Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

- Dearborn county is building a new jail. ! Muncle is jubilant over a big real estate deal. —Burglaries are alarmingly frequent at Anderson. A child died from eating jlmson weed seed at Sheridan. Kokomo claims to be the largest shipping point of stone in northern Indiana. The City council of .Goshenlias ordered the telephone and telegraph poles down. Governor McKinley will make the Memorial Day address at Indianapolis this year, Fire at Hnntingbnrg, Sunday, destroyed the Stratman block, entailing a loss of $21,500. W. W. Pavey, of Crawford county, well known In spiritualistic circles, has become insane. The Albany Land Company, with a capital stock of $250,000, has filed articles of incorporation. Burglars cleaned out a jewelry establishment at Laporte of watches, revolvers and fine jewelry. Early fruit buds were nipped by Jack Frost in the northern part of the State on Saturday night. Farmland is proud of its floral decorations, its inhabitants showing a phenomenal love for flowers., —; ~ . - k. Daniel McCallister blew his brains out at Anderson as he was being arrested for embezzlement, Tuesday. Mrs. Nellie Payne, charged with the shooting of her husband at Fowler, has asked for a change of venue. Mrs. B. Busch, of Columbus, Is tho owner of a parrot over fifty years old and that swears in six different languages. Indianapolis is to have a new morning paper, to be known as the Dally Record. It will be Independent in politics and religion. While hjrs. Augusta Wolfe, of Frankfort, was strewing flowers on the grave of her son, she fell dead. Her son died three years ago. There are now 623 children In the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, at Knlghtstown, and the Institution Is In good condition. Fairmount is still booming. Building Is prospering and the electric line and Chicago & Eastern railroad are expected to strike the town this spring. The demand for houses at Gas City exceeds the supply. L. C. Boyd, the manager of the land company, has secured 250 tents in which one thousand people will live until houses can Be built. Another factory, With $50,000 capital, Is to be located at Richmond. A patent carriage wheel will be manufactured. The factory will employ fifty men. The ten-year-old daughter of John Kirkpatrick, of Crawfordsville, was dangerously poisoned by eating “turkeypeas,” while walking in the woods. The storm of Tuesday worked serious damage at Grcencastle, Frankfort, Terre Haute, Kokomo, Jeffersonville, Martinsville and many other cities. No lives wpre lost.

-5 A aerolite 'weighing sixty pounds was dug up on the farm Of David Kyte, in Owen township, Jackson county. It has been placed in the Gerrish museum, at Seymour. Brazil is all worked up over the eow question. The city council has passed an ordinance ordering all cows to be kept off the streets, but the people are not abiding by the law. While Everett Adams was serving the breakfast to theprisoners in jail at Bloomington Michael Welch knocked him down, bounded over his body through the open door and escaped. The Rev. Dolphin B. Roberts, of Evansville, recorder of the general land office, resigned his position, Wednesday, which pays $2,000 a year, and he will soon leave for his Indiana home. A young colored woman was knocked down and soused with nitric acid at Jeffersonville, Tuesday. She was horribly burned and disfigured. Her assailant escaped and is unkhown. Vincennes capitalists have organized the Second National Bank in that city, with Postmaster Rudolph president and County Treasurer, George W. Donaldson cashier. Capital stock SIOO,OOO. Fifteen freight cars fell through the old bridge across Sugar creek on the L. N. A. 6 C„ road near Crawfordsville, Wednesday. One span of the bridge was. entirely torn away. No one was injured. C. E. Eyster, an Indianapolis druggist, was shot by a negro customer on whom he was waiting, Yriday night, without any previous quarrel or provocation. Mr. Eyster is probably fatally injured. The negro has not been arrested and was not recognized by his victim. The “wild man” who has been wandering around Vigo county for several weeks, to whom several incendiary acts were attributed, has been captured and confined atiTerre Haute. He was recognized as Alfred Montgomery, who recently came into that section from some unknown point in Ohio. A cloud-burst south of Columbus, Tuesday afternoon, flooded the Pennsylvania lines until the track was washed out in several places between Vienna and Henryviile, and all trains between Louisville, Indianapolis and Chicago are running over the Ohio <fc Mississippi tracks via North Vernon and Seymour, Simeon Cay, of Indianapolis, is projecting a sporting resort to be established on an Island in White river near tho northeastern part of Hamilton county.' The island is neutral ground, it is claimed, and local authorities can not interfere with prize fights or other transgressions of the law! Carl Richard, a fortune teller of Terre Haute, has confessed to having been employed by Mrs. J. C. Prelles, who is suolng her husband for divorce, to murdor a Mrs. Miller, at Riley, Ind., for S4OO, and that he went to Riley and sent a bogus dispatch to Mrs. Miller’s daughter announcing her mother’s death, by which he secured SIOO on account from Mrs. Prelles and left Terre Haute. Mr. Richard is under arrest. For two weeks trouble has existed among the Methodists at Richmond, ovc r the removal of the Rev. Ernest Neal, of Peru, falsehood and forgery being charged against several members. Bishop Joyce has decided that the Rev. Mr. Neal must go. The result will be a split in the church. Sensational chargee will be preferred against one member of the official board. McDonald Cheek, a life prisoner in the Prison North, was pardoned, Thursday, by the - Governor after twenty-two years of confinement. Cheek was convicted in

Dearborn county in 1871 on & charge of being an accomplice In the murder of his father-fn-law. The other accomplice was Omar C. Bailey, who was pardoned In 1890 by Governor Hovey, The three-year-old daughter of Caleb hanged herself In a swing, Saturday. A binder twine swing was attached to a frame windmill, just high enough for the little one to get her head Inside. She fell off the platform, the swing twisted around her neck and she was choked to death. family were near at hand, but the child was not missed until found dead. iWSnnd&y evening a party of travelers, lflcThtfing six men and three women, who had been camping on the banks -of the Little river, near Huntington, had a bloody fight. Clubs, stones and revolvers were used, and the fight became a regular battle in which men and women alike took a hand. A man named Feelabaum was seriously injured, his face and head being pounded to a jelly. Every one In tho party received injuries, but none except Feelabaum were badly hurt. An eccentric old fellow tramping around northern Indiana mending umbrellas, is John Gable, of Pennsylvania. He graduated with honors at an Eastern college, and in 1868 he was elected to Congress from the district of which Wilkesbarre is a part. Life at Washington was too rapid for him, and he contracted convivial hab-

its which finally drifted him into a and two years in prison. His confinement bad no erfectTri abating his appetite for liquor, and soon as he was released he began drinking. For twenty years and more Gable has been tramping around the United States. He claims that he has drank whisky in two-thirds of the towns, and slept in half the jails in the country. Patents were granted to Indiana inventors. Tuesday, as follows: J. W. Barnes, Mausey, gate post; J. M. Carr, New Castle, feed-water regulator; T. J. Corcoran, Peru, pattern mechanism for looms; R. D. Culver, Veedersburg, railway sleeper block; I. C. Gray, Ilion, traction engine; D. H. Mahoney, Olney, 111., and H. D. Hanover, Aurora, railway cattle-guard; O. Reasoner, Upland, gas separator or Eurifier; G. J. Reichart, Indianapolis, inge; E. M. Skinner. South Bend, and O. M. Farrand, New York, combination loci; G. M. Storre, Auburn, device for stringing meats; T. C. Workman. Lebanon, submerged force bump. Trade Mark—Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, suppositories. Hop Sing, a Chinse laundryman of Washington, went to Vincennes to visit a felloW-Chinaman, taking with him the nine-year-old daughter of Mrs. Susan Padgett, who is in his employ. The little girl was left with friends of the mother while Hop Sing was in Vincennes, but when the Chinaman again took charge of the little one and started upon the return home, he was set upon hy a crowd of Vincennes toughs and narrowly escaped lynching. Hop Sing and the little girl were escorted to the depot by the marshal, who was acquainted with the true facts in the case.