Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

; Burglars are prolific at Crawfordsville. < The Clayton G. A. R. demands service .1 pensions. f The Muscatitnck River bottoms, in Jack son county, are flooded,and many thousand bushels of corn will be lost. J. W. Blount, at Muncie, and Hiram Beemst, at North Vernon,fell undertrains, ■ Tuesday, both losing both legs. j Evansville does not lack formemberahip in its new Ananias Lodge, Amalgamated Association of American Liars. ; Some parts of the State threaten to do their harvesting in February if the warm ; weather of December continues. I Ex-Mayor Jacob C. Kolsem, of Terre Haute, is an own cousin of Emin Pasha,

| the world-famous African explorer. I Benj. Evans, of K ightsville, Wednes- ; day, while hunting, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen, and his recovery is i doubtful. • At Omaha, Wednesday, George Jones stabbed his brother-in-law, James Tracy, eleven times, inflicting eleven fatal wounds. _ - The remains of John jK.e m P were found strewn along the L. E. & W. railway track, near Elwood, Wednesday, having been struck by a train during the night; ~~~ Thursday night, atMuncie, a boy threw a firecracker into an upstairs room in Henry Hammell’s house, fire resulted and the structure and contents were burned. A special election was held in six townships in Madison county, Monday, looking to the purchase of gravel roads and mak ing them free, and the proposition carried by a pronounced majority.

Dr. Luella Day and Samuel (Helman, of Goshen, have been arrested, charged with tampering with witnesses. The first named has secured a new trial in a case wherein she was convicted and sentenced on a charge of criminal malpractice. Mrs. Edgar French, of Fort Wayne, prepared a Christmas tree* for her children, and while arrayed as Santa Claus her flowing robes caught fire from the lighted handles, and she was terribly burned. There is fear she will not recover. There was a display of natural gas at. Shelby ville Friday, with a public procession, headed by £ band, and speeches by the Mayor and other dignitaries. It is in - tended to extend the pipe-line supplying Shelbyville to Columbus, Edinburg and Franklin. The trial of John Sage at Marion, ■barged with complicity in the murder of in infant named Cunningham, the son of his wife, who is a Hfe.prisoner in the State Female Reformatory, resulted in a disagreement of the jury, after being out eighty hours. The brick residence of Dr. John Williams, near Bowling Green, has beep destroyed by fire. Three years ago the house was supposed to be haunted, but the ghost was allayed after the disappearance of SI,OOO in money, which had been secreted about the premises. A Crawfordsville man has deserted his wife four times; the first time remaining away seventeen years, the second five years, the third two years, the fourth one year. Now the woman has grown dissatisfied and is applying for a divorce. What does she expect of him? Burglars entered George Shaefer’s residence at Fort Wayne, Thursday night, and, finding Mrs. Shaefer alone, knocked her down, bound and gaged her, and then ransacked the house, but found little of value to their liking. When found by neighbors, Mrs. Shaefer was unconscious. Secretary Johnson, of the State Board of Charities, has visited the State benevolent institutions in and about Indianapolis during the few past days, and here is what he says: “I do not think there is anything in the condition of any of these institu tions to which a reasonable man could object.” Jeptha Thomas, of Filey Scott County, went out to kill a bird for his mother, who is sick. The gun exploded, a piece fracturing his skull and injuring him fatally’ He lay helpless in the woods for hours before being found. This is the socond time in two years he was hurt in the same manner. A resident of Crawfordsville, who suffered from the so called “influenza” at the time of the epidemic in 1842, says that it was then known as “Tyler’s grip.” Tyler was President of the United States, and immediately after he had vetoed ‘ the United States bank bill, the disease swept over the country; hence, the name. A mare belonging to A. Peters, near Culver’s Station, was bitten by a dog and went mad. Before being k’lled, In her frenzy.she tore all the flesh off her legs, and also from her sides, wherever her teeth could reach, and with the greatest difficulty whs she prevented from injuring other stock. » Noah W. Dewey, of Millersburg, was accuseu of criminally Assaulting his daughter, she and his wife being the accusers. A trial has resulted in the acquittal of the defendant, a conspiracy being proven on their part, the object of which is supposed to have been to give Dewey a bad reputation, in order that his wife might secure a divorce.

Friday night while the officers were trying to arrest Charles Kynette at Ander son, the latter resisted and a general fight ensued. During the melee Marshal Downey shot Kynette in the bowels, inflicting a dangerous if not mortal wound. Kynette is lying in a critical condition. Marshal Downey is under arrest, and full investigation of the affair will be made. The Turners, German Military, Saxon Relief Society, and other organisations of Ft. Wayne, have organized the “Liberal German-American Society of the City of Ft. Wayne,” the object of which is to oppose the passage and execution of sumptuary laws designed to curtail their personal freedom. Peter Nusbaum.a brewer, is President. The incentive is the present enforcement of Sunday laws at Ft. Wayne. Patents were granted to Indiana inventors, Thursday, as follows; H. Barnard, Lotus, thill coupling; G. W. Freeman, Frankfort, combined buckle and snap hook; B. Doud, Chili, wire tightener; T. H. Haberkorn, Fort Wayne, combination valve for air brakes; J. M. Hinds, Pal myra, napkin holder, table attachment; J.

M. Rhodes, Covington, combined plate holder and printing frame; also, plate holder for cameras. The schooFbook case, in which one clerk sought to compel the trustees to sell him school books as provided in the new school book law, and which was argued before Judge Waugh in the Howard County Circuit Court tw6 weeks ago, Was decided by the Judge Tuesday. He upheld the constitutionality of the law, but against its provisions He decided that the Legislature clearly had a right tat make a law to furnish uniform text books, but that the law as now constructed was won derfully deficient in practicability. The plaintiff loses his case so far as the furnishing by the trustees of the books demanded is concerned. At Vincennes an important suit was filed Friday in court by Spence S. Hollingsworth, ex-county treasurer, against James Emison. Hollingsworth defaulted for about SBO,OOO, and for this he served a term in Jeffersonville. In order to indemnify his bondsmen, he deeded, in trust, all his property to James Emison, one of his bondsmen. The property was estimated at $60,000. The bondsmen compromised with the county, and paid for the shortage with $35,000. Hollingsworth now claims that the rest of his property held in trust has been unaccounted for, and is his, and therefore sues to recover the same. He also sues his trustee for SIO,OOO damages for depreciation of property while in his hands.