Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fairmount win drill for oil. Seymour gamblers are being raided. New Ross is to have a blooded horse sale on Feb. 8. r An Elkhart lawyer has been convicted of horse stealing. ‘ Muncie is becoming known for its number of fine residences. —, The postoffice at Shields, Jackson county, will be discontinued on the 31st. Reuben Beamer, city Marshal of Attica, claims to have been the youngest soldier in the late war. The “Badischerwalthoetogkeites” is the name of a new benevolent order recently established at Evansville. Howard Dickerson, of Crawfordsville, extends a challenge to fight to a finish any heavy-weight in the State of Indiana fofia purse of SBOO. Muncie is organizing a law and order league to compel some observance of the law regulating sale of intoxicants and against gaming. The five-year-old son of Cyrus Hinshaw, near Winchester, dislodged a log lying on top of the wood pile, and it rolled down, crushing him to death. An attempt has been made to wreck with dynamite the saloon at Saline City managed by Charles Cox. It is the only drink ery in the place, and the people say it must go.

Marshal Robinson, of Muncie, received a telegram describing Valentine Hirsch wanted at Marion for burglary. In less than twenty minutes the officer had the man in jail. Harrison Hagan, residing near Bethle-. hem, where he is known as the “Bui Ci-eek Terror,” was quietly arrested at Jeffersonville. He was wanted for stealing a car load of cattle. The Farmers’ Alliances throughout the State are passing resolutions calling fora reduction of fees and salaries of county officers, and the language on this point is plain and unmistakable. Mrs. Rosana Keller, of Bartholomew county, aged seventy,is sueing for divorce from Peter Keller, alleging’ abandonment. The defendant is aged eighty-three, and they were married in 1850. A pottery company has been organized at Crawfordsville to be known as the Clay Combination Company, and pottery and paint will be manufactured from the clay on the Henry Coleman farm, near that city. ’ -d

Father Edwin Sorin has been reappoint ed postmaster of Norte Dame. The Notre Dame pcstoffice was established about fifty years ago, and Father Sorin has served as postmaster continuously to the present time. . The miners in the Jackson Hill mine in Sullivan county, are striking against a reduction of 50 cents a day in wages. The ; mine is operated by a company headed by President Mackey, of the Evansville & Terre Haute road. Homer Sweeney, a prominent young man of Columbus, on the night of the 21st, eloped with Miss Ethel Stevens, daughter of a wealthy merchant of the same place, and they were married. The elopement has created a sensation. Samuel S. Marsh is the oldest nativeborn citizen of New Albany. He was born in January, 1819, and has always been a resident of that city. Mrs. Harriet Warring is the.first white female child born in New Albany, and she is still living. Miss Zoe Gay ton, aged twenty-two, who is walking from San Francisco to New York against time, reached Laporteonthe 20 th, nearly four hundred miles ahead of time. She is accompanied by J. L. Price and W. J. Marshall, who act as protectors. The remains of Peter Sheets,were found in the Wolf creek swomps eight miles distant from Plymouth. Sheets was aged sixty, and and a well to do farmer until recently, when he lost his property, and wandered from home in a demented con* dition. While a spelling school was in progress near Kempton a quarrel arose between a young man named Johnson and Robert McFarland, and a fight followed in which Johnson was dangerously stabbed, and it is feared he will not live. McFarland was arrested, --.--. -

Two men of cultivated appearance canvassed Tipton county in the organization of mathematical night schools, charging $1 n advance for each pupil. After the field had been well worked they disappeared, leaving a number of unpaid debts and untaught pupils. Patents were granted Indiana inventors on the 20th as follows: H. Abbott, Chrisney, saw gumming machine; J. Munson, Indianapolis, pie lifter ; R. Pomeroy, Indianapolis, comminuting seeds and spices; F Reed, Anderson, burner for natural gas; W. R. Turner, Bowers, washing maa chine. j A few weeks ago the family of Joseph Moore, near Princeton, was dangerously poisoned from eating pudding, of which all freely partook save a little son. It was thought at the time that arsenic had accidentally fallen into the flour of which the pudding was made. It develops, however* that there was an attempt to poison the enire family.

John W. White, trustee of the American wheel company, has brought suit at Fort Wayne against the Nickle Plate railway company, claiming 1111,898 damages. Some months ago the wheel works in that city j caught fire, caused by a spark from a pass - i ing locomotive, and were destroyed. It is" alleged that the locomotive was old and in bad condition, and that the smoke stack and spark arrester were defective. Mr. and Mrs. Vestal Beeler, who reside in the north part of Morgan county, near' the Marion county line, have succeeded in 1 roaring one of the largest families on' record. They are the parents of twelve I sons and seven daughters, but one daugh- I ter of whom is dead. Both are native Hoosiers, and have resided almost all their lives in Marion and Morgan counties. Neither of the parents is more than fifty* five years old, nor are they broken in health; A remarkable feature is the fact that there are no twins among the chiU dren. Jefferson Bailey,a stock buyer and farm*' er living two miles east of Washington city, was robbed of S4OO Thursday morning Throe bursters broke iato his farm house

and secured the money, which was in the pocket of his pants , lying near the bed. One of his children was awakened as the theives were leaving, and gave the alarm. Mr. Bailey thereupon gave pursuit, firing i two shots without effect, and they were successful in eluding him. Ho is a. poor man, and the loss of the money falls heavily upon him. On Thursday, Milo W. Barnes, of Kokomo, filed papers with the Elections Coms mittee of the Senate, contesting the right of Senator Robert J. Loveland, of the counties of Miami and Howard, to bis seat. On the face of the returns Mr. Loveland had a plurality of 13 votes over Barnes, his Democratic opponent, A few days after the election, Barnes began a contest in Howard county, but dropped the matter before the time for the trial. Nothing more was heard of the contest nntil this week, when Barnes came to IndianapolisMrs. Catherine Kron, a wealthy German ody living near the edge of Evansville, committed suicide Sy jumping in a cistern on her own premises. Her husband died four months ago and left her a valuabl estate, which was to be divided between his widow and three children' by a first wife. A nephew qualified as administrator, and the old lady has been uneasy for fear that she was going to be cheated in the division of property. She has frequently remarked that she believed she would end her days in the poor-faonso, and that rather than do this she would take her own life. The National Briokmakers Association held a two day's session at Indianapolis, adjourning on the 20th, and discussed matters of interest to the trade. Justice C. Adams, of Indianapolis, was elected president; first vice-president, ftichard Smith* Omaha, Neb., second vice-president Samuel Pearl Crafts, New Haven, Conn.; third vice-president, George S. Oldfield, Norfolk, Va.; recording secretary, C. P. Merwin, Merwin, Conn"; corresponding secretary, Theodore A. Randall, Indianapolis; treasurer, Frank McAvoy, Philadelphia.

William Mabbitt, of Anderson, noted to his zealousness as a Woodworth follower, paid diligent court to Miss Cora Willihide. with whom he was desperately in love, Ihe lady gave his suit cold comfort, and after accompanying him to church one night she made no secret of a liking for another gentleman who sat near. Mabbitt endured this until wild with jealousy,afteg which he kneeled and prayed for power to convert the girl to his view of the situation and-then went home. That night heattempted to commit suicide by throv ing himself from an upper window, but wa prevented by a watchful friend. James L. Jenkins, a federal soldier, arrived at Columbus Wednesday in charge of Seven Bears, an Indian chief, and a nephew of Sitting Bull, and he left soon ’ after for Hartsville, where Mr. Jenkins has friends. They then went to Louisville, Ky. Mr. Jenkins reports that the Government is undertaking to impress up on the Indian tribes that this country is full of pale-faces, so that further difficulties may be avoided. There are five other chiefs also being escorted about the country for a similar purpose. Seven Bears is a genuine savage, fully six feet tall, and he understands no English. When eighteen years of age he had lost his left arm in a fight with one of his tribe. Michael Lane, of Scott township, Montgomery county, some years ago eloped with a woman not his wife, and he finally entered land where the city of Whatcomb, Wash., now stands. Afterward there was an attempt to secure his arrest, but While the officer was en route the fugitive, who had changed his name to William H. Hart, tied to Canada, where he remained until the agent of Mrs. Lane returned to Indiana. It develops, however, that Lane will lose his land, because he violated the Federal law by entering it under an assumed name, and a countor-elaim has been set I up. It being impossible to influence witI nesses to go to Washington, in order to testify against Lane, a snap shot photo- ' graph was taken of him as he was standing in the door of a saloon, and through this 1 means his former neighbors are making ' affidavits to his identity. His property there is valued at 1100,000.