Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Logansport has a building boom. Ft. Wayne is preparing for July '4. Tramps are thick at Michigan City. Miohigan City is to nave a new woolen mil; Evansville is to have a new Y. M. CA. building. l r Evansville’s new s hoe factory will employ fifty bands. Measles are raging in Winchester anc in Randolph county. The Pittsburg shops at Fort Wayne turn out five cars a day. Delaware is the only county in the State that has all Republican Trustees. In the recent cyclone near Valparaiso a boy ploughing was lifted up and carried clear across a field. Evansville’s Home for the Friendless has thirty-seven inmates. The institution i s eighteen years old. A barn 30 feet high by 110 long and 50 wide, near Michigan City, was blown to pieces Friday night by the wind. Every Bunday four generations of ladies oan be seen in a prominent pew in the First M. E. Church of Goehen. The Hoosier farmer boy is getting down his grandfather's long rifle preparatory to the opening of the young squirrel season. The Wabash Importing Company will, during the coming session, receive seventy fine hones direct from Belgium for breeding purposes. It’s a good sign that Muncie’s church accommodations are inadequate. The Times says that $150,000 will be expended in church improvements within two years. Charles Oekins, of Lincoln, Cars county, was struck by a pas-enger train and instantly killed. He bad been married only a week and his wife stood in her rent door and witnessed the killing. John Radley, a carriage trimmer of Shelbyville, who bad been on a prolonged spree and loet his situation, committed suicide by taking laudanum, and by holding his wife he detained her until it was too late to eave him. Miss Nets Haworth, of Galveston, Cass county, who was horribly burned a week ago, was married Saturday to Joseph Herron. It is thought she can not recover, and they were married at the earnest solicitation of both. The Hon. John R. Gordon, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, died at his home in Greencastle on the 9th of typhoid pneumonia. He was born iu 1848 and was a native of Putnam county. He was a member of the Legislature for three successive terms and during his life occupied other poeitionsof honor. ~— A cyclone of tremendous force whirled over a portion of northerfi Indiana Friday night. At Winslow siding, on the Nickel-plate road, a train of sixteen freight cars were lifted from their wheels and distributed in piecemeal across the surrounding prairies. At Wanatah a a number of houses were unroofed and much timber in the country uprooted. Ike C. H. & D. passenger department has in its possession a curiosity in the shape of a ticket sold at the Pan-Handle office in Chicago, February 2,1871, to a passenger who left the train at Richmond, Ind., and who did net resume his journey until January 30 of this year. Ths portion of the ticket good from Richmond was not used until seventeen years, lacking three days, after the original date of sale.

Patents were issued to the following Indianians Tuesday: Samuel M. Lines, Indianapolis, clasp; Zaccheus W. Merithew, assignor of one-half to L. F. Gage, Grandview, fruit drier; William Miller, Indianapolis, lubricator; Edward Robards, Stilesville, land measuring machine; Benj. Roberts, Indianapolis, smoke condenser; Don C. Robinson, Madison, at signor to E. C. Atkins 4 Co., Indianapolis, saw jointer; Columbus E. Wilson, Dora, fence. Udder the pretense of securing her as a domestic, a man giving the name of Milroy was allowed to take Cora Stardey, of Delphi, from her home. About half a mile from town he overpowered and ravished her. Bhe reached home about dark in a pitiable condition and almost crazed by the excitement of her struggle and the sense of her condition. Much of her clothing was torn from her in the struggle. The man was a stranger and it is doubtful if he is apprehended. The various State institutions have been paid their operating expenses for the month of April by the State Treasurer. The Hospital for the Insane drew $23,820.11, the Logansport Asylum $3,826.10, the Institute for tbe Blind $1,91918, the Richmond Asylum $2,210, the Female Reformatory 12 432,52, the Orphans* Home at Knightstown $4,605, the Reform School at Plainfield $5,000, and the Institute for Deaf and Dumb $4,533.34. The total amount paid to the institutions was $48,096,25. A most harrowing case of cremation occurred near Summitville, Wednesday McMahon, one of the most prominent and substantial farmers of„Madison county, and his farm hand named Treat lost,their lives. At the above time Mr McMahon’s fine residence was discovered to be in flames, but when seen it was to for gone to be saved. and noth.ing but the screams of the unfortunate victims perishing in tbe flames greeted the spectators. In the evening Mr. McMahnr?# dK , aghter built afiroin the stoveand went to church. During her absence the fire oommunioatedm some

unknown way to the house and caused itu ductruction. McMahon and Treat were asleep and it is supplied they were suffocated by the smoke. The lose is about $1,500. At the timaof his death Mr. McMahon was. seventy years old and quite wealthy. James Sheets, a well-known young farmer-living in the northern part of Delaware county, while looking through a cupboard-drawer for some copper rivets to do some mending with, found a package of dynamite cartridges. Not knowing what they were, he handed them to his hired man, James Adams, who was standing near by. Adams began picking them with a pin, when suddenly one exploded, shattering his hand. His index finger and thumb were completely torn off. His face was alsobadly burned and braised. Mr. Sheets’s five-year-old daughter was standing near by with a cartr.dge in her hand, but received no injuries. A rather sensational suicide occurred two miles northwest of Hartford City, Thursday afternoon. Thomas B. Lewis a middle-aged man, ate his dinner rather hurriedly, repaired to the corn field and planted corn until interrupted by the planter becoming out of fix. He then left the field, presumably for ’the pprpcze of procuring a new stopper for the planter, but instead secured a clothes line and going to the woods pasture, deliberately adjusted the rope around his neck, climbed an ash tree and jumped off. The fall broke his neck. He was discovered by a searching party in that position at 8 o’clock in the evening. He was thought to be partially deranged.