Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Thorntown wants ateiephoneexchange. A water famine is imminent at Greencastle. Echo is a new postoffice in Welis county. -y Laporte and Michigan Citjc are to be connected by an electrie railway. The Gosport people are alarmed at the amount of sickness in that vicinity. Eleven Kekomo saloons havo closed, or will close, as a result of the Nicholson bill. Gas City has secured the Cox-Spence pottery works, and kilns of tho capacity of 20,000 will he erected. A man in Edinburg is jubilating over the fact that his wife has Worn the same bonnet for twenty-five years. 2 The Sheridan brick works, whfeh re°centty bume&;‘wiil be rebuilt at once, with a capacity of 30,000 a day. - Quincy Reese, of Falmouth, who killed Dscar Knotts, his rival, and was tried at Connersville, wasacquittod by the jury. A quarry of fine gray marble has teen discovered near Ethel, in Orange county, English is the nearest railway station, nine miles. J. W. Crum, of Marion, jealous of the attentions of the Rev. F. M. Collins to Mrs. Crum, attempted to. shoot tho pastor, Friday night. The State Printing Board. Wednesday, electod Thomas Carter, deputy city clerk of Indianapolis, to succeed Col. Maynard as Secretary of tho Board. Extensive forest fires prevailed in the vicinity of Borden and English, April 1. No less than ten barns were destroyed, The aggregate loss will reach $30,C09. Tho Jeffersonville papers inaugurated a crusade against hogs running at large in the streets, but tho City Council was afraid to pass a prohibitory ordinance. Kokomo Odd Fellows have decided to jrect a $15,000 building the present season. Other business buildings, costing in ail about $50,000, will also go up this year. As a result of the revival in the Presbytorian.cliurch at Vincennes, which was conducted by the Rev. T. S. Scott, pastor, assisted by the Rev. E. T. Rankin, of Peru, there were eighty-nine accessions. The beech trees throughout Wabash county are dying. Many of them, farmers say, will not put out leaves this spring, owing to the extreme dry weather. Tlie ytnnrg Yrees lare-auffering more severely than the old ones. The Novelty Manufacturing and Foundry company, lato of Indianapolis, employing ono hundred hands, has removed to Alexandria, and the buildings are now In process of construction. A stpel rail mill is also being erected there. Prof. W. W. Borden, of Jeffersonville, has received from York, England, a setof Audobon’s “Birds of America,” consisting of four volumes of paintings and five of text and descriptions. The cost was $1,124, and Prof. Borden claims it to be the only set in Indiana, ; > " Joseph bright, a well known farmer, was found dead on tho road near Muncie, Sunday morning. There were no marks of violence on the body except a few scratches on the face, but his money was missing. Bright left Muncie in an intoxicated condition, Saturday night. R. T, Sailors, near Wabash, has a ewe, which on Jan. 10, dropped a lamb. On March 28, two months and eighteen days later, she gave birth to two lambs, both of them very small, but healthy and frisky. Breeders say they have never known of a parallel case. ~ A canvass of the first ward of Franklin, in which all tho saloons but one in the city are located, resulted in an agreement on tlie part of 227 out of the 249 voters seen to sign a remonstrance under tho provisions of the Nicholson bill against any applicant who may iu the future apply for a license Thomas Arnold, of the defunct bank of South Whitley, who was found guilty of receiving deposits when he knew the bank was insolvent, and who was fined SSOO and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, is said to be demanding a new trial, his attorneys claimg that the minimum sentence which could be imposed upon him for the offense, as alleged, is two years’ imprisonment. Zeno Massard, of El wood, indicted for the murder of Mort Lane, whom he threw out of a saloon so violently as to cause his death, has been placed on trial at Anderson. Massard is a telegraph operator, but he abandoned his key at Elwood to serve as bartender. On the jury trying Massard is a colored man. who is the first negro in Madison county to serve in that capacity. Farmers throughout Wabash county state that the growing wheat is in a precarious condition, and many fields are becomingyeliow and bare. There has been little or no moisture this spring, and tho hot dry weather has baked the earth, and it has been carried away by tho gales. The soil has been blown out from beneath the roots of the plants. It is said that the Catholic Knights of Pythias of Terre Haute, as the result of several conferences, have resolved to disregard the order of the Propaganda at Romo and will remain with the order. The explanation is, that the church gave permission to join the order and that nothing has transpired since making it difficult for a Catholic to remain in the order and at the same time retain his church standing. The farms of the east end of Clark and tho west end of Jefferson, and part of Scott counties are rapidly being overrun by a species of sedge, and farmers are at a loss what to do to extirpate it. It was brought in the early days by immigrants from North Carolina, who settled in the river bottoms of the Ohio. They carried sumo bedticks filled with this sedge, and oli their arrival here scattered it about /heir homos, where it grew. But it is 'only within the last few years that it has begun to manifest its capacity for mischief. Recently it has compelled many farmers to plow up valuable meadows, and it now covers an area of at least a hundred square miles, aud is still rapidly spreading in spite of continuous burning against it in the fall. * William Dudley lou|ke h*s just re- I turned to Richmond from a trip to Cuba. Heis opposed to annexation of the island because of tho undesirable population, which he says is a mixture of bandits, coolies, negroes, .Spaniards and bad characters. Ho also states that his trip to Cuba has modified his former views in favor of the annexation of Mexico. He doubts the advisability of annexing any portion of that counts. Trouble is brewing in Pythian circles at Evansville, growing outof the alleged 4 Is-

| covery of a ritual belonging to Wagnet Lodge, of that city, in the haiids of Henry R'mnUuj.U.a Job nuajuy, anti* . Of the order, who was reprinting it for the nse of the so-called Improved Order of Knights of Pythias. The improved order Is composed of Germans who will notobey the order of the Supreme Lodge in theose of the English ritual. The missing ritual was fojind to have been changed and marked to suit (tie requiretfieTJtsoftb* new order. D. F.Gook, of Kokomo, has invented a slot machineTor~ttre vendlng oT postage stamps, postal cards, stationery apd newspapers, and it is intended to take the place of newsboys, as well as clerks and carriers. It is also intended to be placed on trains, street cars, in depots, steamships, hotels, stores, and on streets and in public places generally. The device is thiefproof. The inventor has received letters of inquiry from the Postmaster General as well as ex-Postmastor General Wanamaker, and there is a probability that th* machine will be approved by the Government. ' ~ A correspondence which had its origin in the “personal columns” of a daily paper. has come to a ludicrous ending at Arlington, Rush county. Several months ago a young man at Madison advertised for a correspondent, having matrimony in view. He received almost one hundred replies, and outof tbe lot ho chose on* signing herself Miss Rnshie Lee. of Ar» lington. The correspondence continued until photographs were exchagcd and there was a betrothal in marriage. Lost Saturday night the Madison man went tn Arlington to claim his bride, but imagina his discomfiture and disappointment upon discovering ho had been corresponding with an overgrown and prankish young lad named Rush Lee, who had sent th* photograph of young lady friend to the lover on the banks of tho Ohio. The Madisonian took the first train for home.