Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

1 A dancing club is to bo formed, at Elwood. The Madison county apple crop was a failure.’ Six new cases of cholera were reported at Stettin. ■ . Two new smallpox cases are reported from Muncie. The Czar and his family have arrived at Gatschina. The Treasurer of Laporte county gives a $350,000 bond. The total of deaths from smallpox at Muncie is nineteen. Eleven, white cappers are now in the prison south with more to follow. A great revival is in progress in the Park Christian church at New Albany. Morristown is going to bore for gas, mineral water or anything they can get. The-Ohlo Falls car works company has ordered a reduction in wages of 10 per cent. The Illinois steel mills at Joliet will resume operations on Nov. 1, giving employment to 1,000 men. Thousands of bushels of tomatoes lie rotting in the fields around Whiteland, due to the heavy frosts of this week. At a cabinet meeting it was decided to give the remains of both Marshal MacMahon and Gounod a public funeral. In Palermo there were twenty-four new cases of cholera and eight deaths and in Leghorn five new cases and two deaths. Two members of the Dalton gang appeared, heavily armed, in the streets of Tusia, I. T., and were not molested by the officers. Prairie fires in Faulk and Hand counties, South Dakota, have done great damage. Many farmers have lost everything but their land. The Washington Democrat says: “It is estimated that merchant tailors from other cities solicit and receive orders for suits in this city to the amount of $20,000 per year.” The melancholy news comes from Richmond, by way of the veracious Item, that Wayne county consumes 8,000.000 cigarettes a year. And the Quaker lads of Earlham College don’t smoke all of these millions either. Horticulturists will hear with doubt the report from Elkhart that five apples weighing (collectively of course; five pounds and twelve ounces, were found in i barrel there. They were certainly on the top of the barrel.

At Walton, Friday, Mrs. Augusta Schmidt shot and killed Oscar Walton. Walton had secured a lease of the farm jccupiedby Mrs. Schmidt and asked her to vacate, and in the dispute that ensued aver the matter Mrs. Schmidt shot Walton through the head. The murderess gave herself up and was lodged in jail at Logansport. We have a sample of corn on our desk raised on some of the swamp lands reclaimed by tho bigditch lately constructed through this county. It is fine as one ;ould wish for, and will average at least leventy bushels to the acre. Mr. Randolph Hire has one field of seventy-five acres that will yield at least five thousand bushels.—Ligonier Banner. A German, at Batesville, Ripley county, las received a patent on a one-wheeled ■oadcart, which ho styles a monocycle. The vehicle goes upon a single wheel, and its Inventer claims that it has many advantages. The traveler can drive along footpaths and through woods, through narrow gates and over rough ground. The cart is drawn by one horse. At a wedding in Aurora, Ind., recently, the contracting parties were J amos W. Dhaso and his step-daughter, Samantha E. Cloe. His present is the daughter jf his second wife and becomes the stepmother of her half sister, a child about twelve years old. He has been married three times and is about forty-five while the age of the bride is twenty-five. Barney Stewart, a lawyer of Wakarusa, was gathering hickory nuts one day recently, and while climbing a tree, and when about thirty feet from tho ground the limb on which he was holding broke, precipitating him to the ground. The shock to his system was so severe that he has been in a critical condition ever since, with little hope of recovery. One arm is broken in such a manner that it is feared amputation will be necessary If he survives. The Senate was in executive session, Friday, till 3 o’clock. Many nominations were confirmed. The repeal bill was then taken up and Mr. Peffer offered a free coinage amendment. With some slight exceptions, It revives the law of 1837. Mr. Peffer then resumed his speech against the bill. Mr. Turple of Indiana immediately called him to order for referring to Senators by name. The chair sustained the point of order, ruling that a Senator should be spoken of as the junior ot senior Senator from the State he in part represents. Mr. Peffer followed the ruling of the chair and proceeded with his speech until 5 o’clock, when, upon motion of Mr. Faulkner, the Senate took a recess until 10 o'clock, Saturday morning.