Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Rockville wells are dry. Worthington has a boom in lots.. Crawfordsville has some diphtheria. , Still haVing-piCnics in Clarke county. Columbus needs new street crossings. Marion thinks she has 10,000 inhabitants. There are 1,164 pupils enrolled in the schools of Columbus. ? Fifteen cars are made every day at the Terre Haute Car Works. A railroad from Seymour to Bedford, 33 miles, is contemnlated. The family of Jacob Topper, at Elkhart, were chloroformed and th£ew carried away $403 in cash. ,4- ' “Lucky” Baldwin, of California, visaed Valparaiso last week. He was* in business there forty years ago. Twenty-two mules and horses burned to death in Wakefield Long’- livery stanie at vvasningLon, in a., xnursaay. A lamp war is about to be inaugurated at Anderson which promises a light cheaper than that of the sun or natural gas. Vigo county farmers have lively times pursuing young engineers from the Terre Haute Polytechnic School who are constantly measuring the earth. Mary Webster, a spinster, aged 46, has been given judgment against Wm. Maybin for $6,000 for breach of promise. The parties hail from Lawrenceburg. Maybin is a bachelor of wealth, The suit was for $50,000, and was hotly contested. Mr. and Mrs. George Lambert, of Shelby county, Wednesday celebrated the sixty-third anniversary- of their marriage, which took place in Lancaster, Penn. To them was born ten children, five of whom are still living. The aged couple came to that county in -1827 ? Thieves enjoyed themselves at FL Wayne- Wednesday. A. H. Carter; a member of the Thurman Reception Committee, was robbed of his pockefbook and a number of important papers. Mr. Krudoh was relieved of $250, and a sums. Samuel Myers, the aged father of Captain W. R. Myers, the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, was thrown from a buggy at Anderson and received serious injuries. When picked up he was unconscious. Saturday, he seemed better and Was considered out of danger. He is over seventy-five years of age. Five men were sitting on a wagon load of fire works in Fort Wayne, Wednesday evening, when the explosives caught fire. Albert Bouse, a married man with three children, was terribly burned, the skin being almost completely burned off his body; He cannot possibly recover. Robert L. Smith was also badly burned about the body, but he will recover. Thurman had a big day at Ft. Wayne Wednesday, the crowd was estimated at from 30,000 to 50,000. The Republican rally at the Tippecanoe Battle Ground was the largest ever given there. Mr. Blaine could not speak on account of a eore throat. Governor Porter snoke at Bluffton to 10,000 people and Governor Foraker at Indianapolis to another large crowd. Thu Fort Wayne Jenney Electric Light Company has made arrangements for consolidation with the ThompsonHouston Company of Boston. These are two-of the strongest concerns in the country, and itis their intention to absorb all of the other companies. R. T. McDonald, General Manager of the Fort Wayne company, is the head of the movement. . The Grand Chapter, R. A. M., met at Indianapolis Thursday, and elected the -following officers: GHP, Daniel McDonald, Plymouth. D HP, Elm >re Crockett, Laporte. G K, Jacob W. Smith, Indianapolis. G 8, E. B. Church, Michigan City, GOH, EdwardS. Rots, Wabash. G T, Martin H. Rice, Indianapolis. G Sec’y, John M. Bramwell. Indianapolis. G C, David X. Burns, Lebanon. Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence, Thomas B. Long, Terre Haute. A story was passed about on the streets of Evansville Sunday that is better than a fish yarn. The steamer Robert B. Carson collapsed with thirty head of cattle on the lower deck a few days ago. All efforts to raise the boat proved unavailing. Sunday morning, to the surprise of the inhabitants, the boat suddenly bobbed serenely up. It was suggested that the gases generated in the carcasses of the uead animals had lifted the steamer to the surface, and this theory is accepted for want of a better. Chairman Jewett, of the Democratic State Committee, and Taggart, of the Marion county committee, have formally declined to contribute funds to the “Committee of One Hundred,” of Indianapolis, for the prevention of fraud on the ballot box. Chairman Jewett declines because the committee is local in its scope, while Chairman Taggart gives as his reason that the committee is not equally divided between the parties. Mr. Jewett has selected a committee of one hundred representative Democrats for the purpose named. A vestibule train on the Pan-Handle road struck a two-horse road wagon, containing two men and a woman, at Greenfield. John F. Spilkey and wife were sitting on the spring seat, and Dennis Casey was on a box in the rear part ofthewagon.Thewagonwas completely cut in two. Mr. Casey was knocked one hundred feet, and nearly every bone in his body broken. His death was in-

stantaneous. Mr. and Mrs. Spilkey hung on to the lines, and were dragged some little distance. Both were badlv bruised but not seriously hurt. Victor Hill, whose home is near Winchester, went to the house of his fatherin law, Zimri Moffet, Saturday evening and asked to see his baby. Mr. Moffet started to leave the room while Hill and his wife were engaged in talking. Hill drew a revolver and shot his father-in-law in the back, inflicting a dangerous wound? TufningThe shot his sTster-ln-law, Mrs. Warren Harper, in the left side, , but the bullet glanced and only produced a flight wound. He next shot his wife i i the?!, left breast, above the heart, and she’' soon expired. Mr. Moffet’s wound is dangerous. After the shooting Hill left the house and started 'north. J Moffet, who is old and infirm, took a musket and started in pursuit, but was too weak to discharge the waapon Mrs Harper took it from him and fired at Hill, but with no effect.. Hill escaped to the woods. The tragedy is the result of a family quarrel? Dan Ritter is an escaped convict from the Michigan City prison for a second time. Dan left the penitentiary a few nights ago and has not turned up yet; but his abs-nce is not worrying the officials much. Ritter is sixty-five years old and almost childish in his nature. He is unfit for convict labor and has always done chores around since bis incarceration, a couple of years ago. Last summer he took a notion to visit his wife, so without bidding the officials farewell, he started for home. He wore his stripes and traveled by night until he reached his destination. There he was found in the bosom of his family and returned. Recently Ritter has manifested a desire to go home again, and just before locking-up time, one night last week, lie was reported missing, and the surmise was at once advanced that he had gone home once more. The officials at Elkhart, where his family live, have been notified to watch him.