Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The foot-ball craze has reached Fort Wayne. vA rabid dog was killed at Noblesville Thursday. A part of the Martinsville schools are closed because of la grippe. Wabash county Prohibitionists have nominated a county ticket. Cold weather has killed the wheat blades in many parts of the state. The Pan Handle freight and passenger depot at Marion was partially destroyed by fire Tuesday. $2,000 loss. Nat Heaton, of near Russiarille, was disemboweled on the 30th, by the accidental discharge of his gun. The semi-annual State Convention of the Indiana Christian Missionary Society will meet at Crawfordsville, February 25. The contract has been awarded Jor double tracking the Lake Shore Railway from Elkhart to Chicago during the coming season. Tad Gallagher, an employe of the wire nail works at Anderson, was terribly burned by a red hot wire breaking and boiling about his face and neck. A small child of Fred Wamhoff, residing

near Huntingburg, was instantly killed Tuesday by a post thirty feet high falling on him and crushing his head,to a pulp. Patrick Flyne, a farmer near YVoodville, Porter county, nearly killed himself by drinking horse liniment. Despondency from sickness was-the eauseof-the attempt. Dr. Swartz, of Fort Wayne, gave his two-year old son a dose of corrosive sublimate through mistake, the druggist having put up a wrong prescription. The child died soon after taking a dose. Fred, aged thirteen, son of Charles Bal schmiter, of Laporte, while attempting to rescue a companion who had broken through the ice on Cellar Lake, Wednesday, fell in and was drowned. Whitley county has a farmer in has luck. He sent a shipment of butter to Ft. Wayne, but was only offered 7 cents a pound for it. He took it home in anger and threw it £o hi 3 hogs. It proved fatal to two of them. Dr. Thomas K. Plummer, formerly a prominent physician and wealthy farmer of Daviess county, has been convicted of horse stealing, i the penalty five years 1 imprisonment. Dr. Plummer is aged nearly 60 years. _j- • r/ .• Mrs. Emma Toomy, a deaf and dumb lady, living at Dunfee, was run over and instantly killed Tuesday by a train on the Nickel-plate railroad. The woman was walking on the track and did not notice the approaching train.

Miss Rosa Daskum, one of Elkhart’s prominently known youngladies, has lately so devoted herself to Christian science circles and their practices that she has developed into a raving maniac and will have to be sent to an asylum at once. Jacob Adeli, of Fairmount, aged fortythree, during the absence of his family Wednesday noon, poured coal oil over his head and shoulders and applied a lighted match, burning himself to death before help could be summoned. He was suffering with la grippe at the time. The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company has paid Wm. DeLorenzo, the uncle and guardian of little Dora Payne, $7,500 for the loss of her mother and step father in the Rose Hill railroad accident, near Chicago, recently. The money was paid without a suit. ~~7 r ' Andrew J. Hugman,of Lapelle, of whom it was said he had shipped a car load of hogs to Pittsburg, which -were—afflicted with rabies, communicated tef the press that he made no such shipment, and that there is no hydrophobia among the stock in his neighborhood. There are in Wabash county 259,364 acres of land valued of taxation at $5,080,000; the improvements on the same are valued at $1,610,066. The -personal property of the

county is valued at $4,056,155, and this with the lots and lands and improvements makes a total of $11,365,495. William Smith, of Newburg, served in the Sixtieth Indiana during the war, and he returned home slightly demented. Afterward he disappeared. His family have just discovered that for the past eighteen years he has been working on the Hummellfarm, near Madison. Monday night the police raided a gambling room at Crawfordsville, and arrested eight young men, all but two of whom were under seventeen years of age. The proprietor of the layout has himself not yet attained his majority. In the police court the boys were fined S3O each. Indiana Patents—Frank O. Climer, Indianapolis, portable copying press; Joseph F. Gent, Columbus, pneumatic separator and grader; Eli Keith, Hagerstown, wash ing machine; Henry Plough and E. N. Giles, Indianapolis, portable hot air radiator; Joseph G. Whitier, Attica, door check. Robins continue to congregate by the many thousands near Bradford, and are slain in great numbers, people visiting the roosts after nightfall provided with a lantern and a long pole, and knocking them from their perches. The killing is contrar to law, but it is continued without interference on the part of the officials of Harrison county.

The official call has been issued for the annual convention of the Indiana Tariff Reform League, to be held in Indianapolis, beginning at 7:50 p. m., March 4. The headquarters of the League will be at the Grand Hotel, where delegates will report upon their arriyaUn that city. Arrangements have been made with tbe railroads to carry all persons desiring to attend this convention for one and one-third fare for the round trip. All tariff reformers in Indiana are invited to be present, whether delegates or not. The Republican State Central Committee met at Indianapolis, Thursday night, and elected the following offioers: Chairman—Louis T. Michener, Indianapolis; Vice-chairman—M. R. Sulzer, Madison; Secretary—P. M. Millikan, New Castle; Treasurer—Horace McKay, Indianapolis. Executive Committee—S. J. Peelle Indianapolis, J. K. Gowdy, Rushville; E. :H. Nebeker, Covington; J. B. Homan, inanaillftj W. N. Hardlrig, j, I A resolution was adopted endorsing the administration. Jacob Adell, who committed suicide ana

Fairmount by burning himself to death with coal oil, was crazed with religious excitement, having been a recent convert to a band of faith carers. The wife of Adeli, who holds the religious convictions entertained by her husband, when notified of the manner of his death, assumed a pleased expression, and exclaimed, “Thank the Lord, O my soul.” While upon the witness stand her manner was perfectly composed, and the horrible manner of her husband’s taking off appeared to have made no impression on her.