Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Howard county has no toll-gates. TEe Gas City boom is very healthy. Clark’s Hjll wilt have a driving park. Floyd county reports a short raspberry crop. There was one ease of smallpox at New Albany. Barbers at Shelbyville are called “face carpenters.” Leavenworth will have a barbecue on the Fourth. Charles Wailick, of Peru, was fatally hurt, while blasting. The fly is badly damaging the wheat in Bartholomew county’ The iron working establishments of Anderson, will close July 1. The First National Bank of Kendall - ville suspended payment, Friday. A five-foot veto of coal has been struck near Columbus at a depth of 112 feet. The two-year-old child of O. B. Woodall, of Lyons, ate concentrated lye and died. The peach crop of Morgan county is re • ported to be a failure on account of worms. The Indiana Bridge Company, of Muneie, has contracted to build six bridges at Anderson. A well has been drilled in the conter of Gas City, which is estimated to yield nine million cubic feet of gas daily. ThePythians of Orleans and Campbellsburg decorated the grave of Bruce Carr, ex-Auditor of State, on Sunday. last. The Elwood tin plate factory is crowded with orders and will not shut down for the usual summer vacation. The tax valuation of Clay county is placed at *10,031,352, as against *9,884,445 last year. This does not include railway valuation.

The Anderson butter-dish factory will be removed from Andersoit to Cadillac, Mich. The removal is eaused by. the scarcity of suitable timber, sugar and elm. James Townsend, of Peru, despondent on account of impaired eyesight, dressed himself in his Sunday clothes and shortly after was found hanging in the wood .shed. The soldiers’ and sailors’ monument at Delphi, which is rapidly approaching completion, will be unveiled on July 27. Great preparations are making for that event Seymour saloon men have petitioned the Council for a reduction to license from *250 to *IOO to make up for the stringency to the money market and having to keep their saloons closed on Sunday. Douglas Dobbins, of Franklin, has invented a new voting machine designed to carry out the Australian system. It saves time and Insures absolute secrecy, and is said to be a device of great merit. A large stone was rolled oh the Big Four tracks near Waynetown, for the evident purpose of wrecking a train. It was seen by the engineer in time to check speed and prevent a disastrous wreck. Alman Ames and Mrs. Mary Ames Fulkerson, of Elkhart, were quietly married, to the surprise of their friends. They were pioneers, seventy-five years old. and this is the third matrimonial venture for each. .

The State’s suit against the Tollcston Club, of Chicago, began at Valparaiso, Thursday. It is for the possession of thirty-two hundred acres of swamp land located in Lake county, which the club is using for a hunting-ground. The Democratic Editorial Association of Indiana held their mid-summer meeting at Spring Fountain Park, near Warsaw. on the 22d. The principal address was delivered by F. H. Hambaugh. of the Pern Sentinel. There was a good attendance. 6 While workmen were excavating for an addition to the city high school building at Plymouth they unearthed several skills and other parts of skeletons. The site years ago was used as a cemetery, hut It was supposed that all of the bodies had been removed. Major James A. Cravens died, Tuesday night, at his home in Hardlnsburg, Washington county, aged seventy. Ho was a veteran of the Mexican war, where he earned his title. He served one term in Congress from the New Albany district He had been ill for several months.

Dr. Allen S. McMurray, of Frankfort, pleaded guilty to the charge of perjury on the 23d and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. The doctor was a leading physician and a prominent member of the Methodist church, flis action in pleading guilty was a great surprise to his many friends W. D. McCoy, Ignited States minister resident to Liberia,"died at Monrovia, the capital of that country. May 14. Mr. McCoy was born at Cambridge City Nov. it, 1853, and was appointed to the position he held by President Harrison. He was prominent as a colored man In Indianapolis city politics. John Heron, a “trusty” in the reform school at Plainfield, stole Professor Charlton’s blooded horse and successfully escaped. He was traced to Mlckleville, where the trail was lost. Two years ago Heroa went to live with a family near Greencastle. but he robbed the Rouse and fled to Effingham, 111., where he was captured.

One hundred devotees of the ring assembled on the upper floor of the “quart house” at Avondale, near Muncle, to witness a prize fight between Charles Hmith, of Muncie, and Ed Tracey, Df Lafayette. Two rounds had been fought, with Smith in the lead, when Captain the Muncie police, broke in the door and arrested the principals. John R. Brunt, of Anderson, lias been appointed receiver of the Anderson Iron and Bolt Company, which n*de a specialty of manufacturing bolts and nuts. W. S. Diven, a stockholder, filed the application. The liabilities are placed at 934,000, and the' assets In stock, machinery, real estate, etc., 994,000. The shut down is attributed to the stringency of the money market. James Young, aged sixty-four, of Gas City, was bitten by a dog supposed to be merely vicious, two months ago. His injuries were very serious and he was taken to Chicago for treatment In the Pasteur Institute for hydrophobia. He was thought to have fully recovered, but a few days ago developed hydrophobic symytoms of a violent character, and died Wednesday night In great agony. Mr. Young was an old resident and greatly esteemed. , ‘ The six-year-old son of David Harker. near Pleasant Grove church, in Huntington county, is an Infallible Imrometer No

matter how clear the sky may be, whenever the lad’s hair begins to curl and mat closely to his head it will rain within a ew hours Time and again has his father demonstrated this and whenever he Is laying plans for. work the condition of the boy’s hair is looked after very closely. Wm. Klinc.nfghtenglneor at the Brightwood Big Four railroad shops, returned home at 9a. m., Thursday, and gave his wife his month’s wages, just received, and laid down to the front room to sleep. At 10:30 his wife heard him moaning and opened the door, only to see her bns band lying on the floor with nine ghastly cots In bis head, evidently made with a hatchet. His assailant is uhknown. Kline will die The following patents were awarded to citlzensof Indiana. Tuesday: Charles Anderson, assignor to South Bend iron works, South Bend, sulky plow; Robert Baker Dayton, sash fastener; Thomas M. Bales, Dublin, fanning mill; George N. Cleveland, Frceiandsville, com harvester; Frederick W. Frank, assignor of one-half to H. Lorenz, Indianapolis, caster; Isaac P. Osborn. Florida, fence; Wm. A. Walker, Evahsviile, parlor game. At Moore’s Hill people’s tongues are still wagging over a strange and startling phenomenon which nature worked a few days ago. Black rain fell for several minutes—not a few scattering drops, bnt in a steady down-poor. The watef stood in puddles along the roads, and the reflection of the sky which It cast off was a -carious one. The fact which gives credence to this story is this: It was seen in many places by many a people, and the statements of these, numerous witnesses go to prove the wonder and to give it substantiation.

A storm drove Washington Bruncmer, of Bluff Creek, to Johnson county, with his brother to his home.and they threw themselves on the floor, close to a screen door, until the rain abated. Lightning struck Mr. Brnnemer, instantly killing him; entering his body near his heart, and running down his body to his feet, tearing a hole througlf the floor, and in this way to the ground. The deceased was fortythree years old and a man of family. Henry Smith’s residence, in the same neighborhood, was struck about the same time, and one entire side of the house was torn off. Lon Henderson, a burglar, captured and shot in an attempt to rob a saloon at Indianapolis, temporarily confined at the City Hospital, has made a full confession to having shot and killed John Tarpey in a Haughville saloon, a few weeks ago. He was surprised, he says, to his attempt to rob the money drawer, and shot wildly at the man in order to make his escape. He disclaims any intention of killing or injuring any one. Henderson informed the Chief of Police that be intended to claim the reward offered by the Haughville trustees for the apprehension of Tarpey’s murdejer. The monument to memoriam of the late Gov, Alvin P. Hovey, erected at Mt. Vernon by ills children, Mrs. Major Menzies and J. C. Hovey, is ready for Inspection by the public. It isa'large and imposing tribute to the gallant soldier. The foundation Is brick; the first and second bases marble; the die is of dark Barre granite, and on the Western surface near the top is a large bronze medallion bust in bas relief of Hovey. Underneath is the inscription, “Alvin P. Hovey, Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry.” At the base of the monument, in large bronze letters, is th« name “Hovey.” John Walsh, of Montgomery, was the designer and builder. It cost <6.000. At Jeffersonville, Monday night, a gang of drunken hoodlums entered the brewery and demanded beer from the watchman, which was refused. A row followed, and General Manager Meyer’s attention wjts attracted to the scene. No sooner hod h« faced the party than they attacked him with rucks, and he received a number of wounds about the head and face. Meyers fell to the floor unconscious, and Dr. Walker was sent for. In the meantime the party escaped except Buriingam, Lcason and .Perkins. At the preliminary trial, Tuesday, tho first named were released Troth custody, bnt the evidence against Perkins warranted him to be held to await the chances, if any, of Meyera’ recovery.

Ossian has but one saloon; Nelson Trenary, proprietor. Ten days ago the ladies of the village began a crusade against its existence. Nightly prayer meetings are held, while ladies cal) at tho saloon, distributing cards to the frequenters and using their Influence against the use of intoxicants. At first the saloon man and his boon companions made light of the crusade, but recently it has grown so serious that Trenary and his friends are becoming desperate. Wednesday he found a letter awaiting his coming, together with a small quantity of dynamite, and he was plainly informed that if persuasive measures failed this would be a final resort. Trenary has threatened the crusaders with violence, but this has only increased the persistency of the efforts of the ladles to close him out.