Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Shelbyville dogs are being poisoned by wholesale. The Findlay Rolli ng Mill, of Mu n cle, Is hopelessly involved financially. A census of Washington, just completed; shows a-population of -over 10,6t©. ~ - 6Jacob Cline, a pioneer of Hamilton county, is deact at Arcadia, aged eighty years. A Rushville dentist announces that he has taken the gold cure and is now ready tor business. —The American starch works at Columbus were entirely destroyed by fire, Saturday. Loss, 1300.000. The bondsmen in the Armstrong defaulting case have settled with Tipton county for >21,600. About >44.000 was'em ‘ ■ betzled. —■.- ; .. r Fred Niejnan, one of the oldest citizens of Franklin county, was killed by a train while walking on the railway track, near Batesville. The Rev. Milton Mahln, of Tipton, has been superannuated by the North Indiana M. E. Conference, lifter a continuous service of fifty years. 4 Mrs. J. D. Brown, of Crawfordsville, has a valuable relic in the shape of an autograph letter from Gen. Washington, dated 31st March, 1778. Mrs. Eliza Henderson, seventy-eight years old, of Johnson county, has gone insane over the hallucination that she is the victim of sorcery. -* A, L. Carpenter, of Danville, Jbas been arrested, by the .sheriff, charged with counterfeiting silv.er coin. It is alleged that he was betrayed by his three daughters. A tree sixty feet high s ' grows out of the eoffln of a man named Cobb, at Nashville, Brown county. Cobb was buried seventy years ago in a hollowed log of poplar, which sprouted and grew into a tree. . A petition is circulating at Marion, asking the City Council to erect monuments in memoriam of David Branson and wife, the founders of the city, whose gravesjire unmarked. Branson and wife located there in 1826. The annual camp meeting of the Indiana Association of Spiritualistswill meet July 18, at Anderson. The convention will continue four weeks. The Association’s park is called Chesterfield, and it is pleasantly situated. The two-year-old son of E. F. Hollowell, of Marion, died unattended by a physician. The father is a Christian scientist, who relied on silent prayer for a cure. One year ago Mr. Hollowell’s wife died under similar circumstances. Elbert Russell, a graduate of the class of’94, will be placed in charge of the biblical department of Earlham College, made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Dougan Clark, who was forced to retire because of his submission to baptism. Dr, Earl Silver, z Harry Ashley and Harry Hopping, of Lebanon, venders of patent medicines, were arrested at Clarksburg and ’Squire Power, at Greensburg, fined two of them 119,75 each on a charge of raffling tea sets and silver tpoons. - Miss Belle Prince, of Howard county, has brought spit against David L. Duke, of Duke Bros. & Co., of Kokomo, claiming >IO,OOO for breach of promise. The defendant is a bachelor and a man of affairs. According to the complaint, the courtship dates back to 1881. Harry Fahrenhelm, a house painter, of La Porte, was killed, Sunday morning, by jne blow of his father-in-law’s fist. Fahrenheim abused his wife, being a drunken character. Mr. Ott, his wife’s father, ex pecting an attack from Fahrenheim, who was intoxicated and armed with a hammer, struck him one blow on the head. Fahrenhelm diedTn an hour. ■ The well on the public square at Bloomington has suddenly developed into an oil producer. The oil has the appearance of ' refined oil and people are carrying away the fluid in all kinds of vessels as it is jumped out. The source es the oil supply is a mystery as the well is but thirty five feet deep. Dr, George W. Cassel, who owns an eighty-acre farm in Nottingham townihip. Wells county, has drawn >B2O royalty from,the Ohio Oil Company as one-sixth the value of the petroleum produced on bis farm during the month of March There are a hundred other Wells county farmers whose monthly incomes from oil range from >2OO to >SOO. Rev. J. McNellie, of the Scottsburg Christian church,has brought suit against leveral leaders of the society for damages. alleging that defendants entered an order, prohibiting him from preaching in the church building, on the records that was not passed by the church board. The minister has also received “white cap” letters of a threatening nature which he believes to have been seat by the same leaders of his chnrch, 1 The citizens of Rochester have raised the necessary funds to endow the Normal university for that place, for which they have long been working. Plans and ipecifications for the institution have been prepared, and work on the buildings will commence in May. The plans are nade for structures which will atcommolate 500 students, and an ample fund is provided through the sale of real estate ionated to the university to equip the ichoo), which it is hoped to open this fall. Mrs. Henry Burgess, of Hebron, has been bedfast for the past eight weeks and for the past forty-five days has not taken t morsel for nourishment. During this time she has drank only one thimbleful )f water. How she keeps alive is a mystery. It has baffled all the doctors who have diagnosed her case. Before she was lick she weighed abbut 180 pounds, and luring the eight weeks of sickness she has 'alien off until she weighs only fifty pounds, J The campaign to bemadeby the Good Citizenship League, of Indianapolis, befan at New Castle, April 7, The speeches ire to be made by S. E. Nicholson, author >( the Nicholson bill. Other meetings will be held as fallows: Greenwood, April i; I<ranklin, April 9; Edinburg, Atfril 10: Columbus, April 11; Seymour, April 12; Scottsburg. April 14; Jeffersonville, April 15; New Albany, April 16; Charlestown, April 17; Lexington, April 18; Buttervllle, April 19; Osgood, April 20; Lawrenceburg, April 22; Greensburg, April 23; Shelby rille, April 24; Muncie, April 27. 28 and 29 Prof. Krelbel, who was behind the enterprise to secure a great endowment for North Manchester’s College, has left North Manchester for Warsaw, wherhe will take an inferior position in a country Ichool. Negotiations are now in progress

for the sale of the college building and grounds to the German Baptist Dunkardr, , who are looking about for a college site in Indiana. Prof. Young, of Mt. Morris, Hl., received a proposition from the United-Brethren trustees of the college, but declined it. Mrs. Bickenstein, an old lady, lived alone near Dover, guarded by. her dog, whnh had been her companion for fourteen years. Monday night the dog was heard to howl at intervals, and this com. tinned until the neighbors were attracted. Upon going to the farm they found th<j dead body of the woman on the ground under a shed, where she had fallen faci downward, evidently while milking a cow. Close at hand were a number of cattl i and hogs, herded in a narrow space by the dog, who would 1 not allow thorn to ap» prbaeh the corpse, while the marks o| teeth on the shawl wrapped around tho woman’s shoulder showed that the animal had made efforts arouse his mistress. The dog welcomed the neighbors, seeming to know that their services werj needed. ' • The ladies of the First Presbyteria’j church, of Kokomo, caused a slight com: motion in religious circles by giving a mini strel performance in the opera house Fri; day and Saturday evenings. About thirty of the most prominent Church member) appeared on the stage in burnt cork and gave an excellent entertainment, netting the church a handsome stim. Rev. R. G. Roscamp, the pastor, wTis consulted by the more diffident ladies, who hesitated about applying the cork. He eased thei/ consciences by the jocular remark that some of them appeared on the street daily with powdered faces, and even wore them to church, and he saw no difference from a moral standpoint whether the powdei used was white orblack. Members of the Christian, church at Beach Grove, seven miles north of Uniod City, are in the midst of a curious controversy. One faction is opposed to Sabbath schools and the other is in favor of them. One faction of the chnrch has had part of the_Sabbath for Bible reading and the other a season for Sabbath schools. The pastor. Rev. Mr. Whitt, has favored the school Each faction had a key, and and everything run smoothly until last Sunday. When the pastor went to the church in the evening his key refused to work, and developments proved that the anti-school faction had changed the lock. The reverend gentleman preached that evening from the door step to alarge congregation, although the night was chilly. The quarrel has -grown until the matter has become serious, and some interesting developments are expected. Mrs. Johnson Graves, residing on ths west side of the Wabash fiver, went to Battle Ground. Tuesday,called by the illness of a friend. She started home tn a buggy, in apparent good health. Two miles from Lafayette the vehicle in which she was seated met a team, the wagon ot • which was loaded with hay. Mrs. Graves’ horse turned out. but ran the vehicle so far frbmYhe road as to overturn it. A physician ran to the assistance of Mrs/ Graves, but was horrified to find that she was dead. He gave it as his opinion, however, that she had been dead for fifteen or twenty minutes before the accident, and that she died in her boggy while driving along the highway, and that the horse, unguided by the reins, overturned the vehicle. The dead woman was sixtyeight years old.