Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Lucerne postoffice was burglarized, Saturdaynight ■ New Albany is moving for a complete system of sewers. ] Marton and Jonesboro are now connected by an electr c t al way. The new L O. O. F. hall at Martinsville was dedicated, Thursday night. a recent storm at Michigan City the wind velocity reached 60 miles an hour. A resident of Chesteston, whose name is Wurst, has named one of his daughters Wennie. died very suddenly, had been taking the “gold cure.” Col. L B. McDonald, of Columbia City, will eject himself into the race for pension agent of Indiana. The Townsnip Trustees’ State' Association convened at Indianapolis, Wednesday and Thursday. The Citizen’s Bank, of Plainfield, has been victimized by a confidence man to the extent 0f,81,179. Oil has commenced flowing in limited quantities from an old gas well vicinity of Knightstown. 2 Greenfield has a number/of burglars who are making a success of their business in spite of the hard times. Daugherty Bros.’ flouring mill at Ladoga was destroyed by fire, Thursday. Loss, 820,090. Insurance, 810,000. 6 Congressman Martin has written to several prominent Democrats that he will not be a candidate for re-election. Richard and George McDonald were killed by the explosion of a boiler in a saw mill, five miles north of Peru, Thursday. William Yearin, an experienced miner of Bloomfield, has located machinery at Needmore, Brown county, to mine for gold. James Longston, a farmer, was sandbagged and robbed near Vincennes, Monday night. The thugs broke one of his legs. -• ' - -— 1 ■ - The first meeting of the Indiana Association of Elocutionists and Orators was held at the State House, Indianapolis, Tuesday. Miss Mary Wilson, an employe in the Cottage steam laundry, at Muncie, had her arm mashed between two rollers, ..Wednesday,-. _ ■ .'■■■■'■ ." : The State Teachers* Association, and the various educational sections of the organization, held their annual reunions at Indianapolis, Wednesday. There are still twelve men unaccounted for in the wreck of the big bridge at Jeffersonville, and their bodies are supposed to have been carried down the river. Said that Rev. Ross, a country preach - er, canvassed Muncie, Christmas day, tn a buggy, in search of any one who would likely be in need of a ministef at a wedding. Minas Lowe, of Columbus, sixty-two years old, and three times married, had twenty-two children born to him—four by his first wife, nine by the second and eleven by the third. Mayor Terhune, of Anderson, is the recipient of scores of threatening letters from tramps because of his recent orders to the police to whip the fraternity out of his jurisdiction. The most expensive wreck on the I. & V. road in ten years occurred near Paragon, Morgan county, Saturday. The train ran into a horse and the engine and five cars were derailed, Morris Gore, aged twelve, of Shelbyville, was shooting dynamite fire crackers, Wednesday, when one of them exploded near his head, tearing his left eye out and disfiguring his face. “Jap” Hill, of Frankfort, a housebreaker, has been captured in Shelby county, fie will be returned to prison to serve out the remainder of a twelve-year sentence, he still owing nine years. Ten Kentucky eloping couples landed' in Jeffersonville, Thursday, and were spliced according to the Hoosier code. One Justice captured eight out of the ten, and his fees aggregated 850. Hiram A. Foulks, late cashier of the defunct Vincennes National Bank; was arrested in that city, Saturday, by United States Marshal Hawkins for alleged violation of the National banking laws. Miss Louisa Hollenberg, of Terre Haute, while eating breakfast, strangled over a morsel of food which lodged in her windpipe, and she died before relief could be had. She was thirty-two years old. 5 Charles F. Miller, a well-known young man o fKokomo, was arrested for attempting to pass a forged check for 820. He pleaded that his family were suffering for food and there was no other recourse. Another large dynamite bomb was found under the new saloon at Ossian, Tuesday, and the anti-saloon war continues. Two weeks ago the same saloon was wrecked by a bomb, the entire front being blown out. The Law and Order League of Marion is making itself felt. Last Sunday all the business houses were compelled to close, save the restaurants and drug stores. Even the ctgdr stands and candy shops were shut down. A protest is being prepared at Nobles ville against Dr. Samuel Harrell, recently appointed a pension examining surgeon. Dr. Harrell is a young practitioner, who came from Shelby county. It is alleged that ho is hostile to Union soldiers. Dr. Gunn, who settled at Marion several months ago, has been arrested by direction of the authorities at Grand RapIds, Mich., where he is wanted for attempting a criminal assault and for forfeiting fils bond of 8800. Merchant Policeman Waterson, colored, was killed in a fight with burglars at Indianapolis. Saturday night. The murderous thief escaped but trails of blobd indicate that he was badly wounded and the police detectives believe he will be caught. George W. Ray, of school supply notoriety, of Shelbyville, assaulted Isaac Carter, of the law firm of Adams & Carter, inflicting severe personal injury. The animus grew out of Carter’s employment as an attorney to prosecute cases against Ray. W. C. Huitz, a prominent attorney of Sullivan, was shot and killed by a masked man, Sunday. The murderer is believed to be ex-Sheriff Willis. A criminal intimacy was said to have existed between Huitz and Willis’s wife, who is now deyprpod. William Hepner, who wont insane with the delusion that God had commanded him to kill eight men and then preach the gospel, and who gave Sheriff Kohl, of Jefferson county, great trounble recently.

died in the Central Insane Asylum at Indianapolis. Col. R. W. Thompson has completed his history of national administrations up to and including thatof Lincoln. He writes of six teen adm inistrattons from a personal knowledge, having known every President save three. His manuscript will soon be turned over to a publisher. The postoffice at Willvale is in a bad way. The railway station is a half-mile from the village, and the department has provided no means for carrying the mail. Mrs. Mary Conden, the pestmistress, has tendered her resignation, and no one seems willing to assume the position. A gamt of eight desperadoes well supplied with money, food and beer, was captured by the marshal and a posse at Hartford City, Tuesday afternoon. The men were not ordinary tramps and had been causing a reign of terror in the glass factory addition all day. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, who killed Oscar Walton, at Walton, last October.was admitted to bail at the close of the habeas . corpus proceedings at Kokomo, Tuesday. The testimony showed that there had been a struggle between Mrs. Schmidtand Walton previous to the shooting. John Rudy, of Cammack, who was frightened out of his wits, at best none too bright, by practical jokers, and who became a dangerous maniac through fear of arrest, has been restored to better mental condition than ever before, due very largely to the shock received in his fright. A party of young men of Brownstown, headed by Daniel and Michael O'Hara, went to Seymour and attempted to "clean” the town, in backwoods parlance. This led to a collision with the police, in which the O’Haras were roughly handled. They were both badly hurt before consenting to be locked up. ? Geprge Riley, of Fort Wayne, was a flagman at the Clinton street crossing for many years—so long, in fact, that he was regarded as a landmark. The other morning he complained of feeling ill and asked to be relieved, and when his substitute came he walked to_m»adjoining barn, sat down on a box and died. William Bixler, of Albion, and H. W. Harrington, of Lafayette, celebrated their release from prison on Christmas by a prolonged drunk at Michigan City, finally winding up in a quarrel, in which Harrington was sobbed in- the breast and neck by Bixler. Both were arrested, and Bixler is likely to be re turned to htsold cell. D. S. Mackey has resigned as President and director of the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad, and Vice-President H. C. Barlow is now acting president of the company. W. H. Tilford was elected director in place of Mr. Mackey, and also chairman of the Board of Directors. Muncie is overrun with tramps, who have grown so annoying to the public that the Mayor has Instructed the patrolmen to secure cowhides, and, wherever one is found, lash him out of the city. The tramps are eager for arrest, as thereby they are provided with food and shelter. Jacob Cornell wears a lucky talisman in the upper pocket of his vest. It is a rabbit’s foot. The rabbit was killed in a graveyard in thedark of the moon. Jacob savs it has brought him good luck already. A man borrowed 85 of him, yesterday. He was lucky that it was not 810. —Goshen Times. There is astray dog in Madison that has no owner yet he is well fed and wears a license tag. The dog once saved the life of several school children*by catching a wild steer, that was after them, by the nose and throwing it to the ground, thus giving the children time to escape. The community takes care of the canine. Old settlers in Hamilton county believe the haunted school house known as No. 7, in which school has been dismissed because of supernatural manifestations, to be actually haunted by the spirits of Indians and* a hunter named Hadley who were killed in a frontier fight on the site of the school house more than fifty years ago. Judge Hood, at Columbus, Thursday, overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of the State vs. Cyrus Brown for murdering his wife, and sentenced him to be hanged by <the neck until dead, in the Southern Prison, Friday, April 20, 1894. Brown stood motionless and breathless while the sentence was being announced and uttered not a word. George Huntsman and other well known sheep breeders of Albion have oganized the Indiana National Dickinson Delaine Wool, Mu'ton and Merino Sheep Breeders* Association, the purpose being to develop the industry and register the pedigree of the sheep. Noble county took the first and second prizes at the World’s Fair, and this is the main cause for forming the association. Washington Pofur, aged eighty-five, living near Azalia, Bartholomew county, is the progenitor of twenty-two children, slxty-five grandchildren and twenty-eight great-grandchildren. Eight of his own children are dead. Mr. Pofur has twice married. There were twelve children by the first and ten by the second marriage. Ho is now eighty-five years old, and his second wife sixty-two. 4ln his anxiety to be the popular choice for postmaster of Shelbyville, A. J. Higgins has published a card in which he claims that the salary of 82,200 is too high, and that if he is chosen he will bind himself to Contribute SltO per month of his salary to the use of the King’s Daughters, to be distributed in charity. Fool jokers Influenced one of their number to pose as a sheriff at Cammack station, and read a warrant charging John Rudy, of Yorktown, with larceny. Rudy was terribly frightened and ho at once fled, never once stopping until be had run the entire distance from the station to Yorktown. His fright coupled with physical exhaustion, drove him insane, and his condition is very serious. Bloodhounds were brought from Seymour to Indianapolis. Monday, and placed on the trail of the murderer of Merchant Policeman Watterson, who escaped after his bloody deed of Saturday night. The dogs followed the scent by a circuitous route from Ninth and Tennessee streets, in the northern part of Indianapolis, to South port, a distance of about fifteen miles, 4 and vtere followed to where tho trail was lost by a crowd of several hundred. • Anna Wagner, on trial at Indianapolis for the past three weeks,' for-the alleged poisoning of five members of the Koesters family of that city, wasjacquitted, Thursday. The case had attracted universal attention, and the verdict was greeted with great applause by tho crowd of people who filled the court room and halls of

the building as well as by a tumultuous multitude on the outside. Every member of the jury had tears in his eyes as the verdict was read. The defendant had been confined In the Marlon eounty jail continuously for more than six months. For several weeks the community in the vicinity of the Loblolly swamp, -tn Jay eounty, has been alarmed by strange cries at night, and parties passing in the vicinity of the swamp have been chased by an animal of large growth, the exact character of which they could not determine. Last week a party of hunters beat up the swamp, and they succeeded in killing two Canadian lynx, full-grown. Both animals made a ferocious fight and several dogs were killed or maimed before the lynx were brought within range of the Winchester rifles. * Patents were issued to Indiana? inventors, Tuesday. as follows: C. W. Delaney, assignor to J. W. Dysard, Hammond, coin controlled apparatus; A. Hayward, Warsaw, heater for stock troughs: R. H. Kersey, Lebanon, apparatus for heating and circulating hot water; P. A. Kirchner, Fort Wayne, water alarm for steam boilers; R. E. Porch. Spiceland, washing machine; J. L. Riter, Brownsville, wire fence; J. F. Slack, Sngar Branch, whiffletree hook; C. L and E. Williamson. Union City, land roller; J. J. Wood, Fort Wayne, electric transformer.