Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Crawfordsville’s city treasury is bu’sted. The town of Crandall is to be incorporated. j The Butler basket factory started up, Tuesday. Muncie will put tenj at I birds on the stone pile. Mancie factories are rapidly resuming operations. Peru is reveling in a 153,030 breach of promise suit. Mrs. Perry Layman, of Jay county, was burned to death, Shelby county has a neighborhood called “Bugaboo." Redfield Nelson, near Petersburg, was killed by a falling tree. Several large eagles have been killed in Brown county, this fall. Abraham Levi, a dry goods merchant of Otwell, lost his stock by fire. North Manchester is having trouble to dispose of waterworks bonds.' Mrs. EIl Gough, of Muncie, died of tetanus, the result of impure vaccine. A man living near Metamora is fifty years old and has never had a tooth. —A Hobart paper wants the Roby Athletic Club turned into a Populist museum. Robert Payne, aged ninety-two, founder of Union City, died at that place, Wednesday. Literary clubs in Vermillion county are wrestling with the great National problems. Coy’s notorious road house near Indianapolis was destroyed by fire, Thursday morning. State Geologist Gorby was arrested and fined for drunkenness at Indianapolis, Tuesday. A new fire alarm bell has been received at Edinburg and the town is aching for a tire to test it. Discovery is made that the new charter of Ft. Wayne does not mention the office of police Judge Redfield Nelson, a farmer living eight miles from Petersburg, was killed by a tree falling on him. Elder W. B. Treat was thrown out of a buggy near North Vernon. Monday night, and seriously injured. Tht? Petersburg Ne vs says that city has a business man who averages twenty drinks of whisky a day. The family of Conrad Meyers, of Ft. Wayne, ate freely Of impure cheese, and were, dangerously prostrated. The infant daughter of Joseph Clouse, living four miles from Mitchell, choked to death on a hickorynut shell The court at Portland was petitioned to appoint a receiver for the Salemonia Creamery Company. Liabilities 93,003. Cass Gray, of Shelbyville. has been arrested on a charge of arson. He burned his own house. He confessed the crime.

Dr. Leander H. Smith, of Lexington, mfferej fatal coneussion of the brain in a runaway accident, dying in a short time Mrs. Perry Layman, who lives in the oil field eight miles north of Portland, was fatally burned while kindling a fire with coal oil. Dearborn county is being overrun with alleged coon hunters, who take advantage of the night to plunder farmers of poultry stock. Y'.~A. A~~ Rev. J. Dingledey, superintendent of the Wernle Orphans’. Home, Richmond, was arrested, Tuesday, charged with assault and battery on the inmates. The Central Charity Association of Terre Haute has 3,000 cases of destitution ,on its list, and it is estimated that there are 303 unemployed men in that city. William J. Spruce, editor of the‘Elwood Daily Call, was married in Chicago, Sept. 25, but tho nows was not made public until Wednesday. And he got scooped on it, too. A tramp printer under the name of Charles Marshall, forged the name of E. S. Smashey, of the Lawrenceburg Press, to a check for SlO and it went through tho bank without detection. A petition is circulating in Davloss county asking the Governor to parole Burr Hawes, who was sent to prison fob eight years as an accomplice in the burning of the Daviess county courthouse. A large brass factory will remove from Boston to Porter. Work was begun on the buildings, Monday. The new Industry will employ 150 men. The factory was located by the Chicago Porter Home Investment Company. r Aaron Stevens, a coal miner, of Clinton, accused members of his family with hiding his pipe and tobacco, and in tho heat of passion he walked into an adjoining room and committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. R. S. Sample, trustee of Verdon township, Hancock county, is just completing, at McCordsville, one of tho finest and most complete four-room school buildings in the State. The school will open Dec. 3, with J. W. Ray in charge. The State Veterinarian was called to Sandborn by a report that plouro-pneu-monia had developed among the cattle on several farms in that vicinity. He fouud six head atllicted with “lumpy jaw,” and these anim.tls were killed by his order. Miss Margaret Askins and James W. Larady, of Perry county, eloped to Cannelton on marriage intent, and after waiting until midnight, at which hour the bridegroom was of legal age, a. license was procured. The wedding followed at 4a. m. The old academy .building at Fayetteville, used during recent years for residence purposes by A. T. Stone, has been destroyed by fire. The academy was founded before the war, and for many years it was conducted by Prof. R. G. Gamble. One of the smallest steamers on the Ohio is the Shawnee, plying as a market boat between Madison and Louisville. On a recent trip it brought down ope thousand rabbits to the Louisville market. The steamer is 35 feet long, 10 feet beam and 3 feet bold. The Elwood Land Company has been hanged from a more association to an incorporated body, with a capital stock of t2',o OJO. It controls over one thousand acres of the adjacent territory and holds gas leases upon ICO,COD acres of contiguous territory to that city. Parker & Jeckell, of Anderson, have patented a balloting machine. There are fifty keys, each one representing the name of a candidate. Each vote is numbered the same as if by a cash register, and within twenty minntes after the voting ceases the result can be known. The Culbertson will case at New Albany haiboen compromised. Mrs. French was given 1350,000 worth of securities, to be deposited with the Union Trust Company

of Indianapolis, she to receive the income every three months, the balance of her share of $6.0.000 to be paid in cash. A —— While the family of Frederick Bargilt, near Russiaville, was absent at church and the old mau was alone at home, three masked men entered and knocked him down, after which they systematically plundered the house. The spoils exceeded 1200, of which *B3 was cash. The Citizen’s National Bank of Muncie resumed business with *200,000 In its vaults. C. M. Turner is the new cashier and Cory Abbott assistant Previous to reopening many depositors signed waivers not t j check out over 20 per cent of balances before the end of three months. Col. Samuei Merrill*and family arrived at Indianapolis, Thursday night, from Calcutta, where Mr. Merrill has been serving as United States consul for the past four years. The body of Col. Merrill’s daughter, who died in Germany-, arrived at Indianapolis several days ago, for interment at Crown Hill. Between 10,000 and 12,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Royal Center has been leased by oil speculators, and eight or ten wells will be sunk without delay. The best lubricating oil yet discovered is said to underlie this field, and it is claimed that five barrels of it is worth as much as forty barrels of the ordinary oil. A serious railway wreck occurred at Vincennes, Thursday. A freight had just pulled into the E., T. H. & I. yards, when a passenger train foliowing crashed into the caboose. The brakeman went to sleep in the caboose instead of obeying the order of the conductor to flag the passenger train, and was dangerously Injured. The caboose and eight freight- cars were burned. T. D. Brown A; Son, of Crawfordsville, had on exhibitlbna donble-yolked hen egg, inches in circumference. It was the seventy-fourth egg of the kind which had been laid by a Plymouth Rock hen since the last of July, besides which she had hatched two broods of chickens from eggs supplied by other hens. It Is said that she has never laid a singlc-yolked egg. Secretary Burgess, of the Bartholomew County Trotting Association, which has collapsed, reports that *34,003 was sunk in the effort to make a race course pay at Columbus. The association preceding the one which has just collapsed Also lost money. Soon after the war an agricultural society attempted to make money by advertising that Jeff Davis, the arch traitor, would lie present, but it rad the effect of keeping many away, and no other agricultural fair war. ever attempted. Twenty-five orphan boys were shipped from Chicago to work in the factory of the United States Glass Company at Gas City. When the strike came the boys were left unemployed and became unr’»ly. A few nights ago the manager of a boardinghouse sheltering the hoys gave to one of the iboys a merciless flogging and the citizens thereupon prosecuted him. He was fined a total of *7O. The whipped lad disappeared before tjic trial and it is supposed that he was shippot'back to Chicago. The anti-vaccination war at Terre Haute is assuming intornsting proportion. Fully one hundred children have been dismissed front the city schools because their parents refused. to comply with the Health Board’s orders, and F. D. Blue, one of the patrons of the school, has brought suit to compel the readmission of his children. An anti-vaceination society has been formed and money has been pledged looking to long continued litigation if the Health Board’s order is not withdrawn. Patents were, Tuesday, issued to Indiana inventors as follows: M. Alexander, Ireland, fruit gatherer; M. L. Barr, Indianapolis, folding bed; C. W. Dolayney, assignor to J. W. Dysard, Hammond, lung tester; D. M, Forsythe, Franklin, corn planter; J. A. Hadley, assignor of onehalf to B. L. Kennedy, Brazil, flue stop; G. Johnston, Connersville, planing machine for blower pistons; R. W. Lundy, South Bend, adjustable track for door hanger; S. B. Maxfield and W. Snyder, Angola, motor; H. G. Olds. Fort Wayne, washboard; J. Pedopen and A. Mel in, assignors to Sholl Steel Whiffletree Manufacturing Company, Hobart, neck yoke: G. A. Shields, Anderson, safety guard for rip saw; M. oStegner, Lebanon, garden cultivator.