Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Horten villa reports on excellent who** Outlook. The corn crop Is not on average. The public uchools at Bedford have been elosedi because of scarlejt fever among the children. —~ Dr. Willis Congdon, a young but wellknown physician of Elkhart, is mysteri. ousiy missing. The Fort Wayne street car employes are combining to reduce their hours of labor from sixteen and eighteen to twelve per Jay. Miss Kate Yunker, of Mt. Vernon, caught a burglar breaking into her moth cr’s house, and she shot off the end of his nose. Since January 690 houses have been bd gun and completed within the corporate (limits- Of Anderson. This is equivalent to fifteen new buildings every week. Hon. Leroy Templeton’s large country residence, near Parrish Grove, was de- | stroyed by fire on the night of the Sth, the family hardly escaping with their lives. Loss $4,000. Frank Shunk, of New Albany, ran a rusty nail into his foot several weeks ago. Tha wound apparently healed, but a few days ago lockjaw set in and his death occurred Wednesday. ’Squire Frimple, of Delaware county, killed a diseased hog last week, during which he scratched his arm and is supposed to have inoculated himself with virus. His death occurred on the 12th. Adam Kerr, a prominent farmer living near Lebanon, committed suicide on the 74th. The result of the recent election (he was a Republican) and some ugly rumors are the only known cause for the act. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Bennett, of Anderson, is five months old and weighs eighty pounds. He has gained an average of twelve pounds per months since his birth, and continues in excellent health. The sureties of Henry Beaver, treasurer of Huntington county from 1876 to 1878, and against whom the county recovered judgment- on shortage for $15,957.27, after long and costly litigation, have satisfied the claim. Beaver is bankrupt and several of the sureties were beggared. Henry Stockfleth, of Evansville, who was defeated by James D. Parvin, his competitor for Auditor of Vanderburg county, has filed proceedings before the commissioners, contesting the election. Mr. Parvin received4s votes, Mr. Stockfleth 4,735, while 87 were cast for Washington Stinchfield. The main issue involved is that the inspectors threw out a number of defective ballots, whieh Stockfleth claims would have elected him. It has been rumored for soine time that a large linen industry from Belfast, Ireland, has been negotiating for a location in the Indiana gas belt. Advices state that the company will locate in Madison county, and to that end land has been pur chased. The employes will make a town in themselves, as the factory will bring three thousand workmen. It is reputed to be one of the largest industries in Ireland. The new town will be located about fifteen miles north of Anderson. Miss Emma Brightfleld, the young and handsome daughter of Jasper Brightfleld, a wealthy farmer liv-ing ten miles southwest of Columbus, has eloped with a drummer by the na mo of J. F. who travels for a Cincinnati firm. The young lady has made two previous attempts to elope,but was overtaken by her relatives. They were closely pursued by her irate father, but, arrived at the residence of a justice of the peace just a few minutes before he did and the oeremony was just completed when Mr. Brightfleld appeared on tho scene. Sim Coy, the Indianapolis Democratic “boss," who served a term in the peniten tiary for conspiring to change tally sheets in 18§6, has purchased a saloon on Clark street, Chicago, and announces that he will enter Chicago politics. He say? he will be a candidate for alderman as soon as he has gained a residence in the world’s fair city. In an interview. -Thursday, he also says: “The Chicago fellows haven’t taken their first lesson in politics. I can take hold of the Democratic party in Chicago and carry Cook county by 20,000 majority. I can carry it by that majority with such an organization as we have in this county. The annual report of State Treasurer Lemcke was submitted to the Governor On the 17th. A general account of the receipts and disbursements shows that the receipts from all source: the general fund; the school revenue fund; the endowment fund of Indiana University; sales of university and college fund land and unclaimed estates, amount to $3,737,195.18 which, added to tho bfldaace in the treasury at the end of last year, aggregates $4,711,304.53. Tho total disbursements in all the sources before mentioned were $4,471,958.13, leaving a balance in tho treasury of $239,358.40. against $974,109.35 remaining at the end of last year. Alexander Johnson, Secretary of the Board of State Charities, has retuijged from a visit to the Southern Insane Hospital at Evansville. He found that only eighteen patients have been admitted and that the trustees are holding back because they do not think the water supply is sufficient. Two hundred or more,patients are now in the Central Hospital who should be transferred to Evansville. Mr. Johnson says there is enough water at the new hospital to justify the reception of a hundred patients or more, and he insisted upon the trustees taking that number in. Tho Governor telegraphed the trustees, also, urging them to take in the patients if possible pending the boring of wells to increase the water supply.

INHUMAN ATBOCITT. Miss Mary Eubanks, daughter of M. Eubauks, died on the morning of the 13th. at Mitchell, under suspicious circumstances, and a post mortem conducted by the Coroner disclosed that her skull had been fractured, and that in all probability she had been murdered by Bee Eubanks, her brother. Hes father and brother sent her out on Sunday evening for whisky which she was unsuccessful in getting, and she told friends she was afraid to go home for fear she would be killed. Afterward she was heard crying for help, but no one seems to Have interfered. In all

probability she was beaten to death with a whisky jug, and it is alleged that she was held by her father, while the son administered the beating. The brother was arrested. The family were once respectable and prosperous, but were wrecked by whisky; all of them are drifting into the use of morphine. The father and brother have been known to drive the girl into the streets to procure money, no matter by what means, so that they could indulge their craving for in toxicants. The trial Wednesday afternoon showed that a horrible condition of affairs had ex fsted. For months the father and brother have treated the defenseless woman in a manner to make savages ashamed. They have continually beaten herin a most barbarous manner, apparently for amusement. She was threatened with death if she re. vealedthe matter or cried out. She has been compelled by heartless wretches to spend the night in the yard, poorly clad, in the cold and tho rain, though begging pitteously to be admitted. The poor crea ture went to a neighbor’s a few days ago, and requested her to prepare her body for burial, as she knew she would be killed. She was bruised from head to foot, as the result of the beatiirgs she had received. The autopsy showed five different blows had been inflicted on her head, either of which would have been fatal. A club was found in the house, after the arrest, spattered with blood and hair, with which the the inhuman brother had committed the crime. The Eubanks family is well connected, and until besotted by whisky was well respected.