Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1893 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

? . im - prest fell fn Jay cownty, Wednesday morning. _ '<•. i Pure white marble has been found fn Wabash county. The fifth attempt to strike natural gas at Delphi has failed. It is alleged that the Muncie fire department is inefficient. Fourteen divorce suits are booked for trial tn Wayne county. There are 150 horses in training at tne New Albany fairgrounds. Peaches In New Albany are bringing from >1.25 to >1.70 per bushel. 5 Corn stalks sixteen feet high were on exhibition at the Corydon fair. The canning factory at Seymour is putting up 20,003 cans of corn weekly. Two honest, sober citizens of Marion have seen a wild man near that place. The Pan Handle proposes to run a branch line from Gas City to Frankton, via Fairmount. It is said that a Washington county farmer sews his sheep’s ears together to keep them from jumping. The Elkhart & Western is completed to Elkhart, and the first locomotive went over the entire line Saturday. The American strawboard-works at Noblesville, have closed down indefinitely, because of the general depression in business. The Carroll county teachers’ institute passed resolutions demanding a change in the management of the State normal school. . Tho well known Barnett Hotel at Logansport was turned, Wednesday morning. Many guests lost their luggage. Insured for 135,500. Petit, the wife-poisoner, confined for life in the Prison North, is stated on what appears good authority to be hopelessly sick with consumption. The Greentown Reporter threatens to publish a list of patrons of the “quart shop” in that village, and there is a clamorous condition of affairs. A postoffice named Rapture has been established in Posey county, two and a half miles south of Stewartsville, with Henry Mentel, postmaster. A North Judson News subscriber has ordered his paper stopped four tines this year, all because the News says he isn’t competent to discharge his duties as township trustee while in a drunken stupor. The Hartford City Glass Company has voted to increase its capital stock from >150,000 to >250,0 ». Col. A. L. Conger < onMnues president. Col. Conger has alio been elected president of tho Hartford 'ity Land Company. A magnificent vein of coal has been ’.truck at Belltown, near Linton. The specimen exhibited closely resembles the Pennsylvania variety. The vein lies six-ty-seven feet below the surface and is nearly six feet in thickness. The village of Edwardsville, five miles west of New Albany, was badly swept by fire, Tuesday morning. Five residences and stores, with barns, etc., were consumed. The loss is about >15,000, with >4,CO) insurance. Tho fire was of incendiary origin. Thieves stole an iron safe weighing 800 pounds, containing >46 and valuable papers, from an Indianapolis saloon, Monday night. Tho robbery occurred within a hundred feet of the house of Police Captain Quigley. Tho entire police department devoted its energies all day Tuesday in the city and surrounding country to searching for the property, but without avail. • At a meeting of the Soldiers’ Monument commissioners, Friday, a resolution offered by Mr. English, to remove the dates "1846-1848,” referring to the Mexican war, from the monument, was carried, all the members voting ‘,aye” except Mr. Langsdale. Mr. Langsdale made a speech in which he showed great feeling and excitement and used some very strong language.

As Elwood Hatton was going to the water-works just as day was breaking on ' Monday morning, he ran across a pair of ' lovers in Washington Park who had evidently courted all night. They were in a buggy, locked in each other's arms and sound asleep. When they were awakened there was a good deal of astonishment manifested all around.—Attica Ledger. Greencastle is to furnish tho material for the largest wiue cask in the world. Wfiile in Europe Alfred Hirt secured the contract to furnish the staves and head- • fng for this cask. The staves are to be j thirty feet long, ten inches thick, and from ten to twelve inches wide; the head- ; Ing is to be twenty-five feet long, nine inches thick, and from twenty to twenty- ! five inches wide. A new way of killing fish is in vogue j in the vicinity of Anderson. Lime is placed In a stone jug, which is wrapped in a casing of wood to keep it afloat. The stopper of the jug is of cloth. The jug is thrown into the water, and as it slowly fills a gas Is generated which finally explodes with terrific force, with an effect greater than if dynamite had been used. Thousands of fish are wasted in this manner. Several weeks ago George Dixon assaulted Joseph Holtam, of Reynolds, robbing him of >531, of which >177 was in currency. Dixon fled to Cincinnati, where he was arrested on another charge, bnt ho secured an acquittal and disappeared tho day the White county sheriff reached that city. Dixon was traced to New York city and early this week he was located at Schenectady through a letter which he addressed to Miss Ellie Styles, ot Reynolds. Sheriff Dobbins, of White county, Invoked the aid of Schenectady officers and Dixon has been returned for (rial. Patents have been granted to Indiana inventors as follows; F. L. Ikiley, Freeport. cash register and indicator; G. Baldwin, Inl'anapolis, plow; L. G. Cunnlgbam, Greensburg, pump; C. C. Durr, Plymouth, artificial tooth- H. Chore. Frankfort, straw carrier; W. P. Grannis, Wolcottville, mowing machine; L. B. Huddleston, Winchester, corpse dressing table; C. Ingersoll, Indianapolis, oil burner; L. 11. Sinclair, Switz City, motor; P. B. Raymond, Indianapolis, lumber drying rack; R. S. Rutter. Warsaw, submerged water heater; E. M. Rosenthal, Fort Wayno, display glove case; W. A. Scott, Evansville, folding bed; A. E. Whitney, Muncie, bracket for coffins; P. Zackrelgcl, Tell •Jty, voting booth. Ex-Treasurer Huston, of Connersville, will dispose ot his real estate holdings and personal property, or as much as will per-< i mit an immediate settlement of the HabU-

itfea of the Citizens’ Bank, of whlcßjße was the sole owner. He proposes to settle ail of his affaire in that cityacd remove elsewhere, and he will locate either at Indianapolls,Cincinnati or Washington City. He reserves nothing from sale, not even the old home farm. Mr. Huston has been the most liberal business man Connersville ever bad. His money and influence ■was always ready for anytbingbeneflcial to the city, his charities were abundant, and no manufacturing enterprise wat ever projected but that it had his financial backing. Mr. Huston owns stock in fiftysix companies, and he is an officer and director in thirty-six of them. Tbe Indiana Odd Fellows are prepared to announce a definite rate for their grand excursions to Chicago, Sept. 33, from all stations in the State. The round-trip fare from Indianapolis will be >3.50, less than one cent a mile, with a corresponding rate froth other stattons Tfafs is the lowest rate yet given and makes the trip a very cheap one, as arrangements can l>e made by which tents may be occupied for ten days at a cost of but 11 cents per day for each person. Reports are being received which indicate a large attendance from other States—lowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, etc., and it is predicted the demonstration ot the 25th will be the greatest in the history of tbe I. O. O. F. All persons are invited to go to Chicago on this occasion. For particulars as to tents, hotels, etc., apply to C. H. Harwood, Indianapolis. As to rates from your town apply to the. nearest railroad agent. Several years ago Shelbyville* made a special levy by which over >IO,OOO was raised for special tuition purposes. Of this amount >2,737.14 still remains in tho hands of the treasurer of the board. The last Legislature passed a law requiring school officers to turn into the county treasury all unexpended balance of State tuition revenue tn their hands on the Ist of each July; failure to comply with’ which makes them liable to a fine twice the amount involved. The AttorneyGeneral has made a demand upon the treasurer of the Shelbyville board for this amount, but tho treasurer refuses upon the ground that the money belonged to the city and not to the State, and that it was not a part of the State school revenue. The treasurer also holds tnat the Attor-ney-General has no power to make the collection, if not properly being within his - jurisdiction. If the treasurer had complied the Attorney-General’s fee would have been 33% per cent. Only one trustee in the county was found who would acknowledge the Attorney-General’s juris-’ diction, the others, preferring to contest the law in the courts. Claim Is made that if the construction of the law stands asmade by tho Attorney-General, it will give to him an enormous revenue from this source alone.