Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A temperance revival has been agitating Crothersville. Gold diggers are flocking into Brown county in droves. Columbus is to have a new soap factory, Large numbers of fine fishiare being caught near Vincennes. Noblesville is excited about numerous ithefts in Hamilton county. Greenwood has let a contract to dig 2,200 feet for mineral water. The towns of Matthews, near Gas City, has secured a glass factory. Huntington has a minstrel troupe made up exclusively of local talent. Daniel Wolverton, of Goshen, is under arrest for passing counterfeit coin. Peter Carson, Recorder of Marion county, died at Indianapolis, Thursday, i Connersville people are happy over the pjospect of a bountiful supply of gas. Merchants and manufacturers of South Bend report material brightening in business. ■ ■ ■■ ——Lz - - W. H. Ott, near Eckerty, killed an eagle measuring six feet five inches from tip to tip. Louis Mar to, near Monticello, has been arrested, charged with dealing in “green goods.” Arrangements have been made to put 50,000 pike in the lakes of Noble and LaGrange counties. Isaac H. Thomas, formerly editor of the Bedford Independent,, who went to Texas eight years ago, has returned to Bedford. A lad at Evansville threw a ball of burning excelsior into the air, and it struck Minnie Proctor, twelve years old, in its descent, setting her clothing on fire. She was burned to death. Miss Viola Dittrich, Augustus Freeman and Theodore Rodman, Kokomo’s highway robbers, were sentenced to prison, Tuesday. The girl was given one year and the men two years each. H. President Tor twenty years of the First National Bank, Martinsville, resigned from the office, Thursday. He was a victim of Haughey’s Indianapolis National Bank deal. Conductor Hempstead, who was stabbed by a gang of Italians, who endeavored to take possession of his train, is lying at his home at Huntington in a critical condition. He is threatened with tetanus.

While driving a well near Columbus the drill passed through a three-foot log at a depth of eighty feet, and struck gas at 200 feet. The fluid continues to burn, while the force is said to be increasing. Mr. J, Morgan, living near Jasper, the other day, shot a squirrel that had but one car, and instead of teeth had four tusks, two from the upper jaw and two from the lower. The tusks were about two inches long. Albert T. Pa well, a journeyman carpenter of Kokomo, received notice this week that he had fallen heir to $10,003 by the death of his grandfather. The notification came through his uncle, A. T. Pawell. of Toronto. Canada. - News from the seat of war at Monticello, Friday, brought intelligence of a sensational horsewhipping by a maid of that town, who thus avenged an insulting story, alleged to. have been circulated by the lunckless young man.- »- Woodsoil Bryant, of Plainfield ex-sher-iff of Hendricks county, made application for a pension ten years ago. Nothing was heard of the application until Tuesday, when he received notice that he had been granted J? per month, dating back to the time of tho original filing. On Wednesday a strange woman received permission to leave a small sachel at a carpenter shop at Elkhart. As she did not call again for the sachel it was turned over to an officer, who opened it and found it contained a bloody shirt The woman has not been identified, and the affair is a mystery. The Teegarden. the oldest and largest hotel at Laporte, has permanently closed its doors. The furniture has been sold to arlChes B. Andrew, who is uncertain what disposition to make of his purchase. The Teutonic, which arrived at New York from Liverpool, Wednesday,brought 11,0X3 pounds in gold bars to Lazard Frcres. The United States sub-treasury shipped $100,003 to New Orleans in notes of small denominations.

An epidemic of hog stealing is reported in Boone county, and there have been several arrests. Among them was Curtis M. Pritchard, sixty-two years old, of Lebanon, who was looked upon as an honest, upright, man. He stole two hogs from Levi. P. Shoemaker, of Union township, and when charged with tho theft confessed it. Tho stories of actual starvation in Indianapolis seem to have been exaggerated. A benevolent landlord advertised that ho would feed gratis all poor children who would come to his hotel, giving to each a bow] of soup, glass of milk, and all the bread and butter they could eat, but the response was surprisingly small. Only an occasional child called to recoive his bounty. During a dance at Highland Place, near Terre Haute, there was trouble between John Crausley and William Lanahan, in which Lanahan used his revolver. One bullet struck Crausley over the heart and ranged around the body, passing out at tho side, and another made a flesh wound in his thigh, near tho groin. Crausley’s clothes were badly burned by tho powder, so close was the weapon held to his body. Clarence Johnson, of Indianapolis, serving a sentence for horse stealing at Michigan City, has confessed to Warden French that he killed John Young at Indianapolis, in April last. Tho confession clears up a mystery the detectives failed to sol ye, and relieves several parties from unjust suspicion. Quite a number of arrests have from time to time been made in connection with the tragedy. Patents wore granted to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: D. A. Byers, King, wire ropeway grip; T. H. Haberkon, Ft. Wayne, valve mechanism for air brakes; G. J. Her ch and G, Boneberger, Evansville, mine trapdoor; W. H. Hornberger, Elkhart, current transformer; A. J. Johnson, Anderson, baby jumper; W. H. Robbins, assignor of one half to H. E. Robbins, Mill Grove, switch; O. E. Seanoy, Ft. Wayne, former for burial robes. Druggist Frank Keller, of Fort Wayne, who sleeps over bls store, while carrying a lighted candle in his hand stumbled over a can of gasoline. The gasoline ignited and there was an explosion, which enveloped Mr. Keller in flame. However, he seized the fragments of the can and

threw them outside; meanwhile hta younger brother grabbed a blanket and wrapped him from head to foot, smothering the flames. Mr. Keller was badly burned, but he will recover. Judge Edward Gough, of Cannelton upon the assembling of the grand jury, reprimanded that body for not indicting the management of the Indiana cotton mills, which is accused of working children under fourteen years old eleven hours daily. Thirty-eight indictments had been found, and had been prepared by the prosecutor, but the foreman of the grand jury refused to sign them on the plea, made by a number of prominent citizens; that the factory had to run eleven hours dally to compete with Southern mills, and that if prosecution was insisted upon it would call for the dismissal of the children and subject their parents to actual distress. Six years ago John Chrlsler.of Bartholomew county, at that time worth *IO,OOO, sold his possessions and removed to Allen \ county, Kansas, where he purchased a farm, represented to be free of incumbrance, but which proved to be heavily mortgaged to an Eastern company. Twelve months later he had a difficulty with Columbus Carter over a corn planter, and was successful in the litigation. Carter was rendered desperate by defeat, and he attacked Chrisler with a pitch-fork, beating him until he was unconscious and then gouging his eyes out with the tines of the fork. The friends of Chrisler pursued Carter and lynched him. Recently Chrisler returned to Bartholomew county without a penny, and he is now being led about the streets of Columbus, where he peddles pencils for a livelihood.