Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jeffersonville wants a ball clnb. Robbers are over-running Cnawfordsville. The Seymour water works have been given a satisfactory test. D. C. Elliott, a wealthy and prominent business man of Logansport, dropped dead Thursday. A quantity of spurious coin with dies for making the same were found, Tuesday, in -the residence of D. D. Rheinhardt, near Ft. Wayne. During the months of June, July and August Steuben county paid nearly 8400 premium for woodchuck scalps. Total number of scalps presented, 2,547. The Frankfort School Board, which is entirely Republican, refuses to adopt or use the new school books, and legal proceedings are talked of to eompel it to do so. Jesse H. Carpenter, ( of Angola, has written a history of the soldiers of Steuben county, the entire proceeds from the sale of which will be donated toward building a soldiers’ monument at Angola. The preliminary work has commenced in the erection of a bridge to span the Ohio River between Louisville and Jeffersonville. The channel span of the proposed structure will be 650 feet in length. A boiler in the California sash, door and blind factory, at Oakland, exploded Tuesday afternoon, killing four men outright and injuring several others, two probably fatally. Two others are supposed to be buried in the ruins. John Wolf, an old citizen, near Colburn, was singularly and fatally injured Monday. His brother, Jefferson Wolf, was on top of a load of straw, and undertook to reach down a jug of water. In doing so his fork slipped off and the tine entered John’s right’s eye, following the optic nerve and piercing the brain. While James Zoller, of Greensburg, was crossing the English Channel several months ago he tossed overboard a bottle in which was a note requesting the finder to return the same to himself at Greensburg, Ind., IL S. A. A Frenchman living off the coast of Holland found the bottle and complied with the request. A gang of cloth swindlers have been doing the merchants of Angola with surprising success. Their mode of operation is to take orders for certain dry goods at very low prices, providing the merchants buy a specified amount of their patent cloaking material. The latter article proves to be a very excellent imitation, wherein lies the fraud. Indiana Patents—George H. Asire, South Bend, steam boiler; Homer W. Case, South Bend, body for drays; Will H. Donner, Columbus, signal for mills; Windfield O. Gunckel, Terre Haute, revolving coal screen; Bearard K. Koopman, Terre Haute, last; Francis T. Lamont, Ft. Wayne, road scraper; Wm. H. Oberne, Fort Wayne, mast arm. It is reported that D. J. Mackey, backed by a powerful syndicate, has purchased the Cincinnati, Wjabash & Michigan Road, paying 81,717,000 for a controling interest in the stock. The new road which Mackey is building from Evansville to Richmond will need but a link of thirty miles between Anderson and Rushville to connect it with theC. W. &M. Mrs. Angelo Rusconi, said to be one or the richest women in Kentucky, was frightened to death by a “ghost” that walked nightly in a store at Bellevue, Ky. Mrs. Rusconi went to see the specter, and when it appeared she dropped dead. A thorough investigation proved the ghostly visitor to be the reflection from an electric light some distance away. While Mrs. J. M. Foreman, near Grantsburg, was in a corn field on her husband’s farm, gathering beans, John Johnson, who was out squirrel hunting, heard a rustling as he crept between the rows, and, thinking that a ground hog or other vermin was preying on the corn, he let drive with a shot gun. Twenty-seven shot took effect in the body of Mrs. Foreman and she was desperately wounded. zziz ... Some months ago Miss Grace Moore, daughter of W. H. Moore, of Youngstown, 0., and H. P. Nichols, of Richmond, eloped, but were overhauled at Fort Wayne by the father of the girl, and she returned to her home. This week the parties again eloped, but were captured at Winchester before a magistrate could be found to marry them. Mr. Moore claims that the wouldbe groom is already a married man. Isaac C. Howell, a farmer residing six miles southeast of Liberty, is the victim of lightning rod sharpers. The parties who worked this ancient racket claimed to be from Dayton, 0., and gave the names of Morgan and Cole. They told Mr. Howell that they wished to rod his house “merely as an advertisement in the neighborhood,” and, on that account, would do it at a trifling expense. He gave them his order with 820 in advance. The “order” now turns up in the shape of a note for 8280. Lycurgus Dalton, postmaster of the House of Representatives, will remove with his family back to his old home, at Bedford, Ind., as soon as a Republican or ganization relieves him of his official duties. Mr. Dalton has been postmaster of the House during the past th.ee Congresses. Prior to that time, for some years, he had charge of the stationery department of the Senate. He has conducted hia official positions and social stations in such a way as to win friends among Republicans and Democrats alike. At the last sitting of the Grand Jury, Harry S. New, of the Indianapolis Journal declined to answer certain questions propounded to him by the State’s Attorney, and a complaint in contempt was filed against him. The complaint charged that Mr. New refused to give the name of the person or persons from whom was obtained information published in the Journal regarding alleged gambling.at the Insane Hospital, and for this he was cited to appear before the court to answer to the charge of contempt The court, on passing on the charge, said: “The Grand Jury gives no rersons why Mr. New refuses to answer the questions asked him, and there is nothing brought’to the knowledge ol this court save what is set out in this paper and, the court Is referred to the article published in, the Indianapolis Journal on the date mentioned. I have read the article as printed, and In my opinion, it is very doubtful if there is any chargg in the

article that any one connected with tire asylum has committed a crime. If no crime is charged to have been committed, the question is clearly an impertinent one, and the witness need not answer it. The Grand Jury has as much right to ask who furnished the information on which any other article was printed. I have not thought it necessary to go into the question as to the alleged privileged character of any communication made to the editor or reporter of a newspaper. It is not necessary to decide that question, as it is not involved in this case. This decision will be of interest to newspaper men all over the country.