Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Columbus and Frankfort are short of sugar. Grasshoppers are raiding the cornfields near Zclma. Fires are damaging farms and forests near Houston. Joseph Eisel was kicked to death bv t horse at Elston. Lonisville parties are leasing coal land* in Pike county. 0 Five deaths from diphtheria have occurred in West Marion. 'Harrison Downey, near New Salem. lost :t3AEO by the burning of his barn. The prize fight between Conley and Sullivan failed to come off at Hartford City. 6Posey county lias been blessed with copious rains and the corn crop will be large. Grant Freeman, colored, arrested in Muncie, Thursday, charged with stealing a stack of hay,——_ Frank Harper was found guilty of arson at Laporte and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. 6Two cornstalKS are on exhibition at Columbus that measure fourteen feet six inches in length. Miss Maria Thompson, of Noblesville, was frightfully burned by her clothing catching fire whileshe was burning trash, Railroad officials estimate that all the roads centering at Indianapolis lafided 204,377 passengers in that city during encampment week. i Farmer Jacob Pressy, near Petersburg, while fighting in a meadow fire,Thursday, fell from exhaustion and his body was burned to a crisp. Charles Lambert, engineer, was killed and Albert Pike seriously injured by a boiler explosion while hulling clover near Union City, Thursday. Recently some unknown and unhnng scoundrel burned the school house at Alford, a small town one mile east of Petersburg. Coal oil was used. A “head-on” collision occurred on the Big Four near Batesville, Tuesday morning, between a freight and passenger train. An unknown tramp was found under the cars dead. Several persons were painfully hurt. The Boone County Teachers’ Institute passed resolutions in line with those adopted by other counties, calling for an investigation of the affairs of the State Normal School and the appointment of educators on the board. 6 Gotlieb Hassert,a German saloon-keeper of Indianapolis, was murderously assaulted in his place of business, Thursday night, by burglars. His wounds are serious but not fatal. But SSO was secured by the thieves, who escaped. Leases on over 41,524 acres of gas land are reported to have been secured in Grant county by outside companies. Of the total amount the Chicago Natural Gas Company holds fully one-third. Peru. Huntington and Hartford City are also well represented. Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Joseph M. Tilman, of Evansville, kitchen utensil; Albert W. Meyer, Terre Haute, water cooler; Dobbins & McKenney, Indianapolis pneumatic tiro; Conrad Schifferly, Fort Wayne, balce pan; Eli Keith, Hagerstown, washtub.

At Terre Haute, Tuesday, Judge Briggs, on complaint of the Sullivan county bank, placed G. S. Grammer in charge of the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad as receiver. The floating debt is said to be f SCO ODD, and J: D. Mackey is charged with hating declared large dividends on entered stock, to meet which money had to be borrowed. Brazil is agitated over the competition for the construction of the new gravel roads. Bennet, Morrissey & Murphy, of Paris, 111., bid the lowest on the gravel work, less than *2,009 per mile, 20 percent, below the estimate. Bynum, Bronton & Co., of Lebanon, Ind., hid lowest on macadamized work, 53,501 per mile, a small per cent, under the estimate. Wilson Sageser and wife, of Clinton township, Cass county, attended the labor day celebration at Logansport, leaving at home their four children, the oldest fourteen years of age and the youngest five. When they returned home in the evening they found them all stretched out on the floor dead. There was evidence that they had got hold of and eaten some “Rough on Rats.” OWm. Poor, of Newport, seventy-three years old, is dead under peculiar circumstances. Ho was drawing *l2 per month under the new law for double two weeks ago he received notice of sus - pension, with orders to report at Williamsport for re-examination on the following Wednesday. Suspension of his pension was the chief cause of death, for lie worried over it until he became insane, and he died in delirium.: Harry Cragin, aged twenty-eight, and Barney Riley, aged seventeen,were among two thousand Lafayette Labor Day excursionists to Logansport, Monday morning, via the Wabash Railway. Tho train was made up of cabooses, and Riley and Cragin with others rode on lop. At Colborn station the spout of a water tank struck and instantly’killed Riley and his body was tossed from the train. Cragin’s skull was fractured by the spout and ho will die, —„—nn . Geo. Cutsinger, of Shelby counry, arrested and fined for profanity, being unable to pay his fine, was, Saturday, being taken to jail at Shelbyville by tho constable. When wlthip throe miles of Shelbyville they were overtaken by Six masked men who dragged Cutsinger from the buggy and gave him one hundred lashes with whips, till he was nearly dead. The constablo was ordered to leave. Cutsinger was ordered to leave tho county, but was unable to do so, and on Sunday was lodged in the Shelbyville jail.