Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Lapelhas aneV Pythiah lodfffc Crinoline has appeared In Muncie. Kitchentown is a suburb of Anderson. Alexandria wants to become ft sporting center. 6 Lagrange is flooded with counterfeit coin. Labor is scarce at Arcadia because of the boom. Ohio county is flooded with groenjgoods circulars. Columbus x claims a population of ten thousand. SEE! A new furniture factory has been opened at Seymour. *T~ A child died from eating jimson weed seed at Sheridan. A big gas well was drilled in near Hartford City, Tuesday. Tim State federation of labor will meet in South Bend, July 18. Geo. Tucker was accidentally killed at a barn raising at Tipton, Saturday. Five Chicago drummers were arrested and fined at CrawfordsviJle for disorderly conduct. The Atlanta tin-plate works were opened with appropriate ceremonies, Thursday.---i, __ Muncie’s summer racesr will occur on July 4, 5 and 6. The purses will be from S3OO to SSOO. A Laporte milkman has been sued for $5,000 damages by a woman who was run over by his wagon. J. H. Ilodapp, Seymour, recently killed a blue crane that measured seventy-four inches from tip to tip. Knlghtstown had a mad dog scare, Wednesday. He was killed, but five or six other dogs were bitten. Edmund Tillman pleaded guilty to barnburning at Rockport, and was sent to the penitentiary for five years. Royal E. Purcell, nominated for postmaster at Vincennes, is editor and proprietor of the Vincennes Sun. There is a school in Clark county, near Nabb Station, which had only one pupil during much of the winter. Wm. Mitchell was killed at Mooney’s tannery, at Columbus, Wednesday, by a barrel of tallow rolling over him. Oliver Brown, aged ninety-six, who has resided at Rockport for the past seventysix years, has moved to Valparaiso. The ladies of Dana have petitioned the town council to pass an ordinance to remove screens, blinds, etc., from saloons. William George, a hostler, of Bedford, was found dead in a livery stable. Several empty liquor bottles explained the cause. The pay of postmasters per annum in Indiana ranges from 51 cents, at Mott, Harrison county, to $3,600 in Indianapolis. James Powell, who weighs 380 pounds, rolled down a flight of thirty steps at Muncie, Wednesday, and was badly hurt. Farmers around Elkhart are plowing op their wheat, which fared badly during the winter, and are now putting in other crops. A receiver was appointed, Monday, to look after the claims of the creditors of the Elkhart driving park and fair association.

Fenton Epworth Mill, of Elkhart, carelessly lighted a match while in bed. The clothing caught fire and he was burned to leath. Owensboro capitalists have purchased ten acres of land adjoining Rockport, and will begin the erection of a canning factory at once. The State Encampment G. A. R. mot at Evansville, Wednesday. There was a large attendance. The city gave the veterans a cordial welcome. An owl belonging to E. G. Krienke, of Elkhart, committed suicide, Thursday night, by drowning himself. He was melancholy over the recent death of his mate. Oscar Williams, near Fowler, accidentally dropped a gun, Saturday afternoon. The weapon was discharged and the bullet entered his right breast. He will die. Muncie merchants have been arrested for showing thefr goods onTthe sidewalks. They are indignant, because they have hung their banners on the outward walls for many years. Dr. George F. Edenharter, of Indianapolis, has been elected as superintendent of the Central Insane Hospital to fill the place made vacant by the death of Dr. Chas. E. Wright. Tho bridge over Wildcat, near Rossville, gave way under the north-bound vestibule Monon train, Friday night, killing fireman O’Brien, of Lafayette. No passengers were hurt. A party of fishermen left Washington, the other day, for Long Pond, Knox county, lost their way in the river bottoms, and after driving about forty miles found themselves at Vincennes.

While Mrs. Thos. Downey, of Washingington, was drinking water, Monday night, she swallowed her set of false teeth and they are now in her stomach. An operation will be performed. John G. Blake, tho disgraced superintendent of the Feeble Minded Home at Ft. Wayne, was taken to the eastern hospital for the insane at Richmond, Friday. His intimate friends claim that his actions are caused by hereditary insanity Rev* P. Me Dade, of Kokomo, seventy years of age, while on a visit to Monticello, was dangerously injured by a runaway team. He was taken to Kokomo, Thursday, on a cot, but it is feared that his injuries will prove fatal on account of his age. A disastrous fire raged at Wolcott,' White county, Friday, starting In an extensive hay barn. One thousand tons of hay were consumed, together with the new grain elevator, an implement store ahd two car loads of pressed hay. All efforts to combat the flames were futile. The loss will exceed SIO,OOO. Negotiations wero closed, Friday night, for the location In Noblosvllle of the largest canning factory and pickling establishment In the gas belt. The capital stock of the new concern is SIIO,OOO and It will have a capacity of 500 barrels of canned goods per day. It will give employment to 2,000 persons. An anti-liquor sellers’ association has been formed at Muncie to look after saloon men who are refpsed license by the commissioners and then go to the circuit court, where their cases generally go by default. A prominent law firm has been nigaged and will contest the cases. John Slefcrt, sixty years of age, of South Bend, was frightfully beaten about Jie head, Saturday night. The bed and several rooms were bespattered with blood,i indicating, a desperate struggle. Mr. Siefert says his nineteen-year-old son

is responsible tor his condition, having beat him with a elub. The boy has disappeared. Tha death Is announced of Ret.' Alfred C. Hathaway, pastor of the Friends’ Eighth Street Cliurch, at Richmond, at College Hill sanitarium, near Cineinnati. His derangement was caused by overwork at revival meetings, aa ha*befen previously noted in these columns. The Gas City Land Company, Saturday, signed articles of agreement by which a large window-glass factory will be erected at once. The concern will put up extensive and substantial buildings. It will be what, Is called a twenty-pot factory and will employ two hundred workmen. This is the nineteenth manufacturing located at Gas City to date. Dearbon county built a forty-thousand dollar infirmary for her poor. It remained almost tenantless, however, as the paupers prefer to be supported by the county at the homes of friends. To remedy this state of affairs the county commissioners have cut off all allowances for the support of paupers not living on the county farm. . -- ’ • The Indiana Trust Company, of Indianapolis, with a capital of S7S,(XX), filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State, Tuesday. Its purpose Is to “transact business as a loan, trust and safe deposit company pursuant to the laws of the State of Indiana.” Financiers throughout the State are expected to take stock, and the company expect to be ready for business May 14. Dr. M. N. Elrod, of Hartsville,' Bartholomew county, reports that ho has just examined a “blowing” well on the farm of JohnH. Peftey, near Dora. It is sixty-two feet deep, and expels or sucks in air with a great rushing noise, the respiration depending on the meteorological condition of the weather. The farmer has stuck a in the pump, and the screech can be heard two miles whenever a storm is approaching. Zerelda Nixon, the keeper of a drug store in Elizabethtown, is in jail at Columbus, for the failure to pay a tine for the unlawful sale of intoxicants. Within the last six months she has been prosecuted for the unlawful sale of intoxicants as many as a dozen times, and in each case she has paid a fine. It is estimated that she has spent at least SIOOO in fighting these cases, and is now without a friend and in jail. The sons of blacksmith John Dixon have made a splendid discovery of Indian relics. The find wa3 in a cave near the farm of County Assessor Thomas Lane, of Jackson township. They secured a large scalping knife fully ten inches long, with a copper handle, on which was rudely engraved the picture of an Indian and his tomahawk. The date 1701, and the initials L. L. I. also were cut in the handle. They found a brass necklace made of many crescent-shaped pieces strung together on wires.—Paoli Republican. A young Wlnamac woman, well known locally for her church work, rushed into the telegraph office the other day, and after explaining that her husband had hurried off to Cincinnati, forgetting to take with him a memorandum and dimensions for a new Sunday school motto, the buying of which was a part of his errand in the city, wrote, for transmission to him. the following dispatch: “John R., Palace Hotel, Cincinnati. Unto us a child is born. Four feet long and three foet wide. Mary.” Three years ago a Jesse James gang was organized at the town of Dale. Familiarity with the life of the James brothers and ownorship of a rrevolver and a Mexican pony, were the requirements of membership. The “gang” began making things interesting for people in and around Dale. The members were fond of riding at a break-neck speed across tho country, firing at houses. Another pet di •version was chicken-shooting. But barnburning and theft were not beyond them. Most of the gang are now in the penitentiary or exiles in other States. Walter and Findley Medcalf have lately been gathered up and are now awaiting trial at Rockport.