Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A few weeks ago, at Richmond, Jonas Bennett and Jennie Kilmer, who had long been lovers, were married. Early one morning recently she arose, gave her fansband an evasive answer that led him to be* lieve she was necessarily going down stairs f <ft a few moments, and proceeded to the bridge across White River, where she leaped ahont seventy feet; and broke her neck in striking the water, where ahe was subsequently found by her hnsband. who became alarmed at her prolonged absence and Instituted search. She was crazed by the death of her mother, about five years ago. Developments leave little doubt but the act was premeditated. -—For a_ number of years Amos H. Mills, of Decatur Township, Marion County, returned for taxation $9,000 in money, which he said was buried on his farm. He paid taxes promptly on it, but last June he died without giving any information as to where the money lay. The administrator plowed every part of the farm, dug around the dwelling-house and out-buildings without discovering anything of the least value. The widtftv had no other mepns, and in time a small judgment was taken against her. Under attachment her buggy and horse were taken away. —Notices have been received from W. 8. Chapman, of the Central Union Telephone Company, by subscribers to the Wabash exchange that, owing to the restrictions imposed upon the business by law, they will be compelled to close the exchange in that city. Mr. Chapman adds that in case any accommodation can be rendered by private line or public toll service the company will cheerfully do so. —Some years ago the old Board of Tippecanoe County Commissioners contracted with Barnes nnd Mitchel, County Auditor and County Clerk, to do certain indexing of records. The work was done, and proved more expensive than was anticipated, and the new Board of Commissioners refused to allow the bills. Appeals were taken, and Judge Vinton held that the county must pay. —On petitign of citizens the Richmond City Council has passed a resolution appropriating SIO,OOO to be used in boring for gas. The object is to thoroughly test the field near Richmond, and perhaps adjacent towns, and determine whether it is necessary to go to the known field and pipe to the city, as proposed in organizing a citizen’s association, with $200,000 capital, if it proves necessary. —As the Bradford train was passing through the Panhandle yard at Logansport, Joseph Austin, a resident of Bnnker Hill, Ind., fell from a platform against a switch engine moving in an opposite direction. Mr. Austin was knocked tinder the wheels of (he passenger train and instantly killed. Austin was a one-armed . man, and was proprietor of a lnnch counter at Bunker Hill. —A 13-year-old son of John Johnson, of Decatur, while trying to put a belt on the pulley of a grindstone in his father’s planing-mill, was caught by the drivingbelt of the mill, and carried to the lineshafting, and whirled round and round until every bone in his body was broken. One of his arms was tom from his body at the shoulder. His death was almost instantaneous. —President Watson, of the Vincennes’ 1 and New Albany Railroad, says there is no longer any question as to the road being built. He states that the company’s surveying party have found an excellent line from New Albany to Paoli, and have prospected for a route from Paoli to Jasper. The entire line can be boilt at a very reasonable sum per mile. —The boy, Jesse Heimbaugh, of Lafayette, who was by many believed to have been killed by his mother during her insanity, has been found at Elwood, where he had gone to visit relatives. The mother's talk about a strange man killing her boy and her having buried him in a lonely spot, gave rise to the theory of murder. —The Governor has appointed David W. Chambers, of New Castle, as Trustee of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, in place of Stephen E. Urmstron, the State Senator who resigned his trusteeship on Jan. 5. Andrew Hagan has been reappointed State Oil Inspector, and Enos B. Reed State Fish Commissioner. —Dr. K. H. Williams, recently appointed postmaster at Cope, has become disgusted with the position and forwarded his resignation to the Postmaster General. He assigned as a reason for this actido that the pay of the office was inadequate to the labor and responsibility. His salary for March last was 45 cents. —lnformation received from Warren, Huntington County, states that the impression is abroad that the man recently employed to “shoot” the oil well there was “influenced by an Eastern corporation, and instead of increasing the flow intentionally destroyed the well, which is now worthless. —Mrs. J. W. Long, a passenger on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wnyne and Chicago Railroad train, en route to Englewood, 111., her home, died within a short distance of Fort Wayne, of consumption. The remains were taken off at that city and prepared for burial. —Mrs. Philas Seely, of Elkhart, aged 83 years, died recently. She was a pioneer, and one of the best-known characters of that city. She was very prominent in the affairs of the First M. E. Church, of which she had been a member over sixty years. —The Miller school-house, five miles southwest of Crawfordsville, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,200; insured for $375. As the house had Bot been in nse for some time, some person mast have set it on fire. —The Washington Common Council has granted to the Washington Street Railway Company an exclusive franchise for thirty years. Tho company was organized three days ago. J. C. Lavelle is President. < > : —The Nickel Plate people are building one of the finest wrought-iron bridges in the State over the St. Mery’s River at Port ' Wayne. The improvement will not be finished before the Ist of June. —Polly Ward, of Columbus has received a telegram advising her of the death of her . hrother in Colorado, leaving her the solo heir to his estate, worth over $1,000,000.