Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Marlon is proud of its public library. A gang of Juvenile thieves has been corralled at Kokomo. The postoffice at Decker was robbed of ISO in stamps by burglars, Franklin capitalists propose building an elevated road at Washington, D. C. Importation of negro laborers at tLo Linton coal mines may resultin trouble. During a recent storm in Michigan City the wind registered sixty miles an hour. Dr. Alexander Martin, ex-President of DePauw, died at Greencastle, Saturday. The farmers in the vicinity of Pendleton have organized for protection against thieves. The lake steamer Meeks was wrecked near Michigan City, Monday night. Loss, 1125,000. 5 There is an unusual amount of sickness at Moore’s Hill, and physicians are overworked* It is claimed that some Brown county gold bearing land will produco as much . as $3,030 per acre. | Goshen young ladies gave a “chrono--1 thanaloletron” entertainment for the benefit of the poor. Burglars got S6OO at farmer John Robert’s residence, near Bedford, without awakening the members of the family. UEMrs. Richardson, of Anderson, used a cocaine preparation for toothache and was rescued from death with difficulty. Mrs. Eitel seventy-four years old, cried herself to death, at Evansville, because her son-in-law had turned her out of a home. The Peru manufacturing company, of Peru, that was incorporated Saturday, will employ 100 hands and begin operations at once. According to the report of the receivers of the defunct Arnold bank at South Whitley depositors will only be paid 15 cents on the dollar. Stringtown, near Tipton, is said to have a'haunted school house and school has fceon dismissed becausa of alleged supernatural manifestations. It is now estimated that depositors of the wrecked Indianapolis National Bank will receive sixty conts on the dollar. Twenty-five cents will be paid about Jan. 1. 3 The Columbia encaustic tile company, of Anderson, has just turned out the largest embossed enameled tile ever manufactured in the United States. It measures 30x12 inches. In Shelbyville the counity commissioners have opened a free coai and wood yard and the city council has raised SI,OOO by subscription, bosides what the charity organizations are doing. 4 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ellis, of Spartansburg, died within an hour of each other, and were buried In one grave. They wore ill of the grip, and were respectively sev-enty-nine and seventy-seven years old. The Big Four and the Lake Erie & Western railways have paid to the Dunkards SI.OOO, being 10 per cent, of net receipts in conveying passengers to the national meeting at Muncie some months ago. The City Council of Terre Haute secured a loan of SIOO,OOO, under the Barrett street improvement law, from Rudolph Keybojt & Co., of Cincinnati, who bid $4,900 premium. The bonds draw 6 per cent. Mr. J. N. Cropper has been appointed receiver for the Muncie electrical works, and gave bond in the sum of $20,000. He will be in charge pending a suit brought by Frederick Van Naffiee ior a dissolution of partnership. The commissioners appointed to erect a tomb over the gravo of ex-Gov. Jennings have reported to the Governor that an elegant monument of Quincy granite, costing SSOO, now marks his resting place in Charleston cemetery. Irvin Moyhcr, a young man employed as a farm hand, was frozen to death in the vicinity of Mulberry. It is reported that he drank to excess at Mulberry and fell asleep while homeward bound. In one of his pockets was SSOO. Charles Edwards, who escaped from the Prison South in April last, betook himself to Blrminham, Ala., where eventually he confided tho secret of his escape to a woman, She retold the story and the authorities recaptured him the past week. Throe wealthy farmers went to Huntington and goton a drunk. Incidentally they stole a whole case of oysters and are now under arrest awaiting trial. They confessed the offense. The prominence of tho parties makes tho case sensational. Tho Akron Oil Company is a now vontH ure at Hartford City, with W. B. Cooley, President, and C. W. Cole, Secretary and Treasurer. The company owns 600 acres of oil leases In Blackford and Wells counties, and already has two producing wells. May Zollinger, of Fort Wayne, passed through a severe attack of diphtheria, but her limb turned black from the knee down. The discolored flesh resumed Its normal color down to tho ankle, but the foot remained dead, making amputation necossary. Mayor Isaac Wagner, of Madison, is alarmingly ill, and his recovery is not anticipated. He is seventy-four yoars old. From his sick bod ho has issued an order directing saloons to be closed at 11 p. m. and that children romain off tho streets after 8 p. m. Tho now ditch on tho Wabash and Kosciusko county line will be tho largest in northern Indiana. It will be twenty miles long, fifty feet wide, an averogsof ten feet deep and will drain 20,000 acres of land. Eight hundred property owners are assessed for its construction. Its cost will bo $40,000. William Russell and family, in the vicinity of Moore’s Hill, were poisoned by drinking coffeo Impregnated with stramo-. nium of jiraaon. The coffee-mill had been used for grinding jlmson for a sick horse, and the poisoning was theresultof failing to properly clean the mill before using It to grind coffee. The grand stand, fencing and other personal property of the Bartholomew County Trotting Association has been sold at public auction In s itisfactlo:: of claims, and racing at Columbus is a matter of history. The track and building cost $13,003 and SBB7 was received at the sale. » . A nickol-in-the-s!ot machine was defrauded by two colored boy* at Bloomington. They dropped bits of metal resembling nickels in size into the machine and “worked” it when they desired. They were arrested and will I e tried for counterfeiting. but the charge will hardly be sustained. . Mrs. Marshall Farrell, whose husband

was placed in an Ice house at El wood, last Christmas eve, and frozen to death before he could sleep off a drunk, has sned saloon keeper James McCormick, of that town, for $2,00) damages for selling the liqnor to her husband. The woman charges McCormick with shutting him up in the ice hongg. 4The safe in Hezekiah Denny’s grocery, in South Portland, was blown open, Tuesday night, and SIOO worth of county orders were stolen. It had contained a large sum of money, but Denny had taken it homo with him. Three holes were drilled in the safe and the door was blown off, but had the thieves investigated they would have found out that it was not locked. The coal mine discovered over in Madi- , son county at the bottom of a deep well reminds us of the one found near Mier, a dozen years ago. It created much excite--inent for a while, and when pieces of genuine coal #as fished up and tested the whole town came very close to a boom. Finally a neighbor confessed he spilled a bucket of coal down the well and the excitement cobapsed.—Marion Chronicle. Martin Costello, the convicted Roby conspirator, failed to show up at Crown , Point, Monday, before Judge Langdon, and was not sentenced to the penitentiary as it was expected he would be. Sheriff Friedrichs and the prosecuting attorney are being censured by the public for allowing Costello to escape. Costello’s bond was forfeited and the opinion pifevails that he will in the future remain away from Lake county. Rodman H. Welles has leased tho fair grounds near Crown Point for a period of ten years. It is reported that he Is acting for a Chicago syndicate that intends to revive winter racing in Indiana. F. J. Berry, tho Chicago horse merchant, is among those interested in tno enterprise. There is a fine half-mile -tracK on the grounds and one of the tho best places for training and breeding in the State. Patents were issued, Tuesday, to Indiana inventors as follows: T, O. Ballard, Franklin, and J. C. Stewart, Greenwood, said Stewart assignor to said Ballard,canfilling machine; C. Bowman, Fort Wayne, shaper head; I. L. Brown, Waveland,carcoupling; G. D. Cleveland, Angola, sqnd band; F. A. Graham and A. R, Griffin, Mishawaka, plow; J. F. Grill,Evansville, shade holder; T. H. Habercorn, Fort Wayne, brake mechanism for locomotives; F. E. Herdman, Indianapolis, three elevators; W. N. Parrish, Richmond, wire fence machine; -T. W. Pertz, Kokomo, radiator; A. C. Pfohl, Washington, ironing board; L. D. Railsback, Indianapolis, rotary disk plow; P. B. Thompson, assignor of one-half to T. E. Gaesser, Troy, kitchen cabinet; J. E. Ward, Muncie, knife polisher and sharpener; also a trade mark to H. R. Allen, Indianapolis, on printed publications treating on orthopedic surgery.