Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1893 — INDIANA STATE JEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE JEWS.

Bedford has a mad dog scare. Tax dodgers are being prosecuted at Columbus. Philip Crag, of Evansville, is mysteriously missing. A meat war is “on” at Elkhart, and meat is very iow. Theeounty seat war has been renewed in Crawford county The Ohio flint glass works at Dunkirk will start up Oet."l. The re-starting of factories is again giving Kokomo a busy look. Forty polishers will resume work in the Elwood glass works Monday. The commissioners of St, Joseph county will issue $30,000 worth of bonds. Natural gas has been struck near Charlestown. People greatly excited. Fully 3,000 people attended the burial of the Wratten family, in Daviess county. Even the Brazil papers acknowledge that Clay county is overrun with outlaws. Estimated that Evansville has lost SIOO,000 during the past year by strikes and lockouts. The Huntington papers claim that a bed of white marble has been found near that place. ", . , - H ardin Hancock. of Jackson county, realized nearly S3OO for his melons off two acres of ground. William Simons, near Taylorsville, was fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a shotgun. An incendiary burned the Halloran saloon at Rennselaer, managed by Thomas H. Geer. Loss, $2,000. The Knox county commissioners have purchased a site at Vincennes and will erect a jail costing $60,000. Mrs. Abigail Hoel Davis, who settled in Montgomery county in 1826, is dead. She was ninety-eight years old. Police in Crawfordsville are raiding the gambling houses at a lively rate. The gamblers receive a fine of SSO. A case of temporary insanity is reported from Richmond, caused by the use of belladonna to make the eyes sparkle. Evansville business men have forwarded a car-load of provisions to the yellow fever sufferers at Brunswick, Ga. Two suspects have been arrested and lodged in jail at Vincennes. They are believed to be the Wratten munderers. Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Evans, of Fort Wayne, died from the effect of drinking ice-water while in a heated condition. Bessie Parker, near Peru, and only 6 years old, is dying of suffocation, from the effects of a bean that lodged in her windpipe. A ditch is being constructed in Madison county to drain what is known as the Dismal swamp. Over 2,000 acres of land will bo reclaimed.

George Cain, near Dillsboro, undertook to burn stumps and the fire spread to his house and barn. His farm is now merely a field of ashes, Judge Byron W. Langdon, of the Tippecanoe Circuit Court, has been selected to preside during the trial of the Roby cases at Crown Point. Jack Conners and Eva Flint, charged with being implicated in the Kendallville train robbery, were bound over to court by Mayor Marcy at Kendallville, Thursday. Edward Scrnghan, of Franklin, who criminally assaulted his half-sister, Maggie, thirteen years old, has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. Scrughan is a man of family. The township trustees of Bartholomew county will unite in opposing the collections set on foot by the Attorney General under the new legislative act, and the county commissioners will assist. Wabash surveyors are running a line from Defiance, 0., via Bryan, to Montpelier, looking to connecting the main line with the new Wabash. This will give the Wabash a Chicago and Toledo route. John Herman. Jr., of Laurel, who was bitten by a horse supposed to be affected by the rabies, went to Greensburg and applied the Pemberton mad-stone to the injury. The stone adhered forty-four hours. President J. H. Smart, of Purdue University, has returned to his home from Charlevoix, Mich. He is convalescing from his recent severe Illness, but he is still unable to resume educational work. Secretary of State Gresham was in Indianapolis, Wednesday, en route to the southern part of the State on a visit to his mother. He expressed the opinion that the repeal of the Sherman law was sure and that no compromise would be entered into. Lawrence Bayne, of Marion, amused himself by tossing stones at his brother William, who was riding In a boat on the Misslnnewa river, the desire being to splash his brother with water. One of the stones struck William on tho head, fatally fracturing his skull. A Muncie man, just to have a little fun, cut the ton of his corns off and sent them to an Anderson doctor. The M. D. thought they were small-pox scabs and nearly went into hysterics, while the citizens of the place that heard of It went wild with fear.

George Werner returned to Huntington from the far West, and because he was not given employment by Nicholas Windetnuth, for whom he formerly worked, he attacked Windemuth with a butcher’s, cleaver and made a desperate effort to kill him. Werner was locked up. ’He still avows a purpose to kill his former employer. O’Malley, Costello, Woods and Siler, who have been indicted by the Lake county grand jury for complicity in the prize fighting at Roby, appeared at Crown Point, Monday, and were ordered under arrest by Judge iGillctt, who placed the aggregate bond at $70,020. Afterward the Court reduced tho bond to 825.003, which was given. The trial was for Oct. 2. 6 Col. John I*’. Willey, tho noted peachgrower of Clark county, is eighty-six years old. Ho grows peaches on the Knobs near Bartis in the summer and oranges in Florida where he spends tho winters. He also preaches the gospel without money and without price and has done so for over half a century. Col. Willey is, perhaps, tho best preserved man, physically and mentally, of his age to be found anywhere.—Now Albany Lodger. Patent have been granted to Indiana Inventors &s follows: N. Bowsman, Portland, fence; B. C. Cloyd, Union City, excelsior machine; J. Dushano, South Bend, curry comb; C. 8. Evans, Union City, magazine gun; M. Lester, Logansport, two, typewriter easel and attachment for unloading boxes; F. L. McGohan, Indian-

spoils, portable oil stove; 3. C. Pope and D. M. Kltsdman, Ridgeville, wire fabric machine; L. D. Railsback, Indianapolis, rotary disk plow; J. C. Slawson, Indianapolis, street-sweeper; J. Vane, Brazil, boiler, C. E. Bruning, Indianapolis, medicines.