Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Gibson county taxablcs are $13,719 365. Kurtz will soon dedicate a new Masonic hall. ( The New Albany hosiery milTisfamring full time. Ailthe secret societies have lodges in Terre Haute. There were two more prize fights at Roby, Monday night. Senator Turpie i| seriously il! at his home in Indianapolis, Cloverdale was visited by a most destructive tire, Tuesday morning. Six horses were cremated by a barn burning in Laportc county on the 31st. A hairless calf and spotted like a leopard was born recently in Floyd county. Thei. O. O. F. of Carroll county will hold a reunion at Flora on the 17th inSt: ' Rev. Hayden Rayburn, of KekemOriSalleged to have solemnized 1162 marriages. An old settlers’meeting will be held in the old grove at Eagletown, Saturday, Au gust 12. Vl-PKoh township, Jackson county, reports the largest and best hay cron in its history. Mayor Hammond, of Hammond, after five years’ consecutive service, has resigned. The drought throughout the State is likely to make a short crop of corn and potatoes. JohnDonhost, of Seymour, has 20,003 growing cabbage plants and 10,000 sweet potatoes. The wheat crop of L. M. Rogers, near New Haven, averaged over thirty bnshels to the acre. The State Institution for the Blind at Indianapolis was dameged $1,500 by fire, Wednesday. Work on the gas belt electric was begun at a point one mile south of NoblesVille, Tuesday. Miss Emma Linsey, sixteen years old,of Jeffersonville. was suddenly stricken both blind and dumb. Manufacturing interests are looking up at Richmond. Several of the factories are running fail time. Charles Haney, of Haubstadt, while intoxicated, laid down on the railroad track to sleep, and was killed. C. W, Depauw, of New Albany, has mortgaged all of his interests in his father’s estate to secure his creditors. The Bank of Commerce, of Indianppolis, will resume business, the directors so deciding at a meeting held, Wednesday. Chas. Cooprider, who killed Thomas Kress, near Middlebury, surrendered to Sheriff Ringo, at Clay City, Monday evening. Henry Butts, one of the oldest residents of Evansville, was seized by highwaymen ;oßft crowded street in broad daylight and robbed of $26. 6 George Dodson, of Brown county. Subject to epileptic attacks, was fatally burned by falling into a log heap while suffering from an attack. 6 An oak tree seventy-six feet in diameter and measuring forty-six feet to the first limb was cut on the farm of Henry Zollman, near Seymour, Wednesday. Edward Hawkins, of Indianapolis, has been appointed receiver for Haughey’s Indianapolis Natio'nal Bank, on the recommendation of Congressman Bynum. 5 The Laporte Star says that J. L. Cook, of Chesterton, who is possessed of ample means, is threatened with six breach of promise suits by as many-young ladies. 5 Mrs. Morgan Lee, near Washington, refused shelter to a tramp because her husband was absent, and In revenge the seoundrel burned the barn and contents. Carrie Pcrkhiser, eighteen years old, near Corydon, while snapping a revolver which she supposed to bo unloaded, shot and killed Katie Eckert, nine years old. '. A special election will be held in Mor-

gan county on the 22d inst. on the proposition to appropriate $50,000 in aid of the proposed Martlnsville-Indianapolis electric line. The Eagle Machine Works, Indianapolis, one of the best known manufacturing firms in the state, went into the hands of a receiver on the Ist., on petition of a heavy debtor. Cal. Graves, of Washington township, Boone county, will feed his wheat to his hogs rather than sell it at prevailing prices. lie has 1,000 bushels, old and new, stored in his barn. The councilm&nic ticket recently nominated at Tndianapelis by the Democrats, has been withdrawn because of fraud in the counting of the votes. Another convention will be held. The first telegraph instrument put In operation at Frankfort was by the Vandalia road twenty-one years ago. H. Beaver was then appointed operator of the Vandalia at that point,and still holds (he position. The young lady clerks of a certain dry goods store are greatly incensed at the condnct of a male companion who invited the crowd in for ice cream aud then took a hnrried departure through a rear door. —South Bend Times. Mrs. Rebecca White, widow, near Dag*, gett, has $20,000 cash and is her own banker, never having deposited a dollar. She keeps the money loaned to her neighbors on personal surety, taking no mortgages. She has never lost a dollar. While the Rhoads brothers were thrashing wheat on Levi Burton’s farm, in Harrison township, Cass county, the engine set fire to a load of unthrashed wheat, and two horses and two males wore burned in the general flames. Loss, $1,500. A relative, under the supposition that it was not loaded, pointed a gun at Joel Coats, near Winchester, and pulled the trigger, 'the bullet entered Mr. Coat’s mouth splitting his tongue and lodging in the base of the skull. He cannot recover. The Commercial bank of Colfax has gene into liquidation, giving its depositors notice to come and get their money. It will entirely close out tfyo business. Depositors are being paid in full. The present stringency in money matters is the cause of the discontinuance. A preacher in Noble county is very much disliked because he made the statement that God created the earth in sixty days, and then rqpted. Later He made man. and again rusted. Then He made woman, since which time neither God nor man has had a rest. While Wflllam Smothers, of Jeffersonville, was attending the funeral of his son, and was kneeling beside hlg bier in ■ tlie cemetery, Qqdjfgc HaH' picked his pocket, securing a gold watch grrd chain. Mr. Smothers missed'his watch, and upon giving the alarm suspicion fell upon

Hall. and he wamzrrested. The property I was found in his possession. 1 The Indiana Associatton of Spiritualists. I in session at Chesterfield, elected J. W. Westerfield, president; Mrs. Colby Luther, of Crown Point, vice-president; Miss Flora Hardin, of Anderson, secretary, and L. v. Smith, of Indianapolis, treasurer. Reports show 1 membership of 20,000 in the State. A conspiracy to release Deputy Treasurer Cal Armstrong from the Tipton jail was discovered, Tuesday, in time to prevent his escape; All the conspirators escaped at the time except one. a son of Dr. Pitzer. Wednesday. Joseph Pressler was arrestod as an accessory Armstrong will be removed to Kokomo for safe keeping ■- _• : __

Tuesday morning a gang of Dagos were paid off in Richmond. People often wonder why these -reatures are called by numbers instead of their names. Here is a splendid illustration that should be selfexplanatory: One of the men who was jMddoff-was No. 27. His name is Joseph Mouscharetrchcawa. P. B. o‘Rcllley, after twenty-pine years’ service as deputy County Clerk of Vigo county, twenty-two years of which were served continuously, has retired because of political changes. He had charge of the Criminal and Probate. Court records. A few weeks ago himself and wife celebrated their golden wedding. Mr. O’Reilly is a Republican. Isaiah Jay, of New Castle, formerly a member of the Friend’s church was caught in the act of taking a ten dollar bill from the safe of a grocery store. He was accused of previous thefts amounting to $l4O and confessed and repaid the amount. Mr. Jay don’t know why he stole the money. Ho is a man of good character, and well-to-do. A postmaster in one of the little towns not far from Ladoga is giving universal dissatisfaction, and many of the patrons of the office are having their mail changed to another offica not far distant. It is claimed that the postmaster is so ignorant that he told his assistant to give all uncalled for letters to the needy poor who never get any mail.—Ladoga Leader. Tramps took possession of a freight train on the Ft-. Wayne road at Liverpool, locking the conductor and a brakeman in the caboose. Near Wheeier there was a fight, in which one of the tramps was fatally wounded, and .others were injured. A telegram warned the Valparaiso police, and near that point the train was met by a posse, and seven of the combatants were arrested. Michael Lcvcnduski, near Otis, went to church last Sunday, accompanied by one of his eleven children. He invited his wife to go along, but she declined beoause of the pressure of house work. Mr. Levenduski did not return until evening, when he found his wife and five younger children missing. Mrs. Levenduski took unusual pains in making the house attractive: toefore her departure. ~ The husband is unable to account for her flight. Dr. H, W. Rupright, veterinary surgeon of Ligonier, attempted to reduce chlorate of pottassium so that it could be used in his practice, using a small iron mill which he had for that purpose. In some way there was an explosion, tearing the mill to pieces and badly lacerating Dr. Rupright from head to feet. The surgeons spent several* hours in extracting fragmente of iron from his body, a few of which were as large as a small walnut. It is feared he is blinded in both eyes. Captain Fritts, chief of the special examination division of the Pension Office, is turning his attention to Indiana. The State is pretty fairly stocked with special examiners at present and more will be sent out soon to mako inquiry into operations of the act of 1890 on the Iloosiei pensioners. Examiners are stationed at the following points; Two at Indianapolis. and one at each of the .following places: Terre Haute, Vincennes, Gosport. New Albany, Evansville, Lafayette, Ft. Wayne, Muncie and Kokomo. A monster flowing well in Tipton county is exciting people for miles around. The

well is an old gas well which had been abandoned, and the owners, the Lafayette Natural Gas Company, gave a contract to have the easing pulled. When the casing was partially removed the water boiled up, and the pressure together with the remnant of gas in the well, threw the stream about eighty feet in the air. An effort was made to confine the water, but so far it has been futile, and it is spraying up to a height of fifty feet out of a four-inch hole. Robert Hewitt, proprietor of a drug store at Mt. Summit, was accused of selling intoxicants, and the populace roseen masse and ordered him out He obeyed, retiring to a farm a short distance away. The populace also accused Wm. L. Brown of selling intoxicants, but he showed fight, in which he wassupported by A. J. Ice. owner of the building of which he was lessee. Mr. Ice placed a guard over his property. The village continues greatly excited over the matter, and threats are made that if the grand jury does nothing at the September term other agencies will bo brought into play. The flowing well at Groomsvilic continues to be a source of wonder. When the casing was pulled from the old . gas well the water immediately shot upward to a height of seventy or eighty feet, a distance which has been maintained to the present ITme. A cornfield of ton acres is completely covered with water to a depth of from six Inches to two feet; Other parts of the surrounding country are covered, but to a less depth. The general theory thereabouts is that there is gas behind it and perhaps mixed with it to some extent, that throws the water out tp such a great height. It seems to be impossible thus far to confine the flow, and if it continues to run it may I** necessary to dig a ditch from the well as an outlet. Xhe well is a mystery. _ Patents were. Tuesday, issued to In-’ diana inventors as follows: O. Darnell, assignor of one-half to E. F. Harris and C. A. Bookwalter, "Indianapolis, wooden lathing- T. C. Greene, Liberty, assignor of one-half toC. F. Cleveland. Indianapolis, wire stretcher; E. L. Hiatt, Dublin, folding handle for dustpans; O. G. Klugel, Indianapolis, coin controlled dice shaking machine; C. A. Krutch, Logansport, hair crimper; G. A. Lake, Stockwell, cotuojnation step ladder; C. W. Patton, QhkxFalU, car coupling. D. M. Schaffer. New Cas- • tie. assignor to Charles Tux, Greane A Co.. Chicago, veterinary forceps; W. N. Springer. Kortviile,., threshing machine, (y. W; Wear: Elkhart, sir veto for oil can: J. L. Wood. Fort Wayne: rhfibrflhlT’J [ .' , A. Wright. Indianapolis, bicycle tire.