins* H* prrived to be a worthy fellowT“He claimed that he had been a well-to-do farmer In Michigan until ruined by forest fires. ancLllbAt after be lost his wife and he went to tramping to drtwn-hia sorrow. While In the employ of th« Hy his application of penhe intomake hi SS Sly andshows no dispositffmtoJ leave. > C dtecovwy iiy made, Monday* &t the Prison - Smith. About two years ago, Robert .Montgomery, a young married man. connected with the most prominent families in JeffersbrivlTfe, Louisville and New Albany, loft Jeffersonville and for some time uotliing was h£iys, of him. Monday a convict .vrriv'esflJtt .the prison from T§rre Haute, undfer a sentence of three years, giving the name of Robert Gerton. He was immediately identified by foreman Shane, of the Patton company* and-other prison officials as Robert Montgomery. The fact has created a sensation at Jeffersonville, where his Wife and children live and Where they have always stood high. John L. Forknor, of Anderson, and Dennis Uhl were appointed, Wednesday, as trustees of the Northern Indiana hospital the insane. Mr, Forkper is presffiept of the National exchange bank of Anderson, an ex-cdunty officer "and a_ prominent politician. Mr. Uhl Was reappriinted. Trustees for the Southern hospital for the insane were also named, They- are Selliman Gimball and William L.- 'Snornstedt. Mr. Glmball is a capitalist of Vincennes , and probably the most prominent Hebrew in the State. Mr. Swornstedt iscaehier of the Pitizens’. National bank of Evansville. The position of tax commissioner falls to Capt. David F. Allen, of Frankfort. He succeeds Joslah Gwln, of New Albany. Wednesday afternoon the Hori. John B. Cockrum was at Tipton to represent the Interests of a L. E. & W. passenger conductor who was charged with assault and battery on Charles Hutto, of Sharpsvllle, whom he ejected from his train. During the progress of the trial, whilo Hutto was on the witness stand; Mr. Cockrum was severe in cross-examination’. When the trial was over and after Cockrum had lfeffc the court-rooiri, on his way to the depot, he was approached by Hutto, who In the interim had armed himself. Only d few word&passed before iiutto struck Cockrum two or three times with a mace, knocking him down and inflicting severe and painful injuries on the head. Marshal Steiger arrested Hutto, and he was immediately indicted for assault with intent to kill, aud was placed under $2,000 bonds. Jonathan Staunhope is a wealthy farmer of the section known as the Blue Lick Hills, in Wayne county. lie is eightyfour years old, a widower and very eccen-. trie. Recently he went to Richmond and presented his check for $3,800 to ter Jenkinson, astring that Columbian stamps be given In exchange. The Postmaster was unable to fill the order, but Staunhope insisted upon leaving the check, and the stamps have been ordered from Washington. Mr. Staunhope reports that he has concluded to paper the parlor of his home with Columbian stamps, ol one, two and five cents denomination, and he has estimated that it will cost him $3,800 to carry out his project. Word was sent to his son who resides in Kansas City, and young Staunhope is already 'ritoßichmoud trying to prevent his father from carrying out his purpose. He claims that Staunhope, Sr., is daft, a charge most bitterly denied by the old gentleman.