Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Muncie is said to bare a man who relishes ttais.and he is no Chinaman either. Joseph Howell, of Scottsburg, who shot Frank Richey and fled the State, has been captured in Chicago. I “Father” Beatop, of Huntington, a very spry old gentleman, claims to be one-hun-dred and-nine years old. • - James Grantham, in leveling a sand ; hill on hjs farm in Adams county, found several Indian skeletons, a lot of pottery and several implements of war. Frank Claypool, who has been elected State Secretary of the F. M. B. A . is a farmer of Delaware county and editor Of the Farmers’ Record; A peculiar disease has broken out among the swine of Marion township, St. Joseph ' county. No one has yet been able to tell its nature. Ope farmer has lost five good hogs. j While Joel Hollingsworth and Charles Rice were hunting quail on the Indiana border near Dana, Rice accidentally shot Hollingsworth in the face, destroying both eyes. The flouring mill owned by J. R. Phillips and W. A. Oliphant, at Union, hear Petersburg, was destroyed by fire this week, causing SIO,OOO loss, with $6,500 insurance. Joseph Van Buskirk, employed in the rod mills at Anderson, while standing at his-reel,-was struck by a red hot rod, which passed entirely through his thigh, crippling him for life. South Bend manufacturing Industries had thirty five representatives at the St. Louis Fair, and there was not a city in the country better represented than this Indi ana home of industry. Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Gister, of Peru,. Wednesday attended the burial of their child, who d.ed of diphtheria, and upon returning home they found a second one had also died of the same disease. James Varinata, an employe of the Lesh Manufacturing Company, of Warsaw, fell against a band-saw Friday afternoon and was frightfully cut about the face and head, and his right arm was almost severed from his body. , A couple were married at the Alabama State Fajr Friday at Birmingham in the presence of 10,000 people, and then took a a bridal trip in a monster balloon. The State Fair people gave the couple $250 and they also received many presents. Cyrenus Johnson, of Tippecanoe, accompanied Willie Tinney, his grandson, on a hunting expedition, anc| in his enthusiastic efforts to shoot a rabbit the youngster broughtdown his grandfather by a load of shot which took effect in his legs. At Cambridge City, Ind., on the 21st, Nelson, the Maine phenomenon, knocked a half second off his mile mark made at Terre Haute, and set the world’s stallion record at2:10%, where neither Axtell nor Stamboul Is likely to touch it for a year, at least. Mrs. A. R. Beardsley, of Elkhart, pre sented 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 Muncie Herald predicts (if the gas holds out) that within twenty-five years Muncie, Marion, Kokomo, Anderson, Hartford City. Elwood, Alexandria and all the smaller villages will be one continuous city, made so by manufacturing Establish' meats which will come into the gas belt. The Peru Natural-gas Company is now the possessor of a wonder ful gusher, tyhich Thursday night was abandoned as worthless. During the night gas burst forth with tremendous power and in such quantities that all efforts to chain it down have proven futile. The noise is heard miles away. After long neglecting her coal interests Knox county has at last been aroused, arid will soon be one of the best producing coa counties in the State. Vincennes already has one good mine in operation, with another shaft soon to follow. Every town in the county now has a coal shaft, and the coal is of the finest quality. E. M Stone, a prominent and influential farmer living four miles northwest of Connersville, was attacked by a mad bull, near his residence and badly bruised and gored by the .nfuriated animal. The brute would undoubtedly have killed him on the spot had not his wife and daughter had ccurage enough to drive him off. Omei Thompson, a “life timer” in the Prison South, is dying of consumption. Some years ago he joined Jack White in killing Jacob Johnson, near Salem, and twelve months ago he headed a daring break from prison, and would have gotten off entirely; but an inquisitive dog smelled out his hiding place.

In tne Circuit Court of Bartholomew county Judge Keys rendered a decision setting aside the will of Mrs. Bolton, which involved the title tosoo acresof real estate, worth $40,0U). It Was the intention of Mrs. Bolton to place the title to the land in her two grand-daughters, but the wist was so poorly worded that it would not stand. The F. M. B. A. Assembly of Vanderburg county has adopted resolutions calling for the entire protection of quails because of their value in destroying chintz bugs and other destructive insects, and demanding that the Legislature forbid killing of them at any season of the year, and also make it a misdemeanor for any man to shoot or carry a gun on the Sabbath day. J. H. Bass, of Ft. Wayne, has stocked his private park with buffalo, deer and other animals, which are suffered to run atiarge. Ou tbe&d, while William Hochsietter, one of the laborers, was crossing the park, he was attacked by one of the bucksand tossed into the air. Other workmen ran to his relief and he was finally! rescued, but not until he was badly injured. “ 1 •■ Patents were issued to Indlanainventors on the 21st as follows: A. A- Anderson, Indianapolis, pocket for fare conveyors; H. C. Beardsley, Michigan City, latch; W H. Conner, Jndiapapolis, mail pouch; C W. Cotton, Indianapolis, spoke facing m* chine; T. Dugsdale, South Bend; drff 1 equalizer; J. H. Forest. Marion, type..writing machine; R. G. Guptill, Pendleton, glass pipe casting machine: O. H. Haaseiman, ludianapdia, election booth;

E. D. Hostler, Gosrien, feed roller mechs anism: J. Hutchins. Kendallville, wire tightener; W. S. Magers and F. P. Parker Goshen, split pulleys; M. Manner, Lebanon, check punch; G. W seat: G. Phi lion, ■’•awjtlts. pulley; A. H. Hasse, Evansville, gate for drawbridges; G. W. Schaefer and F. Mehnert, Goshen, seed distributing disk; F.Scholes, Huntington, grading machine. William Bright eloped with Gerdrude aged fourteen, daughter of Joseph Bricker, of Shedtown, and they were married in Grant bounty, Bright bribing a man to make affidavit on which the license was issued. Returning to Delaware Bright was arrested for abduction, and he has been sent back to Grant county for trial, while the child-wife has brought suit for divorce. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Osterman, Stringtown, attempted to drive to Howell’s Station,but while passing along the road where a deep ravine lined each side, thej’ overtook two hunters who were slpwly trudging "along and who disputed their passage. Finally Osterman ’succeeded in passing, whereupon one of the fellows fired Upon the occupants, severely wounding Mrs. Osterinan in the back arid arms. Mr. Osterman escaped unhurt. Friday morning, at 9 o’clock, after the arrival of the south-bound passenger train, on the Indianapolis division of the L. E. & W.,i at Tipton, a terrible fight occurred on the depot platform between conductor John O’Brien and a passenger, who had boarded the train at Kokomo, c alming be hadqiaidhis fair to the brakeman. Revolvers were drawn, and nodoubt some one would have-lost his life had it not been for the timely interference of unexcitable persons. The Evansville Courier offers a reward of $25 to any person injured or killed in any railway accident at any time, provided he has a copy of the Courier in his possession at the time of receivingthe injury; the reward holding good only on trains running out of Evansville. It also agrees to pay $5 per week to any employe in an Evansville manufacturing establishment who is a regular subscriber, and who is disabled while at work, the benefit to coir tinue for five weeks. Mrs. Alvira Wells, of Ft. Wayne, who died two years ago, bequeathed her prop, erty to her sister, who afterward died, and the estate passed to the care of an executrix. Mrs. Julia A. Scott then filed a claim on a note for $3,0J0 as compensation tor having named her daughter in honor of the eldest of the deaq sisters. This note bore the signature of Alvira Wells. The defense alleged it was forged,“but after a sharply contested trial a jury has awarded the claimant $4,765. St. M.ary’s-of-the-Woods was founded by the Catholic sisters, six in number,fifty years ago, and they settled in the woods near Terre Haute and erected a little log cabin. A magnificent educational institute now crowns the original site. Of the founders. Sister Olympiade and Sister Mary Xavier are still living. The original sisterhood of six, now numbers nearly live hundred, and they hava fifty mission schools scattered through Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, with one recently established at Boston, Mass. August Brentane, Democratic Election Commissioner of Vanderburg county, has protested against the name of Colonel J. S. Wright being printed on the election tickets, claiming that of the 16 names signed to the petition, as required by the new law, nearly forty are in the same handwriting and fraudulent. Col. Wright is the F. M. B. A. candidate for Congress in that district, and as he has been indorsed by the Republicans the protest has caused great commotion. The effect will be, it the protest is regarded, to place his name entirely on the Republican ticket. Wednesday last three masked men went to the farm house of Mr. and Mrs. Monte i th, an a ged" co a pie livi ri g near, Orin us, in Whitley county, and compelled them to re veal tire hiding" ptaennf SBOO and other valuables secreted on the place. Before they could secure the prize, however Frank Barlow, the hired man. entered and attacked the robbers with a club, and two were driven off and the tnird was powerless in his grasp until he was disaoled by a bullet which passed throngh his shoulder. The would-be-thieves escaped, and the Monteith family have banked their wealth What is known as the “French Settles ment,” three miles distant from New Albany, has been noted for its wickedness with hoodlums in control and lawlessness rampant. Within the past year, however, there has been a great religious |awakening in that neighborhood, which had it. origin in the evangelistic labors of Harry Mix and Joseph Duvall, young men ol New Albany, and as a result there is a pr; sperous church otganization,a flourishing Sunday school, a handsome housb worship and one of the best public in the county. Last Sunday fifty-five converts were baptized.