Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Goshen wants a normal. Plenty of ice at Michigan Qity. Hog cholera rages near Alfordsville. The mad dog scare has reached Brooklyn. New Liaison wants new school buildings. Anderson is having great temperance' revival. There are 150 cases of measles in and near Broad Ripple. The P. Ik M. depot at Moore’s Hill burned, Tuesday night. < Marion claims to be the best lighted county seat in America. j'he Goshen Fire Department is growing rusty from inactivity. A most successful Methodist revival is progressing at Rockville. Allen county will have sixty-five precincts under the Andrews election law. Cory Lee, Emma Motley's adopted did not commit suicide as reported.', Thomas B. Helm, tlje historian, died at Logansport Tuesday. He had a wide reputation as a etude nt. * The shipyards at Jeffersonville have work enough ahead to keep them busy for several months. Four hundred men are employed. The Mutchner-Higgius elevator "D” at Indianapolis was destroyed by fire Wednesday morning causing a supposed loss of .about $60,000. Fort Wayne Buffered from a $100,009 fire Saturday morning. The buildings occupied by Louis Fox & Co., Wm. Henning and Skelton, Watt and Witt, were destroyed. The miners at Blackburn, in Pike county, have been on a strike for several weeks, due to a reduction in wages, and their brethren at other points are supporting them in the “walk-out.” Laporte produce dealers complain of the stagnation of the butter market,and attribute the cause to the vast quantities

of oleomargarine which are manufactured and sent out as genuine butter. Thursday, at Roanoke, John Schoeff’s team indulged in a runaway and dashed into a Wabash passenger train which was passing at the time. Both horses were killed and Schoeff was fatally injured. ; j The railway atation at Adams, whichis the intersection of the Cincinnati Richmond & Fort Wayne and the Pittsburg. Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railways: was destroyed by fire Sunday. Loss $2,000. The Mormon Missionaries who have been proselyting in Dubois county, had the audacity to claim that they " could work miracles similar to those of the early apostate, but when put to the test they failed to respond. Medarysville fishermen were electrified this week, by discovering that great numbers of fish had taken refuge in a small creek near that place. Wagon loads were taken out, the fish weighing from one to ten pounds. John Callagan, of Hammerle’s Station, track-walker for the Big Four Railway company, was killed a few days ago while at his task, and it is said that this is the seventh death of a similar character in

that neighborhood during the winter. There is a “tramp camp” on Mill Run, near the Patterson place, ip Clark County,Jfend nightly from one score to many more can be found catnping there They are usually too strong to be molested, and the farmers are affrighted. In the special election Tuesday in the district of Shelby snd Decatur counties, to fill the vacancy caused by the unseating of Senator Carpenter, Cortez Ewing of Greensburg was elected over Carpenter by a majority of .125 votes. Ray had withdrawn. Ex-Governor Leon Abbott, of New Jersey, headinga syndicate of New York capitalists, has organized a company at Muncie with abundant capital, and has purchased a large tract of land, the purpose being to boom Muncie on account of its wonderful natural gas advantages. Saturday night,near Waterloo, “White Caps” undertook to execute threats which bad been made against James Burke, but upon attempting to break into his house they were met with a fusilade of musketry, and one man, named “Skip” Barnhart, was shot in the jaw. This stopped the racket. . The Federal Grand Jury adjourned Friday. No indictment was returned against Dudley. The Indianapolis says that out of the hundred or so who have been indicted there are a numcer who are anxious to save ; and will turn on Dudley. It is believed ■ now thatjt can be shown that several ! persons have acted on the advice of the alleged Dudley letter.

C. H. Lyman, of Fort Wayne, has been declared insane. Two years ago, whileemployed by the Nickel Plate -Railway Company, hh engine collided ! with a train on the Grand Rapids & ; Indiana Railway crossing, and several ' passenger were injured, one of whom died. Mr; Lyman could never divest his mind of the fear that he was inore .■ or less responsible for the accident, and it finally drove him i Truett & Scott, grocers, of Crawfordsi ville, having been annoyed by petty ' thievery, fixed a thread in such a «ay as to show when an attempt was made to steal the hams exhibited on‘the outside. ! Soon there was a “bite,” one of the firm I gave chase with tbs revolver, and on the second shot stoppt d George Borst, a well-known citizen, with the ham in his possession, Mr. Borst claimed he was taking it as a joke, and he readily gave bond. The Fort Wayne Democracy are disposed to resent the removal of Civil Service Commissioner Edgertoa by President Cleveland, they attributing it to spite because of a published interview in one of the Fort Wayne papers, in which , Edgerton said that Harrison w as as stubborn as Cleveland, and had more sense. Fort Wayne is also confident that President Harrison will reappoint Mr. Ed- - gerton to the ©lace from which he was removed by Cleveland. j Patents were granted to Indiana in- ■ venters. Tuesday, as follows: John C. • Alien, Brookston, mole plow; Henry C. • Handler, Thorntewn, portable oil oath for wheels; Sylvester Headley, Gosport, drafting instrument; Frank and M. .Nicolai, Beuton, fence machine; Dayi > M. Parry, Indianapolis, hub-boring machine. Trade marks were patented for Asa M. Fitch, cheving gum, Seymour, and Booth Canning Company, Indianapolis, canned oysters. The Kokomo “Kids” the crack Py-

thian division has been suspended by the Supreme Chancellor for its failure to obey orders. The commander reiterates the charge that the division was not fairly treated, and that no apology will he made to the judges in consequence. The division will appeal to the Supreme Lodge, and the commander claims that at the proper time evidence will be forthcoming showing that the division was robbed of first honors at - the Cincinnati contest Charles Goburn, of Anderson, is a constant attendent upon tne Church of God revival, and he joins in the singing with vehemence, but - for tome cause he always starts in about “two jumps” as it were, behind the leader. This precipitated a crisis in the church Saturdav night, and Neal Dougherty, the official bouncer, attempted to throw him out Coburn made such a tremendous resist ance that the congregation was forced to accept a compromise, but it was finally eonditioped that Cobum should either sing in tune or not at al 1. The Lincoln League of Indiana held its annual session of Indianapolis, Tuesday. Over two hundred delegates were present.. Among the spetrehmakers »ere Gov. Porter H. Clay Evans, the Republican contestee for Congress in the Chattanoogo district, William S. Taylor, President of the League and W. H. Smith, the Secretary. The latter stated that ther» were 8 9 Lincoln League clubs in the State at the time of the election and the membership was about 80/00. The following officers were elected* president, William L Taylor, re-elected; Secretary. Granville 8. Wright; Treasurer, N. 8. Byram, reelected. Gov. Porter was elected Vice President ©! the National organization aqd J. N. Huston, member of the National executive committee. The delegates to,the National convention of the League, to be held at 'Baltimore Feb. 18, are: William Kursely, Columbia City, Marcus R. Sulger, Madison; Winfield F. Silver, Bluffton; George W. Patched, Union City. The alternates are John B. Winter, Cass county, B, W. Sholty, Decatur county, Charles -M. Rook, Knightstown, and John C. Wingate, of Montgomery. In the matter of selecting district managers the first district was not proi ided for. The other twelve managers in the order of the districts they represent are T. J. Brooks, C. H Always, Albert Davis W R. Mc< leland. Paul Leebhardt Caleb 8. Denny, Nick Filbtck, C. C. Sbirlev, D. 0. Justice, Win. S. Silver, P. V. Hoffman and Aaron Jones. A series of resolutions adopted congratulates everybody on the result of the November election and condemns the Demqcrats of the Indiana 55 Legislature for preventing Lieut. Gov. Robinson from taking his seat, for appointing an unnecessary number of doorkeepers at great expense, for unseating Carpenter, for squandering, the public funds, for failure to investigate the Insane Hospital. The resolutions included one to the memory of Abiaham Lincoln. The sensational murder trial which has been occupying the attention of a jury at Marion for several days closed Thursday night with a verdict of guilty against John Sage,and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Ibis see is an exceedingly peculiar one. His divorced wife is a life prisoner in the Reformatory. Previous to ner marriage with Sage she was the mother of a child and her name was Eliza Cunningham, Saje paid her att' ntions, and according to her story proffered marriage, conditioned that the child was put out of ths way. Several times he urged her to kill the little one, to which she naturally objected, but finally her ecru pies were overcome and she pushed her son into the a running stream of water, and saw the little one drown while she stood looking on. Her marriage with Sage folldwed that »vening. In time suspicions were aroused concerning the fate of the child,and eventually she was tried and convicted of the murder, she taking the blame entirely upon herself and making no effort to inculpate ler husband. The child was drowned in June, 1882. Ah long hb Sage remained single she endure d her imprisonment passively, but last September, upon receiving notice that he had brought suit for divorce—which was granted—he having become enamored of another woman in Blackford county, she confessed his connection with the crime to the Matron of the Reformatory, and in this way it reach d the attention of the authorities. Last Tuesday she was taken to Majion to give her testimony, which she did in a manner which seemed to convince the jury. The defendant did not make a good impression. His memory was singularlv defective relative to the testimony he had given in the inquiry made by the Coroner of Blackford countv, and when qu< ationed about having advised the woman to kill the little one, he couid only answer, “Not to my recollection.” Tne woman has been returned to the Reformatory, and Sage will be removed to the Prison North.