Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Whiting has 3,529 population. A prize baby show Is imminent at Ft. Wayne. There was an attempted jail delivery at Bedford. Milk sickness has been located at Doolittle’s Mills. Kokomo will decorate in honor of the national G. A. R. ' ’ Four new cases of small-pox developed Tuesday. It is alleged that the Muncie fire department is inefficient. The school trustees of Dana will erect a school-building costing 11.000. There are £O3 acres of corn on the Martindale farm, near Switz City. Marion police are overworking themselves trying to break up profanity. Fruit growers on the knobs .of Scott county report a fair crop of peacßes. Charles Dixon,a colored convict,hanged liimself at the Prison North, Tuesday Mrs. Burgess, an old lady, of Westfield, is slowly bleeding to death of hemorrhage of the nose. The financial stringency is not affecting Ingalls, as three large factories are being built there. Muncie is proposing to get up a souvenir to distribute at the National Encampment G. A. R. Charges of immorality have been filed with the county commissioners at Columbus against Wm. S. Griffin, superintendent of schools. William Ely, of Boone county r has distinguished himself by hauling hay to the Indianapolis market with oxen, He brought in two and a half tons at a load. Jesse Denlinger, T. C. Wrenick, John Nelson, Fred Robbins and Rue Flynn were seriously injured in a natural gas explosion at Morristown,Monday evening. Lightning struck William Hick’s barn in Porter county, cremating five head of horses, two cows and other property. Loss $3,500, with insurance in the Ohio Farmers. Two colored boys at Muncie burst open the door of the Lake Erie & Western railway ticket office between trains and stole $Bl. They were chased by the police and captured. The Indiana W. C. T. U. will furnish barrels of ice-water along the line of march of the veterans at the National Encampment of the G. A. R. to be held in Indianapolis. W. C. Vanneman, superintendent of the Anderson foundry and machine shop, is said to have invented a brick machine which will revolutionize the manufacture from soft mud. Messrs. Buck and Brown, the so-called “apostles of tent religion,” are conducting a revival at Windfall. Dozens of converts nightly fall into a trance, and the excitement is said to be intense.

Chas. McDonald was to have been married to a highly respectable young lady at Delphi, Tuesday night, but the wedding did not take place as he was in jail charged with grand larceny. A spectral figure is said to haunt the tracks of the old Peru railway near Atlanta, and the superstitious claim that it is the ghost of a laborer who was murdered by his companions in 1855. Rufus and William Test, owners of a woolen mill located on the banks of Whitewater river, are claiming 120,090 damages from the city of Richmond, because of pollution of the water, White caps in Bartholemew county horribly beat Andy Schrader and wife, Tuesday night. Mrs. Schrader claims to know two of the parties. Mrs. Schrader had accused her husband with whipping her. The Bloomfield Democrat says that, notwithstanding the hard times, 3,609 tickets were sold by the circus managers at Worthington,and one man too poor to pay his subscription to the Democrat lost 870 by a shell game. According to the Bedford Democrat, a cow entered the lot at Bloomington where the reservoir of the water-works is located, and drank up all the water, in consequence of which a drought is reported at Bloomington, ~ W. A. Davis, of Portland, has completed a contract to furnish two hundred thousand cross ties to the Lake Erie & Western railway. Mr. Davis pays out annually over 8100,009 for lumber, etc., along the line of this railway. The Ohio river at Gallopolis is lower now than was ever known. Steamers are unable to run, and hundreds of men are out of employment in consequence. People can cross the river with a horse and buggy, something that has not been done for fifty years. 4 Flying sparks from a passing train communicated a blaze to fields, of grass on John Fletcher’s farm, near Franklin, and the mischief spread to Lister Adams’s farm. Two miles of fencing was destroyed and considerable timber was ruined. The aggregate loss is 82 0)0. ’Squire Chamberlain, of Goshen, claims that the-three great epochs in his life were birth in Maine in 1811, voting for Jackson in 1832 and removing to Goshen in 1835. The ’Squire has officiated at 450 marriages and is anxious to meet the 500 mark before resigning his office. Peru is rejoicing over the prospect of becoming a winter rendezvouz for circuses. Wallace’s circus has for years made that city its winter headquarters, and the Sells and Renfrow aggregations have announced their intention of going into shelter at that place the coming season. Alexander Cox, of Georgia, Lawrence county, having no confidence in the stability of banks, drew out 8200 and carried the money in his pockets. The other night unknown parties entered his house and robbed him. John and Bruce White, under suspicion of committing the robbery, have been arrested. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of President Wilkinson, of the exploded street railway company ot Nobles ville. He is accused of obtaining a thing of value by false pretense. Mr Wilkinson is understood to be at South Waukegan, near Chicago, and Frank Barnett has been intrusted with the service ot the warrant. * A rough-and-tumble fight occurred at Crawfordsville, Wednesday evening, among a drunken mob of railroaders. The mayor and police wont to the scene to make arrests and a general melee ensued The mayor had to fight to- save liimself. After a hard struggle eight of the toughs were landed in jail. According to the Crawfordsville Star, John Robertson, of Green township.

Parke-county, borrowed S3OO of Wash Spencdr, township trustee, with which he went to the World’s Fair, after which he returned home and made an assignment. His liabilities are placed at $20,000, with but SIO,OOO assets, of which- $5,030 is pledged to secure the Waveland bank, Oldenburg, a quaint little town of seven hundred inhabitants, hidden among the hills of Franklin county, is the home of the Sisters of St Francis, who have one of the largest and best equipped convents in the State. The Sisters have recently completed a chapel in connection with the convent, the cost of which is placed at SIOO,OOO. 4 After removing two floors of the common oolitic stone in the quarry of the Heltonville company, a peculiar variety of stone was 'ound, greatly resembling the celebrated “Fox Island granite,” of Maine. The stone is of grayish color, fine texture, and is capable of taking on a high polish. The find is believed to be exceedingly valuable, and there is rejoicing at Heltonvilie.

The crop bulletin of the Indiana weather service issued, Wednesday, showed a wide prevalence of drouth. Early corn is past help but late com would be benefitted by rain. A curious feature of the crop situation is the tremendously large number of grass hoppers in the fields. Wheat has been threshed" in several counties and shows a big yield. A ghost, supposed to be the spirit of a departed pack peddler, has for sometime haunted the farm of Henry McGuire, ten milessouth of English; Numerousdepredatlons were committed by the “spook.” Occasionally the ghost was seen by daylight. Last Friday night, a systematic watch was organized, and when the ghost appeared two shots rang out and the apparition fell a corpse. Examination revealed the body of a large monkey. Patents have oeen issued to Indiana inventors as follows - - J. H. Allison, Elkhart. electric railway trolley switch; G. W. Altman, Marlon, button setting machine; R. C. Anderson, Jeffersonville, wire stretcher; G. G. Boswell, Indianapolis, thill support; R. E. Poindexter, Indianapolis, post base; L. Townsend, Evansville, harness suspending device, J. H. Williamson, Muncie, grain scouring and polishing machine. 4The school superintendent of Henry county had photographs taken of the buildings and interior of school rooms for the educational exhibit at the World’s Fair. The work was done by Eugene McDowell, of New Castle. The exhibit attracted much favorable comment, and recently the superintendent of Henry county received letters from the educational commissioners of Russia and France requesting duplicates of the pictures, also the manual giving details of the government and instructions of district shools. The commissioners credited Henry county with having the best exhibit at the Fair.