Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Twelve Purdue students were fined sl3 each for locking up a professor three hours in the dormitory. Frank Devill, a Ft. Wayhe brakeman. was thrown from his train, on the Bth, and killed, the wheels cutting his head off. Republicans prqposc..it is said_ to enter several prosecutions at Jeffersonville, for bribery at primaries. The Democrat 9 say they will retaliate; r Winslow, a small town in Parke county, Was Ky fir», on the 7th. Loss $30,000. N o water or engines could be had. A skin disease prevails in some quarters of Dubois county, which the people persist in calling small-pox, although the physicians assert the contrary. James Ballard, of Hillham, while out driving, was seized by epilepsy and fell with his nock in the braces of his buggy* top in such a way that he choked to death. Grand Meadows, the largest hay farm in northern Indiana, containing 9,000 acres, was set on fire by hunters, on the '2d,burning up 12,000 tons of hay. Total loss, too.ooo. Frank Keller, of Linton, accidentally shot his wife; last week. He was [cleaning hisrevolver, which he thought was empty, when it was discharged. His wife “soon afterlied. During the excitement Incident to a religious revival in the Melton school house, near English, John R. Wellman fell into a swoon which lasted four hours before he could be revived, A number of others indulged in short flints. David Clay became drunk arid laid down cn the street at Middlebury, to take a sleep. During the night rats or hogs chewed his earsinto shreds. Last winter he had both feet amputated for having been frozen while drunk. A party of eight people from Bedford, consisting of Mrs. H. T. Nightingale and son Harry, Miss Carrie Dorsey, Miss Mary Owens and three brothers, and Maggie McGill, nine years old, all of whom were bitten by a rabid dog, are at Terre Haute trying the virtues of the Peiper madstone * The funeral of Mrs. James Murdock,wife of the Warden of the Northern Prison,was the most largely attended burial ever wit* nessed in Lafayette. Mrs. Murdock resided there for many years and-endeared herself to all the people by her Christian life and liberality to the poor. Father Blakeman, of Michigan City, preached the funeral discourse at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. About 5 o’clock on thc morning of the sth a large barn belonging to Wm. Getty, who resides in the edge of Jefferson, was destroyed by fire, Eight horses and two cows perished in the flames,besides 800 bushels of wheat, 800 bushels of corn, several tons of hay and many farming implements. The fire is said to have originated from a lantern which Mr. Getty used in feeding. The loss is estimated at $4,00C ; insurance SSOO. - While the Democrats at Fairmount were celebrating their ’victory the procession was attacked by a negro named Thomas Udley, shooting recklessly into the crowd lifyirigabout him wildly with a club. Cornelius Pan'e was fatally shot. Two . ethers received bullet wounds, and Udley was shot in the back and head hut not seriously injured. Udley was finally overpowered and jailed. He and Pane had quarreled before the riot began. Last night while going homo from prayer-meeting at Mount Olivo Church, in Burt township, ten miles east of Washington, Ind., James Hopkms.agedsixteen, and Adrian McCracken, aged seventeen, became involved in a quarrel over some trifling matter. Hopkins drew a revolver and shot McCracken, killing him almost instantly. The parent of both are church members, and are highly respectable peo pie. The neighborhood is all torn up over the terrible calamity. Hopkins has been' arrested and is now in jail. Sheriff Macy, of New Castle, suffered serious and painful injuries near that city On the sth, as a result ofbsing thrown from

his buggy by a runaway horse which he was driving. The horse took fright at something near the road and ran away, throwing the officer, who is a very heavy man, weighing nearly 300 pounds, violently to tho ground, breaking his shoulder and otherwise bruising him. An elderly lady, whose name could not be obtained, was driving along the road near by at the time, and her horse became frightened at the runaway and threw her out, creaking her arm and inflicting internal injuries. Judge James Brown, the manager of the Democratic-People’s cdmp&ign in Henry county, and Dr. Wm. C. Eskew, who led the bolt from the combination between the Democratic and third-party people, got into an altercation on the street, Thursday morning, which ended in a row. Hot words led to blows, the Doctor striking the Judge twice, laying his scalp open over the eye and behind the ear. Brown then drew his knife and Eskew his pistol, but they were separated before further damage was done. The affair caused much excitement and is generally regretted on account of the prominence and age of the participants. Dr. Eskew was arrested. bu>t released on bail. , , For some time past Emil Wuelfrodt, of Terre Haute, has been making night hideous to his neighbors on the East Side. Ho is in the habit of coming home tinder the influence of liquor and abusing his wife, and both of them have run into the street and roused the whole neighborhood with their cries. Recently a committee of the women of the neighborhood waited upon Wuelfrodt and warned him to desist On the night of the sth Wuelfrodt came home drunk and began his usual warfare on his wife, and the two ran out into the street. There they were met by Mrs Brueno and Melissa Heron, who were armed with horse whips. W r uelfrodt was given a fearful trouncing, and he ran to avoid further punishment. The Secretary of the State Board of Charities, Mr. Alexander Johnson, Friday afternoon submitted his report to the Board for the nineteen months of his service. It is voluminous, and, like Ml the work of that sociologist, is systematic and full of practical thing*. The number of visits Of inspection made by him has been 4JO, of which T 2 were State institutions, 11 being to Slate prisons and 18 tq.the Insane

Hospitals; Visits outside the State have been made to the institutions. All of the county and State institutions in Indiana have probably for the first time in the history of the State been inspected by one in authority. “It is a cause of profound satisfaction,” the Secretary says, .“to be able to say that the great majority of the public officers of the S tate, especially those in charge of her charitable institutions, are honorable and efficient men and women. The cruelty and avarice that existed in times past, if reports be or nover seen. There are few who are intentionally negligent. Where abuses and defects exist they:are largely due to ignorance, to byerwork, or to need of proper conveniences.?’. In; -his second round o,f county visits the Secretary found that improvements had been made. Omitting the paupers or partially supported in their own homes, the total number of persons in institutions under the State Board’s supervision was (November 30, 1859,) 4,862 instate institutions; 4,652 in county; 619 iri private; 228 in other places. . The total population of the poor asylums is about 3,150.