Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Smallpox has appeared at Alexandria. A diphtheritic sscourge is reported at Woodvilje. Franklin college is going to build SI,OOO gymnasium. The new Christian church at Cynthiana han beendedicated. - —— The L. E. & W. depot at Peru, burned, Monday. Loss, $20,000. The Presbyterian General Assembly is in session at Washington. Vincennes has three justices sf the peace, all of whose names begin with “Mac.” Fifteen thousand people attended the Dunkards’ meeting at Muncie, Sunday. Money has been subscribed looking to establishing another bank at Petersburg. Al. Weidner, of Muncie, killed his wife and then himself at Dayton, 0., Monday. A gas well has been struck at Ingalls, showing 320 pounds pressure to the square inch. The Citizens’ Bank, of Churubusco, has resumed business after a suspension of one week. Benjamin Isenour. of Elwood, lost $2,000 by the burning of his barn and contents. A petrified skull of an infant was found near the Laporte-Porter county line, the other day. An old-fashioned wheat-cradling contest is being arranged among the farmers of Hamilton county The drilling for gas at New Ross has resulted in striking flowing water at a depth of eight hundred feet. The Noblesville City Council has granted an electric line charter to the Illinois Electric Railway Company. James Anderson, a young Republican of Delphi, has been appointed to West Point by Congressman Hammond. A big, burly tramp the other day, at Elkhart, made a woman prepare him a meal at the point of a revolver. A ledge of diamond gray glass stone has been struck on land owned by the Albany Land Company and the find will be developed. Several residents of Gaston have been swindled out of amounts ranging from one hundred dollars upward by “green goods” dealers. Andrew Miller's flouring mill, with nearly ten thousand bushels of wheat, at Metamora, burned, causing SIO,OOO loss; insurance $5,000. 6 Wm. Bunton, sixteen years old, of Gentryville, ate freely of bologna saugage and died in thirty minutes. The meat is supposed to have been tainted. Several boys at Owen played Indian with home-made bows and arrows. An arrow penetrated the groin of George Smith, and it is feared that he will die. John Popejoy, a tenant of George Harness, a wsalthy land owner of Kokomo, is suing his landlord for $5,000 damages, Mr. Harness having accused him of stealing corn. At Frankton, Sunday nijrht, the temperance element rose en masse, swooped down upon the three saloons and literally riddled them, destroying all the contents. The three ring-leaders are under arrest. A gang of shell workers following Rentz Brothers’ circus, cut a wide swath among the farmers at Goshen, Tuesday, and reaped a rich harvest, “touching” their victims for sums varying from S2O to S6OO. The first spike of the proposed Goshen & Elkhart electric line was driven by President Coleman on Saturday last. City officials and citizens generally aided in ifiaking the ceremony an interesting one. Mrs. W. Rinkenberger, of Dyer’s Station, suffered from an ulcerated tooth for several weeks. Tuesday morning she was found dead by the side of her husband. During the night the ulcer broke, and she was choked to death. £ Tuesday, at Goshen, a decree of divorce was granted James E. Layton. An hour later he had paid all costs in the suit to get the matter closed up, and had taken ont a license to wed Maggie Donley, a girl about ten years his junior. Walter Olds, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, has tendered his resignation to the Governor, to take effect June 1. He wtHTeiaove to Chicago and enter into partnership with ex-Secretary of State Charles F. Griffin in the practice of law. Mrs. George Wolf, of Liberty township, Howard county, prosecuted her husband under peace surety proceedings. Wolf refused to stand trial and be avowed his purpose of going .to jail and remaining there for all time to come. He was accommodated. As a result pf the dispute between the Lake Erie & Western Railway Company and the town of Atlanta over the erection of a barbed wire fence, the company threatens to convert Atlanta into a flag station and make all regular stops at the tin-plate works. The blackberry crop in southern Indiana will be almost a total failure, the briars having been winter-killed. There will be some berries along the outskirts of the woods and where the briars were protected, but nothing like one-fourth of a crop can be counted upon.

The other night at a social in Warsaw, a lawyer pulled out a marriage contract, and two young people signed it, all done, of course, In fun. The next day it was found out that tbe State laws say that it is a legal marriage. The young lady has brought suit for divorce. Mr. Gross, an Indiana visitor at the World’s Fair, Wednesday, was driven crazy by the “Pillar of Fire,” a part of the electrical display. It required the combined efforts of five officers to get him into the putnfl wagon. He ravedover the spectacle in tktotally irrational manfier, and said “he whq not to blame for it.” Louis Trenck was tho’twelfth person lynched tn Jackson county by a mob. The first were Brooks and Talley, who were hanged in March, 1867, for criminally assaulting and robbing a widow, after which they burned her home to Ahe ground. Brooks and Talley applied for a change of venue to Lawrence county, which precipitated the lynching. John M. Turner, a nephew of Senator Turpie, has been appointed postmaster at Monticello, in spite of the recommendation of Congressman Hammond, who indorsed Gustavus Lowe. An election was held at which Turner received all the votes but one cast. A certificate of the result was filed With the President and Turner's appointment followed. Wilson St. John, of Dunkirk, has been appointed trustee of the collapsed bank of that place. The assets, which have been on deposit at Fortland in charge of the sheriff, have been taken back, and the bank will be wound up. It may pay 60

J' l l. ■ ■ ■ cents;on the dollar. There is some talk of reopening the bank under a new management, with Dunkirk capital invested. Richmond parties report a movement on foot to consolidate the Northern Farmers’ Alliance and the Industrial Union in Indiana, Illinois and some other States, by which consolidation it is predicted by the movers that “in 1893 there will spring up the strongest fanners’ society, representing the great productive Industry of agriculture, which has ever existed in the world.” Wilbur Lewis, foreman of the chair factory at Centerville, was experimenting with chemicals, Saturday night. He was trying to produce what is known as “white fire,” when the chemicals exploded. He held a tube in his mouth, blowing,and a flame shot down his throat, clear into his lungs. The entire lining of his throat was burned out, and his larynx destroyed. He can not recover, although still alive. His sufferings are intense. ' Lewis S. Walden, cashier of the defunct Greentown Bank, is under arrest for embezzlement. He was taken from an eastbound train at that place, Wednesday evening, as he was leaving for his home in Pennsylvania. John W. Paris and exGovernor Chase-are in Kokomo trying to satisfy the depositors in the Greentown Bank. Parisoffered Chicago Consolidated Gold Mining Company stock and real estate in Pierre, N. D. It will not be accepted by the creditors. Joseph Moller, a fanner near Portland, was “white-capped” by a few of his neighbors at an early hour, Wednesday morning. They went to the house, called him out, and beat him terribly with clubs. Moller recognized his assailants, and swore out warrants for the arrest of Michael Wagner, Phillip Wagner, Phillip Wagner Jr., Ignatz Minnick, Joseph Laux, William Laux and Frank Betz. All have been placed under arrest, save Betz, who escaped. Minnick was unable to give bond, and is in jail. The trouble is the result of an old grudge. About 8 o'clock, Tuesday night, Lewis Puett struck John Thompson across the neck with a broad-ax, half severing his .head, in a quarrel near Nyesville. The men were cutting ties for the Midland railway, and were “baching” in an old house near the coal mines belonging to the road. Archibald Hennis was the only witness. Thomas died in less than two hours. Puett surrendered to the sheriff. Both men had been drinking. Puett has a bad reputation, having been in trouble before. He is a brother of S. D. Puett, a prominent Democratic politician and lawyer.

A district meeting of I. O. O. F. ancampments was held at Laporte, Thursday, with a large attendance. Prominent members of the order and delegations from South Bend, Elkhart, Goshen, Valparaiso, Garret, Rochester, Peru, Michigan City, Hammond, Hobart,- Bourbon, Westville and Unionville were present. Thursday was devoted to the reception of visitors and at night the different degrees were amplified by the grand officers with W. H. Leedy, past grand master, as instructor. Afterward addresses were delivered by Grand Master E. C.'Hogate and J. B. Kenner, P. G. R. During the week ending Tuesday patents have been awarded in Indiana as follows: J. W. Cooper.Salem,trousersiguard; G., W. East, Holtonville, wrench; J. C. Hunsinger, assignor of one-half to J. N. Huston, Connersville, car coupler; J. Oliver, assignor to South Bend Iron Works, South Bend, molding flask; G. L. Potter, Fort Wayne, draft rigging for cars; J. T. Wilkin, Connersville, machine for forming cycloidal surfaces; J. T. Wilkin, Connersville, machine for planing cycloidal surfaces; W. H. Williams, Indianapolis, yielding shackle; M. E. Wilson, Indianapolis, gas-meeting apparatus designs; O. D. Rogers, Shoals, box. At Martinsville White Caps called on David Roaney, a market gardener, shortly before 11 o’clock last Saturday night and gave him a whipping. He was sitting In his door weeping over domestic troubles when some one caught him by the leg, and as he looked up another man struck him and warned him to hold his head down. He was then taken to the county road in front of his house, his coat and vest removed, and he was tied to a tele-‘ phone pole, after which lashes were administered with a strap until he was almost senseless. He was then warned to leave the country within two weeks to avoid a repetition of the punishment. The occasion for the visit of White Caps grew out of the fact that Roaney had pleaded guilty of whipping his wife, and had been fined. He is well known to the community as having been brutal in his treatment of his wife. Recently his first wife died, and before two weeks had passed he had remarried. The labor situation at Evansville is causing grave concern. Three weeks ago the mill and bench hands in nine of the eleven planing mills struck for increased wages and nine hours’ work. Tue strike was encouraged by the union carpenters, who refused to handle non-union mill work. Necessarily this threw out the bricklayers, plasterers and painters. Tuesday. leading citizens met the mill owners with a ylew of arbitrating with the strikers, but their overtures were peremptorily declined. It develops that the millowners are members of the Manufacturers’ Association, and that one of them has given notice that if the workfneri do not soon return, every mill and factory in the city will be closed, and will remain closed indefinitely. It is estimated that this will throw at least twenty thousand men out of work. Meanwhile the strikers are being paid <1 per day from the national organization. and this will ! enable them to hold out for a long time.