Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Washington wants a street railway. Brazil claims the best drilled band in the State.' ■. ~~ “ ~ V Splendid cblack bass fishing at Lake Maxintuckee. m Vincennes will have a ball game by female teams June 4. State Convention of Farmers’ Alliance at Fort Wayne, June 4. 1 General Lew Wallace of Crawfordsville, has patented a steel railroad tie. Lightning killed Henry Admire, an old citizen of Greenwood, on the 28th. Twentysfivo horses in a Lcgansport livery stable are ill with la grippe. George Miller was fatally crushed in the Columbus ceraline 1 mill on the 24th. All but three of the Brazil Coal mines are running. There are 1,300 men at work. The oldest native Hoosier is Rev. Geo. Swartz, of Jeffersonville. He is 87 years old. Five car loads of poplar and walnut logs have been shipped to Germany from Bedford. I ''' Patrolman James Haids, of Madison, fatally shot Carlos Antle, his daughter’s •lover.

Mrs. A. B. Dickey, of Northwest Township, committed suicide by hanging. Cause, ill health. Park county commissioners are making it warm for persons who dump trash on the public highway. There is a dog at Crawfordsville that chews tobacco like a man, and even hunts in the gutter for cigar-stubs. Michael Cannon, sixteen years of age, had an arm taken from, the shoulder at the strawboard works in Anderson. Tinnie W. Nolting, a Columbus belle, climbed from her window on a rope ladder and ran away with Rich Duncan. Charles Bell, aged fourteen, of New Providence, was bitten by a copperhead snake and isn’t expected to live. The new police regime of Anderson, has ordered the closing of saloons at 11 p. m., and on Sunday and the fes tonal of all gaming. Owen Record, of Kokomo, has lain 32 days with scarlet fever without taking nourishment of any kind. He weighs 15 pounds. While Daniel Baker of Seymour was cutting timber the wedge split in two and a part of it flew up and knocked one of his eyes out. I ——— Magnificent denosits of blue, buff and brown oolitic limestone have been discovered near Mitchell, and a company has -hefeh-organizedr— Green field colored man drew S3OO in the sothern lottery and now the citizens of that town want to buy every ticket the institution issues. The little green bug (aphis avenre), which gave such uneasiness to wheat growers in Knox county last season, has again mads its appearance. Mrs. John R. Ennis, near Martinsville, has given birth to triplets, two girls and a boy. The mother herself was a twin, and so was her mother and grandmother. The different brotherhoods of railway employees met in convention at Indianapolis on the 26th and adopted a scheme for the federation of all of the organizations. The farmers’ Alliance, of Spencer county, have concluded to nominate a a county ticket, which shall include two Republicans, two Democrats, and two Prohibitionists.

Henry Huckey, near Crawfordsvilie, owns a five acre strawberry patch which is being plundered by rats as fast as the berries begin to turn ripe. The depredations are committed at night. Three men of Crawfordsvilie, Thomas S. Hughes, Judge T. F. Davidson and H. S. Watacn, have been completely cured of smoking by having the grip. Now they can not bear the smell of a pipe or cigar. ladianapolls preachers demand the resignation of President Shaffer of the Y. M. C. A. because he, as president of the Street Railway Gompany runs extra cars on Sunday to Sim Coy’s resort in the suburbs. _

Miss Alice Fallick, of Crawfordsvilie, has been arrested for chicken stealing. She is twenty-one years of age, a pretty girl of modest manners, and the daughter of a prominent farmer. The case is causing a sensation. Calvin S. Hauson, of Hanover township, Jefferson county, is aged seventy-seven. Under contract he recently took blocks as they were sawed from an old blue ash tree, and barked, bolted, rived and shaved 6,000 shingles in ten days. A savage sow attacked Mrs. Samuel Minnus, of Elkhart county, while she was crossing a field, and lacerated her arm. She was rescued by a sow in the same field, which took In the situation and charged upon the sow. Eighteen players belonging to thd Kokomo and Fort Wayne ball clubs were arrested at the latter place for Sunday playing, and were each fined $1 and costs, altogether S9O. That ends Sunday ball playing in Fort Wayne. Patents were granted Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows: T. Briggs, South Bend, pulley; Christian D. Cowgill, Terre Haute, permutation padlock; T. Darnell, Indianapolis, gate; Henry Holiensbe, Kingston, wire fence; B. Langraf, South Bend, mechanism for reversing motion and overcoming dead centers; Wm. N. liumely, Laporte, friction clutch. Joseph Fogel, aged twenty, and Miss Laura Crawley, aged twenty-two, were arrested at Muncie on the 28th on a charge of kidnaping, preferred by the parents of Addie Campbell, aged fifteen, who claims that they decoyed her to Anderson. All parties formerly resided at Greencastle. Mrs. James Carter, colored, of New Albany, in to extinguish the flames in which her two daughters were enveloped, was terribly burned about tbe waist and one of her arms was so badly roasted that it will have to be amputated. One child difed, and there is doubt whether tbe mother and remaining child will recover.

The Grand Lodge F. and A. M. convened at Indianapolis in 69th annual session on the 2Tth, Thos. D. Long, of Terre Haute, in the chair. The report showed continued prosperity. The Grand Treasurer, Martin H. Rice, reported a balance of $18,175.67 on band. Wm. B. Smytbe, Grand Beera-

tary, reported cash receipts, including balance on hand last year, $37,086. 98, and the expenditure*, $23,911.29. The. Johnstown flood sufferers fund wa552,558.45; ar.( disbursements to the Clay county miner: $8,705.85. There are at present 22,896 affiliating Master Masons in the State. Thl present number of chartered lodges is 464, and the average membership 51. Terre Haute Lodge, No. 19, has 325 members, and is the largest lodge in the State. A drowned man found on the falls Saturday evening, has been proven to be Wiley Bryant, of Jeffersonville. For six months he had been mysteriously missing, and the drowned man was identified by a button in his collar. At the time he disappeared he was affected with typhoid fever. Without donning his street apparel he fled from his bed chamber and had since been unheard from.

On last Thursday night the house of W. C. Walkup, of Crawfordsville, was robbed of $55. Suspicion was at once directed against two men who claimed to be horse traders. These men were followed to Frankfort, where they were arrested on Saturday night. They gave the names of Johhson Garret and Clarence Hudson. The sum of $6 and two watches were se cured, and a horse which had been bought with part of the stolen money.

A singular and fatal accident occurred atUrbana, Wabash county, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Lucy Berger and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Berger, were out driving, each with her two children. The horse, heretofore a gentle one, suddenly began kicking, and its hoof, striking one of the children, who sat just behind the dashboard, on the skull, crushed it in, causing fatal injuries. The second kick of the animal struck the two-year-old child of Mrs. Bergen on the temple, and it also is mortally wounded. Both are now lying at the point of death. The viciousness of the animal is inexplicable.

Five weeks ago the Rev. G. W. Jeffrey, pastor of a church at Yankeetown, was married to Miss Minnie Wheeler,a teacher in the public schools. Minnie was pretty and popular, and the wedding was tha event of the season. Three weeks aftet marriage, to the horror of the young husi band and astonishment of the whole neighborhood, the bride gave birth to a baby boy. Jeffrey became frantic and charged several of the young men of the place with conspiriiu: to ruin him, and the disgraced wife swore out a warrant for the arrest of Lewis Tay ior,the best man at the wedding, charging him with the paternity of thechild. He proposed to call in all the young men of the place to prove the girl’s lack of virtue. Many hi ve fled; others are going. Taylor isunder SI,OOO bond and will fight to the bitter end to prove his innocence. Six weeks ago Mrs. John Smith, wife of a dairyman, who lives two miles from Ft. Wayne, fractured her left leg. She was plaoed in bed by her husband and left without the care of a physician until last Friday, when the woman gave birth to a child, which still lives. The doctor’s attention was called to the condition of the fractured limb, which was then black as far as the hip-joint. On Saturday the physicians decided that amputation was necessary, but the husband objected and would not let them perform the operation. On the 28th it was found that blood-poison-ing had set in, and the death of the unfortunate woman is soon to follow, There is much excitement in the neighborhood over the man’s brutal treatment of his wife, and a criminal prosecution will probably follow.

Conners ville is .all. Ablaze with excitement over thq arrest of George S. Taylor I on the horrible charge of making lustful assaults upon his own daughters. This inhuman conduct has been going on for years, and they were compelled to keep quiet by threaliHbr - murder. The third daughter, Laura, a little past seventeen years of age, has filed two charges against him—one of criminal outrage when she was only fourteen years of age, and another an attempt to commit a criminal outrage. She has been the victim of his inhuman lusts numbers of times, and has been intimidated against revealing the horrible truths by threats of murder. Others of bis daughters have also been assaulted by him. He has taken indecent liberties with all of them, except those who are too young for his hellish purpose. Tuesday ho forced his eleven-year-old daughter into a room, and because of her youth failing to accomplish his purpose, he threatened to kill her if she reported on him. The child related the affair to her motheiyand she, almost wild and crazed with the terrible outrage,proceeded against him as above. Taylor is not a* drinking man, but a wild, brutal looking fellow,and there are some indications of an unbal anced mind.

Among the prisoners received at the Prison South, on the 26th, was David M. Cavender, of Versailles, one of the prominent men of Ripley county, and still quite wealthy. A strange story is connected with his trial and condemnation. In February last he visited Versailles, and at the supper hour it is claimed that he entered the apartments of Charles Johnson. County Recorder,and concealed himself under the bed, his purpose being to rob him. Johnson discovered his presence shortly after he had retired, and upon attempting to | strike a light to identify the intruder i Cavender assailed him with a snife, and tnere vas a desperate struggle, during which Cavender was himself wounded by his own knife. After Cavender made his escape he was identified by tho injuries self-inflicted In his struggles with Johnson, and he was also charged with the theft of a pocket book containing S4O. Influential friends. came to his assistance and on trial he claimed that Johnson was attacked by a tramp, and even Johnson triad to shield him, but the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and placed the punishment at two years imprisonment. Cavender served two terms as Surveyor of Ripley county, and he was once a candidate for the Legislature. He is noted as A mathematician, being considered second only to Prof. Jordan, of th State University, and he Is on excellent musician. He belongs to an old Quaker family, and was reared in affluence, re celviog n classical education.