Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

1 " * '"1 . New Albany has dogs to spare. South Bend has thirteen dairies. Evansville needs a daily market.) Huntington is to have street cars. LaPorte has a ladies literary club. Greensburg will celebrate the 4th. A humane society will be organized at Crawfordsville. ■The Bedford stone quarries now have 500 men employed. An extra large wool yield is reported from Shelby county. . ) ■ A stump in Vigo county measures thirty feet in circumference. There have been three suicides in Montgomery county within the past week. Henry Roedel, tep years old, was kicked to death by a mule near Mt. Vernon. One hundred and fifty Harrison Republicans will go to Chicago from Shelby county. „ ( The Republican State Central Committee has fixed August 8 for holding the State convention. H. Miller’s flour mill at Elkhart, worth $20,000, burned Thursday. It was insured for $16,400. Joseph Mize, of Jackson county, died Friday, aged ninety-eight. He emigrated from Kentucky over fifty years ago. The Bean Blosssm Creek (Brown county) gold seems to be no myth. A nugget worth $540 was found a few days ago. Blood poisoning, brought about by an ulcerated tooth,-was the cause of the taking off of Matthew Barrett, a Fort Wayne man. Frank Harlander, a young man residing in Jeffersonville, was called opt by night riders and admonished to go to work. He did.

Daniel Douglass and wife, of Lawrence county, after living together for thirtynine years, are engaged in a divorce suit trying to get rid of each other. At Livonia, Washington county, Edward McKinster, eighteen years old, was shot by his brother Willian and died. They quarreled about the removal of taps from buggy wheels. It is estimated that the Pennsylvania oil well, two miles west of Portland, will yield one hundred barrels a day. A large number of operators from Pennsylvania are leasing land and will drill six wells at once. The returns of the vote of Decatur County, on the question of whether or not the the Commissioners should buy the toll roads, shows a majority of 750 against the purchase. Four years ago it was 1,700 against. The New Albany Council, Monday night, passed the funding ordinance, refunding $360,000 of the debt of the city in four-and-a-half-per-cent. bonds, to run twenty-five years. The total debt of the city is $465,798.15. John Murphy, of Pittsburg, son and secretary of the blue ribbon apostle, Francis Murphy, and Lucy M. Richardson, of Louisville, eloped to Jeffersonville Tuesday evening, and were married by Rev. Leora Kennedy. The four-year-old child of John Selmyer, a farmer of Van Buren township, Brown county, was shot by the accidental discharge of a shotgun. The father had been gunning, and had, upon returning, carelessly left his ■weapon in a corner, where it was knocked down

and discharged. Charles Labelle, alias Winters, was arrested at Indianapolis, Saturday, for smuggling opium into this country from Canada. He is one of the principals of ,a large gang, the larger portion of whom will be or have been arrested. Labelle is in jail. Opium to the value of $20,000 was captured? and confiscated. „ Rev. Wm. Y. Bultman, priest in charge of St. Boniface Church at Evansville, has filed a criminal proceeding against exAuditor Charles F. Yaeger, charging embezzlement. The trouble grows ou?- of Yaeger’s guardianship of a lunatic. He is said to have collected about $2,700, which he did not properly account for. Elder A. E. Andrews, of Jeffersonville, Sunday preached the funeral sermon of Mrs. Wascone at Fairview, Scott county. Immediately after the sermon Mr. Wascone was married to his third wife. The blushing bride is seventy-two years old and the groom seventy-one. years old. A great grandchild of the groom acted as a witness.

John Williams, a Washington county farmer, was called out and whipped by six White Gap regulators, Saturday night. The only charge against him was that he refused to go into the organization. He announces his determination to be revenged, and, as soon as he recovers, will go on tke war path for those of his assailants that he recognized. Deputy United States Marshal Groves has arrested Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a traveling man at Mount Vernon, for opening and destroying a letter addressed to her sister, Miss Hutchinson, who resides with Mrs. Williams. It was from a young gentleman, and not very choice in its language. The sister thought it best to destroy it, but the young lady was angry and caused the arrest. Adam Smith," who was buried, Monday, at Boggstown,“Shelby“county; was one of the remarkable -characters of the county. He came there in 1827 from Ohio and located near Boggstown— During the war he was in the famous Demo l cratic meeting held at Boggstown, whieh passed resolutions declaring the war a failure, and also declaring the township of Sugar Creek as* withdrawn from the

... —. .v.’' v -"—t — Union. Last year he won a State reputation by debating in favor of the theory that “The Sun, It Do Move.” The disgraceful encounters of tha Reeds and ex-Congressman Heilman, at Evansville, Monday, were followed up, Wednesday. The elder Reed has not been on good terms with his son for some time. He went to the young man’s office and assaulted him. When Reed, Jr., started to run the old man pursued him, and when stopped by friends was about to use a knife, with which he had armed himself. The Wise will case terminated at Sullivan, Saturday evening, in a vredict for defendants. W. J. Wise was a wealthy bacheelor who died in Vincennes four years ago. He left his large estate to his three nieces. A brother brought suit to set aside the will, and similar suits by other relatives followed. It was charged that decendent was of unsound mind, and each of the cases was warmly contested. The value of the estate is indicated by the fact that R. J. McKimly, the administrator, gives a bond of $490,000.

While fishing on the falls at Jeffersonville, Sunday, Charles Murphy, an experienced fisherman, was drowned by being pulled into the river by an enormous catfish, weighing, it is estimated, 250 pounds. Murphy’s line extended from his net to his wrist, where he had tied it. A sudden jerk pulled him off tlie bank into the water, where he was pulled about like a chip, striving frantically all the while to release his wrist from the rope. Sometimes he was beneath the water, then on the surface. Before the astonished spectators could procure a skiff to go to Murphy’s relief he was dragged under the water and disappeared from sjght. The body has not been recovered, and it is the general opinion that the drowned man is being dragged wherever the fish can swim. The third party Prohibitionists in the vicinity of Treaty, Wabash county, are greatly scandalized over a fight between two females, w 7 hich took place at one of their political gatherings at the Newman school-house. The aggressor was Mrs. Fannie Bundy, who went the meeting prepared for all emergencies. While the speaking was in progress the Bundy woman jostled against Miss Laura Prickett, a comely young female, who resented the insult, when Mrs. Bundy whipped out a convenient billy, and gave Miss Prickett a fearful castigation, causing the blood to spdrt from numerous wounds in her head. There was a genen 1 uproar, and Mrs. Bundy made her escape. She was subsequently arrested and heavily fined. The affhir has created a great sensation in the vicinity where it occurred.