Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A SIO,OOO fire occurred at Gorydon, Monday night. - The Sunday school cause of Harrison county is in a flourishing condition. The Police board of Terre Haute has ordered the enforcement of the 11 o’clock liquor la w. The Montgomery county grand jury found forty five indictments, principally against saloon keepers. Citizens of Jackson county have incorporated the Seymour and Southwestern railway, with a capital of $70,000. The State Convention of the Y. M. C. A. met at Crawfoidsville, Friday, and continued in session until Monday. There was a large attendance. By a majority of nine Rushville voted down Wednesday a proposition to build water works. The town has $20,000 in cisterns and SIO,OOO in wells. Rev. Andrew Luce, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Lagro, dropped dead in his pulpit Sunday night. He was sev-enty-four years of age, and had been pastor of the church for forty years. Anna Gavotte, betrayed and deserted by her lover, who also got several hundred dollars of her money, jumped into the river at Evansville, but was rescued barely siive and taken to the hospital. A band of White Caps was organized at Bedford, Sunday, and seventy-two of the bestcitizens are members. In the future the citizens propose to have law and order or some one will suffer. John W. Holcombe, formerly Superintendent of Public Instruction of Indiana, and now chief clerk of the Bureau of Education at Washington,was married at lildianapolis, Wednesday evening, to Miss Effie B. McOuat. The coal miners’ strike in Evansville was practically ended, Tuesday, by a large number ot miners returning to work in the Ingleside and Sunnyside mines at the old scale of prices. The remainder of the strikers returned Wednesday.

A gentleman from English, Crawford county, reports that about twenty-five “White Caps” paraded the?streets of that town Thursday night. Several persons were notified to either reform their bad habits or leave the community, but no one was flogged. The St. Joseph Valley Register of South Bend, was sold at. Sheriff’s sale, Friday afternoon, and was bid in by the Tribune Printing company, which will consolidate the paper with the Tribune. The Register was founded by Schuyler Colfax forty-two years ago, and was owned by him for twenty years. In a novel fight between a large Poland China boar and a valuable Jersey cow of quarrelsome disposition, on G. W. Tood’s farm, at Moore’s Hill, Tuesday, the boar came out victorious, killing the

cew by striking tier in the abdomen with bis long, sharp tusks. **An artery was served, and the cow. quickly bled to death. .Sunday was the driest Sunday known m Vincennes for years. Mayor Wilhelm had the ‘police notify ail saloon men on Saturday night that thpir places of business cfcsed every night in the week at 11 o'clock and on Sunday during the whale of theyday. Thus far the order has been strictly obeyed. Destructive forest fires have been raging for three days twenty-five miles south of Vincfjnnes, at Hazelton and Decker. Fencesand timber Were left at the mercy of the flames. The people fought the flames all night Friday to save their hoiqga. Thousand of dollars of damage was done. The community was terror stricken. A large amount of heavy timher was destroyed. Sunday night, as the 10 o’clock train from Louisville had passed Hollman, a small station twenty miles south of North Vernon, Stella Hoover, a six-year-old child, walked in her sleep from one of the coaches and was hurled from the car. The train which was going at the rate of twenty miles an hour, was stopped, and the child was found about ten feet from the track with but slight bruises on the face. She was travelling with her parents, who roside in Kansas Friday mornig, about 2 o’clock, a large quantity of nitro glycerine exploded in a small house, lined with iron, which was situated in the woods about three miles east of Muncie. The shock was perceptible at Union City, Winchester and other places. Where the house stood is a hole several feet deep and fully twenty feet in diameter. Large trees were torn to pieces. The largest piece of the iron house yet found is about as big as a silver dollar. The cause of the explosion is not known. Patents were Tuesday issued to the following named Indianians: Thomas M. Bales, Dublin, assignor one-half to W. F. Medsker, Cambridge City, and J. F. Hatfield, Dublin, door bell; John C. Bellew, Evansville, machine for sawing barrel hoops; Herman Froehlich, Waterloo, burial vault; Perry Kesling, Walton, fence loom; Samuel M. McRevnolds, Poseyville, portable awning; Julius Welfing, Crown Point, fly screen; Moses C. Nixon, Peru, baling press; Thomas H. Paris, Rensselaer, heel and shank supporter; Davis Pogue, Saratoga, corn-planter; William H. H. Spaulding! adjustable fireback for stoves; Calvin G. Udell, North Indianapolis, coat-rack; William Williams, assignor of orfe-half to J. C. Mendenhall, Indianapolis, sweat-ped fastener. More “White Cap” outrages are re ported in Harrison and Crawford counties. These outlaws visited the house of John Amy, in Scott township, Harrison county, and in his presence stripped his wife perfectly nude and administered forty lashes, laid On hard. It is said that the county officials are thoroughly terrorized as is shown by th® fact that the case of Charles Langford r of Mt. Prospect, Crawford county, was presented to the grand jury with proofs of the identity of the men who had outraged his family, but they refused to present a true bill. Langford tore the masks from the faces of two of his assailants and recognized his nearest neighbor and deadliest enemy in one. In spite of this he could not induce any prosecution by he court., which feared the vengeance of his assailants. In the circuit court at Terre Haute Friday afternoon, Judge Mack granted a new trial to Charley Roberts, the noted Parke county desperado, now in jail at Peru. This makes the second new trial that has been granted in the case', 'and the coming trial will be the third. On both former trials a jury gave Roberts seven years in the penitentiary, and he has served fourteen months on his original sentence. The charge is burglary. » The Carroll county grand jury, after spending a week investigating the Amer Green lynching, were unable to identify any one who participated in the affai The jury examined over thirty witnesses. They are convinced that in the present state of public sentiment it will be impossible to secure information of value. They also state that they examined some twenty witnesses frdm among the leading citizens of Delphi and that “there was not a witness before us who had any information, or anticipated any attempt to take Green from the jail. Among those witnesses were the mayor and «;ity marshal, whose sworn duties are to preserve the peace of the city. We are of the opinion that, with all the light we could obtain, our county officials should have been duly exonerated from any blame.” A horrible case of depravity and crime has just come to light near Chesterfield, Madison county. At that place there resides a family named Brandon, ana with his family a half witted woman, named Barker, makes her home. Last week the Barker woman preferred bastardy proceedings against a neighbor named Jacob Rinker. The filing of this complaint has brought out a statement by the woman’s mother that Brandon was the father of five illegitimate children, four of whom he had murdered in infancy to hide his crime. Mrs. Harris ■ mother of the Barker woman, further states that as a momento of his horrible i butchery he preserved the foot of one of his victims in alcohol, and carried it with him a number of weeks. Brandon 1 is seventy three years of age. and has a ' wife whose illiteracy makes her more brute than human.