Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

—A fire at Stockwell completely destroyed five business houses. —The barn of Cash Herron, near Lynn, burned, with contents. —Fire ha# destroyed J. Stephens k Co.’a general store at West Shoal. —Charles Canfield was found one mile south of Vernon frozen to death. —Andrew Starkey, of Porter County, committed suicide by shooting himself. —Harris k Cook, dry goods merchants of Kokomo, have made an assignment. —The residence of Humphrey Frick us, above Evansville, was destroyed by fire. —The Lafayette Gas Company proposes to fnrnish that city with electric light in the spring. —John Miller, tried at Colombo* foi shooting Bnck McKinney, has been acquitted. —Harrison M. Crockett, one of the first settlers of Sonth Bend, died recently of paralysis. —Great excitement prevails there over the discovery of coal a short distance south of Vernon. —Rufus Crisman, of Frankfort, committed suicide by hanging himself with a trace-chain. —William Shipe, of Evansville, was thrown from a wagon by a runaway horse and almost scalped. —Ewald Over, of Indianapolis, manufacturer of farm and other machinery, has made an assignment. —Fire destroyed W. J. Rawlins’ photograph parlors at Vincennes, and partially destroyed the building. —Dr. C. L. Thomas, of Logansport, has been appointed to succeed Dr. J. M. Justice on the Pension Board. —Ewald Over, of Indianapolis, manufacturer of farm machinery and iron dealer, made an assignment. —The religions revival in Connersville has been the most extraordinary season of the kind ever known in that city. —At Martinsville, Allen L. English, Trustee of Clay Township, charged with obtaining money by false pretenses, was acquitted. —George-1 Keller, near Sonth Bend, hanged himself because he hod too much money and too little education to care for it. —The daughter of Joseph Blossom, living near Keller’s Station, near Wabash, died from a dose of morphine given through mistake. —V . : —The burning of the Fisk Block, at Valparaiso, entailed a loss of $20,000. The Knights Templars lost SB,OOO in furniture and regalia. —Philip Babb, of Buck Creek, who shot and fatally wounded Nathaniel Warfield a few nights since, was arrested Saturday and bound over.

—William A. McCaffrey, of New Albany, a carpenter, fell from a trestle on the Kentucky and Indiana bridge, and died in twenty mpintes. - —lt has been discovered that the baking powder which recently censed the death of . Margaret Garrettson, at Williamsport, was dosed with arsenic. —Wm. Bums, while rendering lard near Evansville, upset a kettle of the grease, which went over his face, chest, and legs. He will lose his eyesight. —Clayton Pavey, who created a sensation in a crowded church in Dora, by shooting William Oates, who two years ago eloped with his sister Ida, is yet at large. —Thomas Birmingham, the Indianapolis barkeeper who killed William Reunion last October, has been convicted of manslaughter, with two years in the penitentiary. —Citizens of Daviess County are making objections to the raising of $75,000 by taxation as a bonus to the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad shops to locate at Washington. —Joint Railroad Agent C. M. Keck and J. B. Barnett, telegraph operator, were arrested at Auburn Junction, on bench warrants charging wholesale robbery of trunks. —Charles Broker, of Jeffersonville, while working on a pistol, fatally shot his son, five years old. The child exclaimed, with a smile on his lips, “Why, pa, you’ve shot me.” —At Pern, J. Savage, traveling peddler, while showing his traveling companion, named Golan, how steadily he could handle a revolver, accidentally shot and killed Golan. —Thomas Marley, captured in Arkansas, is now in jail at Paoli. Mar ley was indicted for the killing of Martin Archer, Jr., in the northern part of Orange County in 1882. —The Indiana Coal Mine Inspector recommends that all persons employed to weigh coal be sworn. He tested twenty-six scales and found twelve incorrect. Of these twelve only two weighed in favor of the miner.

—A sleighing party south of Columbia City passed a party of young men who were walking. Thomas Fullerton tossed a partly filled bottle of whisky in the sleigh, ’yhich struck John Gachette. The latter jumped ont, and he and Fullerton fell to fighting. Fullerton produced a revolver and fired, the Jball entering Gacbette’s abdomen, and be died in forty-five minutes. Fullerton admits the shooting, but claims it was in selfdefense. _____ *—At Cory don, Judge W. N. Trace well was fined for disturbing a public school. A,' teacher expelled one of the Judge’s grandchildren, and the Judge called upon the pedagogue while school Was In session, and made use of some very forcible remarks in the presence of the scholars. —At ; the meeting of the- Internationa] Fair and Exposition Association at Indian-, apolis the Secretary read a paper strongly condemning auxiliary amusements at fairs as wrong in thtery and injurious in practice. \