Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Marion has 250 bicyclers. Diphtheria prevails at Ft. Wayne.*— Danville is putting in water works. • Monroe has a new $5,503 M. E. church. Goshen is enforcing a screen ordinance. The Citizens’ Band, of Peru, has tooted its last toot. The shipment as nutmeg melons from Seymour is on. Counterfeit silver dollars are in circulation at New Albany. Staser is the name of a new postoffice in Vanderburgh county*- ju, Pike county is agitating the removal of the county seat from Petersburg to Win’ slow. Thomas Clarke, aged seventy, of Madison, is dead. Ho was a boyhood friend of James G. Blaine. Fifteen thousand people attended the unveiling of the Randolph county soldiers’ monument Thursday. The small daughter of Frederick Jacorha. of Logansport, was scalded to death by having coffee spilled on her. Elsworth Stotlemeyer and wife, near Fortville, awakened in the morning to find their child, aged five months, dead by their side. The Fischer safe and range works, of Kokomo, has made a large shipment of goods to South *“Africa, South America and Australia. The Evansville ■& Richmond Railway company has established a mew station near Cushman- Springor, naming it in honor of Whitelaw Reid. Wm. H. Young, j[of Elkhart, Who attempted to murder his wife, after which he conveyed the impression that he proposed drowning himself and disappeared, has been captured at Mottville, Mich. James Ellis, of Fredericksburg, sought shelter from a storm for a load of hay in a barn. While driving hi the wind blew the door shut and he was caughtbetween the door and wagon and fatally crushed. George W. Chaney was making hay near Huntington, Thursday, and in one field killed sixteen rattlesnakes. They ranged in length from fifteen inches to more than three feet. Simon Slater killed three with a club while driving along the road. « A lady in Cass county became so infatuated with the Christian Scientist theory that she laid her false teeth upon a shqlf declaring that she had faith that natural teeth would take their place. She has waited patiently for six months, and still they fail to come. 6 Six days ago John Field, colored, 0[ Jeffersonville, was supposed to have died, and the body was prepared for burial. A friend discovered a slight respiration and stopped proceedings. After two days Field revived, and he was able to be ou* until Friday night when he suddenly died for good. Ten miles of new track has been laid on the extention of the Wabash, beginning at Walcottville, but further work is stopped by the graders failing to lTeep ahead. The sink hole near Westville continues a difficult problem. Thousands of loads of earth have been dumped therein without appreciable results. Messrs. Cross & Rowe, of Bedford, who will make an elabor 0 exhibit of stone products at the Work s Fair, v pyopose to reproduce in limestone a tropical free. They will also have a colossal figure, weighing thirty tons, representing an elephant. David Richards, of New York, a sculptor of some note, has been employed to do the work. * The Soldiers Monument at Winchester was dedicated'with imposing ceremonies on the 21st. The crowd in attendance was

very large. The speakers were N. J. McGuire, of Rising Sun, Hon. Jos. B. i Cheadie aud Governor Chase. The ceremonies were impressive and beautiful. While Isaac Smith and Emanuel and John Wildermuth were stacking wheat in i. Hun ti ngtoik-county, all of them working i with feverish haste to avoid an approach’ ■ ing storm, lightning struck and kilted both horses attached to the wagon. All of the men were rendered unconscious, and Mr. Smith was paralyzed for several hours. A little girl asleep under the wagon was un- , Injured. It is considered remarkable that the straw was not set on fire, in which case all of would have been burned ' to death before recovering consciousness. | Christ Helt. a farmer and miller residing i In the southeastern part of Bartholomew* county, some days ago purchased of an agent a fanning mill, paying In and then signed a contract to act as agent and sell the mills Afthts neighbors, and to receive and pay wcertain price when the , mills were received? Hw-svas greatly sur- ■ prised Wednesday morning when he was notified that at the railroad station ashlp- | ment of these mills had been ! amounting to $1,980. He hurried away to i a lawyer for advice,and found that he had : signed as iron-clad note. A most horrible affair occurred at Ben? ; nettsville, Clarke county, Thursday. Mr. ! and Mrs. William Keibler left tbefour-year-old son in the house with two pet , Newfoundland dogs. The child played ‘ with these for some time whqn they turned upon him and began to read him pieces. His cries brought aU hiihl-to' theecnne. The dogs turned upon her. but she found an ax and killed both.' The l child's entrails ware torn out and dragging

,| on tho floor. nTheJittie one cannot possi- j bly live. ££ A big shipment of firearms has been received at the United States Arsenal in In- j dianapolis. comprising 50,000 of the latest pattern breech-loading forty-five caliber j Springfield rifle*. It took twenty-oaocars to transport the guns from the factory at Springfield, Mass. Nothing sensational is attributed to the shipment. The storageroom at the government manufactory is overcrowded. They are stored herein the main arsenal building. The Diamond plate-glass-works of Ko- • kotno, already covering twelve acres of ground and having sixteen acres of floor space, is being greatly enlarged. A large four-story pot-house is being built, which will Increase its quite an ex- ; tent. This plant of immence buildings with its eight hundred employes will soon be lighted by electricity. The company is putting in an electric light plant, as the establishment is kept in operation night and day. It'bas never shut down for a dgy since it started four years ago. John Johnson, of Fort Wayne, suspected his wife of infidelity, and on the 20th left home ostensibly to go to the j country but in reality did i city. He returned home at midnight and met a man in front of his house whom he took to be his wife’s companion. An an- > gry altercation ensued followed by a ter- i rible struggle, Johnson using a slung shot and beer bottle as weapons and the stranger wielding a dirk with such effect that Johnson was fatally stabbed, dying j an hour later. The stranger escaped. '■ Johnson before his death said he knew i who he was but refused to divulge his : name. It was afterward discovered that his name is Oscar Stroyer, an ex-railroad man. He had been out with some com- j panions, who were taking him home aftei f he had become very much under the in- .| fiuence of liquor. In front of Johnson’s residence he had broken away from them j and started back down town. He mel Johnson, and, being supposed to be his j wife's paramour, was attacked as stated. ! Whether or not he is the party Johnson 1 was geeßing is not known.