Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1902 — Page 8

Indiana News Items

LUNATIC ASKS TO BE LOCKED UP Allen County Farmer Fears He Is Losing His Mind. Ernest Piepenbrink, a well-knowr Allen county farmer, living near New Haven called on Sheriff Stout, of that county, and laconically remarked: “Mr. Stout, I’m going insane and want to be locked up. and sent to Richmond.” The man seemed dazed, yet appeared to be in his right mind. It was suggested that the trouble might have resulted from drink, but it was learned that he had not been drinking. It is thought now that a sunstroke sustained some time since, affected him. CHEAPER THAN TO STAND TRIAL Court Costs Would Be More Than Sum Claimed From Treasurer. Jos. H. Schopmire of Versa'lles, former treasurer of Ripley county, who is alleged to be over $2,000 .short in his accounts, realizing the heavy cost to him and the county if he permitted the commissioners to bring suit against him, as was ordered, decided to pay the alleged shortage under protest, with a belief that a thorough examination will reveal entries on his books that will be in his favor, to offset at least a portion of the amount claimed. Death of Dr. Shafer. Dr. Philips Shafer, one of tne oldest and best-known physicians in Wabash county is dead at his home in North Manchester, after an illness of several months, from diseases incident to old age. He was a prominent Odd Fellow and an active member of the Christian church, haviDg held an official position in the Eel River Christian Conference for several years; A widow and three children survive him. Pastor Is a Hustler. The cornerstone of the new United Brethren church in Geneva was laid with appropriate ceremonies. The Rev. Z. C. Mower is pastor of the church. This is the twenty-first church he has dedicated during bis twentylive years in the ministry. He has built fourteen new ones and remodeled seven. Pioneer Is 111. D. C. East, tbe oldest hardware dealer of Anderson and a pioneer of Madison county, is reported seriously ill at Okello, Cal. He was on the coast for a pleasure trip when he fell ill. To Protect Life. Owing to the numerous accidents at railroad crossings, the Valparaiso city council adopted an ordinance providing for gates on eleven streets and day and sight watchmen. To Increase Pensions. The Pendleton G. A. R. Post is promoting a movement to have all posts petition Congress to amend the pension law, to provide for a minimum of $25 a month.

Teacher Moves. R. A. Chandler, principal of the Mulberry high school, has resigned to accept a position as teacher of mathematics in the Galesburg (Ill.) high school. Barbers Organize. All the barber shops of Newcastle have organised. A feature of the organization is that all shops will close at 8 o’clock in the evening. Vote for Reduction. Gas City lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tinplate Workers has voted to accept the reduced wages offered. Rich Woman Dies. Mn*. Elizabeth O’Reilly, age seventy, is dead at La Porte, leaving a $50,000 estate. She owned much land along the Kankakee river. Seventy-Barrel Well. A good oil well on the farm of S. B. Leach of Fowlerton has been completed. It is turning out seventy barrels a day. Starts Fire With Oil. From an explosion, caused by starting the fire with oil. Mrs. Addison Snell of Cass township Is at the point of death. Coachman Robs House. While Dr. A. J. Kessler and four guests were away from home at Fort Wayne his coachman robbed the house of SVOO. Never Hurt Her. At Union City a switch engine struck Lena Stumpp, age twelve, rolled her some distance, but did not injure her. May Reform. Charles Ward, the Terre Haute thief mho was taken from jail to the bedaide of his dying wife, and paroled when she died, returned promptly to the jail. It is thought the impression made upon him by the death of his wife will be the means of reforming him. Courts Are Prosperous. More than 300 additional suits will he Med against the Muncle Natural 0m Company and the Heat, Light and ftonrsr Company of Muncie by patrons.

TESTING INDIANA TRUBT LAWB Much Interest Manifested In Case Brought Against Bhovel Combine. The proceedings brought against the shovel trust at Newcastle by Prosecutor EJd Jackson, which were venued to Hancock county, will be tried some time next month. Charles Mouch, a heavy stockholder in the Indiana shovel plant, in Newcastle, caused the suit to be brought when the trust attempted to gobble up the plants. This case will be a test of the Indiana trust laws and is being watched with interest. M. P. CONFERENCE OF INDIANA Church Has Added Several Hundred Members During the Year. The Indiana Methodist Protestant conference held its session at Indianapolis. The Rev. T. J. Ogburn, summerfield, N. C., secretary of the

REV. W. W. LINEBERRY.

board of foreign missions, preached the conference sermon. Following this came the communion administration by the Rev. S. Heininger, Elkhart. In Indiana the communicants of the Methodist Protestant church number 10,000, with seventy preachers and 150 churches and missions. The sum of $40,000 has been

LOG CABIN BESPATTERED WITH BLOOD.

expended during the year in new churches and in improvements. Several hundred members have been added during the year, and the prosperity of the church has been marked. President Lineberry has instituted a monthly paper in Indianapolis, devoted to the interests of the church. The board of church extension has begun active operations to increase its funds for the purpose of occupying new fields. It is hoped during the coming year to establish missions or churches in Anderson, Ft. Wayne, Marion, Indiana Harbor and other cities in the state. Benbowa Name Baby, rs - The fifteenth annual reunion of the Benbow family was held in Westside Park, Muncie. One hundred and fifty Benbows from Indiana were present. The oldest was Julius Benbow of Newcastle, 81 years old. The youngest was the two-weeks-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Benbow of Muncie, who was named ‘•Helen’’ at the park by the sentiment of the members of the family who were present. Aged Woman Hurt. Mrs. Sarah Partin, residing with her daughter, Mrs. E. R. Cooley, of Scottsburg, fell recently, sustaining serious injuries. She says she is 103 years old. Big Tobacco Crop. The crop of tobacco in Spencer county this year will amount to from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 pounds. Fractures His Leg. While hauling manure from his barnyard, Louis Kohlerman of Ripley county slipped from his wagon, and in falling his foot caught between two spokes of the wheel and he sustained a compound fracture of the left leg. Honest Men Not All Dead. J. M., Dickey of Rose Lawn, Ind., lost a purse containing $2,000 in a passenger coach between Lafayette and Chicago. He did not know of his loss until the conductor, A. J. Johnson, returned the purse to him.

State Happenings Succinctly Told by Our Special Correspondents

BLOODY CABIN COVERS MYBTERY Children’s Find Leads Police to Bcent a Murder. A . cabin six miles east of Marlon has recently been visited by hundreds of people. Two months ago a party of children playing about the place discovered a large amount of blood, and at once there was a supposition that a murder had been committed. The entire neighborhood was searched by the police in the expectation of finding a body, but nothing came of it. The blood was found in a shed in the rear, and near the old chimney two sticks, the ends of which were covered with blood, were found secreted under the house. The police dragged three ponds in the neighborhood, but in vain. The officers finally gave it up, but the people living in the vicinity continued the search. The people at Frankfort tried to connect the discovery with the murder of “Red” McDuffy, whose body was found by the Clover Leaf tracks, in that city. The supposition is that McDuffy was assaulted in the cabin, placed on a freight train and thrown off where the body was found. HORSE’S KICK CAUSES LOCKJAW Slight Injury Develops Blood Poison, With Fatal Ending. Frank "Rullock, an 8-year-old boy of Royertoo, is dying as the result of a leg beln lacerated by a horse’s hoof. Lockjaw set in and physicians offer no hope of relief. While leading a horse the animal jumped forward, injuring the boy’s leg slightly, blood poisoning and then lockjaw resulting. DRUG WORKED THE WRONG WAY Powerful Drayman Failed to Go to Sleep Under the Influence. Three men, well known in police circles, took Robert Hill, a drayman, Into a saloon at Kokomo and placed a drug in a glass of beer. Hill is six feet two inches In height, weighs 230 pounds and is said to be one of the strongest men in Kokomo. The drug, instead of putting him to sleep, as was expected, had an opposite effect. The men evidently intended to rob Hill of

a wallet containing $137.50. Instead of calmly dropping off to sleep the big drayman soon began to become unruly. He suddenly sprang from his chair and, with a loud yell, threw one of the men through a board partition. Hill then tore through the saloon and ran twice around the square, knocking three men down. The town officers, uoth of whom are large men, finally succeeded in overpowering him.

Holiness Camp Meeting. There will be a Holiness camp meeting near Wesley chapel on Sept. 10 to 20, inclusive. Evangelist E. E. Wood and wife, Mary Story of the Bible school of Cincinnati, and Evangelist George Kulp of Michigan, will be present and conduct the meeting. New Oil Field. A practically new oil field was opened on the Wilson farm, four miles northeast of Muncie, when a good producing oil well was struck by a new oil company. Other wells will be put down in that vicinity at once. Brakeman Is Killed. Fred Kinley, Jr., a brakeman on the Chicago division of the Big Four, was thrown from a steam traction car near Lawrence and killed. He was sitting on the rear platform when he fell off. Bues for 35,000. Miss Kitty Hart of Valparaiso, the young woman found gagged and tied in a bath tub, and accused of robbery of $7,000, has filed suit (for $6,000 damages for false imprisonment. Was Secret Society Man. E. V. Arnold, engaged in the undertaking business for many years, is dead at Valparaiso. He was a prominent Grand Army man, Royal Arch, Arcanum and Mason. He was 60 years old and leaves a family. Seed Merchant Retires. George W. Barnes, a Richmond seed and wool merchant who has been in business fifty years without a break, announces that he will retire. He is one of the pioneer business m«a of eastern Indiana.

Seton’s Studies of Animal Life.

Ernest Seton, whose studies of animal life have delighted so many readers, for twenty years has been noting by word or sketch every small fact he discovered. Among them are innumerable footprints of wild awl, mats, most of which he gives Mrs. Seton credit for obtaining. She haa often gone into an animal’s cage in the New York zoo and with the keeper's assistance cajoled the creature Into walking to and fro on light brown paper which would show his tracks.

Centenary of Thomas Aird.

Steps are being taken in Dumfries to commemorate the centenary of Thomas Aird, the Scottish writer of prose and verse. Aird was a fellow student and lifelong friend of Carlyle and during his life he was intimately associated with many other notable men of letters. Among other arrangements in connection with the centenary a bust of the poet by John Hutchinson, R. s. A., will be placed in the vestibule of Dumfries library.

The Only “Harp” There.

The waiters at a big restaurant in the Park Row building are all French or German, with one exception, and he is a son of the “ever faithful isle." Patsy, said the man with the very high collar, cocking his ear, the better to hear the orchestra playing in the upstairs dining room, “is that a harp they have upstairs?" “No, sir," said Patsy, “I guess I am the only ‘harp’ there is here.”—New York Tribune.

Morning in the Country.

Only the born countryman rises with the sun to enjoy the freshest and loveliest part of the day, which is between sunrise and 8 a. m. The casual or vacation countryman rises with the breakfast bell, which is generally rung at the accommodating hour of 7:30. The farmer rightly thinks that the urban visitor is fit only to take money from.—Boston Journal.

Encouragement for Marconi.

The Royal Academy of Lincei, at Rome, conferred an unusual distinction upon Signor Marconi, in awarding him, by unanimous vote, at its last meeting, a prize of the value of 10,000 lire. It was adjudged to him in token of the interest taken by the academy in the progress which wireless telegraphy has made and continues to make throug Signor Marconi’s work.

To Train Colored Girls.

A training school for colored nurses has been established in Charleston, S- C., by a colored woman physician] Dr. Lucy Hughes Brown, a graduate of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. The Southern people seem to take kindly to this innovation, and the enterprise is highly commended by the Charleston press

Clergyman Tells Fish Story.

Rev. Dr. Howard Lee Jones, pastor of the Baptist Church of the Epiphany at New York, claims to have caught a black bass in Connecticut weighing five and one-half pounds and measuring twenty-two inches. These figures are absolutely authentic, for they were furnished by the reverend fisherman himself.

American Shoes Go Abroad.

The exporting of American shoes is of comparatively recent growth. In 1896 this country exported only $l- - worth of boots and shoes but for the fiscal year 1901 it sent abroad 85,600,000 worth of boots and shoes and England and her colonies took $4,400,000 worth of this total.

Campanile Legends.

One of the legends connected with the Campanile Is that Napoleon I. rode on horseback to the very top; but whether this is true or not, it is quite sure that a young officer, Count Wimpfen, went up 160 feet, also on horseback. while Venice was under Austrian dominion.

Fearful Destruction of Sheep.

Mr. Samuel McCaughey, the Australian sheep king, has suffered a record loss on account of the great drought It has diminished his Riverina sheep flock of 1,250,000 —the largest in the world which belonged to one man by no fewer than 1,000,000 head.

Got Paid for His Autographs.

It Is related that Prince Metternich once asked Jules Janln for his autograph. Janin took a sheet of paper and wrote over his signature: “Good for a hundred bottles of Johannisberg to be placed in my cellar.” The prince sent them.

A Sure Test.

Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be. has taken possession of him.—Lowell.

Will Erect Monument to Castelar.

A committee of prominent Spaniards has been selected to raise a fund to erect a monument at Madrid to the late Emilo Castelar. The subscription has already reached 100,000 pesetas.

German Mines Shut Down.

Notices of dismissal have been posted on the comers in the Bochum and Dortmund districts, Westphalia, where it has been decided to restrict the output of coal.

Relic of Prince “Charley.”

Prince Charley’s tartan cloak, which he wore during the rebellion in 1745, i s now being exhibited in a tailor’s window at Pitlochry, Perthshire

MOTHER AND DAUCHTEB Cured by Pe-ru-na of Bystemic Catarrh.

An Interesting Letter Prom f Mrs. M. K. Bousch, of i Richmond, ond Her Little Daughter, Pearl. IHIHfTI! ffimtimniMHiinnininu jtTli a hi iii Hiniiiii lUiniiimiiniiin. 1 111 l IlilllillUl Jr i Hi 44^hJ1||I yj nil rimitimtiin,,, < wrftes-M. BoußC h, Richmond, Va., catarrh at! through my ays - Urn for two years and could get no relief. I was advised to try Peruna, and [JZEZZfZHJ*™ *° W/es o/ " andZm weu and better now than l have been tor years. I can advise any one who has catarrh of any part of the body to take Peruna. My little girl, who Is eleven years old bad catarrh, but was Parma. Before l began to take Peruna / was sick all the time, bus noir lam entirely cured and all *“ M. K. Miss Pearl Bousch writes: “When I wae a baby I contracted catarrh, and

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/ Wk « I X / Imm «KJgfl\l \ i I 1 m:*a i I tAi Vfflllff fm ( i H^. d^ ored h l several good physicians, but none did me any stood. an°d^ er Waß taki ?fiT PerunaJttha Wan Zsi 80110 ® ° f H l° ”«* l soon tKsgan to improve, and am now weU and | l tt,e P’g- I ana twelve year* old. The doctors told mother I had the consumption, but it was only catarrh.” 11 “—Miss Pearl Bousch. ; T, H is o° ion ger a question as to whether t erunacan be relied on to cure all such cases. During the many years in which Peruna has been put to test in all forms and stages of acute and chronic catarrh no one year has put this remedy to greater test than the past ye at. Peruna is the acknowledged catarrh remedy of the age. Dr. Hartman, the compounder of Peruna, has written a book on the phases of catarrh peculiar to women, entitled, “Health and Beauty - It will be sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. if you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna. write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give yon his valuable adrice gratia Address Dr. Hartman, President of Ohio “ artman s ***»tarium, Columbus,

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