Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

War is being made upon saloons at Angola. Diptheria of a very malignant form isl raging in sev» ral parts of Indianapolis. Mrs. M. T. Barbour, who was the first white child bom in Fort Wayne, died Thursday, aged 74. The Salvation Army procession at Ladoga, last Wednesday night, was stoned by the citizens all along the line. There were fifteen to twenty thousand people at the reunion at Columbus,. Friday, one-fourth of the number being veterans. ' John Meyer, a farmer living in Milan township, Allen county, fell from a tree while gathering apples and broke his back. „ The large dry goods bouse of Griffin A McGrain, at Corydon, has failed for about $7,000. Speculation, politics and other causes led to the failure. Mrs. Eliza Mitchel,. born in Jackson county seventy-four years ago, Seymour Tuesday, of cld age. She lost her eyesight twelve years ago. The White Caps have announced their intention of cleaning Mott-town, Harrison county, of its whisky ring, and Mott, the leader, has already left. Charles Herff, a widely-known and prominent Jew of Peru, died Thursday morning, aged seventy-five years. He was one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the State. Eugene Charles who hired a horae and buggy from a liveryman at Mulberry, Clinton county, and didn’t return it must go to the prison north for seven years. F. W. Buschman, of Fort Wayne, aged seventy-six, becoming excitad over parting with hia son, who wag about to go on a journey, fell dead from heart disease. The gas well at Amboy developed Saturday morning into one of great magnitude, and is one of if not the very largest in the State. The pressure can not be estimated. Lewis J. Lawson, who claimed to be a member of the Pinkerton detective agency, has been held to the circuit court in bond of $2,000, ! for highway robbery committed in Michigan City. . The Monon officials have just purchased four acres of ground additional to eleven acres recently purchased at Monon for the erection of railroad shops in the place of those recently burned at Michigan City. At Vincennes, Thursday, John McClure, who assaulted a little girl named Frazee, near Bicknel, last June, was convicted of the crime and awarded eight, years in the penitentiary. A new trial will be demanded. Mr. Omri .W. Tuell, a wealthy farmer, and prominent stock man of the southern part of Jackson coupty, had over SIOO ih cash taken from his pocket while moving through the crowd at the Seymour fair Friday. The effort to raise $500,000 to purchase gas lands and lay pipes to supply Fort Wayne with fuel is likely to fail, only $75,000 having been pledged up to the present time. The Standard Oil Company is now expected to bob up serenely. The corner stoiie of a new $16,000 bath soon to be erected by Indianapolis Lodge No. 445 I. O. 0. F.,was laid,Wednesday, by the Odd Fellows of Indianapolis before a large crowd of people. W. H. Leedy, of Indianapolis, and Grand Master A. N. Grant, of Kokomo, made the speeches. Rev. D. E. Greer, of Montpelier, whose aughter e oped with Tom Potter, a section haod, a few days ago. has returned with her. He found her at work in a hotel at Monroeville. He could prove nothing criminal against Potter, and the girl declares nothing improper has occurred. William Weller and William James have been arrested for robbing the ticket office of the Wabash A Western railway at Wea, pleaded guilty and were bound over in the sum of SI,OOO each to answer to the Circuit Court. The stolen Droperty, consisting of tickets anji clothing, was recovered. Lewis H. Farret, of Columbia City, was engaged, in moving an old house, and had crawled under the building to adjust some blocks, when the lever slipped and the entire weight fell upon him, killing him instantly. Farret was twenty-three years old and lived at Wabash. John Jones, a discharged railway brakeman, of Fort Wayne, came home under the influence of liquor and quarreled with his wife, the affair ending by Jones shooting twice ineffectually at her, and then blowing his own brains out by a shot through the right temple. Whisky was the cause. There are hut eleven fruit distilieries in operation in the New Albany division of the seventh internal revenue district, against twenty-six running at this time last year. Four of tbese are in Perry county, four in Crawford, two in Harrison and one i,n Washington. A scarcity of fruit is the cause of the small numberreow in operation. A Grand Trunk express train ran over and killed A. F. Reed, a wealthy citizen of Edwardsburg, a village near Elkhart, Thursday night. He had just placed his daughter on the train to go east, and her last words to him were to be careful at the crossing in goiDg home. When the train was stopped she exclaimed: “Fanjerisiin^ James Gilchrist, who has drilled the. gas wells ,at Knightstown, has contracted with the trustees of the ~!' 7 • niTT:

Soldiers’ Orphans’ Horn# to drill for and BUbply that institution with gas for the period of one year fqr a snm less than the cost of cqaj for the same period. The well becomes the property of v the Home at the expiration of the contract. The two days’ gathering of the sol-] diers and sailors of Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan closed at StAith Bend, Fridav night, with the largest attendance of any reunion held in the northern part of the State since the war. There were to six thou sand soldiers and visitors in the city. The npxt reunion will he held in Elkhart. In Montgomery county, not long ago, ; n removing the remains of a man who had been dead over twenty years it was discovered that the deceased had turned to stone. The features of the deceased were as natural as the day he was buried. His hair seemed to be some longer, but in general there was no change. When the man died he wah about eighty years old. A sensational preacher has developed in the upper end of Clark county, called “Weeping Joe.” Some nights ago his congregation dwindled, and he then announced something new. The next night a big congregation gathered. When all were in he pulled off his coat, turned a series of handsprings from the pulpit to the door, and then proceeded with his sermon. A fine blooded bull, belonging to Mr. Condon, a farmer of Cass county, was bitten by a dog several days ago. Wednesday it became suddenly mad, and tearing across the field, gored about a dozen fine heifers, valued at over $2,500. ft then jumped a high fence and started for Logansport. Two of Condon’s hired handß, who witnessed the unusual actions as the animal, mounted horses and pursued him to within one mile of the city, when they shot him just as*he waa making for a party of children who were out nutting.

The arrest of Samuel Robison Joshua T. Londerback and Mahlon Wood, charged with attempt, to blackmail Samnel McMullen, a farmer in Noble township, Cass county, has caue ed quite a sensation. They each gaye bond in the sum of SSOO. Samuel McMullen claims that they conspired to bring a false accusation of theft against him that they might extort money and valuable property of him, and they did byfhreats andfalse charges extort from him a note for eighty dollars in money and other obligations. Six weeks ago a suit was filed by At-torney-general Mj.ch.ener in the name of the State, on the relation of A uditor Carr, to recover from the Western Union Telegraph Company $1,900, penalty for nineteen day’s failure to report its property for taxation in 1887. The object of the suit was to test the constitutionality of the tax law applied to the company, which questioned it as an invasion by the State of the realms o interstate commerce. It had made no payments of taxes since 1880. Thursday the matter was compromised, the Attorney-general agreeing to abandon the penalty feature if the company to 1887 inclusive, which was done. The total amount paid was $5,927.47. A tramp giving his name as John Johnson went to the Union hotel, Michigan Ci;y, kept by Fred Brinkmann, and ordered a room. The landlord showed him to apartments, and when the two men entered the fbom Johnson seized the proprietor by the throat with one hand, and. holding the revolver to his head, demanded his money. He got all that Brinkmann had on his person and then decamped. At noon Johnson had the audacity to return and hold up the landlady, playing the same tactics, but she, with more grit than her husband, threw him down stairs. Johnson then left town but, was caught near the Michigan line.

John Hildebrand, the Spencer township Justine of the Peace, wio was flogged by the “Regulators” recently, was ined Priday by Esquire Slaughter, of Corydon, in two cases, for provoke and a peace warrant proceeding is now pending against him. His wife says that he has frequently threatened her life, and that on two occasions he attempted to cut her with a bu'cher knife. Hildebrand thinks that his wife was instrumental in having him flogged by the “Regulators,” and so stated in court. His wife says that she was in bed while the “Regulators” were dealing with her husband, and that she didn’t bother herself particularly about it It is estimated that the number of men employed different factories,, shops, railroads, Government depot, county and city offices at Jeffersoville is nearly 4,000 who receive wages amounting $54,184 a week. This estimate does not include small shops, city laborer! or those who are at work independently at various trades and vocations. The outlook for a season of prosperity during the entire winter wa<t never better, as all the larger institutions have all the work in hand that they can possibly handle from now until spring. If the great Ohio Fails Car company should stop taking contracts at once, they have ahead enough work to keep the present force, 1,93 t men, constantly employed fpr one year. The following patents were issued to ludianaimiantorfr T-nesdayi Bollenbacher, Bloomington. cigar-box,} Thos. B. Carroll, Indianapolis, appkratus for regulating pressure; John IV p ' % "" ■■ >■• V- . .. . , ' --- - **-. r -

Dodds and E. Dawson, assignors to L. ; Shulte, Terre Haute, piston or valve rod packing; John A. Evans and L. A. Teagle, Richmond, sash operator for green-houses; Rufus &, Gillespie, .Fort Wayne, garment, adjuster*, Geo.l W. •Hays, Goshen, back rest; Andrew B. Hoffman, Port Wayns, feed mechanism for saw-mill carriage; Lewis McNutt, Brgsil, shade exhibitor; Ora M. Miller, Greensburg, extensible seat; Lucian R. •akes, Valparaiso, milk cooler; George W. Smith, assignor of sne-half to C. rt. Cad wallader,, Union City, box? Levi Sutherland, Indianapolis, thill coupling; John A. Witraer, Wakarusa, road cart; Theophilus A. and 8. B. Wylie r Bloomington, instrument for describing circles; Harvey B. Yaryan, assignor of twothirds to J. 11. Waison and C. N. Vancleave, Crawfordsville, reach coupling.