Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Brazil has a local “Jack the Hugger.” Considerable stock in the southern part of tbe state is afflicted with the rabies. A Rebekah degree lodge of sixty-five members has been instituted at Lewisville, Elmer Harris, of Winchester, is under arrest, accused of attempting to pass a forged check. There is a general call all over the State of the March Hon to lie down and glye The heirs of William Wilhite, recently killed at New Richmond, have entered suit against the Clover Leaf railway for SIO,OOO damages. i - A girl named Snyder, near Terre Haute, is dying of hydrophobia. Both herself and a younger sister were bitten by her father’s dog some fifteen days ago. A rear end collision occurred on the J. M. & I. R. R., on the bridge at Columbus Jj’riday morning. The trains were delayed until 5 p. m. Brakeman John Nagent was fatally injured. Two dirty tramps forced their way into the residence of Henry Richmond, at Elkhart, but Mrs. Richmond used a chair with such telling effect that both were compelled to retreat. A Paris minister has heard of the great Greenwood revival and has written a minister of that place asking for the prayers of the church to help reclaim from sinthat wicked city across the sea. Lee Keen, a colored lad, of Crawfordsville, while out —hunting, Saturday, crawled through the fence and was piling the gun after him. It was discharged and the boy may not recover. Lizzie Dein us and Mary Kleinger, aged 16 and 18 respectively, were run down and fatally injured by a switch engine at Evansville, Saturday. Gross negligence on the part of the engineer is charged.

- Dt. E. M. Dwellinger, coroner of St. Joseph county, and a practicing physician of South Bend, was arrested Wednesday for committing an abortion, the woman being a waitress in a restaurant There seems jo doubt ofhis guilt. Col. Lamdin P. Milligan was given a rq; ception by the bar of Huntington, Friday night, the occasion being his 80th birthday. It was a pleasant affair, with speeches. Col. Milligan’s reputation was national a quarter of a century ago A Pan Handl e freight traiii loaded with moat jumped the track Saturday while passing through Dunkirk. Nine cars were thrown against, some of them through and into the Gem glass worksThe damage to the company is 325,000.

Some of the members of the police force of Ft. Wayne are charged with being in league with dive-keepers, informing them as the contemplated raids. Officer Ninbrecht is charged with receiving $lO per month from one party for this service. An investigation is being made. Jacob K, Huston, who settled in South Bend in 1828, is dead. He died a consta ble, to which office he was elected ove r thirty years ago, and re-elected every time his place became vacant. Republicans and Democrats alike voted for him, although the district usually was overwhelmingly Republican. Link Baugh assaulted Dr. J. C. Boss, of Muncie, making an effort to cut his throat He succeeded in sinking the blade of his weapon in the doctor’s left shoulder. Dr* Ross then knocked Baugh down and gave him a terrible beating. Ross is the attehdint physician upon Mrs. Baugh, and the husband accused him of undue intimacy.

E. B. Dobell, Sr., .of Lawrenceburg, is awaiting his death which he says, will occur on the 28th inst. He recently dreamed three nights in succession that his life would end on that date and he began preparations accordingly. Mr. Dobell is aged seventy-five,and Is numbered among the ofd and respected citizens of that place'. Two weeks ago Cleveland Doty, a ten-year-old son of James Doty, of Columbus, while playing with sch'oolmttes was tied to a shade tree and abandoned. In trying to break away he sprained his back, cerebro* 'pinal meningitis set in, causing intense suffering until Wednesday, when he died. The sad affair has caused great sorrow in the school and among the unfortunate boy’s playmates. An Ohio & Mississipi passenger train at the crossing at Odin, 111., was run into by an Illinois Central freight train Wednesday morning. About twenty passengers were badly hurt. Among them were H. B. Andrews, of Lawrenceburg, H. H. Moore, of Indianapolis, Chas. Chas. Rut ledge, of Switzerland, Chas. Klepper, o Washington, ,J, A. Scudder, of Terre Haute, and J. H. Ward of Lawrenceville, all of Indiana. A conflagration and holocost was narrowly averted. The Grand Army posts of Indianapolis are making an earnest effort to establish a State home for the old men who wore the blue in the war for the Union. The project, which is already receiving the warmest encouragement from Grand Army posts -all over the State, will undoubtedly receive the indorsement of the State encampment when it meets at Ft. Wayne, and the Legislature will be asked to take needed action to found and maintain the desired institution. These homes are all about Indiana, having been estabIsbed in eighteen States. In 1878, Thomas Cullen, with six others known as the Mollihan gang, at Kokomo, were indicted for pillaging two stores. They were all arrested, except the leader, Molligan, and were remanded to jail. One . night they broke jail by means of tunnel- | ing and dynamite, and none of them were ever heard of until last Wednesday, when. Cullen returned home to his wife and children, having previously arranged to have the action against him dismissed. The indictment against the other fiye fugitive 3 stillstands. Cullen has been all over the United States, Cuba and Mexico. The meeting of the Edwards heirs has i closed, and they expect to receive their portion by June, of this year. These heirs; claim real estate valued at S3OO,OCk,bGO in New York city, and the meeting to get the consent of the heirs In this county to compromise with the present folders of ‘ the property for $205,000,000. Of th ls sum there is $155,600,000 in bank," awaiting for the compromise to be approved. There are nine heirs in Montgomery county who

will receive $551,240,05. They are Mrs. J.H Coleman, Mrs. Ellen McCormick, Mrs. Sarah L. Lose, Mrs. E. J. Smith, Mrs. Vincent Smith, Curtis Edwards.sr., Curtis Edwards, jr., Charles Edwards and Jacob Miller. Bert Abshire, a wealthy farmer, who lives near Keystone, in Wells county, has had in his employ John Providence. Abshire had no suspicion that there was any great friendship existing between his wife and Providence until he was astounded l Friday night, to find that the pair had run away together. They drove to Pennville, there representing themselves as husband and wife. Abshire, accompanied by some friends started in pursuit, and the couple at tbe hotel was confronted by the enraged husband and an officer. No blood was shed, but Providence was placed under arrest and taken to Bluffton, where justice will be dealt out to him atth e next term of court. Mrs. Abshire is forty years old, while Providence is only twqn. t -four. -• A terrible accident happened at Oceola, a small station six miles west of Elkhart. Friday night, resulting in the death of dist church at Kendallville, and Henry Bowles, a rich and influential farmer, liv" Inga short distance from where he wa s killed. Rev. Lamport was waiting for a passenger train to convey him to Kendall, ville, and together with Mr. Bowles was walking on a side-track, engaged deeply in conversation. Some gravel cars were set in motion on the sidetrack without being noticed by the men, and, striking them, threw both down, and both were killed. The men were not missed, and the bodies were not found till Saturday morning.

Adam Neidigshot his wife to death and soon afterwards fired a ball into his own brain at Washington, Ind., Saturday. The tragedy took place in the miserable little home of the Neidlg family in “Cabel row” about 4 o’clock, the only witness being the 14-year-old daughter. Neidig was a German miner and for some time had been drinking heavily. Shortly before the murder he vi sited his home and accused his wife, Barbara, of infidelity. The woman resented the insult and a quarrel ensued. The man, crazed by the liquor, rushed to his wife, who was a frail woman, and seizing her by the neck with one arm he placed a revolver at her head and fired a ball directly into her right temple* With a single groan the woman fell to the floor, where, in her blood and brains, she was witnessed by hundreds o< the excited citizens soon after. When Neldig saw his wife fall to the floor ho watched her for a few seconds, and then took to his heels. He ran to a barn that stood two blocks away, and climbed into the hay • mow. After half-covering his body with hay he placed the weapon to his forehead and emptied another chamber of his weapon. Persons attracted to the scene

of the tragedy had given pursuit. They found him in the hay-mow struggling in death. He was removed to an undertaking house, where hundreds stood by and saw him die in agony two hours after his crime The tragedy has shocked this city as never before. Neidig tried to murder his wife on other occasions, but failed in his attempts through the interference of his children. For some time his presence at home has been one of constant dread, and a few weeks ago his boys made up SIOO and gave their father the money on his promise to leave home and remain away. The hard-earned money he spent at saloons, however, and only served to poisonJhis brain and nerve him for the shocking tragedy. The contest of the will of the late Joseph E. McDonald has reached an Interesting stage. It has been ordered by the courts that Mrs. McDonald be examined prior to the trial, and this examination was commenced Thursday. In referring to this matter the Indianapolis News says: “First, after the fact became public that Senator McDonald had left his entire esstate to his wife, followed rumors, soon verified, that the will was to be contested on the ground that the instrument probated was not the will which Senator McDonald had made. Additional interest was aroused by recalling the romanc e which surrounded and connected the lives

of the deceased ex-Senator and his beautiful and accomplished/second wife. Then came further developments of a nature which skirts close upon the borderland o the supernatural. A lady, as Tuesday’s News related, far away in Washington, has a dream, in which she thinks she secs Mrs. McDonald engaged In a mysteriou 3 business transaction with a young man. to the dreamer unknown, but so distinct that, waking, she is certain she could identify him in any part of the world that she should meet him. She writes of her dream to Indianapolis friends and then herself comes on to this city. She is taken o the Insane hospital and confronted with a young man, violently insane, whom she instantly and impressively declares to be the man of her dream. Following this comes the undisputed statement that the young man at the Insane Hospital is the person who transcribed the will of Sena, tor McDonald. After the Senator's death he bad became insane, imagining that his face was turning black. Upon the heels of this strange mingling of dream and waking comes a petition of attorneys for an order of court authorizing them to ex' amiqd’Mrs. McDonald previous to the be beginning of the trial. What is expected and desired from this examination is kep v scrupulously from the public, but intimations are vaguely given out that there aid yet other unusual facts to come to light.” Dr. Hays Agnew, the celebrated physician and surgeon, died at New York ou . Wednesday. Dr. Agnew, it will be remembered, was the operating surgeon/in the case of President Garfield, and one of the consulting physicians in the case of the late Senator Conkling. ■

There was great rejoicing the Cleveland Democrats at Rochester, N. Y., Friday, upon the announcement of the defeat of the Bland bill, arid they showed' their joy by firing a salute of 100 guns. Tt was believed in Lohdon Saturday that the English government would consent to the demands of the United States fora modus vivendl in the Behring seal fisheries. ,