Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Rashvflle gas Is weak. , There is a mad dog scare at Paoll. The Delaware river is frozen over at Camden. 3 There are forty-six lady teachers in the Muncie schools. Diphtheria is epidemic at Grand view,on the Ohio river. A new railway is projected from Bedford to Columbus. A Sunday rest league has been organized at Crawfordsville. A severe earthquake shock was felt at Jeffersonville, Thursday night. Edward Fleming, a cigar manufacturer of Shelbyviile,has disappeared. A new gas company with $200,000 capital has been organized at Anderson. Trouble with the glass blowers at Hartford City continues and a strike is feared. The annual exhibition of the Indiana Poultry Association opened at Indianapolis, Friday. W. J. Murphy closed a successful series of gospel temperance meetings at Seymour Sunday night. Fred Keiper, aged and infirm, fell out of bed and was frozen to death at Evansville, Wednesday night. Henry Howard paid eighty cents for an old chest at an auction in Jeffersonville and afterward found $3,000 in it. As the result of a quarrel about a girl, at Anderson, Dudley Mas.on shot off the end of Frank Cranfield’s nose. Mason escaped. William Porterfield became entangled in the hoisting apparatus at the Sholbyville ice houses, Monday, and was dangerously injured. E. D. Bitner. principal oi the Frankton schools, Irritated over village gossip, quietly abandoned his position and disappeared. Mr. Eldred, of Colfax, has a camp chair which was used by General Grant through out the campaign of the battle of the Wilderness. Two hundred cases of measles aro reported at BrazilI’and 1 ’ and children of infected families arc forbidden from attending the public schools. The Crescent Paper Mill at Hartford City was badly wrecked by a natural gas explosion, Monday, and three men were seriously injured. 3 A natural gas explosion in the regulator house attached to the Crescent papermill at Hartford City, badly burned Chas. Dale, Perry Daily and Ed Smith. Emanuel Lutz, near Wabash, has a pet eagle, which roosts in his vicinity and feeds from offal thrown to him. The eagle is very tame and is of unusual size. A well-dressed young man entered the storeof Davis & Bro., at Colfax, in the early ovening, and. after selecting a ring, sprang to the door and his horse, and galloped off before the firm could interpose. 6 Last summer the son of P. H. McCormick, of Columbus, accidentally shot Adam Hill, and Hill has recovered >SOO damages from the boy’s father. Since the shooting of Hill the boy shot Himer Morgasson, crippling him for life. A family, which included the parents and three children, were found camping in a wagon near Greencastle Junction while the thermometer was below zero. The lather was ill of pneumonia, while the children were nearly frozen. A desperate fight occurred at Forest Chapel, eight miles southwest of Anderson. Sunday, as the result of long standing - feuds. Communion services were in progress when the trouble began. Four men were seriously injured and the build- - ing was wrecked.

Governor Matthews t\eld a reception at his parlors in the Capitol, Monday evening, and the attendance was snfficlent to crowd the vast corridors. A ball was given, and the elite of the capital, with a large attendance from other towns of the State, danced in honor of the new Gov- : ernor. — ; — — ; 4 John Singer, of Richmond, suddenly became insane, and after driving his wife and daughter out of the house, he barricaded himself In an upper room and defied the universe. The police made several attempts to capture him, but the click of his rifle deterred the officers from coming within range. At last accounts he was master of the situation. Governor Chase granted a number of pardons, Monday, during the last hours of his term of office. Ellen Waton, life convict from Decatur county, was paroled. Isaac Sanders, life convict, of Clay county, was paroled. Charles Conway, of Delaware county, was pardoned. Jasper Hill, of Clinton county, was released on his good behavior. The farmers along the W’abash and Tippecanoe rivers will retaliate for the recent arrests by State Fish Commissioner Dennis for having seines in their possession, by warning all anglers to keep off their lands. Judge Reynolds, in a decision at Delphi, holds that the mere possession of a seine does not furnish prima facio evidence that the possessors intended to use it for unlawful purposes, and has dismissed a number of these cases. The death of John F. Webster, seventyone years old, terminates the damage suit brought by the deformed half sister of his wife, who alleges to have been criminally assaulted. The plaintiff for thirty years was an Inmate of the Webster home. It Is alleged that she was instigated by outsiders to bring the suit. Webster was a member of the First Baptist church of Elkhart and very highly regarded. Ed McMurray. of Laportc. found his gasoline stove in flames, and he grabbed it and started for the open air. En route the end of the stove struck a chair and a quantity of burning gasoline was thrown over him At the door he gave the burning mass a toss and it landed against his mother, who was entering the house. Instantly her clothing was a mass of flames, but the lady threw herself Into the snow and escaped with painful burns. McMurray was severely burned before the mis chief was suppressed. William Shettcriy and family, of Jackson township, Madison county, wereawakeifod at midnight by the burning of their home, and the parents barely had time to seize their three children and escape to the open air before the roof fell in. Nothing else was saved. The night was cold and the snow was deep, while the nearest refuge was half a mile away The children were badly frozen before shelter was found, and Mr. and Mrs. Shettcriy were also seriously frosted. George Castor, of M uncle, built a new , residence, into which lie was prepanng to I remove his family. While he and his son

•i ~ r John, nine years old, were lighting the fires, preparatory to wanning up •' rooms, there was an explosion at nat gas. The lad was blown through a second - story window, but he fell into a snow-drift and escaped material hurt. The clothing of Mr. Castor was set on firs, and the flames were not extinguished anti] he ran out and buried himself in the snow. He was aesereiy burned.. The building was badly wrecked by the explosion. A fine dwelling belonging toGus Vernet, south of Bourbon, was entirely consumed by fire, Friday. Among the burned articies were thirty fine quilts, which were valued at #2O each. Mrs. Vernet, being a German, had a large amount of fine “crazy work,” which was all destroyed. She valued fit alone at£s6oo. The total loss t» *3,600, partly insured. The cause of tbs fire was a defective flue.