Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Valparaiso has a Hindoo physician. Greenfield’s school enumeration is 1.530. Goodbye is the name of a new postoffice in Clark county. Worms are destroying celery plants in northern Indiana. —| —— New Normal School-building, Columbuf,.will cost $20,000. The Baptists at Elizaville will expend $5,000 in a church building. 1 Sheridan wiH have a new hoop factory. Forty men will be employed. A genuine suicide club is said to have been organized at New Albany. There is a man living ,in Wanatah who has a fit everytime lie visits Michigan tlity. ___ _• A Deputy dog chews tobacco and the village is proud- of the phenomenal “torp.” A resident of Elk hart-county named Jake Leaftobacco, neither smokes, chews or uses snuff. The Whisky Trust distillery at Terre Haute will close down June 1 and the cattle Will be shipped away.

The municipal tangle at Terre Haute continues, the old -off]eers refusing to surrender nntil-September. The McCoy lamp chimney factory at Elwood has closed down for the season. Its warehouse is filled with stock. Moses Simmons, 70. feil asleep on the Tailroad track near Surn'mitville," Satur-' day night. Dead body found Sunday. Wayne is one of the richest counties in the State, as is shown by the first installment of taxes. The amount collected was $238,777.94. 6The Populist congressional convention for the Seventh district, at Indianapolis, Wednesday, nominated Thomas S. East, of Delaware county. Two pastors at Chesterton refused to conduct exercises on Memorial Day unless theG. A. R. post would pledge itself riot to give a dance July 4. 4The Indiana Electric Railway Company has acquired control of the Goshen street railway franchise, and will extend the line to Elkhart and New Paris, The word has reached V alparaiso that Congressman Hammond has concluded to submit his name to the Democracy of the Tenth District for renomination, A Brazil man picked up $25 the other day and after a day’s search found the owner, who was mad because the finder had not returned the, money sooner. ’ The scarcity of coal in other industrial districts is proving a bonanza for the gas belt. All of the iron, steel and glass producers .are working to full capacity. A Noblesville wife got a divorpe recently because her husband threw the baby at her when she hit him with the coal bucket for spitting on the wood. A Muncie man gave a beggar 50 cents to keep him from starving, the other day. He went.to the ball, game and found Mr. Beggar occupying a grand-stand seat. Frank O. .Stannard, the accomplice of Juror Armstrong, out on bond, of $4,000, has disappeared from Lawre.ncO county, and is- believed to have fled the country. A Cherubusco woman has been released because the husband did not provide the necessaries" of "life, saying that he would not work his toenails off for any woman. Owing to carelessness of the East Germantown election board in not certifying to the. town clerk Hie. . rexult,.of w the ejection the old defeated council will continue

in office. William Selking, one of the most prosperous and best known saloonkeepers in Indianapolis, took morphine with suicidal intent, Monday morning and died Tuesday night. People near Rochester are indignant at Dr. Metcalf, secretary of the State Board of Health, because he charged the Rochester health officers with negligence regarding smallpox. A young woman in a JVinamac drug store refused to pay for a soda water strer drank because the clerk remarked, when she said she thought it wasso cooling: “I do, too. “It's soda-lightful.” Dr. Burroughs, of Shannondale, while boring for water, struck an artesian well with an inexhaustible supply, The villagers thereupon erected a huge tank, and all are now supplied without cost. 6The bond of the city marshal of Clarks_-_ ville has always been 8500. Recently a Republican was elected to the office, whereupon the Democratic City Council increased the bond to $7,0J0. The new man gave it. ' Terre Haute wifi celebrate “Uncle Dick’’ Thompson’s eighty fifth birthday, June 9, in a public manner.- Many distinguished people are expected to be present and a demonstration befitting the occasion will be made.

Councilman Jackson, Kokomo, has come into possession 6f an-old deed dated Nov. 15,1786. and signed by Patrick Henry, then Governor of Virginia, conveying to Jackson's ancestors 15,000 acres of land near the Ohio river. The Council of Terre Haute has decided to refer the contentions arising out of the McHugh bill to ex-Supreme Judge Elliott and abide by his rulings. The city now has two sets of officers, the Democrats claiming the right to hold until September.

A Wabash jury rendered a verdict for $1,050 in the damage suit of Marion Webb against the Wabash Paper Company. Eighteen months ago Charles Webb, son of the plaintiff, was caght in the machinery and had his leg so badly crushed that he will lose it. 8 The donation of 81.000,000 to tho North Manchester college by an unknown philanthropist, who was vouched for by Professor Krebhiel, of Butler, is noWbelieved to have b 'on a hoax, as no cash has been realized, although all the conditions were complied with. 6John H. Graham, who was supposed to have been drowned in the great flood at Johnstown, Pa., in 1889, suudenly reappeared at his old home in Boston this week. He found that Mrs. Graham had remarried during his absence and that her second husband was dead. A reconciliation was had.

The Indiana Window Glass Manufacturing Association has completed the plan looking to an agency to handle the combined product of all the factories. I. H. Vandeventer, of Anderson, is appointed agent, and A. K. Smith, of Muncie, R. Hageny, of Hartford City, and B. F. Burke, of Marion, were elected trustees of the organization. The mortuary fn and about the court house at Columbus during the last |wo years has been verv great. The wives vs

County Clerk William H.Fulwilder, County Auditor George Pence, the grown daughters of Sheriff Isaac Lucas, Recorder William Klepsch and Treasurer Walker and thd mother-in-law of County Copimissioner James 11. Kytee. have all died. The decomposed body of an unknown woman was found in a swamp near Fort Wayne. Thursday- LLextakull was crushed in, her clothing torn from the body and her hair pulled out. It is the supposition that the woman was a tramp and fell ip with some male members of the profession who assaulted her and then murdered her to shield themselves. There is a movement in the counties of Spencer, Warrick and Perry by the G. A. R. to purchase ten acres of ground adjoining the Lincoln City cemetery, where Nancy Hanks, the mother of President Lincoln, is buried, to be converted into a permanent camping ground for reunion purposes. It has been suggested that it be dedicated as Nancy Hanks Park. 7 The United States glass factory at Gas City will start its big factory next week. This factory, which is the largest flintglass factory in the gas belt, has been idle since last June on account of a strike. It is now proposed to start with non-union labor, and a boarding house up within the factory for use. The old ein pl oy es de cl are th a t the works sh all not run without their help, and trouble is expected. On the 12th of July, 1892, IVilliam Lewis, of Frankfort,va- aei'ident-ally-shot-in the neck by his sweetheart, the bullet breaking the spinal column. Wednesday Mr.

Lewis was removed from the hospital to his home. His head is encased in a rigid steel frame, which extends down the back, and he bids fair to live for years. Mr. Lewis and sweetheart were to have been married on the dayjhe was shot, themarriage license having already been procured. Kokomo is the home of Rev. Hayden ycaTT’ot age. He has been in the ministry sixty years, and during that time has married 1,20 C couples according to his record. He claims that out of the 1,200 couples but four or five failed tor stick together, and there have been but three dtvorcesr Father Rayburn retired from the. active ministry of the M. E. Church ten years ago, but still enjoys a good matrimonial patronage. Republicans at Laporte are dejected and Democrats are jubilant because the new Republican officials, elected at the recent election, failed to qualify within five days, as required by law. The men who failed to qualify can be fined $lO each and their action is claimed to have disqualified them for holding the offices to which they w.cro elected. The matter will be referred to the Attorney-General. The Republican ticket was,successful for the first time in twenty years in Laporte at the last election and Republicans are much depressed over the neglect of their candidates to comply with the law. An excursion of unique interest will leave Anderson on the 4th of next month for a visit to Richmond, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, the national capital and other points of historic interest. It will be composed of the high school and pupils of the eighth year of the other schools. and it is intended to be the inauguration of a system of.teaching history and. geography in the public schools by ocular demonstr?stration and personal inspection. While at,. Washington eight executive, departments of the Government will be in-

spected and explained, and Congress wilj be used as a school for the inculcation ol national politics, legislation and general statesmanship. W. C. Osborn, of Kokomo, has returned from a month’s visit to Hawaii. He reports that the Americans are masters of the situation, but that they are not unanimous in supporting President Dole Some of the Americans favor a restoration of the Queen; others annexation to the United States, but the majority are inclined to an independent republic. The objection to annexation is that it would do away with the contract labor system. At the recent constitutional election less than one-third of the voters registered, and the vote tvas less, showing that bul little interest was taken in the election The natives are for the Queen, _ The General Assembly of the Presby terian church, in session ,at Saratoga, N. Y„ by a decisive vote has resolved that the Assembly will continue to control the theological seminaries.