Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Gas has been struck at Francesville. Mad dogs are being killed at Jeffersonville. ’ A ghost walks the night at Jefferson-, ville. Goshen rejoiced in 193 cases of measles last month. A scarcity of logs is reported by Madison lumbermen. At Scatterville lives a man whe will vote for, Belva Lockwood. Elkhart county wheat will probably pan out better this year than last. Horace G. Hamlin was struck by a falling tree at Wolcottville and killed. Blackberries so big they have to be sliced for the table are grown in Floyd county. •. Lew Bowers cleaned out a drug store at Dnndee while under sprituous influences.

Dunrelth has a gusher which burns twenty-five feet highland the town will be piped. ■ The collection of 150 fine fish, kept in a pond by Phil May, at Terre Haute,was poisoned by some miscreant. 0. D. Able, of Elkhart, swallowed a tack the other day and is getting along first rate. Physicians administered acids to dissolve the bit of metal. While on a somnambulistic stroll in her father’s hotel at Brownstown, a child of Henry Scott fell from a second story window, sustaining serious if not fatal injuries. Evansville’s cotton-mill is being enlarged. Out of the establishment’s 400 employes 300 are women, and the payroll is somewhfere between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO per month. Henry Lehrman, an employe of the gas works at Fort Wayne, while eating dinner, was choked to death by a piece of bread lodging in his windpipe. He leaves a large family. Maxie Wilson, a twelve-year-old boy was fined sl3 in Justice Keigmin’s Court at Jeffersonville, for assaulting Ruth, the ten-year-old daughter of Col. J. B. Merri wether, with a knife. Monday night, the corpse of man, and Tuesday night that of a woman, were found in the river near Louisville. Both were murdered and weighted down with rock. Suspicion points to parties twenty miles above Jeffersonville. ■ H Elder John Brazleton, a member of the Christian Church at North Vernon and a leader of the Prohibition party, was stoned while making ah address at Butlerville, Jennings county. A bowlder struck him on the head, inflicting a serious injury. Farmers in Sothwestem Indiana are interested in what their friends over in Illinois are doing ip regard to the chinch hug pest. A meeting was held at Robinson, Crawford- counfy, Illinois, Saturday, attended by some Indianians, at which the subject was scientifically discussed. The disease that has been raging among the cattle of Howard county, thought to have been Texas fever, lias abated. It created considerable alarm, and was confined to milch cows exclusively, the total number reported to have died being twenty-five. The report that the disease was spreading in Tipton county was without foundation. Julius Grevelet, of Tarentum, Pa., overhauled his wife, who eloped with Peter La Matrie three months ago, at New Albany, Tuesday. The injured husband had. an interview with the woman, and she consented to return with her husband. She brought away with her $350 of of her husband’s money which she had kept, and turned over to him.

Benjamin F. Landis has begun an action in the Fulton Circuit Court Lawson Wager, editor of the Akron Echo, charging him wtth publishing an article defamatory to the character of the plaintiff. The article charged that Landis possesses* vicious, cowardly disposition, and that he has made indirect attempts to injure the personal property of some of his neighbors. The plaintiff asks for $5,000 damages. M The following patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesdsy: Jas. B. Alfee, Indianapolis, assignor of one-half to R. Shriner and H. Swartzwelder, Cumberland, Md., dust collecting machine; Wm. M. Augustine, South Bend, wire tension device; Geo. H. Branson, Michigan City, fire wood drag-saw; Thomas Hibbert, Cochran, weather strip; Albert N. Norris, assignor to Star Drill Company; Rushville, seeding machine.

Considerable excitement prevailed in Francesville, Thursday night. A number of masked men went to the residence of G. W. Dowell,an insurance agent and a man of means, and fired about thirty shots into his house, demolishing one door and a window. Mr. Dowell left for parts unknown. He had been ordered tn leave the town, the time expiringron Wednesday, July 11. Mr. Dowell is Charged with insulting married Avomen throughout the county, James Petru, of Bartholomew county, aged thiry-five .years, riding by a field where John Brotherton was plowing, got off and cruelly beat Brotherton, who is seventy-five years old, till he will die. Both are prominent and wealthy farmers. Petru was once arrested and tried for attempting to commit a rape onBrotherton’s daughter. A large damage suitr resulted,- -out oi which he came clear after long litigaton and spending several thousand dollars. H. A. Huston, director of the Indiana

Weather Service, in his crop bulletin for the week ending July, 14, shows that the growth of all crops has been favorable, as the heavy rains, free from violent disturbances, the cool temperature and sufficient sunshine were beneficial. Oats alone, perhaps, got less benefit than any of the crops. Wheat is in shock and is being threshed in all parts of the State. Corn is unusually promising and is in excellent condition, while the melon crop is immense. A novel riiiit has been instituted at Leavenworth, in which Peter Grant is the plaintiff and Harve Goodshn ' the defendant. Goodson was engaged to he married to Grant’s daughter, and at Goodson’s request Grant had prepared a “big” dinner and invited the whole neighborhood to the marriage feast. The guests assembled at the appointed time, but Goodson did not put in an appearance, and up to this time has not been heard from. He has fled the country, but left behind a yoke of oxen, tdrich have been levied upon by Grant for the expense of the dinner, which is placed at S4O. For Indiana there are six hills on the calendar in the House to be passed. One is for a hundred-thousand-dollar building at Evansville, one for a $40,000 building at Madison one for a fifty-thousand-dollar building at Logansport and one for a sixtv-thoußand-dollar building at Richmond. The committee has yet four bills for Indiana which have not been reported. One is for a fifty-thousand-dollar building at Jeffersonville, and - three others for Vincennes, Lafayette and South Bend, each providing for the erection of seventy-five-thousand-dollar buildings! ***=* The C., W. & M. trestle spanning Eel river at North Manchester gave way under an engine and five freight cars Saturday night. The train was precipitated into the stream twenty feet below. Ben Rodabaugh, engineer, David Garretson, fireman, and Dave Stone, brakeman, were pinned in the cab and went down in the wreck. Rodabaugh was the only one severely hurt. Stone, lime, cement and oil were on the cars, and the wreck took fire, the oil tanks bursting and scattering the fluid over the debris. It will require a week to make a temporary structure, and in the meantime trains will use the Chicago & Atlantic and Wabash & Western tracks to get around the gap.