Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1890 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Many railroads in Scotland are tiod up because of a strike of employes. Masked men robbed the conductor of a freight train on the P., D. & E. railroad near Quincy, IIL “Bee” Eubanks, wbo, with his father, at Mitchell, murdered bis sister, was sentenced to the penitentiary, on the 23d, for life on a plea of guilty. The publio schools of Laporte were closed, Monday, by order of the Board of Health, owing to the poor sanitary ’ condl tioos of the buildings. A suit for SIO,OOO has been entered b Thoa. T. Ward against the MOnon railway because the train would not stop in order to let him off at Raub’s station, and he, in Jumping off, received injuries that will cripple him for life. There has been a great hustle to get land In the newly-opened publio strip. The most valuable claim of all has 2,000,000 feet of standing pine upon it. It was entered by Louis Goth, the first man in line, and is worth from ten to fifteen thousand dollars. The vote of the Methodist churches in the Northwest Indiana Conference on the question of admitting women to the General Conference has been summarized. Out of a membership of 31,032, only 5,400 votes were cast. Of these, 4,037 favored the proposition, while 3,674 were in the negative. Benjamin Shaffer started to transfer * load of new furniture to Sellersburg on the 20th, and while driving along he at • tempted to light his pipe. The ignited top of the match broke off and communicated fire to the furniture, and before Shaffer could release the horses they were badly burned, and his own beard and eyebrows were singed. The wagon and furniture were a complete loss. The consolidation of zylonite and celluloid companies has finally been effected and Monday the Celluloid Company, embracing all the zylonite works of the country, was organized with a capital of $6,000,000 in the town of Zylonite. This is a big trust, it is claimed, and may lead to the shutting down of the Pittsfield factories. The officers of the company, most of them New Jeasey "capitalists, are: President, Marshall C. Leffert; Vice President, John A. Brarstow; Secretary, J. M. Cooke; Treasurer, F. R. Leffert.