Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

St. Louis labor unions propose to raise funds for the Homestead strikers. Bose Terry Cooke, the well-known authoress, died at Pittsfield, Mass., on the 18th. A monster serpent of the blacksnake variety is haunting a swamp near Clarksville. x Rev. J. Neal, the oldest preacher in Hammond county, has celebrated his seventy" seventh birthday. t Hon. Adlai Stevenson visited ex-Presi-dent Cleveland at Buzzard’s Bay, Mass,, on the 18th and 19th. Six thousand men employedbyTßuilding Material dealers went on a strike on the 18th. Wages are not involved. Lightning destroyed Milo Pierce’s barnfnear St. Paul, and 730 bushels of new wheat were consumed. Total Joss, 82,000. Perry Clarke, near Perry’s Mills, killed a rattlesnake six feet long, with nineteen rattles and a button, showing the reptile to be twenty years old. John S. Coombs of Kokomo, .diedbf heart failnre.- and the next morning his wife, asshew as standing -beside the death couch, suddenly fell and expired. They were burled in one grave. William Browr. of Ceinentville, saloonkeeper for many years, has quit the sale of intoxicants because his conscience troubled him, and he is now retailing icecream and soda water at the old stand. Charles J. Garvey, of Grant county ,_bas ah oil and gas welfcombined, and he let thefeas go to secure the oil. This has led to his arrest for criminal waste of gas. It js thel firstprosecution eveF instituted in that county. Mrs. Samuel A. Brier and daughter,, Mrs. David Brown, while driving across the railroad track near Rob Roy, were struck by a passing train and Brier was instantly killed. Mrs. Brown had both legs broken and was injured internally. Alliance leaders expect to carry the following states; Kansas, Colorado, the two Dakotas, Nevada, Montana, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Georgia, the two Carolinas, Florida and Texas. If they should do so the House would elect the President and Senate th© Vice-President. ——— The Hunington Herald is giving considerable attention to the finding of marble quarries in that part of the county, acres of which abound in Dallas township, and spread over into Largo township’ Wabash county. So far as tests have .been made the quality is fine. No diamond drilt experiments have been made to. indicate the thickness of the stone, but it is generally believed that the find is valuable.A serious injury befell Mr. S. E. Morss, editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, at West Baden, Saturday afternoon. While sitting on the hotel balcony he saw his five-year-old daughter fall into the basin of the fountain in front of the hotel. He sprang tc?The grotind to rescue her, a leap of twenty-five feet. Unfortunately he stumbled on the railing and fell heavily on . his side, breaking his right arm and bruising the’ left. Meanwhile the little girl was rescued. • Superstition came within a hairsbreadth of causing a lynching in Montgomery county. Lowell Daniels, aged nine, an orjihan, adopted by John A. Dodd and wife, in, the Potato Creek tlenly tempered maß, an<rit was soon whispered ..thett'finhad"killed the lad. This was conilrmcd by- Mrs. Crow, a fortune teller,ofCrawfordsville, who threw herself into a 1 trance and claimed tha‘t she saw the boy ! with his skull crushed, lying under a pile of brush near an unused cabin, which she ■ was -nnable to locate. Thereupon the pop- i ulation turned out en m.assef§earching tbe ' woods and dragging the streams, and final- ! ly warrants were issued* for the arrest of! Dodd and his wife, Harry Dodd, a nephew. I and Augustus Rice, a farm hand. There were also strong threats of lynching, but 1 while the excitement was at its height Alfred Harmeson, a farmer three miles 1 distant, sent word that the lad lost his way in going to Dodd’s house and was sheltered by his family. The word came timely, as Dodd, if not other members of his family, was in danger of violence. Another attempt was made to burn the Woman’s Prison at Indianapolis, on the 18th. The girls had just finished their evening song service under the trees and one ('“line” of the younger girls had inarched to their rooms, when one outside Called attention to a bright light in room 14, ip the northwest end of the third floor. .The,watchman, who was nearby on duty,’ was hastily summoned. Mrs. Hiteshue, one of the prison officials, hastened to the room and found the head of one of the single beds in a coffier of the room in flames. She had it almost entirely extinguished by the use of hand-gren-ades, which are ip every room, by the time the watchman h4d a stream of water on it. Lucinda Higbt started the first fire. That fire had just been quelched and' some of the girls had stopped screaming and dashing around, when fire was discovered in No. 3 on tho second floor. Miss Keely had just gone to that room to release a girl who had been closeted for a misdemeanor during the day. Anna Bishop came in immediately afterwards and set fire to her bed with a gas-lighter. The fire in that room was dangerous, and watchman Barnett had difficulty’-in subduing it. The closet was all ablaze, and in-a moment the partitions would have caught. Meanwhile an alarm had been turned in, and the firemen had arrived promptly. Then a small fire in No. 12. on on one of the beds was discovered and promptly quenched. The girls who aV tempted the crime were arrested and placed in the county jail. The papal epcycHcal on. the Uolumhus celebrations, that <.was issued Saturday, directs that on October 12th mass of trinity be celebrated in the Catholic churches of Spain, Italy and America, In honor of Columbus. The encyclical also invites the bishops of other nations to say the same mass. The Pope says he cannot doubt that Columbus was preliminary inspired by the Catholic faith. The difference between him and the illustrious men who before and after him discovered unknown lands was that Columbus was animated by the spirit of religion which sustained his genius, fortified his constancy and afforded him conoolatlon la Us groat est trials.