Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Eldorado is beeoming noted as an egg market Spotted fever is alarmingly prevalent at Anderson. Another Ice combine has been formed at Shelbyville. Greenfield has arranged for a water works system. A street ranwayTscmT;any~Kas, bccii organized at Peru. Tho Akron, 0., steam forge works will locate at Elwood. Another all rail route to the OhloJflMi Richmond is projected. Goshen has contra, ted for an electric street railway system. Rev. Dr. Talmage lectured at Indianapolis. Wednesday -t*-—-y-Chesterton saloon keepers were fined SI,OOO for violating the law. Hunters near New Albany arc having fine sport shooting jacksnipe. Tremont Temple, at Boston, burned Sunday morning. Loss, $375,000. Muncie's new police force under the metropolitan law was organized. Thursday. Millersburg is another town that thinks sheean’tget along without paving her streets. The building improvements iii Laporte for 1892 aggregate an expenditure of $208,110. John Lamar, aged thirty, and Mrs. Elizabeth May, aged sixty-five, were, married at Wabash. Jasper claims the honor of being the first town in the State, to ask for electric light under the new law. James Romp, at Columbia City, undertook to jump off a train, and he received: injuries terminating fatally. Dr. Levi Ritter, a prominent member of tho Marion county bar, died at Irvington, near Indianapolis, Tuesday, night. Another gang of counterfeiters is work, Ing New Albany. The officers think thejr plant is somewhere near the city. , An clecitan will be.held inseveral town- : ships in Jackson county, looking to permanent improvement of the roads. The gas belt cities have organized a ball league and each chrb will put up a forfeit i of SSOO for the completion of thoseason. Thomas Eldridge, an old soldier, living near Delphi, was crushed by a falling tree Thursday, and died from his injuries, Friday. An enlarging picture agent who made his customers pay 50 cents in advance has has worked South Bend for $l5O and skipped. City Council of Seymour has formally voted that the Seymour manufacturing i company shall be exempt from taxes for ■ ten years. ' An ' additional tank furnace of sixty-pot capacity, of the Hartford City glass works, will be built soon at a cost of $150,000. It will give employment to 350 men. HIS claimed that Ft. Wayne has the youngest capable telegrapher in the employ of tlie. Western Union in the jrerson of Willie O'Connor, who is thirteen years old. Improvements of the already extensive brick work at Gas City will increase the daily output to 120,090 brick. It is believed that it will be the largest plant in tho United States. Thejcivil service commissioners havo canceled all their engagements for examinations in Indiana and other States from tlie 21st inst. until June 30, on account of tlie failure of the appropriation. Albert Kuhn, a molder, of Michigan City, who was terribly burned some weeks ago by the explosion of a flask, is undergoing tho operation of skin grafting, his fellow-workmen volunteering the material. Fire destroyed the depot at the junction of the Monon and Chicago & Southeastern railway at Westfield, causing a loss of CI,OX). Tlie property was owned by both companies. Considerable freight was consumed. Samuel and William Conrad were arrested at Corydon. Saturday, charged with murdering their father. w r ho was found Tn the woods, Friday, with his skull crushed. Alleged motive,possession of their father’s property. Walter B. Rogers, who succeeds the lato Mr. Cappa as bandmaster at the Seventh New York Regiment, is a native of Delphi, Ind., and only twenty-eight years of age. He has been a member of the band about eight years. John M. Holmes, of Modora, who was committed for violation of tho election

law, and who said ho would dispose of his property and leave the country, is still at his home. Public sentiment has turned somewhat in his favor. An unknown vandal practically ruined the ptatc-glass windows in St. George's Hotel, Evansville, by writing thereon with a diamond. The plate-glass windows of other buildings were similarly defaced. The hotel was damaged S9OO. The Seymour Manufacturing Company will remain at Scyniour, conditioned on exemption from taxation for ten years, which has been guaranteed. The company will erect new buildings, a new site of six acres having been donated. A terrible tragedy occurred at Connersville, Sunday morning, as the finale of a Saturday night’s carousal, ending in the killing of Frank Hammcrsher by Sandy Jewiss, and the dangerous wounding of Jack Lewis. Tho trouble was the result of an old feud. James Young, Jonesboro, was, Sunday, attacked by a rabid dog and fearfully bitten. lie is prostrated by his injuries, and his condition is serious, in addition to his danger from hydrophobia. He was taken to the Pasteur Institute at Chicago, Tuesday, for treatment. During tho campaign of 1888 Calvin C. Hadley, of Howard county, made an agreement with B. Perse 11 to pay him *53 for two red calves whenever Grover Cleveland was elected Presidentofthe United States. Mr. Pursell has now brought suit to enforce payment. The claim is disputed on the ground that it was only made to apply to the election of 1888. Tho Governor has appointed John Osterman. of Indianapolis, to succeed Thomas resigned, as trustee for the Central Hospital for the Insane, and has reappointed J. L. Carson, of Fairland, as trustee for the same institution. Ho also appointed Isaac 11. Strause, of Rockville, F. IJcnnossey, of Indianapolis, as trustees of tho Institute for tho Blind. •'The notorious Mount Tabor Baptist church case from Boone county circuit was reversed by Judge McCabe, of the Supreme Court. Wednesday. Intholower court tho minotity. or those who believed that the preacher., could work wonders.

won, but the Supreme court decided the case the other way, and it may now be considered as legally established that I divine power is essential to salvation. an jnspectioi) was being made of the hew DePauw window-glass factory at Alexandria, a natural gas leak was discovered ta the regutator-building, aud an attempt to locate it with a lighted mtftch was in every sense successful. In theexplosion which followed the building was badly wrecked, and George B. iShaw and E. B. Johnson were frightfully burned. Shaw is not likely to recover. There was a peculiar accident in James Kintner’s saw mill, in Boone township, Harrison county. The belt running the fly-wheel broke and the engineer shut off the steam and jumped out of the way. The moving belt, however, struck a iever. stcaur «mnd~ t the engine m motion. Then the fly-wheel burst, scattering the fragments in every direction and seriously injuring Joseph Edmondson. Si' Keith, of Tipton. and a relative named Hall, of Indianapolis, w-routu for Windfall, both intoxicated, undertook to ride the same horse. The animal resented the double burden, and in plunging about Hall was knocked senseless and Keith's skull was badly fractured. A fragment of skull nenctrated the brain and Keith's chances of recovery artaslim. A footpad lay in waiting for M. E. Spencer, railway agejit at Ossian, anticipating that he would return after nightfall to the depot. It so hapixlfied that Air. Spencer delegated a young student in thetelegraph school to make the trip and as tlie student approached the depot he was sandbagg.-d and irft nnconchnn on the The student Had no money nor valuables. Three miles from Crawfordsville, on a prominent hill, stood one of tho largest and most- complete banisdn the county. It was built for Joseph Smith sixteen years ago. and was noted for the substantial timber used in construction. Last week a storm swept over that section, and “a twister took a twist at the barn, demolishing the greater part. Twelve head of horses were in the building, not one of which was injured. The structure! was filled witli products of the farm, machinery, etc. The loss exceeds SI,OOO. An item appeared in this column last Week saying that more gas is allowed to go to waste in Richland township. Jay county, than would supply the city of Indianapolis. Wo desire to correct this statement. There is no oil to bo found in Richland township, and gas, consequently, is not allowed to waste from this or any other cause. Richland township has an inoxlianstabie supply of gas and husbands it. The item appeared in this column through a mistake, and should have applied to another township. The last rail of the Wabash, Detroit & Chicago extension was laid, Friday, at Tolleston. Charles Applegate,a contractor, drove, tlie spike, a gold one, but there was no formal ceremony. The 110 miles of track between Hammond and Montpelier ready for ballasting, and three trains arc at work hauling gravel. It is not believed the line will be ready to operate until May 15, or possibly J tine. 1. Patents were, Tuesday, granted, Indiana Inventors as follows: F. L. Bailey, Freeport, assignor to Boston Cash-register Company, Northampton, Mass., cash register and indicator; A. D. Cook, Lawrenceburg, plunger for pumps; N. Holloway, Lincolnville, chicken brooder; E. D. Johnson, Connersville, apparatus for moving coal; L. V. Kendallville., feed and water purifier and heater; W. S. Nevins, Terre Haute, reflector and bracket for lamps; C. W.-Patton, Clarksville, churn powt-r: Michael Posz, Shelbyville, sash fastener; J. N. Stein. Fort Wayne, car replacer; J. Tipton, Hymera, post-hole digger; G. M. Vance, Anderson, cresting for roofs; J. Wood and W. AV. Hare, Noblesville, whiflletrce hook. The coroner’s inquiry into the suicide of Bertha Marks, the twelve-year-old girl of Albany, showed that tho cause lay in oftrepeated threats by her parents to send her" to”tlie State female reformatory if she did not attend school more regularly. Previous to swallowing the poison she concealed a note in her bedding addressed to her motb.er, father and brothers, and reading; “You know what I did it for, and I want to bo buried it my red dress. I took ‘Rough on Rats.’ I thought 1 would not give you achance tosend me to the reform school. I threatened to kill myself, and I have.” Appended to this was a postscript addressed to her mother, in which she said: “Mamma, you can like the boys now; I am out of the way.” This Indicated that the girl was jealous of, her mother's partiality for her brothers.