Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

The annual retreat for Notre Dame students closed at South Bend with the All-Saints' feast. The Rev. Father Nugent of Des Moines was in charge. Benjamin C. Johnson and Cincinnati, Chicago and Louisville capitalists, who are developing coal lands, have purchased the Mayler holdings, north of Shoals. The purchase includes several hundred acres of fine coal lands. The council at Brazil has awarded the city electric lighting contract to the Brasil Brewing company for a period of ten years. A fire was discovered in C. 11. Conrad’s grocery at Knox. A strong breeze was blowing, and within thirty minutes the residence and book store of A. E. Ham, the bowling alley and billiard hall of Roy Conn, the hardware store of J. M. White, and the K. P. hall, the ground floor occupied by Short Bros.’ grocery, were also on fire. All the buildings were frame except the K. P. block. When the flames were extinguished, the dnmage was found to be $50,000. Tuxedo Park at La Porte was burned over and dance pavilions and other buildings wore destroyed. it is stated on good authority that John R. Walsh of Chicago has purchased the famous Trinity Springs near Shoals and a tract of 400 acres. It is claimed that his $300,000 hotel will be built at Trinity Springs, instead of at Indian Springs. It is thought that this means that the Southern Indiana railroad will be extended south, through Trinity Springs to Louisville, by way of Shoals, West Baden and French Lick. Jonathan Noble, a Madison county pioneer, is dead. He had lived at Rigdon half a century., The Fifth District W. R. C. convention was held at Terre Haute. Mrs. Sarah White of Rockville was elected president and Mrs. Hines of Terre Haute vice president. Mrs. Belle Ephlln of Tangier was chosen delegate to the national encampment, with Lizzie Straiton alternate. Charles Van Hook and his 15-year-old wife were arrested at Terre Haute and fined for drunkenness. It developed that she had married when but 12 years old. She said she had been brought here by the keeper of a dive. The court is investigating the case. Their child may be taken from them. Harvey Sconce, the amateur shooter from Sidell, 111., won the Grand Hotel cup in the annual shoot, which was finished at Indianapolis. He broke all the twenty-five targets on Wednesday and missed but one of the twenty-five Thursday, making the remarkable score of 49. The cup was formerly held by E. H. Tripp, president of the club, whose score waß 41 in a possible 50. Sconce also broke 222 targets out of a possible 225, and made one run of 145.

Pensions granted: Original—Robert Long, Indianapolis. $6; Chas. W. Carson, Albany, $6; John Miller, Indlanapolls, >6; Michael Morrlsey, Logansport, $6; (war with Spain) Clarence Ice, Rockport, SB. Increase, restoration, reissue, etc.—Christopher Hellman, Evansville, sl2; Samuel J. Little, Bedford, $10; George W. Favorite, Knox, $8; Geo. W. Louthen, Logansport, $24; Henry J. Landers, Indianapolis, $8; (war with Spain) William T. Roberts, Harmony, $lO. Original, widows, etc.—Emily J. Butterfield, Evansville, $8; Elizabeth J. Christy, McVille, sl2; Rebecca A. Grimes, Brooksburg, sl2; Elizabeth Kriger, Rockport, sl2; Mary J. Kiser, Hendricksvllle, SB. Renewal (widows, etc.) Mahala J. Turner, mother, Kempßton, sl2. An explosion of artificial gas in the taproom of Robert Hickman’s saloon at Warsaw completely wrecked the interior of the establishment. Charles J. Keldall was thrown forty feet into the middle of the street and seriously bruised and cut. Hickman, who caused the explosion by striking a match in the taproom, into which had accumulated escaping gas, was thrown twen-ty-five feet against a brick wall and seriously burned. The explosion broke every piece of glasß in the saloon, and wine, whisky and beer flowed like a brook into the gutter. Loss at $6,000. Peter Evans was arrested at Warsaw for the one hundred and seventieth time within the last fifteen years. During that time Evans has spent 1,439 days in jail and has cost the county $661.96. He has been arrested for drunkenness 130 times. Evans was once one of the wealthiest men in Kosciusko county, but his love for liquor got the best of him and his money. He is about 65 years old. Howard county has .broken into the Indiana oil belt On the farm of Henry Thomas, five miles south of Kokomo, an abandoned and plugged gas well broke its anchor, and a rush of crude oil spread over the barn lot and escaped through an open ditch. The well is said to be flowing a stream the full capacity of its two-inch casing. Enos Neal, an oil expert, went out to the farm to-night to test the flow. This new field is twenty miles from other wells. The largest plate glass in the world* was cast at the Kokomo plant of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company. The plate measures 167x217 inches and weighed, in the rough ( 2,600 pounds. It Is 18 feet 1 Inch long by 13 feet 1 inch wide. The monster plate was successfully ground and polished. Several plates' have been, cast as large as this one, but none of them withstood the finishing, process, breaking to pieces from their own excessive weight The plate Just turned out weighs 1,200 pounds finished, more than half of the thickness being ground away.

At > the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mark P. Vogel in Evans- • ville, Miiss Elwood Vogel was married to Rev. Forrest Stitt of Decatur, 111. Rev. J. L. Marquis, of the Grace Presbyterian church, performed the ceremony. The three-year-oid colt, Tertimin, pacer, was sold at Terre Haute to W. P. Stein of West Virginia for $7,000, the highest price ever paid for an Indiana bred colt. He is by Jersey Wilkes, dam by Abdallah Woodford. He went in 2:24% as a 2-year-old. This year he has paced a mile in 2:08 and a half in 1:00%. Knap McCarthy has arrived at Terre Haute with hia stable and will take charge of the Edge Wood stock farm.

Tho Pan-Handle railroad company, which is just completing a milliondollai- improvement at Hartford City, has another immense project under contemplation in that city. The company will build a bolt line to tho American Window Glass company’s No. 3 plant, and abandon the present switch by which the concern is reached. The proposed line will cross tho farm 3 of Judge W. 11. Carroll and John A. Newbauer and necessitate some heavy grades and a bridge across Lick creek, hut this will cost less to build than a switch on the line of the present one and connecting It with the elevated track. On the new line aro located the Johnston Glass factory. Sans Paretl glass factory, the National rolling mill, the Blackford glass factory and the South Side factory, while other factories are proposed. A brilliant social event in Evansville wub tho marriage of Miss Helen Decker to Dr. Charles C. Reakirt at the home jt the bride’s parents, Rev. C. A. Nickerson of the Walnut Street Presbyterian church officiating. The ingenious women of Marlon are about to solve the servant girl problem. The ever-perplexing question has caused them so much trouble that they have decided to Inaugurate what will he known ns a community club. The members of the club are the ladies of Spencer avenue, the aristocratic street of the city. The plan is a novel one. A house has been rented that is conveniently located; a chef is employed, and the club (b operated on the cooperative plan. The cost of operation will be equally assessed among the members and all will take their meals at the clubhouse. Myrtle Young of Wheatland is mysteriously missing. She left, saying she wbh going to visit a sister at Winslow, but insteud she went-to St. Louis. She had considerable money and it ia feared she has been lured away and met with foul play. The young lady who was arrested and placed in jail at Marion because she was in male attire attempting to elope with John McMahon, is yet in Jail. She received her trunk from Elwood and is now attired in skirts. William Meyer, Jr., president of the Western Baseball association, was given a preliminary hearing at Fort Wayne before Justice Tancey on four charges of embezsllng S6OO from the Columbus, Fort Wayne, Dayton and Marlon baseball clubs. He waived examlnatlon and was bound over to the circuit court under a $2,000 bond, which he furnished. Two additional cases of smallpox have broken out at Geneva, making four in all which have developed there. All the cases have been in one family, and there is little danger of it spreading.

John Ddrby was fined for kissing Mrs. Cephas Gilman, a young bride, when he met her on the street in Terre Haute. .Derby had been one of her admirers and after the congratulatory kiss, he threatened Gilman, for which he has been put under peace bonds, Wabash railroad officials are trying to discover the identity of a schoolgirl of Wabash who stopped the eastbound express train, No. 6, On that line. The girl, in the face of the rapidly advancing express, deliberately laid down on the track and refused to move until the train was brought to a stand. She then scampered away before the angry engineer could reach her. The company officials propose to make an example of the venturesome juvenile. After thirty-one hours the Jury could not agree to the innocence or guilt of Frank Purcell at Washington and was discharged by Judge Houghton. Purcell was charged by his 14-year-old son with kicking Mrs. Purcell to death on .the night of their daughter’s wedding because she was crying over having to give up her daughter. Purcell will bo retried at the January term of court.' After being twenty years a wanderer, George Rowe returned to his home in Kokomo. He found his two children grown and married and his wife with another husband, whom Bhe married years ago, thinking Rowe was dead. Mr. Rowe is staying with a sister. After a few days at home, Mr. Rowe will again go out into the world, and not disturb the present domestic relations of his wife and husband No. 2. The town of Fairmount and the Union Traction company are at war over the failure of the street car company to ballast the track on Main street, Fairmount, which is being improved with brick. The supreme court at Indianapolis has decided that Joseph Keith must be hanged in the state prison at Michigan City for the murder of Nora Klfer, a neighbor’s daughter, at Elberfeld, Ind. Keith was a wealthy man. He is accused of hiding the girl’s body in a well and of later throwing it into a creek where it was found.