Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Frank G. Epply, of Anderson, has been declared insane from overwork. He is a book-keeper El Ruddle, of Utica, near Jeffersonville, while coasting, collided with a tree and had his skull crushed. Alfred Warren, while eating supper in a restaurant at South Bend, Saturday, choked to death on a piece of meat. Temperance sentiment is developing in mauy parts of the State, including Danville, Greensburg and Jeffersonville. The trouble with most people who believe that charity begins at home is that they never allow it to go outdoors for exercise. Most of the factories at Lawrenceburg that have been shutdown have resumed operations and hundreds of employes have returned to work. Thieves entered the dry goods store of Jamis F. Davis, at Farmland, Saturday night, and carried away a large lot of silk handkerchiefs, e lk etc., amounting to same J3OO. Richard Hance, of Tipton county, while out hunting, Saturday, was attacked by a large eagle of the bald species. He succeeded in killing the bird, but not until he was scratched pretty badly. George Hofer, aged twenty-two years, living one mile west of Brookville, while coasting Sunday near his home ran against a large stone, striking his head and crushingin his skull, from the effects of which he soon died. Patents were granted Indiana inventors as follows: Williim B. Henning, Waterloo'railway tie; William H. A. Spaulding, Peru, adjustable grate for stoves; John F, Thom pson, New Castle, spittoon and securing the same. William Schamberioah, a ’wealthy farmer, aged about sixty years and a resident of Union township, Adams county, committed suicide, Monday morning, by drowning himself in a cistern. He was struck on the head several years pgo with the handle of a windlase, and it is supposed that he never fullv recovered.

Every Grand Army Post in Delaware county has adopted a resolution that will be presented to the State Legislature, asking that body to enact a law living the Cuuntv Comissioners the right to make a levy on the taxable property of their respective counties,to create a fund sufficient to the relief of the noor and dependent soldiers. Two Normal School students at Terre Haute, named Kirkham and Manin, captured a fine New Foundland dog, said to be worth $75, the property of DaiUDavis, took~hiffi to Ahiß''dTssecting room and proceeded to cut him up. The police secured the hide of the dog for identification, and the young men were arrested for larceny and malicious trespass. The Jersey cattle breeders met at Indianapolis Monday, and elected J. H. Jenkins, Indianapolis, President; J. W. Sliger, Ricnmond, Vice President; T. A. Lloyd, Indianapolis, Secretary and Treasurer; and A. E. Taylor, Columbus, Kate M. Busick, Wabash and Dr. James Cochran, Spiceland, directors. Topics of interest to the association were discussed. *

Eider L. Berry Smith, of Huntington, died Menday from the effects of a stroke of paralysis received last Wednesday, For twenty-one years he has been pastor of the Christian church of that city, and was numbered among the prominent ministers of that denomination of the country. He served durinz the. war in an Ohio regiment as Captain and Major. He was fifty-four years of age. Mrs. Wesley Meeks, of St. Omer, wife of the Baptist preacher who was taken out of his bed and severely whipped the other night by a mob because he would not work, has hung out a placard on her house signed with her name, on which she declares that her husband shall not do a lick of work until spring, and defies the Knishts of the Switch to pay her another visit, promising to make ft warm for them it they do. Trouble is brewing at the Dugger coal mines, in Sullivan county. Some time ago the Superior Coal Company entered into a contract with the State Federation to pay 8) cants per ton for all coal mined. They have now imported new men, who agreed to work at a less figure, but the miners have induced most of them to return home. It is expected that more men will come in, and trouble is anticipated.

Macy Warner, under sentence of death for murder at Jeffersonville, says he no longer has any hopes of escaping the punishment of death, and is making preparations to meet, his end. He sent for Sheriff Hay, and told that official that he desired for his breakfast on the day he is to be ex seated a quail on toast and a bottle of whisky. He re-, fuses to see any minister ot the Gospel, and says that he is prepared to die. Mr. Levi Guess, of Vincenhes, was in 1835 an employe of the East St. Louis Railroad. His wife and children lived in Vincennes. Whde in charge of his engine on the night of February 16, it was thrown from the track in conse qnence of a misplaced switch, and he was killed. His administrator, after two trials, m which the case finally went to the Supreme Court, has recovered $5,000 damages—the limit of the law. Greensburgwas considerably startled, on the premises of Rev. B. D. Black; al--o one at Mr. Cuarlee Kimbla’s rest-

dence. These gentlemen have beei quite earnest in the fight against granting license to saloon-keepers who have violated the law. Accompanying each was a threatening note, signed “Liquor League.” But be it said to the credit of the fraternity in that town, it is thought they had no hand in the business. The “bomb’’ was a piece of gas pipe about a foot Idng, and found to be filled with material resembling sawdust, ttrongly scented with turpentine.

The Hendrisks monument committee have decided to accept the model made by Sculptor Parks. The monument will, when completed, be thirty-two feet in height. The pedestal will be eighteen feet high, with three minor basis. On the upper base will rest a columned dye, which will be surmounted by a column ornamented with bronze designs and on which will rest the statute. The monument will be so built so that at any time from one to fonr allegorieal figures may Tie added. Mr. Parks left at once lor] Italy to complete the work. The monument will cost ho* $15,000 to $15,000. The little village of St. Omer, fifteen miles south of Shelbyville, has an organization similar to the “ White Caps” who have been overriding law and order in Harrison and Crawford counties. Tuesday night the band went to the home of the Rev. Wesley Meeks, a Baptist minister, battered down the door with a rail, fired of several shots and then took the minister some distance away and thrashed him three times, giving as a reason for doing so that he had not properly provided for his family and the neighbors were getting tired of his Ikzy conduct. Meeks was badly bruised from the blows he received, but managed to reach home, where he has been confined to the bed. The affair has created considerable indignation in that vicinity. Robinson, on trial at Jeffersonville for the murder of Samuel Hay has been sentenced to the penitentiary for life. On July 9 last Jacob Robinson, seventy years old, shot and killed, with a charge of buckshot, Samuel Hay. Robinson approached his victim from behind, having carried his gun hidden in asack. His daughter tried in vain to prevent him. Hay hi 4 behind his sister,- Belle, who was with him, and Rubicon shot his victim over her shoulders. Her pitiful pleadings for mercy he answered with taunts. During the entire trial his face never showed a sign of feeling, only an occasional smile hovering ttyon big lips. The night of his arrest a mob formed at Charleston, the scene of the murder, but Robinson had been taken to the Prison South for safety. ———- Mrs. Dell Freeman, of Vincennes, keeper of a boarding house exclusively for women, finds herself without boarders owing the strange sights and sounds seen and heard about her premises. At first the demonstration was confined to unusual rapping and noises at night, growing more frequent as time passed. Then the inmates would rush in terror from their rooms, claiming that cold hands had been laid upon their faces. On such occasions knocks on the headboards of the beds elsewnere became more violent and loud throughout the house. The noises were like pistol shots or bullets crashing through the transoms. A tall, spare man, dressed In a white robe, was seen in the basement by three inmates at once. Mrs. Freeman made a statement, Sunday, in which she says she has no fear of the strange visitations, though admitting that they cannot be accounted for. She says that once a sound of a crying child was heard coming from a corner of the room in which she sat. The sound gradually changed into a blood-curdling groan. Two persons beside herseif w«»re present. A fl u?h of blue light arose from the corner, revealing the face of the sparsely built man before mentioned. This man has appeared a dozen times in the full ight of gas, but has disappeared when any one present moved. At night, on several occasions, in different rooms, the same man, lying in a coffi i, and oorne by two spectral pall bearers, passed in review before the occupants. The most startling event of this seemingly incredulous story is substantiated beyond doubt Last Monday night, Mrs. Freeman, after retiring, felt a quantity of some warm fluid falling from the ceiling, and striking her on the shoulder. Upon lighting the gas she was horrified to find her gown and bed clothes smirched with quantities of warm clotted blood. Her clothing hks been subjected to washing, nut the stains cannot be removed. Mrs. Freeman’s strange experience is the talk of the city. The utmost vigilance on the part of two policemen, especially detailed fails to unravel the mystery.