Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

| Fire caused a Idas atMarloo, [Tuesday. . ■■ ’ Pinkeye has appeared among h<>rses In iWabash county. , . ’ ’ Jonesboro and Gas City style themselves the Twin Cities. The crop of blackberries in Jackson county will be large and fine. :: d An excellent quality of fire clay has been discovered udar Cannelton. Prof. Ellis ha? been chosen superintendent of the North Vernon schools. Levi Golding was killed by a bursting cannon at Indianapolis, Tuesday. A white frost visited the lowlands of Blackford cotanty, Monday night. Malignant diphtheria has broken out at Elwood, followed by two deaths. Five hundretj binders and mowers were sold this season in Jackson county. There are now fifty-three children Inmates of the orphans’ home at Franklin. New Indiana wheat has reached Seymour consignment It was an excellent article. Ewing Shields’s wheat crop, near Seymour, weighed sixty-two pounds to the bushel. Mr. Omri W. Tuell, near Tampico, has sold thirty-five bushels of raspberries this season. Efforts to reorganize the Fairmount Bank have failed, and it cannot resume business. Sherman Murphy, of Vincennes, goes to prison for one year for stealing his brother’s coat Russiaville was visited by a destructive fire, Thursday. The loss will reach at least $50,000. The rapid spreading of Canada thistles is alarming the farmers in the New Albany neighborhood. The receiver of the Greentown bank has found sufficient assets to declare a2O per cent dividend. Washington is drilling for whatever is in the earth beneath, whether oil, gas or mineral water. Interior correspondents seem to agree that the apple crop in Indiana will be a complete failure. Eugene Hogue, nineteen years old, of Jeffersonville, died from injuries received from an unknown assailant. A regularly organized band of White Caps is said to have its headquarters near Hindoostan, in Monroe county. Sherman Murphy, a Vincennes youth, has been sent to the penitentiary for one year for stealing his brother’s coat. James K. Bush, a well-known citizen of Noblesville, was killed in a runaway acjldent in that city, Wednesday evening. The Studebaker wagon works at South Bend have"been shutdown for two weeks for repairs. Hard times is not the cause. Shawswick township, Lawrence county, voted aid to the proposed Indianapolis, Bloomington <fc Bedford railway, Saturday. Sharpers are working Starke, Laporte and Porter couiities, selling bogus terrlritorial privileges for some sort of a windmill. The Studebaker w agon-works, ot South Bend, are shipping twelve-ton-capacity wagons to Chicago, for use by the cable lines. Many thousand people attended the celebration of the Fourth at Mitchell, where Governor Matthews was the principal orator. Awards for the June exhibits of Indiana butter at the World’s Fair have been made. Rensselaer took first and Indianapolis second. The Indiana Sons of Veterans closed their two days’ session at Terre Haute, Thursday. Nextyears’sencampment will be held at Kokomo. BoUCalvert, exchange clerk in the Citizens’ National Bank of Kokomo, has received notice of appointment to a cadetphi p at West Point. It is stated that Elder J. V. Updike, of Ft. Wayne, has brought 20,000 people into the Christian church during his ministry , and is now’ in the prime of life. A Big Four World’s Fair train was wrecked at Fairland, Thursday. The damage to the rollingstock was large, but passengers and trainmen escaped serious injury.

The Catholic Total Abstinence Society of Rushville joined with other societies in celebrating the Fourth with a picnic. The main address was delivered by D. L. Thomas. j 5 A catfish weighing forty-five pounds was captured at the “Shades of Death,” in Montgomery county, by George Scaggs, of Crawfordsville, who used a club to land the monster. I. N. Roop, of Elwood, well known all over Indiana as a real estate, loan and insurance agent, was fatally kicked Jn the forehead by a horse, Tuesday. His death is looked for. 4 Miss Mary Gowland. at Goodland, on the Fourth, was pushed on to the railroad track tn front of an approaching train by a crowd, and sustained injuries from which she soon died. The Governor has issued a proclamation declaring in force the contract with the Indiana School Book Company to furnish intermediate grammars to the public schools of the State. “Bony” Lyons, an engineer on the E. & T. H., made the run recently from Evansville to Terre Haute, a distance of 109 miles, Including all stops, in two hours and twenty-eight minutes. Alexander Hamill was fatally injured by a misdirected sky rocket, which came into the crowd where he was standing, during the fireworks display at Monticello, the evening of the Fourth. Wm. Buschman, one of the most prominent and wealthy German residents of Indianapolis, died' in that city, Wednesday, after a prolonged illness. He was a grocer at the same stand for thirty years. W. G. Derryberry, a well digger, of New Castle, was overcome by “damps” in a well near that place oa the Fourth. Efforts to rescue the unfortunate man failed, and he fell back In the well and perished. Jack Mumford, of Marion, was found lying by the river, having been sandbagged. He also received two broken ribs. Mumford recovered consciousness but was unable to give any clew to his assailant 6Grant county advertised to sell <46,000 worth of gravel road bondsof gjOQdenomiosttoß. July 1. Treasurer Heal stated, h«weok , that the chances of disposing bf them were very slim. Ho did not expect any bids at all unless they were below par, and gravel road bonds arc not allowed

to sen beW par. The county sold $33.50*. last year, at a premium of $1,346.®. fc-A eomtenaboU jof tne skewer manufacturers of Omp United States has been ftnttd.il Muncfe with ttooyfto capital Mock-lftcWieanow inoperatibnwH! be dismantled and a mammoth concern will be bolltto continue the business— probably at Muncie. The C. H. A D. railroad has Disced on record at Indianapolis a general mortgage lb the Continental Trost Company of New Yofk for $3,800,000 bearing 5 per cent interest in goljl. The money is to be used in funding, the company’s bonded and other debts. The commissioners of De Kalb county were so badly imposed upon by frauds that the board ordered the name of every person receiving aid to be published, together with the amount. The board fonnd thateven storekeepers werecoHect--ink bad debts from the county under the head of "aid to the poor.” Boys at South Bend loaded a piece of iron gas service pipe with powder and touched it off. The recoil sent the improvised cannon through an inch plank and across the street, where it struck George Polerman on the leg just above the ankle, crushing the bone like an egg shell. A meat dastardly act was committed b some cowardlysneakat Day ton. near Lafayette, Saturday night, which is the sensation of the town. The Letz <fc Mather Carriage Company's building was entered and twelve fine carriages and buggies were cut, paint defaced, etc., making in all very serious damage. Irv Hoover, near Richmond, while on a fishing trip, slipped the bit from the horse’s mouth so the animal cwwld eat. and with the end of the halter fastened to his wrist sat down to eat his lunch. The horse became frightened and bounded off and Hoover was dragged a quarter of a mile before he was released. He was badly injured. Mrs. Thorpe discovered a burglar in her room at Anderson, Thursday morning. She jumped out of bed and was knocked down by the burglar. He was afterward arrested. The man gave his name as Dan Welsh. “Weil,” said he, “1 might as well be In jail as anywhere. Been in this bloody country seventeen years and can’t, make a living.” E. W. Bone, of Vincennes, and wife, while driving in the vicinity of that city discovered a trestle on fire qn the Ohio A Mississippi tracks, and he was successful in flagging the west-bound passenger train of eight coaches, which was due. The train was stopped within fifty feet of the break. The train backed to Vincennes., and resumed its journey via the C., C., C. & St. L. tracks to St Francesville.

Ralph Drake, of Columbus, who murdered Mrs. Ida Ward some weeks ago, has been declared of unsound mind. After making sure of the death of the woman, Drake turned the weapon against his own head, the bullet passing along the skull bone from just below the left ear, coming out at the crown. Since then Drake has suffered intensely, and his mind is shattered. His physical downfall is due to excessive dissipation. Elmer Dickey, nineteen years old, near Elwood, became violently insane, and escaping from the care of the family he made his way to the residence of John Main, in the same neighborhord, and assaulted him with a carpenter’s square, nearly killing him. The young map’s father, some years ago, while a patient at the Eastern Indiana Hospital, escaped from his ward and drowned himself in a neighboring stream. The remains of A. H. Goeblentz, an in mate of the Vanderburg county asylum, were found lying in a ditch a short distance from that institution. The deceased belonged to the German nobility, and his family was a wealthy one. He came to America, however, in his twenty-seventh . year,' and soon after was naturalized. For years he was prosperous, but finally fell a victim to strong drink. He left the aaylum several days before his dead body was discovered. Sadorious Lindsay, near English, had the pleasure, Monday, of meeting his fa then Harry Lindsay, of Velpln, Pike county, for the first time in his life,* although he is now thirty-one years, old. The elder Lindsay was divorced from his wife before the child Sadorious was born She subsequently married Mr. Beers, and then Mr, Harris, both of this county. She kept the boy in ignorance of his father * whereabouts, and ft appears that the father took but little interest in hfe offspring because of his mother’s hostility. John W. Eiler and wife, of Fort Wayne. were married one year ago, and recently their domestic differences occasioned much neighborhood gossip. Saturday night Mr. Eiler came home somewhat later than usual, finding his wife insane with jealous rage. His attempts at explanation only made matters worse, for she seized a cup filled with a solution of nltrte acid and dashed the contents into his face. He screamed and yelled with agony and the neighbors called the patrol. By that time the couple had harmonized their differences. 6The following patents were granted Indiana inventors on the 6th*. H. Daniels Atlanta, Ga., assignor of one-half to J. A. Simonson, Ft. Wayne, Ind., lumberpiling machine; H. Daniels, Atlanta. Ga., assignor of one-half to J. H. Simonson, Ft. Wayne, Ind., lumber truck; T. Duncan, Ft Wayne, meter for alternating pulsating or intermittent electric currents; T. Duncan. Ft. Wayne, multiphase metor; T. J. Lockwood,'Muncie, assignor to National Cash Register Co., Dayton, 0., adding device and register: W. K. Mills, Kokomo,gate; J- A. Osborne, Union City, vehicle pole; A. Schlegel and fl. Mayor, Decatur, device for protecting nnburned brick; T. K. Sheldon. Marion, and M. N. Lynn, Indianapolis, finishing tool forglass bottles; N. D. Walford. Hartsville, bookbinder; U. Stackhouse, Indianapolis, rem edy for the tobacco habit.