Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Earl, Lowe, son of Samuel Lowe, of Ft , tVayne, burned to death on the 23d. David Huddleston, the Quaker poet, died at Dublin, Ind., on the Ist. He came to Indiana in 1815. Alexander Lane, who shot Al Hoover at jolietville, Wednesday, was arrested at Lebanon, Thursday,and was taken to No-; oiesville. While trying to arrest a supposed horse thief, Thtirsda'y morning, Deputy Marshal Bird, of Frankfort, was seriously and probably fatally shot by the man. James M. Everiy, of Vigo county, who criminally assaulted Clara B. Vancleve, an insane woman, in May last, has’ been sentenced to six .years’ imprisonment Rev. J. R. Barnes, of Marietta. 0.. and Mrs. E. T. Drew, of Evansville, were .united in marriage Monday. The groom is aged eighty-two and the bride seventyfive. As • result of a runaway accident at Fort Wayne, Mrs. Q. B. Fitch had an ankle broken and an eye knocked out; her son Roderick received internal injuries, and Miss Humes suffered a broken shoulder. “Kip” German, of Ft, Wayne, formerly foreman of the Pennsylvania. Central machine shops in that city, entered a gambling room, and while watching the play, he fell forward and died. Carman Was a man of family. Mrs. A, R. Beardsley, of Elkhart, presented the city schools with flags, and the occasion was made one of public importance, the G. A. R. posts, societies, fire department and .3,000 school children joining in a parade of the streets and other exercises. The city marshal of Washington on the 30th assaulted Frank I Sefrit for criticism of the marshal in Sefrit’s paper. The marshal had made a serious assault on a drunken man in his capacity of peace officer. There is considerable excitement over the affair. Joseph Sliney, of Largo, has brought suit for $2,000 damages against Louis Gauss, a saloon-keeper of Andrews, who -sold intoxicants to his son, a minor, by which he became intoxicated, and while attempting to reach home fell into the river and was drowned. Edward Lounsbery, of Lawrenceburg, aged fifty-five, went to Hamilton, 0., where he wedded a young bride and surrendered to her keeping money and valuable papers. Within an hour after the marriage he was thrown out of the house by the bride, who retained his estate. "The authorities of Aurora are convinced that an organized plot exists to rid the town of one “Rip” Sickles, a desperado. An attempt was made, though unsuccessful, to assassinate him on the evening o.f tho 29th. Two or more deadly assaults have been made by Thos, Cumyan, and it is believed he is the agent selected to remove Sickles.

E. H. Taylor, of Nashville, being encouraged by the merchants and farmers, erected a flouring mill, putting in improved roller process machinery. Recently he re fused to permit the Farmers’ Alliance to dictate his tolls, whereupon l a boycott was ordered. Taylor retaliated by closing his mill, and lie is now moving his machinery to a more favored locality. William A. Schreiber, the embezzling book-keeper of the First, National Bank, of Columbus, who was recently arrested in Detroit, sent for the bank officials on the 2d and turned over to them all the cash he had left, together with other property, and will thro w himself upon the mercy of the court with a plea of guilty when indicted by the grand jury, now in session. - During the meeting of the Missouri Synod of the German Lutheran Church, at Ft. Wayne, the ministers took ground against members of the church belonging to life and accident insurance companies and mutual benefit societies. The matter is now being discussed by the laity, many of whom have taken out life insurance policies which they are loath to surrender. Sharpers, Wednesday morning, fleeced -M. C. Justus, a boot and shoe merchant of Oakland City, out of $6,000 in a dice game at Evansville. Justus recently won $7,500 in a lottery, and was passing through Evansville on his way hbme from Kansas City, where he liad been to collect the money. He lost $6,000 before he realized that he was getting the worst of it. Charles Sheldan, of Evansville, visjited a floating show managed by Eugene Robinson, but when he offered to purchase a ticket he was told the price was SIOO, he being refused on account of his color. However, he was giveD permission to buy a seat in the colored gallery. Instead, he tendered SIOO, secured a reserved seat; after which he brought suit for recovery of the SIOO and also for damages under the civil rights bill. Monday a jury returned for defendant. By a mistake made by Adam Mason, of Geneva, a lemonade vender at the Jay county fair, in using chemicals to make lemonade, nine persons were poisoned, and it may cause the death of three, who are now lying in spasms. Eli Girhart and family, iohn Chapman, wife and daughter and Adam Mason are the uufortunate victims. Tartaric acid is generally used as a substitute for lemons, but it is believed that tartar emitic was sold by the druggist through mistake. A new kind of a temperance organization is on foot at Richmond, having for its central|idea the boycotting and ostracizing of the saloonkeeper and his family- Each member will weiir a symbol indicating that he is pledged not to speak to one of the ostracized class, and by so doing the organization hopes that ty making the sa-loon-keeper see that by reason of his business his wife and children are not recognized, and that his love for them will influence him to quit. Some weeks ago a man giving his name as Rev. J. H. Hill, canvassed Roanoke and surrounding towns in the interest of a weekly religious publication at Cleveland, 0., called “The Gospelfon Wheels,’’andhe secured many subscribers. He also preached several sermons, and made a very agreeable impression. All the subscriptions to his paper were cash, and tbe subscribers naturally expected to hear from the home office at once, but so far they have not realized value received, and letters of inquiry remain unanswered. At Muncie, on the 16th. the jury re turned a verdict of guilty in the case

. ~/ ' . ...r. ; *■, where Mrs. Fannie Wiley, of Indianapolis, and Doane Nichols and Ret Sbetterly, of Muncie, were charged with abducting Miss Media Waters from Muncie to the Wiley woman-’s house in Indianapolis for nefarious purposes: fixing the punishment of toe first named at four and ahaß imprisonment in- the State penal institution, and sentencing the last mentioned, who turned State’sevidence. to thirty days in jail. The verdict meets with general approval. Morton Shoecraft, colored, one of tne 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 Waters girl committed suicide after She had been brought from Indianapolis by her father. She was aged sixteen. William Carrol, aged eighteen, and Louis Griggs, a carpenter, got into a fight at New Albany On the 2d, as the result of a scuffle begun in fun, and killed each other. The two had for years been on friend l y terms. Griggs was slightly crippled. They were standing on the corner with a crowd of young men when the skylarking began. Z In the midst of it Griggs complained that Carrol had struck him unfairly. Carrol thought it was ail in fun and said there was no causo for a show of temper, Griggs became more violent at this and Carrol finally said: “If you were not a cripple, I’d whip you,” and turned away to join the crowd. Griggs stood still a moment, then quietly drew a big barlow knife, and concealing it in his sleeve joined the crowd also. Moving around as they talked till he came imediately in front of Carrol, he suddenly drew the knife and plunged it into Carrol's breast over the heart. He then fled across the street to ward a livery stable, Carrol, recovering from the shock, jerked the knife from the wound and, checking the flow of blood by grasping the wound in one hand gave chase to Griggs, Catching Griggs just at the stable door he stabbed him in the left side. Screaming frantically, Griggs fought desperately to get loose, hut Carrol held him and drawing the knife stab bed him again and again in the right side, push - ing at the knife to make sure it had gone as deep as it could. Griggs sank fainting, and Carrol fell dead at his feet. The knife had touched his heart. Griggs was taken home, but cannot recover.