Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Farmers near Farmland will bore for oil. - Two more cases of smallpox are reported at Alexandria. Auburn will build a new school house costing SIO,OOO. An effort is being made to establish a military post near Jeffersonvfile. 6 There were thirteen cases of smallpox lir Madison eolihty at ISSt a'ccounts.' s Several large pelicans were, seen on-the Wabash river near Terre Haute, Tuesday. Elwood has a case of smallpox, the patient being the father of the Alexandria victim. Hon. D. B- Kumler, died at Evansville, Tuesday, after four weeks suffering from rheumatism. The Worley, Bank, of Ellettsville. closed it doors, Monday morning. It is claimed to be solvent. ~ John Stipp, a wealthy farmer of Monroe county, was swindled out of $4,000 in cash by sharpers. 8 The labors of the Rev. Wm. ,T. Finch have resulted in establishing a Lutheran church at Anderson. Incendiaries destroyed Dude Turner’s saloon at Limestone, near Bedford. It was a notorious resort. The United States and Pacific Express companies’ office at Peru was robbed of SBOO, Wednesday night. Mrs. Mary Cavanaugh was burned to a crisp by an explosion of gasoline in her cellar at Jeffersonville, Tuesday. Marion county contributed this year to the school fund $51,000 more than it received from the State Treasurer for school purposes. ‘ Thousands of dead fish are seen floating in White river at Noblesville. The cause is attributed to foul stuff flowing into the river at Anderson. Carl Cohen, eighteen years old, of Knox county, while trying to control a team of mules was dragged into a shallow pool of water and drowned. An auction sale of 480 lots at Marion, Saturday, brought $49,800. This is said to be the largest day’s record of lot sales ever made in the gas belt. The soldiers’ monument at Delphi will be unveiled in August, and ex-President Harrison will b« invited to deliver the oration on that occasion, Union City, the first town in the State to bore for gas, but never succeeded in finding it, has a promise that it will be piped into the city in tlianear future. The suspended Capital National Bank, of Indianapolis, will resume business in good condition, permission having been granted by Comptroller Eckels. Another agrarian crime has been committed near Ennis, in County Clair. A land agent named Maloney was shot from ambush and seriously wounded. Captain Archer, of Spencer county, Indiana, has been appointed superintendent of the Pension Building. The position is a very fair one, paying $1,200 a year. Sixty witnesses have been subpoenaed by the Howard county grand jury in the investigation of theaffairsof the Greentown bank, of whom forty are depositors. Moses Crane, of Burlington, was found dead with two bullet Soles in his head on the depot platform at Kilmore, Friday morning. How he got there is a mystery. James Johnson, of Coal Bluff, shot and killed Leslie Bell, of Cardonia, at Caseyville, Wednesday evening. The men had a dispute over a chicken fight. Johnson escaped. The organization of the gas belt electric scheme was perfected at Noblesville, Thursday night, with a capital stock of $4,5(0 000. Work on the road bed will be commenced immediately. William Bass, of Mitchell, partially insane for several years, shot himself twice in the head and once in the chest, and still lives. He Is a member of the wellknown Bass family, of that section. Tuesday morning, at Columbus, Wiley St. John, a carpenter, struck Charley Hume, a fellow-workman, upon the head with a hammer, inflicting a wound that caused his death. St. John escaped. Counterfeit two-dollar silver certificates have appeared at Richmond. Several were accepted at the postoffice before their bogus character was discovered, and a number of business houses were caught. The three artesian wells at Yorktown are now attracting general attention, both for their medicinal qualities and their value as a supply to the new strawboard factory, which starts up in a few days. The great strike at Evansville is taking many carpenters and other workmen to other points, and the Evansville Tribune sounds a note of alarm, claiming that | Evansville needs families as well as factories. The action of the Citizens’ gas company of Elwood in raising the price of gas 100 per cent, has caused a big kick i on the phrt of the consumers and they will bore a new well unless the company comes down. Ralph Drake, at Columbus, Thursday, shot and killed Mrs. Ida Ward. After the shooting Drake put a bullet into his own head and will die. The woman had deserted her husband and lived with Drake as his wife. While the old Star Hotel at Center Point was being torn away an old box was found underneath in which was a human skeleton. It is surmised that many years ago there was a murder, which was concealed by this burial. The storm at Pendleton, Monday night, was unusually severe. Hail stones as large as hickory nuts fell, doing considerable damage. The electric display was terrific, several buildings being more or less damaged. Wilson Evans, an employe of the tinplate works at Elwood, while at work, Monday, thoughtlessly pushed a “live” electric light wire out of the way. He was instantly eldctrocuted. He was married Sunday Right. Moses B. and Minerva Wyland, of Elk; hart, sued Clarke Druckemiller, administrator, to recover money spent in entertaining relatives who came to attend their father's funeral, but a verdict was gendered for defendant. The Consumers’ Paper Company, of Muncie, is composed of Chicago capitalists and has been incorporated with a capital of $250,000. Their new factory will be located oo the river hank just west of the city, and will employ 200 men In the manufacture of straw boards, to be used in making paper boxes. W. U. Crays, of Loogootee, owned a chicken which missed a great future by dying. It had a well-developed doublo head, Including two beaks, three ayes, one

of which was in the center of the doublehssd, and a double throat. A feature of the Decoration Day observances at Bedford was an address by Miss Clara Barton, President of fee Bed Cross Society. In the evening a reception was given at the residence of Dr. Joseph Gardener in honor o t f Miss Barton. " The electric road in process of construction from Brazil to Harmony will be harassed by an injunction, farmers having come to the conclusion that it will ruin the road to which it has been given therlght of way by the county commissioners. Bishop Chatard learning of the intention as Father Bergen, of Vincennes, to deliver the memorial address at that place on Decoration Day, issued a command forbiddiug him to officiate on that occasion, Father Bergen obeyed but expressed his regret to the G. A. R. committee. Memorial Day was generally observed throughout the country and wherever there is a G. A. R. camp the graves of the dead veterans were appropriately decorated. At Indianapolis the ceremonies were notable, Gov. McKinley delivering an address at night, and at all prominent places memorial services were conducted. Arthur Baker, a young printer, whose home is at Fortville, Wednesday morning, at Wabash, attempted to board a south-bound Big Four freight train, intending to ride to Anderson. Both feet went under the car wheels and were so badly crushed at the ankles that the limbs were amputated above the ankles. Baker stood the operation bravely and is improving, but his condition is dangerous. Isaac H. Wilson, of Shelbyville, eightysix years old, is the first white male born in Shelby county. For many years he has been a Mason, and he was knighted in January, 1868. Recently he became too infirm to attend the meeting .of the Masonic bodies, and .Monday night the Knights Templars surprised him with an unexpected visit, during which he was presented with a handsome gold-headed cane. Bobert Catterson pleaded guilty at Terre Haute, Saturday, to a charge of safeblowing and was given four years. Sheriff Dobbins, of White county, arrived a little too late with a warrant charging him with assaulting the sheriff of that county with intent to kill, four years ago. The warrant will be placed in the hands of the warden of tho penitentiary, so as to be served at the expiration of Catterson’s term. Morris McDaniel, of Madison county, has a half-grown rat with a gold ring around its neck, which cannot be removed without tearing off the rodent’s head. Three months ago his little daughter, while plying in the barn, V)St the ring. On Saturday Mr. McDonald caught a rat with the ring around its neck. The supposition is that the ring was carried to the nest and accidentally was slipped about the rat’s neck while it was still very young. The Monon vestibule train which left Indianapolis an hour late, Monday night, schedule time being 2:05 a. m., was ditched at Broad Ripple, seven miles north of the city, by a blind horse. Engineer Geo. T. Plant, of Indianapolis, was killed, and Fireman Williams, of Monon, was seriously injured. Plant lived forty minutes after the accident. He was horribly scalded. A mail clerk was also injured but not seriously. None of the passengers were hurt. Twenty-five hundred dollars will cover the property loss. Patents were issued to residents of Indiana during the week ending Tuesday, as follows: Wm. L. Casaday, South Bend, wheel plow; James F. Murphy, Michigan City, headlight, George Phillon, Mishawaka, friction clutch; Franklin M. Reed, Anderson, combined hydrocarbon generator and burner; Warren Sweet, Fort Wayne, washing machine; Cotflde P. Thomas, Evansville, toilet powder case; Central Cycle Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, bicycles and sulkies. The management of the Diamond plate glass factory at Kokomo, with the one at Elwood,in explanation of the sudden shutting down, state that no alternative presented itself but to shut down until fee business atmosphere cleared. There is six hundred thousand dollars’ worth of plate glass in the two factories in various stages of completion, with $200,000 of finished plate ready for shipment and no demand. Five of the ten plate glass factories in the country have closed and the others will within a week. The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company filed a mortgage at Indianapolis, Saturday afternoon, for $50,000,000 with the Mercantile Trust Company of New York, and Theodore P. Haughcy, of Indianapolis. Five million dollars’ worth of bonds are to be issued for present purposes, and $29,250,000 are to be issued to refund the outstanding bonds of tho thirteen rallrorids which constitute the Big Four system. The largest outstanding amount is on the Bee Line, which is 13,000,000. John Tarpie, of Haughvillo, an Indianapolis suburb, in company with three friends, called to have a talk with the bartender of John Shaw’s saloon at 1 o’clock, Thursday morning. The men went to the rear door and were surprised to find it standing open and the bartender asleep In his chair. They walked into the place and discovered a masked man behind the bar going through the money drawer. On Seing questioned the burglar opened fire on Tarpie killing him, and escaped during the excitement. B The street car strike at Ft. Wayne, ih progress for several days, took a serious turn, Wednesday. One car was literally besmirched with rotten eggs and decayed vegetables, and tfle motorman was seriously injured. Several encounters between strikers and tho men endeavoring to operate the lines took place. Thursday thirty extra deputy-sheriffs were sworn in to assist the police in preserving order. Each car is now manned by four or five guards, while the deputy-sheriffs keep the track clear. The lines are being operated under difficulties. John Allen, of Richmond, has two coin pieces upon which he places great value. He reports that the Government in 1801 commissioned a man named Beckwith, of North Carolina, to coin money of gold, taken from North Carolina mines. On one side is the Goddess of Liberty surrounded by thirteen stars, while on the other Is the American eagle, with fee words “E Pluribus Unum,” with thirteen stars. Mr. Beckwith was forbidden to place any value on his coin beyond Its actual value by wo ght. When the coins wert first issued they passed forsft,*but according to weight they are now worth sl7. Each piece is about the site of a silver quarter. Ono bears date of 1803 and the other 1808.