Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THK I PAST WEEK. Prohibitionists Put in Nomination* State Ticket—Horrible Suicide of adg Goshen Woman White Demented— Great Electric Railway in Operation; Prohibition State Ticket. About 300 delegates attended the State 1 prohibition convention, which nominated J n full ticket, at Indianapolis. The usual | declarations against liquor as inimical to ,1 the public welfare were made in the plat- , form, which also made a demand for equal | suffrage. Following are the nominations; Secretary of State, Aaron Worth, Jay County; Auditor, M. A. Parr, Putnam County; Treasurer, J. F. Kinsey, Tippecanoe* County; Attorney General, B. F. , Watson, Marion County; Superintendent | of Public Instruction, E. A. Devore, ;■ Wayne County; Clerk of the Supreme Court, D. W. Welch, Posey County; Ge- | ologist, V. E. Baldwin, Miami County; Statistician, J. O. Ledbetter, CHnton County. The candidates for judges of the Supreme and Appellate courts will be appointed by the State central committee. Gas Belt Hallway System. The Indiana Gas Belt Electric Railway has been put in operation between Anderson and Summitville and Marion and Fairmount, leaving but five miles to connect up to complete the Marion-Ander-son line. The Elwood line is well under way and the Muncie line will l>e started at once. The Indianapolis branch will be built this fall or early next spring. This is Indiana’s first electric railway and when completed it will be the longest system in the country, covering over 100 miles. The equipment is high class. CoiA gressman Henry is at the head of the system. Nail Mills Reopen. The American Wire Nail mills, a trust concern, at Anderson, is in full operation again, with 7(10 men and the Hazen Wire Nail mills, recently purchased by the United States Nail Company of Philadelphia (anti-trust), has again been put in operation, after a three-year shut-down. These are the only two natural gas fuel mills in the country. A wire mill is being built as au addition to the latter. When in full operation 300 men will be employed. Burns Herself to Death. While temporarily demented the wife of Rabbi Weinstein of Goshen committed suicide. While the family- slept Mrs. Weinstein arose and, going out of doors, injured coal oil over her gown, thoroughly saturating it from head to foot, and then applied a lighted match. Her screams finally attracted attention, but she was fatally burned before the flames' were extinguished. Within Our Borders. Logansport is considering the Pinyree potato patch plan. Company I of Crawfordsville is to become a part of the regiment being riised by J. Frank Hanly of Lafayette. A large barn and a residence occupied by a tenant, belonging to Abraham Nicholson, four miles north of Fortville, was burned. The sawmill and plant of the Morion Hardwood Lumber Company at Vincennes was burned. Loss, slo,oooj no insurance. Indiana spiritualists announce July 19 as the opening date of their annual cfmip meeting at the State camp grounds vast of Anderson. Timothy B. McMahon, traveling salesman for the Seth Edwards Shoe Company of Boston, and the Keystone Shoe Company, committed suicide at Covington by drinking carbolic acid. Judge Advocate and Col. C. L. Jewett of Jeffersonville, who left for the Philppines with Gen. Merritt, was presented with a handsome gold-mounted sword by the New Albany lodge of Elks. The Red Men's lodge at Yorktown has erected a handsome monument at t-le cemetery in memory of the late D. W. Flowers, a former brother of the order at Yorktown who died five years ago. Mrs. Herman Hohnstreiter, aged £B, and residing with her husband and eiglt children on a farm northeast of SeymotlT, committed suicide by taking carbolic ac'd. Mrs. Hohnstreiter had been despondetat for several days. Harry Williams of Peru has invent’d and constructed a flying machine in which people can ride. It is propelled by el*?Ctricity and moves at the rate of two mises a minute. He is trying to bring about a deal with the Government.

At Lebanon, the jury in the case of George Pence against the L. E. & W. Railroad Company for $1,999 damages for injuries received by being struck by a locomotive rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, awarding him SBOO damages. During the high water the old dam at Jerome gave way. It was the six mbbs of backwater that partially at least caused the collapse of the Wildcat levee in Kokomo that resulted in so much damage. The Jerome dam was built fifty years ago. At Ridgeville, Mrs. Milton Abernathy was returning from a visit to the country in company with her brother, Edward Green, when the horse took fright at a bicycle and ran away, throwing both out of the carriage, breaking both of Mrs. Abernathy’s ankles. J. J. Burns of Chicago bought of Naugle. Holcomb & Co. of Chicago, franchise and right of way of the Elkhart, Goshen and Southern trolley line between Elkhart and Goshen. Burns owns the electric railways in Goshen and Elkhart, and will' build an interurban line this summer. A press dispatch from Washington to the effect that ex-President Benjamin Harrison has been retained by the Government of Venezuela as its counsel before the board of arbitrators to settle the boundary dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain has been verified at Indianapolis. At Shelbyville, the sensational SIO,OOO. damage suit of Henry Taylor vs. H. P. Gordon for alienation of Mrs. Taylor’s affections was compromised, the plaintiff receiving $5,000. Patrick Dugan and George Sowers, residing on the Hamilton County line, just west of Anderson, were killed about the same time by lightning. The former was Out milking his cow and the latter was driving his cows home to milk. Every bone in Dugan's body was shattered. Sowers was struck on the head, the lightning running down to hie chin and than on to his breast.