Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Greenwood wants a bank. The Grant county jail is infested with Vermin. * • Tramps burned R. A. Edwards' barn, near Peru. Loss. F,’.000. An F. M. B. A. ticket will be placed in the field in Clay county. The fourth-class postmasters of Hamilton county are clamoring for more pay, Obed Way., of Ambia, has preserved a piece of a rail which his father split in 1810. Several of the township schools in Clinton county are closed because of diphtheria. The F. B. Stearns pump factory at Rushville was destroyed by fire on the 13th. Loss, F20.C03. Miss Nora Yates, of Goshen, has sailed for Nowgong, Assam, where she goes as a -nrissfonaryTortließaptists. Aunt (’assy Ketchum, as she is familiarly called, at Crawfordville, has celebrated her one-hundred and first birthday. During the term of the Madison Circuit Court, closing on the 13th, fifteen prisoneis received penitentiary sentences. Hartford City is using flambeau gas light in spite of the law prohibiting the same enacted by the last Legislature. Robett Carnahan s barn, near Washington. was Im rued in retaliation because he had taken up a cow for trespassing, Mrs. Emma Gains, of Vincennes, has been placed on trial at Washington, charged with whipping her little to death. Swayzee has a canning factory which turned put fifty'thousand cans of tomatoes during the season, allot which went to Chicago jobbers. The Indianapolis city election on the 13th resulted in the election of Sullivan (Dem.) for Mayor, over Herod (Rep,) by a plurality of from 2,500 to 2.800. School house No. 2. in Jafrkson county 1 Orange county, was set on fire by incendiaries while a congregation was worshiping therein. The flames had enveloped the roof before the alarm was given. Charles Crew, working in a saw mill at Ripley, w hilesaw ing lumberwith a double buzz saw undertook tOLspttt’ off a plank and was thrown against the saws. One hand was cut off and his «.rm and head badly mangled. . Fox Robbins on the 14th filed suit in the Circuit Court at Richmond against the Pennsylvania Railway Company for Catharine Dudley, of New York, and Caaxiline Rollins, of Dayton, O„ for damages alleged to have been sustained in the wreck at Hagerstown, February 25. The demand in each case is $25,000. A boiler exploded in the Coleman heading factory at Tipton at 4 o’clock on the 13th. Fifty hands were employed about the works; Thirty-five of them were injured three fatally, The water in the boilers had evaporated, and the. engineer foolishly turned in cold water. The mill was torn to pieces. Loss, $15,000. In the famous suit of Yancy versus Hyde for the State oil inspectorship, the Supreme Court Tuesday ' overruled Yancy’s petition for a rehearing, this setTmgrTOTever aUTesTtliis~great RgHtT On June 16 last, the Supreme Court decided in favor of Hyde, an4,Yaney filed a.petition for a rehearing, Hyde is in undisputed prossession of the office. A camp of gypsies near Columbus has been split on account of a double elopement of two pair of young Romany lovers. Samuel and William Wilcox hitched up an old grey mare and loaded Elizabeth and Lucy Stark in a gypsy wagon, and off t hey went. The oldest couple was only about eighteen years old. The parents fell out, and each had their followers, who separated and established two camps. . The Indiana Grand Lodgeof Good Templars held its thirty-seventh annual session at Indianapolis on The 14th and 15th. There were 103 men apd women present a» delegates. The secretary’s report showed that there are about five thousand Good Templars in Indiana, and that forty new lodges have been organized this year. I. S. Wade, of Lafayette, is grand chief templar; B. A. Harding, Sliblbyville, secretary, and John A. Moorman, Farmland, Randolph county, treasurer. The Indiana Woman’s Christian Temperance Union convened in Evansville bn the 17th with 256 delegates present. Miss Reed, the corresponding secretary, reported 4,864 regular members and 276 local unions, a gain of forty-two, with 1.538 hononaTy members. Received by Idea] tmiohS, $9,900.87; expended for special work, $1,205.28. The treasurer’s report showed receipts of $3,447.71; expenditures, $3,351.33; balance, $96.48. Young men of Michigan City, one party headed by Will Paxton and the other by i Geo. Stetson, will soon start on a trip by boat to New Orleans. The boats will be transported by rail to Chicago, and wilj be launched in the Chicago canal, and they will float down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to-destination. The trip ' w ill occupy several months, and the Paxton party will spend the greater part of the, winter iu the South. Indiana patents: H. R. Allen, Indiant. polls; refrigerator; W. J. Bitch an an, Huntington, repeating toy-gun; F. F.Case Jr , Goshen, vehicle running-gear; T. W. Colvin, Delphi, harness saddle; H. Daniels Greenville, lumber-piling machine; T. D. Denniston, Peru, throat jlieCe for scroll and other saws; 11. Eckels. Seymour, road wagon; E. Heuer, Ft. Wayne,crown sheet for steam-boilers; H. P. Kurtz, Goshen, wind-mill regulator; F. L. McGahan, Indianapolis, commutor oiler; G. Meader. Fowler, corn.-harvester; H. G. Olds, Ft, Wayne, street letter box; J. E. Tackett Annapolis, baling-press; W. H. Sanders, Marion, mailing-machine; B. E. Shoven i Indiana]>olis, electric railway, A work train on the Monon railway . should have side tracked at English for an I east-bound freight, the first section of , which had pulled outfrom Taswell. The i telegraph operator at Taswell heard the | operator at English signal the departure . of the worktrain, and as the second secI tion of the freight came to a halt, he hastiI ly notified the engineer of the situation. ; Quickly cutting loose, and wKh a brake- , ma-on. the pilot bearing a red flag, the • engineer opened wide his throttle in pnrsultof the first section, attaining a speed

of fifty miles an hour. In this way he I overhauled the first section, and by repeated whistlings brought it to a halt* I Scarcely had the first section started back before the work train came in sight, and it was brought to a halt within 100 feet of the first sect ion. Scarlet fever now exists in New Albany to such an extent that it may almost be termed an epidemic, and thougli the disease is not of the virulent type, the physicians are having considerble difficulty in controling it. When the malady was first noticed the authorities insisted that the law in regard to the flagingPW the houses in which the disease existed should be rigidly enforced, and now in all parts of the city may be seen houses on which have been placed large sheets o yellow cardboard beating the words“Searlet Fever.”,Up _to the present’ time six deathshave resulted, but the presence of nearly half a hundred casesis causing considerable uneasiness. ARSON IN OLD DAVIESS. Wasfiifigton is undergoing the most ex citing and sensational scenes in its history. Detectives have been at work for a week' on the court house fire, and up to this hour have arrested four persons supposed to be implicated in the incendiarism. Samuel Harbine, a day laborer living in Washington, was arrested Tuesday night, charged with complicity in the burn-, ing of the records. After being -arrested he confessed the crime, and implicated several prominent people therein. As-a result County Auditor James C. Lavelle, together with A. B. Hawes, a prominent citizen of Steele township, were arrested Wednesday, and were placed in jail; also a man by the name of Bazil Ledgerwood. The officers are now in pursuit of Alichael Lavelle, a brother of the auditor. Harbine!? story is to the effect that Le- : wlle employed him to burn the court house, for which he was to receive $503 <; Only $5 of this amount has been paid. It is also reported that Ledgerwood is anxious to turn State’s evidence. He claims to have been given a house and lot for his part in the nefarious deed. Auditor Lavelle’s bondsmen, becoming frightened,at the turn affaire were t aking, required him to turn over all his property to them. He has been auditor of the county nearly eight years, and the fact that the people' had confidence in him makes his accusation Lnd arrest the sensation of the hour From certain circumstances it is supposed heis short in his accounts, but no one knows the amount. Experts are now at work on his books. Hawes lives on a farm o wned by his wife, and is in good circumstances financially. He is a desperate character, however, and was brought in St the muzzle of a Winchester. JThe city is full of peonle from the country. Business is almost suspended and everybody is discussing the arrest of tne conspirators.