Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The Lou Mabbitt mystery, which set Howard County agog for a time, has been solved. A detective was sent to Texas to arrest Green, the man charged with murdering the girl. He found Green and told him his errand, when the alleged murderer took the officer to bis house, showed him his wife, Lou Mabbitt, fat i nlhearly, and then informing him that they were of lawful age and were legally married, told the astonished officer to get, and he went. The sequel upsets the sensational yarn about the spirits locating the body of. the Mabbitt girl in Wildcat Creek. —Some of the members of the Wayne County Medical Society are moving to have the forthcoming grand jury take cognizance of the fact that several practitioners are practicing without complying with the law in making register of their qualifications, by their diplomas, with the county clerk nnd receiving his certificate. The failure thus to do subjects the practitioner to a heavy fine. —A laborer employed by James W. Ryan, a wealthy truckman, of Fort Wayne, narrowlj’ escaped being crushed under a great stone which was being moved from a flat. At the sight of the supposed accident Ryan swooned away, and was removed to his residence, continuing unconscious until he died. He had been in excellent health, and was noted for his prodigious strength. » —A 4-year-old son of Jasper Bozarth, a prominent farmer, living just outside of the Rochester city limits, was playing around a bucket of boiling water which was being used for washing, when the little fellow stumbled and fell headlong into the vessel. Before he could be rescued the head and trunk, were horribly burned, and death was instantaneous.

—ln 1869 the Kokomo Oil Company bored a well to tho depth of 825 feet and quit, discouraged. The company has been reorganized as the Howard Natural Gas nnd Oil Company, capital SIO,OOO, and will complete the well, which lacks but 150 feet of being in the sand. The Junction Gas Company will complete its organization and get to work at once. —At Richmond, Rev. I. M. Hughes preached on the subject of “Divorce,” which suggested a recapitulation of the divorce record in the Wayne Circuit Court. It shows there have been fifty-four cases filed in a year, about one-third of which were dismissed, and most of the others refused. The wife was the plaintiff in most cases. —Mrs. Jane Alexander, of Lafayette, put gasoline oil in a pan and poured boiling water over it. An explosion followed, a portion of the fluid falling on Mrs. Alexander's arm, scalding it terribly, while more fell on the head and face of her 2-year-old son clinging to her skirts. The child inhaled the hot steam, and will probably die. —The Rock-oil and Gas Company of Winchester were compelled to abandon their first well, after boring to the depth of 1,140 feet, on account of a part of the machinery becoming detached and so fastened in the well that it could not be removed. They had good indications of oil. so much so that they will sink a second well. \ . —A delicate surgical operation'was performed at Brazil, the subject being the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. H. C. Kieth. The child was suffering extremely from me m bran eons croup,-andna- incision was made in the windpipe and a silver tube inserted. Respiration was at once restored, and the child’s life saved. —The new directors of the New Ross Agricultural Society are as follows: John Lockridge, John S. Byrd, J. Cooms, Circle Peffiy, John Inlow, J. Hostetter, S. D. Hostetter, Wm. B. Gipson, Wm. B. Stewart, N. G. Thompson, Wm. B. Yelton, J. Kennedy, Thomas Rouk, George Sanford, and George Wiem ~~* - - . —At a citizens’ meeting held at LaPorte, it was decided to rebuild the Loomis factory that was destroyed there by fire. The insurance money will be used to construct the building, and a subscription paper will be circulated at once to raise $5,000 to purchase the necessary machinery. —Rev. W. V. Monroe has, on account of poor health, resigned the pastorate of the Baptist Church at North Madison, Jefferson County, and Rev. John E. McCoy has been called to fill the vacancy. Mr. Monroe has united in wedlock more couples than any other man in the county. —The boiler of John Porter’s saw-mill in Rush County exploded recently, doing considerable damage, but no person was hurt. The fireman had just stepped outside of the engine room, which is all that saved his life. Other persons narrowly escaped injury. —The 7-year-old daughter of Louis Rinker, a Miami County farmer, swallowed a teaspoonful of carbolic acid, which the little one supposed to be medicine, The child was found at the point of death. Restoratives were of no avail, and the sufferer died. —Farmers state that the wheat crop in Miami County will not be one-third of a crop, on account of the recept cold snap freezing it out. If such is the case, the crop will be almost a complete failure, as a decreased acreage was put in this year. i—A poplar tree was recently cut down near. New Middletown, Harrison County, that measured twenty-seven feet in circumference. The tree made 12,000 shingles, 1,000 rails, 600 feet of lumber, and twenty-five cords of stove-wood. —The bicycle riders of Crawfordsville have formed a permanent organization, and adopted the name of “Crawfordsville Ramblers.” —S. W. Miller, a brakeman, fell from a train at Rome City and was killed. His body was horribly mangled. S —C. R. Bogers’ bam, one mile west of Austin, was totally destroyed by fire, together with twenty tons of hay, one fine trotting colt, one mower and reaper, and other farming implements. Loss on bam, $3,000; insurance, SI,OOO. —The barbers of Richmond have entered into a written compact to keepclosed doom on Sunday, several being forced into this action by threats of prosecution from those who have kept closed right along. —A citizen of LaPorte offers to furnish a man who can eat a twelve-pound goose each day for a month. — L-—AZ-— i