Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Diphtheria prevails at Elkhart South Bend will build a new $30,000 hotel. There Is an epidemic of acute sore throat in Indianapolis. There was a light fall of snow at Valparaiso Tuesday. *■,, Milton, a Mormon, is in jail at Terre Haute on a charge of bigamy. The Farmer’s Alliance of Shelby county held a meeting Friday ftnrt pay?Prd resolutions condemning the McKinley bilk Hon, Emery P. Beauchamp, of Terre Haute, whose vagaries have been exciting attention for some time, ha* been formally declared insane. —u The daughter of William Whillington, six miles distant from Columbus,bumed to death during the absenoe es her parents. She was aged seven. Trinity M. E. Chureh, at New Albany, was dedicated on Sunday, and the cost of the building, aggregating $37,500, was met by the congregation. 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. , Grand Meadows, the largest hay farm in northern Indiana, containing 9,000 acres, was set on fire by hunters, on the 2d,burning up 13,000 tons of hay. Total loss, $90,000. Henry Cook, of Goshen, while going home late on the night of the 2d, was sand' bagged and robbed, but the highwaymen overlooked $l3O in his vest pocket. Mr. Cook was badly injured. ——*==- Andrew Gustin, of Middleton, while engaged in trimming trees, accidentally fell to the ground, breaking his neck, and causing instant death. He was aged sixty) and was a man of family. An old colored man in Fayette county is in great demand at the country dances as a fiddler, but last week he created great in dignation among the lads and lassies by doubling his priee for services, He claims that “under de new bill rozzum has riz.” Mrs. A. R. Beardsley, of Elkhart, pre sen ted the city schools with flags, and tha 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. Yorktown is being scourged with scarlet fever, and the disease has become so virulent that the schools have closed and business is practically suspended. Other towns are quarantined against the village, and speakers were notified that political appointments at that place had been cancelled. A new counterfeit S2O silver certificate is in circulation. Many of them have been passed in Ohio and perhaps in this State. Treasury Agent Carter and his assistants have been warned to keep an eagle eye open for them. They are of the check letter "B” and are supposed to be all of the numbers B 2,774,258 X, Another autopsy was made on the 2d on the remains of T. J. Blount, the patient murdered at the Richmond asylum. The autopsy was made by Dr. W, B. Fletcher, of Indianapolis, and Dr. T. J. Bowles, of Muncie. It was. discovered that eight ribs were broken and that his heart, liver, kidneys, brain and lungs were examined and contributed in no way to his decease. The Ft. Wayne Press mournfully admits that Ft. Wayne is the “Eldorado of the confidence men, tthimble-rigger, bunco steerer, watch snatcher, jewelry thief, show window smasher, bedroom climber, safoblowei’, knifing marauder, jrazor carrier, binder and gagger, check swindler, forger and counterfeit money passer, net to speak of thieves, thieves, thieves.” - Wednesday morning the Governor and he Secretary and Treasurer’ of State elected General Mahlon D. Mason, of Crawfordsville, a member of the Board of Soldiers’ Monument Commissioner's, to succeed S. B. Voyles is a Democratic candidate for Cir cnit Judge in a Democratic district, and therefox'e, i-esigns his placo upon the Monument Commission. Edward Houck, of Sullivan,who was assaulted by White Caps, died Monday, and his wife is unable to give sufficient description of his assailants to warrant an arrest. Houck abused bis family, and had been .warned to desist. Last Friday night while brandishing a hatchet over his wifes head, be was seized by masked men, and he offered such resistance that ho was struck down and left lying in an unconscious condition. He never rallied. A snow storm began at Logansport on the 29th at 9 p. m., continuing until 10 o'clock the next morning. Tho weather turned cold during the -night and - ice formed on the streets in various places The weather became warmer shortly after daylight, while the air was filled with large snow flakes so thick that it was impossible to see an object across thestreet. This is the earliest snow that has visited this section for years, and an early winter is predicted. A young man of smooth appearance went to South Bend and registered at an hotel as Arthur S. Ketn. Living thoi'e is A. S. Kern, an old and wealthy business man. Shortly after the young man’s arrival consignments of boots and shoos began arriv ing for A. S. Kern, and there were numerous telegrams of inquiry, also. Before the senior Kern could head off the consignments, goods valued at several thousand dollars had arrived, by which time the young man was on the missing list. The lightning-rod ..fraud has gathered several victims in Hendricks county with his double contract His plan is to agree to furnish rods and points for a fixed sum, say £lO. Before the contract is signed he becomes generous, and says he will put up the rods for less, for $35, perhaps. This second price is written on the contract which the victim signs. The job completed, the agent presents a bill for s7s— for furnishing the rods, and $35 for putting them up. Several persons have been caught by the trick. Thirty-two students of the University of Notre Dame hare left, out of sympathy for two of their number, who were ex. polled for drunkenness. The boys put their heads together Saturday and decided on coming to the city in the evening for a ark. They did so and the time they had

s shown by the result. Leaving the university without permission is 6tritotly against the rules, and rules at Notre Dame were mnde to be observed. The faculty, hearing of the acts of the; students, held a meeting, and the two boy? who had been drunk The rest threatened to leave also Mid the faculty told them to go; that discipline would be pre' served at any cost The young men left and most of them have been spending their time in South Bend. Many were without money and pawned the tickets furnished them by President Walsh to get home for small sums. Some of tho students have tried to get back into the university, but they will not be received, at least for the present. President Walsh is firm and will have strict discipline. On July 19 last Henry Breen, of Ft. Wayne, then a brakeman on the Wabash railroad, while coupling cars at Cecil, 0., was caught between the steps of the caboose and a saw-log which extended over a flat car and his skull was fractured. For Weeks he hovered between life and death, but his strong constitution saved him and he was finally able to be out, though his skull was cracked in several places. It was also found that the oords of the left eye were paralyzed. This affliction grew worse, and two weeks ago Breen went to Springfield, 111., before the convention of Illinois surgeons, which was in annual session in that city. They pronounced his case aneurism of the eye, and the only case on record. One fracture of his skull just above the eye grew wider and there was danger of a blood vessel bursting, which would cause instant death. By holding the ear to the fracture of his skull one could distinctly hear the pulsations of the. brain. Breen was placed under the influence of opiates and an iron collar was placed around his-, neck, to which is attached a thumb-screw, which was pressed over the orbit to stop the rush of blood. The physicians pronounced his case hopeless. Breen still' walks the streets, however, and with his fine physique looks the picture of health. He has had innumerable Offers to place himself before medical colleges for examin ation and study of his remarkable case. It is believed that Breen is the only man alike who wears a collar made in a blackrnith shop. Patents weye'ailowed Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows: H. R. Alien, Indianapolis, operating chair; C. W. Golton, In--dianapolis, machine for preserving spokes; E. Dawson, Terre Haute, shaft lubricator; J. H. Greenstreet, Indianapolis, curing meats; T. P. Hcineman, Gonnersville, pocket case; C. R. Hinkol, Sullivan, bill or paper file: H. F. refx-ig err, tor ear; F, W. Miller and J.J. Newman Elkhart, couch roll for paper making machines ; O. C. Peri-in, Stone Bluff, mower; F. N. Potter, Elkhart, folding bedstead; J. R. Stunkard, Brazil, machine for manipulating the nuts of tire bolts; J. S. Thompson, Indianapolis, game; H. A. Vogel, Fort Wayne, organ action ; C. BWanamakor, Indianapolis, weighing attachment for cars.