Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Carlise wants a bank. Connersville is thriving. Muncie will have base ball. Marion wants a city charter. Lebanon sighs for water works. Kankakee duck shooting has closed. Rockville claims to be a live-stock center. Peddling prairie dogs is a Laporte industry. New Albany has sixty free public schools. Crawfordsville has revived roller skating. New Albany Let a mecca for eloping couples. Waveland is organizing a military company. A Terre Haute paper has a love letter department. -

Hbntington will purchase a police patrol wagon. “Snarltown” is a well-named suburb of Michigan City. Clark county fruit growers complain of dry weather. Black sucker fishing is a favorite pastime at Hartford City. Ten families-117 persons—are tenanting one. Anderson house. Wm. Williams settled in Morgan county in 1819 and is still there. Portland has organized a Wind Engine Company. Capital stock $300,000, John Hays’ residence and barn, at Austin, were burned. Loss $3,1'00. , The Marion excelsior works were destroyed by fire Tuesday. Loss SB,OOO. Lee Miller, aged 10, of Evansville, was carried off by Gypsies, it is believed. An epidemic of throat trouble among horses prevails in Vanderburg county. Tipton is elated over the report that the L. E. & W. shops will be located there. Drs. A. Smith and Louise F. Jessup, of Wabash, were united in marriage, Thursday. Mrs. Melvania, of Corydon, injured her hand on a catfish fin and died from the wound. Repeated attempts have been made to burn the Monon bridge over Wca Creek, near Corwin. “Favory.” a famous’Clydesdale stallion, valued at slo,€oo, died at Rushville Wednesday. Six mad dogs have been at large at Olive Hill, Wayne county, and consternation prevails. Probably 200 Indianapolis people have gone to Oklahoma and Indiana adds many more to the number. Geo. Perkins, of Cementsville, tied a bell to a cow’s tailand the animal was frightened to death. It cost him S7O. William Guntie, a Huntington countv genius, has nearly completed a machine which he claims will produce perpetual motion. Willie Puterbaugh and Johnny Beadle, boys eight years of age, were drowned at Rockville, Friday, while . boat riding. Dr. J. W. Ellis, a Marion physician of prominence,committed suicide,Tuesday, by shootins. Despondency is attributed as the cause. Among the losses by fire are W. C, Davidson’s barn near Sagar Grove, with seven horses, and Mrs. Hardin’s barn near Bluff Creek, with four horses. Rev. C. G. Hudson, who had been Secretary of North Indiana Conference for the past fifteen years, is a dextrous shorthand writer, an accomplished musician, an able preacher and he can talk in seven languages. Russell Rice, of Scot: county, has a cat which gave a mother’s care to five young squirrels which Mr. Rice found in the woods. The squirrels are now halfgrown and have been placed in the Court House square at Scottsburg. The Abbott gas well in Grant county, owned by Peru parties, heretofore a dry well and a gusher, has turned out to be a wet well. The news is unpleasant to that territory, largely for the reason that it shows the field to be a more or less uncertain one. Patents were issued Tuesday to the following Indianians: Robert Foster, Indianapolis, valve; Samuel E. Harsh, Wabash, overdraw check spreader; Resin Hosford, Lebanon, dredging bucke’; Joseph N. and N. Lehman, Goshen, wire fence. The William G. Fisher Manufacturing Companv of Cincinnati will remove its plant to Kokomo, a contract having been signed to that effect. The company will manufacture cooking and heating apparatus and wlll i?(ve employment to a large number of men. Thos. J. Acres, of Bartholomew county, has been granted a pension of $13,949.77. This is for total blindness, and includes all the-law allowed at the various periods from July, 1862, when the pension begun. The sum is the largest ever granted under the general pension laws. The flouring mill at Washington, owned by the Hon. Clement Lee and leased by Messrs. Toomey A Swing, burned to the ground, Tuesday, the fire originating in the roof. Fifteen hundred tffisbela of wheat were destroyed. The entire loss is <25,000, of which |2;500 falls on the leasees. Mr. Lee carried ho insurance. Mrs. Scott Williams, of Russiaville, claimed to have been insalted by Dr. J. C. Wright, a dentist, while she was in

h» office, and her husband meeting Wright upon the street, pounded - him until he was unconscious. Mr. Williams was fined, and it is said that the doctor’s brother not only paid the fine, but gave Williams five dollars in token of his appreciation of what had been done. Sylvester Grubb was hanged at Vincennes, Friday, by the sheriff, for the murder oi his sweetheart, Miss Gertrude Downey, ata county fair, Sept IS, 1888. Mis? Downey had discarded him at the solicitation Of her mother and refused to see him. Meeting her on the fair grounds, he shot her down in cold blood. An attempt was made to lynch him but he was hurried away and protected. Strong but futile efforts wete made to have his sentence of death changed to imprisonment for life. Quincy Makepeace, of Anderson, a few years ago inherited $150,000 by the death of his father, which he appears to have wasted in headlong dissipation. Tuesday suits were filed on his behalf against several parties, alleging that he had been - defrauded of his rights by sharp piactices. One of the suits involves the Madison County Asylum property, which was purchased from him hy the County Commissioners. The State Board of Education, before adjourning decided to require from the contractor who may agree to furnish all of the text books needed by the school children of Indiana a bond of $250,000, and that the amount of liability for any contractor supplying one or more books shall be proportioned in ratio so the total value of all the books needed as to make the aggregate of such bonds $300,000. ZA queer incident is reported at Peru. Twenty eight years ago W. Kasote was married, and after twenty years man and wife, mutually agreed to a separation, and a divorce was obtained. One ytar _later they remarried, and within twelve mouths again separated, and were tne second time divorced. Kasote married another lady, and--nothing was heard of his former wife until Monday, when ehe anpearejd at - Peru, accompanied by Alexander Hunt, of Indianapolis, and asked the privilege of being married to Mr. Hunt in the home of her former husband. This was granted and the marriage followed. All the parties are advanced in years. Samuel J. Carpenter, the Senator from Shelby and Decatur unseated by the State Senate for bribery in the late election, was acquitted by a Federal j ary at Indianapolis, Friday. The defendant explained his various monetary transactions with Democratic voters by saying that he simply paid them for work done in his behalf. His methods ofpayment were peculiar. Instead of handing the money to the person it was meant for, Mr. Carpenter would remark that if the person would look in a feed box in a livery stable where the conversation occurred, he would find something that he might take without hurting anybody’s feelings. Under these vague instructions Tbaddeus Major looked in a feed box and found $35 and later, on the same day, Charles A. House found $lO in a feed box. Defendant explained that this method was adopted because Major and House wanted to be able to say to their Democratic brethren that they had not received any money from Rerublicans. Their tender consciences positively refused to be silenced until some such course wai employed. Mr. House was placed upon the stand and among other answers to questions told what work he had done that led Mr. Carpenter to’forward $lO to him by the feed box route. -At the conclusion of all the testimony the attorneys made no argument. Judge Woods then informed the jury that the Government had failed in its case because it had not shown that anybody was bribed to votX for az Congressman. The guilt or innm cence of Mr. Carpenter could not be decided by this jury, because if he had used bribery, it was clear he had purchased votes for himself alone. That is a matter which the State courts must settle. Whenever it is shown that the election of a Congressman has not been interfered with, the Federal Court has no jurisdiction. Judge Woods therefore instructed the jury to find the defendant not guilty. It is Dot believed that the State courts wiil take the case up at all. Under Indiana laws, a man who is bribed is a criminal as well as the briber. The evidence against Carpenter must come chiefly from the men who received money from him, and that would doubtless be exceedingly hard to get if the witnesses knew they were endangering themselves by their testimony. In his instructions, Judge Woods said he believed elections would be purer and freer if it was made unlawful tor a man to hire any one to work for him in the campaign.