Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Star City comes to the front with a sensational ghost A detachment”of the Salvation Army is now engaged in saving Crawfordsville. , The ice gorge at Madison broue, Monday, after a blockade lasting eighteen days. No particular damage resulted. •’ Broad Ripple has ten licensed saloons. An enthusiastic mass meeting was held at that place, Monday night, in behalf of the Nicholson bill. ~~ - ' t A fierce factional fight overthe appointment of a Judge of the Superior Court of Madison county is. said to be raging among Anderson Democrats. Lemuel Justice, a wealthy resident of Flora, is mysteriously missing. Some weeks ago Mr. Justice walked out otthe village, leaving everything behind except his postoffice address. At a meeting of well-known horsemen in Wabash, Saturday, steps were taken to organize a circuit, including the tracks at Fairmount, oSwayzee,* Mai ion,-Wabash, North Manchester, Rochester S%d Bourbon, 4 David Jones, the farmer near Elwood, who has been afflicted with wakefulness to an unparalled extent, has at last, after one hnndred~and fifty-two days, been able to Sleep a little. His record as a “wideawake” man has never been equalled. David P. Vinton, ono of the oldest residents of Lafayette, whohas for many years occupied a prominent position, died Saturday afternoon after an illness of considerable duration. Mr. Vinton was among the best known judges of the Hoosier State. “Miss Hazel Haze,” a fair unknown, has been working Seymour business men in a way they despise. She obtained possession of a large quantity of fine goods “on approval,” since which time “Miss Hazel Haze” and the merchandise have vanished into space.

The CitizensV Enterprise Company of Muncie have closed the contract with a part}’ of Toronto capitalists for the location of a silver table ware factory to employ 250 hands. Over $100,603 will be invested in the plant. The firm comes to this country to prevent paying tariff duty. A remarkable case of cutting the third set of teeth is reported by Dr. Reynolds, Of Columbus. Mrs. Ann Featherscon, aged ninety-eight, has been feeling badly for some days, and her physician was called. HeTottnd -thaFshe had- jnst-eut ularge jaw tooth. She is now convalescent. While John Supp, employed as a wiper at the Vandalia round house at Terre Haute, was cleaning an engine, a hose used in conveying steam so as to create an extra draught broke loose and the full force of the steam struck him jn the face, ft.is supposed that Supp is blinded for life. The Governor has appointed J. R. Carnahan, es Indianapolis; D. N. Foster, of Fort Wayne; C. J. Murphy, of Evansville; I. B. McDonald, of Columbia City, and J. B. Wallace, of Lafayette, trustees of the State Soldiers’ Home, Three of the board. are Republicans and two are Democrats. All serve without pay. A four-year-old son of Louis Ahrent, of Peru, discovered the clothing of a smaller child, with whom he had been left aloft®, In flames. He exhibited remarkable presence of mind by drenching the child with water and putting it to bed before calling assistance, The child was terribly burned and may die. Tho Winona Assembly is a summer school, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, that is to be located at Bass Lake, Starke county. The lake is one and a half by three miles. The trustees at a meeting at Indianapolis,- Feb. 27, arranged for improvements to bo completed by July 1, to cost $25,000, Clinton Moore, of Colfax, became intoxicated and concluded to annihilate Postmaster Harbaugh. Finally he took a stand In the postoffice with a knife and a revolver and defied “the earth.” He was arrested with difficulty and lodged in jail at Frankfort. The attention of the Government will be called to M’oore’s interference with the United States mail. Silas Guise, of Idaville, while in a neighboring town on business, purchased a box of sardines and some crackers, on which he lunched. Shortly after returning home he was seized of intolerable agony and died. Mr. Guise took some kind of medicine while suffering, and physicians were undecided as to the cause of his death. The body became dreadfully bloated and discolored in a short time. Charles Ilinsti, a young school teacher, who was arrested Saturday and placed under bond for his appearance, Monday, for peddling tho teachers’ questions for the Feb. 4 examination, was arraigned before Squire Craycroft, at Shelbyville, and on a plea of guilty, was fined $25 and costs. Prof. William Griffin, who was also arrested on the same charge, has not been arraigned. They are both prominent teachers of the county and have heretofore borne good reputations. 4 A month ago the officers of tho Presbyterian Sunday school of Brazil placed in the hands of forty-two boys and girls of the school a dime each, with Instructions to Invest it and work it so as to realize the most out of it within a period of thirty days, the proceeds to apply to tho Sunday school library fund. Tuesday evening, at a public meeting held at the church, this army of juvenile financiers made report of their stewardship and Improvement of the talent intrusted to them, the aggregate being $88.30 from a loan of $4,20. Tlie best return came from a girl ten years old. who reporteds7.2s. Joseph Bufford, a farmer residing near Burnettsville, claims a bou* fide record of nine immersions. He first united with the German Baptist, or old Dunkard, denomination. and according to their peculiar rites, received three submersions, face downward. Later, ho became a member of the new Dnnkards and, in accordance with their custom, was baptized once, with the head backward. Similar experiences ensued upon his subsequent connections with the Baptist and New Light churches, and finally, one day tho past wook, he returned to his first love and was rebaptized, thrice with the face downward. All his religions vagaries are said to have been actuated by sincere motives. The prosecution of John W. Paris, the Greentown banker, is about to be abandoned and he will probably go free. The abandonment of the Paris prosecution practically ends the whole affair, and tho case against ex-Governor Chase will bo dismissed. Paris, out of a fortune of $75,ouo, besides tho many thousands he re-

ceived from the Howard county, farmers, has onlj a few shares of stock in thaJffexican gold mine left, He is now concerned in a patent telephone, which he is introducing in the smaller cities of the country, and is said to be in a fair way to retrieve his lost riches. There was a riot in Judge Kirkpatrick’t court at Kokomo, Tuesday, that stopped proceedings for \o day. An injunction case was being heard, in which Elia; Lowery was plaintiff and D. E. Downey defendant. When Frank Wyatt arose from the witness stand Downey’stwosons called kicked him down stairs. Knives, stones and clubs were used, and Wyatt and one of the Downeys were badly hurt, the former escaping by dodging into a drug store. Lowery, believing his witness was killed, fell t 6 the floor insensible and was taken home unconscious. He issubject to heart trouble. The rioters were arrested, .A- petition, has been signed by many land-owners for _the construction of a uditch running through tpe w-estern part of Gibson county and the northern partot Posey county. The proposed ditch will begin five miles west of Princeton, at tho Air Line railway, and will run in a southwesterly direction, emptying into tho Wabash river. It will be forty feet wide, with an average depth of twelve feet, and the length will be something over ten miles. It will be constructed under tha five mile law of .1892, which provides for bonds covering a period of twenty years. As soon as the preliminary plans are completed the work of survey will be undertaken. The proposed ditch will be one o| the largest in tho State, and it will reclaim a large tract of fertile land. The estimated cost is SIOO,OOO.

Rear Admiral George Brown, of Indiana, has succeeded to the position oi senior officer of the United States Navy, because of the retirement of Admiral ..Greer. Rear Admiral Brown was born is Rushville. Ind., June 19, 1835. He wat appointed a midshipman by the late Senator Jbseph E. McDonald, from the Crawfordsville district, February 5, 1849., H( has served forty-six years consecutively in the navy. During the Rebellion ht served with distinction. In appearancr he is what is technically known as th< “nautical type,” being of stocky build with ruddy complexion, a round face with hair ahd mustache freely tinged wltli gray. He is said to bear a very close resemblance to Rear Admiral Gh’erardi,- retired. At present he is at his station in Norfolk. Admiral Brown will be the senior officer of tho navy until June 19, 1897, when, under the operations of the law, he will go on the retired list by reason of his then becoming sixty-two years of age. "

BEAR ADMIRAL BROWN, OF INDIANA.