Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Mancie police are raiding the crap games. The new Baptist church at Kokomo cost *ls 000. Investigation shows two hundred needyi families at Brazil; > A saloon was dynamited at Ossian,' Thursday morning. The life-saving crew stationed at Michigan City has laid off for the winter. The Crawfordsville papers are working hard for a canning factory for that town. The Star woolen mills at Wabash were burned to the ground, Wednesday evening. A new postoffice has been established in DeKalb county to he known as “Yuba Dam.” The township trustees of the State will hold a convention at Indianapolis, Dec. 37 and 28. November 141 tramps were lodged in the South Bend jail at their own request. Michigan City is improving upon the dull times by pushing forward street improvements. The report is again given out that Dick Goodman, the Summitville burglar, is dyfng of his wound 9. State Senator Yaryan. of Richmond, recently passed his ninety-first mile-stone. He is still hale and hearty.* 3 The largest distillery at Hammond was destroyed by fire, Tuesday. Total loss, $175,000. Insurance $65,000. AY. P. Gallup, the well known banker of Indianapolis, died in that city, Wednesday, of grip and pneumonia.. The Momence rock has been removed from the Kankakee. The capacity of the river at that point is trebled. Wm. H. English has about completed his exhaustive history of Indiana from the earliest times to the present. E. H. Eldridge & Co., prominent lumber firm of Indianapolis, assigned, Monday. Liabilities *36,009. assets *32,0 0. The Crawford county seat war , has at last resulted in the selection of English. Leavenworth gives up the fight. Twenty thousand dollars a month will be required to feed the unemployed miners in the upper peninsula of Michigan Miss Grace Berridge, of Evansville, was relieved of a beautiful head of hair, while asleep, by an unknown tresspasser. Several deaths by grip are reported at Crawfordsville and vicinity, and the disease is widespoad in Montgomery county, A Michigan City man out of work has turned to trapping and has caught two red fox, 37 mink, 18 coons and 14 muskrats.

Samuel Fisher and Louis Lazell were sentenced to one year each in the penitentiary at Columbus, Monday, on a plea of guilty to stealing chickens. It is reported that the New Albany Steam Forge and Rolling Mill Company will resume operations next month after a shut down for three years. Michael Ezekiel, a prominent and wealthy Hebrew of Indianapolis, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head, Wednesday evening. Burglars went to great pains to “blow” the safe in the office of Clouser Bros. & Adney. millers of Darlington, and were rewarded by finding a two-idollar bill. A South Band justice dismissed the case of assault against a man who had thrown a book agent out of his house that insisted on selling the defendant a book. Tho propeller Wheeler, which went aground off the harbor of Michigan City, has been abandoned by her owners. She was a fine steamer and valued in excess of *IOO,OOO. Levenworth will carry the proposed removal of the county seat to English into the courts. On Saturday the excitement was at fever heat in that place, and the saloooni were closed for fear of riot. Indiana was seventy-seven years old, Monday, having been admitted into tho Union Dec. 11,1816. From a population of we have grown to have 2,193,401. There aro ninety-two counties and 1,034 townships in the State. The arrest of Shelby ‘Clapper, of Anderson, at Muucie, resulted in the discovery of a large amount of stolen goods in Clapper’s honse at Anderson. Clapper’s home is believed to have been headquarters for an organized band of thieves. The Knox Mutual Fire Insurance Company, organized under the laws of Indiana. in December. 1892, with headquarters at Knox, has gone tb the wall. George A. Scott was president and treasurer of the company, and Benj. A. Andrews, of Chicago, was secretary. John Reno, of Seymour, still carries the identity of the Indiana man who assisted in the robbery of the county treasurer’s office at Gallatin,Mo., twenty-six years ago, in his own bosom, and ho has never di-

vuiged it. although he spent ten years in prison for that crime, while his Indiana confederate never was arrested. Thai robbery realized 123,000. There is a superstition among the young ladies of Michigan City that if a girl can purloin the small bow which fastens the lining of a man’s hat and wear ft inside her shoo, she will have a proposal from the young man within a month. The fad is proving quite destructive io hats, and is boing encouraged by the hatters. A Washington special to the Indianapolis News, Dec. 13. gives details of the Voorhees Presidential boom. The boom has a substantial following outside of Indiana. In several extreme Western States it is ibelng talked about and numerous Grand Array Posts in different parts of the country have passed resolutions favoring the aspirations of the Indiana Senator. Knightstown has secured a new industry in the form of a nitro-glycerine factory. John E. Snow, a practical gas well contractor, is at the head of the enterprise, which, when completed, will turn out two tons of the explosive a day. The plant will be operated under the name of the Knightstown Torpedo Company, and is the only establishment of tho kind in the State. Indiana has recently furnished a President of the United States, presidents for two of the largest universities in the country, tho most successful novel writer, the most popular poet, and now furnishes a beautiful young woman who has sued the richest man of his age in the country for *40,000, which he gave her a check for and now seeks to avoid tho payment of. Truly Indiana is well to the Albany Ledger. The first National Hank, of New Albany purchased the safe formerly used by the Louisville, (Ky.) Deposit Company, and

while it was being placed In the vault the time lock run down and the doors were locked. The makers of tbesafe, at'Ham--11 ton, 0„ were appealed to, and skilled workmen were sent to New Albany. The work of drilling Into the sate began Saturday. Eunice Wilhelm, twelve years old, daughter of Captain Wilhelm, of Huntington, is passionately fond of vinegar. The other day she could not resist the temptation of taking a “swig” from the vinegar jug, but instead she picked up a jng partially filled with concehtrated lye. Her mouth and throat were terribly burned by the fiery mixture, and as she was troubled with croup, this adds to the complication Robert C. Murry, who made Covington his home several months ago, and engaged in the sale of musical instruments, was recently arrested at Chicago and returned.to Covington to answer a charge of forgery. He claimed to hold a noto on George Foster, of Shawnee township, for *4OO, on which he secured advances from Dr. Zinn, of Covington, altogether amounting to *3OO. 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. Joseph Dletch died at Indianapolis, Monday, December 4, aged eighty, leaving an estate valued at over $290,000, It was known that he kept large sum Sol 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 tomb in 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 ol pneumonia, Thursday night. Friday morning, at Pt. Isabel, occurred a sad tragedy that cast a gloom over the entire place. Miss Ella Downs, a mosl estimable young lady, took he? own life with a revolver. The weapon was a 32caliber revolver. She placed the muzzle near her head and sent a ball into her tomplo that caused death within twenty minutes after the shooting. The course of the ball was down into the mouth. The cause for this rash act is unknown, a 9 she was to have been married in a short time to Mr. Nesbit of the same place. It was rumored that Nesbit was away at the time to order his wedding suit. Miss Downs was twenty-three years of age and well known and highly respected by everyone.

Patents were issued, Tuesday, to Indiana invetors as follows: C. A. Bertsch, Cambridge City, metal bending machine; F. C. Luethe and J. M. E. Riedel, Fori Wayne, adjustable foot for tables; T Dean, Indianapolis, glueing machine; J M. Eblesisor, New Albany, tug holder; P. Ganson, Logansport, shirt; O. N. Guldin, Fort Wayne, combination yalvo connection for water gas'apparatus; W. N Hornberger, Elkhart, electric curreni transformer; W. Moore, Kokomo, drill press; W. C. Smith. Kokomo, pedal crank for bicycle; T. J. Reamy, Auburn, sawmill feed mechanism; C. E. Tower, assignor to Economist Plow Company ,South Bend, sulky plow; S. Whitehall, South Bend, and E. W. Whitehall, Attica, electric call system; J. G. Zeller, Richmond, conveyor; C. L. Leonard, Steam Corner, and W. A. Carter, Yeddo, gates. A trade mark for metal polish for gold, silver, nickel, brass, copper, zinc and tin was issued to Caleb R. Clark, of Anderson. In the Culbertson contested will case, at New Albany, which was finally settled in favor of Mrs. French, the contesting heir, by an agreement in tho compromise Mrs. French had to pay all the costs oi the suit she had instituted, including the fees of all the attorneys. She has made payment in full. The attorney’s fees amounted to $35,000, divided as follows: To her attorney, A. C. Harris, of Indianapolis, $20,000; to her attorney, A. H. Noyes, of Minneapolis, Minn.. $10,000; to Alexander Dowling, attorney for the executors of her father’s estate, $12,500; tc Charles L. Jewett, attorney for the executor’s to her father’s estate, sl2 500. The to art costs will not amount tos3o). The litigation. It will be seen, has been very expensive to Mrs. French Mrs. French’s share in the estate is now placed at $150.0 X) in cash and $450,000 in stocks, bonds and other property, the stocks etc., being held by trustees until the legate* arrives at the age of thirty-eight years, she meanwhile to receive the income from all the property.