Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Dundee will incorporate. Fortville had a serious fire, NbV. 36. — Chicken pox is raging at Columbia City. There is not a vacant house in Rockville. Hog cholera is epidemic near Westfield. -±— Several new and extensive factories are now under construction at Fortville. Swayzee had a bad fire Nov. 25. Seven stores and one residence went up in smoke. Terre Haute grain men contemplate erecting an elevator with a capacity for 350,000 bushels. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Tomlinson, near Westfield, have celebrated. their golden wedding anniversary. Water Is so scarce at Evansville that the water-works company do a thriving business in filing cisterns. Four horses suffering with glanders were killed at Terre Haute by order of the State Veterinarian . 4 Orlando A. Cox, cashier of the State Bank of Sheridan, is candidate for the position of State Bank Examiner. Geo. Bock, near Corydon, raised a pumpkin which weighs 170 pounds He estimates that ft will make 150 pies. During the high pressure of natural gas at Shelbyville, one of the best wells In the gas field was filled with salt water and ruined. 4 Glanders is spreading among horses at Terre Haute. One livery stable has been closed and several horses have been shot, while others are quarantined. The Rev. 8. M. Stimson, D. D., of Greensburg, is dead of heart failure. He was a well-known Baptist minister, and secretary of the missionary society. Three masked men entered the Hablg flouring mill at Greensburg and compelled the miller to hand out three sacks of flour, with which they walked away.. Isaai Locket, of Evansville, set his shot-gun down so carelessly that both barrels were discharged, the loads tearing through his hands, and ruining them for life. Gas was struck at Peru, Tuesday, by Mr. Reed, while sinking a well at his place of business, at a depth of twentyeight feet. The flow is quite strong and is sufficient to heat and light Mr. Reed’s factory, _ attempt was made to blow up the new No. 1 coal shaft of the Brazil Block Company. Tuesday night. The damage was $2,500; insurance, $1,500. The company offers a reward for the arrest of the perpetrators. The county seat war In Jackson Connty will be renewed this winter. Seymour people expect to obtain a law from the Legislature that will enable them to win. It is also said that the Jennings County county seat contest will be revived. A team of horses attached to a hose reel at New Albany, while going to a fire, ran away. A farmer from Palmyra, twenty miles northwest, came to the city with the news that the team had passed through that town on a dead run, and could not be stopped. The reel at that time was uninjured. Tipton county elected a mixed ticket by small majorities. Defeated Republicans contested for the offices to which they aspired and the defeated Democratic candidates followed their example. Every office, therefore,-which was to be Riled by the November election in that county Is now in court for final arbitration. Interesting exercises attended the laying of the corner stone of the handsome new court-house under process of construction at Winamac. The Masonic fraternity had charge of the ceremonies, with Lieutenant-Governor Nye as principal officer. Delegations attended from all the surrounding cities. The new building will cost $75,000. The Indiana Supreme Court, Monday, handed down a decision in the case of Woodford vs, Hamilton, in effect, holding that women are inhibited by statute from obtaining a license to sell Intoxicating liquors. It was further held that an agent fora principal cannot bind the principal in any transaction where, if she were present in her own behalf, could not bind herself. The following patents have been gran? ed to residents of Indiana: W. Lash, assignor of one-half to D. Duehmig, Avilla, combined awning and fire and burglarproof shutter; D. Libcy, Lima, seraper; I. G. Poston, Veedersburg, paving block; W. S. Ralya and R. Coyle, Indianapolis, metal straightening machine; C. A. Salzman, assignox of two-thirds to E. P. Kennel, Hamilton, 0., and J. A. Robbins, Indianapolis, combination tool; W. P. Stevens, Muncie, combined label and price card. <?ol. Thomas D. Wright, of Jefferson county, whose death was reported some days ago, the fact being recalled that he was one of the oldest journalists In the country, was the editor of a paper at Carrollton, Ky. the plant of which was dumped into the Ohio river during the war by Col. Isaac P. Gray, now minister to Mexico, because of its treasonable inclinations. In the earlier days Col. Wright served under George D. Prentice, of Louisville. The Signs of the Times was the name of the newspaper he was publishing at the time of his collision with ex-Gov-ernor Gray. Joseph Freese and son a few days ago drilled a well on the farm of William Freese, eight miles south of Nashville, Brown county, through soapstone, and at a depth of 181 feet struck a flow of gas which came whistling up through the little pipe with great force. A match was applied and a large blaze shot up into the air several feet and burned steadily for a half day, when the pipe was capped over. They found no indications of water. Mr. Freese is of the opinion that if a larger hole were drilled at that place a strong supply of natural gas could be obtained.