Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1902 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

Corp. Meurer, of the Terre Haute recruiting station, has received notice that men are wanted for the signal corps. Under this head are telegraphers, electricians and telephone men. Postmaster Gray, who is trying to hare a gallery of pictures of Terre Haute’s postmasters, has received a picture of John M. Coleman, who was postmaster in 1818, from a grandson who lives in Hooper, Colo. Coleman helped build the first courthouse in this city and Indianapolis. The Riley township gravel road case was settled by ' the payment to-, the township trustee of $1,250 by Contractor Dorsey. He had received $23,000 on his contract. Mrs. Lulu Woods, charged with shoplifting, pleaded guilty to stealing a hat valued at $lO from a millinery store at Marion. She was given a sentence of three years in prison. Arthur Salter of Vincennes, on April S, will marry Miss Lizzie Keisger of Greencastle, Pa. Saiter recently returned from Luzon, where in the 22d regiment, he lost a leg. While sergeant in company A, 159th Indiana volunteer infantry, Saiter, at Camp Alger, first met Miss Keisger, and since then have Been each other but twice. At Hartford City the bursting of the hot tube attached to the gas engine furnishing power at the pumphouse of the Diamond Oil company plant on the Godfrey reserve caused $2,500 loss, igniting while the pumpers were at supper. Mayor Wallace of Union City, attempted to arrest a thief, and a confederate presented a cocked revolver In the mayor’s face and ordered him to let go. The mayor floored the armed robber with his fist, but in the scramble both thieves escaped. George N. Edger, ex-county auditor and president of the Bank of Redkey, years ago underwent a partial amputation of one of his legs, owing to a white swelling. Recently he suffered a second amputation of the same limb, the bone having lengthened. Edward Maple, eighteen years old, son of Willis Maple, residing near Shelbyville, while using a jack to set a hay press, was struck by the lever, fracturing his skull. On account of little or no activity in the Peru oil fields the National Supply company will move its store to Marion and the Oil Well Supply company will take its stock to Hartford City. Peru, in 1897, was one of the greatest oil centers of Indiana. C. S. Wachtell, Son & Co., whose plant at Muncie was recently damaged by fire, have been awarded $15,000 by the insurance companies. Ira Barber, of Laporte, who invented the first riding corn cultivator sold under patent, is dead. Fire starting in the blacksmith department caused $2,000 damage to the plant of the Western flint glass factory at Eaton. The Decatur Downing and the Wallfarm, near Norton creek, embracing 500 acres, has been purchased by a stock company headed by Charles Whitcomb; consideration $24,000. The Fairview nursery is on the Downing farm and it will be continued. The company will erect a brick factory and mine for coal. Mrs. Ida Cartmel, employed as a domestic by the Amos Winship family at Rushville has been notified that she is one of the heirs of the late Mrs. Susan Rymau of ’ Cincinnati, who left sixteen pieces of property and other holdings amounting to $200,000. At Angola, Levi Weaver, while opening a can of salmon, scratched his finger, paying no attention to the injury until blood poison developed, which nearly cost him his life. Floyd Wasson, four years old, son of Melvin Wasson, of Lafontaine, died of burns received while playing around a fire in the yard. The child’s clothing was burned off before the mother discovered the accident. James Harvey Carr, aged seventythree, the veteran bill poster, died at Rushville. He belonged to the National Association of Bill Posters, and . had been In the bill-posting business over forty years. f*, It is announced that Owen McCann Is promoting a company to build another brewery in Anderson. Fifty thousand dollars capital is reported as secured. At a secret meeting held in Yorktown, participated in by all mineral wool manufacturers of the United * > States, it was decided to combine the v seven companies now operating and §* h*ve one factory, to be located in Yorktown, as an enlargement to the Cellular Insulating Company’s plant. The first Baptist church at Shelbyville, situated on West Broadway, was burned. John Costello, seventy-five years old, of Wayne township, was kicked to death while watering his horses. At a meeting held at the Commercial club, at Indianapolis, an agreement was reached by v which the club will purchase ninety acres of ground on the Belt railroad and offer inducements for the location of factories. A. T. Bowen of New York, a member of the Delphi Banking firm, and A. T. Bowen ft Co. contemplate establishing a new bank at Logansport, in partnership with Judge Baldwin of

The Consumer’s Gas Trust company and the Indianapolis Gas company each sent a communication to the mayor and the city council of Indianapolis, asking that an ordinance be passed providing for the compulsory use of natural gas meters at a rate not to exceed 25 cents a thousand cubic feet. The formation of the strawboard trust is regarded at Muncie as almost a certainty. It is said that the proposed trust holds options on every plant in the county, the date of the options’ expiration being April 15. James Ridgeway, while working in a sawmill near Carlisle, accidentally fell on a saw, severing his right arm. A test of the efficiency and economy of the electric railway system of the Union Traction company at Anderson, to be made by Purdue University, was postponed until April 17. When interviewed, J. F. Merker, president of the mineral wool plant, of Alexandria, stated emphatically that his company would not be in the new combine, said to be now forming. At the central power-house of the Union Traction company, at Anderson, George Black took hold of a live wire by mistake and received 550 volts of electricity. He was badly burned, but will recover. James B. Sherwood of Linton has secured options and leases for L. T. Dickason and others of the Monon Railroad company on five hundred acres of coal lands two miles northeast of Linton. The cellulose factory at Linden has been closed down since last July. Word is now given out that the plant will not resume until next August, and it causes dissatisfaction among laboring men who have been waiting for work. A good many of the workmen have left for the Dakotas. A defective flue set fire to the Clover Leaf railway depot at Bluffton, and the building was destroyed, together with some of tne books and records; the more valuable being saved by the night operator. John M. Sweeney, merchant, of Washington, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Assets, sls; liabilities, SI,OOO. Mrs. Mary Cohagan of Fort Wayne, mother of several children, committed suicide with morphine. No cause is known.

John B. Diltz, thirteen years old, is under arrest at La Grange, having confessed that sixteen different times he stole amounts ranging from 25 cents to S9O from the safe of Isaac Perkins, lumber dealer. The Home Heating company has been given a franchise by the city council of Anderson. The ordinance rates call for 17 cents a foot for radiation by hot water, and 26 cents for steam heat. The company pays the city 2 per cent on gross receipts after 1905. Kitselman Bros., woven wire fence manufacturers, of Muncie, have secured legislation in Australia so as to permit the importation of their tence-making machinery, placing it in the hands of the Australian farmer at a price enabling him to make his own fence. The Co-Operative Telephone company, organized in Linden six weeks ago, is pushing construction. Mrs. Susan Pace, aged fifty years, was found dead in her bed at Bedford when her daughter went to call her. At the annual oratorical contest at Bloomingdale Walter Davies won the first prize and Miss Ella Broderick second. In the declamatory contest Miss Floy Swaim was awarded first prize and Miss Grace Kessler second. The report published in a Louisville newspaper to the effect that Judge Willard New would lose an eye from the effects of an operation performed by an Indianapolis specialist a few weeks ago is unfounded. William Dugan was convicted of assault and battery at Marion and sentenced to pay a fine of $l5O and given thirty days in jail. Dugan is a saloon keeper who shot Ed Stevens, also a saloon man, in a quarrel oyer Dugan’s wife. * Mrs. John Hays, a victim of the natural gas explosion at Peru, is in a dangerous condition. Papers for the incorporation of the Co-operative Federation of Window Glass companies were drawn at national headquarters at Muncie, to be forwarded to New Jersey, to be filed. The capital stock is $600,000,, in six thousand shares of SI,OOO each Alfred Jones, a pioneer of Washington, died after a short illness. He was born in 1819, and spent his entire life here, accumulating a large fortune through his own exertions. He was noted especially during his declining years, for his philanthropy. An adopted daughter survives him. A stock company has been organized to begin the publication of a Democratic newspaper at Covington, to be known as the Citizen. David W. Sanders will be the editor. The paper will be issued March 28. Business men of Winchester have formed a company to erect a $30,000 hotel. The building will be 83x166 feet and a modern structure. The Marion and Goshen Street railway company of Ndrth Manchester filed articles of incorporation. - The capital stock is SIO,OOO, in shares of SIOO each.

William F. Smith, a well known farmer of Prairie township, is dead* of blood poison. Several days ago he scratched his forefinger on a nail while in his sugar camp, from which the disease developed. Thomas Heath, the oldest man in Daleville, and the oldest Mason In Delaware county, is dead at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. W. Lykens. W. D. Price, eighty-two years old, died while seated in a chair at the home of his daughter, Mrs. N. Parrott at Centerville. Green glass bottle blowers are asked to consider a proposition looking to the consolidation of all green and flint glass trades “who handle molten glass.” This would exclude the cutters, grinders and lampworkers of flint glass trade. Henry Plumb, a young farmer near Evansville is near death’s door, the result of a bullet through his brain. It is not known if the shot was accidental or inflicted during an attempt at suicide. Mr. and Mrs. George Rose moved from Michigan City to St Joseph, Mich., and were taken ill a few days later. A doctor pronounced their sickness smallpox. There are three cases of the disease at Michigan City and Rose believes that he and his wife contracted the contagion there. Earl Strange, a Warsaw youth, injured some time ago while crossing the railroad at Mishawaka, died at the Epworth Hospital at South Bend as a result. William Dixon, convicted in 1900 of robbing his mother, and who would soon have been paroled from the reformatory at Evansville, died in that institution. Newburg capitalists have organized the Citizens’ State bank, with $25,000 capital, with William Folz as president. The Incorporators are among the leading business men of the place. William Nye of Michigan City, a brakeman on the Michigan Central, was instantly killed at Hartsdale, Ill.) while assisting in switching operations. A case is to be filed in the Grant Circuit Court at Marion to test the validity of the law of 1893, to prevent the waste of oil and gas from pipes and wells. A. H. Smith, grocer of Alexandria, has made an assignment; liabilities, $773; assets, $1,290. Creditors are Marion, Anderson and Indianapolis firms. Thieves entered the bowling alley at Linden owned by Samuel Graham, and operated by Dora Ammerman, and robbed the owl machine of $3.25, overlooking $4.25, besides 75 cents in nickels. Mrs. Hoagland of Newcastle, widow of the man recently killed by the “Dutch local.” at Middletown, is preparing to bring suit against the Pennsylvania Central for SIO,OOO. Andrew Carnegie has increased his donation for a free public library in Greencastle from SIO,OOO to $15,000, in response to a representation concerning the city’s prospects and its present boom. Dr. Fletcher Gardner, one of the best known physicians and surgeons of Bloomington, has left for Manila, where he will he assigned as a contract surgeon in the United States army. Dr. Gardner is the fifth appointment from Bloomington. Frank Spencer, nephew and an adopted son, has brought suit to break the will of the late Dr. William Spencer of Monticello, who left an estate of SIOO,OOO. Independent Hall at Bloomington, the home of one of the prominent university organizations, caught fire. The fire loss was small, but the society’s personal property Is considerably damaged by smoke and water. The five-year-old son of Stephen Litherland was fatally scalded by falling into a kettle filled with boiling soap at Washington. William Coffey, who attempted to criminally assault Ella Smith, has been committed under the indeter-minate-sentence ant at Jasper. At Rushville a wind storm partially unroofed the postofflee building, broke down trees and caused other damage. The Atlas engine works of Milwaukee has largely increased the amount of its capital stock, and will correspondingly increase the capacity of its plant. , William Rogers, 18 years old, of 528 West Henry street, fell under the wheels of a Vandalia switch engine at the Kentucky avenue Crossing at Indianapolis, and was instantly killed. The governor has appointed Sidney R. Davis of Terre Haute a member of the board of state charities to succeed John R. Elder of Indianapolis, whose term expired March 1, and who did not wish reappointment. With the accession to the Christian church in the revival at Anderson there is a total of 363 since the series of meetings opened three weeks ago, and they will continue another week. It is claimed that the number exceeds all previous records in the Christian churches throughout Indiana. Rushville stands second best with over 200 accessions. The city council of Alexandria authorized' the issuance of $30,000 4 per cent bonds, the saje of which will provide funds for the new high school building.