Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Martinsville has a kintevgarten.'s Seymour claims of 6,846. Pittsburg will probably see a big building trade* lockout May I. - -Two negro fire bugs were lynched aT Russellville, Ala., on the 29th. Herbert Bruce, of Columbus, is thirteen years old, but weighs 216 pounds. : ’4 - . F. A. Hetche, of Hobart, was instantly killed in a clay pit, by the bank caving in on him. ” The Salvation army held services at Columbus, Sunday, to the operimiouthed wonder of the natives. A party of young men on a spree weninto a Shelby county church and "drove out the congregation. Charles Cotton, an inmate of the Richfc mond Insane hospital, choked to death while eating his food Sunday night. The fruit crop of northern Indiana, which had looked very promising, has been damaged to the extent of many thousand of dollars. Peter Endris, a Floyd county farmer lost sp,ooo in the Schwartz bank failure at Louisville. His loss caused him great anxiety, which resulted in a stroke of paralysis, and there is little hone, of his re. George Arnold, living near Daqville, had an exciting experience with a mad-dog He was viciously attacked, and, after a terrible struggle with the rabid dog, succeeding in choking it and escaping with but slight scratches. The Governor Friday received froin the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C., draft for $769,144,03, the amount due Indiana on account of tho refunding of the direct war tax. He turned it over to Treasurer Gall. Wm. Benbow, of Anderson, while hunting, shot a vicious dog belonging to Wm. Cain. The latter, revenged the killing with his shot gun, the contents of his gun striking Benbow in the face and breast, and i blinding him in one eye. □A. J. Clay pool sued the Arch Hamilton estate for SSOO fees for legal work. The jury on the 27th at Muncie, decided that Claypool had been paid for all work done, but had not accounted for s2oocollected by him which he must make good. Charies Maddox was recently awarded a verdict of $9,000 against the-Evansvtlle & Richmond Ry. for the loss of a leg. He ha been unable to collect- it, aud has applied to the court at Bedford for the appointment of a receiver for the road. A strange' coincident occurred in the death of two brothers, John and Dahie French, farmers of Vigo county. Danict died suddenly one night-, and while eating breakfast, the next morning, John fell ran his chair and expired instamtly. Patents were issued to Hoosicr inventor* on the 24th, as follows: L. W. Clayton, Indianapolis, J. B. Cleaveland, Indianapolis, wire stretcher; C. Comstock Indianapolis, jump-seat for vehicles; F. H. Loveless, Lafayette, parcel strap. At Ft. Wayne, Thursday, tramps robbed Frank Suckeo, Wm. Brennan and John Brennan, the latter sixteen years old, of $9, and then compelled the boys to accom£ pany them. The case was reported to the police, but so far no clew to the tramps or tho whereabouts of the boy has been found.

On the night of the 26th inst., there was hung to the fiag-staff on the court house at Grcensburg an effigy, with a black flag above and below. On the flags were words oflivarniHg, - while attached to the effigy were several lines of a malicious nature written in red ink. The matter is causing much comment. Reports from Greene county say that never before, in the history- of -the connty! were there such flattering prospects for a good wheat crop as at the present time; and never was there a better show for al; kinds of fruit. Buds are beginning to show their color already. Jeffersonville is becoming tho center o* m>t only the Wtiottefl Huir"Bat- also it" steel hull boat industry, thus putting In. diana again to the front. Capt. Sol How. ard has on the stocks a steel hull ferry so New Orleans and Sweeney Bros, arebu id. ing a steel hull packet steamer for the upper Ohio. Fifteen steamers, aggregating 15,000 tons burthen, are now under con' struction. Superintendent Kennedy, of the pulp works at Muncie, has been arrested on three indictments, charging him with violating that section of the statutes which provides that eight hours shall constitute a day’s work, and making it a misdemeanor for the management of any factory to compel men to work more than that length of time for a day’s wages. The State claims that at tho pulp-mill they work one gang of men thirteen and a half, hours, .and another ten and a half hours paying them by the day. . A. Listruberger, a manufacturer of chilled plows at South Bend, sailed for England recently to look after the trade for his firm in Great Britain. “You might think it odd,’’.said he just before sailing, ‘that we can sell goods in England, the country of all others where the fanners boast of their splendid plowings, but we began selling there what are known as chilled plows before tho English ever tried to mako them, and arc getting 20 per cent, more for our plows there than we can get at retail in this country.” A year ago on the 19th of last October the east-bound express on the Wabash railroad was thrown from the track and badly wrecked, at Kellers, Wabash eonnty, a switch having been thrown by a lgd named Willie Marquis, who was put off the train and thus sought revenge. The engineer and firemen were badly hurt, but their injuries were not considered dangerous. The engineer recovered, but the fireman, Charles Dickson, of Andrews, whose spine was hurt, grew worse, and after lingering over a year died on the 29th. Young Marquis was tried for train wrecking in March, 1890, and sentenced to one year in the Wabash county jail. He was released only last week, his term having expired. Frank T. Hendryx, of Goshen, jointly •indicted with Mrs. Edmund Calkins for the murder of her aged husband, has been brought to trial at Goshen, and the case presents some peculiar complications, a. tho defendant has failed to-praeure ItiSST

1 counsel, qnd Acting under advice of qat, I side attorneys, resol ntely objects to everything which is being done by the cdnrt. It is alleged that Calkins carried $5,000 life insurance, and one week prior to death he married a widow named Whipple, whoconspired with Hendryx to bring about his death. To this end he was persuaded* to take a boat ride, and while they were out on the St. Joe river Calkins was pushed overboard and drowned. Hendryx has always resolutely denied the crime. Governor Hovey is receiving letters from many persons who believe that they are entitled to some of the $750,000 direct tax money to be refunded to the State by the general government. He eaßs to the fact that many persons who paid money during the war as a revenuq.or ex cise tax are of the opinion that they are therefore entitled to a part of this direct tax to be refunded. This idea, he says, is erroneous. What is now known as the, direct tax was the amount of revenue raised to carry on the war before the passage of a direct tax law, and so when the act was passed the government of the United States credited the State of Indiana with the amount she had previously raised without any compulsion of law. This money was raised by Governor Morton before it was called for, and was derived from general taxation. Therefore no one has any claim on the money which will pass from the national into the State treasury in a few days.