Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Columbus claims a population of 10,000, Mushroom hunting is a fad at Bloomington. They are building a new city hall at Bedford. ** Muncie swells now-go- coaching in English “brakes.” An electric line is projected from Terre Haute to Brazil. Decatur saloonists have organized for mutual protection. Columbia City will issue 122,000 in waterworks bonds. Tipton expects to double her population in the next four years. Nearly all of the corn has been planted in the Seymour neighborhood. Cut worms and potato bugs continue their ravages in Jackson county. Lebanon has a SIOO,OOO boom. All the unemployed have been given work. A rooster belonging to a Tipton Democrat died, the other day, after the election in that city. Elwood will have another tin plate factory with $300,000 capital and capacity of 3,000 boxes. Anderson jail is haunted. Presumed that some of the prisoners have smuggled in some bottled spirits. Chicago people have struck oil near Valparaiso and will at once sink a dozen wells. The flow is light. The authorities of Marmont report that there has not been a case of smallpox in that place for twenty years. Col. Joseph Moore, of Indianapolis, well known in G. A. R. circles, died in that city, Monday, aged sixty-five. Clark Warren, of Boone county, owns a cow which dropped four calVes at one birth. All of them are living. Twenty men in the casting room of the Diamond plate glass works at Kokomo were prostrated by the heat, Friday. Richmond has a largo number of white husbands who are supported by the industry of their wives at the wash tubs. Peter Barnum, a farmer near Crown Point, terminated a long quarrel with a neighbor by foolishly taking his own life. At Decatur, George Butcher, a deaf mute, while operating a buzz-saw in Smith & Bell's factory, had both his hands cut off.

Portland has granted right-of-way into the city to the Chicago, Union City and Cincinnati railway line, eleven miles of which is graded. The country near English is overrun with snakes: Copperheads are the most numerous. Five cases of snake bite hayo been reported. 6Osgood has “give up the ghost” which has been worrying superstitious people for some time, the mystery having been solved to the satisfaction of all. At the different churches in Valparaiso, Sunday, each voter present was-given a circular letter urging him to work for the Prohibition party in the coming election. The Republicans of Miami and Howard counties met in convention at Peru, Tuesday, and nominated Judge James O’Brien, of Kokomo, for joint senator on the first ballot. The May Music Festival, which has become a recognized institution of Indianapolis, closed one of the most successful series of concerts yet held, Thursday night. A valuable spring has been discovered on A. P. Green’s farm, near Attica, the water of which in some respects is similar to Waukesha. M<r. Green will erect a sanatorium. Freight Conductor M. C. Whitcomb and crew had a desperate fight with toughs at Butlersville. After the roughs were routed they broke the windows of the caboose.with bowlders.

During a storm which swept over Allen county, lightning struck a school house near Ft. Wayne, Instantly killing John Cummings, fifteen years old, and prostrating a number of children. The school enumeration of Fayette county gives 1,982 white males, 2,002 white females, seventy-five colored males and eighty-four colored females, a total 0f1,143 school children. The son of William Dagroo, of Winchester, leaped from the second floor window of the second ward schoolhouse of that city, to escape punishment by the teacher. His leg was broken by the fall. Prof. J. E. Baldwin, the aeronaut, of Dalton, and Miss Snodgrass will soon be married, and they propose taking their wedding trip in a balloon ascension. The start will be made at Muncie. At Tuesday, a cave-in at the tunnel on -the railroad near town killed two workmen and seriously injured two others. The bodies of the killed were taken to Bedford for burial.

The Worthington Times Issued a neat folder of eight pages with tinted title page, entitled, “What Congress Has Done.” Upon opening the folder, only eight blank pages are found. Henry Kock, a convict in the prison south, escaped Saturday, but it was not discovered until Monday. He played crazy, was confined in the “crazy” Rouse, a frame structure, and easily sawed his way out. Incidental to the annual commencement exercises at Franklin College, which will begin on the 10th of June, will be the jubilee in recognition of the twenty-five years service of President Stott with that institution.

The Republicans of the First Congressional district will hold another convention on the 7th of August, meeting at Mt Vernon. The convention met the first time at Evansville, and, after seventy-six ballots, adjourned without naming a choice.

Owing to the dull times the management of the Trentman wholesale grocery house of Ft. Wayne, which has been in active leading business for thirty years, have decided to close out the stock for tho present, and after the return of good times to form a stock company. Alleged apparitions are said to have appeared in a window of a reconstructed house at Osgood. Considerable excitement has prevailed, the “ghost” being plainly visible in daylight The Osgood Journa calls the appearance an optical illusion, caused by a tree standing at some distance.

One hundred workmen arrived at Redkey, Monday, and commenced work on the new pipe line which is to pipe natural gas to Ohio from Delaware county, in the vicinity of Albany. The people are up in arms and an Injunction will be asked for from the courts that work may be ■topped. Sculptor McMonnles, who designed the

Colnmbian Fountain at the World’s Fair, has secured the contract for the “War” and “Peace” bronze groops to be placed on the Soldiers Mounumeht at Indianapolis. Price, SIOO,OOO. The groups are to be in position on the Monument within four years. Frank Brown, while trying to burglarize a store at Tas well, Wednesday night, was fatally wounded. Two loads of duck shot were emptied into his hips from a double-barreled gun in the hands of Mr. Tucker. The Tuckers had been warned of the plot to rob their store. Two other members of the gang were arrested. The Board of Public Safety of Fort Wayne is reorganizing matters on a Republican basis. Patrick Ryan, Market Master for the past twenty years, was set aside to make room for G. C. Hollenbeck, and Harry McMillen and W. H. Hobam were appointed police clerks, vice Joseph Kopp and Henry Sheari. The storm of Monday night worked sad havoc in the neighborhood of Monde. The regulator house of the Winchester Natural Gas Company was struck by lightning. The building was destroyed and the pipes broken. The product of four wells at once shot into the air, illuminating the country for a mile around. Yachtsmen oh Lake Wawasee have a surprise in stere. Commodore J. F. Wright, of Columbus, having built a new yacht, which will be shipped In a few days to the Indiana club house. The new boat carries 425 square feet of sail, and the Commodore is confident she will prove the fastest sailor of anything on the northern lake waters.

Willis B. Conner, the only saloonkeeper at Fairmount, against whom eleven indictments for violating the liquor law had been returned, took a change of venue to Wabash. Monday he entered a plea of guilty in three cases, and the other eight were dismissed. A car-load of people went over from Fairmount to assist in the prosecution. Captain Hale, of Sandusky, 0.. and C. N. Martin, of Marion, were fellow "prisoners at Libby during the war, and after their release they separated. They heard nothing from eacn other, nor did they ever meet until the present week, when there was a recognition, when they found themselves passengers ih the same omnibus at Marion, where Captain Hale had gone on business, Albert Auber, one of the leading”men of Dearborn county, dropped dead on his farm near Dover, while plowing corn. During the forenoon he attended the funeral of a neighboring friend, acting as one of the Dall bearers. When Mr. Auber’s body was found he had fallen,to his knees, with his head resting between the handles,o( the plow, and his hands still grasping tjie reins. The horses were standing quietly. The deceased was a prominent Republican, a prosperous farmer, and well known in southern Indiana by his connection with the revenue service.

One night last week a funnel-shaped storm swept over Tipton county, and T. J. Hancock, living near the county-seat, reports that it dropped two pigs and a goose, which had evidently been carried a longdistance, and which, the next morning, were found in his barn-yard, where they still remain. Apparently the bird and pigs were uninjured by their flight in midair. The Tipton Times, commenting upon this incident, says that Mr. Hancock’s story recalls that some years ago a tornado picked up a man’s farm in that county and carried it elsewhere. The orignal owner, after a long search, recognized his property and brought suit against the squatter, recovering judgment because the new owner had secured the farm without a money consideration.