Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The fljPPncasHn pnllw. nre raiding the gambling dens. A new Presbyterian church will be built mt Noblesville. Eight dlvomiS Were granted at Noblesville, Thursday. A disastrous fire visited Anderson on Wednesday night. Peru prijles herself on dubs and other social oganizations. A terrific natural gas explosion occurred at Lebanon, Wednesday. '• Eight business houses were burned out at Montpelier on the 16th. Willljwn Templeton, of Windfall, was killed while felling a tree. Wabash county horticulturists fear ihc._ c»ld has killed off the fruit. The Trcmont Hotel at Wabash has been closed as a result of litigation. The CrawfordsvHle Bi-chlorido of Gold Institute has gone into liquidation. A bloody fight between two section men occurred at CrawfordsvHle, Thursday. A babe three months old was frozen to death in Indianapolis, Monday night. Wtitiam Hazlett, of Whiting, is preparing to run the Niagara Rapids in a barrel. A serious explosion occurred in the Midland steel works at Muncie, Monday. Ten thousand men are at work In Lake county harvesting ice for the Chicago market. The I. 0. O. F. lodge of Noblcsviile celebrated its fortieth anniversary, Wednesday night. A Law and Order League has 'been organized at Wabash, and a fund of SIO,OOO will lie raised to-furthor its designs. 6 A driving circuit has been organized which includes South Jscnd, Plymouth, Laoortc, Crown Point and Valparaiso. Benjamin Woodruff, a young man sixteen years old, was killed in the coal mines at Westfield by the roof caving in. English claims the distinction of being the coldest spot in the State. The mercury got down to 30 degrees below zero, Sunday. George Duncan, a colored barber, was shot and perhaps fatally wouuded at Indianapolis, Monday night, by an unknown assailant. The right of way for the electric line from Marion to Jonesboro has been let by the county commissioners to the Marion compnny. Wm. Nolan, an old citizen of Francesville, was found dead in his barn Tuesday. It is supposed the death was the result of heart disease. 4 A bad wreck,occurred at Hobart, on the P. Ft. W. &C. railroad, Wednesday night. Two passenger trains collided and several persons were injured. Lewis Hahn, a well-known glass- worker, was frozen to death at Dunkirk, Jay county, during the cold snap. Hahn recently worked at Muncie. Mrs. Margaret Harrison,among the older pioneer mothers of Hamilton county, died an Wednesday at her home at the advanced age of eighty-two years. Agents of manufacturing establishments m Ohio and Illinois are said to be in the "lay county block coal fields buying all the coal that can be found. John Rogers, of Wabash, failing to an »wcr questions when summoned before the grand jury, has been committed to jail inti] his memory Is refreshed. Alexander Campbell’s residence, near Delphi, burned down, and the aged moth jr of Mr. Campbell, an Invalid for years, was saved with great difficulty. TV_ L. C. Parker, of Liberty, has perfected a process for tho manufacture of gas for heating and illuminating purposes that he claims will revolutionize the business. Albert Kuhn, molder, of Michigan City, While walking in the gang-way with molten metal, slipped and fell, and tho metal was splashed over him. He was frightfully burned. Hon. John W. Buskirk died at Bloomington, Monday, of Bright’s disease. He had been an invalid for several years, and for the past throe years had been confined to an invalid’s chair. ! The Eastern Indiana Cattle-breeders’* Association, which was organized at Muncie, elected Lewis Moore, of Delaware county; president; and its. S. Chty- ' pool, of Muncie, secretary. Miss Effio Hopkins, of Garrett, while standing on the porch of her father’s residence, shortly after dark, was fired upon by an unknown party, the bullet burying in the partition against which she was leaning. J. F. Romick, living six miles sonth of Frankfort, met death Monday while cutting down a tree, a large limb striking him and killing him instantly. Ho leaves a widow and eight children, the oldest but ten years old. John R. McFee, a prominent attorney * at Indianapolis, and partner of ojf-Judge Norton, on being confronted with tho charge of having forged his partner’s name to a note for S3OO, confessed and has fled to parts unknown. Tho wife of Col. Samuel Milroy, of Delphi, went to Cincinnati two months ago to visit friends and failed to return. Colonel Milroy has called upon tho Cincinnati police to assist in finding her, The lady is the Colonel’s third wife. At opening of Monday’s afternoon session committee on agriculture recommended passage of bill to authorize State Board to hold certain lands. Roll call for "Introduction of hills brought out a grist of new measures none of which are of general Interest. Whilo the Evansville fire department was answering an alarm, Tuesday night, a hook and ladder truck overturned. Captain Jacob Beck’s back was broken, driver John Welsh had his skull crushed and Joseph Meyer suffered a broken hip. The two first named will die. Tho pepsin Cereal Company has been organized at Huntington, to manufacture pepsin, oat meal, and other cereal food by a now process, for which patents have been asked. The company is well backed and it proposes to turn out about ten tons a day when thoroughly started. In anticipation of an Increased tax on whisky by congressional enactment,which . law will not affect produce already in bonded warehouse, the Wabash Distilling Company at Terre Haute Is consuming 53,000 bushels of grain per week and has 4,561 barrels of whisky in warehouse. Patents were granted Indlanians as follows, Tuesday: F. Anderson, Shoals, wheeled harrow; A. Baker, Fort Wayne, apparatus for preserving foods; W. H. Bending and S. Tilkery, Fort Wayne, sleigh attachment for bicycles; P. Hack, Michigan City, tension dovlco for wire fences; J. E. Hart, Fowler, governor for

mechanical- motors; J. S. Moore, Flat Rock,, can-filling machine; R. Porch, Spiceland, step ladder. During a general drunk in a quart house liam Good struck George Hancock over the head with a bar of iron. Good was sent to the work house, while Hancock was conveyed to his home. Some days later Hartcock's injuries developed erysipelas, and ho is dying. During the excitement incident to a stirring revival in the Buffalo schoolhouse, in Jefferson township, Morgan county, the Rev. Curtis Teague is credited with prophesying that a religious war would soon 4>reak out in this country, the influence of which- would extend over twenty years. William Moore and Kate Leslie, of Breekonridgecounty, Kentucky, and Henry S. Banes and Katie Mills, of Henrycounty, Kentucky, walked across the Ohio on the ice, Wednesday afternoon, at Jeffersonville, and were married* by Justice Hawes. They were distinctively hightoned, and looked upon their elopement as one of the romantic episodes of their lives. _ Burglars kicked in a olate-glass door in J6hn Lusher’s store, at Elkhart, after night fall, and stole S2OO In goods. They also kicked sh a plate-glass window in F. O. Shaw’s store. William Thomas’s place was entered in the same manner, by breaking the glass, and a quantity of clothing was taken. The plunder, however, was abandoned by the wayside, owing to the briskness of pursuit. The situation on the Ohio grows more serious every day. It is solid from end to end, and a sudden thaw would sweep millions of dollars’ worth of property out of existence. Worst of all, a coal famine has set in at Jeffersonville: Coal is worth $5 a cart load, while millions of bushels lie in sight, but hemmed in by the gorge. It is no better below. A syndicate, headed by Postmaster-Gen - eral Wanaker, United Stales Treasurer E. H. Nebeker aud Maj. George W. Steele, has secured an option on 360 a«pesof land at Marion, and the approach of spring is expected to wake up a great boom for Marion. Mr. Nebeker, after the expiration of his term at Washington, proposes to remove his home from CovingtOp to Marion. The handsome farm-house of Lewis Leedy, near Anoka, was totally destroyed by fire at 4 o’clock Sunday morning, entailing a loss of $3,500. The family barely had time, to escape with their lives, and were compelled to go thinly clad through the snow and at a tempi rature of 20 degrees below zero In order to reach the nearest house, over a mile away. Much dissatisfaction is expressed by the county officials at Anderson, over the operation of the present fee and salary law. The only officers who arc affected as yet by the new law are the sheriff and treasurer, who were elected in November. The new law gives the sheriff but $2,000 per annum, and out of this ho is compelled to pay for two riding bailiffs and one office deputy. Sheriff Van Dyke finds that lie can not make both ends meet, so he threatens to resign his office. Jefferson Boughnan, ono of the most prominent men of Brazil, and one of the foremen in the rolling mill of the Central iron and steel-works was probably fatally Injured Monday morning. Ho had climbed a ladder to fix a line shaft, when he was caught in the couplings and whirled with lightning speed around the shaft. He grasped the shaft and hung on until his coat was torn from him, when he was rescued from his perilous position. Several ribs were broken, while he was terribly crushed about the chest. He is sixty years old, married, and has held several public positions of trust. About 6:30 o’clock, Wednesday night, as the minors’ train, containing about three hundred miners, was standing on the Center Point division of the Vandalta line at Knightsville, east of Brazil, the Contcr Point local freight dashed around the curve and crashed into it. The freight engine telescoped the caboose of the miners’ train and forced it through the end of the ear ahead. The engine, caboose and two cars of miners were dumped into the ditch upon their sides. The miners of the entire train were thrown into a heap. Wat Llewellin is probably fatally Injured. Ed Mitchell, Sr., fell upon the stove and was badly burned. John Havercamp’s face was seriously cut. Wm. Shackleford and Jas. Elder were brnised about the body. A 1 German named Schmidt was badly crushed between tho benches, while James Woods, , colored, sustained a broken jaw. Almost j every man on the train was more or less injured.