Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Half the Maxinkuckee cottages are closed. YVarkarusa is getting many new houses. "■ The Schools of Elkhart are overcrowded. A case of glanders was reported at Terre Haute Wednesday. • Terre, Haute’s fire chief is inspecting the cellars of business houses. Kush county is said to be covered with aboat $1,000,0H0 worth of mortgages. Farmers in Deer Creek township, Cass county, have organized for police protection. ~~ - /\ , Michigan City has more secret and\benevolent societies than any other town .in the State. The Fourth District Republicans nominated Manly D. YVilson, of Madison, for Congress on the fourth ballot. The bear that has been circling around in Montgomery county has been seen in the suburbs of Crawfordsville. Burglars made a raid at \Valkerton,the other night, and took notes and money from the store of Ross & Reese amounting to nearly $5,000. Miss Elizabeth Todd, aged nineteen, of Jackson county, killed herself with poison Monday, She bad been disappointed in a love affair. It is hoped that the new life-saving station at Michigan City will be completed in sixty days. The work has been greatly delayed in various ways. Hon. L. O. Shroeder, ex-Mayor of Vevav, one of the ablest lawyers of Southfern Indiana and a prominent Democratic politican, is dead. His “Civil Justice Treatise” is a standard work. Things are now arranged so that the Hoosier farmer can have fresh meat all the year round and not have to fall back on his smokehouse. The trave ing butchers are supplying his demands. YVhile firing an anvil at a political meeting at Advance, ninemiles west of liberty, George Beam was seriously if not fatally hurt by a premature explosion. His eyes were burned badly, and he may lose his sight. James M. Chamberlain, aged sixtyfive years, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Steele township, Daviess ing, in a grove near his home. The body was not discovered for some time. The little town of Annapolis, Parke county, with 400 or 500 inhabitants, has been scourged by typhoid fever. Twentysix cases, three fatal, are reported in one month, and many are still very,Sick. The cause is bad sanitary conditions. Grant county has a snake now. It is a monster snake. It has been seen on the farm of Mr. Lewis Landis. It is suspected that this is the same snake that lias been frightening the lowly inhabitants of YY r abash county for several weeks. YVm. K. Parkinson, ex-County Commissioner of Jasper county, died Monday of Bright’s disease. Mr. Parkinson was a grandson of the celebrated Simon Kenton, who was distinguished in the pioneer history of Kentucky and Ohio. Mr. Parkinson was engaged in farming and stock raising, and was quite wealthy. Patents were granted Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: Cortland Ball, assignor-of one-half-to J. V. Wood,- Indianapolis, crude-oil burner; Henry C. Davis, Terre Haute, hydrocarbon retort iilporizer; Jacob C. Gose, Reelsville, assignor of one-hal fto R. H. Bowen, Putnam vi lie, motor; Urban L. Shaw, Westfield, gate. YVm. Anderson, of Lake Township, and Mrs. Thomas, of Eel River Township, Allen county, were maraied by Judge O’Rouke, of Fort Wayne, YVednesday. The groom is a prominent farmer and is on the shady side of seventy-four years, while his bride, a well perserved widow, is benevolent and good looking at seventy. —The residence-and contents belonging to J. Edwards, near Haughville, were totally destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Mr. Edwards and a ■ small child were sleeping up sfaire, .'anrr' barely" escaped with their lives. Raising a window with the child in his arms, Mr. Edwards jumped out, but was badly burned and bruised. He succeeded in arousing the family below and got thein out safely. Suit is to be. brought in. the Ilarrison Circuit Court against ex-Treasui|pr John C. Graves and his bondsmen to recover $14,000, which the County Commissioners say he is behind in his accounts. Graves retired a year ago after making a settlement, and that was supposed to be final. However, county orders were received of which no register had been kent. The boiler of a steam thresher engine belonging to Bennett <k Glover exploded YY'ednesday on the farm of Edward Green, in Salt Creek township, Jackson county. YY'illiam Bennett, one of the owners, was killed. His body was hurled 150 yards. George McElffesh, John Lambert, Brazille YVeekly and Ambrose Thompson were slightly injured. Charles Dabb was blown 100 feet, but suffered no severe injuries. Edward Chamberlain, the Monticello murderer, who has been confined in the Northern Indiana prison for several months past for safe keeping pending his trial, bids fair to defeat the ends of justice, for he is gradually starving himself to death. He has not tasted food of any kind for two weeks past, and refuses -even delicacies. His apppearanee is greatlv changed, and unless his trial occurs soon he will succeed in making away with himself.

Two lives were lost pear Cates Station, Saturday night, on the T. C. St. L. Railroad. Two squads of workmen were returning home at a late hour on handcars in opposite directions, and when over a high trestle collided, mangling one maffso badly that he died in a short time. John Grist was so dazed by the shock that he walked off the trestle, falling about thirty feet, breaking his neck. One squad had a lantern in front but the other had none. No explanation is given of the cause of the accident. Three men were killed "at Hammond while walking on the tracks of the Western Indiana Railroad, Monday evening. They stepped from one track to avoid a coming freight, when all were struck by a Chicago & Atlantic passenger and instantly killed. The first was found with his skull crushed, terribly mutilated. They were Poles, and from papers discovered on their bodias were probably in the employ of R. D. Walsh, a Chicago contractor. John Kepplinger, who was with John Brady in the latter’s house Saturday night when an unknown assassin fired at both through a window,,gave his testimony Wednesday before the Coroner of Daviess county. Kepplinger is suffering.from The wound[ in his head and may never recover entirely from his injurv. Brady died instantly. Kepplinger rushed to the door, wounded as he was, after the shots were fired, and saw a man disappearing down the road on horseback. The people of the neighborhood think a tramp, who had been loitering in the vicinity, was responsible. A horrible case of homicide occurred late YVednssday evening, three miles southwest of Columbus. James Ford, a farmer, while delirious from typhoid fever, sprang from his bed, and, seizing a chair, made a vicious attack upon his wife and two children, who were in the room. The infant child was killed outright. He struck his wife several times over the head, inflicting injuries from which she will die. His ten-year-old son was knocked senseless, and so seriously beaten that he can not possibly live. The screams of the terror-striken family aroused the neighbors, and several men soon arrived on the scene,thorri-fied-at the sight that met their gaze. Ittook the work of eight men to manacle the maniac.