Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Tramps are getting scarce at Frankfort. Columbus is plagued with court house bums. “Box” suppers are all the go at Bloomington. ----- ----- There are seventy-five cases of grip in the Prison North. A saloon was dynamited at Ossian, Thursday meaning. .. £*. 4 A fall of sixteen inches of snow is reported in Elkhart county. ' Monticello is now all torn up with divorce and breach of promise suits. The Momence rock has been removed from the Kankakee. The capacity of the rlver at that point is trebled. The Crawford county seat war has at last resulted in the selection of English. Leavenworth gives up the fight. A Fort Wayne man, to amuse himself, ruins ladles’ dresses and cloaks as they pass him on the street by squirting paint on them. Gen. J. R. Carnahan and staff were in Washington, Wednesday, preparing for the annual encampment K. of P., which will be held in that city next September. The Hon. David Moss, of Noblesville, ex-judge of the Hamilton Circuit Court, has bien declared of unsoiind mind. His wife was appointed guardian of his estate. Quincy A. Hossler, of the Warsaw Times, died Wednesday, after an illness of three months. Mr. Hossler was one of the most prominent newspaper men in the State. Jesse F. Cool, of Hamilton township, Jameson county, not returning home at the expected time, a search was. instituted and he was found to have been killed by a falling tree. The Terre Haute Electric Light Company has fixed a scale of 12H cents per 1,000 watt hours for incandescent electric lighting of residences throughout the city. This rate is claimed to be equal to gas at $1.25 per 1.050 feet. Capt. Howard, of the Jeffersonville shipyards, predicts that wheat will dgpp to 40 cents, and thinks that It will never again bring remunerative prices. He advises farmers to turn their attention to some other crop. Fremont Sultine, of Losantville, slippeda cartridge into a gun and pointed the weapon at George Harter with the playful remark, “ITI shoot you.” In some way the gun was discharged. The bullet struck Harter in the back, killing him instantly. Indictments have been returned against a number of the officers and members of the Fort Wayne Club, a swell organization, for selling liquor without license in the club room and for selling intoxicants after 11 p. m. and on Sunday. The iprosecution is instigated by saloon keepers, who are being compelled to observe the law.

1 Robert C. Murry, who made Covington his home several months ago, and engaged In the sale of musical instraments, was recently arrested at Chicago and returned to Covington to answer a charge of forgery. He claimed to bold a note on George Foster, of Shawnee township, for >4OO, on which he secured advances frbm Dr. Zinn, of Covington, altogether amounting to 1300. Mr. Foster denies the genuineness of the note, and the Fountain county grand jury has indicted Murry. Rolla Goar, near Millville, owns the champion American bird. Last February his turkey hen began setting and she hatched out a brood of forty turkeys. During April she again * brought forth a brood, this time numbering thirty-seven. Late in June there was another large brood, and also in September, so that altogether during the season she hatched out 167 young turkeys. Mr. Goar claims that this record has never been excelled. The Conrads, who killed five White Caps in Harrison county, last summer, were in Louisville, Tuesday, en route to Kansas. William Conrad was interviewed at length. His sto;ydoes not differ materially from the facts already repeatedly published. The brothers have been in Kentucky since the famous fight, at work in a saw mill. They have accumulated enough money to go west,-and will remove all their family to Kansas as soon as a location is decided upon. Joseph Dietch died at Indianapolis, Monday, December 4, aged eighty, leaving an estate valued at over (210,000, It was known that he kept large sums of money around his house, but his heirs were surprised on making an investigation to find the sum of >94,000 in gold coin and bank bills in the old man’s room. Dietch was a Jew, and his will provides for a >20,000 tombin the Jewish cemetery besides many bequests to benevolent objects. some of which go to Protestant institutions. Mrs. Dietch, who was the principal beneficiary of the will, died of pneumonia, Thursday night. ,