Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

' i Bedford Catholics will erect a church. The Jeffersonville ear works employ 1,600 men. A pressed brick concern is a new Seymour enterprise. ' • The fruit buds of Huntington were injured by a freeze. \ Sheriff Squires captured John Steele, a horse thief, at Wabash, Friday. Wn. Wallace has succeeded Aquilla Jones, sr., p postmaster at Indianapolis. Mrs. John Sessler, of Laporte, dropped dead Monday while preparing the family breakfast South Wayne has seceded from Fort Wayne proper, having voted for a seperate town corporation. In a popular election the Martinville Republicans have named W. H. Dryden as their choice for Postmaster. The Elkhart Military Company has changed its name from “Koontz Guards” to the “Elkhart Light Guards.” Francis Murphy’s temperance meetings at Indianapolis, last week, resulted in securing 1,2U0 signatures to pledges. Samuel Swicker, of Vincennes, was crushed to death by an Ohio and Mississippi railway train at Washington, Monday. Eli Ballinger, a farmer near Huntington, was struck by a fragment of a board thrown off by a buzz saw, Monday, and fatally injured. Knight Brothers, of Elkhart, who have had great success in peppermint culture, will erect a sugar factory and go into the beet raising industry. McGarvey & Bros, have entered into a contract to rebuild the Greensburg Court House, work to commence next week and to be finished this year. Robert Slocum, of Boone county, a Democrat, still maintains a pole 150 feet in hight in his dooryard, with Cleveland and Thurman banners flying therefrom. John Darsey, the Chicago & Atlantic railroad engineer whose alleged carelessness resulted in a fatal accident at Kouts. Ind., will be tried for manslaughter. ’ Governor Hovey has pardoned Marion A. Hardy, of Evansville, who has been serving a seventeen year sentence for highway robbery. It is shown that he was innocent. The Evansville Democracy have nominated Nicholas M. Goodlet for Mayor, while the Republicans have chosen Hon. John H. Dannattell, the present incumbent. Samuel A. To well, the present Chief Fire Engineer of Anderson, during the war, while leading his company in the charge at Altoona Pass, was shot nine times through the leg. There are signs of a decided revolt against “ring rule” in Huntington, the citizens realizing that the needs of the town are more important than possible political advantages. Joel Briggs and John O. Kain, of Warren county, fearful that they have been inocculated with virus by a hog afflicted with hydrophobia, have applied the Terre Haute mad-stone.

Chai les Anderson, of Evansville, while unloading a circular saw, struck one of the teeth against his knee. Inflammation followed and he has undergone amputation at the hip-joint Benjamin Ensley, of Fiat Rock, is in possession of a powder horn carried during the Revolutionary War, and which was carved by Solomon Purdy at Bedford, Mass., in March, 1782. A cow afflicted with hydrophobia was killed, Monday, in Terre Haute, and there is considerable alarm because infants in several families have been fed from the milk of the afflicted animal. Mrs. H. C. Davis, of Columbus, was stricken with nervous prostration, Monday, due to fright from a visit by a burly tramp, and she was found; in an unconscious condition, with recovery doubtful. Elkhart proposes to place stringent restrictions upon the Bell Telephone Company if it attempts toagaia operate in that city. Under the old law Elkhart repealed the Bell franchise and cut down its poles and wires. William Shumate, aged seventy, and DoraEglin. aged nineteen, the latter blind, eloped from the Bartholomew County Asylum, Wednesday night, but were re-eapturea Thursday,at the Western Hotel, Columbus. Alfred Major, of Shelbyville, a prominent lawyer, and the wealthiest man in Shelby county, died,Monday, of typhoid fever, aged sixty-one. He settled in Shelbyville in 1846, and studied law under Vice President Hendricks. The case testing the responsibility of natural gas companies was tried Thursday, at Anderson, and judgment was given plaintiff for SSOO. Plaintiff’s house caught fire from excessive pressure on gas mains. An appeal will be taken.

Dr. Allen Furnas, the well known horticulturist of Hendricks county, who has taken the lead for years in advancing fruits in this State, has sold his celebrated nursery and orchards in Hendricks county, and will remove to California. z ■ William Dwyre, of Greensburg, attempted to jest with George Power about a girl of ill-repute, and Power thrust a knife into his breast, the blade penetrating his lung and causing dangerous injury. The assailant, who is only seventeen years old, was arrested for attempted murder. The much talked of fight between Ike Weir, the “Belfast Spider,” and Frank Murphy for the light weight championship, took place at Kouts, sixty-eight rounds were fought with no aecisive result, although both men were badly punished, when a postponement for several days was ordered. A constitutional defect has been discovered in the saloon high license bill passed by tne recent Legislature. Its unconstitutionality lies in the fact of its naming the section of the statute to be amended without Betting forth the section in full. This is a clear violation of section 117 of the constitution. There is great demand for Indiana stone,nrare particularly from the quarries in the Southern part of the State, and the Monon railway is hauling fifty car loads daily, principally to Chicago and the Northwest, some of it going as far as Omaha. The company expects to load one hundred cars daily when the season fullyopens. Mondav, at Minshall, while the Parke County Coal Company was prospecting for coal the drill struck gas at a depth

of 150 feet, which threw water and stones fifty feet into the air. The company owns several mines, but this is the first time gas has ever been found in that vicinity, and the company will investigate to determine, whether it is marsh or fuel gas. Never in the history ot Southern Indiana has farming been so far advanced at this season of the year as now. As a rule, the oats are sown and in manv cases up and looking well. Wheat, also, has a healthy look, with every promise of an abundant crop, and there is also a great prospect for peaches and other fruits.

As a result of the hydrophobia panic in the neighborhood of French Lick, twenty-five dogs were shot in one day. Citizens are still going apned for fear of meeting a mad animal, and horses, cows and hogs are frequently giving evidence of having contracted the rabies. One ram whicn was affected finally succeeded in butting out his own brains. South Kokomo two years ago had a scattering population of 150 people. The next enumeration will show over 1,500, with over ten-fold advance in value of lots. There are now nine manufacturing establishments in South Kokomo, employing 1,000 men, where two years ago there were none, and in other ways the growth has been marvelous. Patents were Tuesday issued to Indiana inventors as follows*. Stephen J. Austin, Terre Haute, car jxle box; Eugene Bretney, Indianapolis, dust collector; Henry C. Davis, Terre Haute, hydrocarbon vaporizer; C. N, Leonard. Indianapolis, combined desk and type writer cabinet; Joseph B. Oakey, Indianapolis, combined harrow and pulveriser, Henry C. Shanahan, Mishawaka, corn planter. '

William Robert Burnie, aged thirtyfive, and Maggie May Islett, a school girl, of Fort Wayne, were married, Thursday, by the pastor of the First Baptist Church, a false affidavit having been made relative to the age of the girl, who is only fourteen, by which to obtain a license. Thparents promptly repudiated the alliance, and are moving to set it aside. The groom has been twice married, and he has a divorced wife living in Fort Wayne. A Monroe county patriot, anxious to serve his county, has written to Governor Hovey, saying: “As My friends air askeing me to takee the Place and serve as Notary Republic and I have promised if you will give me the apointment and as I worked hard for your election now will you be a frien to your friend and give me the apoin tment.” Twentv-one names are signed to this remarkable letter, all in the same handwriting and evidently forgeries, indorsing the applicant—-Indianapolis News. Alonzo C. Stewart, of Dunkirk, and other jovial companions, believing that Charles Culver, a night watchman, was cowardly, feigned a row in a saloon and called in the officer. Stewart was chosen to do the scaring, and when Culver was requested to arrest him as the guilty party, Stewart jerked loose and grabbed a chair, and while simulating great anger acted as if he intended to strike. He was met with a whack over the head with a mace, which felled him, and Friday he died from the effects of the blow. Culver stands charged with murder.

Almost a sensation was caused by the announcement, Saturday, that the law “passed by the recent Legislature” authorizing a loan of $1,400,000 is probably unconstitutional by reason of the explicit wording of that section of the constitution authorizing the contracting of loans. It provides that loans can only be contracted “to meet deficits, pay interest on State debt, repel invasion, suppress insurrection and provide for the public defense.” The act authorizing the loan stated, it is claimed, can hardly come under any of these requirements, and the opinions of attorneys who have examined the law is unfavorable to it. It is understood the capitalists who stood toady to provide the money are unwilling to do so under the circumstances. However, the State officers express the opinion that the law will stand, and Treasurer Lemcke has gone to New York with the object of closing up the loan. Judge Woods, of the United States Court, spent Thursday hearing arguments upon motions to quash indictments against persons for alleged violation of the election laws. During the day he passed upon twenty, and found sixteen of them invalid. The four that were not quashed were only sustained in part. The majority of the counts were found to be irregular, but enough remain to warrant a hearing of the cases. Similar motions are pending in regard to other cases, and it is not improbable that many of them may be found bad. The indictments quashed were against the following persons. Morton O. Fusselman, Isaac N. Hanack, John Butler, Herbert H. White, John Bird, Samuel B. Ensminger, Lafayette Moore, Amos Price, William Beakely, Ira Thompson, Ollie Huffman, William) Payton, William W. Macy, Albert B. Marsh, James M. Fletcher and Omer Meyers. Indictments against the following were quashed only as to certain counts. Lewis A. Lucas, Jesse N. Talbott, Robert Brock, Charles McKenzie and Geo. Barley.