Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Man; of the prisoners in the prison South are ill wish the grip. A personal rights League has been organized at Ft. Wayne. A good flow of natural gas has been struck at Bedford, at a depth of 868 feet. Kokomo has organized a driving park association, with a capital stock of $15,000 Mollie Cormin, of Shelby county, was on the 17th licensed to wed for the ninth time. * Mrs. Mary Smith, the first white woman married in Grant county, is dead, aged eighty. Alexandria ladies have organized a crusade against the saloons and drug stores. Mrs. George W. Skinner’s residence, at Morgantown, burned Tuesday, causing a $4,000 loss. A well-to-do farmer at Laporte was fined $600 and sent to jail for six months, on the 17th, for wife whipping. Berry P. Sulgrove, one of the oldest and best known newspaper man in Indiana, died at Indianapolis on the 20th. The barn of Silas Truss, near Wabash, was burned on the 16th by tramps. Loss on horses, grain and implements $2,500. Benjamin Black, of Martinsville, While engaged in moving a house, caught his hand under a roller, and it was crushed off. The congregation of Zion’s Lutheran church, of Fort Wayne, has ordered the erection of a new church building, to cost $30,000. A large barn, five horses, 500 bushels of corn and five tons of hay, near Rushville, was burn ed by an incendiary on the 10th. Loss $2,500. The stable at the Prison South burned at noon, Tuesday. Loss about $2,000; no insurance. The fire originated from tramps smoking in the loft.

Eight head of cattle belonging to Wm Burnett, near Columbus, have died of the unknown disease, which so far has baffled the skill of veterinarians. Albert McConnell attended a religious revival, at Needham’s Station, Monday night, and while crazed with excitement attempted to kill the minister. The plant of the Terre Haute Milling Company, owned by W. L. Kidder & Sons, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night, $100,000 loss. Insurance, $40,000. At Florence, on the night of the 17th, William Ford shot and killed his brother-in-law, Fred Assman, mistaking him for a desperado named Lewis Baldwin. Joseph Hays, a farmer near Huntington, while hunting, clogged the muzzle of his gun with mud. Afterwards, upon discharging the weapon, it burst, and he was fatally injured. Anderson boasts of an artesian well of most villanous smell, and the Bulletin is surprised that it is not utilized as a health ’ resort, thereby following the example of Martinsville and Indianapolis. George Smith, of Mulberry, persuaded Effie Parker to make a false oath, where by an innocent party was accused. This led to Smith’s arrest for subornation of perjury, and on the 20th he was found guilty, and was sentenced to two years in prison. Charles Robbing on the 19th, near Winslow, spent an hour trying to teach his nephew, aged ten, how to shoot a revolver. The next morning the lad procured the weapon before his uncle had arisen and banged away at the bed, the bullet striking Robbing in the heart and killing him. A breach of promise suit of Miss Emma Darnes against Charles Boyer was compromised in the Corydon Court to day. Miss Darnes sued for $15,000 and receives $1,500. The defendant married Miss Mattie McCullough, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Clark county, after the other lady had her bridal trousseau prepared. The late George H. Carson, of Greensburg, bequeathed a legacy of $1,390 to the Presbyterian church of that city, the income to be used in perpetuating a Mission Sunday School for the benefit of poor children. On the 16th the church accepted the trust by contributing several hundred dollars additional, and the school will be immediately established.

W. H. Tyler, of Muncie was found guilty of bigamy on the 17th, and sentenced to three months in jail and fined $l0. There seemed to be mutigating circumstances. He will now, by an argument, with the parties concerned, get a divorce from wife No. 1. and re-wed wife No. 2. His claim was that he thought his first wife was divorced before he married the second one Patents—W. A. Ford, Indianapolis, sash balancer; W. N. Garside, Richmond, mold er’s flask; W. L. Heiskell, Indianapolis, explosive; D. F. .Cain, Albion, two wheeled vehicle; J. A. Lemmon, Porterville, tongue .support; J. J. McErlain, South Bend, bicyclefork; W. C. Mills, Oxford, adding machine; Peter Semonin, Evansville, railway track and ties; G. H. ShoemakerSouth Bend, spark arrester. Pension Agent to-day sent to Charles Flaherty, Terre Haute, guardian for Owen Flaherty, a draft for $13,079.07. The beneficiary came out of the service at the close of the war hoplessly insane. He will hereafter receive $72 a month pension money. The back pay sent him to-day is the largest amount ever paid in Indiana in a lump to a pensioner. Flaherty was in Company C, 125th Illinois. His son and guardian is a Vandalia engineer, During a prayer meeting Monday night at Edward Randall’s, five miles south of Lebanon, as they were singing the closing hymn, an unknown assassin shot through the window glass, and Mrs. Randall screamed that she was wounded. During escape. The bullet went through the stove pipe, striking Mrs. Randall in the corner of the eye. She is alive, but fatally Injured. No motive is known for the crime, as the family is one of the most prominent in the county. No effort is being spared to capture the guilty party. A mutiny occurred in the Prison South Monday evening and one man, John N. Schran, a foreman in, the saddle-tree shop, was perhaps fatally cut by Charles Dow den, a ten-year convict from Vigo county. Jonah Howard, a guard, undertook to reprimand David Hill, serving a six-year term for burglary, and, was attacked by the convict Schran went to Howard’s assistance, and was attacked by Dowden,

who stabbed him four times with a saddler’s knife. One thrust of the knife penetrated Schran's left lung and and will probably cause death. Both prisoners have been placed in solitary confinement. Twenty days ago .Samuel L. Bayless, a carpenter of Fort Wayne, almost strangled to death from food which had entered his windpipe. The obstruction was removed from the trachea and temporary relief afforded, but three days later the muscles of the throat refused to act and consumption of the throat had set in. The patient has not taken a morsel of food in seventeen days, being kept alive by hypodermic injections of whisky and other stimulants. He has lost fifty-two pounds in weight,and his death is momentarily expected. The physician pronounces his case hopeless. The two-headed baby born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones in Tipton county seven months ago, died in Buffalo, N. Y., on Thursday, where it had been on exhibition, and was brought home Friday. This double baby consists of two girls, each separate and distinct in anatomy, but joined with an osseous union in the pelvis. Two weeks ago the baby was taken suddenly ill with the measles. The disease soon changed to congestion of the lungs and despite the efforts of a council of able physicians the wonderful phenomenon grew worse. One of the babies was named Pearl and the other was called Ruby. The human curiosity attracted so much at tention that the parents decided to exhibit it and they have traveled with the child or children for over six months. The deaths were some hours apart. In his speech before the Republican editorial association at Indianapolis, Mr. Brownlee, a member of the last Legislature, made severe reflections on the insane hospital management, winding up his peroration with the words “it is as corrupt as hell.” Supt. Wright promptly resents the charge and in a letter to the Secretary of the State Board of Charities says: “Now, I have never been in the Legislature or in hell, and consequently do not know as much about either place as Mr. Brownlee; but I have been in the insane hospital for several months, and know more about the institution than he does. Yet, if he knows anything here that needs to be corrected, would be greatly obliged if he would give names, dates and specifications, and then have you investigate. Please address him at once, as I have done, and find out what he knows, and then probe the matter to the bottom. A strange apparition in the shape of a remarkable light has been seen a number of times near Waterford, in Laporte county. Several months ago Charles and Henry Powell were walking along the roadway in the vicinity of Waterford, and were the first to see it. It seemed to flit along the road and rise high in the air, and,although the men tried to overtake it, they were unsuccessful. John Pattee resides in the vicinity of the Powell brothers, and has seen the light on two different occasions. A few nights ago the light appeared near his house, between 9 and 10 o’clock, and when Mrs. Pattee looked out of the window she was startled by its appearance but a few yards from the house. The night was bright and starlight. The lady called her husband to the window and for half an hour they watched its movements. When near it appeared to be a locomotive head light. At times it would be near the ground, then shoot upward higher than the treetops, when it would sail around over the fields. Saturday morning, between 1 and 2 o’clock, Mr. Pattee happened to look out of the window and saw the light which performed the same movements. The Republican Editorial Association meeting at Indianapolis, on the 20th, was largely attended. Gen. Reub Williams presided and delivered an address. A letter from ex-Chairman Huston was read, thanking the association for the support given him, and asking that the same treat rnent be accorded the new State committee" Gen. Jasper Packard spoke on the “Republican Editorial Association.” At night Representative Field spoke on “Ballot Reform,” and Representative Brownlee on the “Infamies of the Last Legislature.” Resolutions were adopted endorsing President Harrison and Speaker Reed and expressing sympathy at the death of Berry R. Sulgrove. The officers elected are: President, Jasper Packard, New Albany; VicePresident, J. A. Kautz, Kokomo; Secretary, R. A. Brown, Franklin; Treasurer, John B. Connor, Indianapolis; Executive Committee, W. A Smith, A. H. Beeson, W. D Pratt. Delegates to the National Editorial Convention at Boston were chosen as follows: Chas. E. Wilson, C. B. Landis, John F. Wildman, Geo. W. Patchell, E. L. Goldthwaite, W. H. Smith. Alternates, W. S. Montgomery, Major Bitters, T. H. B. Mc Cain, J. G. Bain, H. S. New, F. S. Mosbaugh. : -