Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Scarlet fevertaepidemic in Hobart The Elwood tin-plate mill will be enlarged. Monrovia has a plague of rats, and cats are in demand. Evansville reports forty alarms of fire since New Years. --t—--------A bi-chloride of gold institute will be established at Seymour. John Shinn attempted suicide at Anderson with “rough on rats.” Jeffersonville is enjoying an epidemic of mumps and a prison investigation. A small child was frozen to death at Opedeo during the recent cold snap. B Leroy Moss died at a charity ball at Anderson, while dancing with his wife. The Big Four Depot at Jamestown was destroyed by Are Thursday morning. Rabbits in the vicinity of Huntington are doing great damage to fruit trees. Walter Gilmour, aged seven years, was killed by an electric car in Terre Haute. It is probable that Uncle Sam will abandon his recruiting office at Terre Haute. A child weighing less than twcrtqiounds was born of Swedish parents at Goshen. Lebanon’s electric light plant is badly damaged by the frost and the city is now in the dark. Ingraham & Schultz, hardware dealers of Clay City, have assigned with ample assets to pay liabilities. Rushville is agitated over the death of an infant that appears to have been strangled by its mother. 3 Capitalists at Kennard have platted an addition and will bore for gas, to be used for manufacturing purposes. A meeting of farmers at Pickard’s Mill condemned the action of the so-called road Congress recently held at Indianapolis. George Fellows and his son William died at Columbus withip an hour of each other, and the wife of the former was found dead in her bed last Friday. _ Morgan H. Weir, of La Porte, has entered suit against Judge Noyes for 810,000 damages for striking his name as an attorney from the bar docket. An unknown man was found dead on the ice in the middle of the river at Columbus, with his throat cut. He had apparently been dead for several days. Thousands of quails are reported dying in Carroll county and adjoining counties of starvation. In many localities the farmers are feeding the birds. The steamer “General Tipton,” which carries passengers on White river from Rockford to Columbus in the summer seaj son, has been sunk by the ice. r— —

Tho saloon which was moved from Milford to North Webster, against the vigorous protest of the residents of the lastnamed place, has been.blown to atoms by dynamite. A great revival Is being worked up by the Kokomo press, who have tendered unlimited space to the city pastors, and a temporary tabernacle will be built for the coming of Sam Jones. John G. Tennant, one of the pioneers of Greencastle, died of paralysis. Wednesday. He had resided there for over fifty years, and lacked but a few days of completing his eighty-eighth year. In the circuit court at Seymour, Thursday, John W. Holmes, of Medara, a prominent citizens, was sentenced to jail for ten days, fined 825 and disfranchised for ten years for bribing a voter. Postmaster Greiner, of Terre Haute, has been notified by the Department that the Terre Haute postoffico comes under the amendment to the postal rules recently promulgated by the President. George M. Ray, of Shelbyville, under indictment at Liberty for selling 82,000 fa fraudulent warrants to banker J. P. Kennedy, as is alleged in the complaint, will not be tried until the April term. Gabriel Godfrey, the last Miami chief l living near Peru, killed a deer near that city, Monday. The hunt was participated in by many people and was as exciting as the old-time sport of forty years ago.

Mrs. Henry Nott,of Flkhart,while waiting for a train at Kendallville, was approached by a heavily-veiled lady, who asked her to care for a child in arms for a few moments. Mrs. Nott still has the child. As the result of a number of boxing and knock-out exhibitions given in Huntington by boxers, Tuesday night the City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting any fight or exhibition of pugilistic skill in the city in the future. The late George C. Dorland, of Laporte, Is said to have canceled 83,500 life insurance just before starting on the trip which cost him his life tn the L. E. & W. wreck near Peru. He claimed he was carrying top much insurance. Hon John A. Cartwright has become a partner and resident manager of the Bowen bank, at Delphi. The Bowen family, as a result of the attempt to collect back taxes, have, with one exception, taken residence fa other States. Herman Worth, of South Bend,has been placed under 815,000 bond to await the result of an assault made on Henry Heinrich nearly two months ago. Worth hit Heinrich on the head with a sharp-edged hammer, cutting a hole through the skull. At New Albany officers found the dies, molds, fifty unfinished dollars and about two pounds of metal, the outfit of the alleged counterfeiters, James Fox, Thomas White and William McCombs, who were arrested last Friday and taken to Indianapolis. Harry Griffitt, sixteen years old, a student of DePauw University and the son of Dr. R. E. Griffitt, clerk of Morgan county, who mysteriously disappeared two weeks ago, is at Minneapolis, Minn. He writes back that ft is too warm for him at Greencastle, and that, having found employment, he wii! remain where he is. Elias Thompson, seventy-three yean old, of Warren county, wandered away from the home of his sow, and his body was found in a cornfield about two miles away. It was covered with ice and snow and was frozen solid. The body had evidently been exposed to the elements for several days. BThe wife of Eli Miller, who resides near Valley City, gave birth, a day or two ago, to four children, all of whom died. This makes seven children which this lady has given birth to within the last twelve months. Nearly a year ago she had three children at one birth. They died while quite young. Sam Henninger, a fifteen year convict at the Prison South, five yean ago, out of pique, rWSolved to talk no more, and has obstinately held to hla resolution. He uses pencil and paper when he desires to com-

nranicate with anyone, and al! effort* to induce him to talk have failed. He has five years yet to serve. Eddie Evans, a notorious local crook of Terre Haute, was released from the prison south on the 6th fast, and the warden said to him, as Evans walked away, ”I*ll keep your old job waiting for you.” Evans returned to Terre Haute and sandbagged John Young, of Newport, whom he robbed of a gold watch. Stock fa Bartholomew county has suffered Intensely on account of the recent cold weather, In many cases water was secured by hauling it for miles. The ground being covered with snow for twen-ty-five days many of the farmers claim thatquails in vast numbers have perished, 5 The Chicago Farmers’ Review fa ta article on winter wheat, says: “In Iniana about 70 per cent, of the correspondents report the condition of wheat as good, 12 per cent, report fair and the rest poor. This Is the condition in which It went Into winter quarters, since which there has been little change. Cattle are fa good condition, but very few are being shipped, taking the Siate as a whole.” Wm. O’Daniels is a stout, able-bodied widower of Hazlewood, who bustled several of his children to the county atylum, and with three little boys sheltered himself in a wretched hovel, sending the lads out to work while he did nothing but loaf about the saloons. He also absorbed the wages of the boys fa drink. The “whitecappers” have warned Mr. O’Danieis that he must reform or migrate. " Patents were granted Indianalnventory Tuesday, as follows: C. W. Ctartc. MfshSwaka, plow; R. T. Hollowell, Danville, self-serving table; J. Hook, Union City, hoop-driving machine; C. W. Jeffries, South Bend, gear for children’s carriage; E. B. Shleppy, Crawfordsville, combination beef-mangler; B. F. Showalter. Vai paraiso, musical key and transposition guide. The Anderson Herald notes that a project is revived in that vfactaßy to sink a well through the Trenton rock to the sandstone formation beneath, in hopes of reaching another gas or oil well deposit. In Pennsylvania the best yield of both is obtained from what is locally known as the second sandstone, but the Herald is not sanguine that similar results - will be found in the Indiana gas belt. The police at Vincennes uncovered a lot of stolen property concealed In the house of William Edson, among which was a quantity of clothing belonging to an Indianapolis house. An attempt followed to arrest Edson and his partner, Edward Sands, of Indianapolis, bnt after emptying their revolvers in the direction of the fugitives the officers were compelled to abandon the pursuit. Mrs. Edson and a woman named Numley were placed in jail.

C. V. McAdams, county attorney of Warren county, writes the Indianapolis Journal that the published accounts concerning the defalcation of Treasurer Cronkhite are short of the truth in that they fail to state that Cronkite has left ample resources and perfected arrangements whereby the county and his bondsmen will be fully protected and all things satisfactorily arranged. He claims that the funds are invested in farm's and stock upon which Cronkhite failed to realize in time to avert disaster. George Kline and wife, and Ed, alias “Cockey” Riley, of Terre Haute, having a grievance against Ezra Norton, found him in a saloon, and Cline attacked him with a billiard cue, while Mrs. Cline stood by with drawn revolver, daring any one to interfere. In this she was aided by Riley. Norton was knocked down by the first blow, and Cline continued to beat the unconscious form until his cue was broken in pieces. The trio was arrested'for attempted murder. There is strong probability that Norton will die. The animua of the assault is unknown. „ Augustus Cronkhite, twice elected treasurer of Warren county, is a defaulter for - at least $65,000, and a fugitive from justice. Saturday he attempted to discount SIO,OOO worth of paper at Attica, and also endeavored to obtain a SIO,OOO Joan, but failed. A meeting of his bondsmen—about thirty in number—was called after his flight, and it was found that the treasury did not contain a dollar. One half the bondsmen will be ruined. Cronkhite was not a gambler, though given to extravagant living. Where the money went has not been discovered. It is believed that Cronkhite is in Canada. The Doxey Hotel at Anderson wasshak ■ en from top to bottom by a terrific gas explosion Monday night. The house was full of guests and a regular stampede followed. Fortunately not a single one was injured and the damage to the property is only slight. The lower corner room of the block is occupied by the National Exchange Bank, and it was under the room that the explosion occurred. Fire broke out immediately, and the furniture and fixtures of the bank were destroyed. None of the bank’s papers, booksor notes suffered. The total loss from the explosion and fire will be about SIO,OOO. fully covered by nsuranee. There is some what of a panic among a large portion of the colored population and some white people in Jeffersonville. They claim that the ghost of George Emery, shot through the heart by Henry Holtman two years ago, is walking about the vicinity where he was shot is search of his murderer. All sorts of queer things are reported as being done by the vengeful spirit. People find their doors unaccountably latched or unlatched, as the case may be. Windows and doors left open are found closed, or vice versa, apparently without human agency. The sound „of footsteps is heard at dusk in some of the houses adjoining the scene of the murder, yet no one is ever seen.