Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — STATE NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS SUMMARY.

Summltville has a new bank. Clinton has been incorporated. Franklin claims 4,221 population. Petersburg reports 2,000 population. Anderson will have another paper mill. The dog poisoner is abroad at Shoals. Knighstown will have no fair this season. .. ~ - ' . - - Tipton will vote on the question of wa-ter-works. Spotted fever continues to give alarm at Elwood. Linton will build a six-thousand-doll ar school house. Lew Murphy, postmaster ai Lagro, has been declared insane. The Hovey monument at Mt. Vernon will be un veiled May 30. The cold weather has blighted the fruit in Montgomery county. A case of genuine Asiatic leprosy has developed at Fort Wayne. The Vevay high school reports fourteen graduates—only three boys. There is a serious split in the German Evangelical Society at Elkhart. The brick masons of Wabash quit work, refusing to put in ten hours a day. Mr. and Mrs. William Henly celebrated their golden wedding at Monrovia. Francesville stores were successfully raided by burglars, Wednesday night. Counterfeit two-dollar silverxertificates are circulatingAn Huntington county. The Richmond, Masonic fraternity will erect a thirty thousand dollar temple. John Phillips was acquitted of the charge of murdering Otto Green at Fort Wayne. Councilman Mathes has sued the mayor of New Albany for SIO,OOO, alleging an illegal arrest. The Hotel Vendome, at Evansville, has closed its doors because of financial embarassment. A man found deed near Vincennes, Tuesday, was Identified as George Watson, of Bridgeport, 111. Cairoll county will invest $54,000 In new bridges crossing Deer creek and the Wabash river near Delphi. An oil well “came in” on the John Jones farm, near Montpelier, Tuesday, flowing eighty barrels per hour. : 6An unknown man, apparently about fifty years old, was found dead in the Ohio j near Grandview, Friday. A young man named Black, after doing several swindling tricks at Valparaiso, skipped out for new fields. The Monon receivership case has been sent to the Federal court by Judge Bartholomew of Marion county, j Ex-President Harrison was given an in- ■ formal reception by the G. A. R. posts of Indianapolis, Tuesday night. | W. W. Pavey, a spiritualist medium, I who has attracted much attention in Crawford county, has become insane. ' Mrs. B. Busch, of Columbus, is tho owner of a parrot over fifty years old and | that swears in six different languages, i Butler business men have secured the location of a basket factory in that place, giving employment to two hundred persons. i The Elwood Call reports that Indianapolis gas-leasers aro making a strenuous effort to get a foot-hold in Elwood territory. I The boiler in a saw miU near Gas City j exploded, Wednesday, killing one man and injuring two others. Defective water gauge. An impostor secured several loans at Madison and vicinity by pretending that he was Russell B. Harrison, son of the exPresident. Three townships in Monroe county voted for the tax to aid the new Indianapoils & Bloomington railway and threo | against it. Attorney General Olney has appointed Edwin Corr, of Bloomington, lud., Assistant United States District Attorney for the State of Indiana. ) Tho court has denied a change of venue to Mrs. Nellie Payne, of Fowler, and the trial has been set for April 27. Mrs. Payne pleads not guilty. The old derrick on the Carter farm, near Eaton, which marked tho first disr covcry of gas in Indiana, was accidentally destroyed by fire the past week. Edward Eggleston, who is sojourning for two months at Madison, denies the story sot afloat that he contemplates rewriting “The Iloosier Schoolmaster.” i Rev. J. G. Miller, who joined the Christian church at Columbus, Sunday, has reconsidered his action, and in a published card renows his allegiance to the Episcopal church, A floater was caught on’.v trot line near Madison, Sunday. The body proved to be that of a colored man named John Clark ' who fell from a steamer two weeks ago at Warsaw, Ky. J The old established heavy hardware house of Coombs & Co., of Fort Wayne, has failed with liabilities of nearly SIBO,000. Sidney C. Lumbard has been appointed receiver. Governor Matthews has appointed Ernest Pickhardt, of Huntington, and Wm. M. Lyon, of Terre Hautd, as directors of tho Prison South, to s ueceed Messrs. McDonald and Slater. The conductors and brakemcn on the Fort Wayne division of the Lake Erie & Western railway, Thursday, had their salaries raised. Conductors will receive 25 cents more a day and brakemcn 15 cents. Indianapolis had another mysterious murder, Monday ovening. Charles Seibert is unde*, arrest for tho killing of John Young, the victim, but his guilt is not clearly established and he protests, innocence. Charles Richardson, known as the Elkhart giant, he being six feet, seven Inches tall, has been arrested at Kalamazoo, Mich., charged with forgery. lie is said to be wanted in a half dozen Indiana towns. Margaret Daugherty,of Merrillville, was found dead In bed. For forty years she had lived tho life of a hermit, raising poultry'for a living. After her death several thousand dollars in gold was found concoaled in a bed-tick. Governor Matthews, Tuesday, appointed Mason J. Niblack to succeed and serve out the unexplrod term of Royal & Purcell, as World’s Fair Commissioner, Mr. Purcell having resigned to become postmaster at Vincennes. An oil well was drilled in near Portland, Thursday, that has a flow of 1,000 barrels a day. Operators and drillers claim that It Is tho largest well in the state. Th<Manhattan Oil Company’s well, just OOP feet away, is a dry hole. Mrs. John Orr, of Delphi, walkod

twenty-five miles and located hernusband, who had abandoned her after one week'of married life. Mr. Orr excused himself by saying he was tired of domestic restraint, but he has submitted to another dose. Two car-loads of tin-plate, made at the Atlanta tin-plate works, havo been sent to Tanner & Sullivan, at Indianapolis. The works have been running day and night since the start, and the quality, of the tin turned out seems to be first-class in every respect. The construction of the rolling-mill department, which will be a large brick structure, fitted with all modern machinery, will be begun'justgas soon as the weather permits. Charles White, of Madison, years ago the Beau Brummel of Southern Indiana, has been removed to the Clark county poor bouse. He is seventy years old, In his younger days ho was handsome, accomplished and wealthy, and he paid court to a young lady who jilted him to become the wife of a man who afterward was elected United States Senator. White took to dissipation as a means of drowning sorrow, and he succeeded so well that in a few years he had squandered his fortune, lost his friends and was an outcast. While Sheriff-elect William P. Sherry, of Delaware county, was duck hunting near Muncie, accompanied by Charles Nihart, an unknown party opened fire upon the sheriff-elect with a Winchester rifle, making some close calls, Messrs. Cherry and Nihart made all haste to drive out of the dangerous locality. The identity of the would-be assassin is unknown. Mr. Sherry attributes the attack to political enemies.

Several swindles have been worked in Elkhart and adjoining counties by means of a double fountain pen, one end filled with ordinary black Ink and the other with a sympathetic ink of a similar shade. The swindler makes it a point to write any agreement In which he is an interested party with sympathetic Ink, while the victim 4s made to algnjidth-tha other end of the pen. As a consequence the sharper soon has a blank piece of paper to which a genuine signature is attached and it is easy enough to fill out with any amount possible to be collected. Recently the Indianapolis Board of Public Works prepared a new street railway franchise, claiming that the charter now held by the Citizens’ company would expire in January, 1894, and advertised for bids on the same. Bids were to be submitted April 19. On that date an “unknown” company, by their attorney, Judge Byron K. Elliott, submitted a bid accepting all the provisions of the new franchise, and in addition proposed to give the city a graded per cent,, of its receipts. The Citizens’ company declined to bid, claiming that it 3 present charter has seven years longer to run, and alleging that the neiV charter was financially impracticable. Extended litigation will probably result. Dunkards near Darlington have for some time been persecuted by hoodlums. Tho sect has endured the outrages with Christian forbearance, but finally gave evidence to the grand jury for twenty-five indictments. The offenders were fined and imprisoned. Since that time Dunkards’ property has been destroyed, their lives threatened and all kinds el abuse heaped upon them. Sunday night a band of yelling outlaws rode to the Dunkard church and burned it to the ground. Emil Bloomquest, living near Lowell, while driving homeward from Valparaiso, where he had sold S7OO worth of stock, was attacked by highwaymen, beaten until insensible, and robbed of SSOO, The robbers overlooked a pocketbook containing the proceeds of his sale at Valparaiso. Mr. Bloomquest lay all night exposed to the inclement weather, with one of his legs broken and his face pounded to a jell;-. His recovery is doubtful. Two tramps have been arrested on suspicion. Emanuel Harr, ono of the oldest citizens and extensive land-owners in the county, committed suicide at hie home, south of Stanton, Friday night. Ho had been ill for some timo and became despondent. That night he secured a revolver in some way and hid it under his pillow. About 1 o’clock, « his family were alarmed by the discharge of a pistol, tho sound coming from Harr’s room, and they found him in the throes of death, the bullet taking effect in his right temple. He leaves a large family and a fortune of SIO,OOO. Elzea Nixon and his wife, Zerelda, operated a drug store and liquor joint at Elizabethtown, near Columbus, 1 and were arrested several times. Nixon was fined in several cases and gave bond in others, which he forfeited andlled. llis wife continued to operate the joint and was fined $75 for illegal sales and was jailed March 30. Mrs. Nixon wore fine clothes and had plenty of money in her pocket, but defied the authorities and refused to pay. Saturday, however, she weakened, pullod h<r wallet, paid her fines and was relea'eJ after twenty-three days’ confinement. Her husband is still a fugltivo from justice.

Residents»of Livonia are greatly shocked over the shooting of the seven-year-old daughter of John A. Coulter. Grace and Cora Coulter were lying in a child’s crib, and were playing. An elder sister, thirteen years old, was busy with household work. Tho smaller girls kept saying to tho older one: “You can’t hurt me, you can’t hurt me,” to which the older one finally replied, “Yesl can.” and she picked up an old-fashioned shot gun. which was standing in a corner of the room. She did not know the weapon was loaded, and, advancing within a few feet of her little sisters, she held the weapon close to the head of Cora and pulled the trigger. To her great horror the weapon was discharged. The load took effect in Cora’s .heart, killing her Instantly. Patents were, Tuesday, granted to Indiana inventors as. follows: John A. Anderson, Lebanon, washing machine; H. C. Cloud, Union City, excelsior knife; W. Denniston and W. P. Washelser, Bedford, rack for holding brooms; S. 11. Harrington, Indianapolis, railway signal; 8. G. Harris, Cynthlana, assignor of one-half to W. K. Harris, Alvin, Tex., pozt_drlver; W. T. Harris, Baltimore, assignor of oneeighth to E. \Y. Bradford, Indianapolis, vehicle motor; S. R. Herberline. Fremont, assignor of one-half to J. B. Swartz, Auburn, chimner attachment; C. S. Hlsrl. Aurora, assignor to FI. S. Rice, Chicago, shell placer; A. llopkins, Goshen, car coupling; tV. F. Judy, assignorqf one-half to R. B. Roberts. Indianapolis, check punch; T. R. McMannus. Sexton, shipp'ng case for honey; Olaf R. Olsen Indianapolis elevator; J. W. Paschal. Galveston, music leaf turn; A. H. Powell. Huntington, stock car; A. L. Teeter Indianapolis, molding machine; W. p WallacA and.V. C. Cosburn, North Salem, corn-planter attachment