Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jasper will soon be lighted with electricity. Highway robberies are reported in Wells county. The postoffice at Mott pays but 51 cents annually. Elkhart county has borrowed $35,000 to meet current expenses. The W. C. T. U„ of Ossian, have instituted a crusade against the saloon. Two more factories were located at Albany this week, making ten in sixty days. Wabash citizens were extensively victimized by the Harvey Hotel swindle at Chicago. The recent storm in Elkhart county destroyed many thousand dollars worth of farm property. 5 Groundhogs are reported numerous in Wayne county. They are very destructive to poultry. Windfall is to extend her town boundaries, and will be a mile square when thenew limit lines are laid out. The Clark county commissioners will proceed against Mr. Jenkins’ bondsmen to recover the amount of his shortage. Samuel Pratt and Samuel Pratt, Jr., were killed by the explosion of an engine in a basket factory at Peru, Monday. Prize-fights are being arranged at Muncie in utter disregard of the Governor’s feelings, as expressed in the Roby affair. Social gatherings with onions as the chief feature of the bill of fare is a “fad” among the Four Hundred at. South Bend. The American Wheel Company’s plants were shut down at Crawfordsville, also at other points in Kentucky and Tennessee. Hon. A. V. Pendleton, ex-Indiana legislator, was stricken with paralysis at his home in Franklin, Wednesday, and died instantly. The first gas well tor what is known as the free-factory line at Kokomo, proves to be a gusher, the estimated output being five million cubic feet daily. The Supreme Court, Wednesday, decided in a test caso brought by Mrs. A. D. Leach, of Greene county, that women may be admitted to the bar in Indiana.

Word comes from Noblesville that the syndicate which proposes to lay a web of electric lines in the gas belt now proposes to extend the road to Lafayette and Chicago. All the money deposited withj the New Albany Banking Company on the day preceding the closing of Its doors is being returned to depositors under order of the court. The water undermined the supporting pier of the bridge spanning Sugar creek, near Crawfordsville, a new iron structure, and both spans fell in. The bridge cost 828,000. The Model flint-glass works have begun work on the new plant at Albany, which is is under contract to be in operation by. September next, with three hundred employes. Judge Brown, in a test case in the Marion county Circuit Court, Tuesday, brought by Sheriff Stout, of Knox county, held the new fee and salary law unconstitutional. Fort Wayne had a sensation, Wednesday, when it was learned that Mrs. Caroline A. Stapleford had secretly procured a divorce from her wealthy husband, who is a prominent citizen of that place. George Kloss, of Dyer, undertook to board a moving train and fell under the wheels, losing both legs. Last Monday his brother Frank fell under a train in a similar manner, and both arms were cut off. 3Claude Stone, . teen years old, near Plainfield, while plowing in a field uncovered a Spanish coin bearing date 1311. On one side of the coin is the coat-of-arms of Spain, and on the other a likeness of the reigning sovereign.

A Lagrange county farmerwas swindled by the minister and the wedding game to the extent of 1585, the marriage certificate that he signed to accommodate his pious guest turning up as a note for that amount in the hands of innocent parties. Theodore Poweska, sent to the Prison South from Martinsville, made a bold break for Liberty, Monday. Sneaking out under a loaded wagon, he plunged into the Ohio rapids. The current carried him a mile to an eddy, where he was recaptured by the pursuing guards. Mrs. A. White, of Vincennes, playfully pointed a flobert rifle toward her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dottie, who was picking cherries in a tree, and exclaimed: “I see a big bint” Accidentally the weapon was discharged, the bullet striking the girl below the knee and making a serious wound. 5 Defaulting treasurer Jenkins, of Clark county, left Jeffersonville, Thursday, for parts unknown. He is supposed to have gone to Mexico. His shortage has grown to the amount of 120,661.19, and it is believed that he feared criminal proceedings. Jenkins is in the last stages of consumption. Ex-Governor Chase appeared at Kokomo, Monday, and filed his bo fid for 83,000 on the indictment recently found against him in the Greentown bank case. Mr Chase requested an immediate trial, but the State was not prepared and the case will go over to the October term. John W. Paris also gave bond. 2 A wonderful deposit of semi-block coal has been found at Mecca, six miles north of Rockville. One vein is being worked, which is four and one-quarter feet in thickness, and the daily output from which is ten cars. An inexhaustible quantity of terracotta clay has also been found, in which there are nine different varieties for brick and ornamental work. The company owns 1,200 acres of the coal land. Jack Reeves, in charge of the engine running between Clay City and Brazil, which engine is stabled every night at Clay City, is confident that the specter of an unknown passenger, killed some tWo months ago, nightly haunter the track. Frequently the specter 1* seen close to his cab. Reeves reports that he has no inclination to address his ghostly visitor, and that anyone can see it by spending a night in the cab of his engine. There has never been an execution at the prison north under the new law, and .the prison management is very much interested in the proceedings which have condemned murderers Parker and McAffee, of Indianapolis, to the scaffold. There is much comment at that institution! both among the officers and the prisoners. The law requires the warden or deputy warden to give the execution personal attention. The following patents were awarded to citizens of Indiana, Tuesday: A. R.

Baker, deceased, Indianapolis. M. C. ! Baker, administratrix, advertising blotter; J. Beckley, sr., Royal Center, corn crib; J. Buchanan, Indianapolis, vehicle .wheel; H. C. Hanson, Hobart, composite puzzle; M. T. Reeves, assignor to Reeves & Co., Columbus, concave for clover-hull-ing machines; C. H. Paget, Oxford, pnuematic tire; S. A. Reinheimer, Winchester, barrel tapping and emptying device; R. M. Roberts, Morristown, glass-carrying vehicle; C. W. Robinson, Greentown, incubator. The delegates representing 106 German Knights of Pythias lodges in the United States assembled at Indianapolis, Monday, to decide what action should be taken by them in relation to the recent decision of the Supreme Lodge that all rituals should be printed in the English language. The meeting declared its position in a series of resolutions, in which the Supreme Lodge,which meets in Washington in June, 1894, is asked to rescind the order. The sentiment of the delegates is in favor of seceding and forming an independent order in the event that tho Supreme Lodge refuses to comply with the request preferred. A small fire broke out in the basement underneath Fred Goetz’s furniture store at Terre Haute, and after the iron grating had been torn up it was speedily extinguished with a dash or two of water. Eight firemen followed their chief into the basement to make sure that the fire was extinguished, and while there, they were overcome by, the heat and gas. Chief Kennedy was the first to be prostrated, but he managed to make his way out. Finding his men still within he went to their assistance, and he succeeded in carrying out four of the firemen before he was again prostrated. Other firemen then rushed into the cellar, some of them also to fall victims to the fumes, and before the rescue was completed eighteen men had to be carried out McClellan, Falvey and Anderson were dangerously prostrated, but the others speedily revived upon reaching the open air. Fireman Ostorloo also narrowly escaped with his life. A peculiar effect of the prostration lay in the fact that the liinbs of all the victims were stiffened as if in death, while their bodies from the waist up were as limp as if boneless. The loss by the fire did not exceed S7OO. but it narrowly escaped being a frightful casualty.