Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1902 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

The senate appropriated $125,000 for the purchase of a site and the erection of a building at Hammond. The Bluftton House was completely destroyed by fire. Loss, $2,500; insurance, $1,500. G. W. Kimball’s residence was damaged S6OO. Prof. A. A. Trevor of Greencastle has been nominated to the John Sleeper fellowship, Boston university. The fellowship provides for personal research in a foreign country for a year. Rev. Dr. A. E. Mahin is ill at his Tiome in Montpelier. Edward Stephens, a saloonkeeper of Marion, was shot by William Dugan, another saloonkeeper, and will probably die. Forbes Holton, a window glass manufacturer of Anderson, is laid up with a broken leg at Huntington, W. Va. He fell from a street car. The trustees of Indiana university have closed a contract with Dr. C. F Hodge, of Clark university, to give » three weeks’ course in nature study in the Indiana university summer school The date of his lectures is June 29 to July 17. It is found that the late Michael Hyman, the pioneer merchant and manufacturer of Wabash, left no will, and his estate of $75,000 will be settled under the law. The large farm house of Seneca Shepherd, two miles north of Delphi, was totally destroyed by fire, together with most of its contents. Fire damaged the building and stock of the Nixon paper mills at Richmond to the extent of $5,000. No insurance. Mrs. Gabe Davis, a well-known wo man living near Annapolis, was stricken with paralysis, and recovery is doubtful. John Maris, 85 years old, a pioneer, is dying. An all-day iox drive was given by the farmers of Putnam and Hendricks counties. The drive centered in a large field on the farm of Marion Wright, and seven foxes were captured. Fully ten foxes broke through and escaped. It is reported that two wolves were also seen. James A. Bowles, the Purdue University student, who mysteriously disappeared from Bloomington on the 23d of December, and who was supposed to have met with foul play, has been found in Chicago, where he is employed in a drug store. Trouble is again brewing on the electric lines in Terre Haute, the motormen and conductors having asked the reinstatement of' Grant Tubbs, said to have been dismissed for insolence, which is disputed by the employes. Tubbs was recently elected an officer of the union. The Marine Navigation Company of Michigan City, which will operate a freight line on the Great Lakes, has been incorporated at Indianapolis with a capital of $40,000. The stock is held by G. G. Oliver, J. M. Campbell and John Lutz of Michigan City, and Theodore Lutz of Chicago. Burglars entered the office of McConaha & Parrott, millers, and also the Pennsylvania railway depot at Centerville, using dynamite on the railway safe and securing a quantity of notes, but no money. The visit to the mill was equally as barren. Fire destroyed SB,OOO worth of property in the business district of Princeton Thursday morning, and eighteen horses were cremated. The Tower Hill Coal Company, sinking an experimental shaft at Midland, in Greene county, has struck a sixfoot vein at a depth of 125 feet. The Peru woolen mills have been ordered reopened by the receiver, under permission of the Circuit court, to work up accumulated material A new banking institution, to be known as the Kokomo National bank, capital stock, SIOO,OOO, has been organized at Kokomo, with George E. Bruner, president, and John W. Barnes, cashier. It will open for business early in May. Mayor Bookwalter of Indianapolis will be the principal speaker on the occasion of the Pythian demonstration at Petersburg, 30th inst.. George U. Darker, .thirty-four years old, upon leaving a business college at ■Fort Wayne, where he was freshening up his knowledge of bookkeeping, was seized of a chill on reaching the street, and was carried to his home, where death resulted in two hours. Joshua Enos, whose death occurred at Shelbyville, served as mayor and councilman of that city. Th#'- Rev. E. C. Wells of the Presbyterihn church at Frankton, has tendered his resignation to engage in evangelical work. Cecil Winkler, a nephew of Joseph Roberts of Bruceville, while trying to place a large back-log in position in the fireplace, was accidentally caught and burned to death. The body of Bish Hamersley, twen-ty-two years old, was found one mile south of Bedford, cut to pieces. He had lived near the place where the body was found, and he was caught in a big cut by a freight train while going home. He was a single man and worked on the south section. The general electric board has approved the action of the Fort Wayne board in increasing the capital stock of the Fort Wayne Electric Corporation from $500,000 to SBOO,OOO, the money to be spent in enlarging the present facilities.

The police of La Porte are searching for Andrew Lerick, .who has disappeared after kidnaping the 10-year-old son of Joceph Chlebokska. Gov. Yates of Illinois has commuted the sentence of John Murphy in the Joliet penitentiary to a term to expire on the 21st of this month. Murphy is the demented son of a very prominent business man of Indiana. Albert Gilmore, until recently a postmaster in southern Indiana, and a member of a leading family, will be received at the Michigan City prison in a few days to serve a sentence for horse stealing. Gilmore made no defense. The Western Pickle Packers’ association, including representatives from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, lowa and Missouri, is considering an advance in prices. William Hayes, a prominent citizen of Coxton, five miles west of Bedford, is lying dangerously injured from the effects of a runaway accident. The vehicle in which he was riding struck the approach fence of Salt creek bridge, the horse running with all its might, stripping the fence entirely to the entrance, and throwing Mr. Hayes over the bluff, a distance of twenty-five feet. Several ribs are broken, and he is injured internally. The will of Mrs. Jemima Winship has been probated at Lafayette. She leaves the bulk of her property to her niece, Mrs. Alice Earl Stuart, of Lafayette, who is named as executrix. Bond, SIO,OOO. Minor bequests are: SIOO to Miss Rene Eghert of Richmond; S4OO each to Howard and Everett Vanderbilt of Chicago, and SI,OOO. to Mrs. John Patterson of Indianapolis. William E. Eydelotte, proprietor of the Sullivan woolen mills, was quite severely injured at the stockyards in Sullivan. He was standing near the Evansville & Terre Haute railway tracks when a freight engine struck a car and a stock loader. Mr. Aydelotte was injured about the head and a rib was broken by flying timbers. The annual Monroe township fox chase will be held on the 30th inst. near Henryville. The Twelfth district congressional convention will be held at Kendallville, April 30. Hagerstown merchants complain that rural free mail delivery is causing a dullness of trade, as farmers do not go to town as formerly, and when they take a day off they visit larger places. All the labor interests in Vincennes have been unionized and a Central Labor union has been organized, with E. S. Ward president, Edward Wood vice-president, Robert Caughran financial secretary, T. G. Biggs recording secretary, Albert Coombs treasurer and August Prior doorkeeper. Landy B. Rice of Manila is alarmingly ill of blood poisoning. Several days ago, while butchering hogs, he scratched his finger while brushing hog hair off a board, but the injury was so slight that he gave it no attention. Later the finger began swelling, then it affected the hand. Two operations have failed of relief. At the next meeting of the Republican central committee in Rushvllle it is said that a resolution will be adopted, asking the county commissioners to order an expert examination of county affairs, datipg back many years. The investigation of city affairs will also be demanded. Mrs. Mary Kratz, wife of John Kratz of Warren, complained of feeling badly. She was assisted to a lounge, where she instantly expired. The city council of Shelbyville has appropriated $4,000 to purchase a library site, in order to take advantage of the Carnegie gift of $15,000. It is proposed to add a department of manual training to the State Normal School at Terre Haute, which is said to be approved by President Parsons. Herman Jones, colored, eight years old, arrested ten times in one year for stealing, has been sentenced at Evansville to the State Reform School. The novelty of a winter drought is being felt throughout Clark county, and is causing the farming element much trouble. Streams have gone dry and ponds are empty. Stock water has to be hauled long distances at some points, and those who can find a market for their surplus animals are selling them off. Four feet below the surface the soil is as dry as in August and grave diggers say that tney throw out nothing but dust half the depth of an excavation in which to place a burial casket. So mild has been the winter that farmers all over the county have been plowing, and in many instances the fields look like early spring, when the seeding time is about to begin. In a popular voting contest in which Misses Maggie Donnelly and Minnie Ellis were voted the handsomest girls in Kokomo over 25,000 ballots were cast, and it is alleged that in the final count 3,000 ballots were stolen by workers for rival contestants, the stolen votes being found in the pockets of one of the inspectors, who charges that someone else placed the coupons there. Mrs. Christian Bradley, seventy-six years old, whose death occurred at Peru, left real estate holdings in that city and Chicago aggregating $200,000.

Btephen Whitley, a farmer, was adjudged insane at Washington and ordered transferred to the insane hospital, but while the sheriff’s attention was elsewhere attracted, he slipped out of the court house escaped. Mrs. Bettie Smith has filed a suit against the city of Bluffton for $l2O for nursing her son, Tim White, while he had the smallpox. In her bill she rates her services at $5 a day, and makes a claim against the city on the grounds that, as her son was quarantined, the city would have had to employ a trained nurse unless she did the work. Several years ago the father of John Rogers of Reynolds while digging a well, uncovered a deposit of clay abounding in aluminum, but not having the means to develop it he kept the location a secret, intrusting it to his son, John Rogers, Jr., who has forwarded samples to Washington, and the analysis shows rich deposits, and he is now making arrangements to profit thereby. Professor Edwards, librarian, announces that Notre Dame University has received a valuable collection of books on heraldry and archaeology, old documents, together with valuable paintings, from Mgr. Seton of New York, who ’is preparing to sail for Rome. The books on heraldry and archaeology number nearly 2,500 and are said to constitute the finest collection in the United States. Word was received at Muncie from Las Cruces, N. M., announcing the death, of Floy Clevenger, a Muncie high school student and member of last year’s football team. Clevenger went to New Mexico three weeks ago for the benefit of his health. He was a brother of Zora Clevenger, a wellknown Indiana University football player. Captain Arthur Johnson of the Evansville recruiting station has received word from the War Department to recruit all the men he can for service in the Philippines. He* will establish substations in southern Illinois and place a man in charge of them. Captain Johnson says the War Department will demand 50,000 recruits during the year and he fears, owing to the prosperous condition of the country, that they will be hard to get. About 36,000 men will be retired from the army this year. The store belonging to Messrs. Shoulders & Skinner, at Arthur, was entered by burglars and the safe was forced with dynamite, and money in excess of $75 was carried off. The force of the explosion tore out the window and broke several panes of glass in adjoining buildings. Mr. Shoulders was awakened and reached the street in time to see the burglars driving in the direction of Oakland City in a buggy. Nothing in the store was molested. The coal miners’ strike at Raglesville has been settled and the men have returned to work. The men struck last week for the Indiana scale of wages. The operators of the three mines agreed to pay the scale and allow for removal of deadfall. The price of coal will be raised to meet the increase of wages. The farmers of Jay county are endeavoring to arrange for a joint institute in which the agriculturists of adjoining counties will participate. They want to have Prof. Latta, of the Purdue experiment station, present. Local officials of the Anderson Telephone company have confirmed the report that it had just completed a formal transfer of Its property to the Delaware and Madison County Telegraph and Telephone company, which will be part of a telephone combination organized recently at Ft. Wayne. Emaline Wardroff, the five-year-old daughter of Thomas Wardroff, a farmer living southeast of Tipton, went to the barn to feed a bufldog, which was chained therein. The little girl not returning in a reasonable time, her mother went to the barn in search of her, and found her daughter lying on the floor in a mangled and unconscious condition, her face being terribly bitten, while beside the little one the vicious brute lay asleep. The little girl’s injuries may prove fatal. When the father returned home he Immediately seized a gun and killed the dog. Mr. Wardroff recently refused $125 for the canine. A secret wedding was announced in Washington by the couple inviting a number of friends to a house warming, which they supposed meant a wedding as well, until they arrived at the house and were informed that the couple had been married several months. The principals are William Reister, Jr., and Miss Ina Taylor, and they slipped off to Louisville, Ky., and were united in marriage, and then returned to Washington, each going home. The relation was never suspected by any of their friends or relatives. The Indiana Wool Growers’ Association will hold its annual convention in Crawfordsville February xj. c. S Plumb of Purdue University is president. The Richmond and Greenville Traction Company has secured right-of-way from Greenville, 0., to Richmond., and the franchise will be sought in Richmond and county. Enoch G. Cox, whose death occurred fit Fort Wayne, was storekeeper of that division of the Pennsylvania Central railway. Formerly he was editor Of the Delphi Journal.