Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1892 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Elkhart has a new bank. Waterloo is roller-skating. Shelbyville has free mail delivery. 2 Greensburg is short on dwellings. Seymoure wants a new P. O. building. Evansville has numerouss sandbaggers Eli Bonewits—Wabash—penitentiary—forgery. Richmond’s court house will cost a million dollars. Decatur county the 20th voted to purchase all its toll roads. Henryville schools have been closed on accountof the prevalence of dipt.heria, Redkcy has doubled its population in a year. TC now TTas iTiree glass factories. Sixteen pots have been put In operation in tho new DePauw glass factory at Alexandria. James W. Anderson, the richest man of Rush county, is dead. He owned 5,000 acres of land. Benjamin Murphy, of Wabash county, was kicked in the face by a horse. bursting his eye ball. Mrs. Mary Frame, prophetess of Richmond,’prophecies that the world will eeme Toahendin JSSS! —- The feasibility of establishing an aluminum factory at Noblesville is being eoriously considered. " A horse belonging to Max Munty, of Cambridge City, recently died at an age in excess of forty-three years. Tho Hammond oleomargarine factory turns out 40,000 pounds daily, and tho product sells readily at 18 cents a pound. An official of the New Ross Fair Association contradicts tho report tjiat tho association has concluded to hold no moro meetings. There aro twenty “quart houses” and “speak-easics” doing business at Anderson, against which tho Liquor League has declared- war. The residence occupied by Josie Springer, at Mt. Vernon, was badly wrecked by dynamite, one end of the building being torn to pieces. The great sink hole near Westville, in which the Wabash railway lias dumped many hundreds of tons of earth aud piling is at last permanently filled. James Lamberton. of Goshen, attempted to steal a ride to Elkhart, but fell under the train. Both feet were crushed, aud one leg was amputated near the knee. Miss Clara Paxton, a beautiful girl o* Richmond, is looked upon as hopelessly insane, the result of religious excitement during the Woodworth revival four years ago. James Rhodes, a prominent citizen of Andrews, six miles south of Huntington, committed suicide Wednesday night by cutting his throat. Poor health is the assigned cause. Ed Jones, colored, of Clark county, who headed a crowd of livo negroes and assaulted John Hedgecock on tho night ot the election, has beon sentenced to live years' imprisonment. Mrs. C. Holier, of Ft, Wayne, placed her child, eleven months old, in tho crib, roclr ing the little one to sleep, and then busiedhorself with other cares. An hour later the child was found dead. _ The deer which was first seen in nendricks county xvas phased through Boone into Delaware county, and Wtta finaHy captured alive by men and boys near Cadiz iu Henry county. It is a fine buck. Lyman Beck, seventeen years old, of New Buffalo, pointed a revolver at Joseph Beck, his brother, one year his senior, and thinking the weapon unloaded, pulled the trigger. The bullet took-effect in Joseph's kidneys, and he will die. Mrs. John M. Clark and daughter, of ivi j.niiiav Irnj, wiurwcrc pitsscngcrs urrttre'" Indianapolis & Vincennes train and wero carried throo quarters of a mile beyond the station, sued the company for damages, and compromised for SIOO and $73 respectively. While Mrs. Thomas Knickerbocker was standing in the corridor of tho court house at Frankfort, talking with a daughter aud holding a grandchild in her arms, she sud dcnly fell heavily to the floor autkexpired of heart disease. The child was bruised In tho fall. Several months ago Katie Hood, a girl of Connersviile, was murdered, and her body was found floating in the canal reservoir. It is now claimed that her spirit can bo seen floating over the water almost nightly, aud there is great alarm aniong thc suoerslitlous. John N. Girton, of Putnam county voted for Jackson in 1826 and for Cleveland in 1892, and tho votes were cast not. ono mile from each other. Do lies voted for every Democratic candidate for President from Jaekson to tho present timo, Recently himself and wifecelebratcd thei 1 ' sixtieth wedding anniversary. Mrs. Martha Hannes, of Porter county, dismantelcd a house which Bert Harris erected ou a farm adjoining her own, and she also tried to shoot Harris. Arrest followed, and on her failure to give bonds to keep tho pcaco she was committed. She swears she will kill Harris when releasedJames L. Gibson, near Muncie, fonmi a copper colored stone of peculiar formation lying in his chicken coop, aud beside it tv mangled chickdli, which' tho stouo hud evidently struck in its descent. He claims that tho fragment \va3 a piece of the comet which was wandering around loose some days ago. It weighs six ounces. 6 A robber shot and killed a soloon koepor at Greencastlc, Thursday night. The saloon keeper was counting his money when the robbor entered aud ordered a drink when tho saloon keener turn to Wait oni' him, his money was demanded at the muz zle of a revolver. He reached for his own revolver, when the robber fired, making a mortal wound. At a pumpkin and corn show held a* Martinsville Friday the prlzo pumpkin weighed 71 pounds and 7 ounces; tho sec ond 92 pounds 6 ounces. In the corn con test the dozen ears receiving the first prize weighed 10 pounds 1 ounce; the second 13 pounds 1 ounce. The prizes "fivo dollar pair of shoes to each of the first und a two dollar aud one half pair to the second. James T. Young, defeated in hfS application to establish a saloon at Vallonia, due to the temperance sentiment, started a restaurant atjSeymour. Business was

dull and debts accrued, and l» > fit v despondency, Sunday, he kissed Ms wife' farewell and committed suicide by shoot' hag himself through the breast. He was forty-one years old and tfie fa£er of three children. George W. Reed, press agent for the Leslie Davis Dramatic Company, while at Ft. Wayne iiufuTgedlh a~ generalnspreer Then he retired to bis room at the Hotel Jlich and Indicted two notes, one of them reading* “God bless one that I love. Keep her pure and "good.” The other: “Ft. Wayne is a den of thieves and no good.” A ftef this lio retired to bed and turned on the gas. He was found in an unconscious condition and died soon, after removal to the hospital. He had hnt fnp- : cents left. Kokomo is in the midst of a natural, gar row of prodigious proportions. The rival companies which have been warring among themselves and supplying free fuei to consumers ail summer, have made up and are now trying to collect rates in excess of those named in the ordinance embodying their franchise. This hasaroused a storm of indignation and more than fifty suits have been tiled against: the companies for violation of tho ordinance. City Attorney Shirloy is proceeding by mandamus Injunction, and otherwise against the gas companies, aud is cribfident of defeating the extortion. Kokomo, which lies in the heart of tho gas belt, and which has been enjoying free gas for tho past six months, owing to tho fight between the rival gas companies: hereafter will have lo dance to lively rates, which go into effect on tho Ist. The rates for winter include $1.50 per month for cook stove, $1.50 for the first heater, $1 for the second and seventy-five cents for the third. Each additional heater seven-ty-five cents. Grates are supplied at $4.50 per month, and factories at live cents po r 1,000 feet. The great coni in u ms tank system wasintroduced iu the big window glass works of Mating, Hart & Co., at Muncio, at a cost of SIOO 0)0, The workers, however* are dissatified with the system, which is comparatively new; and have furnished a* new schedules of wages, patterned after tho Jeanette (Pa,) factory. The management offered to guarantee wages ranging from $120,96 to $270 every four weeks, working six and two-thirds hours daily with-the workmen at liberty to make as much more as they desired. This offer was refused and workers quit. Nearly 301 aro out. The management claims to have been mistreated by its employes and a compromise will bo hard to reach. An attempt-was made te assassinate the Rev. W. H. Tomes, the venerable pastor of tho Congregational church at Lake Station, the only religious organization in that village. While Mr. Tomes was seated by his fireside a shot was fired through the window, barely missing both aud wife, and AJr. Tomes hurried to the door in time to see two men running away. Mr, Tomes is known as a vigorons preach, er, and his pulpit utterances have given offense to tho lawless. The attempt to kill him has resulted in the formation of a vigilanco committee to prelect the pastor and his family. There are some roomy theaters in this country, but none that comes up to the old theater of Emilius Seavrius, at Rome, which comfortably seated eighty thousaud persons, ft was Iqudt 1,950 years a<ro.