Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

An ax clubisE vans vi 1 le’g latest. 1 Jeffersonville has oflly two policemen. Terre Haute’s co-operative grocery* has closed. A lawn tennis court is a Columbus curiosity. < Connersville has erected a fine new school-house. The Terre Haute police made twentyfour arrests Tuesday. Congressman AY bite .has been unanimously renominated. . “* General Alger, of Michigan, visited Gen. Harrison Tuesday. A Fort factory turned out seventy-eighborgans last week. The barbed wire factory at Crawfordsville has temporarily shut down. Several Terre Haute business men have organized a Tariff Reform Club. ... Hon. James Johnson, of the Bth District, has been nominated by acclamation. Louisville gamblers are running things with a high -hand at Jeffersonville. , The Warden of the Michigan City Penitentiary had 705 prisoners registered, Saturday.— —: —- j Hon, Cas Byfield, a politician of considerable note, of Indianapolis, died in that city on the oth. , The Argus Dean peach orchards in Clark county, covering 775 acres, contain 123,000 trees. 'Seymourlooks fondly toward the establismenr of a fruit and vegetable canning factory in the Jackson county capital. '} Lewis Snepp. of Edinburg, was knocked off a J., M. & I. train Saturday night by a brakeman and instantly killed. » * John Galey has entered suit against he Yandalia railway in the Montgomery county court, for $20,000 damages for the loss of an arm. A “Red Pepper Brigade” has been organized at Michigan City by young ladies who have suffered from the masher’s attentions. A fire, Thursday, in the mills and lumber yard of Little, Craft & Co., at Evansville, caused a loss of SIOO,OOO insurance $60,000. The two-year-old child of George Fellows,living five miles south of Columbus, was ruii over by a gravel train, Tuesday morning, and killed. A special agent of the Postoffice Department will visit Muneie and Columbus, Ind., to investigate their claims for a free-delivery system. Thomas C. Chandler, of Indianapolis, (of the firm of Chandler & Taylor) w*as nominated for Congress, Wednesday, by the Republicans of the 7th'district. A lady named Barger has instituted suit against ’Squire Arthur Cunningham, at Corydon, for SI,OOO damages. She alleges that Cunningham assaulted her, and beat her in a brutal manner. The Ohio Valley railway has taken initiatory steps toward building a new bridge across the Ohio at a point a few miles above Evansville.

The Shelbvville- Military band is encamped on AVhite river, near Columbus, and strains of music lull the people of that town to slumber every night. At New Albany, Saturday, Eli S. Talbott and Eliza AVeaver. an aged couple who have been living together many years and have grown children, were legallynnited in marriage. r-~——~ The township of which Huntington is a part, Monday, voted $49,500 to aid in building the proposed Chicago, Dayton & Cincinnati railway. Huntington will get the road’s shops. At Madison, John Moore, in a fit of despondency, attempted suicide by taking arsenic and slashing his throat with a knife. Proper remedies promptly administered saved his life. This has been a most satisfactory season for the farmers in this section. AVlieat and oats have not done so well or years, and the prospects are that other crops w*ill yield largely.—South Bend Tribune. AVhile plastering a house at Rockville on Friday, Fred Bowers and Sol Deeter, of Lagrange, were struck by lightning, Deeter being instantly killed and Bowers so injured that he died in a short time. Bowers leaves a small family.

Frank Reprogle, of Lafayette, nine years old, took a dynamite cartridge from a clock where it had been put for safe-keeping and commenced whittling it to make a whistle. It exploded, blowing off one hand and otherwise injuring him.‘ The Mormon elders and their converts 7 who received AYliite Cap attention a few nights ago in Crawford county, are being guarded from further harm in the house of a friendly farmer. The citizens are armed and will make it interesting for the regulators if they show themselves. Mrs. Sarah Rhoads, sixty-two years old, committed "icide by taking morphine at Hartsville Tuesday. She was the widow of Professor Rhoads, formerly one of the trustees of the Hqrteville University. She lived alone, and, when found in her room was dead., , Lightning struck four hptses belonging to E. M. Cooper, six miles east of Anderson, killing all of them. The horses were standing under a walnut tree. There was not a mark to be seen on anv of the animals except that each hoof was stripped entirely off all of them. . Joseph Rick attempted to get up a strike in Marcus Brookbank’s cooper

shop at Jeffersonville, Monday evening. The men refusing, he attempted to kill them with a large dirk, but was finally ejected. Rick boasts of being an anarchist, connected with the Haymarket riot and an expert bo** b maker. The. police are looking for him. John G. Cline has instituted suit against Samuel and Charley Mau'ck, at Corydon, tor $2,000 damages. Qline and ! Samuel Mauck are opposing candidates for Sheriff of Harrison county, and they became involved in a difficulty recently, which resulted in Cline receiving a skinned head and a number of broken rib'p. Mauck’s brother helped to knock him out.

The Young Men’s State Prohibition League met at Indianapolis, Tuesday, and completed the organization. B. F. Watson, of Danvill,e,. was elected President, C.L. Jessup, of Friendswood, secretary, ,H. L. Ritter, India’napolis, treasurer, H. F. Bullock, ot Dana, State Organizer, and a member of the State commtttee from each congressional district. A constitution was also adopted, which provides for co-operation with the Prohibition pgrty and to be auxiliary to the Nadional 1 League. - Goj. Gray has requested AttorneyGeneral Michener to visit the county of Crawford and ascertain the status of the lliits instituted against members of the White Caps, and to take such steps as may be necessary to secure a speedy prosecution of the suits, and the apprehension, indictment and-conviction of all persons who, as members of such organization, have been guilty of crime. William Van Horn, a farmer of Massillon, Allen county. Ohio, an(h Catharine Stettler, an inmate of the Adams county Infirmary, were married] Saturday night. The woman has a large family of children. The groom .s a prosper ous and well-to-do farmer with a grown up family, and the affair has created a decided sensation in Decatur, where the marriage was celebrated. □ Abram Cohen, a tinware peddler, has been-arrested at Jeffersonville, for stealing horses. He worked that business extensively. Although he is but a short time in this country and talks little English, he has stolen at least a dozen horses. His mode was to ask for supper and lodging, and during the night to slip away with the animals of his benefactors, which were sold at Cincinnati and Louisville. Two of the horses stolen belonged to Peter H. Bottorff, a wealthy farmer, who became temporarily insane through excitement over his loss. Persons arrive every day to identify the thief; Mrs. McCarty, who resides at Jeffersonville, met with a peculiar accident last Sunday, which may result in her death.' She had dressed a chicken for dinner, and was cutting it up When a bone of one of the wings made a slight abrasion on one of her fingers. She paid no attention tout, but Tuesday the member had swollen so that it looked as if the skin would burst. A physician was called in. The lady suffered excruciating pain, and the swelling began to crawl up her arm. It is feared if the progress of the disease can not be stopped, lockjaw will set in. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Henry Fasic, Middletown, sugar-cane harvester;Henry A. Goets, New Albany, beam-end protector; James B. Trawcock, Churubusco 1 brick kiln; Harvey Haggard, Jackson, inasking maebme; Ckarles R. Hartman, ~ Vincennes, spring attachment for agricultural implements; Theodore P. Heininan, assignor of one-half to F. T. Roots* Connersville, sign or advertising card; Charles Herring, Geneva, flood fence; Mancel AY. Mitchell, assignor of onehalf to H. A. Goe'z, New Albany, beam end protector; Oscar E. H. N. Reichling, Marion, fence. Col. A. J. Mclntosh, Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for the New Albany district, reports seventy-one fruit distilleries under his jurisdiction, and states that the entire number will be engaged by September 15 in the manufacture of peach and apple brandy. A number of the apple brandy distilleries will commence operations thi3 month. Most of the manufactories are located in Perry and Harrison counties, and among the 4iills of Crawford. Although the inaccessible locafion of some of the distilleries would render it comparatively safe there has never been any moonshine liquor manufactured in the district. Ben Scott, of Elkhart, was brought to Goshen Friday evening by a strong guard and lodged in jail. He is charged with the murder of Con Crowley at Elkhart. He and three other men became engaged in a quarrel in a butcher’s shop there, when Scott pulled out a long knife and stabbed all the other three men, saying as he killed Crowley, “Lay there, you d— d scoundrel; all I want is your money.” The knife went to the heart, penetrating over four inches I The other two men were not seriously hurt. After the stabbing, Scott started on a run and managed to get three miles into the eountry before he was caught. In the meantime a posse was formed for the purpose of lynching him and had started in pursuit, but missed the officers, who went straight to Goshen with the prisoner. Scott Is a wealthy Texan, whef came to Elkhart a few* weexs ago. No man unaccustomed to riding can imagine what a slight carrom will throw a horse when at full speed. It knocks the animal out of his stride. He may be leading with his right leg and the jostle will cause him to change to the left. Nothing is more likely to cause a fall than this.