Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Fine Prospect for Crops—Prohibitionists Fear for the Nicholson LavBirth of Cnrions Twins—listers Reunited After Forty-seven Year*. Reports received from all sections of the corn districts in the State indicate that the outlook for a record-breaking crop this year eclipses anything of the last few years. The recent rains have done wonders. Reports from the Benton, Tippecanoe and White County district indicate that never in the history of Indiana has such a yield marked any one season. It is claimed by reliable persons that there are fields in Benton County that will run eighty bushels to the acre. It is now thought that the corn and the oats production, together with the marvelous berry crops just harvested and the wonderful watermelon crop just coming on, will more than make up for the shortage in wheat and will keep the total valuation of Indiana’s crops up to last year’s bop notch—s3oo,ooo,ooo. Nicholson Law Ineffectual. The commissioners at the present term of court at Windfall held that the voters could not delegate to one attorney power to sign remonstrances against the granting of liquor licenses, and granted licenses to three applicants, and Windfall now has three licensed saloons. The temperance people will appeal all three cases, and carry them to the Supreme Court, if necessary, to win their cases. This decision in the power of attorney question, jwhich is being raised in different localities of the gtate, if upheld, will make the Nicholson law ineffectual, as the temperance workers cannot afford to canvass the township for signatures every month.

Twins Born as One. Mrs. Janies Huffman, residing near Jeffersonville, gave birth to twins that far excel in curiosity the famous Siamese twins that caused such a furor through the country many years ago. The offspring are girls and are joined together by a link of flesh eight inches long and between three and four inches in diameter. The babes are face tx>-face, and, with one or two exceptions, all the organs of their respective bodies are perfect. Long-Lost Sister Is Found. Forty-seven years ago Mrs. George Hadley of Brazil and her sister, Mrs. Barton of Chattanooga, Tenn., were left orphans in Hamilton County, Ohio, and each was adopted by a different family and separated. Mrs. Hadley heard nothing further from her sister until the other day, when she received a letter from Mrs. Barton, giving information to prove that they “hrere sisters. Steamer Strikes the Rocks. The steamer Fowler, which plies between Evansville and Paducah, Ky., ran into Highland rocks and forty timbers were broken. The boat began to sink rapidly and it was with difficulty that she reached the shore. George Mariable, a deck hand, was scalded from head to foot and will die.

Within Onr Border*. Town of Oolitic will incorporate. Goshen is investigating oiled streets. Mrs. Henry Barnard, 23, Martinsville, is dead. Terre Haute is running under her new charter. South Bend militia company has been mustered in. Tramps are said to be causing trouble in Shelby County. Orson L. Woodruff, 60, ex-legislator, Noble County, dead. New telephone company has connected Greenfield with Indianapolis. Anderson bolt works is an enterprise that has been killed by the trust. In Vanderburg County, 1,344 pieces of property changed hands last year. Mrs. Malinda Myers, Oakland City, had family troubles and took arsenic. Louisville and St/Louis air-line will pu* up a $3,500 freight depot in New Albany. Charles Sybel, Porter County, dropped a match in a can of powder. Both eyes gone. Four of the Mercer family who live in Seymour are of the set that claims it was defrauded out of a $200,000 estate in New York. . Brakeman James Merrit, Erie road, fell from an engine under the train at the water tank and was killed. The colony of Klondikers that went from AnderSon has given up the hunt for gold as a bad job, and will return home. Postmaster Burton Conoway, Morristown,'was found S6OO short by Inspector Fletcher. His bondsmen made good the deficit. Large quantity of stolen goods was found at the home of Henry Johnson, colored, Jeffersonville. Johnson was arrested. William Benedict, Wabash, sayß he was blacklisted by the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad and wants SIO,OOO damages. Ira Sanders, 22, Loogootee, was struck by a B. & O. S. W. fast train and instantly killed. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. At Shoals, in a row between Raymond Salmon, runner for the Commercial House, and Harry Love, operator for the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad, Love was stabbed five times and seriously injured. j William L. Moyer, assistant cashier of the American Trust and Savings Company, Chicago, formerly of Logansport, will go to Montana to take charge of the property of Marcus Daly, the copper king, at $12,000 a year. An old Quaker church that stands near Fairmount and has -been used for divine services for fifty-six years, is to be converted into a stable. Mrs. Dora Grainger, Evansville, answered a matrimonial advertisement and has packed her duds and gone to Maine to meet her man. ; The first 'person in Mancie to become a victim of the kissing bug Was Oran Green, aged 18. He was stung and has been in a precarious condition ever sinew The sting was upon the upper Up and the young man 8 l&cg nocamo ttrntHy ivoi*