Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

EvanoVille needs more hotels. John Latex, of Portland, is insane from relations excitement. Col. Samuel Merrill was on the 10th appointed Consul to Calcutta. Jacob Williams, of Washington county, is seven feet two inches in height. Robert Baker, of Martinsville, was killed by the kick of a horse on the 11th. Eight business houses at Elwood were burned Saturday, causing a loss of $35,000. Kokomo has organized a driving park association, *ith a capital stock of $15,000 A colored man was admitted to practice law at the bar of Knox county oh the 11th < Citizens blew a saloon, at Fairland, to pieces by dynamite on the evening of the 10th. There are now thirty.one natural gas wells in Blackford county, and six in Hartord City. The Irendale rolling mills, employing two hundred men, began operation at An-derson-Monday. Captain W. R. Myers has been edected Chairman of the Madison County Democratic Central Committee. The gas well drilled in Grant county by the-Kiley syndicate is claimed te have a daily output of 15,000,000 feet. Two and one-half ounces of arsenio were found in the stomaoh of Jacob Eberle, of vPeru, Ind., who had been dead'two years. Jacob Heim, a manufacturer of Laporte, fhas disappeared. He collected up his book aocounts closely and left his debts un paid. The farm-house of Louis Weitsel, south of Lebanon, burned early Monday morning. The family* narrowly esoaped with their lives. Loss, $30,000.

Quite recently a bundle of switches, with the usual “White Caps” notice, was found tacked to the office door of the Jasper Times, a Republican paper. Michael Kelly, employed in the Jdffer sonviLle Car Works, was caught by a switching train Wednesday, and fatally crushed. -His people reside in Springfield, Ohio. Miss Rosanna Mclntyre, one of the well known dwarf sisters, -of Wells county, died this week. She was aged forty-four years, and was three feet three inches in bight. Bowen, of Delphi,, diad Monday night, aged seventy-five years. He was one of the wealthiest men in Indiana, bis possessions being estimated as high as .$4,000,000. The Han Handle Road is introducing mew coaches on its through trains, which •are lighted by gas from reservoie under the floors. The improvement over-the old oil lamp.is very noticeable. Thomaa Hutsell, of Warren, while working in, his flour mill, Monday, Was caught by the shafting and his neck broken. The body clogged and stopped the machinery, . and he was dead when found. While Clyde Trindle and .'other boys, j near South Milford, were hunting last - Saturday , one of his companions acciden-tally-discharged his gun, and the load took effect in Trindle?* -side, instantly killing him. -The Richmond Natural Gas Company Wednesday developed another powerful well in the Chesterfield district. This makes eleven walls the company owns, more than enough do supply the 7,000 fires burning. Richard Mann’s barn, - near Farmland was-destroyed by fire Wednesday, and it is thought to have .been burned in reprisal for destruction of a saloon.at Farmland by dynamite. Mr. Mann is prominent in tern peranee Work. H. S. Groober, of Logansport, employed in a planing mill, lost his thumb by contact with a circular saw. Stepping to one side, he trimmed the ragged edges with a pair of. scissors, applied a quid of tobacoo as a poitice, and resumed his work. Dr. Samuel Salisbury,.a local Methodist preacher at St. Paul, Shelby county, has brought a $5,000 slander suit in the Circuit Court against Robert Phair, because the defendant is reported to have said that Salisbury burned a barn,years ago. Orner. aged ten, son of Merrit Ardery, »f Clifty .township, Bartholomew county Is dead, of trichinosis. He ate a small amount of uncooked pork sausage, and five lays later he was taken ill, dying in Vwenty days, after terrible suffering. Mrs. Louisa Eglin, of Seymour, boru in March, 1780, died on the 13th. She married the late William Eglin ninety-one years tgo, and her oldest child, if living, would be eighty-nine years old. She was in full possession of her mental faculties until a short time ago. Orth Stein, once of Lafayette, but now • fugitive from Justice on innumerable charges, is heard of at Colorado Springs and-Seattle. He was in England for a while, and poses now as one nf the British nobility, lie leaves forgeries behind him <every place he visits. The report reaches Terre Haute that on last Saturday uight White Capa, near Lanyas .r, took Charles Clemana, a halfwit d man, and after giving him a terrible whipping, warned him to leave the -country before daylight. The charge . against him is ill treatment of his mother. Mr. Conn, of Elkhart, of whom able has been said in months past, and who established the Daily and Weekly Truth, in .order to strike baok at bis assailants, has purchased the the Elkhart .Sentinel, And W. H. Norton, editor of the Sentinel, will have charge of the new Truth.

Mrs. Thomas Merritt, of Laporte, whoso maiden name was Annie Sesaler, was married in December last, and it is reported that she now makes the pitiful discovery that her husband has figured in three previous marriages, with the records of the court failing to show judicial separation. J. C. Williams, of the Muncle Leather Manufacturing Company, has been doing •business on wind, and that commodity has - ceased to be a legal tender. As a result , Mr. Williams is in bad financial straits, jHe was given three acres of ground and 'free gas to locate and erect a large building. He put up a building and employed 125 girls. His manner of hiring bands was peculiar, and at one time terminated in a strike. He would employ them on trial of two weeks, and at the end of that tim« 1 wwnid rirtiimr rHittl persons in their places, thereby getting his *

labor for nothing. Some Mancie money was advanced as a loan to the firm, and it is believed to be lost. The Republican primary of Howard bounty was held Wednesday, and Luther McDowell was nominated for Representative, Milton Garrigus auditor, Dr. A. A. Covault treasurer, Ed. A. Simmons sheriff, and Charles B. F. Clarke for recorder. Charles Conner, of Jeffersonville, has been arrested, charged with swindling pensioners. It is alleged that he operated principally among the oolored people in the Three Falls cities, and his patrons were required to pay fees in advance before he would undertake their claims. Some days ago R. N. Wooster, of Jackson township, Blackford oounty, was attacked by a large Berkshire boar, and, although he defended himself with a club, he was badly worsted in the fight, and would have been killed but for the timely arrival of neighbors. His legs were terribly torn by the animal’s tusks, and he is still disabled.

Washington Kern, of Decatur county, has a peculiar freak of nature. The animal is a two-year-old dog, perfectly formed, excepting that it has no fore legs, the condition being oongenital. In moving aboutii straightens itself erect upon its legs, and walks off with a grace which would do credit to most human beings. The dog is of Fulton county origin. It has become known that Andrew Gottschack, ax Treasurer of Adams county, is a defaulter for from $6,000 to SIO,OOO. The condition of the books has been kept from Xhe public until now. Gottschack engaged in speculation with public funds, and found himself enable to replace the money at the close of his term.

A woman named Steig died at Crawfordsville, last week, upon whom the sun had not shone for twenty-five years. At the beginning of this period she grew gloomy, finally went to bed, and made a vow that the sun should never again shine upon her. Her husband did the housework and waited upon her, and never uttered a word of complaint or censure. She recently became blind. [This story is presumed te be true. We doubt it] John Rewords, a farmer of Bartholomew county, lost a calf and a valuable mule from hydrophobia on the 10th. The mule was enclosedin a tight box stall, and, while it was being treated for the disease, made a lunge at a bystander, seizing him by the lapel of the ooat, tearing the garment from his body as though U was paper. The animal died in great agony, after ten hours of suffering. Two dogs in the neighborhood that were supposed to be mad-were killed Sunday.

Franz .Phrala, a Laporte couaty farmer, married a widow with children. He ordered his atepson to make a maul, with which to drive wedges, and, the work not being satisfactory, he abused him. Mrs. Phrala interfered, and he used a rawhide upon the woman until she fell unconscious. Afterward he attempted to repeat the whipping, and she was sheltered by a neighbor. The South Bend Times claims ibis cases like this whioh call for .the Dela ware whipping post in Indiana. Peru jollified on the 13th over the signing of-a contract by which the division headquarters, yards, shops and general centralization of the eastern division of the Wabash Railway is secured for that city, with the assurance that a connecting link will -be built to the Detroit Division, and it will also run in connection with the main line. The consideration to the Wabash is the building of Ahis additional roadway, >the same estimated to cost $25,000, and the donation of thirty acres of ground. .Patents to lndianians: C. A. Bertsoh, .Cambridge City, shearing machine; C. T Bqyer, Franklin, churn; W. M. Britton, Crawfordsville, fences; L, fi. Calder, Terre Haute, vapor burner.; A. Hardy. .Mishawaka, machine for forming felt-boot •blanks; J. A. Hilistrom, Chesterton, .atop .action for organs ;J. P. Karr, Monticello, apparatus for removing incrustation from boiler tubes; J., D. MoAnnally. Waterloo, haine tugs; K. Stiller, Evansville, adjusta .blechair; R. Taggart, Terre Haute, fan attachment for chairs—two patents. The north hound morning passenger .train on the Moaon route collided .with a freight train twe miles north of Mitchell, on.the 14th. W. J 3. Dillard, of Louisville, engineer, and JL B. Godinger, of Hew Albany, fireman, of the passenger engine, were instantly killed, and Charles Wright, mail agent, of Orleans, was fatally injured, dying in a short .time. The wreck was caused by wrong orders from the train dispatcher, who ordered the freight train south.on the time of .the north bound passenger. Miss Amanda Hall, of Jeffersonville, seven .years ago was given a small land tortoise, and she made a pet of the little creature, and it was kept about her home and permitted to roam at will. Soon after another tortoise was given her, which also became greatly attached to its mistress. Every fall the little creatures disappeared and though search was made high and low, their hiding place could not be discovered for several years, and then it was found they had dug below the frost line in a corner of the woodshed, where they hibernated until spring. The Coroner’B inquiry relative to the shooting at Blountsvilie, which resulted in the killingof Eli Ladd, colored, is developing into a serious affair for the principals in that tragedy. Evidenoo was had snowing that Ladd made no defense beyond rapid flight, and that he was j pursued into the country, and fully 100 shots were fired before he was stricken down. Three shots struck him. from ono of whioh, finding lodgment in the thigh, he j

bled 4e death-.- - deck Davis, one of the pursuers, was wounded, but it is alleged this was done by a shot fired by William Rozell which was intended for Lsdd. Under warrants issued by the Coroner, William and Henry Koseii, John P. Smitd, Charles Smeltzer and Cassius M. Lake have been arrested. Several of tho defendants are men of high standing, and Mr. Lake is a Justice of the Peace. THB LINCOLN LKA.OCB. The state ooavenuon of thp Lincoln League was held at Indianapolis on the 12th. William L. Taylor, the President, delivered bis annual address. The following officers were elected: L. President—William L. Taylor. ~ Seoretajy— Otto Gresham.

Treasurer—Norman S. Byram. Chairman Michner and Mr. Coekmua, Assistant U. S. District Attorney, made brief speeches. Resolutions were adopted as follows: We, the delegates to the State convention of the Lincoln League, do hereby reaffirm our loyalty to the Republican party and declare our devotion to the principles enunciated in the last National and State platforms, and we do hereby pledge ourselves' and the respective organizations represented by us to use our best efforts to maintain the ascendency of these principles and the supremacy of the Republican party. Resolved, That tne administration of Benjamin Harrison as president of the United States has been wise, just and patriotic; that under it all sections' of the country have been treated impartially; that the State of Indiana has been greatly honored in the selection of one of her sons as the chief executive of the Nation, and we hereby heartily indorse his administration, and affirm that it has met our highest expectations. Resolved, That we indorse the administration of the Hon, Alvin P. Hovey, Gov ernor of Indiana; that his voluntary effort to secure a service pension for the soldiers of the Union and his untiring efforts in their behalf merit the commendation of every loyal citizen. Resolved, The unflinching courage, the matchless self-poise, the fearless patriotism of Hou. Thomas B. Reed, plaoe him in a position high in the illustrious list of Speakers of the National House of Representatives. We send greeting to him. with the assurance that the great State of Indiana indorses to the fullest extent, his action as Speaker, and the wise policy and statesmanship which has actuated him In his recent conflict with the late enemies of the Union.

Distriot managers were then elected as follows: First District—James A Hemenway, Boonville. Second—Charles G Sefrit, Washington. Thir .—Ernest Tripp, North Vernon. Fourth—C F Jones, Brookville. Fifth -W C Banta, Martinsville. Sixth—C S Henley, New Castle. Seventh—R A Black, Green «*eld. Eighth—N Fiibeck, Terre Haute. Ninth—Howard Henderson, Lebanon. Tenth—Andrew Hall, Kentland. Eleventh—W S Silver, Bluffton. Twelfth—James S Drake, Lagrange. Thirteenth—J W Crumpacker, Laporte. Delegates and alternates to the National Convention of Republican clubs,to be held at Nashville, Tenn., March 4, were chosen as follows, each district making its own selection: First District-Delegates: James B Gamble, Princeton; Walter Viele, Evansville. Alternates: John L Dunlap, Princeton ; C C Mason, Rockport. Second District—Delegates: Dr Joseph Gardner, Bedford; Jonathan Keith, Vincennes. Alternates: Hilary O Houghton, Shoals; James H Herrold, Bloomfield. Third District—Delegates: Jesse J Brown, New Albany; Harvey Morris, Salem. Alternates; James Kemp, Salem; George W Belt, Corydon. Fourth District—Delegates: M R Sulzer, Madison; Albert Davis, Liberty. Alternates: LE Smith, Vevay; Captain A D Vanosdol. Madison. Fifth District—Delegates: Charles S Baker, Columbus; R H Richards,Patricks 'burg. Alternates: Jesse W Weik, Green--eastle; Julian D Hogate, Danville. Sixth District —Delegate J R Bell, Union City; Frank Roots, Connersville. Alternates: Richmond; C F Neely, Muncie.

Seventh District—Delegates; William A Wilkins, Indianapolis; John W Lovett, Anderson. Alternates: W Montgomery, Greenfield; S J Carpenter, Shelby ville. Eighth District—Delegates: E H Ne beker, Covington; David Streuse. Rockville, Alternates: R H Crowder, Sullivan; R B Sears, Newport. Ninth District- Delegates: Harry McGrath, Noblesville; John W Loop,Kokomo. Alternates: John A Swoveiahu, Tipton; Marcellus Bristow, Frankfort. Tenth District—Delegates: Maj J M Watts, Delphi; John Brown, Crown Point. Alternates; SP Thompson, Rensselaer; A R Shroyec, Logansport. Eleventh District—Delegates; J J M LaFollette, Portland: Levi Scoti, Fairmount Twelfth District—Delegates: J B Kimball, KendalLville; William Wilson, Fort Wayne. Alternates; P V Huffman, Ligonier: W F Pten field, Auburn. Thirteenth District—Delegates: H G Thayer, Plymouth; J D Oliver, South Bend. Alternates; L W Royse, Warsaw; O Z Hubbell, Elkhart. To this list was added the names of Gen. Lew Wallace, of Crawfordsville, and George W. Patchell, of Union City, as delegates at large, with Thomas Hanna, of Greencastle. and Charles F. Griffin, of Crown Point, as alternates.