Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

. A bronze statue of Roscoe Conkwill be erected at the southeast corner of Madison Square, New York, this summer. The statue was presented to the city by Levi P. Morton, Clarence A. Seward. Cornelius Bliss and other wealthy Republicans. Newspaper enterprise has attained the acme of perfection, and there is little more to be desired in this direction, when obscure country journalists can throw off brilliant sparks of genius like the following, which we clip from the Caledonia (Mich.) News: ‘‘We are informed that, in response to a telegram from the board of directors of the Columbian Exposition, S. K. Hickey has sent one of his superior white leghorn roosters by express to be exhibited at the great Exposition.”

A most remarkable exhibition of the innate sense of justice that is inherent in all men was afforded by some English forge workers who recently went on a strike over some fancied wrong. Becoming convinced that they had no just cause or grievance they promptly returned to work and voluntarily paid their employers £25 indemnity for the loss caused by their ill-advised action. This spirit of forbearance and a desire for only what is right, if applied to the actions of employer and employe, would speedily settle all disputes of this character in all countries.

A down-east Yankee has evolved a great scheme. His idea is that the commercial reverses which at intervals overtake the country are largely due to extravagance in the purchase of unnecessary articles. In his list of unnecessary merchandise he names as the most important items, floors, shoes and carpets. He advocates the wearing of wooden shoes to obviate the necessity of floors, thereby “killing two birds with one stone” by doing away with leather shoes. In order to save carpets he would have small pieces of carpet tacked to the wooden shoes. His ideas are not likely to be largely adopted, however plausible his reasoning in their support may be.

The New Netherland hotel at New York, opened to the public June 1, cost $3,000,000 and is seventeen stories high. It is furnished throughout like a palace. There will be no bar, but wines and liquors will be served to guests when called for. The building is a magnificent structure of yellow brick with brown stone trimmings. The walls of the main halls are of Numidian marble with bronze trimmings. Solid pillars of Mexican white onoyx on polished bronze bases support the ceiling of the main hall. Many of the principal rooms are finished in Mexican onyx, and the building is a palace fit for a King. Gen. Earle will be the manager, The structure is the property of William Waldorf Astor, this being the second gigantic hotel opened by that gentleman in this year of grace. The Kaiser continues to exhibit very peculiar traits of character, and the general bent of his mind bodes ill for the peace of Europe should he develop strength of character and resources sufficient to influence the course of events in the channel that his impulsive will may dictate. His last erratic exhibition of a warlike character has been the presentation to his children, all under twelve years of age, of a miniature fortress, bristling with real Krupp cannons, surrounded with moats and earthworks, surmounted with revolving turrets, and completely fitted out with all the paraphernalia of war. The outfit cost $250,U00. The present is certainly a strange one for young children, and would seem to indicate that the young Emperor is a sort of monomaniac in military affairs, and is seemingly unable to think seriously of other matters, or even to invent innocent diversions for his own children, but must of necessity impress upon their tender minds the grim realities of contending armies.

All information relative to Spain or the Spanish people and government is of especial interest in this Columbian year. In this connection, therefore, we note that the King of Spain, though but in his eighth year, is a lad of a diplomatic disposition, and already gives evidence of the military characteristics which in the past have distinguished the Bourbons of whom he is a descendant. His advisor, and of course the real ruler of the Kingdom, is his

mother, the Queen Regent. The government of Spain is a limited monarchy, the constitution so. which was drawn in 1876. The pow er to make laws is vested in. the Cortes, consisting of a Senate and House of Deputies, the Senators' numbering 360 and the Deputies 431. Senators are of three classes, those nominated by the Crown, those holding the office in their own right, and those elected by the civil and ecclesiastical corporations. In the election of Deputies, all male Spaniards may vote under certain restrictions. The Cortes meets every year, and the ministry is responsible thereto. ’

Ollie Teal, an ex-eowboy, is the coming social mogul of New York, and t ids fair to supplant the inane Ward McAllister in the favor of the famous' ‘‘four hundred”. He is young, handsome, rich, keen in retort and criticism, and his sayings are sought after by the metropolitan press to such an extent that a reporter spent an entire day in his company for the express purpose of giving a detailed narrative of his diurnal programme to his journal, which he did at the length of three columns. A sample of Teal’s wit is as follows: “An Anglo-maniac in America is an ass; in England an Astor.”

Journalism is now affected as a pastime, and often as a regular profession, by members of the English nobility. Thu younger brother of the Duke of Abercorn. Lord Frederick Hamilton, is now assistant editor of the new Pall Mall Magazine. Lady Greville, herself the daughter of a Duke, contributes a column each week to the London Illustrated Graphic over her own signature. The Duchess of Rutland writes long articles for the Queen, a fashion paper. The Marquis of Lome, son-in-law of Queen Victoria, is a frequent contributor to Harper’s Magazine, and also to a number of English publications. Many others among the titled aristocracy of England and Europe think it no condescension to instruct the masses through the medium of the press.

Hon. John C. New, ex-United Stats Consul at London, has returned to Indianapolis. In an interview in New York, on his arrival, he is credited with saying that Gladstone is a vain statesman, who is not sincere in his support of home rule for Ireland, and that he espoused that cause, knowing that its final success could never be brought about, solely with a view of his own personal aggrandizement. Further, Mr. New says, home rule is not desired by the better classes in Ireland, and has no supporters in England outside of a few unimportant and scattered districts. Gladstone was ambitious for the premiership, and that ambition having been satisfied, he will carry the home rule bill through the Commons, it will be defeated in the House of Lords, and there the matter will be allowed to drop. This information, from one who has been on the ground for four years, is no doubt reliable, but is not especially gratifying to many of our people who have allowed their sympathies to be enlisted in behalf of what they have been led to believe was a struggle of an oppressed race for larger liberty an<J of the superhuman cfforts of the octogenarian patriot.

Ciieek is a common characteristic of American character, and conventional exhibitions of this trait seldom attract any particular attention. Sometimes, however, an original genius strikes out in a new direction and the unpleasant effrontery is dignified by the term “gall,” the milder word “cheek” not being sufficient to describe the brazen impudence that is as natural to some men as to walk erect. A prominent citizen of the Hoosier capital, whose frequent tours to foreign countries has swelled his diaphragm to an alarm ing degree, on his last trip developed what is probably the most unique exhibition of “gall” that has eventuated of late years. Always having an inflated idea of his own importance, he determined to impress that idea upon the foreign nobility whose company he proposed to seek. Therefore, taking his family over to the State House, and procuring a photographer, they posed on the steps of that imposing structure for a family group, and obtained a fine picture. He also procured photographs of the new Marion, county jail, a handsome stone building in process of construction. Armed with these works of art he set forth

to conquer worlds unknown. Arriving on the other shore, he said to have exhibited the picture of the State House as that of his private residence, and the picture of the jail as that of a home he was erecting for his daughter .who was soon to be married. The scheme worked to perfection and the enterprising Hoosier “got there” in great shape.

Franklin is getting religio*. - Princeton may have a new band. Indiana has 749 newspaper publications. New Harmony is agitating an electric light system. An Elkhart chewing gum factory has a Jady “drummer." Plans are being drawn for a new theater at Terro Haute. Hrown county is discovering that it is adapted to fruit raising. Two eases of varioloid were discovered at Indianapolis, Thursday. Wayne county has at present twenty prisoners in the county jail. T A seven hundred-barrel oil well has been struck near Montpelier. Alexandria is jubilating because El wood has a touch of the smallpox. Martinsville’s mayor has had his salary increased to the handsome sum of SIOO a year. Hig force of machinists have been laid off at Big Four shops, Wabash. No reason given. The Martinsville school board has shut off the custom of making presents to the graduates. The township trustees throughout the State elected county-school superintendents. on the sth.

In the last four weeks Riley Mills, of Farmland, has sheared 777 sheep, and he is called a “dandy.” 8 Alonzo Meyers, of Richland, while hunting, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen, dying instantly. An epidemic of horse-whipping prevails at Terre Haute. The ladies are on th? war oath, and are “loaded for b’ar.” Bedford expects to have two direct railway lines to Indianapolis and to sqon surpass the capital in size and other things. The mailing department of the Indiana mineral springs company, at Attica, furnishes employment for ten young ladies. The Midland, or Chicago Southeast ern railroad, lacks about two miles of grade and nino miles of track of getting into Brazil. The Ohio river threatens to cut across® the Kentucky bank a short distance Evansville, leaving that city quite a distance away.

Peru and the adjoining township in Miami county have voted a subsidy in aid of the Chicago, Indiana & Western railway project. The 3-year-old daughter of Edward Livsngood, near Lebanon, was choked to leath, Monday, by a coffee grain lodging in her windpipe. The non-taxable property in Marion county, comprising State, national, counJv, city and miscellaneous institutions, is valued at $20,595,000. The projected railroad from Sullivan to Indianapolis is attracting much attention, along the line especially in the western part of Morgan county. Mrs. O. L. Prentice, wife of a Presbyterian minister of Rolling Prairie, impressed with the fear that she was not a Christian, has gone insane.

The 250 workmen in the mechanical department of the Standard Oil Company refinery at Whiting struck, Monday, for a nine-hour day and ten hours’ pay. The new police superintendent at Evansville is prosecuting violators of the Sunilay liquor law and Evansville stands fairly aghast over the innovation. James W. Hartley, of Laporte, while intoxicated, deliberately sat down on a railway track and was killed by a train, which tore his body to fragments. E. P. Bicknell, editor of the Gas City Jonrnal,"has been elected Secretary of the State Board of Charities, vice Alexander .Johnson, resigned, and will accept. Bourbon is formulating a scheme to carve a new county out of townships taken from Kosciusko and Marshall counties, of which it shall be the capital. John Crawford, of Rockport, was mtirdured by unknown parties, after which his body was placed on-the railway track and torn to pieces by a passing train. W. K. Carlisle, son of the Secretary of the Treasury, interested in the gas belt electric project, visited Noblftaville. Tuesday, in the interests of the enterprise. Peter Kecley, of Muncle, filled his pipe with powder instead of tobacco, and there was an explosion which carried away his whiskers and badly injured his face. The sheriff of Montgomery county went squirrel hunting, taking the jail keys withhim. In consequence the prisoners could not be arraigned in court, and all proceedings were stopped for one day. Burglars worked for hours in “cracking” an old safe in the Empire fiouringmill at Ft. Wayne, finally using dynamite as an explosive in forcing the doors. They were rewarded with $7 in pennies and nickels.

Ed Gant, of Anderson, has been arrested oh a requisition from Arkansas, lie being wanted at Jonesboro, that State, for running an illicit dram-shop, known as a “blind tiger.” Gant left there three years ago, forfeiting a bond of SSOO to get away. •Tames Cuthbcrson, employed in the Jumbo mines, near Brazil, in tying up packages of dynamite handled the ends of the strings in his mouth. Soon he became stupefied, and lie lay unconscious all day and night. His condition has not materially improved. The great rock overhanging the little river at Pine Hills, in Montgomery county. known as tho “Hanging Rock,” fell with a great crash some days ago, carrying down its crown of trees and foliage. By the fail the little river is robbed of one of its most picturesque and romantic attractions.

4 John Hartman, of Franklin county,who served in the war of tho rebellion, discovered that he had never been discharged, and he applied for a muster out. Recently It was granted. Now he is disposed to claim pay for twenty-eight years of military service. The Bedford Bank, Tuesday morning, closed its doors. Tho president claims that owing to an unprecedented heavy run on the Chicago banks,Monday, which had promised assistance, the bank was forced to suspend. Depositors are promised to receive full value for every dollar. The bank Is one of the oldest in the State. The exact amount of deposits Is not known at present, but are supposed to bo large. 4 James Hensley, of Nineveh township. Johnson counny. owns a sow that ■ has a, litter of small pigs. A few days ago a bald eagle, from the wilds of Brown county. swooped down and captured one of the porkers, carrying it off. Last Saturday the bird returned for a second installment but as it fastened its talons oh a pig the

watchful mother sprang upon the eagle and literally tore tho king of birds to pieces. Postmaster Bennett, of Evansville, who is preparing to surrender the office to J ack Nolan, hjks received notification from Washington that the Evansville postoffice was declared under civil service rules. May 30, and that ail appointments of clerks and carriers must be made in conformity to civil service rules. It is also stated that none of the- present force can be thrown out for political reasons. Tho notice is in the nature of a bombshell to a number of Democrats who were counting on places under Nolan. The Central Indiana car works was incorporated under the laws of Illinois atSpringfield, Wednesday, and the shops will be located at Nobiesrille. Tho main building will be sixty feet wide and 1,000 feet long, and will give employment to 000 men. At these shops will be built and repaired all the cars, machinery and appliances for ihe Central IndianaElectrtcal Railway Company. Mr. George A. W. Kintz, of Chicago, chief engineer of the company, is now going over the field. A new feature of this enterprise is the proposition of Chicago people tounite.with the Central company and make a double track the entire distance from Indianapolis to Chicago via Noblesville, Frankfort and Lafayette. ggjg ■An old-fashioned steamboat race is soon to take place on the Ohio river,, and one of the boats, at least, is owned in Indiana. She is the Royal, a 100-foot stern-wheeler, belonging to the Ohio River Company, of EvansvJle. The Louisville people finally bought the Evansville people out for $85,000. The Royal will run against the Fowler for SI,OOO a side, and the money is already deposited in an Evansville bank. The race will take place as soon as the courso can be agreed upon. Both boats are very speedy, having twenty-mile records. A Jeffersonville boy, Geo, McElhenny, is the Royal’s first engineer, and he is now preparing her machinery. The matter is attracting general attention along the Ohio. At Wednesday’s session of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias, in session at t lndianapolis, the following officers were installed: Grand Chancellor—James E. Watson, Winchester. Grand Vice Chancellor—James M. Hatfield, Hnntington. Grand Prelate—C. F. S. Neal, Lebanon. Grand Master of the Exchequer—H. D. Grahas, Union City. Grand Keeper of Records and Seal— Frank Bowers, Indianapolis. Supreme Representative—J. H. Russe, Lawrenceburg.