Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Greenfield is on a boom. Noblesville claims a boom-. Kokomo is to have a distillery. Jeffersonville claims 17,000 population. There is not a vacant house in Scottsburg. There are 781 convicts in the Northeim Prison. a Columbus has secured a wood-handle factory. S ' Indiana has 113 students in the University of M ich i gan . “==== Three hundred carpenters are locked out at Terre Haute. The Jay County Agricultural Society is building an art hall. The Greencastle 'Breeders’ Association will build a mile track. Another good oil-producing well has been struck near Portland. “Hog in,” or “Hog out” was the issue at the recent election at Petersburg. Gen. Lew Wallace has applied for a patent on a fishing rod he has designed. Indiana has 6,000 miners, the majority employed in the Clay county mines. Archibald Martin, near Crawfordsville, was damaged §2,000 by incendiarism. From 300 to 500 miners and collar and harness makers are on'a strike at Eyansville. _ : N_ ■■■ The Jeffersonville whet-stone worksTias started up after an enforced idleness of months. A. A red-oak log was split in saw-mill near Edinburg and 127 blacksuakes were found therein. Miners to the number of 2,600 struck at Brazil, Ind. A reduction of wages is said to be the. cause. The 'Wilkinson cheese and butter factory Js receiving 3.000 pounds of milk per day, and is proving a financial success. Flower thieves are so bold in Crawfordsville that they eij ter the front yards at night and dig up plants by the roots. John Johnson, of Peru, got a year in the penitentiory for stealing a bushel of potatoes, for which he received 95 cents. New Albany en joys the credit of the first Odd Fellows’ lodge chartered in the State, 7 uhdertdate of October 14,1835. Aaron Stewart, found bodly wounded in the streets of Madison several weeks ago, died of his wounds without giving his assailant's name. The Kokomo plate-glass works is turning out 6,000 feet of glass per day. Orders for mirror glass arc pouri n g i n at an as - tonishing rate. Business men o’ lluncie, angered over certain rules adopted by the clearing-house association, are taking steps to establish another bank. After three months disappearance, the remains of Warren Niblack were found in the river near Grand View. Supposed to have been mui'dered. '? The new projected industrial establishments at Anderson. Elwood and Alexandria will add $1.500,(XX) to the taxable values of Madison county. A poor and needy scissors grinder died at Goshen, aged seventy-two. In his belt were found papers proving him to be worth $21,000 in land and good securities. John K. Gowdy, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, has renewed his 'membership With the G. A. R Several years ago he withdrew in a pet. Dr. S. V. Wright, of Greensburg, whoestablishrd the Prohibocrat as the organ of the Prohibition party of Decatur- county, has discontinued publication aud sold the plant to Thomas ■H. Greenfield, who will isstre'a'Dfemocratic weekly. - Mrs. Ellen Denny, of Vincennes, gave a temperance lecture at Mitchell on Friday and Saturday .evenings, and lectured again Sunday and Sunday night. The toxyn is worked up’to a high pitch of enthusiasm for the movement and many have reformed. Almost every third man one meets on the street is wearing the blue ribbon. Never, since the days of the crusade, has such a wave of temperance .re form swept over that city. ’ Mitchell has a youthful band of White Caps, whose members seem to be doing their work thoroughly. John Grubb, a lad about twelve years old, who is the sojg nf a hard-working widow, has .been in the habit of loafing about the streets all day and until late at night. He continually disobeyed his mother, who needed his

help. One night recently, while returning home at the usual hour, he xvas met at a dark corner by several masked boyslaying in wait. They seized him, and, taking him off the street, administered a .severe whipping and admonished him to mend his ways. He has profited by the discipline and is not seen on the streets after dark. The Patriotic Sons of America organized a State Camp at Indianapolis on the Ist, and elected the following officers: Past President—H. T. Ellis, Connersville. President—-E. T. Comstock, Marion. Vice President—E. W. Wickey, Eas Chicago. Master of Finance —Parker Willis,Crawfordsville. Secretary—W. A. Eshback,lndianapolis. Treasurer—J. W. Firestinejhdianapolis. Conductor—James Naden, Rushville. Inspector—F. M. Smith,New Richmond. Guard—C. L. B. Ellis, Indiaiiapolis;, Delegates to National Convention—ET.'Comstock, E. W. Wickey and C. L. B. Ellis. THREE MURDERERS RUN DOWN. At 1 o’clock on the Ist there was a general stir upon the Streets of Columbus, occasioned by the arrest, of three toughlooking characters. It xvas soon learned that the three men who were handcuffed were murderers, William Pucket and his sons, Ambrose and Pleasant Puckett. The story of their crime dates back to the last presidential election, having been committed near Irving, Estill county, Ky. The cause of the killing grew out of a pocket knife, which the Puckets claimed they had loaned to Henry Hall, a neighbor. They all started home about noon, and when one mile from the voting place Wm. Puckett, the father, picked up a club and struck Hall a deadly blow, felling him to the ground. Then the boys fell upon him, beating his head into a jelly. The father and sons fled the country and evaded the officers for three years, till Friday night last, when they were ar-

rested. Some time ago xyere located in the wild lands of Brown county, near the postoffice called Peter Cooper. On Thursday, morning two officers from Kentucky arrived in this city and wdht to Nashville, where they secured the assists aneeof thesheriff of Brown county, and stated to make the arrest. Peter Cooper is about twelve miles south of Nashville; in the roughest part of Brown coahty, and furthest from any railroad. In a deep hollow was the home of the Kentucky mountaineers. Each was married and had a home in which he kept his family. The father resided a mile from the sons. T£e Buckets were known to be game when aroused, and their premiseswereapproachedwith great care by the officers, who xvaited for darkness. The huts in which the murderers lived Were some two miles from the postoffice and were approached with considerable caution. None but politicians had ever venturedin where they lived. Their houses had butane room each, without a window or a floor, a chimney or a stove. The beds were straw, placed upon rails that were stuck into the cracks of the building, and they cooked by a fire in the center of the building upon the ground. The two sons were ar re.sledfirst and showed fight before giving up. They were handcuffed togethei and left in charge of two officere, while the others went to the residence of the father and placed him urider_arrest. Tin entire party was much surprised. The wife oi one of the young men was but little taller than a yard-stick, and weighed sixty pounds, but the officers declared that she was a terror. The charge of murder was preferred against William Puckett, while the sons were charged as accessories. There never was a more wretched looking set of individuals seen in this city than these three murderers. The father is about fifty-five /years of age, and in rags. The sons were bare-footed and in the same condition.