Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Waynetown has a lodge of Red Men. The electric street car line at Columbus is now in operation. --•CBpt Wiriram H. Conant, * well-known river man of Evansville, is dead. William Sloan, a Big Four brakeman, was f ataliycrushed~b-y Xhe’carsat Elkhart, A district convention of the I. O. O. F. encampment will be held in Laporte, May 25. During his official career ’Squire Chamberlain, of Goshen, has married six hundred couples. The bank of Albany has reorganized, the majority of the stock being bought up by local capitalists. The Lewis-Porter cabinet works at Indianapolis were destroyed by fire, Wednesday night. Loss, $30,000. Emerson Wells Johnson, of Franklin, Ind., has been appointed a cadet to the West Point Military Academy. The masters of the four Masonic lodges of Ft. Wayne have established a relief fund for distribution in that city alone. The Rushville postoffice was robbed, Monday morning, at 3 o’clock. About S4OO in stamps and S2O in currency was secured. A spoonbill catfish was taken from Eagle lake, near Warsaw, Monday, by Tony Osborn, a fisherman. It weighed 107 pounds. A ledge of diamond gray glass stone has been struck on land owned by the Albany Land Company and the find will be -developed.- - - = Eight horses were cremated and much grain was consumed in the burning of John Mohr’s barn in Moral township, Shelby county. Frank W. Parks, of Terre Haute, has been commissioned adjutant of the Third Indiana militia, vice John Ewing, of Evansville. J, J. Wilson, of Elkhart, was duped out of SSO by the pretense that a Chicago attorney wanted to look up his interests to j an estate in the East. ; Franklin College has won the suit j against the estate of the late James For- j sytheet al., for the payment.of three notes calling for $5,000 each. The Tullis-Shortridge murder case was ] given to the jury at Rushville, Tuesday, j and after being out four hours they re- ; turned a verdict of not guilty. A land and improvement company has been organized at Fortville. Two hundred acres of land have been purchased, and several factories have been located. The body of Lou Trenck, the Brownsburg lynchee, was brought to Indianapolis, Wednesday, for interment. His family reside there and are highly respectable people. - Paul Hanns, of Bloomfield, indicted for illegal voting, was fined SIOO and costa by a jury, to which was added thirty days’ Imprisonment and four years’ disfranchisement. The May Musical Festival at Indianapolis has been abandoned because of the defection of the Seidl orchestra, who held out for a higher figure than' originally contracted for. William Hence, of Roann, atttempted to ‘block” a log which was being loaded on a car, and was crushed to death. He was' nighty-five years old and a pioneer of Wabash County. 4 Mrs. J. E. Clough, wife of a well-known Baptist missionary, was fatally injured by a folding bed at Evanston, Monday evening, and died from the effects of the wounds, Tuesday morning. Four thousand teamsters and shovelers went on a strike for an advance in wages at Indianapolis, Tuesday. They demand eight hours with $1.65 per day for shovelers and $3.75 for teamsters. Ex-President Harrison and ex-Postmas-ter General Wanamaker attended Saturday’s session of the International Y. M. C. A. convention at Indianapolis. Both made brief addresses and were given a cordial and enthusiastic reception. Commissioner Lochren has decided to make a departure in the appointment of pension examining boards.. Heretofore they have consisted of two Republicans and one Democrat, or vice versa, but hereafter the members will all be Demncrata. £ / = The City Council of Shelbyville, by a vote of six to two, has directed the marshal to enforce what is known as the screen ordinance. Heretofore the saloons of Shelbyville have virtually managed municipal affairs and the new departure is watched with interest. « The Odd Fellows’ Home for Old People, which has been accumulating money for several years, has $5,000 in its treasury. It has been decided to locate the home at or near Indianapolis. The organization will proceed to buy land and the buildings will be erected this summer. The plate glass combine is taking form. The factory at Kokomo is closed to take an inventory of stock pending a transfer to the syndicate. The trust includes the plants at Kokomo and at Elwood, the Charleroi factory in Pennsylvania and the Crystal City works, of Missouri. Not less than four hundred chickens and turkeys have been stolen at Brazil within the last week, and no trace was discovered until Friday, when an old cabin was found In the woods, showing where the fowls had been dressed preparatory to shipping to market. There is no clue to the thieves.

Work will be resumed on the Louisville and Jeffersonville railway bridge under the supervision of the Phoenix Bridge Company, contractors. It !s understood that the bridge must be completed and ready for traffic November 4. The report is that when completed the bridge will be used by the Big Four, New York Central, Ohio & Mississippi and the Baltimore & Ohio railways. Monday night there was an explosion in the freight-room of the new railway depot at Cayuga, tearing out the north end of the building. In a short time the entire 1 structure burned to the ground. There was some powder in the room where the explosion occurred, but how it became ignited is unknown. The depot was built by the Ci AE. I. and the Clover Leaf Railway Companies, and it was the finest depot in Vermillion county. 6Several months ago two smooth-talking individuals, claiming to be age nts of the Now York Photo Service Co mpany, established themselves at Goshen, and a systematic canvass was made, in which they agreed to furnish one dozen cabinet photographs for SI. The money was collected in-advance, and several hundred subscriptions were taken. Some time later a proof of the photograph was received, but nothing else came to indie ate that the com- ' I* ’ ' i

pany or the agents are still in existenceTowns surrounding Goshen were also canvassed, and while they remained in that section of the State the agents did a thriving business. Jerry Sullivan, employed tn the Darnell iron works at Muncie, while drawing a ball of molten iron from the furnace was .overbalanced by the weight and was raised in the air, a bar of iron piercing his arm near the elbow. Had he loosened his hold the ball would haves allen in a pool of water, causing a dangerous explosion, and he clung to his terrible perch until relieved by his fellow-workmen. His arm was frightfully injured. A. colored man named_Mattox was confined in the Brownstown jail at the time of the lynching of Trenck. While the mob was breaking into the cells Mattox kept screaming “Don’t take me; I’m only in for stealing meat.” Mattox passed the night in the greatest agony of mind, and when the friendly face of the jail attendant was seen the next morning, showing that danger had passed, he shouted, “Oh, what a night!” The Brownsburg Canning Company has been incorporated with a capital stock of $15,000. Frank Van Camp, of the Van Camp Packing Company, of Indianapolis, Is one of the directors, and he will superintend the business. The buildings are to be completed by July 1. The company has already contracted for over three hundred acres of corn and tomatoes from the farmers of this vicinity. The capacity of the'factory will be forty thousand cans per day. Chicago sports are about to establish a big pugilistic resort on Indiana soil. Vague rumors that New Orleans and Coney Island athletic clubs were to have an active rival have been current for some days, but no official announcement of the fact was made until Thursday night. The Columbian Athletic Club is the name of the new organization and its home will be Lake county, Indiana. The arena will be built on a tract of land close to the Roby race track, midway between that course and the shore of the lake. Patents were granted Indiana Inventors for the week ending Tuesday as follows: J. B. Deeds and A. Mack, Terre; Haute, grinding machine; A. Delatter, Goshen, vehicle seat; F. Farmer, Richmond, pawl and ratchet mechanism; J. M. Harter and S. E. Harsh, Wabash, gag swivel; D. Hay, North Manchester, flue thimble; Z. Lassar, assignor of two-thirds to C. C. Dunn and A. Conner, Stilesville, stone channeling machine; W. B. Martindale, Rochester, automatic time stamp; J. W. Turner, Van Wert, 0., assignor of half to T. Clapper. Hartford City, saw swage; E. Walker, New Albany, device for chalking lines; J. A. W’ard, Greenwood, lathing harness; J. G. Whittier, Attica, door check. Trade Marks —South Bend Medicine Company, South Bend, Ind., and Chicago, 111., eosin itic.