Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

Clem Studebaker is still battling for his life. Sunday night his condition was such as to cause great alarm, and Dr. Qutne of Chicago was summoned. When he left he stated that, while Mr. Studebaker was In a critical condition the action of the pulse was better than It had been since last Wednesday. He ulso said the heart showed much Improvement. During the morning Mr. Studebaker was thought to be dying, but Sumiuy evening he again surprised his physicians by regaining lost strength, and at 8 o’clock he was resting easy. Failing to see the train approaching, Ixluis Jnlly, a barber, aged 58, was struck by the Pennsylvania limited at Fort Wayne and instantly killed. The state Y. M. C. A. convention at Richmond ended its work. It w s highly successful and an effort to form a local branch will soon follow. Among the prominent workers who took part were C. K. Ober, Chicago; Prof. Shailer Matthews, Chicago; G. N. Bierce, Dayton, O.; IC. T. Colton, New York; H. A. Vantuyl, Detroit; F. B. Shipp, St. Louis, and W. A. King. Cleveland. Fort Wayne defeated Huntington at Fort Wayne Saturday by a score of 5 to 0. In the first 'half cf tie game Carl Sundefl nd, light ha f for Fort Wayne, wus caught In a scrimmage and lmd his right leg broken. The Brazil Business University football team of Brazil and the normal team of Terre Haute played a game at new fair grounds, Brazil. Tho Terro Haute aggregation proved to be far superior to the home boys and made four touchdowns and kicked tho ball to the goal twice. The score stood 22 to 0 in favor of the visitors. No team ever came out of n football game in better condition than did Notre Dame out of Saturday's “scrap" with P. and S. Not a man on the team has even so much as a bruise to remind him that he played. The college schedule Is flnlsliod, but the varsity will meet South Bend Athletic team Thanksgiving, and the hardest game of the season Is expected. Coach O’Dca will remain with the team until Thursday. He does not Intend to go to Australia, but will remain In America. He Intends to retire permanently from athletics as soon as the season closes. He will give his wholo attention to his law practice. For thirteen years Jennie Spray, Democrat, has been postmistress at Hobart, Lake county. A dozen Republican leaders undertook to have her removed, and Charles Borger appointed. The matter leaked out and fifty of the most prominent business men of Hobart went to Valparaiso on a special train to see CongressmanCrumpacker in Miss Spray's Interest. Twothirds of the town favored her, she being a cripple. Congressman Crumpacker will decide the matter before leaving for Washington. D. R. Brown, an Insurance agent, is mysteriously mlsßlng from Evansville. He leaves a wife and baby behind. Colored politicians of this state are trying to organize the 20,000 negro voters of Indiana into a distinct party organization with the purpose of putting a full state ticket in the field next year and nominating legislative and county tickets In counties where the co o.ed voters hold tho balarc: of power, says a dispatch from La Porto. The promoters of the movement made the declaration that there has been unjust discrimination In the distribution of federal, state and county patronage. The movement Is viewed with considerable alarm by politicians. Inquiries concerning Mr. Studebaker’s condition are pouring in from all quarters of the country. The announcement that death is probably not far off has- caused deep gloom among all classes throughout South Bend. At nearly all of the local churches Sunday special services were held. The special grand Jury selected to Investigate the Rathbun insurance conspiracy and murder case returned an Indictment at Jeffersonville against Newell C. Rathbun, charging him with murder in the first degree. The body of Rathbun’s alleged victim, supposed to bo that of Charles Goodman, arrived at Jeffersonville from Little Rock and was taken In charge by Coroner Coots. It Is believed Rathbun's trial will take place before the next court. The stomach of the supposed Charles Goodman was removed from the body and an analysis will be made to determine whether It contains laudanum or other poison. Harrison day was generally observed Friday in the public schools of Indianapolis and throughout the state. In nearly all the schools a regular programme was followed, but in many the exercises were specially arranged anti were very Impressive. Mayor O. 8. Jones of Marion has received a message from 8. Frank Jones, who recently resigned as chief of the dead letter department of the Philippines, stating that he sailed, October 18. by the way of the Suez canal, for New York city. He expected to arrive in Marion, December 1. Typhoid fever has attacked five members of the Joseph Bryan family in GUI township near Bullivnn, and Mr. Bryan and his eldest daughter are dead. A freight and a switch engine collided at tho Purdue crossing, Lafayette, and David Shoemaker, fireuian of I, he freight engine, had his right cheek sbroken. Amos TJght, a well-known farmer residing near Decatur, suddenly resolved to leave home, and he went away, vowing that his wife and two adult sons would never see him again.

Every drinking resort tn Kokomo was closed last Sunday and for once i patrons experienced a ‘‘dry’’ Sunday. Frank Sheldon, employed at the William 1). Wilson dairy, Osgood, was killed by accidentally fulling down a stairway. The Democratic majority es the board oi county commissioners has postponed action at Terre Haute on tne official bond of Clark, treasurer-c-lcct, until December 31. Bolton, contestant, lias appealed to the Supreme court. A well-dressed young woman swindled Thomas Hopewell, a liveryman, at Seymour out of $lO by the same methods played at Columbus, depositing a valueless watch for a pretended loan of slo, with which to release goods at an express office. Joe Burns of Evansville, a popular young inan who stole money from, his employer with which lie eloped to New York with Ills sweetheart where they were married, escaped with a light jail sentence, his bride making good the amount stolen. Tom King, a well-known window glass blower, was killed on the public square at Hartford City. King attempted to stop a runaway horse hitched, to a delivery wagon, in which he thought there was a delivery boy. He threw the horse and It fell upon him, crushing Ills skull. Tho accident was witnessed 1 by a large crowd of people. What Is claimed to be the largest natural gas well drilled in Indiana since ihe discovery of the famous Jumbo at Fairmont, twelve years ago, was completed by the Hope Gas Company at Lafontalne, on tho Joe Hackney lease, a mile north of that place. When the flow was struck, water and stones were hurled over tho derrick, and the roar was audible for severul miles. Its capacity Is estimated at 2,000.000 feet daily. There are several other good wells In the vicinity. The tin plate workers of the Amalgamated association have voted unanimously ngainst the proposition of the late strike settlement to have their scale hold for three years. They object to t)ie restrictions placed upon organization. James IS. Cochran of Vincennes left his family four weeks ago, saying he was going to seek work. Since then he has been missing. , Mrs. Hiram Whlttacker, one of the best-known and oldest residents of Goshen, was accidentally discovered in her own room, nearly dead from escaping gas. She was resuscitated with difficulty. The home of Huston Barnes, recently completed in Case township, near Sullivan, caught fire in the night, and the family, six In number, narrowly escaped cremation, escaping only In their night clothes. Secretary Hurty of the state board of health gave out the following statistics for tho quarter, ending September 30, 1901: The total number of births was 11,009, Of this number there were 5,576 white males and 5,124 females; colored males, 147; females, 162. There were 102 plurality births, 10 males and 106 females; This Includes one set of J triplets In Clinton county. The total number of marriages for the quarter was 5,906, of which 5,703 were white and 203 colored. For tho quarter 8.919 deaths were reported, and this includes 396 still births. The births exceed the deaths by 2,090. Miss Elizabeth Lang of Rising Sun, while engaged In household duties! placed her head too close to a hot stove, and two celluloid combß caught fire. Nearly all of her hair waa burned ofT. The elephant barn In the winter quarters of the Wallace circus waß destroyed by fire at Peru. The flames created a panic among the animals In the quarters, but they were all removed to places of safety. The Big Four will, on January 6, put on a sleeper from Chicago to St. Augustine. Fla., via Indianapolis. Seeping salt, water and oH from the many gas and oil wells above Alexandria has made the water of Pipe creek totally unfit for use for any purpose. The Lake Erie & Western railroad has even stopped using it in their boilers. Thomas Hogan, a well-known farmer at Dyer, fell from a wagon and was killed instantly. His neck was broken by the fall. The new sixteen-thousand-dollar lnilidlng at Greenwood is completed, and the public schools have opened with an attendance of 340. The date of the meeting of the Northern Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference, at Marlon, has been, changed from April 11 to April 18. . A 50.000,000-foot gas well came In on the Hobbs farm, four miles sou, i of Tipton. The flow came In at 4 o’clock and when the tools were thrown out the drillers had to run for thoir lives. The well is equal to the celebrated Wallace well which was discovered near Fostoria, 0., seven years ago, at that time said to be the biggest gusher on record. A great fox chase In the country near Rich Valley Is being arranged for Thanksgiving. Albert Berkey, a farmer, has been convicted at Warsaw of mayhem, growing out of a fight with Joseph Counts, in which he bit off Count’s lower Up. Berkey was committed to jail for twenty days. Charles Lanvermeyer of Dillsboro was caught by a falling tree which he had cut and his leg was broken. His father met death by a falling tree two years ago, in the Immediate vicinity where this accident occurred.