Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1891 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Warsaw police are raiding the gambling dens. Mr. Carlisle will make three speeches hi Ohio. A scheme is afoot to buy up all the rice mills of the South. A woman named Trndin has been arrested at Pittsburg, charged with burning her baby. Three people, two women and a child* were burned to death in a New York tenement house tire on the sth. A young man of Ft. Wayne claims to have invented a typewriter by which records can be copied in a book. Mrs. Julia R. Suaver, a respectable and well to do English widow, committed snl • cide in Jefferson Park,Chicago,on the4th Frank Hill, a salesman for Caylor & Goidy of Washington, upon being charged with embezzlement, disgorged 1315 and was released. Mark Swafford, of Fayette township, Vigo county, has a silver half-dollar, coined in 1818, which he has carried as a pocket piece for thirty-five years. ~ Charles H. Ritter, the defaulting teller of the First National Bank of Evansville, was sentenced on the sth in the United States Court by Judge Wood, to six years imprisonment. He was taken to Michigan City on the 7th. . The flouring mill at Washington, owned and operated by Messrs. Signor & Co., was destroyed by fire, with all its contents, and Signor's residence also burned. Less 135,000; Insurance $5,500. Incendiaries tried to destroy the property three weeks ago. Luther R. March, the New York lawyer has announced that he renounces the prac ticeof law and will devote the remainder of his life to lecturing in defense of spiritualism. His first engagement was 1» Boston Monday, when he gave his services. Next month he will make a Western tom. The warden of the prison south refi sed to receive Stokes Brown, colored, of Malison, convicted of murder, on oeeount of his blindness, claiming that convicts sent tothat institution must be confined athard labor, and Brown could not be made to work because of his physical condltio> , Until the point can be legally passed upon Brown will remain in the Jeffersonville jail. Several thousand people attended the closing exhibition of the harvest home festival, at Crothersville, which owed its life to the public spirit of President Rider, Allah Swope, Henry Williams, and other wealthy persons. There was a fine exhib-

It of farm products, live stock, and handiwork of all kinds, and ladies vied with the men in seeing that every form of industry was represented. Lucy McClellan, a notorious woman moonshiner, has been captured near Lincoln Court House, W. Va. Miss McClellan is twenty-four years old and an Amazon in strength and courage. She has peddled illicit whisky to thousands of workmen engaged in the construction of 'jhe Norfolk & Western railroad for two years. The Buda Pesth Pesther Lloyd on the sth published a smsational article declaring that the Russian government is making an enormous confcentration of troops on the banks of the Pruth. According to this story a lar;o and formerly deserted tract of land near Pruth is now swarming with Russian soldiers, for whose accommodation capacious huts have been erected. A special dispatch from Cincinnati, O. says: Eighteen steamboats loaded with freight and carrying passengers ar3 aground between Cincinnati and Poinv Pleasant, W. Va., where there is but eighteen inches of water. Teams are crossing tie Ohio at dozens of points. is estimated that the low water is causing a daily loss of SIO,OOO, and farmers with grain to sell are put to serious loss by inability to ship.

The little iQur-vear-oldeonof Robert Kirk, who lives seven miles south, of Vincennes, was almost literally eaten up by hogs on the sth. The mother chanced to hear the screams of her child and rushed to Audit in the hog lot and down on the ground, surrounded by vicious hogs tearingoutlts llfe. She droveoff the fprinne beasts, snatched her boy to her breastand carried him to the house. The child was horribly torn and bruised. Its scilp was torn completely loose, its cheeks were eaten away and it was lacerated and gashed all over its little body from the tusks of the swine. It is in a terrible condi t ion and may not recover, A special from Anderson on the sth says: Judge Ellison a week ago held that the Indiana natural gas pipe line was constitutional in a suit brought against the IndianapolisCqnsume/s Gas Trust Company by Matilda Hanns and oth re. A: - pt;aisers were appointed by the court to assess damages for crossing the lands o' the plaintiffs with a pipeline as provided by law. The appraisers lixed tho amount at $lO a rod, The company refused to pay the. amount and undertook to cross the lands «ith its pipe line contrary to law, Twenty-five men were arrested and fined $25 each for trespassing. While the men were attending court farmers hitched horses to the pipe and pulled it from the trenches, breaking it in several places. Another party of farmers in another section of the county, bledt ont a pipe line through which gas was flowing, with a charge ofdynamite.

John H. Parson, an American, who has for the past two years been engaged In the mining business near Metztillan, inAhe State of Hidalgo, Mexico, arrived at San Antonio, Texas on the.sth. He brings Information of- a bloody Indian outbreak which has for some time been in progress in tho district of Tularnengo, that Statu The trouble is the outgrowth of a dispute between several colonies at Spaniards and Germans and the Indians, the new sett'ers attempting to settle on the land of the natives. The Indians resisted their attempt to evictlhein and much bloodshed has resulted. Mr. Parsons says that a few days before his departure a settlement of whites was was attacked by the Indians and nearly two hundred people massacred. The colonists have appealed to the government for protection and several battalions of troops are on the way to the scene bl the trouble.