Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

Mrs. M. A_ Nance, aged 60 years, died of heart trouble in Marion. Mrs. Nance and her husband, Rev. Nance, came from Kentucky and were among the first to establish the Southern Methodist 'church In this city at the close of the civil war. Chas. S. Bracken ridge, for many years civil engineer and often connected with public work in many of the chief cities, died in St Joseph’s hospital, Fort Wayne, of. dropsy, after an illness of several months’ duration. Gov. Durhln, Attorney General Taylor and Auditor of State Hart started for Washington Sunday night and will spend all of this week at that city in the interest of Indiana’s civil war claim against the government. The diaim amounts to. $700,000, and the state authorities think the outlook for it is bright. A desperate attempt was made at Decatur to assassinate Oliver Sheets, a farmer living nine miles north of that city. The door leading to the sleeping room of Mr. and Mrs. Sheets was battered down with a fence rail and three men forced their way in. Five shots were fired at Sheets, one bullet striking him in the left afm and breaking both bones. When the door was hammered down the wind blew out the light and Sheets and his wife were unable to see the faces or their assailants, who fled. „ To Palmer Nobles, the 7-year-dld son of Col. C. H. Nobles, of the recruiting station, is due the credit of saving "the lives of Theresa Webber and Mattie McCarty, two little girls, who broke through the-ice on the pond in Military Park; Indianapolis. The little fellbw heard the girls scream when they went through the ice, and, without hesitation, went to their assistance. The ice broke with him but he managed to hold himself and the two girls above water until aid arrived. Edson Kidder, a prominent flour mill owner of Terre Haute died sud- • denly of apoplexy. Mrs. Joseph R. Voris received a letter from Andrew Carnegie at Bedford saying he will give Bedford $15,000 for a library. The city already has a fine library and the present site will be used. t-

Information has been received that the promoters of the Muncie-Newcas-tle electric traction road, for which a right-of-way between Muncie and Newcastle has been purchased, have a deal on to transfer the stock. J. p. McGrath of Hartford-City is said to be engineering the deal. Subsidy elections in four townships between the two cities are soon to be held to determine whether each township shall vote $15,000. William Beale of Marion was stricken with paralysis Sunday. The stroke affected his mouth and throat, and he is unable to talk or even open his mouth, and he is slowly starving to death. He has received no nourishment since Saturday night. The affliction has resulted In reuniting him and his wife. They had not lived together for some time. When his wife learned of his condition Sunday she immediately had him removed to her home and Is-doing everything possible for his relief. Jason Willson, owner 'of the Jason Willson Bank, has closed his fortieth year in the banking business in Marion. He is now credited with maintaining one of the most substantial financial institutions in this part of the country. He is about seventy years old but still takes an active interest in the conduct of his business. Hie sons and Bert—however, practically have the management of the banking institution. u* Mark. Hillsamer, who was killed while switching in the Pan-Handle yards at Bradford Junction, O. is the son of Mark Hillsamer of Marion. He was a member of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana regiment. The committee has selected Messrs Vonnegut and Bohn of Indianapolis to draft plans for Fowler Hall at Lafayette. The new structure will be of stone, and will contain an auditorium seating about .1,500 persons. It will also contain the administrative offices of the university. At a social session and smoker in Alexandria Alexandria K. of P.’s began to organize an effort to secure the location in that city of the proposed State Home for Orphan Children of K. P. members. A strong pull will be made to locate the institution. Scottsburg and Columbus are the only other two aspirants, The Republic Iron and Steel Company asserts that, all conditions considered, the Alexandria plant is turn- , ing out the largest output of any factory making bar iron in the United States. The twelve-inch mill i 8 at present shut down. The twenty-two-inch mill is operated continuously. Dr. W. F. Srtfith of Blppus received a threatening letter, In effect that his life was in peril if be did not place S2OO in an envelope 'and leave it on a window sill of the Union church. A letter was placed there, and an armed guard was stationed there, who shot at the would-be blackmailer as he hastened away. Michael Hollis, employed in the Monon roundhouse at Michigan City ' while cleaning an engine, was caught and crushed to death, the engine starting from steam leaking into the cylinders.

• > ■ T"'- ■ y_ . ' „ ■ " v s. ' The M. E. churqh congregation will erect a new house of'worship at Lebanon, costing SIB,OOO. Mrs. Emma Toole of Brazil, while gathering coal, was struck by a switch engine and badly hurt. George H. Moore, case keeper at Bloomfield, has made an assignment. Assets, SI,OOO, with $1,500 liabilities. David Grismore of Washington wants a divorce from Mrs. Grlßmore, alleging she has an ungovernable temper. The Interstate Distilling company has been enjoined from draining Its refuse into the Wabash river at Vincennes. A society event was the marriage of Lewis Wolf and Miss Gertrude Simon at the Jewish synagogue in Wabash. An organized effort is being made at Wabash to have the death penalty Imposed, on Joan Rinkard, the wife murderer, changed to Imprisonment for life.

A thief entered J. H. Staley's case at Linden through an unlocked door and robbed - the cash register of $2.85. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Deitrich, living near Ramsey, Harrison county, have celebrated their golden wedding. They have been residents of this country since 1859. Mr. Deitrich was born in Germany and is the senior of Mrs. Deitrich, who is a native of New York. Thirteen children have resulted from the union, of which four are dead. There are thirty-six grandchildren ahd three great-grandchildren. Louis Kelley of Petersburg shot three times at Edward Catt, a member of the city fire department. Catt entered a saloon and said something to the saloonkeeper and Kelley began shooting. The fireman was not hurt, but one bullet passed through hfs cap, while another cut Harry Coonrod’s trousers leg. Kelley is already under a SSOO bond for shooting his brother, Will Kelley, during the street fair at Petersburg, and he is also under bohd to appear in the Daviess circuit court. Attorneys for the Eastern Indiana Traction company have received the blue prints for the traction line from Richmond to Portland by the way of Winchester, and from Ridgeville to Marion, connecting Dunkirk, Redkey, Gas City, Upland and several other gas belt towns. It enters Winchester on the Lynn pike, proceeds in Main street to Fifth street, and passes out of town by the fair grounds. The final survey is being,made and when it is completed the contract wiH be let. Upon a petition filed by local men, holding notes for $5,000, Gduld, Oliver & Martin of Crawfordsville made an involuntary assignment. The firm claims its assets to be $14,000, with liabilities of SIB,OOO. The firm is one of the best known hardware companies in the county, and the assignment occasioned surprise. James O’Brien, born in England fif-ty-eight years ago, died suddenly at La Porte of neuralgia of the heart He was a prominent lawyer and at one time partner of the late LieutenantGovernor Mortimer Nye, and now associated with D. M.' Nye, son of his former partner. He served two terms as county superintendent of schools and as superintendent of the boys’ state reformatory at Plainfield, and as city councilman. He was a prominent G. A. R. man and Mason. Vandals at Elkhart used a sledge in breaking several hundred dollars’ worth of stone prepared for the Carnegie library building. After the separation of Mr! and Mrs. Asa Mills, and the return of the wife V 3 ker home at Veedersburg, accompanied by her six-year-old son, the father kidnaped the boy. Later the mother secured service on Mills, and the right of custody will be tried in the courts. Clayton and Prentiss Harvey and Ivan Ohmist, little schoolfellows, while returning home* attempted to cross on the ice covering the river at Cambridge City, and when half over they broke through into the water beneath. They were rescued by George Deschell. The street railway company at Terre Haute has advanced the wages of trainmen on the basis of length .of service. The present rate is 16 cents, and that will be the rate for those of less than one year; 18 cents for-from five to ten years, and 20 cents for all over ten years. The plant of the Brazil Miner, recently transferred by ex-County Clerk Mace to his bondsmen, to make good a shortage in his accounts as clerk, has been sold to Mrs. I. V. Haveland’ whose husband is publisher of the Brazil Democrat. Consideration, $750. William Frederick, twenty-six years old, while at the home of his sister, Mrs. George Wrighl of Cicero, committed suicide by blowing out his brains, using a double-barreled shotgun. He was employeu in the Modes-Turner glass factory at Noblesvilje. Several months ago the Logansport city council granted a new telephone company franchise privileges, and notified the Bell company that its franchise, expiring Jan. 3, would pot be renewed. The company has paid no attention to this notification and is still doing business as of yore, - and the ciity council is powerless to prevent its operation. However, it ip the determination of the city council to prohibit extensions. . The Johnson county Prohibitionists have nominated a ticket, headed by J. T. Kimmick for Representative:

Martin Belby, aged 17, son of a prominent merchant, and Miss Victoria® Renn, aged 16. both of New Albany, eloped against their parents’ wishes to Jeffersonville, and with the aid of two tramps who made affidavit to their ages, secured a license and were married. The father of the groom left for Indianapolis to bring the matter before Attorney General Taylor, who caused the matrimonial industry at Jeffersonville to be suppressed last August. Kentucky couples are again flocking to the once famous Gretna Green. The law requires that the female must- be 18 and resident of the county in which the license is issued. In this case Belvy claims the law was violated. .Indiana pensions granted: OriginalTimothy Berran, Medaryville, sl2; James Smith, national military home, Grant, $8; (war with Spain), Lowell H. Long, Freedom, $lO. Increase, restoration, reissue, etc.—Benjamin Yarian, Pappanee, sl7; Asa Tout, Indianapolis, sl2; Henry Seal, Connersville, sl7; Lewis S. Davis, Lafayette, $24; James W. Bowen, Franklin. sl7; Thomas Jennings, Indianapolis, SB. Original, widows, etc. (Mexican war)—Mary A. Liming, Oak, SB. Reisse (widows, etc.) — Minors of Robert Pasco, Sclpio, sl6. I After searching for ten weeks, Mr. and Mrs. dsaiah Inman, grandparents of Maude Inman McLeary, of Dowagiac, Mich., found their granddaughter in South Bend, where she was living under the name of Rose Higgins. Several months before going to South Bend she married John McLeary of Warsaw, this state, who was employed at Dowaglac, but they soon separated, and she returned to her grandparents. Afterward she disappeared, her going away causing much excitement. During the last year Henryville shipped 60,000 railway ties, forty express cars loaded with fruit, 120 cars of live stock, eighty cars loaded with logs and forty filled with corn and wheat. There are now 20,000 ties awaiting shipment, besides immense quantities of telephone poles, logs, timber, etc. Work has been suspended pn the construction of the big steel mill in Kokomo, because of a strike among the hodcarriers and day laborers, who are demanding an advance from 22% to 28% cents an hour. Messrs. Wygant and Livingston, contractors, refuse to pay the price. The contractors say they will fill their places with nonunion men. The action of the striking workmen is indorsed by the other unions.

Not since 1896 has there been so few deaths in any one year In the vicinity of Waterloo as in 1901. The burials in the Waterloo cemetery for the year numbered thirty, of which thirteen were from the town of Waterloo and seventeen from out of town. There were only six children of this number, which is quite remarkable—one from town and five from the country. The electric light plant at Versailles has been completed and the lights have been turned on for the first time. The streets are illuminated at each corner, and all of the business houses and many private residences are patrons of the new investment. While Versailles is not touched by railway, good pikes lead in every direction, making communication easy. The natural gas situation at Hagerstown appears to be better than in many cities and towns in the heart of the gas belt. The pressure remains fairly good, and while there id not sufficient gas to supply all demands for fuel, there is enough to maintain a constant fire, and at night warm up the houses thoroughly. James W. Cockrum of Princeton has been appointed receiver of the Oakland City Agricultural and Industrial Society, August Smith, a well known young man of Mishawaka, slipped and fell, striking his head on a curb. Death resulted. Miss Ethel Snyder of Peru was the only graduate at the commencement exercises of the Training School for Nurses at the Btate Soldiers’ Home, Gen. James R. Carnahan presenting the diploma. Mrs. Levi P. Dolllson, whose death is announced, for sixty years was a resident of Wabash. She was 80 years old. Dr. N. N. Shipman, whose jieath Is reported, practiced medicine at Seymour for a quarter of a century, and was 75 years old. Senator Beveridge has appointed John A. Ligett, son of ex-Sheriff W. H. Liggett of Whitley county, as private stenographer. Ten cases of smallpox are reported at Wheatland and the schools have closed. ’ J The tewn council of Dublin has passed an anti-tobaepo sidewalk-spit-ting ordinance. All bids for $64,300 worth of gravel road bonds were rejected by the county commissioners at Petersburg because the offers were regarded as too low. The best offer was made by P L. Briggs & Co. of Cincinnati. Charles Davis, a merchant at Rosstpn, is seriously ill. For the past ten days he has been unable tp take food, owing to persistent vomiting. Dr. Geo. J. Cpok of Indianapolis and Dr. Thos. O. Redding, the, attending ppysiclan, were in consultation and diagnosed his ailment as disease of ths Jiver.