Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Shelbyville has 5,'300 population. Jeffersonville’s population is 25,000. Labor is in good demand at Richmond. Unofficial estimates place the population of Madison at 10,000. Miss Nettie France, of Huntington, is suing Sherman Felters, of Andrews,elaiming SIO,OOO damages for breach of promise. Hiram Marling, who settled In Jackson county seventy-one years ago, and was one of its valued citizens, died Sunday of la grippe.

The oil field as developed in Blackford county is six miles long and four miles wide, and the wells average twenty-five barrels daily. The population of Crawfordsrille is semi-offlcially announced to be 5,972, again of 921 in ten years. This does not include the numerous suburbs. According to the latest census returns South Bend has at present a population o? a little less than 22,000, The population at the last census was 13,500. Among the marriage licenses issued in Laporte county on Saturday was one to Ludinswipqwank Ferhabwalkanwarwenski and LeveninskaShumeringlapwlanski. John Lindman’s barn near Goshen was struck by lightning and consumed. Two horses perished and 1,000 bushels of wheat was destroyed. Loss, $4,000; insurance, SI,OOO.

The State veterinary surgeon decided that six flue horses belonging to Joseph Kappß, who lives five mites south of Vincennes, had glanders. Four of them were shot on the 30th. G. S. Bayless, a real estate dealer of Fort Wayne, returning home from the unveiling at Indianapolis, Tuesday evening, went to sleep on the track at the Nickelplate crossing and was killed by a train.] George Wood, of Salem Church, while driving across the Fort Wayne Railway, near Valparaiso, was struck and killed by a passing train. His sister-in-law, Mrs, ..MaiJi.-JL. -uenvor, Col.,"“Was fatally injured. —William Stoalcy, a- weed eheeper, east of Terre Haute, was caught under a falling tree Tuesday and crushed to death. He was told the day before by a fortune teller that he would be killed in tfie woods within twenty-four hours. Willis Straine, a Mormon convert from the United Brethren Church, was taken from his house in Harrison county, by White Caps and terribly whipped. A woman who lived with him as his wife was given a coat of tar and feathers . The firill has reached a depth of 2,700 feet in the Greencastle gas well, and work has stopped for want of means. An effort is making to raise funds to continue drilling to a depth of 3,500 feet. Altogether $6,100 has been so far expended without any return. While John Marshall and daughter and Mrs. William Hendrickson and two children. of Avery Station, were driving to Frankfort, a swarm of bees alighted on the horses and a dangerous runaway fol lowed. All the parties were thrown out and severely injured. ■ 7 —77 Findley S. Collins, of the Seymour Demcrat, has filed libel suits against Frank Fassold, county commissioner, and Harra D. Leeds, of the Jackson County News, claiming $5,000 damages in each case. He also threatens a suit for criminal libel. Fassold is a Republican. ‘ William Somerville, Nat Kelly, Harry Connard, James Mack, Jr., and Howard ■Craig, of Crawfordsville,played a practical joke on William Newkirk, an innocent country lad, placing him under mock arrest and subjecting him to indignities. Mr. Newkirk, Sr., is now suing the defendants for SI,OOO damages. Samuel Griffith, alias Evans, entered Wm. Brenner’s restaurant, at Evansville. Sunday evening, walked behind the counter, and, with a revolver, began in timidating the patrons. This led to a scuffle between Benner and Griffith, ending in the first napped securing the weapon and killing the unwelcome intruder. The Democratic editors, in session at Indiana Springs, were addressed by A. BLouthain, of the Logansport Pharos; Charles W. Baker, of Cincinnati, and exSenator McDonald, and a number of papers were submitted by members of the asso, ciation. In the resolutions what are known as the McKinley and Force bills were strongly condemned. The next meeting will be held at Indianapolis, January 8. A disastrous effort was made Wodnesday night to wreck the mill dam near Ovid, owned by John Farney. Rome Gilmore, a farmer, bis son Hugh and another man made a dynamite bomb of gas-pipe, inserted it under the dam and lighted the fuse. It exploded before they got out of the way, and the flying pipe was driven through the body of Hugh Gilmore, causing instant deatb. His father was seriously injured. Arrangements have just been mide for the construction of the largest drainage ditch in Indiana, except those built by State appropriation. It will cross Kosciusko, Noble and Elkhart oounties,and will be thirty miles long. The ditch will reclaim from 6,000 to 8,000 acres of valuable low lands and fertile farming country. It will cost about <£o,ooo, and tbe improved lands reclaimed will increase in value over a quarter of a million. A disastrous fire occurred in “The Owl,” a notion store at South Bend, and the cause of the same is something new in the annals of pon flag rations. A mischievous lad from a position in front of tbe store, by means of a sun glass, concentrated tbe sun’s rays upon a pile of fireworks withinTbo result was an explosion, which not only destroyed a large stock of fireworks, but damaged the general stock and blew out the plate glass front Nathan Tilberry, a farmer residing three nnies east of Ft. Wayne, had a terrible hand-to-hand encounter with a burglar on Sunday night, in vvbioh he barely escaped with his life. Tilberry was awakened by tbe burglar overturning a chair in his bedroom, and be immediately jumped up and grappled with the intruder. The latter drew a knife, and slashed Tilberry in a dozen places, one thrust going clean through his left hand. When the burglar finally got away, Tilberry had fainted from loss of blood, *nd was not sounds until

morning, it is thought he will recover. The thief secured $75 in money. On Friday afternoon J. O. Williams and Wm. Hiatt and son were returning to Crawfordsville from Alamo, Montgomery county, and were overtaken by a thunders storm. They took shelter under a tree in order to let buggy curtains. While there the tree was struck by lightoing, and the arm of Mr. Williams was paralyzed* and remained so for two hours. The son of Mr. Hiatt was insensible for several hours, and is yet suffering much paip in the bead.

Charles K. Hind, a prominent business man of South Bend, who has been addicted to the use of intoxicating drinks for the past few years, Wednesday came out in a card in the daily papers of that city, in which he confessed his weakness and takes this means of letting people know of it, so that he will not be put in the way of temptation. The card occasioned much talk, but it is all of a friendly nature. He appeals to all the citizens to aid him in his determination to keep sober. Reports made to the State Superintend ent from the various counties show that the additions to the common school fund during the past year have amounted to $82,128.49. Ol this $32,526.72 came from fines, forfeitures, etc., in the offices of county clerks; $35,681.45 from justices of the peace, and $14,455.88 from other sources. Besides this there is a small increase in the congressional fund, also. In the last four years the school fund has increased in the ways mentioned not less thnns3s9,ooo. ' ... Patents were issued to Indiana inventors Tuesday, as follows: H.C.Barlow, Xenia, rein-guard; C. Brich, South Bend, and J. W.Crise, Forest Hill, carpet-stretcher; P. C. Cross, Hammond, press; C. Culpp, South Bend, and Ludwig Gubman, Ft. Wayne, system of electrical distribution; A.. P. Hauss,New Albany,mail-bag catcher and deliverer; J. L. Humaston, Terre Haute, suspending apparatus for slaughtering; C. SET KeTer, Indianapolis, wire stretcher; R. C. Snedeker, Terre Haute, rod-packing; R, E. Stookford.South Bend, nut wrench; O’Neall Watson, Crawfordsville, corn-popper and box-opehing hatchet. The Crawford county White Caps paid a second visit to “Rev.” Willis Strain at 2 a. m. Monday, and, taking him from the house proceeded to whip him unmercifully He begged to be spared fcho torture, and stated that the only reason for his not leaving the country was because he had no money. The White Caps then contributed enough money for him and his “sister Mary” to leave for Cincinnati, which they did. The couple passed through New Albany Tuesday morning, but refused to talk. The effects of the whipping he received last week are very apparent, however, his face and neck being one mass of cuts and bruises. William Henshavv, a young man about twenty-two years old, who was engaged in the sale of agricultural implements at Joneson Station, a small town about twelve miles north of Richmond, was murdered Sunday night. He had spent the evening with Miss Bond, who resides out of the town, and started for home about 11:80. About 1 o’clock his body was found tying by the roadside, about one-eight of a mile west of her home, with a bullet through his head and another through his heart. A large amount of money that he had with him had been taken from his pocketbook. Some two weeks ago he received a “White Cap” notice not to come south of Lynn or he would be killed.