Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

( Marion’s factory fund will soon read $50,000. A “Good Citizens’ Lefcguo” has been or ganized at Greenwood. I -iThe saloons of Peru-agreed-todose fotv l nights of the week (hiring revival services will have a new bank witl $50,000 capita'. Lawrence Simpson wil be President. ' ,Th(? Michigan City Dispatch is- nrginj the young men of that tofvn to form a military eompMry. - —■■. ■: ' - A modern four-slory hotel will be bull: at Paoli on account of the new minera -springs at that place. Ex-Judge, John /A. Holman, formerly : well-lmown citizen of Indianapolis, diet in New York city, Jan. 25. Mrs. Catherine Defenbaugh, the oldesf resident of Howard county, died at Kokomo, Jan. 22, agi>d ninety-one. —Th*' Wayne Comity Assessor, in hunting sequestrated taxes, has added *IOO,OOI to the duplicate, and has sl4o,oJoin sight Jeffersohvrlle is suffering from an epidemic of All descriptions o: property are being disposed of in thu manner. Fifteen glass-blowers of the Depauv factory, have filed suiti against the company for wages aggregat ing over SIO,OOO. Crawfordsville temperance people wanto abolish the “quart” simps and make it unlawful to sell liquor in less quantities than five, gallons. Over 75 per cent, of the indebtedness o‘, the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank o' Fairmount, which failed in June, 1894 will soon be paid. The wheat-acreage in Clark county it short. Farmers are discouraged over th< outlook for a market. Many will increase their corn acreage. Miss Wilson, a Muncie servant girl, ha< a frightful experience with a folding bee and was rescued with difficulty barely ii time to save her life A barge with 1,000 whisky barrels owned by Capt. John W. Thomas, d! Madison, sunk at the fourth lock in the Kentucky river Jan. 23. * A young man in Franklin, badly in love arose at 3 o’clock, the other morning after the heavy .snow and cleaned font squares of sidewalks so that “she” would have good walking. A. C. Daily succeeded J. O. Hendersor as Auditor of State, Jan. 26. W. H. Hart of Frankfort, will bo Mr. Daily’s chie! deputy. Mr. Henderson will return tc Kokomo, his former home. 1 Olaf R. Olson, a prominent manufacturtrof IndianapoliSfdicd suddenly, Jan. 25. Mr. Olsen was born in Denmark in 1849. By his own efforts he had built up a large business and was proprietor of tho Indianapolis Machine and Bolt Works. H« carried S7O.COD life insurance. K. of P. circles at Elwood, were considerably agitated by the local lodge teting under the orders of the Supreme Lodge, serving not!cc on alLsaloonkeepers of expulsion from the lodge, and the prohibition of all games in the lodge room. Fully fifteen members are expelled. Samuel Throop, an Elkhart grocer, caught sight of a female book agent a< she approached the store for the s'teenth Visit, and jumped into a feed bin. Ths clerk told her Mr. Throop had> gone pul and she replied that she would await hii return, ’Twas three hours .later before she concluded she couldn’t wait any longer and left; and Throop emerged from the bin. nearly frozen to death. Warning has been received at Indianapolis, from Washington, that a new counterfeit Slbbilf has been discovered by the Treasury officials. It is a silver cer- . tiilcate, check letter B, portrait of Heni dricks, and has a small scalloped scarlet seal. The pen and brush have been used I t:i giving tlie back the usual colors of thf • genuine. Thesilk thread is the tracing ol a pen. The bill seems to be tho work of i photography, and is on paper a trifle toe . heavy i Social and club circles are gossiping ! over the arrest and conviction of a num- ' her of Kokomo’s most prominent young •- men. who were each (iqed sl3 for playing j cards in their clubroom fora prize. Mayj or Kirkpatrick, in making his ruling, de- ' nounced parlor, social and;club games, | where prizes are competed for, as worse rind more damaging to public morals than professional gaming houses, lie further stated that he would punish all persons : irrested for participating in privatd or ! club house card playing for “favors,” as known In pedro and similar games. All } fofms aj professional gambling were completely suppressed eight months ago, “not a wheel” having tstrfee turned.