Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1902 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

Isaac Gray, who ran second in the Republican primary for mayor at Muncie being defeated by eightythree votes, filed notice that he may contest, alleging unfairness and violation of election rules in several precincts. David Schalls of Charlestown is dead of heart failure. He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt. Germany, eightyfour years ago, and had been a resident of Charlestown township for fifty years. His wife, survives, at the age of ninety. _ ‘ ?•<.- Etyenezar Hitchburn. 72 years old. of Scottsburg is dead of pneumonia. For years he‘had been foreman of Steinberg's stave factory. He leaves a wife and one adopted son. . At Decatur the Presbyterian church was damagkd >2,000 by fire. The loss is covered by insurance. The trouble resulted front increased gas pressure. The private ,bank at English, owned by William J.. Luckett, was sold to Samuel J. Elsby, who will organize a company and change the institution into a state bank. May 1. Dr., B. E. Miller, health officer of Noble county, reports to the State Board of Health that a school teacher taught while he had the smallpox. It was a mild ease, but the. disease is spreading among all the pupils. A physician diagnosed the case as chickenpox. The Indianapolis & Western Traction Company, Charles Finley Smith s line to Plainfield, has filed a mortgage for >500,000 to the I nion and Security Trust companies of Indianapolis, to secure a loan, financing the company. Berga Smith, sixteen years old, employed in the Zero mitten factory at Fort Wayne ate a “cookey” that she found on her Work-bench when she reported for duty and in a short time she became violently ill. She claims to have been poisoned by one of her companions. Several days ago her coat, which was left hanging in the factory was cut to pieces. The matter is in the hands of the police. The Riddell National bank of Brazil has received a check from the Adams Express Company for >1,200, in settlement of the amount stolen by express messenger McKee, who is still at large. This money was in transit to the bank from the Government and was receipted for by McKee at Terre Haute, where his run on the Vandalia began. This was the last seen of the package and McKee disappeared soon after.

Mrs. George Kroessmann is dead at Tel! City of burns received while using coal oil to start a Are in the kitchen stove. An explosion occurred, ana her clothing was instantly in flames. Her husband seized a blanket and wrapped it about her. His hands and face were burned, as were the arms and hands of his son Emil, who aided his father. 1 he home of Charles Cardakus, near Bucknell, burned with contents. A few days ago an insurance agent refused him a policy on account of a defective flue. The loss is $1,400. The Tell City water plant has been complete and the city has leased it for twenty years. The plant cost $45,000. The city guarantees the stockholders a dividend of 5 per cent on the money invested, and has the privilege of buying the stock. The city now owns $2,000 worth of stock, and expects to buy all of it within a few years. The first organs ever manufactured in Wabash county were turned out by the Butler Organ company of Lafontaine. The company has a capital of $25,000 and has built a large factory building at Lafontaine. The congregation of St. Boniface church. Evansville, which was destroyed, has decided to rebuild at a cost of $150,000 to $200,000. Mrs. Kate Grady, near Redkey, while driving, was thrown out in a runaway accident, breaking her leg and causing internal injury. Dr. R. Q, Wilson, a retired physician of Kokomo, is dead, aged 60 years. He leaves an estate to a widowed daughter-in-law and grandchildren. 1 hetrial of Terrill Tipton for shooting with intent to kill Dan Watts the saloonkeeper at Ehmandale, has been postponed. Some time ago the court appointed D. C. Slocum to de fend him as a poor person, but now three lawyers have appeared as his .counsel, having been employed by friends, and the postponement is to give the new counsel opportunity to examine the case. The South Meredian Savings and Loan association, No. 5, Indianapolis, has been organized with a capital of SIOO,OOO. Charles Lynn, a runaway boy from Indianapolis, was found by the police of Terre Haute. Consolidated Alpine Gold and Silver Mining company of Arizona has capital in Indiana of $25,000. The meat dealers of Muncie have formed a combination, advancing all fresh meats from 15 to 25 per cent in price, according to the kind cf meat. They claim this course is necessary on account of the advance in wholesale prices and the scarcity of cattle. .During a severe storm at Covington Spence & Plant’s dry goods store was struck by lightning, causing severe loss by fire. /

Valentine and Elizabeth Wimer are suing George W. Schrack, of Dunkirk, for >6,000 damages, alleging that Schrack promised that if they would leave their home in Michigan and care for himself and wife they should inherit his property at time of his death. The Winters now claim that Schrack has disposed of his real estate and will not carry out the contract. Among the intimate friends of Charles F. W. Neely, who was convicted of embezzling Cuban postal funds, there is a belief that probably has some authentic foundation, that Neely’s fine will be wholly or in-part remitted, and that his term of imprisonment will be cut down, even if he is not actually pardoned. A heavy frost fell at Scottsburg. The large acreage of clover that was sown a few weeks ago will be killed, and the early garden truck is ruined. The people of Lima are much disturbed over the continued rumor that the Howe Military school may be removed from Lima to Klinger lake. John S. Myers of Elwood has sued the American Tinplate company for >IO.OOO damages. Myers claims that his health was broken by bis work in the acids at the mills. It is generally understood that the company pays high wages, some of the men receiving >8 a day on account of the arduous work, and many men have broken down under the labor required. Myers continued to work until he is said to be a physical wreck. For the year ended March 31. the Muncie postoffice receipts were >50.478.58. Two years ago an immense effort was made to run the receipts np to >40.000 in order to make the office first-class. The >IO.OOO increase since is due to the location of new factories and the city’s natural growth. Conductor Ed Spaulding of the Calumet Terminal company, was caught between two ears at Hammond and disemboweled.

John J. Carroll of Fort Wayne, employed in a foundry at Bucyrus, 0., was caught by a machine, crushing off both legs. It is surmised that O. H. Johnson, whose dead body was found in the marshes near Porter, was murdered. He disappeared early in February. Goldie, four years old. daughter of Isaac Zentz, near Goshen, was attacked by a hog, breaking her arm and tearing her face. Blood poison is feared. The grand juay at Hartford City, as a result of inquiry now closed, has returned sixty-eight indictments and the gas wasters and sporting men are on the anxious seat. T he Rev. C. D. Case, who resigned the pastorate of the First Baptist church at Terre Haute previous to a visit to Charleston. S. C., has received a call to the First Baptist church at Mt. Clair, N. J. Israel D. Wolfe, commit!ed to the Michigan City prison under the indeterminate sentence act for embezzling >1,500 while city clerk, has been paroled and is again at his home in Goshen. He was convicted one year ago. '1 he St. Joseph conference of the United Brethren church, through its representatives, has decided to build a home for aged ministers at Winona Lake, in which >30,000 will be invested. A committee has been authorized to select a site. Last November a large amount of territory was added to the incorporated limits of Oxford, and the inhabitants of the annexed territory appealed to the court. Judge Vinton holds that the incorporation is within the law. and must stand. Miss Sleeth, forty years old. living alone near Fountaintown, after returning from a lodge meeting, and in the act of entering her home, was assaulted by a man, but after a struggle she released herself and was protected by a neighbor. Cedar is to be emptied of its fish. A force of men with a big seine will endeavor to depopulate it. Destruction awaits all buffalo, suckers and dogfish, while the more desirable varieties will be returned to the water. After the lake is freed from its scavenger fish the United States Fish commission will stock it liberally with game and food fish. The Citizen’s Telephone company is building west from Terre Haute to the Illinois state line to connect with the system of independent exchanges in the central eastern part of that state. Mrs. Peter Hess, 68 years old, whose death occurred at Evansville, was the wealthiest German woman in the city. Jacob Haas, 90 years old. a noted educator, who tafight in colleges in Germany until twelve years ago, and was pensioned by the German government, is also dead. Prpf. Milo J. Bowman, principal of the Madison high school for several years, has tendered his resignation, to take effect in June. The Lethin Oil company of Hammond, capital stock $600,000, incor 7 porated. The directors are E. H. Nichols. Leo N. Lethin, John A. Watson George M. Peck and ’ Curtis A Smith. Miss Nettie Seiler, whose clothing caught fire "while burning straw, js dead of her injuries at Bremen. She was betrothed in marriage to Walter Neufer and was 22 years old.

Proctor Wright, a prominent citizen of Rockport, in self-defense, shot and instantly killed Jesse Miles, a negro stevedore, employed on the steamer Thomas, plying between Evansville and Rockport. Andrew Humphreys, one of the two surviving members of the Indiana legislature of 1849, which passed the act calling the constitutional convention of 1851, ■ celebrated his eighty-first birthday at Linton. J'he suit brought against George W. Hamma, ex-town treasurer of Geneva, and his bondsmen, will be called at Portland on the 19th inst. John Winters has applied for a license to sell intoxicants in Pierceville, first saloon to be operated here since the civil war. The application will not be contested. The journeymen carpenters of New Albany have been granted an increase of wages of 25 cents a day, the former scale ranging from >L7S to >2.50 a day. The headquarters of the Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne divisions of the Lake Erie & Western are to be transferred from Muncie to Tipton. William M. Croswell, stockman and grain dealer of Raber committed suicide with a bullet in his brain. He was 60 years old. with a family and well-to-do financially. St. Joe county fruit growers report the peaches killed, while the outlook for apples and cherries are still good. Plums have suffered and strawberry plants are in bad shape. It is thought that the fire which destroyed the Indiana House at Jasper was caused by the high wind blowing sparks from the office stove. Nothing was saved from the structure, and severaCof the guests had difficulty in escaping. rhe Prohibition State executive committee in state headquarters at Indianapolis, arranged the program for the state convention, April 15 and 16. Wilson S. Doan, of Irvington has been selected as temporary chairman and will make his address at 1:30 p. m., Tuesday, April 15. The death of Dr. R. Q. Wilson removes from Kokomo one of her wealthiest and most prominent citizens. Dr. Wilson was said to be worth >300,000. Haitford City window glass workers have formed another co-operative company, and will build a factory in the Kansas natural gas field. The Kev. C. 0. Shirer of Aurora has accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian church of Richmond. G. T. Green, prominent as a philanthropic worker, died at Lafayette. For years he was connected with the Indiana Reformatory. John Parish, the well known horseman of Habbs, accompanied by his son was badly hurt in a runaway accident ill Elwood. The Rev. Jacob W. Heath, a Methodist minister and father of the Heath boys, is alarmingly ill at Muncie and Perry S. Heath has been summoned to his bedside from Salt Lake City. The Letlim Oil company of Hammond. capital, >600,000, has been organized. 1 he secretary of state has issued a license to the Eclipse Oil and Gas company, Wabash, capital, >300.000. • Ihe Ayrshire Coal company, Oakland City, capital, >50,000, has been incorporated. Incorporation papers have been filed by the Worthington Telephone company, Worthington, capital, >IO,OOO. The Home Telephone company of Portland has been licensed by the state. The Ames Shovel and Tool company of New York has a capital in Indiana of >556,850. The Sun Vapor Street Light company, West Virginia, has notified the authorities that its capital in Indiana is >IOO.OOO. Harry McMorris, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McMorris of Martinsville, is dead of lockjaw, resulting, it is thought, either from a sore from vaccination or from an injury received a few days ago. The Torrey Coal company has abandoned the Geneva mine, one of the oldest in the Clinton district, and 13 shipping the machinery and mules to Glendora, a new mining camp, where the company controls 1.800 acres of land, Mrs. M. A. Elliott of Indianapolis has asked the police to look for her 14-year-old son. who ran away from home. Thomas L. Peeley, also of Indianapolis, is seeking his 14-year-old daughter. He says that he has reason to believe that she has been enticed away by an elderly man. Mr. Peeley has been in Anderson and Muncie in search of her and got information which led him to oelieve she had gone to Terre Haute. Miss Henrietta Vonpein, aged 21 years, daughter of Matthew Vonpein. and a well known young woman, was fpund dead in the lake at the city pqrk in Richmond, having committed suicide the previous evening. No cause for the deed can be assigned. The town of Ashley has purchased the electric lighting plant of W. H. Mclntyre for >4.000, the payments to be divided into >l5O sums, payable semi-annually. The town will improve the plant and go into the municipal .lighting business.