Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1894 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

There are nineteen millionaires in the (r. A. R. " Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, visited New York city last week for the first time in his life. The Western yearly meeting of the Friends’ church began at Plainfield,' Sept. 15. A colony is being formed in Crawford county to emigrate to Bastidas, Columbia, South America. A perfect pearl, five and one-half carats In weight, was found in the Wabash river near Logansport. 1 Secretary Carlisle has made a rulir/; that salt imported for fisheries shall be admitted frefe of duty. Mrs. Anna E. Grubb, treasurer of the W. R. of tiie G. A. R., is officially charged with misappropriating $560 of the order's money. , iltnry Zimmerman, of Vigo county, exhibited corn stalks at Terre Haute, which' measured fourteen feet in bight, with good ears eight feet from the ground. < Black anthrax, as it is known among breeders, has appeared among the cattle ‘in the vicinity of Florida, and there is considerable alarm among stockmen. Saturday a number Jof cattle belonging to Brazil llillfgos were quarantined. The Department of Agriculture prints this statement of the condition of the crops in Indiana: The condition of the corn crop varies greatly in different counties. The drought of the past sixty days ulmost ruined the crops in some counties, while in others there has boon sufficient rain to mature a good average crop. Rains have been local and light during tho corn growing season. Wheat is an excellent crop. Conditions were favorable for maturing and harvesting the crop in firstclass order, The oats crop is of good quality and nearly up to the average in yield. Oats are being sold at one dent per pound in the local markets throughout ’ the State. The celebrated suit for $25,000 brought against Congressman E. A, Morse, of Canton,'Mass., by Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, the temperance and woman suffrage advocate of Lafayette, Ind., terminated at Boston, Sept. 14, in a victory for the defendant. Tiie jury, after being out an hour and forty-five minutes, rendered a verdict of acquittal. Hon Harvey N. r Sheppard, MfsTGoiigar’s counsel, immediately made application for a new trial. Henry Zimmerman, who owns a farm ten miles south of here, brought to Bell & McCain’s store stalks of corn raised oh* his farm which measures fourteen feet, with good ears eight feet from the ground, —Terre Haute Gazette. Ike Levig, aged seventy-five, a notori pus outlaw, was captured, by Cincinnati officers at, Osgood, Sept. 14, in the act of turning out spurious coin in the shape of silver (Quarters and halves, A peck of the “queer” was captured, together with ai quantity of tools and dies. Levi has been known as a horsethief and counterfeiter for fifty years, having “done time” inOhio and Kentucky for these offenses, and : it has been an open secret at Osgood for some time that he was up to his old tricks? because of his local purchases of plaster of paris and silver polishers. He has, been an active participant in many of the daring deeds that startled and terrorized southern Indiana years ago.

The new religious denomination which lias been proselyting in southern Indiana for months, and which is known as the “Saints, - ’ and again as the “Evening Light,” continues to increase in membership, particularly in Washington and contiguous counties. The new sect professes to be guided entirely by the Bible. No controversies are indulged in with non-be- ’ lievers, and communion, feet-washlng and nro among the cardinal points of the new theology? In simplicity oUiTress, frugality of life, honesty in business affairs, and the non-consideration of self,' the sect somewhat patterns after the Mennonites. All converts are annotated with oil, and every .convert is urged lirst to make restitution if he has' wronged anyone in a business transaction in times past. A serious riot occurred at Muncie, Sept. 15, between the Street Railway Company and the forces of tho Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving Company. The Street Car Company’s property was damaged to the extent of several hundred dollars and a big legal contest has been commenced. The trouble was caused from the failure of the railway company to get its new rails in" place in time for the paving. The paving company were determined to proceed with their work. The street car peo J pie were determined they should not, Hence the riot. Walnut street was fenced up-by tho paving company. The street cars were run In full speed against the fence- Fifteen motor cars were wrecked in the melee. The police interfered and the trouble will be settled in tho counts. 'n discussing lager Over u uerpuan qritie insists that there is in the German vocabulary no such word as lager, which ho believes to be purely a Viennese expression.. There is also very little lager about a great deal of beer that is put out. 4 i