Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Kennard has three gas wells. Fulton county will build a $25,000 jail. Hartford City had a SIO,OOO fire Saturdaynight. A new I. Q. O. F. hall at Bedford has been dedicated. The Tippecanoe river is said to be the finest bass stream in Indiana. The Indianapolis & Martinsville electric railway was incorporated, Thursday. Arcadia has secured a furniture factory that will give employment to 100 men. Mayor Packard, of Plymouth, has beqn appointed Bank Examiner for Indiana. Ohio and Pennsylvania capitalists have invested heavily In the Wells county oil fields. Fruit in the Madison district is reported all right in spite of the unusually cold weather. A company is being organized at Morton, Montgomery county, to drill for natural gas. . . . * V v ’"- '■■■ A large number of Sabbath desecrators were arrested and landed in jail at Columbus, Monday. A company has been formed to build a sanitarium at Spiceland and utilize the mineral water there. Princeton Will build the water to be pumped from the Patoka river, five miles distant Forty tramps were dislodged from two freight trains in one day at Laporte. They were headed for Chicago. The cost of schooling and caring for each boy at the Plainfield Reformatory Is thirty-two cents per day. A commodious church edifice, costing $5,500, built by the Friends’ society at Carmel, was dedicated, Sunday. Dunkirk is happy over a big oil gpsher near that city. It will also have electric cars and lights in the near future. W. A. Krug, aged 103, died at Crawfordsville, Wednesday. He had lived in Montgomery county-for fifty years. Farmers throughout the State are coun t * ing upon a large increase in price of poultry, eggs, etc., during the World’s Fair. The postoffice at Terrecoupe, St. Joseph county, has been discontinued. Mail will be sent to Sweet Home. There isno place like it. The old LaPlante homestead, at Vincennes, built one hundred years ago. is being torn away to make room for improvements. ~1 -- • Frankton capitalists have close# a contract for tho removal of the Wetherald Rolling Company, of Findlay, 0., to that place. Great damage was done by the storm of Wednesday night at Wabash, Warsaw, Gas City and in the country surrounding those towns. The firm of Thomas Nixon <fc Co., papersack manufacturers, of Richmond closed its doors, Tuesday. Assets, $25,000. Liabilities unknown. A monster gas well has been struck on the Thompson farm, half a mile from Summltville. Enthusiasts estimate the output at 20,000,000 cubic feet daily. A new labor organization, to be known as the American railway union, has been set on foot at Richmond and. is expected to be fully developed by January next. Df. Wm. Lomax, the well known surgeon, of Marion, died in that city, Thursday, aged eighty. He left property valued at $75,000 to the Indiana Medical College. United States Marshal Hawkins has appointed John E. Foley, of Indiana,polys, chief deputy; Jos. W. Stewart, of Monticello, Silas P. Jones, of Mt. Vernon, regular deputies. Governor Matthews, Tuesday, appointed L. H. Barnhardt, of Rochester, and M. D. Yontz, of Indianapolis, directors of the Prison Nortlvto succeed Levi Mock and James Renikan. George Brown, walking' from St. Augustine, Fla., to Chicago, arrived at Frankfort, Monday. He is making the trip on a wager of $2,500, and has succeeded in bogging his way thus far. The honor faffs on Kendallville for contributing the flag which will float from the dome of the State building at the World’s Fair grounds. It will bear the words, “Kendallville Schools.” The electric street railway company of Shelbyvilie has reorganized, with Judge Hord president, and Scott W. Ray secret tary. Contracts were made with a New York syndicate to put in an electric plant. Peter J. Clark, the second of the Lafayette rioters, was found guilty at 9:lsTuesday morning, tho jury having been out all night. Tho verdict fixed the punishment at four years imprisonment and $2,000 fine. Fire at Connersville, Tuesday, destroyed the McCann flouring mill. Loss $20,000. The fire is supposed to have been started by lightning striking a fire alarm wire. Every fire-alarm box in the city was burned out. Prominent Democrats from all parts of the State gave a banquet at the Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, Monday night, In honor of ex-Gov. Gray. Mr. Gray and family left for the City of Mexico, Wednesday. Amos Greenwalt, an insane man near Eaton, armed himself with two navy revolvers and a corn-knife and for a time had things ail his own way in Delaware county, He was finally captured without loss of life. Stark county is boingdrcadfully scourged by scarlet fever. Fifty-seven cases within a ten mile radius wore reported, Thursday, and that portion of the county has been quarantined, and guards stationed to prevent*the entrance of strangers. Eleven school lads at Noblesville have been detected In a systematic plundering of merchants, covering a period of soveral months. Their plunder was concealed in a gravel pit near one end of the school buildings. A large amount of stolen stuff was recovered. Bogus milk Is now manufactured of so excellent a quality as to almost defv detection. A dairyman of Wabash wms approached by two strangers who offered a recipe for the concoction. It can be made for three-quarters of a cent per gallon. Tho datjryman declined to purchase. The forces of the Monon and Michigan Central railways at Hammond came into conflict, Saturday night, over an attempt by the former to construct a side-track to the warehouse of tho Wolf Lake Distilling Company. More or less damage was done to the property of both companies. Mrs. Annie Wise, of Claysburg, who was terribly scarred by some unknown miscreant, who saturated her with nitric acid as she lay asleep In her husband’s home. Is slowly recovering of her Injuries. She has undergone amputation of one thumb

' . r_ J and three fingers. The burns on the arms, shoulders and forehead are healing. “Buck” Stanley, the reformed drunkard and temperance evangelist, has the town of Knox in an uproar. That city of six hundred inhabitants, has heretofore supported six saloons, but many of them would now W willing to sell out for enough to leave Y _ tfirw hiSsted signed the pledge Friday night, old time-: drunkards donning the blue. 2 The Board of Public Works and City Council of Indianapolis have granted the franchise bid forjjjy the company represented by Judge Byron K. Elliott, and has filed articles of incorporation with John W. Murphy, President; A. Keifer, VicePresident; and H. G. Bale, Secretary, One-half the capital stock of $2,000,000 has been taken by local capitalists. The Sentinel’s Washington correspondent, Tuesday, says: It is settled that Judge R. S. Taylor, of Ft. Wayne, will be allowed to retain his sinecure, the Mississippi river commispionership, for four year longer. He was appointed by Arthur, and has been in office ten years, at a salary of $3,500 a year. His duties are to make semi-annual trips down the Mississippi river to “inspect” improvements. Loy Cox, under sentence for twelve* years from Jackson county, for murder, and Oliver Taylor, sentenced for three years in Knox county for burglary, escaped from the prison south, Monday night, by sawing out of the top range of cell-house “C” and forcing their way through the roof. Taylor had only been recaptured a few weeks, he having escaped on March 8, in company with Frank Crosby. Suit was begun in the Marion county Circuit Court, Tuesday morning, by James W, Stout, sheriff of Vigo county, against State Auditor Henderson for a writ ot mandate, compelling him to issue warrants for mileage alleged to be due for taking prisoners to the Jeffersonville penitentiary. The suit Is instituted on the relation of the State, and is intended to fully and completely test the fee and salary act which was passed by the Legislature of 1891.

Mrs. Lizzie Schide, aged twenty-three years, committed suicide at Staunton, Tuesday evening. Having been abused by her husband, as she alleged, she returned to her father’s house some weeks ago. A few days later she attempted to drown herself in a well, but failed. During the temporary absence of tho family, Tuesday, she procured a short-barreled shot gun, retired to a back room, leaned over tho muzzle of the gun, which ro3ted against her abdomen, and discharged it. The shot passed entirely through her body, lodging in the ceiling. She lived three hours after the deed was done. Two escapes from the Boone county jail occurred at noon, Friday. One was Lon Larimore, of Zionsvffle, who is charged with larceny, and his case was set for trial, Saturday. He is a low, heavy-set man with sandy complexion, and about forty years of age. The other escape was William Wertz. He was also Charged withlarceny, and Is about twenty years old. His father lives hear Ladoga, Ind. He has a dark complexion, and at the time of his escape was bareheaded and without any coat. He is supposed to belong ttfji band of thieves, and his capture is much “desired. The festivities in honor jpf the silverwedding of King Humbert and Queen Margherita were held at Romo, Saturday. The Kaiser and the King felicitated each other at a banquet. Their Majesties received telegrams of congratulation from Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales, as well as from all the sovereigns of Europe. The Kaiser made a speech of congratulation to the King and Queen.