Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Winchester will have waterworks. There is a case of smallpox at Knox. There is a case of smallpox near War;aw. -' ~ : The alleged Richmond gold mines failed to pan out. Decatur has contracted for waterjvork costing $45.000. ——“ Seymour’s street railway system may be moved to Washington. Boone county commissioners will build i new county infirmary to cost $25,000, The Buckeye Manufacturing company will remove from Union City to Anderson. The Muncie Street Railroad violated its franchise and its tracks will be removed. -—--——. Wayne county voted, Saturday, against buying the remaining toll roads in that county. The outlook for corn throughout the State is gloomy because of the protracted drought. T. J. Hancock, near Tipton, claims for-ty-three bushels of wheat per acre as his yield this year. Long Long and Wong Long, Elkhart laundrymen, have lit out for China to join the celestial army. v A great oil gusher was drilled in near Portland, Aug. 9. There is great excitementover its phenomenal output. , The South Bend Street Railway , Company is preparing to discard electricity and return to mules as a motive power. Elisha Johns, an old veteran of Elkhart, has been awarded a medal for gallantry displayed at the siege of Vicksburg. Ex-Treasurer Nebeker, in an interview at Washington, Aug. 8, said that Indiana would surely go Republican at the November election. A Warsaw saloonist threatens to prosecute every merchant in the town who sells joods on Sunday, because the liquor law is rigidly enforced. The Fourth District Republican Congressional convention at Terre Haute, Aug. 9, nominated Geo, W. Faris, of that city, on the fourth ballot. George Pullinger. at Richmond, lost an srm in the machinery of Carpenter’s flour mill. The arm was literally pulled from the socket at the shoulder. Gov. Matthews has announced that the State militia will be paid Aug. 20. The Governor will borrow the money on his personal responsibility, there being no available State funds.

Frank W. Hawley, of Rochester, has filed a claim against the State of New York for 131,061 damages for the killing by the State of 150 head of cattle, said to be tffected with tuberculosis. Chas. Wagner and his young nephew started across the long Air Line trestle at Mott Station, Sunday night. A train tame upon them and Wagner was killed. The boy saved himself by hanging from x tie. William Prough, sixty years old, while attending the harvest jubilee at Shipshewana, attempted to ride a bucking pony In a running race. The pony bolted and be was thrown against a tree, fracturing his skull. Messrs. Tabor & Co., of Argos, who are also interested in banking adventures at Mentone and Silver Lake, have offered to Invest 125,000 in a venture at North Manchester, as the successors of the defunct First National bank. The Wabash river has been demonstrated to be valuable as a pearl fishing ground by Thomas Blair, of Washington, D, C. He secured specimens valued at leveral hundred dollars on a trip between Peru and Lafayette. Dr. Geo. C. Brannon, of Hammond, was called out late, Friday night, to make a call on a man who was said to have been shot. Brannon has not since been seen. The case is similar to the celebrated Sronin mystery at Chicago. The most disastrous fire in the history sf Marion visited that place Aug. 5. Sweetzer & Co. and Mark, Burge & Co., suffer the heaviest loss. Fifteen other business firms were burned out. Total loss, 161,800; insurance 125,035.

The families of C. Stewart and Curt Hair, of Columbus, are camping near that city. Saturday Hair thought his wife was too intimate with Stewart and he attacked him with a butcher knife, fatally cutting him. Hair was arrested. The Pendleton Natural Gas Company has increased the rates to consumers. Cooking stoves have been advanced to Mghty-five cents per month; heating itoves are one dollar, and gas jets aro aow ten cents per month, instead of five cents. There is a great howl from patrons.

John Cullen, of Kokomo, under treatment for a cancerous growth of the tongue, which required the amputation of that member, deliberately starved himself to death, rather than undergo further torture. He was eighty-one years old, and one of the builders of the old Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago railway. An attempt was made. Mohday night, to hold up a Lake Shore train at Kessler, Ind., at the place the famous robbery ococcurred last fall. The engineer put on steam and dashed through the obstruction of ties and lumber that bad been placed on the track. As the train passed a group of masked men were seen by the engineer. They fired several shots into the train without effect. James Donohue, of Andrews, a Wabash brakeman, met his death in a peculiar manner. A collision of trains found him in the caboose, remote from immediate danger, but in jumping to the ground the fall ignited.some matches in his clothing and he was fatally burned. Patents were issued to tne following Indiana people, Tuesday: C. F. Darnell and L. Koss, Indianapolis, lath machine; G’ A. Dentelbeck, Myhert, fence machine; D. M. Forsythe, Franklin, harness; O, N. Guldin, Fort Wayne, steam supply and circulating system for water and gas apapparatus; E. H. Kunkle, Fort Wayne, safety valve and muffler; C. Lumm, Garnett,eaves troughhanger. Domestic differences between Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith, of Frankfort, culminated in violence, the husband throwing his wife down and attempting to choke her. The struggle aroused the neighbors, which caused Mr. Smith to leave the house. Released from his grasp, Mrs. Smith armed herself with a revolver, and when Mr. Smith came in viewat thp. window she sent a bullet through his leg.

The latest fad is a progressive hammock party. The party is conducted as follows: The hammocks are stretched and numbered, each one being in charge of a lady.

Each gentleman selects a hammock anc for five minutes proceeds to entertain it as bright a conversational siyle as possible the fair occupant, The bell rings and the gentleman passes on to the next hammock. and so on until he has completed the rounds. A vote is then taken by tin ladies as to the bestrentertaiirer, and thi lucky man is awarded the prize,—Michigan City Dispatch. Louis Williams owns nearly seventeen hundred acres of fine farming land on th< east prong of White river, in Lawrence county. He is a model Tarmer. He nevei sells wheat at less than one dollar a bushel. This he does by crushing it, mixing it with cold water and feeding it to the hogs. He claims that hogs fed on wheat weigh heavier than those fattened with corn. He ships several carloads of hogs yearly. On one-sixteenth of an acn of onions he harvested eighty bushels, besides which he sold S3O worth of sets this season. Dr. W. S. Greene, colored, of Baptistown, near Evansville, established a colony about three miles,. away, which ho named Greeneville. Twelve buildings were constructed, which were tenanted by colored people, each family with its little plotoi ground. The colony is prosperous and law-abiding. The location, however, gave offense to the whites in the same neighborhood, and recently Dr. Greene has received numerous white-cap notices. A systematic attempt was made to burn up the little village, the torch being applied to the fences and outbuildings. Several fences, a big hennery, two coal sheds and other property were consumed, but the villagers succeeded in saving their dwellings after a hard struggle. As a guard against further incendiarism, an armed guard has been established, the colonists taking turns in standing picket duty. The colony has erected a church and school-house, and made many material improvements.