Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fairmont will have waterworks. Petersburg will have electric lights. Frankfort held a Blaine memorial service Monday night The manufacture of artificial gas has been abandoned at Andersoh. Wm. Ice, living near Summitville, has gone Insane, due turetigiona excitement. _ Chas. Fleming, of Anderson, was given a year north for passing a (50 confederate bill. In the first city election at Alexandria, tho Democracy triumphed in the election of John E. Sherman as mayor. Charles Crist, of Warsaw, was carried through the runway and dangerously injured while assisting in storing ice. Taylhr Mc.Connaha, of Centerville, a prominent horseman, is mysteriously missing. He is said to be financially embarrassed. , -r— - Madison county claims to have more than 13,000 voters and a population of 52,000. It wants a greater representation in the Legislature. JoeMcGrannahan, of Anderson, while coasting on his sled, struck Mrs. Thomas Barnett, knocking her fully twenty feet. The lady was; dangerously hurt. The complaint Is general against the extravagant waste of natural gas by oil men operating in Jay, Adams and Wells counties, and the Legislature will bo asked to prohibit it. Russel Harrison, backed by the sheriff, seized upon the headquarters of the Delafield Construction Company at Marion, and is now operating the Queen City street railway.

Richard McPherson, a trusted employe of Contractor Claybome, of the Indiana Coal road, is missing, with (600 of Clayborne’s money. The missing man was traced to Brazil. The gas main supplying Peru burst in the middle of the Wabash river, Tuesday morning, throwing the ice into the air and shutting off the fuel from the city for several hours Miss Fannie Kensler, near Wheatland, attempted to cross Flat creek by walking a log, but she slipped off and was drowned. She was seventeen years old, and under betrothal of marriage. John Smith, of St. Louis, a roller, employed in the Indiana iron-works at Muncie, was caught in a coupling and his left arm was torn off. His helper, by great effort, prevented him from being torn to pieces. During revival services at Fowler, Geo. Wadsworth, a prominent man of that vicinity, started to walk out. Instantly the minister shouted, “Bless God, one soul scared.” Mr, Wadsworth is proposing a suit for damages. J. H. Weigan, of Bartholomew county delivered fifty head of hogs at Columbus averaging 450 pounds in weight, and for which he was paid (1,600. This is biggest price paid for hogs in the county since 1865. 5 Joseph Humphrey and Sarah Barnes, as Decatur county, were married, and two hours later Mr. Humphrey found himself defendant in a breach of promise suit instituted by Mrs. Barbara A. Harvey, who claims (2,000 damages. Newton Smith, of Wabash, married a girl named Benfeon, of Tipton county, and refused to live with her. Twa brothers of the bride hunted up the recalcitrant groom and gave him such a beatlug that he is now confined to his bed.

Wm. Walters, of Mun He, Is employed In the transmission of nitro-glycerine over the gas-belt in a wagon and in “shooting” gas wells. Occasionally his wife accompanies him on his perilous trips and recently slie “shot” a well, preparing the “go-devil, 4 ’ and doing thework unassisted. While Sim Henderson, a colored pugilist of Rockport, was calling upon his betrothed he saw “Judge” Jackson, colored, approaching. He looked upon Jackson as a rival, and opened fire with a shot-gun. The side of Jackson’s face was sprinkled with shot and one eye was ruined. It is said that some of the insurance companies have lost so heavily during the past year in the gas belt that they have ceased to issue policies in that section of the State, and have signified a willingness to withdraw from the field. The causes are attributed, first, te carelessness, and secondly, to incendiarism. The tenth annual anniversary of the burning of the Conn band-instrument factory, at Elkhart, was commemorated,Monday night, by a concert, after which Con-gressman-elect Conn made his annual distribution of dividends on the profit-shar-ing basis which he instituted two yean ago. Altogether $14,600 cwas distributed among 108 employes. Patents were Tuesday granted Indiana Inventon as follows: G. J. Clino, Goshen, fence; O. G. Howell and J. M. Horn, Arba, pump; I. Key, assignor of one-half to G. Capron and 8. H. Hahn, Winamac, churn; 8. J r Lamb, New Albany, corn planter; W. S. O’Brien, Lafayette, vehicle seat; G. M. D. Pomeroy and G. H. Webber, Lebanon, potato digger. George Tribelbee, a prominent citizen, at Fort Wayne, was kicked on the leg by a hone some time ago, causing an eruption which it was impossible to heal. Monday while dressing it began bleeding, and all attempts to stanch the flow of blood were ineffectual. In a few moments Tribelbee fainted from loss of blood and died before a doctor could bo called. A flow of natural gas was struck near Leisure, but the well began to fill with water, and the eold weather set In before it cnuld be properly packed. The gas kept oozing up, however, throwing the water out with it, and, as the water kept freezing. the ice piled higher and higher, until it stood a hollow column almost one hundred feet high. Four men and a dog went coor. hunting near English, capturing three oxms. In a quarrel over tho division of the hides a judge was called in who laid aside two of the skins as his fee, and cut up the third into four parts giving each man a piece, and awarded the tail to the dog. A terrible fight resulted among the hunters, but the dog was not injured or involved in any way. Charles Bohannon, who shot and killed' George Doanes, Sunday evening, at Vincennes, was captured Monday morning, at daylight, by Sheriff Bncklee and hlspoeae, at the home of Bohannon’s brother. The prisoner had started, ho says, tor the canebrakes te Kentucky, but stopped to reet,as Ita had Cdveled on foot all night Itohannon expresses deep regret over what ho has done. He says that he has no desire to live, and that ho Would rather be hanged than bear the remorse which, he

fears, he wi!) always feel. George Doanes, whom he killed, was an industrious and respected young mdn. and was engaged to Miss Sallie Madtto, On aceonnt of wiKW.. he was killed by his jealous rival. 4 Further details of the murder of George Doane by Charles Bohannon, a jealous rival, show that Bohannon warned Mis® Salite Madden, with whom they were both enamored, that If she persisted in receiving calls from Donne he would kill him. MissMaddentoldßoirannon thatshewaa—betrothed to Doane and would marry him. The next time Doane called the gkl walked down to the gate to rpeet him. and they were met by Bohannon, who killed Doane in her presence and while she vainly tried to stay his arm. Louis Bender, the convict at the Prison South who escaped two weeks ago and made his way to Kentucky over the ice and by swimming, where he was recaptured, became insane from the exposure. Sunday night he imagined he was an Indian, and desiring a camp-fire to give reality to his delusion, he set fire to his bedding and held a war-danca. As a result he was horribly burned, and died In great agony, Tuesday morning. He was sentenced from Monrde county for two yean for bnrglary. Mrs Catharine Oyler, of Kokomo, by the death of her father, John Woodring, of Preble county, Ohio, has come into possession of an heirloom, In the form of an old-fashioned wooden clock, of the style known as the “wall-sweeper,” made by Reed & Ward, in England In 1711. The case is of English black walnut seven feet high, and the works are all of wood. The wheels show little or no signs nf wear The clock has been ticking for the past 183 years, and It looks good for a century more.