Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Hartford City, will soon have a gas plant. Warsaw .wants the Gold Spike railway shops. Marion ladies are organizing a humane society. . - Midge is destroying the Jackson county oats-crop. Car wheel works will soon be located at Anderson. ..—^ •There are fifty-four life convicts in the Prison North. Highway robbery is unpleasantly common near Elkhart. The complaint against the census enu meration is general. , , A foreign syndicate is trying to purchase the Bedford quarries. Richmond will-celebrate the Fourth with a parade of its industries. Sparrows have been ravaging wheat fields near Jeffersonville.

Anderson has secured the Ditridge glass factory, of New Brighton, Pa. Burglars stole $36 from-the J. M. & I. depot at Peru at noon on the 20th. A dangerous type of flux is reported in Madison township. St. Joe county. The storm, Saturday night, did great damage in many parts of the State. Contract has been awarded for a new school house at Peru, to cost $17,500, Three magnificent steamers are being built at Madison for traffic on the Missouri. Burglars plundered the safe in JohnT. Nohrman’s store, at Ireland, securing $l5O. Wheat fields in Boone county have developed wonderfully under the recent rains. Farmers near Hortonviile are using the oil from the well therefor painting pur poses.

Daniel Culp, of Huntington, was frightfully stung while trying to hive a swarm of bees. Terre Haute is advocating the removal of front tences. What will the young ladies lean on. J. D. Carter, Jr., of Wabash, presented Purdue University with a fine blooded Jersey bull. The postoffice at Woodbury, N. J., was robbed on the 20th. One of the burglars was captured. The 128th and 130th Indiana regiments will hold a joint reunion at Logansport, beginning Aug. 6. Albert Houston, while unloading stone for a bridge abutment near Gosport, fell into the water and was drowned.

Hugh Sheeks, of Orange county, swallowed carbolic acid, mistaking the drug for paregoric, and narrowly escaped death. Hiram Marling, who settled in Jackson county seventy-one years ago, and was one of its valued citizens, died Sunday of la grippe; Burglars secured $1,600 in securities, three watches and SSO in cash by cracking the safe of V. D. Miller, at Laporte, on the 17tb. The Farmers’ Alliance of Greene county has passed strong resolutions demanding a reduction in fees and salaries of public officers. Burglars robbed the safe of V. D. Miller’s saloon at Lagrange; carrying off $1,500 in notes and mortgages,“three watches and S7O cash. Aurora is proud of a turkey gobbler which hatched fourteen turkeys out of sixteen eggs, and, is taking great care of the brood. The oil field as developed in Blackford county is six miles long and four miles wide, and the w6lls average twenty-five barrels daily.

Jasper Hill, offFrankfort,under sentence for twelve years to the penitentiary, attempted suicide, Wednesday evening, with broken glass, but failed. Lottie, the’ soven-y ear-old daughter of Adolph Geisman, of Ft. Wayne, was im paled on an iron fence, jjn the 18th, while playing in an elevated position. S. L. Rowan, recently sent to the Indian, apolis Work House for petit larceny, was formerly a prosperous citizen of Monticello. His downfall is due to drunkenness. Mont. Welch, of Derby, committed suicide on Saturday by blowing out his brains. Several years ago Welch killed his father, for which he was sentenced to prison. While Royal Cathcart and Miss Sugbee, of Bristol, were driving homeward after nightfall, they were met by highwaymen who robbed them of their possessions. Many Terre Haute saloonkeepers refuse to pay the new $230 license, doubting the validity of the ([ordinance. The marshal proposes to close them up, and a hard fight is anticipated. :.L ... Miss Etta Rollins, of Laporte, who swallowed paris green some days ago, died Sunday. Remarks derogatory to her character and emanating from idle gossip was the inciting cause.

Two men were killed in a [railway acrice it on the Baltimore & Ohio, at Child’s Station, on the 20th. Among the injured were Bishop J. J. Keane, rector of Catholic University, Washington. Charles L. Cla> ke, of Wolcott, committed suicide this week, the result of two unhappy marriages and illegal complica tions with a third woman. He was aged forty-eight, and an ex-soldier. David Spurgeon and Jacob Fiddler Were arrested for criminally assaulting Mrs.' Aun Williams, of Edinburg, and in the trial Mr. Fiddler was acquitted, while Spurgeon was placed under bonds. Phillip and Josephine Fraglich, of Fort \Vayne[ are under arrest, charged wtth abusing a twosyear-oid son of the woman by a former marriage, and with attempting to drown the little one in the canal. The late David A. Jones, of Chicago, formerly an Indianian, bequeathed SIO,OOO with which to remodel the Presbyterian Church at Rockville, already a handsome structure. The work will soon begin. Johnnie Shortle, aged seventeen, one of the promising young men of Kokomo, was drowned on the 14th while bathing in the river at that place. At the last meeting of the Knights of St. John Society he was elected President

John Wilmer cashed his pension check at Cannclton, and soon after disappeared. Several days later his dead body was found in the river, with his money gone and wounds upon the bead, indicating that he had been murdered. Michael Mills, of a welNto-. do farmer, went to bed in good health on Saturday night. About midnight hid wife was awakened by his loud “snoring.” She is

spoke to him about it dud then went to sleep again. In the morning, when she awoke, he was cold in death. Seeing a .dangerous looking storm was approaching, a merchant of Anderscm gathered his family about the cellar door, then he climbed upon the roof of his house and ordered that when he gave the word his wife and children must disappear like m01e5.,..-The storm sheered off, »nd the merchant was prevented from making bis experiment a shining success. “ ™ Gottlied Seifert, of Terre Haute, died Thursday evening under peculiar circumstances. On the sth inst. he was slightly injured in a runaway accident, and a dog licked a bruise on his hand while it was still fresh. While he continued at work until Sunday. last, his condition grew worse, and finally he was confined to his bed, the symptoms indicating hydrophobia, tetanus or lockjaw. He suffered untold agony. There is a belief that his death was due to absorption of saliva while the dog was licking his injured hand. Mine Inspector Williams, of the third anthracite inspection district, has just completed a table of the operations of the coal mines for the last twenty years. During that time there were 110,352,715 tons of coal mined. The smallest output was in 1871, when 3,000,000 tons were mined, and the largest in 1888. when 8,684,403 tons were taken from the earth. There were 1,204 men killed in the many disasters during the twenty years, the largest number killed being 1884—87. The smallest number of tons, of coal mined for each life lost was 91,655 tons in 1886. The largest number of day 9 worked any year was 233 in 1888.

Jasper Hill, the elder of the notorous Hill brothers, was given twelve year’s in the penitentiary, at Frankfort, the 18th for the part he took in the attempted robbery of old farmer Durbin, one night last May. The Hills had undertood that the old man, who is eighty years old, had secreted about his house SBOO. The attempted robbery was made known to the officers and the gang was captured while the leader was holding a revolver in the old man’s face. The others will probably escape with a lighter sentence. The same evens ing of his arrest Hill made an effort to end his existence by swallowing pounded glass. The most disastrous n'railroad wreck known to Anderson occurred just east of the crossing of the Big Four and Panhandle r illroads on the evening of the 18th. Wha over the cause, thirteen cars were suddenly jerked out of the west-bound merchant freight of forty cars and piled in a promiscuous, splintered heap on the track and at either side, resulting in the destruction of many thousand dollars’ worth of property, including cars, pianos, furniture, buggies, lime, powder, paper, wire, nails, etc. But one person was injured, a brakeman, who was only slightly hurt iu jumping from the train.