Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A camp of Democratic soldiers has been organized at Scottsburg. Rufus Magee, late minister to Sweden, has a hankering after the State Senatorship from Cass county. Albert Smith, near Crawfordsville, was attacked by a bull Wednesday, and was dangerously gored. The Mayor of Laporte has caused commotion among saloon-keepers by threatening to enforce the laws. Tramps burned the barn belonging to, Robert Moffett, near Craven’s Station Wednesday, causing $3,700 loss. Engine No 630 on the J. M. &I. is believed to be unlucky. She has been in wrecks that have caused the death of seven men. It is understood that Gen. Browne will have several opponents in the contest for the Congressional nomination in the Sixth district. Milford Jessup, near Winchester, was accidentally shot by unknown quail hunters, and 183 bird shot lodged in different portions of his body. Horton C. Congdon, of Fort Wayne, brakeman, employed by the Pennsylvania Central, lost an arm while switching. A jury has awarded him $4,700 damages. The barn belonging to Henry Bucknen near Morristown, was burned by incendiaries on Wednesday night, and the destruction included eight head of horses. Train wreckers broke open a switch and wrecked the east-bound Wabash express train, six miles from Wabash, Friday morning, demolishing the train and injurinjuringfive of the train men. The union gospel temperance meetings at Peru under the leadership of Francis Murphy, Sr., closed Tuesday evening after day’s session, and with certainly the best results imaginable, some 3,000 persons having signed the pledge. John J. Mauck and Reuben Clodfelter, the former a well-to-do farmer, and the latter in his employ, are under bonds at Corydon, charged with stealing fruit trees from a nursery. Clodfelter was detected while hauling the trees homeland his confession implicated his employer. The Local Butchers’ Association of Ft. Wayne is making a vigorous fight against Chicago dressed beef, and an attempt was made to secure the appointment of a meat inspector, his salary to be defrayed by the association, and he to be instructed to exclude all low grade meat for sale. After a sharp debate the City Council laid the ordinance on the table. Meanwhile the Chicago men are getting ready for business and upon refusal of the local butchers to patronize them, they will cut the wholesale price, and will also open retail shops. A terrible accident occurred Tuesday morning on the Grand Trunk Railway, about thirty miles west of Granger. A long freight train, drawn by a Santa Fe engine, was passing that point when the boiler exploded with a fearful report, scattering the debris of the engine and the tender in all directions. The engine was completely demolished. The engineer Thomas Callihan, aged thirty-three, and the fireman, Jack Madden, aged thirty, were both instantly killed. The bodies were badly mangled. The cause of the ex plosion is believed to be low water in the boiler. The loss to the railway company will be about SIO,OOO. Both of the men who lost their lives were unmarried. James S. McCoy, one of the wealthiest farmers of Knox county, and son-in-law of the late Governor Williams, was indicted, Tuesday, for a criminal assault on the person of Mrs. Peter Mullen, the wife of one of McCoy’s tenants. McCoy was sued for damages in a civil proceeding, recently, by the woman for the same offense, and the plaintiff was awarded SBSO. The criminal case was the outcropping of the civil case. The arrest occurred, Tuesday, and he gave bond and was released. The arrest created a profound sensation and the trial will be fiercely contested. McCoy married Governor Williams’A daughter about thirty yeafsTtgo. He owns over 3,000 acres of laud, and is one of the most successful farmers in Indiana. Patents were issued oto Indiana intent ors, Tuesday, as follows: Lewis S. Cander, Terre Haute, hydro-carbon generator and burner; George N. Clymer,Bloomingsburg, suspension bridge; John Cosgrove,Oxford, thill coupling; Buckner F. Freeland, Vistula, railway station signal; Theodore H. Haberkorn, Fort Wayne, valve mechanism for air brakes, governor for air brakes, and brake for locomotives; William Lebo, Tipton, self-closing gate; John F. Mains, Indianapolis, mail bag lock; John J. Hefford, Indianapolis, lathe dust trap; Frederick W. Miller and J. J. Newman, Elkhart, paper water-proofing-machine; John K. Perez,Kokomo, separator and trap; George Philon, Mishawaka, pulley; Charles H. Shutts, Elkhart, shade for furnace doors; George W. Smith, Union City, signal lantern; William and R. M. Woodling, Logansport, corn planter. , - The switchmen employed by the Mackey system at Evansville, Monday afternoon, called upon Superintendent Allen with a demand for an advance of the pay of day men from 25 to 27X cents per hour, and night men from 25X to 29 cents. Heretofore the pay has been the same, 20 cents per hour. Mr. Allen offered to forward the request to headquarters, but the men insisted upon its immediate acceptance, and withdrew. The police authority were then called upon for protection, and a guard was stationed over the company’s property. The switchmen blockaded the transfer track running through the city with freight cars, openings being left at the street crossings, and the pins from the cars being withdrawn. This interfered with traffic, both passenger and freight. The L. &N. employes stated that they would be joined by the Monon switchmen in a general strike, and one is anticipated if their demands are not acceded to. The move of the employes was a surprise, as no previous intimation had crept out of their intentions.