Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Goshen will.have electricity. r Condon has passed a cow Ordinance. Bdgflars are rampant at Broad Ripple. : Sullivan county reports a fine yield of wheat r v> . .i . . Twenty oil weUi are being rank near Terre Haute. Major Doxey has contracted to pipe natural gas to Roshville. A heavy rain storm did much damage at Hartford City, Sunday. ;; Jas. Mcßride, of New Lisbon, fell from a hay mow and was killed. - ; r ._' Sixty Michigan City saloon keepers were arrested Monday for violating the liquor laws. Farmers living along creeks in Montgomery county are posting their lands against fishermen. Moses McClellan, aged 94, of Shannondale, is probably the oldest Odd Fellow in the State. _ . Benj. Thompson, of Marion, was sent to jail Monday tor forging his father's name to a note for $l5O. Emma Rouse, of Rockford, aged 12, was playing with a revolver, Sunday, and is dangerously wounded. Hon. Chas. L. Murray, a prominent Prohibitionist and an old newspaper man, died at South Bend, Monday. Peter Grebner damaged the affections of Miss Dora Christman,both well-to-do, of Laporte, to the amount,she estimates of $15,000. The Miami county butchers have organized to fight the new inspection law requiring cattle on the hoof to be inspected at theirexpense. ■Wolf Lake has a curiosity in the way of a ball nine, the young men composing the club being all of one name (Hile), and putting up a good game. Richmond, Noble and Union townships, Rush county, defeated the proposition to grant a subsidy to the Richmond & Evansville railroad.

Joe Stultz, in jail at New Albany, awaiting trial on a charge of subornation of perjury, was serenaded by a band of Louisville (Ky.) musicians the other night. The businep men of Monroeville are still continuing the boycott inaugurated against Hugh Stewart, recently appointed postmasteriTjmd an inspector is there, looking over the field. A gang of White Caps, in which some women were included, at Rochester, on Wednesday night, assaulted Mrs. Wm. Platt, ana other parties in the neighborhood were threatened. John Glenn, aged twelve, of Lebanon, pointed a gun loaded with bnckshot at Lewis Smith, aged twenty-two, and an* accidental discharge of the weapon fatally wounded Smith in the bowels. Adjutant General Ruckle has done for the Indiana militia what men with powerful influence couldn’t do for the Grand Army of the Republic—he has secured a one-cent rate for the round trip for all the militiamen of the State who attend the State encampment. The contract for the construction of the new sewer from the Northern Penitentiary to Lake Michigan was let Tuesday, an Elkhart firm securing the work. The contract price is a little over $9,000. ’Hie Legislature appropriated SIO,OOO with which to make tne improvement. The French brewery, owned by C. L. Centlivre, at Ft; Wayne, was destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Three men were badly injured. The loss will amount to $350,000 with only $20,000 insurance. Only Tuesday the English syndicate tried to get an option on the business for $400,000. According to the Tipton Advocate, D. F. Hedges volunteered to treat the widows in that place to ice cream on the Fourth, and sixty ladies took him at his word and presented themselves. The number appalled Mr. Hedges, and, slipping out of his office, he caught the first freight train and disappeared. The secret ballot which was taken among the miners ih Clay county, to determine whether the strike should end or be continued, was finished Fridav night, and the indications point to a decisive defeat for those not wishing longer to keep up the struggle, It is claimed that the preposition to go to work will be beaten four to one. Alexander Kendall, a farmer, aged thirty-five, near Wabash, was troubled with epilepsy, and, feeling an attack coming while working in a field, attempted to go home. As he stooped to unfasten the gate he was seized with a spasm, and he fell forward with his neck firmly fixed between two. jackets, and in this way was strangeledtodesth, although his mother, an aged woman, made most Btrenuous efforts to lift him off.

By way of statistics, it is stated by Charles A. Book waiter, secretary of the State Printing Bureau, that the last General Assembly used 93 quarts of ink, 37 q-arts df mucilage, 1,286 lead pencils, 2,016 pens, 225 ink. wells, 1,552 pen holders, 318 erasers; 18,144 papei fasteners, 2,209 sheets of blotting paper, 22,228 rubber bands, 971 pads of writing paper, 50 sheets to the pad; 149 waste baskets, 49 paper weights and 8,960 sheets of wrapping paper. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: George M. Beck, Frankfort, washing machine; George J. Cline, Goshen, fence machine and corn-planter; Jas. Drishane, South Bend, curry-comb; Philip May, Terre Haute, latch; John R. Rankin, Indianapolis, printing machine; Albert C. Smith, Sardinia, seed-planter, Everett M. Thompson, Evansville, shipping case; Avery Vanwie," Indianapolis, shutter fastner. Friday night a mob of fifty farmers, in the vicinity of Fairville, who made no concealment of their purpose, gathered for the purpose of lyncMng Frank Brooks, a young man. for his betrayal of Clara Palmer, aged fifteen, daughter of a widow, the girl afterward dying of puerperal convulsions. Brooks heard of their coming, and escaped by leaving the country. Farmers, both of Wells and Blackford counties, were included in tbe raid, and Brooks was notified through his friends that if he ever returned he would be hang. / Nicholas Wmndermoth was found at Ligonier entirely disrobed, and he claimed that he had walked from Fort Wayne, and, becoming unconscious from lack of food, tramps had plundered Mm of everything. Sympathetic people immediatelv supplied his wants, rap nisMng clothing, food and money, and

playing thi* game everywhere he goes, a confederate taking his clothes and meeting him at an appointed place, where the plunder is divided and a new foray devised. wreck on the big pope, j A startling wreck eceured ontheßig Four road at New Point, near Gresnsburg late Thursday night. A freight train met with an accident a few miles south of Greensbui-g. One dar and a~ caboose had to be left, while the engine Mid train proceeded, intending to telegraph for and secure aid. When the freight train had gone a short distance it passed over an ugly bit of road, and then the engineer discovered that his train had broken in two. They were on arlong down grade and the wild cars behind were going at a great speed when he discovered wbat had occurred. The only thing for him to do was to open the throttle wide and keep ont pf the way of the flying cars pursuing him. The nearest place where he thought it possible to find safety was Bitesville. If he could gain on the cars behind sufficiently to give him time to get into a switch at Bateoville, they could be thrown from the track and, the danger averted. The engineer also realized that the express train was about due at Batesville. Here was a section of train with certain disaster if it slacked its speed, and still more terrible destruction ahead unless it could win in its race with the express train to reach Batesville. Bat fate was against the engineer. The ex press reached Batesville and passed on westward with no premonition of danger. A few miles out the trains met, both running at terrific speed. Then when contusion and ruin were supreme and the cries of scared people and the hiss of escaping steam filled the air, that portion of the freignt train which was coming down the grade\t lightning speed, of its own momentum, dashed into the heaped up wreckage. It is perhaps the worst disaster which ever befell the Big Four road. The destruction of cars and engines and track is great. As soon as the news of the calamity could be taken to a telegraph office, officers of the road were notified and a force of wreckers and phvsicians from Indianapolis was sent to the scene. No passengers were injured. The only person killed was a tramp, who was riding on the front of the mail car. He was horribly mangled. Fred G. Ketchum, a postal clerk, was crushed about the chest and abdomen and badly injured. The engineers and firemen jumped. -j —~