Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Judah is a suburb of Bedford. trreenneia streets neea scraping. Burglars vex the town ot Marshall. A basket factory at Butler employs fifty hands. James Yost was killed by the can at Knox. . "L The Frankfort police are raiding the gamblers. . Muncie now has an epidemic of la grippe for a change. >.. J. N. Huston's’bank at Connersville, resumed business, Monday. The New Albany woollen mills will resume operations immediately. The tin plate works at Atlanta, closed for several months, will soon resume. A South Bend man is joyfully bellowing over the possession of a two-headed calf.

The jury In the Tucker-Hyatt breach-of-promfce suit at Peru gave the plaintiff J<>,(oo. John Shrader of New Albany, gave SS,CQJ loaves of bread to the poor, Thanksgiving. N. P. H. Proctor, well known attorney at Crawfordsville, has mysteriously disappeared. A lamp exploded in the hands of Mrs. Fannie Stuart, of Dayton, and she was burned to death. Seventy-five conversions was the result of the Friends’ revival which has just closed at Kokomo. The suicide mania broke out at Indianapolis, again, Sunday. Three cases—two successful, one failure. John Sollenberger, of Kokomo, a wellknown young man. has been mysteriously missing for three months. Itis rumored that the Columbus street railway company is to abandon the electric system and go back to mules. Dick Goodman, leader of a notorious gang and who was shot while attempting to rob a store, is dying at his home at Dundee. Dr. John Seater, wife and daughter, of Fort Wayne, had a narrow escape from death, Thursday. They ate oysters that had been kept too long. A cherry orchard of 125 fine young trees belonging to Wliliam Cummings, south of Brazil, was cut' up by a vandal, a few days since, and ruined. Col. J.- F. Wiley, who raised the first grafted peaches in Indiana, is dying of old r.go at his home at Flower Gap, Clark county. He is nearly ninety years old. ' Reuben Pedon, a well known and highly respected businessman of Knightstown, was killed by the fast mail train at that place, Friday. He was shockingly mangled.

The Indiana Coal Company, whose representativcs’have been in session at Brazil, have organized a big trust and it is thought that the price of coal will now go up. The Foster family, murdered by Clinton Jordan, were buried in one grave by Marling Post, G. A. R., of Crothersville. The body of Jordan was taken to Seymour by his father. ■ At Elwood, Wednesday evening, a terrific explosion of natural gas occurred at the plant of the Electric Light Company. The power house was wrecked and four men were dangerously injured. Thieves entered the woods pasture of Nelson Johnson, a farmer who lives near Washington, and killed, dressed and carried away two fine steers. This was done in the night. The pasture was close to the house. . The contest for the football championship of the State between teams from Purdue and Depauw, at Indianapolis, Thursday, resulted in a victory for Purdue The game was witnessed by 5,000 people. Seiberling & Schrader’s brick-works, at. Gas City, were destroyed by fire, originating from a natural gas explosion, which occurred while an employe was heating his noon day lunch. The loss is 815,000 with small insurance. _ Gas experts state that the pressure in nearly ail the gushers in hancock county is increasing in a remarkable manner of late. Several wells have blown out their tubing and much difficulty is experienced in anchoring the pipes. The “Long Distance Telephone Company” opened communication from Indianapolis to the outside world, Tuesday. Gov. Matthews was present and sent messages to New York and Chicago. The enterprise is an entire success*. Professor Snyder, ex-superintendant of the Washington county schools, becoming convinced that the tobacco habit was wrong, concluded to reform it and to invest the money spent for tobacco in a Building and Loan Association. He has now 8000 invested, which otherwise would have teen dhslpated in smoke. Two prisoners escaped from the county jail at Bloomfield, recently, by knocking down the sheriff’s son while he was taking breakfast into the prison. But they were not at liberty long. James Dickson, a farmer living a mile and a half southwest of Bloomfield, stopped them in their flight and at the muzzle of a gun marched them both back to jail. * b James Barnes is a walker from Walkertown. He lives in Harrison county, so the story goes, and teaches school over in Kentucky, boarding at home. Every morning he walks to Bosswood, a distance of ten miles, where he takes a skiff and crosses to the Kentucky side, and then he walks three miles further to his school, returning to Elizabeth in the’eVening.— Paoli Republican. Barney Brannin, a jolly Irishman living near Wabash, is lying at the point of death, the result of his inordinate appetite for whisky. Wednesday morning ho got up, having been on a protracted spree, went to the barn and took a big drink of horse medicine, probably thinking it was whisky. Doctors have been working over him, but he is a doomed man. The State of Indiana won the. suit against the Tolleston Club, of Chicago, at Valparaiso, Monday, involving the title to a vast tract of swamp land. The suit has been pending for a long time. The clnb claimed a title to the lands under a patent from Congress, and have built club houses on the tract and inclosed the same by a barbed wire fence. Patents wore granted to the Indiana inventors. Tuesday, as follows: 8. M. Brundage, Indianapolis, deflector for droning machines; T. Decker, Charlottes- . Ville, assignor of one-half to T. Roberts, 1 Arlington, harness; J. A. Grove, Bluffton, wire fence; G. I. Haswell, Fort Wayne, folding chair; J. I. Bloke, South Bend, harrow: Henry Stacey, assignor of ono--1“

half to M H. Cain, Indianapolis, oßburner. tl Clouchek’s soap facto at Michigan City, which had°teen filled with nearly one thousand pounds of Caustic soda, and upon which the steam had been turned, exploded with terrific every direction. T. S. Davis, foreman of/ the establishment, and Joseph Clouchek, the proprietor, were seriously scalded. Lyford has but three hundred population, and the people are nearly all interested in mining. On pay days there is much lawlessness, and fights are frequent. Last Saturday night the miners assembled as customary, and hostilities opened with a fight between Gus Kline and a man named Huskmann over some broken window panes. Two hours later Huskman bombarded Cline’s residence with stones, and when Cline came to the door he was shot in the bowels. Huskman was arrest- - ed and turned over to the Parke county authorities. Jacob Schudel started to walk from Ligonier to Albion during the night time, but when about three miles from his destination he waa halted by three masked men and taken to a school house, where he was stripped of his clothing, which was distributed among thomselves. Bchudel was then knocked down and left lying unconscious on the floor. When he recovered he.was so frightened that ho bounded out of doors and started to run, yelling at the top of his voice. He wjis found by the superintendent of the county asylum, badly frozen and delirious, and it was several days before he recovered his normal condition. ' - 5 \ Alexandria is reported as having a taits of the anarchical element. Many Bohemians have flocked there to work in the factories, and seemingly they are showing • little regard for law. Neighboring farmers have been terrorized by their excursions. Cattie are killed in broad daylight, and when the owners undertake to protest they are driven away by these ignorant and anarchistic foreigners. A few days ago they deliberately seized upon a flock of geese, cutting off the heads.of the fowls as fast as caught, and piling the bodies in the yard to await convenient removal. It is oven said that they, are killing horses and living off the flesh. The farmers arc orgar.iz.ing for mutual protection. L. L. Ambro«, of Cei-ter Point, claims that the following is the proper treatmenwf the grip: First administer a hot foot b.v.h, u«ing salt or soda, with mustard or caycnuii pepper in the water. Rub the feet and legs thoro .gbly, then give a full dose of physic. When this has taken effect give four grain dose? of powdered assafetlda nyorv three hours for a whole day, followed by quinine in full doses till the disease gives way. Should kidney trouble develop a few drops of turpentine or sweet spirits of nitre will relieve. To relievo attendant headache apply mustard to spinal column. The patient should remain in doors and lake only light nourishment. L 1 Edwin R. Niles, of Laporte, some wooks ago was called to his door after nightfall in response to an apparently friendly summons. Whereupon he was seized by masked men and dragged to a convenient locality, where he was cruelly scourgbd. Still -later ho received a letter making threats that his' life would be forfeited If he did not leave the neighborhood. Mr, Niles invoked the interference of tho law. Four arrests followed and a preliminary hearing was appointed for Saturday afternoon before ’Squire King. Owing to faulty affidavits the defendants were discharged. This created quite a scone in the court room, Mrs. Nilas, wife of the harassed man. denouncing thb American courts and American juries for tho manner in which the law is evaded. Niles was formerly an active minister in the Christian church. He uUo served in the late war and was promoted for gallantry. There is fear that both he and his wife are mentally affected because of the strain to which they have been subjected