Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

'TEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAn Interesting Summary of the Horu - portent Doings of Onr Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimea, Casualties, and General Indiana hews Notes. The Centennial Commission. Governor Matthews has announced thr hames of the men Selected by him to compose the centennial commission. By a joint resolution of the last general assembly he was authorized to appoint a commission consisting of thirty persona, two from each congressional, district, and., four _ from the state at large. This commission is to formulate a plan and arrange for a centennial celebration of the organization of the territory of Indiana to be held in 1900. The commission is to report to the next general assembly. The appointees arc: State at Large-Col. Eli Lilly and E. B. Martindale, Indianapolis; Hugh Daugherty, Bluff ion; DeFoe Skinner, Valparaiso. First District—Philip Fry, Evansville; James Burkett, Caunclton. Second District—Thomas Buskirk, Paoli; John Weathers, LeavenworthThird District—Charles L. Jewett, New Albany; Dr. 11. C. Hobbs, Salem. Fourth District—John H. Basse, Lawrenceburg; William Cumback, Greenfield. Fifth District—John W. Cravens, Bloomington; John T. Irwin, Columbus. Sixth District—Arthur W. Brady, Mancie; James N. Huston, Connersville. Seventh District—U. S. Jackson, Greenfield; Charles T. Doxey, Anderson. Eighth District—Thomas J. Mann, Sullivan; Frank'BlCKeen, Terre Haute. Ninth District—Eli Martin, Frankfort; C. S. Shirley, Kokomo. Tenth District—3l. 31. Hathaway, Winamae; Joshua C. Hadley, Logansport. Eleventh District—Harry B. Smith, Hartford City: H. L. Goldthwaite, Marion. Twelfth District—Charles 3lcCulloeh, Fort Wayne, and Sol. A. Woods, Angola. Thirteenth District—James A. Arthur, Goshen; George W. 3latthews, South Bend. The commission will meet as soon as all the appointees have accepted the appointment and effect an organization.

Bllnor Bn»t«r flew*. Is ,4AC Joy’s C-year-qld daughter died ot blood poisoning, near Urbana, Wabash county. James Nolton was literally cot to pieces by a Pennsylvania freight train at Jeffersonville. Etamsyille is to have a packing house ■with a capacity of 20) head of hogs and 200 head of beeves a day. Tnr. Gas City Good Citizens League has caused the rejection of six applications lor license to sell liquor there. While Wm. Fix, farmer near Sftelbyville, was down in a well, a heavy piece of timber fell and seriously injured him. AEM a Cain, in trying to put out a fire in a saw mill at Frankfort was seriously burned. The mill' was- greatly damaged. Fred Warner, young farmer near Brookston, died of a broken heart, having grieved himself to death over being swindled out of SI,BOO by lightning rod sharks. Counterfeit niekles are flooding Anderson, and scarcely a businessman has escaped the spurious coins. It is thought that the notorious Peyton gang is at work. Basil Sharp, 10; made a dive into- St. Joe River at Fort Wayne, in shallow water. Ilis head stuck in the muddy bottom, he could not extricate himself and was drowned. Lake County Commissioners- threat.ened to raise Treasurer McCay’S bond 1 to $400,000, at their June session, and he told them to take the office and run. it, whereupon they backed down. John Jones, the Elwood tin-plate worker who recently fell heir to an estate of $8,000,000 in Wales, has left for Liverpool to take the necessary legal steps to put himself in possession of the money.. JonN Evaht, Blackford County farmer, is slowly dying from a peculiar disease; Thousands of worms in his flesh are gradually eating his life away. Physieians are baffled and no relief can lie given him.. James Bowman, aged 60, while- attempting to flag a train moving through Evansville, was struck by a runaway team and was so badly injured that he; died a short time later. Bowman’*- home was at Vincennes. C. lleim, extensive fanner of Warrickj county, gives a discouraging report of thd i wheat crop ih.Southern Indiana. Several 'samples of wheat! gathered in. thred idifferent- oounties show up badly! •Harvesting will begin shortly. In-many (fields birders will not enter at all. He attributes the present condition to frost. i While throwing down hay from a barn loft, G. E..Leazenbee,a young man of near ; Headier,.fell through an aperture.- in* the ‘mow, and, striking upon the prongs of an upturned fork, sustained injuries of a frightful and fatal character. After his fall, he lay in an unconscious oonditioit for twelve-hours before being discovered, and was by that time so weak from boss of blood’ teat? recovery is hopeless.. ' Joseph Subtler of Rockportv is dying from- die effects of a dose of corrosive- sublimate, taken by mistake. Since taking , , the poison* he has lost tm voice, the drug destroying the vocal chords. Soon after : taking the do*sc his wife gave him the white of ai egg every few minutes and greatly neutralized the poison. The drug was dispensed to Schuler by an Inexperienced drag clerk, a mere boy* in the drug store of Ik. A. Sexton. The comparative exhibit of the state charitable and correctional institutions for the six months from November 1, 1894, to April 30,1895, has been issued by the state board of charities. It is compiled from the quarterly repons. The grand net total expenditures for maintenance and construction of charitable and correctional institutions for the six months ending April 30,1895,was $506,500.91; for the corresponding six months last vear the expenditures were $528,172.25. An indictment was served against the Muncio Pulp Company for damming and polluting Buck Creek. It is the result of a complaint made by Robert Chiggisb, ditch commissioner of Henry County. Mbs. Joshua W. Berry, sixteen miles south of Kokomo, met an awful death recently. She was smokiug a pipe while at work in the garden. Her clothing took fire and she ran partly across a meadow, attempting to reach her father’s house, but fell, setting fire to the dry grass. When found she was in a terrible condition, all her ololhing, with the exception of her shoes, being consumed, 9ho lived tart % few hours. " „ a ~ •- - - —* • ■ ***»->