Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Kokomo has a juvenile band. ! Anderson slot machines get 850 daily. Muncie wants loafing made a crinhnal offense. Grave robbers have been at work near Rockport. . A Gpshen undertaker claims to have buried 3,700 people since 1847, A mammoth jail lock factory ie to be built at Florida. Madison county. Greenfield Will probably have a fnilitary company of sixty men in the near future. Parts jof six streets at Muncie will be Immediately asphalted at a cost of 880,000. Gas City has granted a franchise, looking to the extension of the Marlon electric line. - A Lincoln League Club has been organized at Muncie with seventy-five charter members. A Lagrange man who has not yet paid for the coffins of his first two wives, is after No. 3. The Montpelier Sheet Iron and Tin Plate company has been incorporated with a capital of 8200.003. An artesian well sunk at Greenwood produces water that is claimed to be similar to the Martinsville fluid. The sixty-pot furnace of*'the Hartford City Window-Glass Company has started up after a two-months’ shut-down. While workmen were excavating, Saturday, at Terre Haute, they found three boxes containing the remains of three infants. A revolver fell out of Charles Dice’s pocket at Veedersburg, Saturday. The bullet entered his abdomen, causing instant death. The license of Dennis O’Brien, a saloonkeeper of Indianapolis, has been revoked by Mayor Denny because of persistent violations of the liquor laws. The city of Huntington has awarded. contracts for street improvements, including sewers, amounting to over $200,000, and more are contemplated. 6 Moses Grooms, of Richmond, has been notified that he is part heir to property in western Missouri, valued at $600,003, which belonged to the late Reuben Mockaley, an uncle. Congressman Jason B. Brown is seriously ill at his home in Seymour with a smoker's cancer, from which it now appears he has been suffering for some time. The worst results are feared.

Col. A. M. Hardy was nominated for Congress by the Republican convention at Mitchell, Tuesday, to contest the Second district with Congressman Bretz, who will be nominated by the Democrats, John W. Wilson has brought suit against the Big Four Railroad Company in the sum of $2,500, claiming that amount of damages for injuries he received recently at a dangerous street crossing in Muncie.

The Rev. Stephen >Beggs, who preached forthe Methodists in New Albany in 1821, Is still in the active ministry at Joliet 111. He is ninety-three years old and has completed his seventy-second year in the ministry. The contract has been let for what is known as the Yellow river ditch in Kosciusko and Marshall counties. It will be twenty-one miles in length, forty feet in width, and varying in depth. The average cost will be SI,OOO a 'mile. The I. O. O. F., including the Daughters of Rebekah, are arranging for a school of Instruction at Muncie, beginning May 2 and continuing two days. Several of the officers will be present, and fifty or more subordinate lodges will bo represented in the gathering. The trial of the Indianapolis bank wreckers at Indiadapolis was postponed one week because of the wounding of Hon. A. C. Harris in the Copeland-Bruning shooting affair. Mr. Harris was of the defendants’ counsel and his necessary absence made further progress practically impossible for the time being. Owen Miller, Harry Bishop and Archie under arrest for conducting a series of daring burglaries, by which considerable loss "was sustained by businessmen. The stolen stuff was found concealed In a cave. The boys are under fourteen years, and were inspired by reading cheap literature

6 The Plainfield Progress is responsible for the following: “Down in the wilds, on the border of Owen and Morgan counties, a new church house is to be built, and the men who are acting as trustees for the members have incorporated this unique clause: ‘And wetrusstees furthersay that no festacle oyster supper chrismls tree or enny thing of that kind shall ever be A loud in said church houss if not then this deed shall become nulinvoyd.’ ”

The Rev. Samuel Rothermel, of Monument City, has complained to the authorities at Huntington that a gang of rowdy young men visited his church and Interrupted the services. Ho attempted to quiet them, whereupon they assaulted him with eggs, ruining his clothes. Several other persons were also struck by the eggs, with which the pulpit was bombarded. The assailants claim that Mr. Rothermel is such a poor speaker that they were justified In trying to stop him. The great weight of the rock which James Kissell, trustee of Madison townshis, Clinton county, was hauling off one of his fields, attracted his attention and this led to an examinatiin which developed large quantities of copper ore. 'The rock was found at the foot of a bluff, and there is reason for thinking that a vein of paying ore will result from the investigation which is now being made. The find has aroused great interest in that neighborhood. Public attention is again being attracted to a spot of ground on the John Phillips farm, in Elkhart county, across which, it is said, no living animal, such as frogs, rabbits, squirrels, etc., can cross without falling dead. Undo Jerry Zeigler, who has resided on the farm since the original acquirement from the Pottawatamle tribo of Indians, reports that the Indians always regarded this particular spot with superstitious dread. A tight board fence now incloses the ground for fear that human beings may bo brought under its dread influences.

Messrs. Freeman <fc Teneick, horticulturists, owning a fine fruit farm in the vicinity of Bean Blossom, are setting out 6,000 trees this spring, and the flrm will continue to plant until they .have the largest fruit farm in the State. A peculiarity of the farm is that It lies on the northern range of bills in Brown county. William H. Waltman, prosacuting attor-

x ■ —— ney of the district, owns a large farm on the same range of hills, on which- he already has 4,030 bearing trees of the Ben Davis variety of apples. The Waltman farm is only twenty-two feet lower than Weed Patch hill, the highest point in the State. Patents were awarded to residents of Indiana, Tuesday, as follows: W. E. Ayres, Collett, clover feeder; T. Duncan; Fort Wayne, universal phase alternate current motor; T. Duncan, Fort Wayne, electric motor; A. Lehman and C. J, Kraus, Peru, treating jute or other bagging; W. F. and 8. E. Llmpus, Alpine sulky; J. McLaughlin, assignor of onehalf to R. G. Franklin, Michigan City, automatic gate for elevators; C. W. Mcggenhofen, Franklin, and A. 8. Courtright, Indianapolis, boring machine; J. L. Waggoner, Columbus, and W. T. Carmichael, Wallsborough, tool chest trade mark; W. M. Williams, Indianapolis, washing fluid. The Grand Lodge Knights Templar of Indiana met in annual convention at Indianapolis, Wednesday, and elected and installed the following officers: Grand Commander, Charles W. Slick, of Mishawaka; Deputy Grand Commander, Walter M. Hindman, of Vincennes; Grand Generalissimo, Winfield K. Durbin, of Anderson; Grand Captain-General, John E. Redmond, of Logansport; Grand Prelate, Christian B. Stemen, of Ft. Wayne; Grand Senior Warden, John H. Nicholson, of Richmond;.Grand Junior Warden, Emerson B. Morgan, of Evansville; Grand Treasurer, Joseph W. Smith, Indianapolis; Grand Recorder, William H. Smythe, of Indianapolis; Grand Standard Bearer, William E. Perryman, of Terre Haute; Grand Sword Bearer, Walter C. Nunemacher, of New Albany; Grand Warden, Eugene W. Kelley, of Muncie. OMohroe Hill, formerly of Marion, who recently died out West, had a singular experience. He was a young man of excellent habits, having a small news-stand which yielded him a comfortable living and enabled him to savoaTittle money. In an evil hour he drew 830,000 in a lottery. This turned his head. He imagined himself a capitalist, and in two or three years he had squandered his prize and was $12,030 in debt. He then went back to his old calling'of telegraph operator, perfectly contented with his experience, and he often claimed that the years he was rich were the unhappiest of his life.