Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Farmers’ Alliance claims 1,050 membership in Glay county. ], A strong sentiment Is developing at Connersville, favoring looal option. There is a probability that a large sugar beet factory will be located at Bluffton. John Giger, aged sixty, of Bedford, has been sentenced for two years for assaulting his wife. Hadddbk Lodge, L O. O. F., of Grawfordsville, has dedicated a new hall with appropriate ceremonies. Eight hundred Indianapolis Union Carpenters struck on the 15th, for an eight hour day and higher wages. A shepherd dog near Columbus stripped the flesh from the face of a son of Rudolph Schinive, disfiguring the lad for life. D. McWilliam’s olock at Lochiel, occupied by Clarence A. Brockway, general merchant, burned on the 15th, Loss, $5,000. C. S. Gordon, a farmer, near Metamora, owns a Jersey cow less than thirteen months old and giving milk. She weighs 400 pounds and her calf 35. There is a oontest over the road supervisorship at Lagrange, in which each side has engaged eminent counsel, and will spend several hundred dollars in litigating over a ten-dollar office, i Grant Cress, of Terre Haute, while intoxicated, attacked County Physician Stunkard with a knife, cutting him severely in the hand, because he would not release the assailant’s father from the hospital. ' Farmers in the neighborhood of Judson are discouraged over the outlook. Many i©f the wheat fields are being plowed up, and the people, for some reason, seem to if eel that the country is on 'the eve of a great crisis. | William J. Retherford, near Westport, Ax-Commissioner of Decatur county, died yesterday of iagrippe. Two grown sons and a daughter died of similar complications, and the widow and another son are lying at the point of death, i Miss Louisa Stoitz, of Evansville, while (visiting her aunt, Mrs. Henry Manz, Of .Chattanooga, was made drunk with wine (by her uncle and was debauched by him. TShe sued for damages, and a Tennessee {jury a warded her I There arefive lodgesof Odd Fellows in ‘Madison, and Muaroe and Sterlock. The oldest and the youngest of the organiza (tions-have voted to consolidate. The first named has amembershipof 100 with SB,OOO, while the other has 43 members and about $4,000. Miss Virginia Cooper, daughter of ex State Treasurer John J. Cooper was married atMr. Cooper’s home at Indianapolis on the aftcrnoon of April 15th to-Congress-man Wiley of New York. The wedding was a notable-affair, and many prominent (people were present. f Tbe-large new bam of Allen Grass, near Medora, was burned by ineendiares. Three valuable horses, with farming implements, hay and grain, etc., were de stroyed. Loss $4,000; insurance SI,OOO The barn on same site was burned by incendiary fire two years ago. James M. Rice, of Montgomery county is trying the experiment of raising wild geese and ducks. He has half a dozen pairs of each, and by clipping their wings he retains them on his farm, and they have become quite tame. It is doubts if they will breed in-captivity. ■m,,.l S a > *

There are now seventy two lodges of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association in operation in Harrison county, comprising a membership of over two-thousand. The organization has thus far refrained from meddling in politics, but it is intimated that it will take a hand in the fall elecs tions.

At about 9 o’clock Monday night the barn on the farm of John Baggs, two miles west of Union City, occupied oy John Stacks as tenant, was burned. With the bam were burned three horses, thirteen bead of cattle, wagons, farming utensils, grain and feed. Loss, about $3,000, without insurance. The Masonic committee of Cleveland on ;the dedication of the Garfield memorial extend an invitation to all Masonio bodies to participate in the ceremonies on May 30 next. On account of the crowd that will .probably be in attendance it will be im possible for the local organizations to entertain visitors.

Wood Huber’s barn, near CoHnersville, >was destroyed by incendiarism Monday night, and several horses were burned. Loss, (4,000; with $1,200 insurance. The cattle barn of John Groves, only a few .miles distant, was also destroyed by the same agency, and out of twenty head of cattle, only two escaped. Loss, $3,000. □Of the $1,200,000 appropriations for special purposes by the Legislature of 1889 tall but about $330,000 has already been paid opt by State Treasurer Lcmcke. The treasury is almost empty, and the Treasurer says it is certain the counties Will have to be drawn on heavily in advance to their December settlements, in order to keep the wheels of State turning. The Terre Haute Gazette kept tabs on the church going people Sunday last, and found that 6,442 attended divine service In the morning. Taking the Sunday school and night service, with the above as a basis, the Gazette figures out that fifty per cent, of the population of Terre Haute are worshipers; from which it argues that if Terre Haute is a wicked town, heaven help other cities. A day or two ago Eli Rosenbalm was married to Miss Hattie Brad bum, at her home, near Martinrille. A. M. Livingston, of Gosport, officiated and before he had scarcely pronounced the binding tin there arose a grievous misunderstanding between Mr. and Mrs. Rosenbalm. The disagreement was of so severe a nature that ; the husband bade his wife adieu and left, .and he has not been seen or heard of sinoe. Patents wove granted to ItxHaniaas on the 15th as fellows: Ezra Bowman, Remington, car pusherorpinch bar; W GFrost, Lebanon, fence; F Graff, Fort Wayne, compound for cleaning Jewelry; J Jones, Elkhart, railway crossing; Frank and J ‘Hein, Jasper, flexible cover for cylinder or ■voU top desk; G W Marble, Plymouth, .metal roller forging machine; G W Skyman. Terre Haute, muffler; W Teamer Evansville, key bolt and washer for rattmray Joints. • A murderous “tough” named Grant Ohms, called at the office of county physiM. M - n ■ —■ - ■■■■■“■■

cian Stunkard, at Terre Haute, demanding the release of his father from the hospital, When the doctor refused to issue the order the man attacked the physician , with a knife. He made several deadly rushes at him, in one of them cutting the doctor’s hand. The doctor had nothing with which to defend himself, and was alone, but he fought the man as best he could till a policeman arrived and arrested him. Cress was crazy from liquor. In response to formal invitation to play progressive pedro, seventy-five guests were indulging in that game at the elegant home of Miss Minnie Ley, in Elkhart, at 11 o’clock, on the 16th, when Miss Ley and Charles Wilson, in full wedding attire, presented thepselves in the parlor and were united in marriage by Rev. J. E. Knopf, of the Congregational church Everybody was thunderstruck, as not the slightest intimation regarding the event existed among the guests. The lady says she took that way of avoiding wedding presents. The couple left for an extended Eastern trip. The Second Congressional District convention met in Shoals on the 17th, to nominate a successor to Hon. J. H. O’Neal, the present incumbent, who is not a candidate for re-election, and a red-hot controversy resulted, growing out of the rival candidacy, of ex-Speaker Niblack and ex-Con-gressman Cobb, of Knox county, both of whom came into the convention with a divided delegation. Altogether there were seven candidates. The convention remained in session until 4 o’clock Tuesday, and 378 ballot 6 were taken, resulting in the selection of Mr. Britz, of Dubois county, who received fifty votes on the final ballot, with forty-seven necessary to a choice. Dr. A. J. Thomas, who has been a membe of the medical staff of the Central Insane Hospital for many years, has been elected Superintendent of the new Insane Hospital at Evansville. The Board of Trustees of the Evansville institution has been organized, with Williain Rahm, Jr., of Evansville, President; Perry H. Blue, of Sullivan, Vice President, and-Dr. T. Wertz, of Jasper, Treasurer. Besides Dr, Thomas, Dr. William Browning retires from the medical staff of the Central Hospital at this time. To the two vacancies thus caused, Superintendent C. E. Wright’has appointed Dr. D. S. Wiles, of Spencer, Owen county, and Dr. John A. Simpson, of Bloomington, Monroe county. Four prisoners, Bans Sherman, the notorious horse thief; John Omara, held for illegitimate parentage; Chas. D. Howell the dude burglar, and “Slip” Carroll, also a burglar, sawed-through their cells into the corridor and out of the Cass county jail Sunday night at midnight during the heavy thunder storm. Sherman, is a desperate man, having stolen at least a dozen horses in Cass county, and he has served two terms in the penitentiary. He’s wanted at Rochester for cracking a safe and at Warsaw for burning a barn. Tne prisoners were not missed until Monday morning. Howell, the burglar, has been a member of the Knights of Pythias and an Odd Fellow, and is a slick fellow Large rewards are offered for their re capture. |

John McGraugh, an active Dcmocrati politician of near Cannellburg,was arrested last week, accused of attempted bribery, the complaint being lodged against him by John Hosea, a young Republican, who was instigated thereto by David Hosea his father. Sunday night, shortly after 12 o’clock, a party of twelve masked men battered down the door of Hosea’s home, dragged the old man out and fastened him to a tree and gave him a whipping, nearly every man being provided with a strong withe, and applying the blows to his back until he was covered with blood and well nigh insensible. Young Hosea was absent from home or he would have been similarly served. The senior Hosea recognized some of his assailants, and prosecutions will follow. James Dennis, who died at Waynetown, on Wednesday Dight, made a death-bed confession4o the effect that he was the chief actor in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. McMillin, for which act John F. Coffee was hanged in 1885. On the night of the murder Dennis, according to* his confession, went into McMullin’s house for the purpose of stealing S2OO which McMuilin was known to have. Coffee remained on guard outside. McMuilin awoke and showed fight, when Dennis struok him on the head with a club, killing him instantly. Mrs. McMuilin ran out of the house, and was caught by Coffee, who struck her on the head, intendiug to stun her, but instead killed her. The two men then placed the bodies in the house and set fire to it. Both were arrested and Coffee was convicted of murder while Dennis was acquitted. Susie Crownell, aged eighteen, daughter of Captain Leo Crownell, an old lake skipper was to have married Dr. George Rou at Rushville, one year ago. A week bes or the wedding was to have come off the doctor went away on a business trip an did not return. What became of him nobody knows. Six months ago Miss Crownell began-to receive the attentions of Lester Stoat, a well-to-do young mao, living in a neighboring village, and two weeks ago they ware married. Last week Dr. Rouse returned to Rushville as suddenly as he had left. No one knew where he had been or what kept him away, but his reasons for going and staying so long must have been satisfactory to the youn woman, for on Friday she eloped with him. The runaway pair were heard of In Dunkirk, but since then all trace of them has been lost. The parties are prominent in society and wealthy. The eloping bride was educated abroad. She is a handsome! brunette. She speaks six languages fluent | ly. Her mother was a Cuban and eloped I with Captain-Crownell from New Orleans 1 and married tainatwonty years ago, being a wealthy Cvbaa-tover. I