Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Strikes are an-expensive recreation to all concerned. A few days results in an aggregate loss to the strikers in the way of decreased earnings that will take months of industry to reimburse, even if they gain their ends. The loss to employers is also great, although in a majority of cases these privileged mortals arc in much better shape to sustain-ifc Again, when disorder results from the differences between the contending interests,; great loss ensues to the unfortunate tax payers who can have no personal interest in the controversy. The coal strike has cost Indiana something like $2,000 a da.y since the first company of militia was ordered out. The aggregate expense can not be accurately estimated, but will necessarily be large. This expense will be paid out of the general fund of the State. Strikes are very expensive luxuries and their frequent occurrence is decidedly uncomplimentary to the intelligence and business capacity of our people. There should be some better and less wasteful way of settling differences between the greed of grasping employers and the rights or probably reckless demands of employes. When the tariff bill is settled and the Congressmen come home, when bank wreckers are all corralled and no more in freedom roam, when the strikers are all happy and the mines "" and mills go round and all the commonwealers are lost and can't be found, when the watermelon’s gathered from vine and dusty field, and this horrid heat’s abated and the cider-press does yield tanks of juice—contents not stated—when the wasps in dizzy glory soar and sip the nectared brim and the small boy cloyed and gory vainly tries to fillip him, when the corn is plowed the last time and the seeding is all done — when these desideratums and more we can’t recall shall come to pass along some time this fall —then let up on work and worry and cease from weary care and in happiness and pleasure hie to the county fair, where amid .the snakes and sideshows we can bless our happy lot and perhaps can bet some dollars on a “agricultooral hoss trot” as we smoke.ami sip .within the.confines of the grand stand’s stately shade a supply of awful “two-fors” and the acid lemonade.

People who contemplate suicide should use caution in making their arrangements. Recently a most determined self-murderer at South Bend laid out quite a program for the last act in this “strange eventful history.” Ordinary methods did not impress him as fraught with sufficient dramatic possibilities. He was dead set on being a corpse, andin addition desired to be a “demd moist unpleasant body.” Even this did not satisfy his ambition to get even with his unfortunate corporosity, and he concluded that besides taking poison he would cut his throat previous to throwing himself in the river. The program having been settled upon he swallowed enough arsenic to give him surcease from future woes and hastened to the river to carry out the details arranged. Unfortunately, or fprtunately“as the case may be, he forgot his pocketknife, and had to return home, Before he could make the rounds the drug got in its work and the curtain was rung down on his little drama. He regretted the fit of absent-mindedness that made him forget his knife to the last moment of his existence. Instead of the great sensation he had hoped for. he was compelled to pass into the beyond without complicating the coroner’s returns as he had deliberately planned. Persons who feel called 'upon to “shuffle off” before their time and turn should take warning and look carefully to all the details before by their own act they pass beyond the scenes of time to that bourne where throats are never cut and pocketknives are unknown.

MtTecl of Blinkers. An English writer says that# the effect of the blinker is both physically and mentally injurious to the hdrse. In the first place, especi lly when large and brought near the eyes, it has the effect of heating them and hindering the free passage of air over them. In the next place, it causes the eyes to be always directed forward, and thus produce a most injurious strain on the delicate muscles. We know how painful a sensation is felt when we arc obliged to strain our eyes cither backward or upward for any length or time, and the horse suffers no less incon venionfe when , it is ■forcejt-to keep its eves contimv>Hv wtruinnd forward. Mamma—"Ana now dia my darting like being at church?” Maud (who had been at church for the first time, and put u penny in the collection plate)- “Very much, mamma, and it I wasn’t dear!”

incorporate. The Richmond desk company has assigned, ■ South Bend will have a small sized Ferris wheel. Richmond is figuring on the. erection of a crematory. Pert# high school graduated a 14-year-old boy this year. York’s a product of Peru, is ■ strandixi at Anderson. ‘Evansvillecitizens are not satisfied with ; their new city charter. . Four houses and a woman were struck by lightning in Brazil. J. W. Cole, near Frankfort, realized SSOO from his strawberry cron. A dynamite bomb was thrown in George Hitz's yard in VincennegSE— Portland will build a new high-school building: contract price, $10,587. Wheat harvest began in the neighborhood of Seymour, Wednesday. Clinton county has $17,000 in the treas- : ury, and its debt is but $15,000. A number of Washington saloons have closed on account of high 1 icense - The United Brethren people have dedi-caU‘d-a new church at Laketon. . Burglars plundered the Dunkirk post- ' office, getting but sixty pennies. | Richmond has secured the Scott-Cream-er carriage works of Mi 1 ton, I nd.. “Jim-jams,” a'pcctiliar cattle disease, is said to be raging in Fayette county. Fred Corbett was fatally stung by a swarm of bees at Huntington, Wednesday. Terre Haute has 1.000 bicycles, but only sixty-eight have been returned for taxation. Gen. Park’s-comJnoriweal army passed > through Elkhart, Friday night, on a hog train. 5 William Dibble, proprietor of the Jjorig Lake summer resort, near Elkhart, is dead. The eighty-third forged note credited to Frank Miller, Columbus, has been found. Mrs. Susan G. Patterson has been elected superintendent .of the Union City Schools.- —' ■- < j:——i - —James E. Graham, of Ft. Wayne, is the Prohibition candidate for Congress in that district. A gospel wagon has made its appearance at Terre Haute, managed by the Y. M. C. A. Chicago capitalists have got a bonus froth Anderson and will build another plate factory there.. A plant is being constructed at Martinsville for the manufacture of gas for fuel and heating purposes. A. M. Benson, of Huntington, has been nominated for Congress by the Populists of the Eleventh district. 8. W. Forest, South Bend, has been nominated for Congrc s by the Populists of the Thirteenth district. Edward Cook and Lizzie Adams, both prisoners, were married in the jail at Huntington. Tuesday night. Shelbyville Odd Fellows celebrated their decoration day v Sunday. , Rev„£.. C. Edwards delivered the address. A Columbus citizen recently caught a five-aud-a-haif-pound black bass in a small stream near that town. The trial of John W. Paris, charged with wreckjpg the Greentown bank, was begun at Frankfort. Monday. - Alonzo Allison, Nashville, was struck by lightning, Monday, and lay unconscious for four hours. Will recover. Hon. Lem. W. Royse, the Republican candidate for Congress, has opened his campaign in the Thirteenth district. 4Taylor Crampton, of Napanee, was arrested for drunkenness. He felt the disgrace so keenly he committed suicide. Two of Valpariso’s society’ dudes fought a three-round mill, Sunday, over- a girl with whom they were both infatuated.

The Hammond News says that Sikawaski was ona drunk, the other day. A man with such a natae has a right to get drunk. John Carter, of Plainfield, recovered his hearing by removing a wad of cotton which he had stuffed in his ear sixteen years ago. Edward J. Workman was found guilty of attempted wife murder at Lebanon’ Wednesday, and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. White river, near Anderson, is polluted with dying'fish, the cause of which is attributed to the poisonous refuse from the strawboards-works at Muncie. A dynamite bomb was thrown into the yard attached to the residence of George lleits, of Vincennes, exploding with great force, but failing to injure property, Kelley’s army of commonwealers left Evansville, Sunday, by boat for New Albany. Vanderburg county paid S7OO for their transportation in order to get rid of them. 4 Hartford City has been chosen as the site of the Sneath glass factory, owned and operated by Tiffin (O.) parties. It will make a specialty of lantern and electric light globes. James Heenan, of Dublin, is one of the original seven persons, of whom Alexander was one, that were baptized in 1812, and in 1827 joined in founding the Disciples of Christ. Twenty men employed in the Diamond plate-glass works at Elwood walked out because they were only paid $1.15 a day and were demanding $1.40. Their places ’ were speedily filled. Judge Johnson, of Valparaiso, warring with Editor Landis, of Delphi, over the Republican nomination for Congress, has called for another convention tq meet at Hammond July 9. Will R. Davis, a medical student, rooming in the residence of C. N. Pratt at Frankfort, was shot by <v burglar, Tuesday night, and probably fatally wounded. The burglar escaped. Charles 11. Landis, of Delphi, will accept the Republican nomination for Congress in the Tenth district, notwithstanding. the threats of the bolters from the Hammond convention which nominated him. AH efforts to raise the sunken steamer City of Madison have proved unavailing, and the order was given, Wednesday evening, to wreck and dismantle her where she licson the dyke near Madison. The amount duo Crawford-county from the Louisville. Evansville & St. Louis Railway Company by reason of the late decision of the Supreme Court is $11,626.35. The county debt is supposed to be about $25.C00. Geo. H. Thomas Post G. A. R. of Indianapolis, has passed resolution warmly commending the action of Gov. Matthews

in calling out the mflitia to preserve the peace in the mining regions during the late strike. Mrs, Glp. Piercefield, of Bartholomew county, has gone violently insane over the hallucination that her husband’s first wife, who met With an accidental death some years ago. is haunting her with the determination of robbing her other husband and child. h Hon,- W. S. Holman has indorsed Congressman Conn for President and says he is the most available man in the United States forthe Democratic nomination in .1896 because of his natural ability, and because of his undoubted popularity with the laboring classes. A Cincinnati excursion to the springs near Brookville, on the 10th inst., developed a deadly fight, in which a knife played a star engagement. George Benner is reported to ha ve d ied of his in juries. while a man and a woman, names not known, arc lying in a dangerous state. In a wreck on the Chicago & Great Western road at Stillman Vafiey, four stable boys were badly hurt, nine horses killed outright and seven injured. The horses belonged to W. H, Roller, an eastern horseman,and were particularly valuabfe.- ■■- A gray-haired man, fifty years old and upward, a stranger at Anderson, is excittng muchThterest by his delusions. He believes'his name is Miller, because he once operated a saw-mill, and he is insane with the idea that he iS a hving phonograph, and that Edison is trying to locate him. Mr. T. E. Huston, of Cannelton, has written to the Indianapolis Commercial Club, advocating a new north and south railroad between the capital and Cannelton. The proposed road would open up much territory to the Indianapolis jobbing trade that is now solely tributary to Louisville, Cincinnati and Chicago. Ernest Dakes, of Boone county, accepted an agency for the American Piano Company of Chicago, as ho supposed, by which he was to receive $l3O on each piano until he had placed four, after which the piano left in his own house was to become his individual property. Soon after he found notes which he had signed calling for-$l3O and $303, awaiting pay,mont in a Frankfort Bank. ~ Mrs. Ida Martin, whose maiden name was Ida. Pritchard, of Hoopsville. Ind., was arrested at Chicago, Monday, for defrauding Marshall Field & Co. JAie obtained a great deal of finery from variou dry goods stores by misrepresentations. Mrs. Martin graduated) from Purdue three years ago. Squire Leonard, carrying the mail between Bird’s Eye and Ellsworth, has been placed under bond by the Federal authorities, accused of robbing the mails. One of the sacks had a hole in it through which Leonard is said to have pulled out letters, after opening which he tossed aside. The rifled letters were afterward found on the highway. Several members of the militia company of Jeffersonville have lost their positions because they went with the company when it was ordered out. One young man employed in a Louisville wholesale drug house-was saved from doslug his .position by several retail druggists, wlio said that they would boycott the wholesaler should he discharge the militiaman. John Hanson Craig, of' Danville, who is thought to be the heaviest man in the catHitry, Was taken ill of dropsy, ami when his show reached New Castle he was compelled to retire to his room. His condition is reported as alarming, Craig has been a museum attraction for years. In normal condition he is claimed to weigh nearly (ICO pounds, but j.t is now said that he is 200 pounds heavier, owing to his dropsical trouble. ... During the passing of a Catholic procession at Evansville an electric car pushed its way through the column at a street crossing, enraged the marching column and stones were thrown, breaking a window and severely frightening several ady. passengers, The Electric Railwaj’ Company of Evansville objects to the stoppage of traffic, except for funeral processions, and to give right of way to fire apparatus.

The Republican central committee of White county’ has addressed a letter to the Republican congressional committee, urging that the difficulty attending the nomination of Mr. Landis by the Hammond convention be adjusted, otherwise both the congressional. State and county ticket is endangered. The White county delegation in the Hammond convention stood fifteen for Landis and three for Johnson. At 2 o’clock, Tuesday morning, the police boat Pavonia, from New Albany, met Kelley and his wealers at West Point, Ky.. en route up the river. He was informed that the New Albany and Jeffersonville authorities were determined that he should not land at those cities. After much angry argument Kelley ordered his boat to turn back to Evans’s Landing, where he disembarked. He will try to enter Louisville and will demand enough money to take his men to Cincinnati. During the absence of the sheriff of Crawford county two men and two women called at the jail and asked permission to see four prisoners confined for robbery and other offenses, and they were admitted to the interior. The sheriff’s wife was in charge and when she was called to let out the visitors she found all of them armed with revolvers and she was compelled to remain quiet. The entire gang escaped, but the country people aided in the pursuit all were recaptured on the following day. During the term of service of H. J. Favors and William Daniels in the prison South they effected their escape, but were rearrested in Illinois. They refused to return without requisition, and the prison authorities were put to considerable trouble to recover tLCm. In retaliation, the authorities caused an indictment for •‘breaking prison” to be returned by the Clark county grand jury, and when Favors and Daniels were released on Saturday last, on expiration of tiieir regular sentence, they Xvere rearrested. ' A plug blew out of a drum in the Ph Zorn brewery at Michigan City in the ear y morning hours and about SSOO worth of ammonia escaped. There was scarcely any wind to scatter the fumes, which filled tile atmosphere to a stilling point, and several residences in the neighborhood where the families were sleeping with open windows were filled almost to point of suffocation. The brewery employes were quick to arouse the sleepers, else there might have been loss of life. The Delaware building at the World’s Fair grounds has been moved to W)lf Lake, Indiana, where It will be used as a

club house. It was purchased some tfmi ago by the Wolf Lake Hunting and Fishing Club. It was placed on rollers and ■moved down to thejake shore at Jackson Pirk, where two large scows wen. l anchored to receive it. By means of hugu skids made of heavy planks the big building was rolled.downim the scows. It was then firmly lashed in place. Two tugs steamed up, fastened on to the former World’s Fair pride of Delaware with big hawsers and towed it twelve miles. Monday it was rolled one mile inland and is now doing business as a club-house. Judge Baker, Thursday, at Indianappl is, passed sentence upon the eight counterfeiters who made, and passed so much of the bogus money during the Grand Army encampment at Lafayette. Joseph Bennett, the leader, received two years; John S. Wehr, father, thirteen months; Williaan Wehr, son, ninety days in workhouse; Alfred M. Collins, one year and one day; George Clawson, seventy days in the workhouse: John Marks, fifteen days, and William Hitt and George Siston were each released on suspended sentence. They tried to pass the money while drunk. Indictments were found by the grand juryat Braz.il for murder in the second

degxee against eigh tufthefifteen suspects under bond in the Vandalia Engineer Barr case. They are William Carr, William Wilson, William Worlin, Ernest Poor, William Gardner, James Boothe, Robert Rankin and Charles Slack, all young men of the town of Harmony, and all of whom were placed behind the bar: of she county jail to answer at the October term of the Clay Circuit Court. David FoAter, ThomasJlarris, Burt Britton. Robert Worlin, David Morris, John Davis, Ed Monk, John Quigley and Perry Thompson are held under bond, charged with conspiracy. Auditor of State Henderson has filed suit against the United States Express -CompanyMor $225,0C0 taxes and penalties due the State under the law of 1600. This requires that the company shall report its receipts over SIOO,OO ). The plaintiff asks forthe appointment of a receiver The Supreme Court, in a decision under the same iaw, in the ease of the Evansville & Terre Haute road against the Treasuer of Gibson county, gave an interpretation of the penalty due ‘ for delinquency. It was held that non-payment in April carries with it a delinquency of the whole tax with 10 per cent, added. If delinquent past the November installment 6 per cent additional penalty must be 5 paid. If the April installment is paid and Jhc November shall run delinquent only 0 per cent penalty can be collected.