Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Daviess county paw-paw crop will be light Madison women resist arrest more than the men do. The new'tin-plate-works at Middletown are in operation. Hon. W.D. Owen opened the Republican campaign at Peru, Thursday. There was a big fire at Union City, Thursday morning. Loss, sls, Muncie, Elwood, Brazil and Hammond passed into Republican control, Sept. 1. The income tax will affect thirty-five or forty persons and corporations in Wabash. As Noblesville is going to have brick streets an elevated railway may be built Greensburg people think they are right •‘in it” because that place has ten newspapers. - Noblesville was plagued with mosquitos to an unparalled extent during the last week in August. The opening of the public schools at Bedford has been indefinitely postponed on account of diphtheria. Ten prisoners escaped from the Marlon jail Sept. 1. Two voluntarily returned. The others got clear away. William Perkins, eighty years old, and Mr§. M&Fgaret Floyd, seventy-eight, of Putnam county, have been united in marriage. - ..... .. „

Edward Kelley, of Marion, accidentally drank a solution of concentrated lye, dying in great agony. His home was East Cambridge, Mass. Senator Voorhees has written that his health is rapidly improving.and has made Bn appointment to speak at Terre Haute, on the, 18th inst. The Prohibitionists of the Sixth Congressional district have nominated the Rev. Robert B. Lindsay, of Wayne county, as a candidate for Congress. A sensation has been created in Terre Haute by Russell Harrison, the street l car magnate, refusing to pay SIOO,OOO cash for street improvements, which amount, It is said, is due the city. The Rev. O. C. Haskill, of Greencastle, in charge of the Belmont circuit, M. E. church, who was stricken with paralysis while filling an appontment. at Pleasant “Valley, is-dead. He was fifty-nine years old. Raymond Woods, seventeen, well-known coutortlonist of Anderson, while performing the other night, wore a pair of green tights. As he perspired freely the poisonous coloring was taken into his blood and It is now feared that he will die. Grant Kimmell, one of the best known young men in the vicinity of Ligonier, committed suicide by swallowing carbolic icid. The only supposable cause is the objection of his parents to his marriage with a young lady of Silver Lake. Hon, W. R. Myers, Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, also being the present incumbent of that office, was married at Indianapolis, Sept. 5, to Miss Florence Stewart, sister of Charles G. Stewart, managing editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, 6 Indianapolis had a fatal case of smallpox, Friday. There were numerous exposures before the true nature of the disease became known. The patient was removed to the pesthouse and all possible precautions taken to prevent the spread if the disease. 4 A mill dam five hundred feet long across the Salamomie river, two miles east of La?ro,has been on fire for a week. The water is very low and it is supposed that the fire was started by fishermen on the dam, Accidentally. The structure cost SIO,OOO Mid will.be a total loss.

Gov. McKinley will speak at Hndianapo1s Sep. 25. The secretary Jof the State com mi ttee has assurance th at the Cen tr al -Traffic Association wlll probably grant a half fare rate from all points in the State, md excursions will be run from nearly all the neighboring cities. Frankton claims to have a sure-enough {host. The apparition appears near the Riley farm. Sometimes it has a head, vhich occasionally floats off into space. This does not seem to worry the ghost at ill, as it continues to move about. It is a Dutch ghost and has been heard to sing in German. John Oates, of Anderson, walked into the Midland beer garden and ordered Dmer Hurley, leader of the orchestra, to (top playing, as the music didn’t suit him. Hurley declined and- Oates attacked him with a knife, giving him three thrusts in the face and neck. Hurley was badly hurt. John H. Terhune was elected mayor of Anderson in 1890 and again in 1892. During his administration he saw the city increase in population from 10,000 to 20,000, and he aided in inaugurating many public improvements. Monday night he retired from office. His successor is M. M. Dunlap, also a Republican. Harry Loomis, of Howard county, who assassinated his cousin, James Gregory, and was arrested for murder, is again a raving maniac, and he will be returned to the insane hospital without the formality of re-examination. Loomis has been a terror to his neighbors for several years. A common pastime with him was practicing with a revolver. He was noted as a crack shot.

There was a Chicago rate war at Indianapolis last week, between the Pennsylvania and L., E. & W. R. R. The fare got as low as tl tor the round trip on Saturday, Sept. 1, and both roads carried thousands of excursionists. The Pennsylvania noon train on Saturday consisted of twenty coaches and two parlor cars, In two sections. More than I.GOO people were aboard. Richard and George McGriff, twin brothers, celebrated their ninety-third birthday at the former’s home near Decatur, Sunday. They are undoubtedly the oldest twin brothers in the United States. Both are quite spry, walk without canes and read without glasses. Ono thing remarkable in the history of their lives is that neither ever used tobacco in any form nor took intoxicating liquors. Each owns a well improved farm. The Leltzman Sorgum Manufacturing Company’s factory was put in operation at Mooresville, Sept. 4. The prospect for a big run is flattering. The crop of cane is large and the quality fine. The farmers realize 12.90 per ton and a great many fields yield from fifteen to twenty tons per acre., making a profit of from 137.50 to ?50 per acre. There are from five to six hundred acres of cane in the immediate vicinity of Mooresville and the factory wiil run day and night till frost catches the late planting, The growing of cane is on

the increase and promises to become * paying industry in this section. Patents have been issued to Indiana Inventors as follows: M. Arbuckle, Indianapolis, wheel-washing device; J. 8. Blrt, Arlington, asslgnorto F. H. L. Kahn& Bros., Hamilton, O,,pan-,making machine; T. Cox, assignor of two-thirds toM. J. Moon and W. T. Bowers, Liberty, disinfecting apparatus; M. Gleason, Liberty, fence machine; E. and L. Hedderick, Pettit, sawing machine, I. H. Henley, Straughn, fodder-tying device; L. Humbarger. near Columbia City, apparatus for transplanting plants; F. G. Smiley, Goshen, beam scale; A. Weil, Greenfield, apparatus for boring wells; W. A. Wildback. Indianapolis, target trap. The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad company has issued a circular to its stockholders notifying them that at the annual meeting on Sept. 19, authority will be asked for the creation of $1,000,000 equipment mortgage sinking fund 5 per cent, twenty year bonds, to be secured by mortgage on freight cars now used but not owned by the company, which cost $1,002,254, of which more than one-third has been paid. All passenger cars and engines have been paid for. The proposed equipment bonds will be countersigned and issued only as title to the cars is vested in the trustee, the . object of the. operation being to fund into a twentyyear bond the temporary obligations now existing in the form of equipment notes.