Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

It was announced at Richmond that the new owners of the Eeel River railroad, or the Logansport & Toledo, as it will hereafter be known, are making preparations to put it in first class condition. That part of the road lying between Logansport and Chili not having been on the route for the through traffic of the Wabash, was not maintained up to the standard of a through line. New 70-pound rails, cross-ties, bridges, and other materials are now being forwarded and the work will be begun at once. The entire road will not be taken Over by the Vandalla system until the flret of the year, but meanwhile the work of reconstructing the west end will be pushed so that about the time mentioned the road can be operated from Logansport in connection with the Logansport branch of the Vandalla. The locomotive and car equipment has been purchased and the division superintendent, engineer of maintenance of way, chief train dispatcher and their forces will remove at once from Terre Haute to Logansport. The chair of Gaelic has been re-es-tablished at Notre Dame. This was decided on by the faculty and the study of the language will begin next week. Dr. O'Malley has been secured to deliver nineteen series of lectures on the literature of the ancient Gaels. Brother Finan, C. S. C., a native of Kerry, where the purest Irish is spoken and an erudite Gaelic scholar, will be in charge of the course until the returnof H. Gallegher, who has been doing special work in Celtic literature at the Catholic university of Washington, Twenty-five years ago Notre Dame had a chair of Gaelic, but with the death of Brother Simeon, the professor of this tongue, the chair was suffered to relapse. With the present revlyal of the language at the university it Is expected that Notre Dame Bhall become the strongest exponent of the tongue and the literature of the Gaels In the West. The dead body of Samuel Conners, a young farmer, was found In Haw creek near Crawfordsville at a lonely point, where he had apparently been enticed and murdered. He had been missing since Tuesday. The board of managers of the national military home was In session at Marlon and heard the evidence in the case of Captain Jeremiah Kudlr, Peter Lock and Samuel Spires, members of the Marion home, who were charged with treasonable utterances regarding the assassination of President McKinley. They were found guilty, discharged from the home and their pensions revoked. The last bills In payment of the construction of the Indiana soldiers’ and sailors’ mdhument were allowed at Indianapolis by the board of regents. They amounted to about five thousand dollars. The monument Is now complete, all work having been accepted by the board. The corner stone of the shaft was laid in the summer of 1890. President Harrison and hls cabinet were present. It was the plan to have President McKinley and his cabinet present at the dedication. It is thought President Roosevelt and cabinet will be Invited. The dedication will take place next May. Major Davidson and three cadets made a second start from Hudson lake on their trip to Buffalo In an automobile gun carriage. Davidson started originally from Chicago and then abandoned the trip at Hudson. The first intention was to give up the trip entirely, but Major Davidson, after going back to school for a few days, returned with three of hls cadets for the purpose of resuming the Journey with one machine. The Rev. George Babcock, a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, bought a ticket in a raffle to dispose of a number of town lots and drew a lucky number. He had gone to Kokomo to have hls wife treated for blindness and the operation was successful. It was while Jubilant over the result of the operation that he invested in the raffle. He will move to Kokomo and build on his lots. William Molten was found guilty at Marion of manslaughter and given an indeterminate sentence of from two to fourteen years. During a quarrel last June, while at work in a truck patch. Molten struck John Smith, colored, on the head with a hoe. He died as a result of the injuries. Molten was formerly a resident of Fort Wingsburg, Ky„ and was at one time sheriff of Fort Wing county. J. H. Walk, an attorney of Dayton, but formerly of Eaton, Ohio, was married to Miss Theodate Moser at a church parsonage in Muncle and the couple were off for Dayton before the bride’s parents were aware of the marriage. Charles Addison, a merchant of Burlington, was married to Miss Sadie Addison of Pittsburg at Muncie. Their wedding was a surprise. Dr. William Cake of Duluth, Minn., was married to Miss Cora Gale Deal, daughter of Dr. Deal of Muncie, making a third wedding surprise in Muncie. The seventeenth annual meeting of the State Federation of Labor was convened ■' at the court house in Brazil. Two hundred delegates, representing all classes of labor organizations, were present. The meeting was presided over by State President W. P. Perkins of Indianapolis. Indictments alleging manslaughter have been returned at Lawrenceburg against Calvin Brown and Jacob Hoffman, growing out of the death of Jas. Brindley, while Holman Burton, 12 years old, is accused of being an accessory thereto.

Last Sunday night Attorney General W. L. Taylor of Indianapolis was registered at the St. George Hotel, Evansville. Late in the night a party of Kentuckians registered. One of them spied the name of the Attorney General, and, turning to the clerk, said: “I don't like to cause any trouble, but I guess I will be forced to. I see you are sheltering the fugitive from Kentucky, and I propose to take my friends here and kidnap him, and send him back to Kentucky to stand trial.’’ The men seemed much excited, and when the clerk assured them Mr. Taylor, who was up-stalrs, was not the man they wanted, they were loath to believe him, but were finally convinced. "A man who saw my name on the register took me for W. 8. Taylor,” said the Attorney General, “and I heard there was some talk of kidnapping me until the clerk made it clear I was hot the former Governor of Kentucky.’’ Summittvllle is meeting with misfortunes. Recently it was announced that the Flint GlassworkerW Union would not operate its factory at Summittville for another year at least. Now it Is reported that the Central glass factory, whose product is tableware, is to be removed by the National Glass Company—the tableware trust—to Ohio, and may be distributed through three of the trust factories in Ohio. The result of two factories being shut down or dismantled will cause a loss of considerable money to the town. Around the town, however, a number of good oil wells have been drilled and Summittvllle promises to become an oil center. The dwelling on the Decker-Ken-nedy farm, In Jefferson township, near Martinsville, occupied by Fletcher Freeman and family, burned. The fire spread so rapidly that none of the furniture nor valuables was saved, and the six children were rescued In their night clothes. There Is no clew to the origin of the fire. The family lost everything. Mrs. Ellen O'Neal, of Yountsvllle, one of the historic characters of the state, is dead. She assisted materially In breaking up the Knights of the Golden Circle during the civil war, and is one of the characters for Miss Caroline Krout’s novel, “Knights in Fustian." She was a native of Ohio, born In 1811. She was a wonderfully handsome woman and was the mother of eleven children. Mr. Charles Viele, one of Evansville's oldest and most prominent citizens, died at hls home. He was 83 years old.*fae came to this city 65 years ago, and was until several years ago, when he retired from active business, one of the leading business men of southern Indiana, being for many years engaged in the wholesale grocery business. Geo. W. Robinson of Carlisle, Ind., one of the best known stock shippers In Indiana, was killed instantly by a passenger train in the Vandalla yards at Terre Haute. With W. W. Bailey, also a veteran stockman of Paxton, he wbb watching the making up of a stock train and did not see the loose engine. Bailey also was seriously injured. Robinson was 46 years of age and had a wife and five children. Smith Jones, 13 years old, has been sentenced to prison for life in the Warrick circuit court. Lost July, in a fight with Herbert Hickerson of similar age, the last named was stabbed l to death. Charles Veils, Sr., the first wholesale merchant in Evansville, and & wealthy man, is dead. Henry Haskins and Councilman Benjamin F. Hatfield quarreled at Dublin over a sidewalk Improvement, Haskins taking the initiative, and this led to blows and stone throwing, in which Haskins was struck in the back. While despondent over business complications, Charles Lackey swallowed belladona with suicidal Intent, and was saved with difficulty. Mr. Lackey has been a prominent business man at Cambridge City for years. Cyrus and John Brock, recently suffocated in a well at Bourbon, were the sons of the late George Brock, who killed his wife and one child and then committed suicide. A daughter is the only member of the family now living. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John King near Quaker Hill, placed two hatpins in her mouth while at play and in running she fell, driving the points into her throat. The Injury la reported fatal. A social event in Cutler was the marriage in the Presbyterian church of Superintendent L. F. Myer of the Flora schools, and Miss Bertha M. Bonebrake, of Cutler, the Rev. Mr. Prentice officiating. Patrick Neaphan, of Henderson, Ky., who followed his wife to Evansville and murdered her in cold blood, is now anxious to escape the consequences of his act, having employed three attorneys. Mrs. Minnie Stapleton found her husband, Robert Stapleton, in the act of accompanying May Bowen on an excursion to Toledo, and she put both to flight by clever use of her fits. However, they caught another train. Mrs. Ada Harrington, of Valparaiso, while visiting friends at Michigan City, attempted to examine a revolver, and it was discharged, the bullet crossing the hall into another room and seriously wounding Theresa Henry, of Laporte. While Miss Blanche Myer, daughter of John Myer, and Viola Davis were crossing a street in Shelbyviile, they were knocked down by a rapidly driven buggy in which were seated Conrad Wilder and the Misses Bertha Keith and. Clara Hardebeck. Miss Myer suh sered a broken arm and other severs injury.