Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Edinburgh will have water-works. Somerset is excited over spurious coin. A mad dog sejore prevailed at Vincennes, Tuesday. The Aylesworth posteffioe was robbed, Thursday. ■. .< Ohio river navigation is suspended d|n account of ico. Porter county is pestered with lightning rod swindlers. John Schilt, near Bremen, cut a tree and was killed by its fall. JQenry Deal, a helpless invalid at jEnglish* became SLaddealyinsane, Fridaii The finest school building in Wabash Was destroyed by-fire, Monday evening, J. W. Bri)l& Co., jewelers, of Laporte, have.ass gued. Liabilities, $25,p00: assets* ?10,0:xi, Alexander Roberts was crushed to death at Brazil, Monday, by an engine at tli° found house. Chicago capitalists are negotating for twelve hundred acres of land in Madison county for factory purposes. Seven stores and the at Mulberry, Clinton county, were raided by burglars, aud much booty secured, George Zion, the missing saloon-keeper of Sheridan, appears to have been a bankrupt. and guilty of numerous forgeries. Win. F. Hutchings, a farmer and stock trader near New Washington has mr.de an assignment. Liabilities, $0,000; assets ss,'*oo. Simon St.alcup, of Vincennes, is under Federal indictment for violating tho election law. He voted in a precinct in which he had no legal residence. Subscriptions to a fund for the purpose of securing; Sam Jones, the Georgia evangelist, for a series of meetings at Kokomo, have been opened. Paul Gearhart, of South Bend, aged fourteen, was so delighted at recoiviug a pair of skates that he uttered a cry of joy and fell to the floor dead from heart failure. Adolphus Jones (colored), janitor of the Spencer county court house for the past eight years, was found dead in the and! tor’s office. He was subject to heart disease. The Earl Furniture one of the heaviest furuitur; firms of Salt Lake City, has failed. Dull times, caused by the low price of silvor, is given as the cause. '1 Stamboul, tho world's champion stallion, arrived at Terre Haute, and was placed In eharge of Bndd Doble_ along with Nancy Hanks and other great | flyers. As the result of a quarrel over a gamjf ‘ craps” at Jeffersonville, Frank Chapman had his skull fatally fractured by a hatchet wielded by Marshall Hall. Both men are colored. Tho Doiaware county commissioners cut down thcTbills of tho Muncle Times, Her. aid aud News, for printing election baH lots, from $591 to 8J75. The papers wil 1 me for the difference. Sheriff Emmett, of Marlon county has determined to test the fee and salary law claiming that tho new law does not repea. certain parts of the old, and will briug the disputed (mints into court. "73. M. Prdston. of Indianapolis, numbers ninonghis Christmas gifts au ancient coin, xf whose genuineness he has proof, of the period of Arsacaidae, who lived iu the third century before Christ.

Gabriel Mattox, of Indianapolis, and Miss Lena Rutledge, of Terre Haute, have been united in marriage. The bride and groom are mutes, and sa were seven of the attendants at the wedaing | George M. Lutes, of Rockport, while on bis deathbed, received a pension check for j [950. He was barely able to sign his name. !but it gave him much comfort to know ■ that his family was thus provided for I Ernest Hummel], president of the Jn N []3J»na Racing Association, which bas'es- | tarnished itself at Roby, lias brought sui t in Chicago against Edward Corrigan and the Chicago Jodrnal, claiming $15),000 damages for libol. Lon Law, of Marietta, rendered to the authorities at Shclbyvllle, saying that he had shot ills brother Fraulc for abusing his mother, amt that Frank was dangerously wounded, The ballot took effect in the groin. Mrs. A. D. Fleming, seventy-five year 3 old. died at Brazil, Friday. The deceased was one of the earliest set tlers of Olay county, and also one of the wealthiest,. She received over $150,000 royalty for coal takou from one farm at ono time. Her second husband, who survives her. Is a.bo-’t forty-fivo years old. Mrs. John C. Wingate, of Montgomery county,badly injured while getting off the cars by the sudden start of the train, secured judgment against tho Clover-Leaf Railway Company for (11,0(0. Her hits' band has also been awardod J2.4C0 because of the injuries sustained by his wife. William Johannlngsmoyer, near Frceiandsvillc, while talking with a friend, leaned his hands upon a shotgun which ho was carrying, and rested his head on his bunds. “An accidental, discharge of the gun carried away both hands and a part of his jaw. lie lived twenty-four houri before death relieved him. Douglass Mills, fourteen years old, of Montgomery county, while crossing the Rig Four bridge over Sugar crook, wa 9 struck by a train. He fell thirty feet, striking an embankment, t and a gun he was carrying wa3 discharged, the load entering his knee and necessitating the amputation of the leg. An unknown party placed dynamite In the fuel used by Andrew Blckott aud family. near Vaipurajso, and while the family was gathered about the stove there was a lively explosion. Afrs. llickel was seriously hurt, and there is fear that t.vo children were permanently b'iudcd. The house was badly wrecked. Tho Torro Haute police have received word that Ellsworth Wyatt, a memborof the Dalton gang, arrested whilo con scaling himself near Torre Haute,will be tried lu Oklahoma*for attempted murder. There is #1,200 reward for Wyatt as the murderer of Constable Bonsai I, near Green (burg, in Kansas, but his surrendm to the Oklahoma authorities prevents payment. A masked man went to the home of MrWheeler. of Jhdsou. Wuea Ill's. Vheeler r , ,

opened the door the would-be assassin attempted to shoot, bot the woman grabbed tho weapon and there was a struggle for possession. Incidentally AW gun wa ß discharged, badly shattering Mrs. Wheeler's right hand. George Hutton, accused of the crime, is under acrest. It was discovered, Tuesday, at the Prison South, that & coal-cart driver has for some time been smuggling whisky to some of the eonvicts, and that those who Were assigned to keep up fireS in Some of the shops and the engine room became intoxicated and went tc sleep, letting the steampipes freeze up. Thcdriver has been shut out and an investigation is being made. Scverai attempts, have been made to wreck the engine furnishing motive power for the Evansville picture-molding factory. Itccontly the engineer discovered that a heavy paving brick had been placed on the lever .of the safety valve, and that tho boiler Ivas carrying twenty pounds more steam than safety warranted. Again* tho valve leading from the boiler was found to bo broken. ‘ Tho Montgomery County Orphans’ nome. a very large frame building, was burned to the ground Monday night, together with most, of the furnishings. Tho fire originated in the furnace, and tho building wa3 doomed before the trouble was discovered. There were between twenty and thirty small children in the building, all escaped. Tho building was insured for $4,000. Jacob Figert, a prominent and wealthy carriage manufacturer of Disko, became paralyzed on a Big-Fear passenger train* Tuesday evening. Tho conductor, believing him drunk, pnt£him off at North Manchester, leaving him in an unconscious condition in a freight house. The unfortunate man was discovered an hour later and taken to a hotel near by. Everything was dono to relieve the patient, but lie never regained consciousness and died on Wednesday morning. Patents have been issued to the following Indianians: C. Bolenhaugh and E. B. Wagner. Warsaw, bolting reotj T. B. Deniston, Pern, trawl line; W. and J. Fallcy, j Lafayette, carbureter; S. E. Harsh, Wa- | bash, overdraw-check loop; W. B. Hos- | ford, Mishawaka, feed-water purifier; B* ! A. Husbands, Indianapolis, baby jumper; L. Koss, Indianapolis, machine for making ornardental wire: E. P. Matthews. Indianapolis. exhibiting case; I. It. McCormick, Logansport, car brake; 15. F. Osborn, Nora, and J. B. Harcburt, Augusta, farrowing pen for swine; L. K. .Royer, Anderson, preserving can; R. D. O. Smith, Mishawaka, lubricating journal box; R. E. Stephenson, Indianapolis, valvo operating mechanism; L. .Townsend, Evansville, harness suspending device; It., D. P. and C. Voorhees. Flora, Ironing table; Sardinia and S. A, Win tars, For tland, bodi kin and stitch-ripper; S. and S. A. Winters, Portland, guide for sewing machine- . ■*