Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Browfistown wanta a waterworks system. North Vernon is howling for a brass band. Alexandria schools can’t open. Diphtheria. Crawfordsville maintains six gambling houses. A light frost visited Greenfield, Sunday morning. Fort Wayne is overrun with strolling musicians. 4'Several Elwood factpries resumed operrtions, Monday. 4 Strawberry vines in Porter county have been killed by the drough t. Thirty-eight divorce suits are pending in the Madison Circuit Court. A stock company to estabish water works in Corydon, is being organized. Over 10,(03 people attended the feast day meeting of the Friends at Plainfield, Judge Stephenson has set the BrownWcsner murder trial at Lebanon for Oct. 17. Elwood is overrun with counterfeit half dollars. Supposed to be the work of local talent. Middlebury is agitated over what appears to be a systematic scheme of plnnder and burglary. James Little, of Newton county, reports that he reaped 7.003 bushels of wheat off 100 acres of land this season. Luther Short, editor and proprietor of the Franklin Democrat, has been appointed consul-general of the United States at Costantinople, Turkey. Two card sharpers, under pretense of wanting to buy a farm, attempted to swindle the venerable John Renbarger, of Huntington, but he was too wary. 2 Four attempts at highway robbery were made at Kokomo, Saturday night. Three arrests were made. All the victims showed fight and the robbers secured nothing. The street railway system at Evansville, is still tied up by the strikers. The strikers offer to return to work at seventeen cents per hour, bub the management will pay but fifteen.

i The Bruce gang, in jail at Terre Haute charged with safe blowing, say they will make it warm for “Kid” Gerald when they get their freedom. It is said that Gerald squealed. O. W. Riddle, of New Carlisle, while pushing a cart, struck an obstruction. The handle flew up, tearing open his mouth nearly from car to ear and breaking both jaw-bones. New Albany is preparing to place $40,000 in fifteen-year 5 per cent, gold bonds, and it gives its assets as follows: Real value of taxable property, 820,000,000: assessed valuation $11,400,000; total bonded debt, $380,000. Riotous and drunken conduct is reported on the part of the Fourteenth Regiment Ohio militia, at Huntington, while enroute home from Chicago. It is alleged that the soldiers looted the railroad restaurant and stole even the dishes. The Elkhart Review says the large destruction of fences in the late drouth by fires has turned the attention of farmers to the cost of lumber for fences, and the superiority of wire fencing. The woven' wire fences aro vastly better than rail or board. The teachers of the township institute meeting at Brookville were so well satisfied with the treatment received at the hands of John C. Ellis, township trustee, that they elubbed together in a purse and sent Mr. Ellis on a visit to tho World’s Fair. Swindlers circulated in Dearborn county offering farmers $2 for the privilege of posting show bills on their farms. The farmers were called upon to sign receipts for the money, and these receipts afterwards turned upi as notes calling for SSO ana even SIOO.

The A. P. A. is getting in its work in Northern Indiana. An appeal has been made to Gov. Matthews for arms to equip a military company by parties who fear a Catholic uprising. The Governor responded in an official paper advising against such proceedings. A regulation prize-fight between Chas. Johnson and W. Evans took place near Broad Ripple, Monday night. Only a “select” crowd of “sports” were permitted to find the place of meeting, and all the arrangements were conducted with the greatest secrecy. Johnson won in nine rounds. A string of horses, said to be the property of Cal. Armstrong, the defaulting deputy treasurer of Tipton county, was captured at East St. Louis, Thursday Frank Hayes, a cousin of Armstrong, was arrested, charged with embezzling the property which was found in his charge, add New deal Anderson has taken additional steps tpwards enforcing the quarantine against Munele. Tuesday night thirty men were appointed to patrol the roads leading into the city and turn back those seeking shelter from tho infected district So far the disease has not appeared at Anderson. The Albion Democrat says that the total amount of taxes paid in Noble county in 1838 was SI,OOO. At present the total taxes will reach over $177,000. Fifty-five years will make quite a change. Noble county has no debt hanging over it, and it ranks at the head of the list of wealthy counties in Indiana.

Tne grand jury, at Tipton, has returned indictments against James Armstrong and his son Cal, the alleged defaulting treasurer and deputy. James is held on three charges of embezzlement and conspiracy, and Cal on embezzlement. Two other sons of Armstrong, and the two young men who tried to get Cal out of jail, were also Indicted. 4The twelve years-old son of Randolph Trissell, of Muncie, was taken with smallpox, Monday. As the officers forced the door open to take the boy to the pesthouse the. father fired on them. The bail passed through the coat sleeve of one of the officers. The boy was secured, however, and taken to the hospital, while the father was put in the guard house. The special correspondent of the Indi] anapolis Journal at Delphi charges the Carroll county commissioners with having secretly sold 880,000 worth of county bridge bonds at a discount of *3,000, without the formality of advertising the same. The bonds bear 6 per cent, interest and run—-one-fourth ten years, one-fourth fifteen years, and one-half twenty years. Carroll county bonds have always sold at a high premium. kit is doubtful if any -bank in the State can report a more novel deposit than was made tn Petersburg, last Saturday, when

a full grown and well-fatted hog waa ue posited without ceremony in the cellar of the Citizens’ bank. Cashier Benton offered a certificate of deposit which was however, refused, the owner doubtless thinking the stock would not bear sufficient interest at the close of a year. The jury impaneled at Danville in the case of Henry Allison, of Plainfield, indicted for the murder of Alya Williamson the 21st of October, during a Democratic rally at PMtinfield, remained out Saturday night, and, Sunday, reported an agreement to disagree. The poll stood ten for acquittal and two for conviction. The defendant, Allison, is seventeen years old. On the night of the killing, while Congressman Cooper;was speaking, squads of boys and men circulated about the streets, cheering for their respective candidates. One of these was led by Williams. During the evening there was a controversy between Williams and Allison, and in the melee which followed Allison was cut in the cheek, the scar still remaining, and Williams was shot dead. Allison avoided arrest by leaving Plainfield. He afterward returned ando voluntarily surrendered to the authorities. The first grand jury which convened indicted Allison for manslaughter. A second grand jury also considered the case and returned an indictment for murder in the first degree. This indictment proved to be defective, and he was brought to trial on the first There has been considerable feeling shown on both sides.