Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

South Bend police are raiding the gamblers. Jackson county farmers are plowing for wheat. * Gold coin is being freely circulated at Kokomo. Liberty has a fuel-gas plant in successful operation. The blacksmiths of Clay county have organized a union. The Claus spring factory is a new industry at Elkhart. A boy playing with matches burned three barns at Plainfield. Leroy Templeton and others have es’ tablished a bank at Oxford. The corporate town of English is dead, after a precarious life of seven or eight years. The new union station at Terre Haute, costing <350,000, was opened to the public, Tuesday. Fifty men are employed in blasting the rock at Momence so as to drain the Kankakee valley. 8 The Citizens National Bank of Attica suspended, Monday. Assets, <136,000; liabilities, <69,000. x It is surmised that natural gas in paying quantities can be found in the vicinity of West Lebanon. Hon. P. W. Gard, the well known lawyer of Frankfort, died of consumption in that city, Tuesday, aged sixty years. One farmer who two weeks ago estimated his corn crop in Bartholomew county at 1,500 bushels says now he will not have 100 bushels. George Stahl, near Vallonia, whose watermelon patch was plundered, trailed down the thieves with bloodhounds and compelled them to settle. Miss Daisy Garland, daughter of the former Attorney General, disappeared from her home in Washington, Friday. Search is being made for her. Arrangemenes are nearly complete for the location of the Raub Locomotive works at Elwood. The company will employ twenty-five hundred men 6 A horse belonging to Ephriam McMurray, of Montgomery county, was bitten by a mad dog, and twenty-six days afterward the animal died in horrible agony. Silas Jones, of Posey county, deputy United States Marshal, has resigned and has brought suit against Marshal Hawkins for alleged breach of contract. After a rain storm at Summitville an alligator twenty inches long was found in Zack Bramble’s corn field. It was alive and squirming, and is now in captivity. The State natural gas inspector is looking after the waste of natural gas by oil men in Jay county. Suits will be brought against different oil companies for violating the law.

4 Columbus will have ©sanitarium in connection with a sulphur well recently sunk at that place. The wSfer has been analyzed and is said to be unexcelled for medical purposes. 1 Walter P. Davis, a cousin of Secretary Gresham, has received notice at Corydon of his suspension as a pensioner. He is almost blind. He drew under the old law <l7 per month. Frankfort has been overrun by tramps, and the Mayor has decided that hereafter all tramps arrested and fined for any ordinary offense shall be put to work on the streets of that city. Magic Muncie has fifteen well developed cases of small pox, and there is great alarm. Two of the cases are fatal. The eases are all in the district known as Industry, except one in Avondale. Altogether nearly one hundred inmates of the Soldiers’ Home at Marion have been notified of a discontinuance of pensions pending further examination. Twen-ty-two received notice in one batch. Henry Ehrlich, twenty years old, son of Peter Ehrlich, a coal operator of Clay county, was bitten in the leg by a spreading viper. Ehrlich’s leg swelled to enor : mous proportions, and it is feared that he will die.

A gang of tramps, headed by a fellow carrying a lantern, took possession of Sturgis, and robbed every man who presented himself. Fully a dozen persons were plundered before the city marshal organized a posse and drove the rascals out of town. The only saloon at Fairmount w’as blown to pieces, Monday night. Numerous attempts to establish a groggery there have been made, but the proprietor of this one alone succeeded in opening a place. Angry citizens exploded a charge of dynamite under the building, utterly wrecking it. Eugene Todd, aged twenty, died at Bristol, from Injuries received Sunday night in company with a young woman? He was seated in a hammock in the telegraph office, where he w'as employed, when a forge letter press, to which one end of the hammock was fastened, fell from the top of a high cupboard, and striking Todd, mashed his sxull. Charles G. Yelm, a traveling salesman of Lafayette, reports that while in Davenport, la., he was given a silver dollar In change by the hotel clerk while paying his bill. The coinage date was 1804. Mr. Yelm sold his find to an attache of the First National Bank of Chicago for <855 cash, and was afterward chagrined to discover it was worth twice that amount. 1 The great Gas Belt Electric bubble has burst and the chief conspirators have fled the country to escape the consequences of their acts. The laborers and teamsters who have worked faithfully for the past three weeks will not receive one cent for their work. Many of them are destitute of the necessaries.of life. Several .arrests arc likely to follow the explosion of the scheme.

Patents were Tuesday issued to Indiana inventors as follows; R, C. Elliott, Prairie Creek, picture exhibitor; H. C. Miller, Fort Wayne, engine; A. J. Will, Aurora, drill press; J. Marshal), Mentoka, rake attachments for mower; P. O'Brien,South Bend, tire setting apparatus; G. M- Pitcher, Logansport, brace: J. Teeter Hagerstown, mail crane; G. H. Shoemaker, South Bend, spark arrester; O. Watson, Crawfordsville, collar fastener. The Elwood Daily Call denounces as absolutely absurd the reports |hat fifteen hundred workmen are'prcparing to leave that city because of lack of employment, or that the. plate glass-works will postpone the resumption of work until May, 1894. While no definite time has boen set, the managers report that work win resume as soon as the market permits. The Press also says that the window-glass and bottle-works of that city arc preparing to resume September 1. Job Holmes, of Monticello, is lying at

his home with one eye shot out and the other seriously injured by bird-shot. He offers no explanation, but it is surmised that he was included among the party who stoned Hugh Davis’s residence until driven off by a shot-gun discharged in their midst by Davis. It is claimed for Holmes that he was simply an onlooker, taking no part in the affair. r The Roby prize ring is threatened with a dry rot that promises to do the duty that officials fail to accomplish. The Shed came near being destroyed by fire, Tuesday night, while filled with a crowd of 6,000 people. Afterwards hoodlums attacked the building with stones and nearly wrecked it. The disgraceful scenes in and around the building were never equaled in the history of the prize ring. The special policemen were powerless to preserve order and the Chicago toughs had .it all their own way. The officers of the club have fallen out. Matchmaker Houseman has resigned, and other officials threaten to do the same because of President O’Malley’s action in excluding newspaper men and causing the Western Union wires to be removed from the building. The car wheel inspector at the Union Station, Indianapolis, Wednesday morning, while engaged in his duties, found a portion of a man’s leg, dripping with blood, under a Vandalia coach hanging to a truck. Later in the day telegrams were received from various points on the line announcing that other parts of a human body had been found. One from Brazil told of the finding of a head and trunk of a man near that place. In the pocket of -the vest that was found with these ghastly regains was a note that read: “I am Marsh Gibson, aged twenty-four years, and live in Brazil, Ind., Clay county. My father and sister live in Brazil.” Information from Brazil discloses the fact that Gibson was seen near the scene of the accident sometime during Monday night, and that be was intoxicated. His father was present when the remains were found along the side of the track. Indiana Odd Follows are looking forward with much interest to “their day” at the World’s Fair. They will journey from their State, Sept. 23d, by every road leading Chicagoward, headquarters at the Hotel Fraternity, The parade occurs on the 25th, when it is hoped will be given the greatest civic display of the century. Odd Fellows’ Day at the Fair is Sept. 26, and it is expected that the Fair people will be privileged to report 250,030 paid admissions on that date. There has been arranged a programme of especial interest to the members of the order, which includes prize drills, fireworks, a ball, and banquets. Several of the Cantons of this State will attend in uniform, and Canton Elwood will drill for first prize, which includes the State’s medal. J. E. Bodine, Indianapolis, will send information to any siring information as to rates, etc.