Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Martinsville will have waterworks. Diphtheria is alarmingly prevalent at Warsaw. -—• r The Indiana State Fair will be hold as usual this year. Jeffersonville is agitated "'over the prospect ora great fibod. Janesville, ten miles soath of Columbus, has a mad dog scare. High water and ice have been doing great damage at M uncle. Tea - Greensburg Democrats imagine they are specially qualified for postmaster ~ . A bo* containing the frozen body of an infant was taken from White river near Petersburg, Sunday. The oldest Odd Fellow is dead again, in the person of Christian Hablize, at Madison. aged sixty-four. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Strieby, near Goshen, celebrated their :ixty-sccond wedding anniversary, Wednesday.^ Alexandria is skirmishing for a removal of the De Pauw steel-works from New Albany to that place. Lagrange has sold $20,060 in bonds at a premium of SBOO and will use the money in erecting water works.

A remarkable religions awakening is in progress at Evansville. Business has to a large extent been suspended. Rosseau’s Brigade held a re-unlon at Columbus on the 10th. One hundred and five survivors were in attendance. - The Standard Oil Company has acquired the Lebanon light, heat and power plant. A law suit is in view over the transfer. 4 Thomas Kepler, a large land and millowner,. living four miles northwest of Centerville, was found dead in the woods There are twenty-live prisoners in the Anderson jail and they had a close call for their lives from escaping gas, Tuesday morning. The Vandalia railway depot at South Bend, a handsome structure, was partially destroyed by fire, together with many valuable records, i There were forty conversions and sixty accessions as the result of the M. E. revival at Mooresvllle, conducted by the Rev. L. S. Knott. John Smith, seventy years old, of Paoll, while at Jeffersonville, was struck by a •dinkey” train, losing his right arm and receiving other injuries An anti-liquor league has been formed at New Albany, non-partisan and non-sec-tarian, its platform calling for a union of all temperance workers. J. W, Paine, a prominent citizen of Fowler, was mysteriously and probably fatally shot, Sunday morning. His wife has been arrested for the crime. Samuel Fauss, a boy of Muncie, was struck on the head by an icicle, which fell from a building. The concussion superinduced brain fever, and he died.

A dog funeral, with all the formality of black bordered cards and a procession disgraced Muncie on the 10th. The defunct camine met its death in a Chicago fire,“poor thing.” 8 The treasurer of Knox county placed $20,446 in ditch bonds withE. H. Rollins & Son, of Chicago, at a premium of S4OO. The bonds pay 6 per cent, interest and run from two to seven years. George Lemons, near St. Omcr, drank to exeess while at St. Paul, and, starting to walk home, he laid down In a stone quarry and went to sleep. He was found In a frozen condition by the workmen, and his death occurred in a few hours. 1 Experts claim to have found rich silver deposits near Brazil, and specimens of ore have been sent to Chicago to be assayed. Zinc ore in paying quantities was found in the same locality, and real estate in Clay county is booming as a consequence. A syndicate headed by Postmaster General Wanamaker and Russell Harrison, will operate largely in real estate In the gas belt during the coming season. They already have large interests at Marion, Fairmount and Alexandria. Franklin Is excited over the possibilities of the new Dobbins-McKennoy pneumatic tire invention. llon.Tom. Taggarthas purchased an interest hi the patent and will control the business. It is claimed that the new tire is practically non-punctur-able. Judge Snyder, a prominent Crawfordsville attorney, consulted by a colored man with a view to bringing suit against the city for damages from Thursday’s flood, while making investigations, came near being drowned in the submerged cellar of his client’s residence.

Henry Benson, of Chesterton, was assaulted by a masked man, who felled him with a club, robbed him of his valuables, and left him lying in the snow in a unconscious condition. Mr. Benson was not found until daylight, during which time his arms had frozen so that amputation will be necessary. A town conflict is imminent, dae to the efforts of the Western Improvement CV»mp«.uy to secure the removal of the Yorktown depot of the Big Fonr railway to West Muncie, one mile east of its present site. Similar plans are being formulated looking to the removal of the postoffice to the same place. _ George C. Wilson of Roachdale, who recently removed to Kokomo with 1700 cash, with which he proposed to establish a grocery, fell in with gamblers and was despoiled. He then resorted to forgery to to cover his losses, and is ,now reported to be a fugitive. The Roachdale >bank at Ladoga, together with his father, are among the losers. Some of the old settlers of Eikhart county are claiming that the ihrcsent winter is not a circumstance to the winter of 1843-44, when the cold weather began early in the fall and remained without a break until the middle of April. Still again, there was a cold winter in 1834-55, when timber was killed by freezing. The treasurer of Vigo county followed up the ruling of the Supreme Court in the tax cases by levying upon two locomotives belonging to the Evansville & Terre Haute railway for non-payment of taxes, and the company released the machinery by giving bond. Similar action will be taken against other railways centering at Terye Haute. A cowardly shooting affray occurred at Anderson, Saturday. Paddy Ryan, in love with a waiter girl at Flahavin’s hotel, attempted to murder her because she rejected his suit, but in the darkness mistook Miss Harrow man for his Inamorata, and placing the revolver against her breast, fired, inflicting a fatal wound. Ryan was arrested. Harvey Johnson, a desperado, was arrested at Waterloo, Thursday afternoon after a long chase, in which there was a

fight with fire-arms, with no one shot He confesses to the charge of a big jewelry robbery at Elkhart Johnson made two unsuccessful attempts at suicide after his arrest. He tried to cut his throat with a knife, failing In which he endeavored to strike himself In the head with a hand-ax while at the police station. Col. Daniel Schrader, a resident of New Albany, drew hls pension, as ing home he complained and seated himself in a chair. later he fell forward and died. Schrader served as lieutenant-eolonefoKbe Fiftyfourth Indiana during the war. He was sixty-seven years old. John Graeter, of Vincennes, while a passenger on the Iron Mountain railway, in March, 1891, killed Isadere Meyer and Elsie Leach, during an insane paroxysm. He was acquitted because of his mental condition. Then the widow of Meyer and the mother of Leach brought suit for damages against the estate, to avoid which John Graeter transferred the property to his brother, George VV. Graeter. The plaintiffs were given judgment for $24,000, and Thursday, at Vincennes, the conveyances to George W: theater were declared void. One of the members of the family of widow Farrell, in Shelby county, noticed that the bread prepared for breakfast tasted bitter. Some of it was fed to a cat and the animal died with every Indication of strychnino poisoning. Within a short time different members of the family, who had partaken of the bread, were also taken sick, and a daughter narrowly escaped death. An examination of the family stores disclosed strychnine in the flour and parts green in the megl. In what manner the poison was thus placed Is a mystery. The revival at Thorntown conducted by Evangelist Frame and wife, of Jamestown, 0., has led to two hundred conversions. Patents were granted to Indiana Inventors, Tuesday, as follows: Charles D. "Ames,"—Portland, assignor to Creamery Package Manufacturing Company, Chicago, tub or pail making machinery; A. C. Brandt, Fort Wayne, washing machine; E. Buysse, South Bend, bicycle lock; L.. Daugherty, Muncie, butter pail; A. Hitt, Anderson, window; B. Hudnot, Terre Haute, corn product: N. Lynn, Rising Sun, and E. P. Lynn, Cincinnati, bottle-sealißg device; B. Roberts, Indianapolis, oil burner; G. L. Slater, South Bend, yending machine; J. F. Staiger and C. Schur, Mount Vernon, suspender/button; A. W. Trotter, Petersville, furrow closing attachment for corn-planter; A. Van Camp, Decatur, scalper; S. Wiggins, Stewartsville, mangle.