Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

A bloody riot occurred at Whiting Tueslay. The street-fight.lng question agitates Shelbyville. A social science club has been formed at Richmond. Over 5,090 tickets to Chicago have been sold in Crawfordsville this season. The Elwood window glass factory, employing 300 men. has resumed operations. The Brown-Wesner murder trial began at Lebanon. Tuesday. Ben Hur is one of the jurymen. 5 A LaGrange county man is in jail charged with poisoning his neighbors’ horses and cattle. “Misegansity,” is the way a resident of the lake city wrote it on a Valparaiso hotel register recently. The big window glass factory at Hartford City started up, Tuesday. Workmen will be paid last year’s scale. A Howard county farmer has been arrested for pouring water on his hay when he went to sell it, so it would weigh more. In a pumpkin show at Greenfield, John H. Shields, of Charlottesville, took first prize with a sixty-nine-pound specimen of the golden fruit. A dozen freight cars were knocked into kindling wood at Wilders, Saturday, a Monon train colliding with a Chicago & Erie slow freight. Five hundred Inmates of the Indiana Solders’ and Sailors’ Home, at Knightstown were admitted free to the John Robinson circus, last week.

All the trials in the Greentown Bank embezzlement case that were to have come up at Kokomo this week have been postponed until next term of court. Calvin Lee, an aged clergyman, dropped dead at Terre Haute, while on his way home from a chapel where he had preached. He was an eccentric character. A tramp brutally assaulted Mrs. W. W. Ritchie, an estimable lady of Noblesville. He demanded 30 cents in payment for some work which had not been performed. An unknown man went to the farm of Alva Fletcher, near Plainfield, Wednesday, hitched a fine span of horses to a fine surrey and drove off. The thief has not yet been found. At Winchester, five members of the family of Andrew Thomas were poisoned by arsenic, which somehow got into the cabbage which formed part of their dinner. They will recover;- ;- Grant Abshlre, fourteen years old, lost a a hand by the discharge of a shot gun handled by a playmate at Roann. After the accident he walked two miles to the house of a physician. m Mayor Denny, of Indianapolis, Wednesday appointed Col. N. R. Ruckle, John B. Conner and John F. White as the new Board of Public Safety, which controls the police and fire departments. Anthony Navarre died in Washington, Stfhday, aged sixty-two years. He was son of Peter Navarre, who was the first white settler of South Bend, and his mother was a full blooded Pottawattomio Indian.

It has just been discovered that a life was lost in the Waynetown fire. Monday, the workmen who were clearing away the ruins found the charred fragments of a human body in the cellar of Hornell & Henry’s hard ware store. Lewis Winship, a farmer living near Rushville, claims to have the best crop of corn in the State of the same acreage. The teed planted is known as the Dent corn, each kernel being dented and sixteen rows to the ear. Six ears strung out measured ; six feet and six inches in length. August John Hogan, an old blind man, apparently poor, died at Shelbyville. Bandaged around his arm and in a trunk was found nearly 13,0C0. He appeared in Shelbyville in the spring with Miss Hattie Hart, of New Albany, as housekeeper. When he died no heirs were known, but already half a dozen have appeared. The last is Mrs. Mary Ball, of Chicago, who says she is his daughter by his first marriage. Another Indiana town has rebelled against the invasion of a saloon. At Waverly, Jo Moss’s saloon was lifted skyward by dynamite Tuesday night. Nobody wai hurt. A month ago a light charge was let off under his building, as a hint of what he might expect. The building and contents were badly wrecked by the second discharge. Waverly people say they want no saloons and do not propose to have any. A sad accident occurred in the Blackburn coal mines near Petersburg John Willie and Jack Eberly had prepared a shot Friday night, but it failed to explode. Saturday, thinking the powder was damp, the two miners attempted to drill out the charge. A terrific explosion occurred, which rendered the men both unconscious. Willie was terribly burned and mangled and cun not live. Eberly had a leg broken, which will have to be amputated. Both are married. The proprietors of the Bamterton woolen mills, ten miles south of Goshen, are glad their institution is too heavy to be easily portable. For the pastsik weeks portions of the large stock on hand have been missing and the owners turned amateur detectives. On Saturday, Irvin Peffely was arrested while calllngon his sweetheart. He had in his possession enough blankets and flannel 'goods to stock a Government reservation and all of them with the woolen company's stock tags. He Is now in jail. His stealings ran up into the thousands. A stranger, with a well-developed “jag” entered the office of one of our justices of the peace yesterday and swore out a warrant for the arrest of his farm hand, whom he charged with stealing 250 bushels of potatoes. It was issued and placed in the hands of a constable, 'who. after a five hours' search over the county, learned that the parties lived in Jasper county, and that tho theft had occurred abont five years ago. Tho complainant suddenly disappeared from sight. The constable, no doubt, will tax his fee to tho next fellow that will cause him to make a wild goose chase over tho county.—Valparaiso Messenger. The celebrated White Cap trial at Salem closed, Monday morning Judge Voyles gave Elijah Dalton, who stood by to see his wife whipped and is believed to have paid for it, five years in tho Prison South. His brother, James Dalton, who held Mrs. Dalton, and Holsapple. who whipped her, get each five years. Boling, who was present but did not interfere, gets Barnett, who was present but was too drunk to help, gets two years. Payton, rorlurnfng State’s evidence, es-

capes. The public approves the sentences. The county seat controversy in Crawford county is being discussed by the residents of that county. Leavenworth is the present seat of government. It Is on the Ohio river, in<the southeastern corner of the county. English, on the Air Line, in the northern part of the county, has been after the county seat for years, and every few weeks the question is agitated. Now Grantsburg, a little Inland town, has entered the field and Is after the honor. English has seemingly withdrawn from the contest and It working in favor or Grantsburg. The citizens of Leavenworth are not greatly alarmed at the efforts of their rivals. Grantsburg Is near the center of the county but has no railroad facilities.

Patents were Tuesday issued to Indiana inventors as follows: J. B. Allgire, Indianapolis, assignor to F. H. McKlnnle, Pittsburg, machine for cutting and printing veneer-package blanks; A. J.Chausse, assignor of one-half to J. L. Tillman, Monroeville, steam-engine governor; J M. Fender, assignor to Columbia Drill Company, Liberty, beading machine for sheet metal; F. E. Herdman, Indianapolis, elevator; W. tt H. Holloway, Brazil, cloth measuring machine; F. J. Horstman. assignor of one-half to W. D. Wilmoth, J. A. Wilhelm and C. H. Wheatcroft, New Harmony, cuff fastener; M. H. Jackson, Kokomo, flying top; J. L. Kock, Lawrenceburg, harness saddle; C. B. Macy, Noblesville, paper slitter; G. Schumacher, Bateville, vehicle; W. C. Smith, Goshen, bicycle. A strange story is reported from Brazil. The sheriff has just discovered that the prisoners in his bastile had arranged, about a month ago, to hang one of their number. Everything had been skillfully planned to saw the last bar in one of the grates that held the prisoners from freedom. Among the were three charged with murder and two with train wrecking. William Houston, charged with larceny, and one of the promoters of the scheme, weakened and told the sheriff what was being done. This greatly incensed the other prisoners. They determined to secure revenge by hanging Houston. They had arranged a strong rope of strips of bed clothing and intended to commit the deed Monday night, but Houston had been sentenced to the penitentiary and had been removed from the jail. All the prisoners werejsecurely locked in separate cells and every precaution will be used to prevent further trouble until sentence is passed upon them. The famous Noah King is said to have been the chief promoter of the scheme. The mystery surrounding the life of J. Harvey Coulter reads like a romance. He was born in Cclumbus, O. His parents were rich. When fifteen years old his mother died. Shortly afterward his father married again. Harvey was unable to get along with his step-mother, and one night mysteriously disappeared. His father searched all over the United States for him and spent large sums of money in a vain endeavor to find his wandering son. He died in a few years, broken-hearted, and left a fortune to his two children. He did not forget his son Harvey, bequeathing him real estate worth 1100,000. Harvey went to St. Louis, and there fell in with w wealthy family named Wilson, who adopted him. He made his home with them until he was twenty-one, when he married a daughter of the family and embarked in business for himself. He learned the plate-glass trade, and when the big factory was built at Kokomo Harvey was one of the boys to get a good position. When the factory was constructed in Elwood he went there and has resided there ever since. He has an Interesting family of four and is quite popular. About one month ago a man from Springfield, 0., claimed the fortune, but was proved a fraud and sent to the penitentiary for ten years. Then an effort was made to find Harvey Coulter, and resulted in his being revealed. His identification was complete and he will now step into his possessions.