Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Indlana has ninety State banks, Frankfort is troubled with burglars. The blackberry crop in Franklin county is large. Columbus has a chewing gnm factory in operation. Muncie factories are claimed to be In a healthy condition. Fifteen thousand people visited Camp Matthews, Sunday. Grasshoppers at Mishawaka are doing a great deal of damage. A man at Napoleon. Ripley county, a<F vertises for 3,000 old tin cans. Mrs. George Stahl, near Farmington, sells forty dozens of eggs weekly. l A new postoffice has been established at Dark Hollow, Lawrence county. j- .There is an epidemic of throat disease near Houston and many children are dying, .... . - , Work on the new Ohio river bridge at Jeffersonville has been suspended indefinitely.’ The Citizens’ Gas Company, of Greenfield, has Struck a tine gas well three miles east of that city. 6 A Lagrange county man is working on a bicycle that will be propelled by the weight of the rider • Farmers drilled a gas well at Farmland, the estimated daily output of which is three million cubic feet. "Seventeen-year” locusts, of extraordinary size, have appeared in Randolph countyangroat numbers. Robert Mcßeth, of Farmland, received the highest score, 97, for July for butter in the World’s Fair contest. Ex-Mayor Denny was nominated for Mayor of Indianapolis by the Republican convention, Saturday night. The wheat crop of Clark county is turning out immense, many farmers realizing forty bushels to the acre. Clinton complains of hoodlum rule and a wide open policy on the part of the authorities. Everything goes. The Blish Milling Company, of Seyniour, has been shipping large quantities of bran to Amsterdam, Holland. 1 The Waynetown News reports the prevalence of the “cholera and phantom” among the children of that place. The Michigan City police are enforcing the Sunday closing law on the saloons and beer can not be had on that day. The Attica & Covington branch of the Wabash railway Will soon be laid with steel rails from Covington to Fountain. There are 113 threshing machines in operation in Bartholomew county, and the average work of each is 1,0)0 bushels a day. George N. Martin, a bricklayer, was terribly-mangled and instantly killed by a motor car at Indianapolis, Thursday night. The Montgomery county commissioners have ordered the construction of a new orphans’ home. It will be a fire-proof structure. The American Protective Tariff League j has received the acceptance of Flavius i J. Van Vorhis, of Indiana, as Secretary of the League for Indiana. William Pickerel, who was whipped by “white caps’ at Seymour, Wednesday, returned to his home, Thursday,’ with his body covered with welts. Within three hours after Dr. Kennedy, of St. Louia Crossing, had taken out an insurance policy his barn and 800 bushels of wheat were destroyed by fire. Charles Patterson, of Thorntown, in jail at Frankfort on a charge of assault with intent to kill, made his escape, Wednesday morning, in a mysterious manner. John Brandt, of Fort Wayne, while returning from the Tuesday night, was beaten and robbed by three men. His injuries resulted fatally Thursday night. The Kelly Ax Manufacturing Co., of Louisvilic, will probably remove to Alexandria. The town has offered >40,000 in cash, >300,0C0 in land, and free fuel to secure the plant. The books of Treasurer Armstrong, of Tipton county, now’ show a shortage of >42,000. This is the final result of the investigation, apd is at least >IO,OOO worse than was expected. . There is a scheme developing at Richmond to build a branch railway from Beeson’s Station, near Cambridge City, on the Lake Erie &. Western rail way, through Richmond to Manchester. Crawfordsville complains of a local financial stringency because of the World’s Fair. It is estimated thpt Montgomery county will have dropped >350,000 because of the big show before its close, i Mrs. S. E. Givan, of Lawrenceburg,owns a geranium plant which has ninety-five, buds and blossoms. C. E. Rice, of the same city, has a pear tree nine feet high which has 250 pear? developing. The two-yeayold. son of Sherman Young, of Kokomo, fell into a well where the wafer ten . deep, pnd some time afterward he was ’ found floating on the surface, alive and uninjured. Isaac Kroot, aged eight years, was crushed to death by a motor car at Indianapolis, Tuesday, and his brother, aged eleven, dangerously injured. The motorman was arrested and held for trial, fllsaac Wall, a paralytic, threw himself under a passenger train on the T.. St. L. & K. C. railway at Clark's Hill, Friday. He did it purposely to escape going to the poor-house. He was terribly mangled. 6 The four-year-old son of Noah Howe, near Edinburg, tried to burn out a rat that had taken refuge under A straw stack. The burning straw communicated fire to his father’s stable, and >1,500 loss resulted. Newport was visited by a destructive fire, Friday night. The no;th side of the public square, except two buildings, was wiped out. In less than two years the four sides of the square have been destroyed byfire. While R. D. Wharton and wife, near Sharpesville were hastening home to avoid a storm, the wind blew down a tree/ which struck the vehicle in which they were riding. Mr. Wharton was killed and his wife seriously hurt. 6 The Citizens’ gas company of Greenfield, has struck another good gas well on the farm of Charles Wiggins, three miles east. They are only eight feet in Trenton rock, and the flow of gas is now so strong that it is difficult to continue the drilling. The entomologist of the Agricultural , Department at Washington has sent out a warning that seventeen year locusts may be looked for In many localities. Among the counties in this State likely to be visited are Knox,.Posey and Sullivan. Rev. Wm. Knapp, a minister of the separate Baptist denomination, near Bt Louis Crossing, was stricken with apo

plexy and died while kneeling at prayer by his bedside, Monday night He had been fishing all day in the hot sun, and this is believed to have induced the attack. A Shelby county girl ‘has taken a novel way of deciding between three lovers. She wrote their names on as many eggs, which a faithful hen is now trying to warm into life, and the young man whose name is on the egg which batches first will secure the prize, heart and hand. There is great destitution among the working classes at Elwood. Two thou sand men are now out of employment with starvation staring them in the face. A relief meeting has been called by Mayor Dehorlty to devise means to supply the immediate wants of the needy, An unknown party threw a lighted dynamite bomb under Roper’s meat market at Hobart, blowing up the floor and badly wrecking the interior. Mrs. Charles Heck was In the act of passing out and she was thrown some distance by the force of the explosion and badly hurt. Lopez Mumaugh, an Indianapolis ciga maker, drunk and infuriated by the refusal of hfs divorced wife to see him. shot .at his sister-in-law, and then blew out his own brains, Tuesday nigh.. He left a highly sensational letter addressed to his wife, indicating his intention to commit suicide. What is known as the polecat case at New Albany has resulted in a line and costs being entered against Benjamin N. Jenks, a saloon-keeper. Mr. Jenks persisted in keeping two polecats, as pets, and Abram Stonecipher made complaint as a common nuisance. Jenks will appeal ■to the’ Clr--cult Court, 4 There is an odd law suit pending at Terre Haute. Frank Marney«took the gold cure for the liquor habit, but he refused to pay for the treatment, alleging that it failed to check his appetite for liquor and that he still gets drunk with old-time regularity. The Sprague BiChloride of Gold Company is the plaintiff. Cafietq appointed to West Point from Indiana the past week were: John D. Long, Columbus; James P. Hughes (alternate), Cloverdale. The list of naval cadets from this State for the next class includes: Third district, Scott Applcwright; Sixth, H. Williams, R. 8. Charles, (alternate); Seventh, D. H. Bynum; Ninth. A. P. Perrill. Ten tramps went to the'home of Mrs. Henry Minnich, near Arcola, and demanded food. She replied by calling the house dog, a sat age animal, which was shot by a tramp as soon as he made his appearance. Mrs. Minnich then appeared with a revolver, but she was disarmed before she could use the weapon. Her resistance, however, was so. determined that the tramps finally sought safety in flight. An old landmark, a monster oak tree, in the business portion of Brazil, was lelled to the ground, Tuesday. During the rebellion it was topped, and at the top a platform was erected, from which a martial band daily discoursed military music to keep up the courage of those left at home by the soldier boys. Tears were freely shed as the grand old tree came down Lafayette Swain, of Parke county, who was shot by his brother, will recover. Moses Swain, who did the shooting, has been committed for kill Ing Gabriel Bryant. He is also- held’ under >2OO for shouting Lafayette. Public sympathy is with Moses so far as trouble with his brother is concerned, because it is claimed that Lafayette treated him shamefully. Had Lafayette been killed instead of Bryant, who was an inoffensive old man, there would not have been general regret. C. W. Cole, Auditor of Harrison county, was shot in his room at Corydon, on an upper floor, Thursday morning about 2 o’clock, by a burglar, who had reached his bedside, and was evidently intending to steal the money in the pockets of his trousers. Mr. Cole ran the burglar to the 4 head of the stairway, when, the scoundrel turned and shot him. The bullet took effect on a floating rib, glancing around and coming out at the side. The burglar made his escape. Mr. Cole will recover. Charles W. Depauw and the New Albany Rail Mills Company made assignments, Saturday afternoon, for the benefit of creditors. The failure was caused by the liability of Mr. Depauw for debts of the Premier Steel Works of Indianapolis. Mr. Depauw was supposedjto be worth at least >1,000,000, but is now practically penniless. The assets of the two estates are ample to pay liabilities. Philip Lint deliberately killed Levin Poynter, his brother-in-law, at North Liberty, near South Bend, Tuesday. Poynter was over sixty years of. age, while Lint was a young man of thirty, and is well known as a drunken, worthless character. After his arrest he claimed to have no knowledge of pie crime, and insisted that he did not see Poynter at all. His defense will be temporary insanity. There has been an old man going about the city for some days past selling "strained honey,” which he says is a pure article made out in Brown county. It is said the old man buys one pound of pure bee honey and fifteen pounds of granulated sugar of a certain merchant in this city, and, mixing them, boils to the proper consistency and then peddles it out, and goes back to the same grocery store and purchases the material to make some more. Good man.—Columbus Times. J. W. Miller, of Oxford, Benton county, has invented a new heating substance that promises to take the place of natural gas or any other fuel. It is said to be a combination of crude petroleum and water, and can be furnished at very much less than gas. The appliances for the manufacture of the gas will cost for each house not more than >8 or >lO. An order has already been placed for the manufacture of the gasgenerators with a firm in Lafayette.