Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1902 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

An attempt was made in the common council to incorporate Sullivan as a city, but it failed. Fourteen trustees of Clinton county have passed a rule that no teacher under eighteen years of age will be permitted to teach e in the public schools. The annual log-rolling of the Order of Woodmen will be held at Kokomo in August The Geneva school board has accepted tbe plans for a $15,000 schoolhouse, to take the place of that burned last December. The construction is to begin at once. Clinton Beard, living east of Van Buren, is dead, under peculiar circumstances. He ate a hearty supper, walked into another room and fell dead. Physicians who examined him said that nearly every blood vessel in his body had burst. He had just recovered from the mumps. R. Orchard Cotton, a member of the Board of Public Safety, died, at South Bend, after an operation for appendicitis. He was fifty-two years old. The Lafayette Y. M. C. A. building fund has been increased to $25,000. All the North Manchester churches have combined to oppose plans of business men to hold a street fair. E. R. Hall, charged with being implicated in the Claypool bank robbery, has proved an alibi and was released. At Nashville the planing mill of C. C. Hopper burned, the fire starting in the engine-room. Loss, $5,000; no insurance. At Vincennes Ella Clark, has sued Isaac Steger, a farmer, for $3,000 for sixteen years’ work as housekeeper and for $5,000 for ill health sustained in field work. The combination of Muncie meat dealers, formed to put up the price of meats, has been broken because two or three dealers, who refused to go into the combination, secured almost all of the trade in the city. Ope dealer, who refused to join the combine, has been reaping a harvest since it was formed. A part of the time his market has been so crowded that all the customers could not get in his store, but lined up in front and took their turns to get in. Two of Elwood’s elderly people have been married at Anderson, the bride for the fifth time. They were David Conrad, aged 70, and Mrs. Lawrence, age 59. He has been married twice, and each of Mrs. Lawrence’s four husbands are dead.

A number of glass-blowing machines have arrived for use in the factor of the Macßeth-Evans Glass Company at Elwood. A buggy company from Cincinnati is to locate its plant in Evansville. The plant will employ one hundred men. J. C. Dale, who operates a sawmill at Daleville, has shipped 20,000 feet of walnut lumber to England. The representation of the crown of England, had to be stamped upon every board. Calloway Pierce, 80 years old, was' seriously burned in a natural gas explosion at Daleville. The Tom Smock, mentioned as having been arrested at Martinsville on the charge -of stealing a horse at Alexandria, was not the Tom Smock who lives in Martinsville. The man was not a member of the Martinsville company that served in the Spanish war. Fire in the plant of the Terre Haute .Gas Company was got under control after a hard fight, with small loss. William Arnold, of Bloomington, died from a terrible accident. He was caught between a train of cars and was rolled about twenty feet through a space of six inches, between the cars and a shed. A number of his ribs were broken and he was badly injured internally. The controversy which was on over the location of the. Ayer & Lord tie preserving plant at Alton has been settled and the work on the construction of the buildings will begin at once. The plant will employ 100 men, and will treat by the bichloride of zinc process over 4,000,000 ties annually. Prentiss McClure, a farmer and school teacher, living near Cuba, fell from a load of hay and broke his neck. C. S. Cook, formerly lessee of the Robbins House at Crawfordsville, was arrested on complaint of the McCormick company of Chicago, alleging the embezzlement of $2,000. The accused was formerly employed as collector by the company. James Hamilton McNeely, editor of the Evansville Journal-News, is dead. He was known as the "nestor of Indiana journalism,” and was one of the best-known editors and publishers in the state. The masons’ and bricklayers’ strike at South Bend has been adjusted, and the men are back at work. The strike began April 1. The elevator of the Pennsylvania railroad at Valparaiso burned, together with 100 tons of hay. Loss, $3,500. An adjuster for a bank insurance company is at Pennville, looking into the robbery which occurred in the bank there. It will be several days before any definite report is made or the exact loss is known. There is absolutely no clew to the men who blew the safe. At Terre Haute the Indiana Laundrymen’s association adjourned, after electing the following officers: President, W. M. Dimmock, of Muncie; secretary, H. M. Trueblood, of Marion; treasurer, Paul Krauss, of IndianapsMSt \ . '.Lt*. -Jt. '. '

The postofflce at Sweet Home, St Joseph county, has been changed to Lindley. Senator Blackburn introduced a bill appropriating $1,500 for the purchase of a marble bust of the late Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, to be placed in the congressional library. Peter G. Ludwig has been appointed storekeeper and gauger for the Seventh (Terre Haute) Indiana district. A certificate has been issued authorizing the First National Bank of Rockport, capital $35,000, E. M. Payne, president, and William I. Rudd, cashier, to commence business. The leave of absence of Charles B. Rogers of Shoals as United States consul at Zanzibar has been extended until May 4. Representative Steele has introduce! a bill to reimburse the heirs of John Pierce of Marion for the loss of a vessel on the Ohio river during the civil war. The amount involved aggregates about $50,000. Senator Foraker introduced a pension bill granting SSO a month to John Shepard, late of Company E, Thirteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Earl Keeler, who went to the Philippines for military service and whose whereabouts was unknown to relatives at Thornton since last September, has written that he is employed in an American store on the Island of Luzon.

The Rev. Father Lauth of Notre Dame, a well known priest of the Order of the Holy Cross, has been appointed to St. Joseph’s church, South Bend, to take the vacancy caused by the death of the Rev. Father N. J. Stoffet. The Mishawaka M. E. church has raised about SII,OOO on the $20,000 to build a reading room, library and gymnasium in connection with the church. M. V. Beigler has given $5,000 to the fund and Mrs. Beigler has given SI,OOO. At Clarkehill a stock company with $7,000 capital has been organized to manufacture a grain and seed separator, patented by W. J. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Alvah Clark of Ladoga are the parents of an infant that for size is smaller than anybody ever born here. The youngster tipped the beam at one pound when he was born. His fingers are somewhat larger than the tines of a table fork and his wrists are about the size of a man’s finger. An ordinary scoop bowl makes a comfortable cradle for the infant. Senator Beveridge introduced a bill to pension Thaddeus Miller, Angola, and Spencer Woods, New Albany. The retail grocers’ eight associations in Indiana are sending petitions asking for the passage of the Hepburn pure food bill, favorably reported on by the house. When interviewed at Fort Wayne, Superintendent Howe of the Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas company said: "The present year will practically witness the end of natural gas for fuel purposes in this part of the state.” He says it will be impossible for his company to supply the fuel for domestic consumption even with the aid of powerful pumping stations and the large number of new wells being drilled.

Senator Fairbanks has prepared and will introduce a bill to increase the pension of James H. King of Indianapolis from S3O to $75 a month. The case is a pathetic one, King being totally disabled. Benjamin Harrison, while a senator, got through a bill for relief, but the rate was not named and the bureau fixed it at S3O. Contracts have been awarded for SI,OOO worth of repairs in the Martinsville court house. The commissioners have also contracted with the Indianapolis Bridge company for a $575 bridge between Gregg and Clay townships. The home of Joseph M. Wardlaw at Staunton, county commissioner, was badly wrecked by fire, caused by a defective flue. At Greenfield, Harry Brooks, an orphan, twelve years old, while playing in the Pan-Handle yards, was caught by a moving car and killed. Lee Wilson, colored, nineteen years old, after a series of daring burglaries, was captured by the police a,t Lafayette and he has been committed to prison under the indeterminate sentehce act Robert McKagne, brakeman on a construction train of the Pennsylvania lines, fell under the wheels at Plymouth while switching and was decapitated. Both arms and legs were also cut off. He was the only support of a widowed mother. Auburn is entering upon an era of street improvements, and Messrs. Peters & Hanna of Ft. Wayne have contracted to lay pavements aggregating $72,000. Wolves are becoming so plentiful In the townships bordering the Kankakee river that the county commissioners have been asked to pay a bounty of $lO a scalp. The Wayne county commissioners favor the adoption of voting machines, and if the county council will appropriate the necessary money they may be used at the general election next fall. A voting machine company is now making an exhibit at Richmond and at the city election next month .machines will be tried in three precincts.

Captain Isaac Perry, nearly ninetyfour years of age, while carrying an armload of wood into his home at Memphis, stepped on a shoestring that had become unfastened and fell headlong from the porch. His hip bone was fractured. Owing to his age there is some uneasiness as to his condition. The medical profession has become interested so much in a city hospital that the plans made are bringing success, and Huntington will have one of the largest hospitals in the state. The matter was attempted once before, but failed because of an inability to secure nurses. The American Black Marble Company, composed of O. P. Eversole, of Fort Wayne; C. H. Lawton and G. W. Claire, of Wabash, and L. A. Burleigh, of Augusta, Me., has been incorporated with a capital of $300,000. The company owns 1,200 acres of Virginia land, on which there is an abundance of black marble deposits. Four quarries will be immediately opened. The J. B. Wooley Coal Company o' Evansville is erecting several powder mills in Pike county. The mills will cost SIOO,OOO, and will be in operation some time this fall. The two-story brick schoolhouse at St. Paul burned, including a library of two hundred books. The loss was $6,000 and insurance $2,000. Thomas Smock of Company A, 158th Indiana, is in jail at Martinsville on the charge of stealing a horse at Alexandria. Linton machine coal miners who have been on strike will return to work, pending arbitration.

Indiana postmasters have been appointed as follows: Eden, Hancock county, O. E. Baity, vice O. N. Trueblood, resigned; Stoutsburg, Jasper county, C. W. Wood, vice C. S. Wallace, resigned. At Sullivan the jury in the SIO,OOO damage case of William Peach vs. the L. T. Dickerson Coal Company of Linton, returned a verdict of S7OO for Peach. He was injured by falling slate in a mine. Representative Watson delivered a speech at Pittsburg at the observance of Appomattox day, celebrated by the G. A. R. posts. William Drum, while intoxicated, crawled under a train near Kingsland and was instantly killed. Senator Beveridge has introduced bills to pension James E. Cox of Vincennes and William P. Rhodes of Williamsport. Elbyron Goodrich, who was arrested some time ago on a similar charge and released pending good behavior, was taken into custody, charged with stealing a wagonload of chickens from Samuel Hobbs, a farmer, living two miles northeast of Elwood. Hobbs traced the horse driven by the thieves by a peculiar shoe, and a search warrant turned up the missing property. Goodrich implicated a young man named Yohe in the theft and Yohe confessed the crime.

Frederick McKenzie of Warren, who has been in jail on a charge of murdering his father-in-law, William Lines, also of Warren, has, under a post-mor-tem verdict of the coroner, been cleared of the charge. The corone” found no marks of violence on the body of Lines, but there was a clot of blood on the brain, indicating the cause of death. Some time ago a mule belonging to John Thompson of Sullivan, accidentally tore its left hind hoof entirely off. The leg was placed in a sling and the mule is now growing a new hoof. It is about an inch long. At Martinsville the six-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mosier was found dead in bed when the parents awoke. The child was well and hearty when they retired. It is thought death was caused by a smothering spell. Clayton Williams, Geqrge B. Neely and Henry Huckerside, of Bryant, have asked the circuit court to release them as the bondsmen for Sheridan U. Bailey, the marshal of that town; and that in case he does not file a new bond to declare the office vacant. They assign no reason. Mrs. Thomas Stabler is at the point of death at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alfred P. Conklin. She has been ill all winter. Mrs. C. F. Hunt, of Indianapolis, is another daughter. Mrs. Stabler is the.wife of the Rev. Thomas Stabler, a retired Methodist minister, whose last charge was at Jonesboro. The Vigo county commissioners have offered Terre Haute the use of six voting machines at the city election to be held next month. There is opposition in the city council to the use of the machines, one question raised being as to the legality of their use. The county bought the six machines with the understanding that if they were all that was claimed for them more would be purchased. One objection to their use in the city election is that there is not enough of them for the entire city. Frank Koenig, a Lafayette butcher, was perhaps fatally injured in a runaway. He was driving in a buggy when the horse became unmanagable, and he was thrown from the vehicle. His right leg was broken and internal injuries rendered him unconscious. A small boy named Viol, who was with Koenig, escaped with slight bruises. The Rev. J. M. Wines of Whiteland had a, leg broken in a runaway in Franklin, his horse taking fright at an interurban car. His daughter, who was with him, was also severely bruised