Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A steam creamery will soon be erected at Seymour. / Shelbyville will make another attemt to get gas. ► Cholera is fast killing hogs at Lewisville. Mart Reynolds and William hall Trave lost nearly tjreir entire stock. Arcadia has but, two saloons, whose license will soon expire, and the citizens are making a strong fight against renewal ' About one-third of the regular force of employes at the Jeffersonville Oar W orks have been laid off on account of the completion of various contracts. White Capo visited the house of Thomas Brashears, in Lower Albany, Tuesday night, but owing to the pleadings of his wife be was let off. Brashears had been .whipping his wife. The bundle of switches was left as a warning. The boiler of a traction engine on the farm of John Spence, in Wabash county, exploded, Friday, and J. T. Smith and Joel Hale were instantly killed. Several bystanders were injured. The accident was caused by pumping cold water into the super-heated boiler. If a writ of eiror is granted in the Coy-Bernhamer case, Senator Voorhees, Senator Turpie, ex-Senator McDonald and Mr. Bynum will make the argument before the Supreme Court. Indiana men at Washington, think Coy and Bernhamer will go free on tbe ground of non-juriadiction. The Fort Wayne bricklayers, or so many of them -aa have been lately employed, quit work Tuesday, and the Bricklayers’ Union, of which they are .all members, served notice upon the bosses and contractors that they would not resume work until concessions had been granted them. They demand 38 cents an hour for nine hours’ work and full payment of wages everv week. Dr. E. H.Pritchard.Stare Veterinarian,

returned Wednesday from Spartansburg, Randolph county, where, upon the farm of E. L. Anderson, he found seven horses that were sick with glanders. The disease is incurable, and he ordered them quarantined. That is they will either have to be killed or kept on the farm, and no other horses brought upon the premier s. The disease was brought there three years ago by a pony from Illinois. Three horses have aiready died there from the disease. A disease among horses, heretofore unknown to veterinary surgeons, has made its appearance in Grant county. Nathan Stevens reports the Joss of three horses by this malady, and others in the locality have been attacked. Tbe disease, from the best information to be gained, is similar to tonsilitis < r diphtheria as it attacks the human family. The throat of the horse becomes sore and ulcerated, swells greatly and death results from strangulation. The same disease has broken out in . several localities in Madison county. Patents were issued to Indianians as follows: Beavers, Jeremiah V., Mcunt Summit, line-holder; Hill, James, Wilkesbarxe, Pa., assignor to I. & L. Pump Company, Goshen, step-ladder, Jones, Geo. 8., Laconia, combined sawfiler, gauge and gammer; King, James Sandusky, wire fence; Looker, Wm. C., and J. Newlove, Union Mills, plumb level; Lynn, Mirabeau N., Rising Sun, assignor to Lynn Engine Company. Dayton, 0., steam boilei; Moore, William, Moony, saw file adjusting weight; Rariden, Francis M., Waynetown, assignor of one-half to A. R. Heath, Covington, car coupling; Shuman, Grant W., Lake Station, harvester; Straughn, Alanson W., Lincolnville, straw-stacker. ■ The Bureau of has ascertained that the corn crop of the last year averaged 21 6 bushels to the acre. By comparing this with the average crops reported by other States, it is found that Indiana did not suffer to a greater extent than her neighbors. By such a comparison it isalso shown that Indiana is one of the best corn States in the country. The following tab.e gives the total product and average yield per acre of corn in Indiana and in the United States for the past seven years INDIANA. UNITED STATES. Year. Product. Average. Product. Average. 1880 .. 87,603,739 29 72 1,717,434,513 27.6 1881.. 70,687 075 23 12 1.194 616,100 18 6 1882.. .797 34 89 1,617,025,100 24.6 1883.. 89,690,797 .28 52 1,551,196,895 22.7 18-4... 89,15X799 35 22 1,795,528,000 25.8 1585.. 25 82 1,936,176,000 26.6 1586.. 33 51 1,665,441,000 22 0 1887.. 70,017,604 21 60 1,45 ,161,000 20.1 One of the most shocking tragedies ever enacted in Boone county took place at Mechanicsburg, Boone county, at 9 o’olock Friday night, resulting in the death of two men and the serious wounding of a young lady. At the hour named John Buttery went to the residence of his step mother, Mrs, M. A. Buttery, where he found Frank Moore and his step sister, Etta McMullen. Almost without warning he opened fire on them with a revolver, the first shot striking Moore in the back just under the left shoulder blade. Moore jumped up and starlet! out of the house, when a second shot was fired. A third shot was fired at Miss Buttery, striking her in the neck behind the ear, making a serious but not fatal wound, and felling her to the floor. The murderer then ran into the kitchen and, placing the muzzle of the revolver behind the right ear, sent a bullet through hie brain. The girl soon recovered eonsciousDees, and gave the alarm. When the people gat hired they found young Moore in the yard, dead. Battery survived but a few minutes. Moore and Mias McMullen, who were

both estimable young people, were to have been married within a month. Buttery was deeply in love with his step sister, and wanted to marry her, and jealousy and revenge,beyond doubt, wpre the cause of the deed. He was a bad character, anl had only a few months ago been prosecuted by his mother-in-law and sister in-law for theft. It is now thought his purpose was to kill the mother-in-law also, who escaped only by being away from home. Buttery left Mechanicsburg atd,ut .two mouths ago for some of his mi aniesa and returned only Friday, no doubt, for the purpose of committing the murder. His suicide was an after-coneideration, as it is said that after the sister-in-law was shot he took |4 from her pocket. A terriffic explosion of natural gas occurred at Anderson, Tuesday morning at 7 o’clock, at the residence of Thomas M. Norton, causing the death of F. C. Rogers, injuries to several of the Norton family, and the partial destruction of the building. The residence of Mr. Norton was a substantial brick cottage, one and one-half stories in height. The front room below is cut off from the other part of the house by a hall. This room was occupied by Mr. Rogers as a sleeping-room, the Norton family using the remainder of the house. The room immediately over the room occupied by Mr. Regers was the sleeping apartment of Miss Bessie Rogers, aged about eighteen," and her younger sister, Ollie. Mrs. Norton arose as usual and proceeded about her houeehold duties. A few minutes before 7 o’clock Mrs. Norton knocked at the door of Mr. Rogers’s room and said to him that she would come in and light the fire. She went to the kitchen and lighted a piece of paper and went back and opened the door. An explosion instantly followed, blowing the wails of the front part of the house completely off the foundations, and causing the ceiling and floor of the room above to fall. Mrs. Norton was blown across the hall, and was severely burned about the face, bands and neck. The force of the concussion and the falling building crushed Mr. Rogers and caused instant death. Miss Bessie Norton, who was in the room overhead, was thrown from her bed and fell with the falling floor of her room, but escaped with slight bruises. Her sister had just left the room, and was' uninjured. Mr. Norton was considerably burned, but is able to be about The building is badly wrecked, and the loss on building and furniture will be about $2,000. Mr. Rogers was a widower, witbout children. Various theories are advanced as to the explosion. Some think it was caused by defective fittings at the stove, others that the gas escaping from the street mains had been drawn into the cellar and then escaped to the house, while others claim that the explosion was caused by the escape of artificial gas.