Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Evansville has thir.-y real estate agents. ' , union county Democrats endorse Cleveland and Gray. *■ A prise fight took place near New Csst'e, bn the 28th. Wm. Doran, a despondent Peruhver, commttedsucide on the 30tb. Gas in abundance has been found near Somerset, and Wabash is assured of a supply. .■ Y * It is prophesied that $1,000,000 will be expened in improvements at South Band this season. Knox county peach, cherry and strawberry crops have been damaged by recent cold weather. The new and handso ue Vigo county court-house opened up permanently for business Saturday morning. The largest white oak is growing in Pike county. It is twenty-two feet in circumference and fifty to the fint limb. A cow bslonging to Daniel Gabel, of New Market, Montgomery county, gave birth, last Wednesday, to three perfectly formed calves. “The Adventures of a Philospher, a Dan Mule and a Brindle Dog, by an Indian a Man,’ ’ is the title of a new book by Judge Fox, of Richmond. An entire family at Evansville, named Nett, have been arrested for shoplifting. Over SI,OOO worth of stolen property were found concealed at their home. The Indianapolis city council by a strict party vote, Monday night,,refused to expel Simeon Coy, the convicted tally sheet conspirator, from that body. Henry Becker, a citizen of Maplewood, a suburb of Connersville, was st acked by roughs near a church in which an entertainment was being given and severely injured. The steamship company has repaid the $99 which the Miller family bad paid for tickets to Europa, before all but a little boy were killed in the Kouts wreck. He is at Valparaiso, and has not recovered. The village of Burrows, near Logansper", was in a ferment Saturday over the elopement of the fourteen-year-old daughter of Archie Stembough and Jscob Equam, the nine-year old sonot a Carroll county preacher. Several deaths have occured recently in Southern Indiana from a peculiar disease, which baffles medical skill and which is almost epidemic. The prominent features of the malady are total and sudden prostration and excruciating pains in every bone in the body. A Logansport juiy aw aided Mrs. Margarets Fay $2,000 damages against the Pan Handle Railroad Company for the death of her husband, Daniel L. Fay, kil'ed at Woodington. 0.. the 22d of December, 1886, by the breaking of a deh ctive crake staff. Patents were granted Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: Daniel M. Marquis, Kokomo, sliding joint for gas mains; Jonathan D. Mawhood, assignor to Richmond City mill-works, Richmond, roller mill; Elijah Neff, assignor of two-thirds to J. E. Bell and H. J. Ely, Mentone, pump; John J. Ralya, Springfield, saw. Rev. John S. Howk, eldest son of Judge Howk, of the Supreme Court of Indiana, graduates m a few days from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has accepted a call from Pitts Creeks Church, Maryland, one of the most important churches of that Presbytery. William Fellingham, a wealthy farmer residing near Wheatland, was, on Friday afternoon, killed by a falling tree.Y He was going through a field, when a dead tree on fire su idenly fell upon him, crushing him tb death. Fell .ngham was one of the most prominent men of Knox county, end leaves a wife aud several children. Peter Danish, a Louisville peldler, is at a hotel in Corydon, suffering intense agony from the effects of swallowing a brass scarf pin, which lodged before it reached his stomach. He had the pin in his mouth and sneezed, when it slipped down h s throat. The physicians are unable to give him relief, and he will go to Philadelphia this week and haye the p’n cutout. Robert Hamilton, a firmer living in Washington township. Ripley county, has been losing a great deal of tobacco of late by thieves. A few days since he placed a loaded shot gun behind the door of an old house, which he uses for a store-room. Monday Alvin—DedsOTU: wnhnnFrtnfflghttor/waapasaLngJthat way, when, overtaken by a »torm, ’and attempting to eater the '.nouse for shelter he received the full charge in the breast Hs died iu the afternoon. Charles Beyer; one of three convicts sent to the Southern p onitemiary from Paoli, Orange county, who overpowered the sheriff and would have broken out hnt for tbe sheriff** wifey who eheeteedthem with hrr navy- han sinre ennfiiMte. irient in January developed a mania to cripple himself. A month ago he pierced his hands with a tamping iron; two weeks ago he attempted to crush his wrists with 8 eltdge. This morning he broke out of line of march, rusned into the machine shop, ssized a chisel and chopped,off three fingers of feis right hand before the guards could prevent it He will now work ne mors. The boiler in the tile mill of Wm. Caldwell, at Rushville, exploded about 8 o’clock, Monday, fatally injuring N. E. Conde, Wip. Caldwell and Joseph Lakin, and seriously injuring Joseph Wolf, Allen Lakin, Jordan Calmes pud Lon Pea and ecu. The mill bad not

been used for some timeund the explosion probably resulted from gas which bad generated fpm the rooted boiler. A part of the boiler was blown 100 feet. The front par: of the building is a complete wreck and the wonder is that all wers not. inatantlg killed. Conde was one of the best known men in southeastern Indiana.