Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

- - -rr -T- f Fortville has a boom. -- — 1 •• Iccand snow have injured the Hamilton county wheat. 5 4 An electric road from Marion to Indianapolis is projected. The Thorntown.revival claims to have resulted in 297 conversions. ■ Felix Hunter, of Jasper, was killed while Cass county farmers are “laying” Tor lightning rod peddlers wit» shot guns. Tiree hundred special quests attended die opening of the Hotel Glazier at Auburn. Kokomo will erect a new city bujlding, to cost $30,000. Bedford stone will be used.

The Hudnut hominy mills was burned at Mt. Vernon, Monday morning. Loss 8100,000, fully insured. Pettit, the wife poisoner,is in bad health at the Prison North, and in an utterly discouraged condition. Valparaison has a revival in progress and thfr churchesjoiill -not-holdthe people who desire to attend. Bruce Carr left an estate of about $40,000, which is disposed of by will, the bulk M the legacy going to his daughter. The Roby race track has shut down for a week, owing to financial difficulties. ‘ It is said that the suspension is only for a week. John Jenkins, near Centerville, at a railway crossing, was struck by an express train and fatally injured. His buggy was demolished. A kettle of hot lard exploded in George Robinson’s butcher shop at Hazlewood, andßobinson was horribly burned aboutthe face and head.

;3 As the result of a feud in the wilds of Brown county, Dauphin Moore shot his uncle, William Moore, fatally wounding him in the abdomen. A boy, a piece ftf gas pipe and some pow-" der, at Anderson, formed an explosive combination with disastrous results to the boy, who is still alive with the plug in his brain. E. F. Hawkins, an alleged Indian doctor charged with Criminally assaulting a little colored girl at Tell City, was taken lo Cannelton and sentenced to five years’ Imprisonment. The preliminary survey of the new town of Ingalls is being made. It will be located two miles south of Pendleton, and the projectors arc negotiating for seven factories and have booked a brick factory. Congressman Shively has secured a favorable report from the committee on public buildings and grounds, extending the limit of appropriation for the South Bend public building from $75,000 to $125,000. Dr. Benjamin White, a well known physician of Sardina, remarked to some of his friends that his married life was unpleasant. Soon after he was seen walking away, and he has since been on the missing list.

W. A. Meyers, of Rockport, is under arrest at Evansville, charged with forging his father’s name to a note for S2OO. The father declines to Interfere, because his son once before forged his name to a large amount. Joseph Lang, thirteen years old, of Terre Haute, while playing with a revolver. accidentally discharged the weapon. The bullet took effect in the brain of his brother Ernest, two years his senior, killing him instantly. The Republican and Sentinel newspapers of Peru brought suit against the Miami county commissioners to enforce payment of full rates, as prescribed by law, for printing State and county samples of ballots, and the court has ruled in their favor.

Six heirs of the late Henry L. Yesler, of Seattle, Wash., reside In Wabash, and they will make a light for a share of the estate, which is valued at over $1,000,000. The property consists of business and tenement houses in Seattle, several miles of wharves on Puget Sound, and seven saw mills. Frank Ne wk am, a farmer living near Brookville, reports an unusual freak of nature, a "calf having one head, shoulders and breast, two hind quarters and eight legs, all symmetrically and fully developed,and arranged as though two calves were standing side by side, which were born on his place last week. The freak lived until accidentally killed. Mrs. Rhoda Shortridge was arrested at New Castle, Tuesday, on the charge of the murder of her husband by poisoning. Stephen Tullis, a music dealer of Richmond, was arrested as her accomplice. The grand jury indicted Mrs. Shortridge and Tullis for warder in the first degree. The body of Shortridge was exhumed and enough arsenic found in his stomach to kill four men.

William Ellsworth, one of the pioneers of northern Indiana, died Sunday evening, aged eighty years, at Montpelier. He was one of the first jurors in Blackford county when the court room was a log cabin and the jury had to convene in the hazel brush near by. Ex-Judge James S. Frazer died at Warsaw, Monday, aged sixty-nine. His death was caused by pneumonia, but his health had'been much impaired for some’months Judge Frazer was a man of national n putation and had filled many important positions in State and national affairs. During the funeral of Joseph Weaver,at the Christian Church in Noblesville, the building was discovered to be on fire, and the alarm camo near causing a panic. The fire departfhent was called out and the fire was extinguished without material loss. The result cos the inquiry into the attempted assassination of J. W. Payne, of Fowler, who was shot while in bed asleep, has resulted in his wife being held for grand jury action under bonds of $5,009. She is charged with shooting with intent to kill. Circumstantial evidence points very strongly to Mrs. Payne. She attempted no defense.

The Rev. Alphonse Munschina, of Lanesville, has celebrated his golden jubilee. Father Munschina is seventy-nine years old, and he was ordained to the priesthood at Vincennes In 1813. Ho has been in charge of the Lanesville parish for thirty-nine years, and he is still able to minister to his flock unassisted. Grant Lorriber, of Muneie, Is trying to Interest a company in building the most unique race track in the world. It includes a grand stand, mounted on wheels, on a circular track, propelled by electricity, to start when the horses are given the go, and keep them In view until, tho close of the race. There was a rear-end collision of freight

trains on the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago railway, at Monroeville, Saturday night. Christ Graham was caught in the debris and fatally injured by inhaling steam. Ernest Knobs, engineer, and Michael Blackford, brakeman, were badly hurt. The remainder of the crew escaped by jumping. At noon Monday, west of Peru, an unknown man, 1 supposed to be a tramp, attempted to s wing himself off $f a Wabash as they passed over his body. There was scarcely anything left of the remains, which were scattered along the track for two .hundred feet. I James E. Campbell, who recently died at Gosport, owned a hickory cane originally cut from the Tippecanoe battle-field, and which was the property of President William Henry Harrison. The several knots on the cane are silver-tipped, and on each is a letter, the whole spelling Harrison. General Harrison offered Mr Campbell SIOO for the cane several years ago. J -John Minton lives in a log-house, of limited dimensions and accommodations, but in a northern county he succeeded in persuading Mrs. I. N. Know, widow, that it was a mansion, and she shipped her household effects to Edinburg and started overland for her new home. Six miles on a mud road, which she had-been told was a pike, was sufficient to open the lady’s eyes as to the possibilities of Brown county, and: she returned to Edinburg, and will go back to her old home. The late Josephus Collett bequeathed $75,000 to the Rose. Polytechnic Institute, of Terre Haute; SIO,OOO to his brother, John Collett, of Indianapolis; $5,000 to his niece, the wife of Lieutenant May, of Chicago, and $2,000 to Vanvliet, a lifelong tenant on his farm. He also bequeathed $75,000 to the Collett Orphan Home, to be located in Vermillion county. and the remainder of the estate is equally, divided between his brother, Stephen S. Collett, and a number of sisters and nieces. The estate is valued at $500,000, but is subject to increase by development of investments made. The following patents were granted Indiana inventors. Tuesday: J. H. Beck and E. E. Reilley, Peru, meat cooler; F. P. Brewer, Angola, pruning saw; F. E. Herd man, Indianapolis, electric elevator; A. R. Hay, Indianapolis, lubricator; M. Miner, Colfax, dust pan; M. Powers, Lexington, garden tool; F. M. Reed, Anderson, generator; Elwood & Stephenson, Cartersburg, brick or tile kiln; J. L. Ulsh, assignor Of one-half to W. 11. Jones, Wabash, belt tightener; A. M. Vaught. Portland, feed roller; D. Wheat, Kent, incubator; G. W. Zeigler, Anderson, burner for lighting or heating with artificial gas.