Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Bedford will bore for natural gas. The city treasury of Cr&wfordsville contains $23,089.80. ■ Union county will erect an infirmary building, costing $16,000. Colnmbus coopers are out On a strike against a reduction in wages. enfQrcemftntofthe-gae^eTftW'mhamt.-The streams in Bartholomew county are being despoiled of fish by dynamiters'. < T Dora Dant, a real, live poet, has Tfteh elected a member of the Washington City Council. In the recent town election, Argus was the only place electing an out-and-out Prohibition ticket. -ji The last eiection atCrawfdrdsvilTeforever settles the cow question, and that animal cannot roam at large there hereafter. r - Fred Steinman, of Chesterfield, has been called to Germany to prove his claim to the estate of his father, valued at $30,000. - , Brooks Brothers, of Fort Wayne, have been awarded the contract for building the Asylum for Feeble Minded Children at Fort Wayne; price, $111,423. Mrs. Mena Nelson, of Attics, injured bv a fall from a Big Four train at Lafayette Junction, has brought suit against the company for $15,000 damages. A bundle of switches and a warning note having no effect ip scaring away the only fploon keeper at Newtonville, a keg of powder underneath his drinkery lifted it into space. Ambrose Mac Neil, the Scotch artist, is painting a portrait of Lincoln, to be presented to the city of Fort Wavne as a companion piece to Captain White’s gift of Washington’s portrait. W. A. Walley, of Muncie, at the depth of 245 feet, has struck a vein of water highly impregnated with magnetic qualities. -There ia a strong flow and, the water ig considered a valuable find: George Weaver, of Fayette county, ran a knife into his hand, severing an artery. He fainted from loss of blood, and in falling struck his head against an obstruction, causing concussion of the brain. Geo. Roth, Democratic candidate for Marshal of Edinburg, who was defeated by one vote, will contest the election on the ground of illegal votes ca6t and that the inspectors were not all legally qualified. William Guntle, who ia working nn perpetual motion near Huntington, is annoyed with warning letters from unknown parties, advising him to pay less attention to perpetual motion and more to his family. The Delaware county enumeration of persons between the ages of six and twenty-one, shows an increase over last year of 856, and Muncie gains 412. The total population of Muncie and its suburbs is estimated at 14,415. Mrs. Ellen Moss, of New Albany, grieving over the death of her daughter, twice attempted suicide with laudanum, and on the 10th inst. she swallowed a dose of corrosive sublimate, and, after terriblaeu Bering, died last Friday night. A dainty young belle of Vincennes visited an undertaking establishment and asked permission to try on the cap which Grubbs wore at the time of his execution. Her wish was gratified and the little lady walked off contentedly. Miss Emma and Louise Stuckey, of Crt wfordsville, comely country girls, elarged with disturbing a religious meeting, pleaded guilty and were committed to jail. Their father is a prosperous farmer, but he refused to pay the fine.

Martin Flush, near Pleasant Valley, while digging on his farm unearthed what appeared to be a stone book, but inspection showed it to be a family Bible, bearing the date of 1778. plainly lettered. It is claimed that it was originally a real book, but is now petrified. Charlea Huggins, Sr., ,of Elkhart, is eighty-nine years old and a day laborer, doing hie stint with men much younger in years. For sixty-five years he worked as a shoemaker, never took a drink of intoxicants, never smoked or chewed tobacco, and he has never been sick day in his life.

Lillie Roberts, of Jeffersonville, aged sixteen, made a dying request that her father and brother, both confined in the Prison South, should attend her funeral. As this was not the coffin was carried to the guard room, and in this way the convicts were enabled to take a last farewell. William Keller of Anderson, met his wife upon the street, Saturday night, knocked her down with a stone and attempted to cut her throat, inflicting several vicious gashes. The woman was dangerously injured. The parties separated some months ago, by reason of Keller’s ill-treatment. The Standard Oil Company will build a refinery at Whiting, just inside the Indiana line, seventeen miles distant from Chicago, which is expected to be the largest refinery in the world, and which will control the western and southwestern trade. It will be used in refining the Ohio crude oil, carried by the Lima pipe line. Tbe oil boom at Terre Haute is assuming big proaortions, the experts from tbo eastern oil regions, who hnrried there during the past week, having pronounced the oil to be of a superior qual ity and the well continuing its output with no diminution, there is a rush for land on which to sink wells. No lesß than twenty stock companies are form ing, to sink wells. Congrejwipyn (> f Fort Wayne, has accepted an invitation to attend the parliamentary conference at Paris, beginning June 29, the invitation coming from a committee representing the legislative branches of England and France, and intended to include representatives from all the leading countries. The object is to consolidate and perpetuate peaceful relations by means of arbitration treaties. Friday night while and Mrs. Gas. Meyer were ont driving at Evansville, they were attacked by Mr. Meyer, her divorced hoßband, who attempted to drag the lady from the carriage. This was prevented, and as the couple drove away Mr. Meyer began shooting, the ballets missing the aim and one striking Hon. Jack Nolan, who was walking near, in the .fleshy part of the leg. Mr. Nolan was a member of the last General-Assembly. The largest fish of the carp specie* ever

caught in White river was pulled out with shook and line by Samuel Hupp, a farmer, who resides four miles east of Muncie. The fish measured twentyseven inches in length and weighed fifteen pounds. The breaking of fish ponds throughout Delaware county that were shocked with German carp a few years ago has made this species of fish very plentiful in White river, a great many being caught that weigh from five to seven pounds. -Vt/’: A lhe hToodeil horse belonging to P. R. McCarthy, of Vincefines, Sunday night attempted to leap over an iron fence surrounding the court house. The ooor brute impaled itself on the prongs surmounting the top railing, and in that position see sawed backward and forward. The groans and moans of the .animal were horrifying. An effort was made to raise the beast by placing pieces^of. timber under him on each side of the fence, but he writhed too much. 1 He was finally shot by two policemen, who fired two balls into his brain. The people of Wabash are organizing a Citizens’ Gas Trust, experiencce having shown that it is nractically impossible to offer substantial inducements to manufacturers while the gas supply is controlled by a private corporation. The company has a capital of SIOO,OOO. Upon payment of SSO eacn subscriber to the capital stock is given a certincate entitling him to gas in perpetuity for one stove. The stook is being taken rapidly, and the. enterprise will be a “go.” A committee has secured options on several tracts of land, the leases being favorable. It is the intention to furnish gas to consumers this fall. Sheriff McDowell, of Vincennes, Sunday morning, had a terrible hand to hand encounter with two prisoners in the jail. He had gone in to give the inmates their breakfast, when Tom Hoffman, a burglar, and John Scott, a big. burly negro, pounced upon him. The struggle lasted twenty minutes, during which McDowell was divested of the most of his clothing. Scott made his escape,but was recaptured by the Sheriff, the parties were badly hurt, though the Sheriff bumped Hoffman severely against the iron bgrs of his cell. McDowell’s escape from injury was as miraculous as his powers of ( endurance. Patents were Tuesday issued to the following Indiana inventors: Jasper Ackerman, Lowell, pen; Chailes E Adamson, Muncie, apparatus for print ing in imitation of type-writing; Jonas S. Aldrick, Butler, wind-mill; Chas. G. Colen, Elkhart, cornet; Robt. 0. Elliott, Prairie Creek, hame connection; John M. Fellows. Burlington, fence;. Gideon Flake, Centerville, gate; Jas. A Graham, Fort Wayne, draft rigging for railway cars; Geo. Higgins, North Indianapolis, basket; John F. Lacey, Domestic, posthole boring machine, Henry G. Niles and Vanhufiei, Mishawaka, plow clevis; Franklin P. Spangler, Goshen, broadcast seeder; Alexander Staub, Fort Wayne, stove-pipe thimble; Hiram B. Trout, Terre Haute, attachment for mowing machines; Jas. Weathers, Indianapolis, sash holder. INDIANA EI.ECTIONB. Town elections in Indiana on the 7th, were largely controlled by local questions. Anderson, Democratic; Attica, Rebublican; Brazil, Rep.; Oonnersville, Repn Grawfordsviile, Rep., Columbus, Dem.; Delphi, Rep.; Elkhart, Rep., Frankfort, Rep. Fort Wayne, D. L. Harding, Rep.; elected mayor over C. F. Muhler, incumbent; council a tie. This is the first Republican mayor for 22 years; the Democratic majority is about 2,000. Harding’s majority is about I.OOOsa Franklin, Dem.; Greeocaatle, Rep.; Greensburg, Rep.; Greenfield, Dem.; Hope, Rep.; Jeffersonville, Dem.; Kokomo, a Democrat was elected mayor by a Democratic and mdefendent movement. Lebanon, rtep.; LaPorte, Dem.; Lafayette, Dem.; Muncie, Rep.; Madison, Dem.; Noblesville, Rep.p New Albany, Rep.; Peru, Rep. Mayor, Dem. Council; Portland, Rep.; Richmond, Dem.; Salem, Rep.; Seymour, Rep.; Shelbyville, Rep.; Terre Haute, Rep.; Tipton, Dem,; Union City, Rep.; Vincennes, Dem.; Valparaiso, Rep.; Wabash, Rep.; Washington, Dem; Marion, Rep ; Plymouth, Dem.; Huntington, Dem.; Michigan City, Dem.; Rensselaer, Rep.; South Bend, Dem.; Bluffton, Dem.