Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1889 — Late State News. [ARTICLE]

Late State News.

Owney Heaton, a “trusty” in the Prison South, who admits having four wives, escaped from that institution on Saturday. Mrs. Christopher Hillard, of Crawfordsville, claims to be annoyed by the ghost of her dead husband prowling around the premises. Nine barrels in twenty minutes is the product of the Phoenix' well at Terre Haute, which is the second one to strike the oil field. This is equivolent to 700 barrels per day. There is earnest talk at Anderson, looking to a revival of the company of Patriarchs Militant, which formerly took high rank among the organized bodies of the State, but was suffered to disband. The result of the courtmtrtial during the State Military Encampment, by which Bergeant Kerr, of Fort Wayne, was dismissed from the service, continues to be vere severely criticised in Northern Indian. Miss Mattie Laughlrn, of Rushville, Is said to be the betrothed of O’Brien, the wife murderer, now awaiting execution in the Lexington, Ky., jail, and she has been strenuous in her efforts to aid the condemned. Miss Laughlin was unaware of his married state until after the foul crime had been committed. Four prisoners awaiting trial at the September term of court, escaped from the jail at Laporte, Monday morning,by tunnelling through the south wall and letting themselves to the ground by means of a rope, made of bed clothes. They had planned the escape for several weeks. A posse of officers started in Kursuit and succeeded in overhauling vo on a farm west of the city. The other two are still at large. While three yonng men were at the house of John Groover, near Liston, Sunday, and were playing with a pistol, a lad named Gardener took possession of the weapon and with the remark, “Now, I’ve got you,” pulled the trigger. A discharge followed and the bullet struck Richard Young, aged seventeen, in the breast, penetrating his heart and killing him instantly. He was the son of John Young. The shooting was the result of carelessness, there being ne ill feeling between the parties.