Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1902 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

The Wabash Times has been sold by Nelson B. Hunter to Charles Lovelace of the Huntington News-Democrat. John Foley, living near Eckerty, attempted suicide when the doctor told him of the birth of his second pair of twins, raising the number of Foley children to thirteen. Foley cut his throat with a razor, but missed the juglar vein. At Hartford City, Charles Dewerpe, fourteen years old, received a shock of 2,000 volts of electricity from an electric light street lamp and was not hurt in the least. * Every department of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern shops at Washington, except the roundhouse, has been closed down indefinitely by order of General Superintendent Rawn, who has been there trying to effect a settlement of the strike. Letcher Brothers, proprietors of the Lafayette Home Journal, and John F. Judy purchased the Lafayette Evening Call. Frederick R. Letcher will be managing editor. The two independent telephone companies operating in North Manchester and the surrounding country have locked horns over patronage, and it is understood that a policy of extermination is to be adopted by both, and that the rates, already low, will be greatly cut . .. Lewis Mobley, seventy-two years old, whose death occurred at Columbus was the founder of Hartsville College, a member of the executive committee of the State Sunday-school Association and editor of the Bartholomew County Guide, the county Sunday school organ.

A medal has been awarded to Prof.. W. D. Pence of Lafayette by the Western Society of Engineers for his investigations regarding the co-efflcient of expansion of concrete. A new railroad town is established in Delaware county. It is called Stockport, six miles northwest of Muncie on the Chicago, Indiana & Eastern railroad.

The First National Bank of Spencer county has been organized at Rockport with a capital stock of $35,000, and business will begin April 1. John and James Munro and Will Shepley, a trio of thirteen-year-old boys, and members of well knpwn families, have been placed under bonds at Washington, charged with a number of robberies.

F. M. Wickhiner of Argos is organizing a protective association to be known as the Brotherhood of Indiana Harvesters, the object being to establish a uniform scale of wages and improve the condition of harvesters, similar to the organization in Illinois. Some one threw blue vitrol into the public well at Winstcn, from which many families draw supplies, but its presence was discovered by Dr. David De Tar and ill effects were prevented. It is said that President Henry Crawford of the Chicago &* Southeastern railway, that now runs from Muncie to Brazil, has laid plans, backed by Eastern capital, to extend the road through eastern Indiana and western Ohio to either Sandusky of Toledo, in order to obtain the great lakes’ outlet for Indiana and Ohio freight. J. O. Lambert is now sole owner of the Middletown News. His retiring partner, Mr. Unger, has purchased the Herald of Eaton and assumed control. Capt. J. A. Palmer of Washington has Issued a call to veterans of the Civil War to join him in the organization of a company to go to Washington to bring about the passage of a general service pension bill that will give each enlisted man a pension of $8.33 a month after he has passed the age of sixty years.

Frank Bingham, deputy prosecuting attorney, was attacked by Grant Ratcliff, a saloon keeper of Kingman, and severely injured. Negotiations are almost completed for the purchase of the Mead electric light plant by the Marion Light and Heating company. Smallpox is reported in Coolspring township, and schools have been temporarily closed. Six mild cases of smallpox are reported in Princeton. W. F. Ranke, captain of Battery B, of Fort Wayne, and C. M. Davis, captain of Company B, Third Regiment, of Rochester, have been retired. William Butler, who has large glass factories at Gas City and Redkey, is said to be making arrangements to move his glass factories to Indianapolis as soon as the supply of gas is exhausted. Little Elizabeth Harrison s share of the late President’s estate is valued at 161,500, yielding an income of *2,000 a year. Willard Miley of Yorktown, who recently attempted suicide with a rifle, has been adjudged insane, the result of excessive cigarette smoking. Mrs. William Gadberry, wife of a well known Washington farmer, is demanding a divorce because her husband reviles her church and ridicules her religious beliefs. The malleaole iron casting works of North Anderson suffered several thousand dollars loss by fire. The Peru Steel Castings Company is arranging to double its producing capacity. Battle Creek, Mich., capitalists have purchased the Acme brass works of Elkhart and the plant will be moved to Battle Creek.

Dr. E. P. Banning of Fort Wayne has filed a petition in bankruptcy. He owes $17,d00, chiefly to local creditors, and his assets are scheduled at only SSOO. The new faculty board at Notre Dame ratified forty-two candidates for the track and baseball teams, about two-thirds of the total number of men now trying for the two 'varsity teams. One man was found ineligible under the conference rules. This man is J. B. Myers, who has been regarded as Notre Dame’s strongest candidate in the weight events. The Southern Indiana Powder Company, capital $20,000, has been formed and will establish a plant near Petersburg. Burr Williams of Marion, son of County Commissioner John Williams, who was thrown from his horse, several days ago, is dead. While William Conroy was preparing a blast at Jessup, there was a premature explosion which tore off his arms and legs, killing him Instantly. The main building of the Concordia Lutheran College at Fort Wayne will be rebuilt at an estimated cost of SIOO,OOO.

While services were being held over the body of the late Mrs. Edward Conner, at Goshen, the floor gave way and a number of people narrowly escaped tumbling into the cellar. Ellsworth Geiton, who drove into an excavation near Servia, receiving injuries which made him deaf and blind, has brought suit against the county commissioners for SB,OOO. Enos T. Taylor, president of the Citizens’ Bank of Huntington, cashed a note for C. W. Sparks calling for $135, signed by John W. and Albert Sale of Markle. The signatures are said to be forgeries. Suit has been brought to enjoin the townships of Burlington and Democrat from building thirty-two miles of free gravel roads. Noah Bixler, a 17-year-old boy, of Berne, has conducted a wireless telegraph system, which he has operated successfully over short distances. Alexandria expects to have as many good streets and sidewalks as any town of its size in the state when present plans are carried out. The Chicago and Cincinnati railroad was incorporated at Indianapolis with $50,000 capital stock. It is proposed to construct a line from a connection with the Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie railroad, in North Judson, to Hammond, and on to Chicago. The road will be fifty miles long and will pass through Starke, Laporte, Porter and Lake counties. The heaviest shareholder is W. A. Bradford, Jr., of Boston, and among the incorporators are: H. A. Christy of Chicago, J. A. Gans, H. C. Starr, Ed H. Gates, Samuel Dickinson and R. A. Jackson of Richmond.

Indianapolis Lodge 56, K. of P„ has been selected to represent Indiana in the tri-State contest in ritualistic work in Chicago Feb. 19. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Francis E. Baker of Indiana to be United States circuit judge for the 7th judicial circuit Evansville is rebelling against a new schedule which is about to be promulgated, and the Western Union has sent a man there from Chicago to explain why the deficiencies in Are protection make the key rate so high. The loss ratio in Evansville has been excessive.

Elmer Hover, 5 years old, son of Henry Hover, who conducts a country store six miles north of Pierceton, was attempting to climb on the counter in his father’s store and fell, striking his chin on the edge of the counter, breaking his neck. Mayor F. M. Harbit has appointed a committee to select and purchase a site for the new Carnegie library building at Elwood. P. A. Amen, for ten years manager and editor of the Bluffton Banner, has sold his Interest to George L. Saunders of Portland. Frank Shultz of Peru refused to lend his clothes to Daniel McCarty and McCarty bit a hole in his face and gnawed his index finger until the bone was broken. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Bond of lowa Falls, lowa, who were married in Indiana in 1835, recently Celebrated the sixty-seventh anniversary of their wedding. William Berkeblle of Anderson was struck and severely injured by a railway velocipede while walking along the Big Four tracks. The first ten companies to report Indiana premiums and losses to the insurance department show a loss ratio of 50 per cent. Indianapolis fire companies all report a profitable year with a loss ratio of less than 50 per cent. The county commissioners have decided to ask for bids for a bridge across Eagle creek in Pike township. George W. Warren, famous as a bandmaster and musical writer, died at Evansville, aged 75 years. The Trades and Labor Council of Elwood will hold a carnival and street fair, June 30 to July 5. The Richmond Traction and Interurban company has been granted a franchise to enter Dublin, for which right the Indianapolis, Greonfleld and Eastern Interurban Traction company was contesting.

Charles B LaSalle recently took out notarial papers for the fifty-sixth time, the incident disclosing the fact that the aged barrister is the oldest notary in the state and possibly in the United States. He was admitted to practice law in Indiana in 1842. Burglars entered the postoffice at Newross and took >2OO worth of stamps. They blew the safe open with dynamite. J. G. Shepperd, a prominent citizen of Evansville, who was arrested recently for burglary, has been declared insane. The clerks of the stamp canceling department of the Indianapolis postoffice were startled by the explosion of a package of toy pistol paper caps as it passed into the canceling machinery. A few letters were badly scorched. Negotiations which have been pending for some time between Messrs. Talbert and Peckham, who have offices in the Monadnock building, Chicago, and the Hammond Board of Trade have been closed. The deal includes the purchase of the tract of land and buildings formerly occupied by the Corning steel plant, which was recently absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation. This property cost the Corning Company nearly >500,000. The buildings of the Corning steel plant will be used in the manufacture of railroad locomotives and freight cars. Another company, with Anderson and other Indiana men as principal stockholders, has been organized for the purpose of manufacturing coated board, or box board. The new organ!* zation is the Haverhill Box Board Company of Haverhill, Mass. The company is capitalized at >1,000,000. Among the stockholders are M. P. Williams and W. J. Alford of Anderson and Governor W. T. Durbin.

An order has been issued by Manager Goodloe of the Indianapolis board that the coinsurance clause shall apply on all mercantile and manufacturing risks having an insurable value of >25,000 or Auditor Hart says tho order is a violation of the intent If not the letter of the amendment of the law passed by the last legislature. A car on the interurban line between Terre Haute and Brazil was attacked by a number of miners in ambush near Seeleyville, and Guy Higgerman, a miner, was shot in the fight which followed. The miners opened fire from the darkness of the fields when the car stopped in a switch and broke a number of windows. The motorman, his assistant and the conductor returned the fire. About forty-five shots were exchanged. The trouble grew out of the strike conditions. A dramatic Incident marked the funeral of Alice Hutson at Kokomo. During her illness she prayed constantly that her brother, Dawson Castor, a soldier in the Philippines, might attend her funeral. As the body was about to be lowered into the grave a soldier horseman dashed into the cemetery. It was the brother, who completed an 8,000-mile journey at the open grave, ne did not know of his sister’s illness, nor was he expected home. Procuring a horse he rode at a breakneck speed, arriving at the grave In time to see the dead face and join in the prayer.

Charles Coffman, aged 19, and Daisy Huffman, sixteen years old, of Flora, quarreled on the date set for their wedding. Cuffman wished to postpone it a few months. Miss Huffman objected and they parted. The pirl took an overdose of morphine and slept for eight hours, but after a hard struggle was awakened and will recover. Ed Palmer, formerly with the Worthington Times, has purchased the Lyons Journal. Fremont Wells, a well known stock shipper residing near Stockwell, fell from his barn loft and broke several ribs. He U in a critical condition. The Tipton canning factory will pay ?7 a ton for tomatoes the coming season. Rev. J. A. Hagaman, pastor of the Church of God of Anderson, was dismissed from the church by the trustees of the southern Indiana elders. Two months ago Henry Moore, one of the deacons of the church, filed suit for divorce from his wife. Moore at first prepared a complaint in which he made the sensational charge that Mr. Hagaman had been kissing his wife. He said that in the night he would wake up and find the pastor, who lived in the house with him,in his room kissing his wife. The minister and Mrs. Moore did not deny the kissing, but claimed it was done to cure the wife of a nervous trouble. He claimed to be a magnetic doctor and that he healed by contact.

The Elwood Planing Mill Company has sold its interests to the Winters Lumber Company and will retire from business. Consideration, *20,000. W. F. Mitchell of Williams has found a ledge of lithographic stone which is believed to be of superior quality. It is said to equal the German stone.

Capt. Alexander A. Rice, a lawyer of Lafayette, is dead. During the Civil War he served with the Fifteenth and Seventy-second Indiana, closing his military career as assistant adjutantgeneral on the staff of Gen. Joe Reynolds.