Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Grandview want* railway oonaected. Kokomo is organizing a humane society. Anderson is again waring its gamblers, of whom there are many. Many of the towns throughout the State report an epidemio of weddings. Albert Coquillard, a South Bend millionaire wagon manufacturer, died on the 26th. The new infirmary buildings in Union county, costing $16,500, have been accepted. - : * ■“ Frederick Benthine, of Lagrange, of dissipated habits, committed suicide by hanging. „ A non-partisan W. C. T. U., with twenty four members,' has been organized at Bloomingdale, Parke county. George Willis, of Jeffersonville, owns a three year old colt and a scotch terrier which are inseparable friends. A colony of Hollanders has settled in East Goshen, and it is expected that the incomers will number 300 by May. While George Reading, near Montpelier, was hewing, Monday,his broad axe slipped and cut off his foot, between the toes and ancle.

Joseph Shuck, a prominent school teacher of Franklin county, was drowned while crossing Clear Fork. His body was recovered. While Mr. and Mrs. Lon Tracks, of Bluffton, were temporarily outside the house, their ohild, three years old, was burned to death. The quarterly report made by the Superintendent of Ripley county, giving the operations of the new school book law, shows a saving or $1,53i:20. LoWell B. McClodo, of Columbus, is suing the J., M. & 1. Railway Company, claiming SIO,OOO for injuries received by the bursting of a water tank. Prof. M F. Rickoff, Superintendent of the Tipton city schools, is one of the heirs to a large estate near Schenectady, N. Y., and he expects to receive $20,000. Eddie-Young and Jimmie Hicks, juveniles, of Mount Vernon, quarreled over a game of marbles and Young was struck with a brick resulting in his death. The planing mill and saw mill, owned by S. Hege & Co., of Columbus, burned on the night of the 26th, causing $20,000 loss. Fifty men are thrown out of employment Charles Parker, of South Bend, was found dead in his house, with his little boy weeping bitterly ana afraid to venture from the corpse. Mrs. Parker was absent at the time. James Geary, of Fort Wayne, has asked permission of the City Council to build a tower, the base 75 feet, the top 40 feet square and the hight 300 feet, on the high est point sorrounding that city. Mrs. Ella Douglass, injured in the Carmel wreck, is suing the Monon Railway Company, at Frankfort, for SIO,OOO. The family of C. O. Deming, killed in the same accident, has accepted $6,000 in compromise.

George W. Holman, of Rochester, Fulton county, ha 3 been appointed National Bank Examiner for Indiana. Mr. Holman is one of the leading lawyers of Rochester aud of the Tenth Congressional District. He has never been especially active in politics. John H. Sullivan, of Washington, has brought suit, against Wilson & Co., of that 1 city, claiming $5,030 damages. The defendants belong to the local Merchant’s Protective Association, and are accused of black-listing the plaintiff for the allege ; non-payment of a bill. Tyner Weaver, teacher in Fall Creen township, Hamilton county, disputed wit.h a lady pupil concerning Pittsburg Landing, he claiming the battle as a Confederate victory, while the young woman asserted the contrary. Thereupon he expelled her, and the neighborhood is in arms. Figures reported to W. A. Peele, Jr., State Statistician, show that the gross debt of Indianapolis for the year ending June 30, 1889, was $2,005,500. Evansville’s debt for the sato# time was larger, being 4^,lJo2vOOO“'Fort"Wayne*sTloblrw3ff~<74(f, - 000, Lafayette’s s3oo,oufl,and Terre Haute’s $283,000. Sixty ladies at Odon called upon David Simpkins, the only saloon keeper in the place, and expressed themselves that the community was unalterably opposed to the retailing of intoxicants and he must emigrate. Religious services were held, lasting for an hour, after waioh Mr. Simpkins consented to go, and his goods were packed and shipped to Eluora. A lot of young men went to the house of David Graves, in Owen township, Clark county, a few nights ago, to give a oharivari to Frank Henry and bride. After repeated warnings to leave, which were unheeded, Mr. Graves took down his shotgun and fired into the crowd. Two of the young men wont to surgeon and had the bird-shot picked out of their skins. Turner Sims, of Shelbyviile, made a slighting remark about the daughters of Mrs. Francis Diggs, who lives in the same house, aud she attacked him. He secured a hatchet and out her on the head, face and shoulder. Her daughters came bo her rescue, one of them armed with a club, with which Sims was knockod down. 110 was fined, and bound over to keep the peace. The growing and shipping of capons is becoming an important industry at Kusaiaville. This year the shipments will reach something over seven thousand, and tho farmers of that vicinity will realize over $6,000 in cash. The farmers claim that capon raising pays the largost profit, considering the care of the fowls, the feed, marketing aud everything, of anything that is raised on tho farm. ’ By the ond of March, when the season will close, about fifty farmer's institutes will have been held in the State this win-1 ter. Tho last aud greatest will be held in ' tho rooms of tho Slate Board of Agriculture, In the Capitol, probably March 27,28 ( aud 29. The best lecturers and Institute workers that'have participated In those already held will be pt-aent and the meeting promises to bo of great interest. ] The body of Euglnecr Lyons, killed In the wreck at the crossing of Suupp’s Creek on the Evansvii(e it Terre Haute line, was recovered Wednesday, aud Was forwari/id to Evansville. The body of Fireman Bowden was also recovered, aud it wiis claimed by his betrothed, at Terre Haute. Frag meats of another body wore found banging

to the wire fenee spanning the creek, and it is supposed that a tramp was killed, who was stealing a ride on the pilot of the engine. Patents—P. M. Bice, North Manchester, land marker; W. K. Fraley, Lebanon,wire 1 fence; A. E. Herman, Terre Haute, cab for pall bearers; J. afcd M. Mcparter, Bowers, washing machine; L. F. Norton, Lebanon, fence post; C. Orth, jr., Mount Vernon, corn shelter; J. L. Powles, Good land, draft equalizer: N. H. Roberts, Indianapolis, saw jointer and guage; J. J. Stedman, . Laporte, dental plate; S. Stephens, Indianapolis, rendering apparatus j C. F. Walters and P. S. Sellenlack, Richmond, roller mill. Delegates from local lodges of the Min-, ers’Progressive Union and local assent blies of the Miners’ Knights of Labor, met? at Terre Haute and adopted a State constitution, and other wise perfected the Indiana organization of United Mine Workers. Patrick Mcßride, organizer of the national order, served notice that unless the operators met with them and agreed upon the yearly scale before May 1, there will bo a general strike in this competitive district, which includes Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and part of Tennessee.

An attempt was made on the morning of the 25th to despoil the grave of Thomas Johnson at New Albany. The sexton had suspicions that the attempt would be made and set a watch. At 2 o’clock a party of eight, including three physicians of Louisville, appeared, and were ordered to surrender. They started to run instead, and the guard fired upon them, 'iesEantly killing one of the burkers, a negro. Two of the physicians and another colored man thereupon surrendered, the third doctor making his escape. One of . the ari*sted doctors stands high where he is known. An Evansville and Terre Haute express train went through a trestle over Snapp’s creek, near Vincennes early on the morning of tho 25th. The engineer and fireman were both carried down with the wreck and drowned in the torrent of water. Five other persons were injured. There were thirty passengers aboard, all of whom miraculously escaped. The creek was swelled by recent rains to a surging torrent. The cars were hurled clear over, the chasm made by the engine, landing on, the opposite side of the stream. The train was speeding at forty miles an hour. Later

reports state the bridge was carried away before the arrival of the train. A prominent citizen of Marietta has re ceived a letter from an official in one of the departments at Washington with regard to the delay in turning the Democrats out of postofflees. He says that the President has positively declared that he will l permit no more changes in presidential postoffices until the expiration of four years from the date of confirmation by the Senate, unless sufficient charges are made and sustained against the incumbent to secure his removal. The letter further states that Congressmen may storm as much as they please, and yet the administration will make no more exceptions to rule now reestablished. Superintendent Enoch G. Machan, of Lagrange county, has been charged with malfeasance in office. The allegation is that he has acted as paid agent of Van Antwerp Bragg & Co., A. S. Barnes & Co., and ! Donahue & Henneberry during his entire term of office. As agent for these companies, the complaint alleges, he has received 30 per cent, on all the books sold by or through him in the county; and that he has been actively engaged in opposing the successful operation of the new school book law ever since it was passed. The ■ complainant is Nelson E, Miller, a township ’ trustee of Lagrange county, and he avers I that he stands ready to prove his charges. i The introduction of the new books into - Lagrange county has been almost entirely defeated by the open hostility of Mr. Machan. *■