Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Bedford needs a new opera house. Gas has been struck at Laurel, near Brookville, 7 ? Tipton has bgv twelve candidates for the postoffice. Fire at Martinsville, Tuesday, caused a loss of 110,000. Will Warren has been appointed comptroller of Evansville. Chesterfield schools have closed on account of diphtheria. High water washed out the dam at Goshen. Loss, 58,000. Work has coniftiehced on the electric street railway lines at Muncie. Sober Sundays hhve followed the recent anti-liquor movements at Columbus. John Brown, near New Ross, has a pig with but one eye, one ear and no tail. The physicians of Posey county are organizing a road improvement society. Lightning rod swindlers are preying upon the unsuspecting farmers of Carroll county. Martinsville will soon have a bi-chloride of gold institute, with Dr. E. M. Sweet as physician. Col. R. W. Thompson , has recovered from his recent illness, and will take a trip to Arizoua, The Sam Jones revival at Kokomo has not been productive of exceptionally great results solar. A Cincinnati syndicate will build asan-ItariumatiGaa-CW'in.rMl will ex pend

000 in the enterprise. A miniature cyclone damaged property to a considerable extent at Vincennes and Brooklyn, Wednesday. A juvenile, race war at Jeffersonville resulted in the fatal injury of Charles Peyton, colored, aged sixteen. Muncie is now paying about 85,000 annually for its police. Under the new law the cost will be advanced to 825,000. The Hollowell stone company, of Bedford is supplying the buff stone for the Vanderbilt mansion at Biltmore, N. C. A hatchet was accidentally jostled off a high i shelf, and in the descent it cutoff the nose of "Doc” Anderson, of Needham. Miss Pernie Watkins, colored, fifteen years old, of Whiteland, is dead of erysipelas, caused by wearing brass ear-rings. Miss Josie Franklin, daughter of Joseph Franklin, a prominent Christian minister of Anderson, will go to India as a missionary. 3 A big fox drive took place in Wabash county, Tuesday, but the five foxes scared up succeeded in passing through the lines in safety. 4 Specific charges have been made against Marshal Bruce, of Shelbyville, in the city council, alleging habitual intoxication and incompetence. The City Council of Boonville has raised the price of saloon licenses from 825 to 1150 per year, and half of the doggeries in town will close down. William R. Holland, of Jaekson eounty, has made three hundred gallons of maple syrup and four hundred pounds of sugar from the run this spring. It is estimated that more gas is suffered to go to waste in Richland township, Jay eounty, by the oil men than woyld supply the city of Indianapolis. A Pan Handle freight train collided with a west-bound passenger train at Union City, Friday. Several people were badly hurt, and many cars were piled up. Mrs. George Thieman, of Batesville, became the mother of three boys, Wednesday, whose combined weight was twentyone pounds. The family are doing well. A cocking main was held at TerreHauto attended by five hundred spectators. There were twenty-eight fights between birds, and 81,000 changed hands. Jerry Shanahan, of Salem, wandered to an exposed place and went to sleep. He was alive when found, but he was thoroughly chilled and died shortly afterward. A sixty-acre addition to Anderson has been purchased by an Indianapolis syndicate, of which Robert Martindale is the active force. The consideration is 818,000’ Eneas Barrett, of Moore's Hill, owns a horse which has twice r oken from its stable at night and swam the Ohio river. Its last escape took place only a few nights ago. What is known as the “piano racket” is being worked with great success among the farmers of Wabash county. It is the old story of the lightning rod agent over again. A new hotel will be erected at Lake Maxlnkuckee by the Vandalia railway company. It will be located on the bluff, only a short” distance from the railway station.

4 A conference of Republican Senators and Representatives was held at Indianapolis, Tuesday. It was determined to test the constitutionality of the apportionment act. The Governor has appointee the Metropolitan Police Boards as follows: New Albany, J. J. Lyons, G. H. Devoe and John Horn; Lafayette. Jas. Buck, Wm. Ross and W. F. Sti’lv ell. F. M. Trissal, at . - W. J. Craig, filed a complaint in h. .tn erior Court at Indianapolis, Wcdnesu.k j, tor the appointment of a receiver for the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad. Major Doxey, ex-Governor Cumback and others, of Anderson, are interesting themselves in the formation of an improvement company, with 11,000,000 capital, the purpose to boom the town. The State officers hold that the extra pay voted to certain employes by the House and Senate can not be paid because of the provisions of the specific appropriation bill which provided (or the expenses of the General Assembly. Fishermen of Terre Haute will prosecute the gas and oil companies for polluting the waters of the Wabash to such an extent by their refuse that fish arc rendered unfit for cooking purposes for miles above and below that city.

Hon. W. 11. English has been appointed a Monument Commissioner by Gov. Matthews, and has qualified by filing a bond for *5,000 for the faithful performance of the duties of the office. The State College Oratorical Contest was bold at Indianapolis, Friday night, and the first prize was awarded to Hugh M. Hadley, of De Pauw University. The second prize was given to Walter Wood, of the State University, at BloOmington. Adams Plough, near Tipton, contracted with a lightning-rod agent for thirteen feet of rod .at 75 cents per foot, and he signed a contract, as he supposed, to that effect He is now called upon to settle an iron clad obligation, calling for *l6B. Frank Baird, ot Davis township. War ren county, ©was an eld style bull's-eye

wateh. of Scotchw»ke, “builttwo hundred years ago, the original property of his great-great-grandfather. It came into Mr. Baird’s possession in 1875. This past week goes on record for prolific ewes in the vicinity of English. Last Saturday throe ewes, owned by Jos. Carr, Wm. Richards and Erank Thornburg, dropped four lambs each. Mr. Thornburgh’s ewe is perfectly white, but the lambs were coal black. Monday night, three men. two of them masked, gntered Henry Hawes’ house, four miles from Washington, and conrpelled him to give up all the money he had—B9o in all. The robbers escaped. The man not masked was a .«£r£nger whom Hawes had hired as a farm hand an hour before. .. Dr. J. E. M filer, representing the Ft. Wayne health board, made a raid among the milkmen, armed with a lactometer Nineteen wagons were halted and the milk tested, and in only three instances was it found fit to drink. He found chalk, water, and alnfost everything else save the genuine product. Greencastle saloons are now wide open as a result of the decision of Judge McGregor, who neld the city ordinance requiring the removal of all screens of every description from saloons during business hours to be valid and in keeping with the power delegated to incorporated cities for the regulation of the liquor traffic. Some weeks ago “Mont” Robinson suicided by drowning in rfpool near Summitville. Superstitious pcoplein passing the pool after nightfall insist that the ghost of Robinson is to be seen standing on the bank as if in the act of plunging into the pool. The strange apparition is vouched for by reputable people, and the affair is causing much excitement. Thomas B. Hart, of Warrick county, who served in the State Senate, died very suddenly at his home near Booneville. The same night a valuable span of mules on his farm also died. One week later, bis brother, John N. Hart, also died very suddenly, and the next morning a span of mules, the best on his farm, were found dead in the barn. The coincidence excited considerable talk. The Harts were numbered among the prominent farmers of Warrick county. Mrs. George Rothrock died at her home near Hope, Sunday, from a shock received nearly a year ago. At that time William Bullard, a desperado, went to the Rothrock home at night, and while the couple slept fired three shots at them through the window, two of the balls taking effect in Rothrock’s neck. Mrs. Rothrock, sprang from the bed and fled through the woods to a neighbor’s, where she procured assistance. Rothrock, however, recovered. Bullard was arrested, tried, and sent to prison for five years. Mrs. Rothrock never recovered from the shock. Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: E. Anderson, assignor of one-half to T. Hinson, Carpentersville, spark extractor; W. L. Kellogg. Indianapolis, stave-making machine; H. K. Knox, Vevay, car coupling; A. Kreigher, Indianapolis, saw; S. J. Murray, assignor to National Card Company, printing press; L, R. Oaks, Bloomington, lamp-filled; Joseph J. W. Hahn, Toledo, and E, E. Perry, Indianapolis, refrigerating apparatus. Henry Enlow, a prominent farmer near Cannelton, has filed affidavits against thirteen residents of Perry county, accusing them of complicity in the lynching of Clay Davidson, which occurred five years ago. At the time referred to, a young girl living in Oil township was criminally assaulted, and suspicion pointed to Clay Davidson and his brothers as the guilty parties. Clay was lynched and the brother was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. Later developments have raised doubts of Davidson’s guilt. Recently the White Caps gave Henry Enlow considerable trouble, confining themselves, however, to throats. Mr. Enlow has retaliated in the manner described . ■ .