Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Thorntown creamery burned; loss 85,000. _ ’ -—4— The Yorktown strawboard factory has started up. t The police of Richmond arc raiding the poker dens, A temperance revival is in progress at Crothersville., * Good bas? fishing is reported in the Mississinewa river. The Indiana iron- works, of Muncle, has closed down to make repairs. Rev. Mr. Wood, of Brookville, officiated at three weddings, Thursday; The aphis has played havoc with the apple crop in Lagrange county. The Midland steel-works, of Anderson, has signed the Amalgamated Association scale. Susie Randolph, a dwarf of Columbus, has fallen, heir to a large estate in PhilaAlbany has secured the location of two additional glass factories and one hollowware factory. The wheat yield of Orange county will average thirty bushels per acre, and is the" bc°t for years. William Cox is a hermit who has lived alone in a little hut near Petersburg, on the banks of the Patoka river, for seven years. Ex-President Harrison was in New York, Thursday, en route to Cape May. Ho was interviewed on various questions, but was non-committal on all. W. W. Rockhill has been appointed postmaster at Fort Wayne, to succeed Higgins, removed. Mr. Rockhill is one of the publishers of the Fort Wayne Journal. Edwin Pittinger was fatally injured at his home near Dasota, Saturday. While attempting to< fix a pulley in a tree top he fell a distance of thirty feet and his back was broken. E. N. Bowman, of Cpvington. will be appointed deputy third auditor of the treasury at a salary of 12,250 a year. The appointment will be made on the recommendation of Senator Voorhees. Another monster gas well has. been struck at Redkey, with a product of 3,500,000 cubic feet daily. The combined output of the six wells now open at this place is estimated at twenty million feet per day. William Kline, mysteriously assaulted with a hatchet kt Brightwood on the 22d, died, Friday, the 30th, after a brief return to consciousness. He was unable to tell who his assailant was, and there is no clew to the perpetrator of the crime. Calvin Miller, near Marion, was presented with triplets nine months ago. The combined weight of the children at present is fifty-five pounds. Mr. Miller, being a stanch Democrat, has given the babes the names of Grover. Frances and Ruth. Four-fifths of the several hundred depositors in the Fairmount Bank have signed an agreement topermittheir deposits, aggregating 5100,000, to remain in the bank, in order to replace the concern on its feet. The bank will reopen on the 15th inst. Superintendent Black, of the Michigan City public park, took great pride in the park fountain,. and he stocked it-with beautiful fish. The other night some unknown scamp threw strychnine into the water in sufficient quantities to poison the fish. The Indianapolis Journal is authority for the statement that Gov. Matthews' will call an extra session of the Legislature next winter and will urge the repeal of the McHugh law as well as recommend various measures which are deemed of urgent importance. 1 Twenty-one pioneers, all over seventy years of age, engaged in a CPU test, with reaping hooks at Mapleton, an Indianapolis suburb, Friday. The first prize was won by Daniel Hollingsworth, aged sev-enty-one. He cut and bound 102% pounds of wheat in nine minutes and five seconds. Orlando Byer, aged thirty years, a news agent on the L. S. & M. S„ committed suicide by jumping from the train near Goshen. The deed was a very deliberate one, and a letter which ho handed to Charles Langdon before he took the leap plainly shows that he had fully planned the move. . William Rickard, of Kokomo, while dissipating, passed two spurious silver dollars. His arrest followed, and the authorities discovered that a quantity of Spurious coin had been set afloat in that city within the past few days. It is surmised that other parties besides Rickard were engaged in passing It. A party of twelve will leave English, July 4, to go to the World’s Fair in can-vas-covered wagons drawn by oxen. Six of these travelers are old •’forty-niners.” They will carry their cooking utensils and food from home. They will also take their bedding with them, and endeavor to live just as.they did in their overland trip to the Pacific slope.

Auditor George Pence, of Bartholomew county, together with bis brother, Charles, who spent several years at Denver. Col., and William, another brother, of Salt Lake City, after careful investigation, have leased a large tract of land in Brown county for Sold mining purposes. They believe there is enough gold in the tract to pay for wojalng. The Valparaiso Sun reports that W. Fred Pettit, the wife-murderer in the prison north, recently underwent a surgical operation which left him in a very precarlous condition The Shn further says that it Is the belief of the prison officials that he will never live to hear the decision of the Supreme Court on his appeal for a new trial. A party of religious workers styling themselves “Heavenly Recruits" have begun a series of meetings at Tipton Junction. The meetings are under the direction of a young man named Buck, who preaches a trance religion. Several of the converts have been thrown into a cataleptic condition, in one Instance the attack continuing for several hours. The will of Mark Davis has just been probated at Indianapolis, and the bulk of his estate is left to Earlham College, at Richmond. Slxty-elght thousand dollars wore given to Individuals and various benevolent organizationsr the Flower M ission <3,000, free kindergarten <3,000, Home of Friendless Women <3,000, Orphan Asylum <3,000, Friends’ church, on Delaware street, <5,000. The Chicago & Central Indiana electric railway, Tuesday, placed the order ' through the Chicago office for 500 miles of seventy-pound steel rails, to be used in the construction of their roads. The company also placed an order for a five hun-

dred-horse poxver compound engine, to be used in the car works. Other orders for material will be placed in a few days, and the active work of construction will be pushed with '' < George D. Clemmons, the well-known contractor and builder, of Muncie, is mysteriously missing. He settled at Muncie three years ago and the first-year did a rushing business, clearing 510,000. The last two years, however, the rapid rise in building material and labor and the tightness of the money market gave him great concern, and he worried oyer several of hts contracts which turned out badly There is fear that ho is mentally affected and that he has committed suicide. The following patents were granted to Indiana inventors, Tuesday: H. B. Boyd, Cambridge City, assignor of one-half to L. A. Boyd, Indianapolis, pneumatic tire; W. Hall, Fort Wayne, shoe; T. J Hatfield, Dublin, fanning mill: J. N. Kailor, assignor to Reeves & Co., Columbus, screen shoe for clover hullers; R. W. Lundy, South Bend, track for door Over, Indianapoli,s soil pulverizer and roller; W. T. Putnam, Brightwood, oil burner; W. H. Robbins, MUI Grove, lampburner attachment; T. S. Wagoner, assignor of one-half to M. J. CarnahaiOE - Co., Loogootee, post driver; J. E Worrell, Jeffersonville, plumb level. The well on the Widow Pugh farm, on the line between Jay and Blackford counties, which was abandoned two years ago, broke loose, a few nights ago with terrific force, and with a rumble that could be heard for a long distance. It flowed one tank of oil in an incredibly short space of time, and overflowed over the surrounding ground before another could be provided. The well still continues to be a great producer and is the wonder of the Northwest field. • William H. Pigg and John Carson, confined in jail at Newport, on chargesof embezzlement and attempted murder, respectively, broke the lock of the inner door with a piece of gas pipe, and while the daughter qf the sheriff was gone after water, leaving the front door unlocked, they rushed'qut and escaped. The firstnamed, who is an attorney, left a note addressed to the sheriff, saying he would return in time for his trial.

The circumstances attending the suicide of Mrs. W. T. Davis, of Dana, are pathetic. She was a sensitive, nervous woman, a model housekeeper, refined in taste, a devoted wife and mother, and an ardent Christian. Her husband was ill, and she besought him to try thebichlorlde of gold treatment, to break off his dissipated habits. Finally she saw the last dollar of her surplus ckecked out. For more than a week she prepared for her self-destruction, carefully cleaning the house, washing all the clothes, and setting everything to rights, as was her custom. She confided to two intimate friends her purpose, but they, could, not believe she really was in earnest. On Sunday evening she swallowed rough on rats, and when the physician came she pleaded with him for something that would hasten death. Nothing could be done in relief. Two ministers officiated at the funeral service, and a large number of friends attended the burial. She left two little daughters, twelve and ten years old.