Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — INDIANA CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA CONDENSED.

Ft. Wayne is experiencing a water famine. Mount Verudn is enforcing the 11 o’clork saloon law. A woman’s suffrage club is being or ganized at Wabash. Albert jVlichael, of Indianapolis, was sentenced, Friday, to sixteen years imprisonment for criminal assault on his 8 year-old daughter. John McCleery, while under the influence cf rum, jumped from the second s‘ory wifidow of the Biuffton court house, Friday, and was fatally injured.

Net Turiier, deacon in the African Baptist church, at Jeffersonville, shot his wife thrice dangerously, Friday night. The crime was caused by jealousy. Turner escaped. Abraham Weil, of the firm of Weil Brothers &Co., of Fort Wayne,has sued P. A. Randall, an attorney, for SIO,OOO for slander in saying that Weil set fire to Randall’s building to obtain insurance on his own goods. George Rich, aged about fifty-five years, employed in a saw mill in Uniondale, fourteen miles southeast of Huntington, fell on the circular saw and was cut to pieces. He was horribly mangled and death oocurred instantly. Ransom Happing, a wealthy young farmer boy of Delaware county, has been sentenced to two years in the State i penitentiary. He was charged with horse stealing. The offense was committed while he was drunk.

An nnusual astronomical phenomenon was witnessed at Crawfordsville, Friday, and might have been seen elsewhere. A star could be plainly seen with the naked eye in the southwestern heavens in the bright light of a mid-day sun. It was Venus. . Two dynamite cartridges were discovered in a large flour mill at Peru by workmen engaged in repairing the mill. One was concealed among the wheat on the first floor and the other on the second floor. Either of them was large enough to destroy the building, A Board of Trade, composed of the leading business men at Wabash, was organized at a spirited meeting held at City Hall on Wednesday night. One hundred names were received. The object es the association is to adyance the mercantile and manufacturing interests of the place. An old lady, aged apparently about ninety yea s, died on a South-bound J,, M; &I. train near Seymour, Monday night. Her ticket was for Crab Orchard, Ky. An effort has been made to obtain!! the lady’s name from Crab Orchard, but so far It has been unsuccessful.

Tuesday night “the mangled body of Charles Bowman, a well known young farmer near Wabash, was found by the rbadside, near his home. It issupposed that while riding" on a load of cufn~~Ee was t hrown off and the wheels passed over his body, crushing the chest in a frightful manner. Bowman died before a physicitm could be summoned. A grand jury at Indianapolis, composed of five Democrats and one Greenbacker,has returned indictments against Republicans and anti-Coy Democrats, one, it is said, being against Perkins, the chief witness against the alleged tallysheet forgers. Another is against a lawyer, Roger A. Sprague, charged with illegally swearing in a voter. It is alleg ed the indictments are malicious. Sotne changes have been made by the National Woman Suffrage Association of Indiana in the dates for holding conventions in the congressional districts of ths Suite They will be held as follows: Wabash, Nov. 18 and 19; Terre Haute, Nov. 22 and 23; South Bend Nov. 24 and 26; Fort Wayne, Nov, 25 and 26; Muncie, Nov. 28 and 26; Anderson, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1; Madison, Dec. 2 and 3: New Albany, Dec. 5 and 6. The dead body of a man about thirtyfive year of age, and apparently a tramp, was found, Wednesday morning under the railroad bridge over Flat Rock, near Columbus. His skull was crushed as if with a club, though his death might have been caused by falling through the The general opinion ib that he was murdered, and a party of four tramps, who were encamped near the spot, have been arrested on suspicion. The Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. of Indiana met at Indianapolis last week. There was an unusually large a tendance. A large gain in the membership was reported. The officers elected for the ensuing vear are: Grind Master L. T. Micbener, Shelbyville. Deputy Grand Master-J E.F. Harper,Madison. Grand Watden—C. C. Blncklei. Richmond. Grand Sccrtary-B. F. Foster, Madison, Graud Treasurer—T. P. Haughty, lud ; anapolis. Rep.e-eiit-'tive to Sovereigu Grand Lodge— A. N. Grant, Kokomo. Trustees—William Wallaoe, J. A. Ferguson and John W. McQutddy. The body of J. L. Thomas, a farmer whoresided near Ciandall,on the Air Line railway, seventeen miles west of New Albany; was found, Wednesday, under a t resile at Falling Run creek. The supposition is that Thomas fell from a train as it was going West over the trestle. In the pocket of the deceased was found a ticket to Crandall. Thomas was about twenty-eight years of age and a cost excellent man. He had a wife and child. Samuel Davis, an Air line employe, >t New Albany, upon going home at 11 o’clock, Friday night, quietly repaired to the dining room for lunch, as he desired not to awaken his wife whOe eating) But the continual crying of his

babe prompted him to go to the bedroom, where, to his utter dismay, he found his wife, twenty-six years old, dead, with the child in her arms. She was exceptionally beautiful, and a woman of ranch respectability. Bhe died of heart disease. About a year ago a man and his wife and five children went from Fort Wayne to make thejrhomein Kansas, and soon after arriving there the husband and father died, and the mother finding herseif unable to secure sufficient work to maintain herself and children, started for their old home in Fort Wayne «foot, pushing the youngest child in an old cab. On the way one of the children sickened and died,and aside from a five mile ride gained at some point, until conductor O. C. Wells picked them up, a short distance West of Elkhart, they had walked the entire distance from their home in Kansas. The journey has taken them about six months.