Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Them am thirty divorce cases pending In Bartholomew county. Mre. William Syndsr,‘ of Clarksville,was dangerously gored by a cow. The cold rain killed off the grasshoppers tn Jay and adjoining counties. Louis Dukes’s elevator at Colfax was destroyed by incendiarism. Loss $3,000. Four members of Albert Henney’s family died of milk sickness while he lived near Saluda. It is reported that a tin mine has been discovered in one of the out townships of Howard county. John Vanhorn, of Rnshville, attempted to shoot Alexander McCarty and drove a bullet through his own hand. Mrs. Alvin F. Moore, of Greenfield, gave birth to four babies on the 26th—three girls and one boy. The girls died. An oil well, with a daily yield of 250 barrels, has been struck on tho Glendenning farm, in Jackson township, Jay county. Alpha Summers escaped from the Logansport insane asylum, leaving not the slightest trace of his present whereaboutsThe public pumps at Logansport have been thrown out of service because of the impurity of the water in the various wells. Quails aro unusually plentiful throughout the State this season. Many are breaking the recoid by hatching second Broods; Thirty-four sheep belong l ng to William Halton, near Gosport, clustered under a large tree during a storm, and Were killed by lightning. Forty-five head were sold at the second annual sale of Jersey cattle by the White River Company, near Muncie, averaging slll per head. The Owen County Agricultural Society cleared several hundred dollars, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather attending Nine children and fourteen grandchildren aided in celebrating the golden wedding anniversary of William Harlin, Sr, and wife, of South Bend. Muncie has appointed a soliciting committee of twenty-one leading business men ooking to raising a fund of $200,000, to be used in locating manufactories. An incendiary burned John Simmons’s barn, near Hrpe, destroying 1,000 bushels of wheat, sixty tons of hay. eight horses and other property. Loss, $5,000. Cornelius Corticipian, a half-breed Indian has beon arrested at Winnemac, charged with attempting to kill James McWhorter, a farmer by whom he was employed. Charles Fidier,- a wealthy and wellknown citizen of Cass county, residing in Washington township, was killed by a tree blowing down and falling upon him Tuesday evening. A syndicate proposes to erect a magnificent hotel on Silver Hills, at New Albany, the same to give superb views of the Ohio river, Louisville and other points of interest. _ -- ' " —i '

Hoodlums stoned Gus Faber’s saloon, at Logansport, because ho refused to sell them intoxicants, and seriously stabbed Schuyler Neff, who chanced to pass after the assault was made. Eleven skilled workmen from Chemnitz, in Saxony, Germany, have arrived at Ft. Wayne, and seventeen are en route. They will be employed by the knitting factory recently established in that city. Thousands of martins are gathering in Clark county. The birds roost on the islands in tho Ohio falls and in the trees near the river. In the evening, as they return to roost from the north, their flight fairly darkens the sky. John Henry, aged fifteen, son of W. M # Henry, of Logansport; jumped from a moving train at Burrow’s station and was tßStantly killed. The train was running Bfty miles an hour at the time and his neck was broken. The boy was stealing 1 ride and he was afraid of the conductorChas. Waterman was arrested at Michigan City as a horse-thief, and he proved to be an cx-convict, having served several terms for various offenses. It also developed that he had been making his home at Three Rivers, Mich., where he had suc;eeded in gaining the confidence of the community, while he continue*} lijs dqpreiations elsewhere. The auditor of Carroll county, in connection with the Bowen estate, has added 12,445,745 sequestrated property to the tax duplicate, and whilo the heirs have threatened to enjoin the collection o property taxes, no move has yet been made by them. They have already paid more in attorney fees than the disputed taxes aggregate. <. According to a bulletin issued by the Census Bureau, giving the assessed valuation of the property of the States, the total assessed valuation for Indiana in 1890 was $782,872,126, an Increase of $55,396,995 for the last ten years. The valuation per capita in 1890 was $35.70, an increase of 7.56 per cent, on tho valuation of 1880, while the increase in population was 10.87,

Malachi William Scott met Mary George on the streets of Crawfordsville and knocked her down for keeping company with another man. Then ho proposed marriage and she accepted, and he bor rowed 12 with which to secure a license and a squire volunteered to hitch them for life. Complaint is made that Scott is a bigamist, and the grand jury has been railed to investigate. An infuriated bull made a dash for Sheriff Thornton, of Floyd county, but by rapid running the officer animal to the nearest fence, over which he vaultewith tho agility of a three-year-old, Some friends attempted to protect the sheriff and called upon him to stop, but he shouted back, “I won’t; I’m not selling this race.” A remarkable relic has been found at Brown Hill, Clark county, imbedded in a large tree. It is a sandstone tablet three by six by eight inches. Upon it are carved the names of L. Wetzell, Jacob She!by> John Wetzel!, Daniel Boone, and the date 1812. The first and fourth names are in Reman characters; the otber two In script The tablet had growh deeply Into the butt of the tree. Tho Wetzells, like Boone were celebrated Indian fighters, and Shelby was one of Indiana’s first pioneers. Pro-

lessor W. W. Borden pronounces the relio 1 '--X #r - r~— The Hawkins affair is said to be tho first successful lynching In which the citizens of Shelby ville ever participated. In 1862 an insane man named Watson cut the throats of two little boys who were being detained in jail, and a mob attempted to hang him. Cooler counsels prevailed, and Watson was transferred to the insane hospital where he soon after died. In 1878 John C. Wagoner, In order to obtain title to property, attempted to starve his twelve-year old daughter to death and she was subjected to unnatural cruelty before her condition was discovered. The entire populace turned out to lynch Wagoner, but the sheriff managed to protect him and he was escorted to a train and shipped away. The death of Mrs. Nancy McNally, of New Albany, developed tho strange fact that her daughter, Miss Nettie McNally, aged forty-eight, who was supposed to be mentally unsound, and who always remained in seclusiorf at home, is really of mind. The daughter is overjoyed >4 her release from Jhe house where she has spent so years, and she says: “It seems as if I had been in a living tomb, or the only inhabitant of a desert island, and was now placed in anew world.” She speaks reverently of her parents, but intimates that in early girlhood her father objected to the attentions of a cousin and this was the original cause why she was so closely guarded. The only criticism is concerning her mother, who she says did wrong in keeping her in a forbidden back room for twenty years. Miss McNally has found friends, and her means will enable her to enjoy what life remains. • a The caving in of a sand-bank Tuesday morning near the Walnut Hill Cemetery, Jeffersonville, came very near burying alive two men. Robert Harold, the sexton of the cemetery, and Charles Kopp have been running the sand pit for soma time, when, without any warning, the sides gave way and buried both men under several tons. A number of men were standing around, and, taking in the situation at a glance, began to dig away the sand. It took several minutes to accomplish this, and Harold and Kopp were rescued more dead than alive. Both were unconscious, and received shocking injuries. Several of Kopp’s ribs were broken, and It is feared that he Is internally injured. Harold’s Injuries aro also of a dangerous nature. His limbs are badly crushed, and his right leg was broken below the knee. Harold has been sexton of the Walnut Hill Cemetery for a number of years. He has a wife and several children. B. F. Musgrave, of Terre Haute a real estate dealer,because of varied rascalities, one of which resulted in swindling Mrs. Dr. Ball out of $2,000, became a fugitive from justice two years ago, and part of the time he has been hibernating In Chicago, where his mother and sister reside,and where he did business under the name o T. B. Burnham. Last Friday he surreptl tiously returned to Terre Haute and concealed himself in a log hut not far from the city limits, where he was visited and cared for by some of his former cronies. Sunday night the hut burned down, and a quantity of bones were found in the ashes, together with a Pythian charm and other trinkets. Seeing these, it was given out that Musgrave had met his fate. The impression prevails, however, that the whole thing is a clumsily executed conspiracy to call off the officers, so that he will not live in constant fear of arrest. Musgrave slept in the loft of the cabin. His friends clalnj he was in good spirits, and it is their theory that the fire caught below and suffocated him in his sleep. At Georgetown, Brown county, 20 miles from tC railroad, twenty-two years ago, Flora Staple was born, Since that time she has been more helpless than a babe, having no power of motion, except the perpendicular movement of her jaws. During all those years she has taken nourishment only in fluid form. Strange as it may seem, it is a fact that she has grown to be very beautiful and of perfect form, except a slight curvature of the spine. Her power of speech has beon developed, and she reads and speaks the English lananlFeorrectryr Two ye&fi ago she was taken to see a circus parade, Seeing a large elephant, she informed her mother on returning home, that the sight of it had made an impression upon her mind that she would never forget, and that she believed if she had some pliable substance she could form with her mouth an image of the beast. iSbc was first given an apple-peeling, and her parents were greatly surnrised on seeing that a perfect image of the elephant was formed with her teeth. Since that time she has learned to form with great rapidity letters, words and sentenoes as perfectly as print, and in this she takes great' delight.