Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Potatoes are a failure in Elkhart county. MineraljgeUaAiaTe been discovered at Brownsburg. Apples will be rery scarce in Northern Indiana this fall. White’s wheelworks, at Fort Wayne, burned on the Bth. The first patient was received at the Richmond Insane Hospital Monday. The tenth district Republicans will hold their convention at Rensselaer Aug. 28. The Fifty-ninth Regiment will hold a re-union at Martinsville on September 18. Human bones found by exeavatorsgive the people of Warsaw food for speculation. The reunion of the 28th and 30th Indiana regiments was hold at Logansport Wednesday. The Hagerstown Gas Company has contracted to drill two more gas wells at a cost of $1,600. The third annual meeting of the National Bar Association was held at Indianapolis Wednesday - —J.,. - • .. ~ A child was born without a tongue to Mrs. John Fulford, in Morgan county. It bids fair to live. i * The Second Indiana Cavalry will hold its fifth reunion at Brazil on the 17th and 18th of September. It is estimated at Washington that the population of Indiana will be in tbe neighborhood of 2,224,822. Charles Hermann, of Indianapolis, was arrested at Reelsville, Tuesday, charged with stealing a watch. No saloons were open at Knightstown Sunday, and the citizens are in earnest about keeping up the record. Bishop Castle will preside over ttie White River conference, U nited Brethren Church which meets east of Kokomo, Aug. 13. A Sullivan county man named Spears lost an arm, near Greencastle, while murdering fish with dynamite in Eel River. After arrangements had been made for the burial of an infant child of C. Leew. eese, at Lockport, it returned to consciousness. J. Williams was arrested at Peru, Tuesday, awaiting the arrival of officers from Lafontaine, where he is wanted for horse stealing.

At Charleston the coroner’s jury in the case of Green, who killed his wife’s paramour, Ahrens, returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. Mrs. Julia Haworth, of Prairietown, died suddenly Wednesday, presumably of heart disease, but poisoning was suspected and an examination asked. - John Weisenberger, a hermit living in a swamp near Ft. Wayne, was murdered by tramps. His remains in a mutilated condition were found on the 6th. Harvey Ostrander was arrested near Vevay Wednesday and jailed at Madison, in default of S4CO bond for stealing one Conway’s horse in Kentucky. Exurn Cox, an aged farmer living near Armiesburg, Parke county, while crossing the C. &I. C. track at Leather wood, was struck by an engine 1 and killed. The Marion County Commissioners, on the sth, discussed a shortage of $4,5Q0 in the accounts of the late Christian Hauser, Democratic Trustee of Center township. Thursday morning, while Calvin Crumwell, a colored man, was working in a well naar Clermont, he was overcome by firedamp and died before assistance reached him.

Tuesday afternoon, Maggie Whitlock, of Anderson, swallowed a quantity of arsenic with suicidal intent, after quarreling with her lo ver, who threatened to leave her. Cora Kinsly, nineteen years old, living at Warsaw, suffers from hydrophobia. She was bitten three years ago. She growls* snaps, barks and makes other noises peculiar to dogs. At Carbano, Wash., an explosion of gas occurred yesterday in a mine, killing Henry J. Jones, aged thirty, and T. B. Morgan, aged thirty-seven. Thomas Will iams was badly injured. --AJStsgSifSlo League is talked of at Mancie. The towns proposed for clubs aro -Mancie, Ft. Wayne, Richmond, Indianapolis, Anderson and Kokomo, and possibly Lafayette and Logansport. A number of prominent citizens of Evansville have petitioned the council to order an election to determine whether the name of the city shall be changed to Lamasco or not. The election and change are authorized by a legislative act. William Rozell, confined in jail at New Castle, on a charge of being an accessory to the killing of Eli Ladd, tried to commit suicide by drinking a quantity of a strong solution of corrosive sublimate. He was pumped out and his life saved. Wednesday afternoon James Benneflel and Ed Brown, of Elwood, broke into John Davis’s house and stole a revolver and some hooks. About 8 o’clock the two thieves returned and called Mrs. Davis to the ddoF and began abusing her. While this was going on Davis came home. He ordered the men away and Benneflel shot Davis through the side. Davis returned the shot, sending a bullet through Bennefid’s head. The latter died and Brown is in jail. A tornado at Hammond did considerable dafrage. The west wing of the building leased by the Chicago Axe Company was blown over and is completeiy destroyed. The roof ol the Lutheran Church was badly damaged. The G. H. Hammer Co. ice-house, at Wolf Lake, two miles away, was lifted from its foundation and destroyed, and it is reported that several people who sought shelter there were killed and injured. A man named Fisher was struck by flying timber and had his leg broken, and is internally injured. Robert Ball, Edmond Fahnestock and Douglass Dobelbower, of Lafayette, charged with forging the name of Simeon Coy, of Indianapolis, to extort money from Henry Huber, had their preliminary hearing on the 4th, and were remanded to jail in default of SI,OOO bail each, to answer to the Grand Jury. Mr. Coy was on ths wit. ness scand and pronounced the signatures forgeries. Ball, when questioned, ao knowledged that Coy had nothing to do with Ute transaction. A peculiarly sad death occured at Shelbyville on Saturday afternoon. Mias Lily Workman, the fifteen-year-old daughter of

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Workman of Sontis Elm street, was taken ill about one week previous to her demise, with a malady so i peculiar to the experienced eyes of the physicians—te-efaarge-as Ao - completely baffle their skill. The fair patient rapidly grew worse, and shortly before her death, expectorated a lot of clotted blood containing pieces of a substance which, upon examination, proved to be chewing gum. Her stomache was filled with it, and inflammation was the natural result.