Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Supreme Court resumed its sessions on the 16th. John Ink, es Fairmount, was kicked by a horse and killed. The O. & M. ticket office at Seymour was robbed of S2B on the 16th. J. S. Todd, cf Knox county, planted planted thirty acres in Russian sunflowers this year and realized $63 per acre on the crop. R. T. McDonald and other capitalists, of Ft. Wayne, propose to erect a large artificial ice plant in that city, the new company putting in John Swanson, of Jackson county, was crushfid to death 'By a bull which he had dehorned, and his wife, coming to his assistance, was badly injured. McClelland Jacobs a prominent young school teacher of Tipton county; was killed while cutting a bee tree. The falling tree struck him, completely burying him. The people's ticket, of Henry county, formed by a coalition of the Farmers’ Alliance, Labor Unions and other elements, includes John C. Hudleson for Representative, and T. B. Hunt for Joint Representative. There is. but one saloon in Bringhurst, and on the night of the 18th a raid Was made on it by a crowd, and the barrels and kegs rolled out and liquors spilled on the ground. Bottles decanters; jugs and -glasses were broken into atoms amttbrbwn into the street, and the place completely broken up. Benjamin Edgington, of Marshtown, threatened to kill a young lady who had jilted him, and then attempted suicide with” apeu knife,Which was a lamentable failure. Then he tried to throw himself under a moving train, but was hauled out. The sheriff now has him in charge, and thinks it is a case of poor whisky. The American Starch Works, of Columbus, which originally cost 1290,000, and which has lain idle fbr the past two years, began operations again Monday, giving employment to nearly two hundred men and women. It is one of the largest starch plants in the country and the only one not in the great starch combine. Patents were issued to Indianians Tuesday as follows: W. H. Bonwell, Brookville, wheel cultivator: O. T. Conger, Indianapolis, water heater; C. G. Conn, Elkhart, musical wind instrument; I. Hogeland, Indianapolis, churn; W. J. Kerb, Ft. Wayne, temporary binder; D. E. Reagan, Terre Haute, nut lock; N. Smith, Logansport, lift pump.

The Midland depot at Noblesville was built upon leased ground, and last Saturday the lease expired and the building became the property of the owner of the ground, who was about to rent it for. a store room, when early last Sunday mornj ing the railroad compauy, with a gang of men appropriated it and removed it to -their own ground. •*A bloody fight occurred between two families in Knox county on the 18th. The vendettas was composed of four of the Blevins and four of the Meners. The Meners objected to the Blevins going through their wheat field. On the date above named all the parties engaged in a pitched battle. Rufus Blevins was killed and four others of the combatants wer injured. Populations of the following cities and towns are given: Aurora, 3,928, an increase of 507; Columbus, 6,705, an increase of 1,892; Greensburg, 3,581. an increase of 443; Jeffersonville, 11,274, an increase of 1,917; Lawrenceburg, 4,280, an increase of 338; Madison, 8,923, an increase of 22; New Albany, 21,000, an increase of 4,577; Seymour, 5,337, an increase of 1,087. There is trouble in the Colnmbus schools with the colored children. The trustees provided a teacher as usual, also a separate rooarsuch as the trustees have provided for several years, but the colored children werqordered home by some of their own people, and refused to accept the school privileges offered them. The teacher, Miss Rosa Slater, a high-school graduate;was ready to instruct the children, but they came not. The trustees were notified some time ago that the colored people wanted a separate building and a colored teacher, but the request was not complied with, and the colored children remain out of school. At Muneie; on the 16th. the jury re turned a verdict of guilty in the case where MrsTFannie Wiley, of Indianapolis, and Doane Nichols and Ret Shetterly, of Muncie, were charged with abducting Miss Media Waters from Muncie to the W T iley woman’s house in Indianapolis for nefarious purposes: fixing the punishment of the first named at four and a half years imprisonment in the State: penal institu** tion, and sentencing the last mentioned, whp turned State’s evidence, to thirty days inThe verdict meets with general approval. Morton Shoecraft, colored, one of the witnesses for the.defense, by whom they tried to show the bad character of the Waters girl. fled this morning, as there were threats of lynching. The Wavers ■ girl committed suicide after she had been brought from Indianapolis by her father. She was aged sixteen.

The judge of the Montgomery Circuit Court this week appointed Henry D. Van., cleave guardian for Si. P. Hallett, who is now in the Insane Asylum, This was done in order 'to secure his release from the asylum. He resides hear Bluff Mills, Montgomery county. A few months ago .he felt somewhat melangholy. and was persuaded to ask to be sent to the asylum for treatment. He had a commission examine him, and the result was that he was admitted to the asylum. Three months ago he was granted a furlough of sixty days, and came home, where he worked upon his farm. About the time for him to return, one night, his father-in law, John Newkirk nd his two sons and a man named Etter, came to the Aome of Hallet and forcibly placed him in a wagon took him to a train and back to Indianapolis, where he was placed again, fn the asy him. He did not like this manner of returning, arid’ .he wrote to his wife asking her to come to Indianapolis and helpsecure his release. He was doing the work of an attendant, and was not insane. His wife wrote and said that she would not help secure his release. He was indignant at her answer and wrote back that if bqr,actions were influenced by the men who forcibly’ brought him back, he “would make the

country too hot for there to live in.” This letter was taken to Superintendent W’-’sht, and he was warned not to release H diet because he was a dangerous man. riallet i applied for a release, which was refused upon the grounds that he had made threats. Habeas corpus proceedings are to be begun at once, and many interesting factA are to be brought to light. ;