Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Arcadia has located a ten-pot glass factory. * New Castle has opened her new opera house. The Brown county gold excitement continues. ' A test well for oil is to be sunk at once near Gas City. There are 454 children in the school for feeble minded at Fort Wayne. The American flag floats above 116 school houses in Hamilton county. 6 The Elwood window glass factory burned, Wednesday. Loss, $15,000. Elberfield, Warrick county, was nearly wiped out by flames, Sunday night. Several business houses were burned at Mitchell, Wednesday. Loss, $25,000. Indiana’s World’s Fair educational exhibit will be permanently located in the State house.

The Very Rev. Edward Sorin, founder of Notre Dame University, died at that institution, Tuesday. Michigan City is making an effort to have the Indiana World’s Fair building moved to that town. Ernest P. Ford, twelve years old, of Hope, claims to be the youngest telegraph operator in the State. The two-year-old daughterof Ellsworth Dunn, of Morristown, was fatally burned while playing near a trash fire. Edward M. Douglass, a young alleged horse thief in jail at Peru, was married, Wednesday, to Miss Alice Black. The remains of George Horstman, who was drowned ten months ago, were recently found in the river at Medora. Ex-Mayor Morris McDonald died at New Albany, Wednesday. He was one of the prominent men of southern Indiana. ■The third annual reunion of the Fiftyeighth Indiana Regimental Association will be held at Oakland City, Nov. 23 and 24. A sneak thief, by means of a ladder, while the attaches were at dinner, robbed the county treasurer’s office at Columbus of $235. Several drunken men near Peru, Wednesday, poured coal oil on James McDonald and ignited it, burning him nearly to death.

George Faught, of Sullivan, stole a ham of meat, claiming that he did so as a joke. The court sent him to prison for two years. Henry W. Grive was caught in a cave-in near RichmonU, Tuesday, and buried under several feet of sand where he died in a few minutes. Twelve pots in a furnace of the C. H. Over window-glass works, Muncie, broke, Saturday, causing $1,690 loss and throwing half the force out of work. A petition is being circulated in Orange county, asking the county commissioners to appropriate $3,000, to be used in erecting, a soldiers’ monument at Orleans. James Stone, in his last confession of the Wratten family murder at Washington, has Implicated Chas. F. McCafferty and Robt, Swanegan, near relatives of the family. Alfred Mac Thompson, near Russiaville, disabled by paralysis, fell forward against a grate filled with live coals, and was so badly burned thfit he died. He was sev-enty-seven years old. English has held a public meeting in favor of removing the county seat of Crawford county from Leavenworth to that town. The Leavenworth people and newspapers ridicule the idea. Word comes from Bristow that a sevenmonths old baby lying in its cradle had the flesh eaten off of its hips by rats, while the mother was out in the potato patch and the father helpless from rheumatism.

The plant of the Irondale rolling-mill at Anderson, giving employment to 400 persons, was destroyed by fire, Tuesday night. It had been recently repaired at a cost of $5,030. The total loss is placed at 130,000. Ladoga having donated grounds and buildings, besides subscribing $19,000 in stock, toward securing the Dunkard College, has appointed a committee to continue soliciting stock. It is hoped the stock subscriptions will reach $50,030. A block• of stone, claimed to be the largest ever handled, was quarried by the Bedford Stone Quarries Company, last Thursday. This immense block of stone was 22 feet long, 8 feet wide and 7 feet deep, containing 1,200 cubic feet and weighing 110 tons. The Evansville Tribune wants the Indiana Legislature to pass a law making it practically impossible for a man of dangerous disposition, or one who drinks intoxicants to excess, to carry a pistol, dirk or bowie knife without being guilty of a penitentiary offense. The. Rev. Dr. Charles Hutchinson has completed his fortieth year as pastor of the Third Presbyterian church of New Albany. He was present at the organization of the church, October 31, 1813, and has remained continuously with the congregation. The present membership is 796.

Said that the organ faction in the United Brethren Church near Crawfordsville expect to win the fight that is now in progress among the congregation as to whether they will have instrumental music or not, Their organ was wrecked, recently, by the anti-organ faction, but it is being repaired. William Webb, a farmer of Jasper county, is known among his neighbors as Shakespeare Webb, He has read Burns, Byron, Dryden, Campbell, Pope, Shakespeare and Shelley, until he is familiar with these writings, from which he is able to quote by the hour. He often entertains his friends with readings. H. S. Wright, who has been constable at Goshen for forty-throe years, was enticed away from his home, Sunday night, by Dr. Smithland and David Early and taken to an -old mill, where the two men him/sayfqg .they would kill him. Wright got away, but was seriously Injured.llls assailants tied. 4 The Gebhart-Seybert election bribery case, which occupied much attention In Madison county some months ago, in the tiial of which the defendants were acquitted, as now alleged, on a technicality, is to be revived in a suit by James Michaels to recover S3OO damages under the law which recognizes such a claim where a person has been bribed with reference to his vote. The suit will be the first ever undertaken under what is known as the McCabe bribery law. Messrs. Cole and Vanhook, commissioners appointed to superintend the erection ’f a monument over the grave of Jona-

than Jennings, Indiana's first Governor, at Jeffersonville, are experiencing ty in locating the same. Persons who attended the burial have indicated the spot, but investigation proved that they were mistaken, as no remains of any kind were buried at the place pointed out; Consequently the location of the grave of Indiana’s first Governor is likely to remain an unsolved mystery. Thomas Boyla, of Marietta, son of Thomas Boyle, Sr., who was'killed in the battle erf Stone river, has been placed in possession of the pocket Testament which his father carried to the war. and which was presented to the senior Boyle by his sister in March, 1846. The person returning the book explains that he found it on the battle-field, and appropriated it to his own use, carrying it until the war was over. Recently he learned the address of Thomas Boyle, the son. and took the earliest opportunity of sending It to him. Patents were granted Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: J. Farlow, Greencastle, washing machine; J. F.” Grieve, Clay Hill, plow; F. E. Herdman, Indianapolis, elevator; P. J. Kirsch, Decatur, wash machine; A. Lee, Evansville, hingesetting machine; T. D. Oakley, Vevay, type case; J. Seitz, Hayville, assignor of one-half to J. T. Corn, Jasper, apparatus for forming leaders in blast holes; W. H. Smith, Albion, wagon running-gear; H. F. Smith, assignor of one-half to ‘ H. J. Cannon,. Elkhart, process of and machine for making cell cases; P. N. Staff, Terre Haute, holder for opera glasses. A-dastardly attempt was made to poison the Liggett family, at Lapelle, Tuesday, by dumping a lot of arsenic in the well. Tuesday morning Mrs. Liggett got up and drew water from the well to get breakfast. After the water had remained in the ves sei for some time? she noticed that it turned green. She suspected something was wrong and notified a druggist near, who examined the water. -When it was analyzed it was found to be strongly charged with arsenic. Who placed the deadly drug in the well is a mystery. Buck Creek, Tippecanoe county, furnished a shooting scrape, Wednesday, Ed. Cool, drunk, went to the house of Luke Lowe, suddenly drew a revolver and shot Lowe, the bullet striking just below the heart. Cool then made a rush to the saloon of Obadiah Haller and repeated his performance, shooting Haller in the thigh. Haller grabbed Cool by the throat and held him till the officers came. At the justice’s office Cool drew h|s.pocket knife and cut two ugly gashes in his own throat. It is not thought any of the of the wounded men will die. Cool was landed in jail at Lafayette. He had been drinking for several davs. Last year, for the purpose of getting ahead with his work, Mr. Poindexter plowed a piece of land in one of his orchards late in the season, well on toward winter. This year they noticed that the fruit in this piece was entirely exempt from the curcullo. Col. Wiley’s theory of the matter is, that after the egg is deposited in the ground there is a period when it is in a soft state, and if the soil is disturbed at this time the insect is killed in development. For this reason he is now trying the experiment of late plowing in his orchards. This is an important test and the result will be awaited with interest.—Jeffersonville News. The desperate effort of Henry Dummerfruit, of Dearborn county, to commit sui-cide,-is frightful in its details. He was found lying unconscious in a ravine near Laughery creek, several miles distant from home. He climbed a tree and tying a rope about his neck and a limb, he jumped off. The rope broke and he fell to the ground, breaking his leg and badly bruising himself. Several hours later he he regained consciousness, and then he tried bleeding himself to death by cutting the arteries in his wrists. This falling he stabbed himself repeatedly in the abdomen with a pointed stick, penetrating his entrails. Then he again lost consciousness and lay for two days and nights before his condition was discovered by friends.