Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Bogus coin is in circulation at Marion. A mammoth farm implement factory will be built at Anderson. A Jackson county fanner threshed 18,000 bushels of wheat in 21 days. Last week’s rain raised the water in the lake at Laporte just 2X inches. Brazil is weeping In earnest now. The C. & E. I. shops will certainly go to Momence, 111. Tbe-Scventh district Democratic congressional convention at Indianapolis, Aug. 14, renominated Congressman Bynum. Christian Miller, of Fort Wayne, has been committed to jail for taking oleomargarine from the original package and selling it for country butter. 7- The El wood authorities have concluded to consult Joe Mix, the famous seer of Delaware county, , to see if he can solve the mystery incidental to the murder of William Foust. Thomas H. Hood is dead at Jefferson. He was known as the "Hoosier blue man.” His skin was as blue as indigo, the result of taking an overdose of nitrate of silver. . The W. C. T. U. Industrial School for Girls, at Hadley, was dedicated. Aug. 17. Speeches'commendingThe enterprisewerß made by Col. Eli Ritter, Hon. John L. Griffiths and others. The National Negro Democratic League met in convention at Indianapolis, Aug. J 4. C, H. Taylor, Recorder of Deeds ot the District of Columbia, was president, and delivered an address. Twenty-six delegates were present from various parts of the country. The fifth annual Barrett reunion wasi held near Knightstown. Aug. 16, with! nearly 400 representatives of the family present. Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan and West Virginia, as well as Indiana, Were represented. The next annual! reunion will be held at Greenfield. John Turner, colored, was committed to jail at Muncie for operating a gamblingroom. It is usual for prisoners unable to pay fines to work on the chain gang, but Turner declared that he would first starve. He was placed in a dungeon and his rations were limited to bread and water, with which he seems to be content. An Indianapolis medium has solved the* mystery connected with the murder of William Foust, of Elwood, on July 8, and has given the police a clew to work upon. 1 It is considered a good one and the police will make the arrest in a few days. The medium conversed with the spirit o| Foust and he told all about his death, giving the name of a supposed friend as being the assassin. - As a result of the late strike and the slevation of the company’s tracks in Chisago, the Lake Shore road will remove its yards to Porter, Porter county. The 1 company is now having the switch-yard plot made, and work will be begun soon.i They now have one hundred men employed in the sand pit, and trains will' make their headquarters there. A lively battle between horse thieves and their pursuers took place, Tuesday,: near Merrillville. Members of the Ross county horse thief detective association! had been warned to watch for a horse and! buggy stolen at Buchanan, Mich. Three* men were found driving the rig. Fire 1 was opened and at least 150 shots were ; passed. The thieves surrendered and gavel their names as John Ewing, Chas, Rogers! and Frank Wilson. Ewing was shot, but not seriously, and two of the detectives’ were slightly wounded.