Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Greenfield has voted for water works. Porter county reports a failure of the apple crop. A (fast pipe line is being laid from Elwood to Kokomo. A well full of oxygen is the latest curiosity near Dublin. The Marion Flint Glass Company will start one of their furnaces onthe 18th inst. JJ The saloon of Geo, B. Moss at Waverly was up with dynamite, Friday night. Thomas Taggart has purchased the Grand Hotel lease at Indianapolis. Price, $75,000. The town of Cutler, near Delphi, was nearly wiped out by flames Saturday. Loss $5,000 - - ---- -- Valuable finds of coal and fire clay have bean discovered on Tbad Meeker's farm in Fountain county. George Biegler, a huckster, of Harrison county, while driving homeward in an intoxicated condition, was thrown out in a runaway accident and was killed. William Pitman, of Mitchell, attended services in the First Baptist church, and amused himself by firing off his revolver. He has been placed under heavy bonds. During an all-around light in thcstrccts of Coal Bluff by a party of drunken men, one of them used a shotgun, missing his target and dangerously wounding J. F. Pierce, a spectator. Neighborhood enemies stoned the residence of William Lacey and Mrs. D. B. Moore, fit Marion,.breaking nearly every window and making their escape before the arrival of the police. Insurance companies are placing such restrictions about the issuingof policies on farm property i j the northern part of the State that It amounts to a practical refusal to accept such risks. The bond of ex-Treasuror Jenkins, the embezzling official of Clark county, has been reduced to SIO,OOO, Mr. Jenkins’s health is rapidly failing, and it is scarcely possible he will live to be tried. The Anderson flint bottle works has given notice that operations will re-com-mence Monday next, the differencowftfatheir employes having been adjusted. A reduction of wages has been conceded. Charles Meeter, of Marion, under sentence to prison, by the alternate use of a flame of gas and a stream of cold water, displaced the stones of his cell in the Grant county jail, and he was on point of escape when discovered. The Seymour Republican complains that great difficulty has been experienced in getting a supply of Indiana school books. Orders filed with the book company thirty days ago have not been filled, and dealers are short on supplies. Dr. Groendyke, of New Castle, while driving to the country to see a patient, was caught on a crossing by a passing railway train. His horse was instantly killed and his buggy torn to pieces. Dr. Groendyke was frightfully injured. In the sermon of Rev. F. W. Frazer, of the PresDyterian church at Columbus, Sunday night, he made several slighting remarks against Eider Z. T. Sweeney, of the Tabernacle church. It is feared the men will have a personal encounter as the result. The American Wire Nall company at Anderson, Monday, posted notices that hereafter all of its mills, employing 000 men, would be non-union. Indifference of the Amalgamated association relative to the scale of wages is given as the reason for the company’s action. According to the reports of the presiding elders of the several districts made to the Northwest Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, there have been about five thousand converted added to the church within the bounds of the conference during the past year. The City Council of Muncle has passed an ordinance requiring every eitizeh not vaccinated within the past three years to be re-vaccinated. It was also ordered that a city prison be established, where persons will be detained twenty-one days who violate the quarantine rules. The first prisoner was a drunken quarantine -guards Two new cases dftvp.lopod-Tnas-~ day.. Edward Fahnestock, a noted crook of Lafayette, who has served a term in the Northern Prison for murder, was arrested, Tuesday night, at Culver Station, ' while in the store of Mr. Edmunds, which he had entered as a burglar through a window. He was corralled by four Lafayette police officers, who yelled to him to throw up his hands, which he quickly did. Fred B. O’Connor, the young train dispatcher through whose error the terrible collision between trains at Colchour occurred, is missing from his quarters at Fort Wayne. The young man is delirious with grief but he assumes the entire responsibility for the accident, and lie telegraphed to the coroner of Cook county, 111., not to hold the trainmen responsible as he alone was to blame. It was his desire to surrender himself to the authorities at Chicago, but his friends interposed because of his exhausted physical and mental condit'on. The Indiana State Building at Jackson Pack is advertised for sale by Fred J. Ilayden, of Fort Wayne. The following property is excepted from sale: Plate glass in building, stone mantel, in lower hail, brick mantel in ladies’ parlor, the postoffice, the electric light and plumbing fixtures. All bids to be accompanied with a bond for five thousand ($5,000) dollars for the doe performance of the contract. Bids will be opened at the meeting of the Executive Committeo in Indiana Building on Oct. 38, 1893. Purchase money to be paid within ten days after acceptance of bid. 4 There is said to be a haunted farm house near Gas City, long since deserted. Recently a number of gentlemen of Gas City undertook to explore the hannted spot, but scarcely had they hitched their horses and started toward the building before they were saluted with such unearthly groans that they made haste fn flight. Years ago the family of Ell Timpson farmed the place and the senior Tlmpson accumulated considerable money, which he bequeathed to his wife. Tha widow secreted her treasure 1u the cellar. She refused to disclose the hiding place to her Son Adam, and he bound her In chains and threw her Into the cellar, where he served ~ intq jutb.mtysion , Afiga*, Securing the money bo decamped. xD6'qld days after his flight, and she was nearly dead when found by the neighbors. This is the story told of the deserted home, which

' •* ■ ' ■ has not been occupied for years. The groans and sounds of weeping are attributed to her lamentations while a prisoner in the cellar. b At Winslow, Thursday, four miles west of Valparaiso on the Ft. Wayne road, twelve men beating their way from Cincinnati to Chicago on a freight train,were “held up” by four men who entered the car by breaking down the door, and robbeb of sums ranging from $lO to $35, besides several gold watches. After the robbery the men were forced at the point of rer voivers to jump from the rapidty running train, thosepefusing to jump being thrown pff. five of them receiving severe injuries.