Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1902 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

The board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. of Marion, has decided to build an association building at once to cost not less than $25,000. John L. Sullivan, one of the leading labor organizers bt Indiana and deputy county ftlerk, died suddenly of congestion of the stomach, at his home at Brazil, aged 38 years. A passenger train on the Toledo, St iLouis and Western railroad, carrying 200 passengers, was saved from a wreck near Middleton by two children, who discovered a broken rail. The train was flagged just in time to prevent it from going over an embankment. George Surrel and James Masters, miners employed at the Mcßoy clay works mine, near Brazil, were fatally injured by the roof caving in upon them. At Evansville Patrick Neaphan, wife murderer, was sentenced to Michigan City prison to serve a life sentence, the petition to have him declared insane being overruled. An investigation Instituted at Laporte by a United States special agent has developed the fact that a decree of court supposed to have been granted in 1879, divorcing W. J. Ashley of Colorado from Mary Ashley of California, was a forgery. Matthew Humphrey, aged 19, was killed at Washington while switching in the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern yards. He was a son of Enos Humphrey, traveling engineer of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern. C. B. Scott of Bethany, W. Va., has been getting franchises at Oolitic and Bedford, with the intention of building an electric line between the two points. He says Eastern capital is behind it Mrs. William Masters, 45 years old, wife of a farmer,, living six miles northwest of Elwood, was probably fatally injured by an explosion of a lamp. The infant daughters of Arley Wallace of South Washington were found dead in bed by their parents, having smothered during the night. They were twins, and but two weeks old.. Several capitalists are arranging to build a froggery in the western part of Evansville. George Bailey of Mulberry slaughtered a thoroughbred Berkshire hog weighing 850 pounds. The last twenty days the animal gained an average of four pounds a day. The Elwood Women’s Union Label League has appointed committees to have charge of the floral parade, which will be one of the features of the free street fair of the Trades and Labor Council, to be held in Jqne. M. H. Picknell of Muncie has piloted two parties to the Klondike gold fields, and now possesses a number of claims, which are said to be producers. He will soon return to the gold fields to take active charge of his claims. Tippecanoe county Republicans conceded to Warren county the right to nominate a candidate for joint representative and the" Warren Republicans have selected E. Stansbury. Representatives of insurance companies holding risks on the Brookside farm mansion, owned by John H. Bass, report the loss total, and have paid Mr. Bass SIIO,OOO, face value of policies. The loss by Mr. Bass exceeds his insurance by $50,000. During a meeting of the Kosciusko County Corn Growers’ association, a movement looking to construction of a building in memoriam of the late Gov. Mount, to cost $50,000, was inaugurated.

It is reported that all the stock has been subscribed by local capitalists for a fourth bank at Crawfordsville. It' is said the bank will start some time in June. A school fund mortgage was recently satisfied in Warsaw which had been running for fifty-one years. A At Anderson Phillip Kelly of Indianapolis was given judgment in the circuit court for S9OO against the Indianapolis Street Railway company for permanent injuries to his wife. Mrs. Frank L. Torres, who has been alarmingly ill at the honie of her father, the Hon. E. H. Nebeker, at Covington, is convalescing. Dr. O. F. Davis of Bloomington will again enter the service of the government as surgeon, and will probably be assigned to Ft. Florida. He served in Manila, returning some months ago. A case is to be tried at the March term of court which will determine if the town of Waterloo can put in an electric light and water plant. The effort to put in the plant began some months ago and a suit was brought for a restraining order. Citizens generally are in favor of the improvement. The Republicans of the First district will hold their congressional convention March 12 at Booneville. Delegates will be selected March 8. George W. Wilson, an old citizen of Evansville, is dead of blood poisoning, caused by running a splinter in his finger. His left arm was amputated, but it failed to save his life. The Jefferson county commissioners have accepted the tyd of E. M. Campbell & Co. of Indianapolis for $90,525 in bonds, the proceeds to be used for the purchase of toll roads. In the window glass industry the> manufacturers, figuratively speaking, stand ready to cut one another’s throats to obtain control of the workBsn, of whom there is a shortage.

Bad water is reported as responsible for several cases of typhiod fever in Cambridge City. The question of the municipal ownership of the waterworks will be determined by a popular vote at Elkhart March 18. William C. Mitchell has been appointed receiver of the Hamilton Furniture company of Lafayette with instructions to continue operations. At Newcastle while Mr. and Mrs. Fansher were doing the evening chores children gave their infant child laudanum, and it died. Elijah James discovered his home near Russiaville on fire and he corried his invalid wife to the yard and rescued his seven children before the roof caved in. Patrolman Roll, accused of taunting a young woman struck by a stone while riding on a Terre Haute street car during the recent strike, has been acquitted by the board. The intensely cold weather has delayed work on the Carnegie free library at Portland, and it will hardly be completed within contract time. Business men have pledged SB,OOO and $2,000 additional will be raised, and it is now settled that the trade and agricultural school, to be established under the auspices of the Winona Assembly, will be located at Warsaw. H. B. Smith has sold 400 acres of land in Godfrey reserve, near Hartford, to Samuel Tait, oil operator, for $15,000. Dr. F. D. Kendrick of St. Paul, Minn., has sold 850 acres in the same reservation to James Brenmer and others for $21,000. At Attica Emil Swanson, while driving cattle across the right of way of the Wabash railway, was caught by a passing train and killed. At Petersburg one hundred school children are reported suffering with the measles. i James A. Cotner, who served in the last legislature, and Miss Maude Furrey of Logansport were married in Chicago. They will settle at Oklahoma City. While engaged in felling a tree near Jefferson Frank Akers was dangerously crushed by the top of another tree falling on him. At Portland Curt Wilson, tried for stabbing Eli Slentz, has been acquitted, it being shown that Slentz struck Wilson with a beer bottle before being cut. James Carr, aged 76, one of the oldest and best known farmers in Clark county, was probably fatally hurt by falling into the cellar of his barn. When the Ohio and Indiana Oil Company struck an oil well on the William Black farm, northeast of Muncie, they immediately covered up the well and began to try to lease all the ground in the vicinity, which gave rise to a belief that an immense oiler in a new territory had been found. ” The Wool Growers of Indiana elected W. H. Thornburg of Anderson, president; J. M. Harshbarger of Ladoga, vice president; H. H. Keim of Ladoga, secretary-treasurer. Perhaps the youngest Greek student in the state is little Miss Helen, only daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. C. L. Merriman, of this city. Although but three years old, she knows the alphabet, and under the instruction of her father can speak a number of Greek words, knowing their meaning and application.

The Safety Grate Company of Richmond, has instituted suit against the city of Philadelphia, Pa., alleging an unjust discrimination. The company manufactures a safety gate for use on elevators, but is prevented from doing business in Philadelphia. The Wabash shops at Fort Wayne, which for the last year has been running nine hours a day, began on a tenhour schedule, and the 500 men employed therein will be continued on the longer day indefinitely. There is much repair work to be done, owing to heavy traffic. Moses Cheaney, a veteran of the Civil War, is dead at Evansville, aged 85. John Swanson was struck and instantly killed by a Wabash passenger train at West Lebanon. W. H. Thornburgh of Anderson was elected president of the Indiana Wool Growers’ association at the annual meeting held at Crawfordsville. Mrs. Nora Hedges, a well known Bluffton woman, was arrested by United States authorities for sending obscene matter through the mails. The letters referred to her husband, who' had left her for another woman. Michael and David Musselman, brothers, engaged in a terrific battle with fists at Logansport over a political argument. Both men are in bed as a result of their injuries. A call has been issued for the convening of the National Sunday school conference at the Christian church at Maxinkuckee, June 22. The Overbeck schoolhouse, near Holland, took fire from a defective flue and was consumed, with contents, shortly after school was dismissed. It was the largest schoolroom in Cass township. Adam Meyer of California crossed the continent to wed Mists Lizzle Obertate of Milan only to find that the young woman had changed her mind. He now threatens to bring suit against her father, for expenses incurred In making the trip. The acquaintance was formed through a matrimonial bureau.

The application to organize the First National Bank of Rockfort, capital $35,000, lias been approved. An unusual case is being heard In the Whitley county circuit court, in which Josephine Whetzel demands $2,000 damages because of a spanking she received at the hands of Chauncey Waterhouse. The latter is a wealthy farmer of DeKalb county. The statement made by E. P. Jenks, manager of the Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas company that there would be no gas next winter, is attracting considerable attention in the natural gas belt. E. E. Rines, the Indianapolis electrician, has invented an incandescent bulb by which the degree of illumination may be varied. Madison physicians have organized against the deadbeat patron. Many farmers in the vicinity of Delphi are preparing to remove to the Dakotas in the spring. The Lakeside Knitting' company of Michigan City will open a branch concern in Elkhart. A sneakthief entered the room of Mrs. Maggie Barnstine, a guest at the Brunswick hotel, Marlon, stupefied her with chloroform and robbed her of considerable money. At Plainfield James Broaddus tossed a bottle containing sulphuric acid into an open grate and in the explosion Joseph Russel was injured by flying glass. C. J. Grissmer and others have organized a company to manufacture farm and lawn fences at Franktoncapital, $15,000. Mrs. Lussetta Myei-ly proposes to use force in preventing the building of a gravel road through her farm near Elwood. Mrs. Sarah Reilly, widow of the late Dr. W. F. Reilly, who represented Decatur county in the state senate, is dead at Fort Collins. Colo. There are sixty-four cases of measles in Fortville. The window glass trust is reducing expenses and herafter the two plants in Frankton will be controlled by one set of officers, with John Adams as manager and his daughter as secretary; John Lux, secretary, and Fred Duesler, manager of the Clyde plant, having been released. The largest horse sale in the history of the gas belt was held at Russiaville by W. H. Eikenberry. The total amount of the sales was $7,000. One hundred and eight horses and mules and ten vehicles were sold. At a meeting of the Hagerstown fair board it was decided to hold the fair this year the first week in August. It was also decided to permit all horsemen who desire to train at its track. The Penn-American Plate Glass company of Alexandria is preparing a shipment of an entire trainload of plate glass on one order. It will be by far the biggest and most valuable shipment of any kind that has ever been shipped out of the gas belt at one time. A mass-meeting of Aurora citizens has declared in favor of the municipal ownership of the waterworks and electric light plant. The Rev. Louis Homan of Muncie has been transferred as pastor of St John’s German Evangelical church, Vincennes. Mr. and Mrs. Zike Folger of Pike township (Rush county), invalids for several years, claim to have been restored by prayer cure. Two small children of Mr. and Mrs. James Martin of Lebanon were fatally burned during the temporary absence of the mother, and the house was consumed. A fox drive in Palmyra township for the benefit of the Clark Gibault Memorial hospital attracted 300 people and eight foxes were captured, one of them a black one, highly prized. The drive netted the hospital SBOO. The women of Grace M. E. church, Kokomo, have received a box of handkerchiefs from Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the President, with a request to be remembered. Mrs. Frank L. Torres, daughter of E. H. Nebeker, ex-United Stateq Treasurer, is at her father’s home in Covington alarmingly ill, and her husband, who is manager of the Übero rubber plantation. Isthmus of Tehauntepec, Mexico, is hastening to her side. The Rev. Killiam Wert Denham of the First Christian Congregation of Mishawaka, recently receiving a pastoral call to Elkhart, is quoted as publicly rejecting the Lord’s prayer, saying that the prayer was received by the Jews under Jewish laws and was never intended to be made a model of prayer for New Testament Christians because it does not contain the name of Christ, vfho had not yet suffered and died. He maintains that Christ later instructed his disciples to ask in his name. The Co-operative Glass company, recently organized at Elwood, has closed a deal for thq DePauw bottle works at New Albany and will make a specialty of electric light bulbs. At Noblesville Judge Neal of the circuit court has decided that contracts between employers and employes that give the former the privilege of retaining a certain percentage of the wages are null and void. Charles H. Tyesberg, who died at Jasper, was 77 years old, and the oldest practicing attorney at the Dubois county bar.