Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fire at Redkey destroyed 130,000 worth of property. Famine is said to be the cause of the riots in Sicily. The New Albany nail mill is to be sold by the sheriff. St. Petersburg will have an international exhibition in 1903. The trial of John W. Paris will begin Jan. 12, at Frankfort. The A. P. A. organ at Fort Wayne has suspended publication. There were no business failures in Cambridge City during 1893. Tipton has a new street railway, but oniv one car is running. Lawyer J. B. Courtney, of Crawfordsville, has become insane. Gtiiam was removed from- Frankfort to the Lafayette jail for safety. , Mrs. Schmidt, charged with murdering Oscar Walton, was refused bail at Kokomo. Omer Isgrlgg, near Thorntown, caught his right arm in a corn-husker. losing it at the elbow. 4. It will be midsummer before the work of building the big bridge at Jeffersonville is again renewed. The Jackson Buggy Combany of Columbus, has closed down, owing to the assignment of Hege & Co. " A new postoffice will be established in Nottingham township, Wells county, to be known as Oil City. Two companies are now supplying Farmland with natural gas, and the price has been reduced one-half. John Hart, of Cambridge City, while visiting friends at Elwood, was rendered insane by an attack of the grip. Rev. James Mendell, of the Methodist church at Morristown, is reported to be going blind from an overdose of quinine. James Devore, of Shawnee Mound, whose death is reported, was eighty-two years old and a pioneer of that section. For the first time in thirty-six years the postoffice at Louisville will be under the control of a Democrat, Charles P. Weaver. At Richmond, the Hon. Charles O’Ferwas inaugurated governoroof Virginia, Monday, with great pomp and ceremony. Governor 'Matthews has reappointed Mathias Kilgus a member of the board of metropolitan police commissioners of Jeffersonville. Theodore Morgan, who is accused of wrecking two trains, burning four bams, and committi~ng onief ogenses,lyaw alting trial at Kokomo. Ono boy was permantly blinded and three terribly injured by an explosion of powder at Brazil, Monday. The boys were celebrating. Richard McGiff, of Deerfield, and John McGiff, of Geneva, claim to be the oldest pair of twins in the country. They are in their ninetieth year. The aged Mayor Miller, of Vincennes, captured a young scoundrel who wilfully Insulted him on his way home after dark and turned him over to the police. The eighth annual convention of the Indiana Wool Growers’ Association met at Indianapolis, Tuesday. Addresses were made by the President and others. An eloping couple from the rural dis trictsof Kentucky were married at Jeffersonville, Wednesday, The groom was hatless, having lost that article en route. A man who borrowed 1100 irom exPostmaster Daniel Shaw, of LaPorte, forty years ago, and went West, returned, Thursday, and paid his debt, with interest.

Mrs. Nancy Clark, 101 years old, and the oldest citizen of Crawford county, visited friends at Leavenworth, one day last week, walking freely about and seemingly in abundant health. A People’s party conference was held at Indianapolis, Wednesday. H. E. Taubenack, Chairman of the National Committee, was present. Plans were prepared for the coming campaign, Hon. Chas. L. Jewett presented ISO children of New Albany with Christmas gifts of their own choosing. Out of the happy throng but one chose oranges. Mr. Jewett “can afford it.” J. Irving Riddle, of Terre Haute, is being urged by his friends to be a candidate for auditor of State on the Republican ticket. Mr. Riddle is one of the best known men in the State. Mrs. Charles Myers, of Walton, whose husband, a postal clerk, was killed in the Big Four wreck at Lafayette, last May, is said to have compromised her claim for damages, the company paying 17,000. The woolen manufacturers of Indiana met at the State House, Indianapolis, Tuesday. A memorial protesting against the passage of the Wilson bill was prepared and endorsed by the association. Two drunken strangers entered the town of Roanoke with a flourish, exhibiting revolvers and threatening to rob the stores. They were disarmed, deprived of their horse and buggy and driven out by the exasperated villagers. Judge McNutt, of Terre Haute, presiding judge in ft slander suit, took exceptions to a remark made by ex-Judge Mack, and not only fined him $25 and costs for contempt of court, but ordered him to withdraw from the case. 2 The Supreme Court, Tuesday, granted a rehearing to John Parker and Edward McAfee, of Marion county, now under sentence to be hanged next Friday at the State Prison North. The decision was written by Judge Coffey. 3 Mrs. Emlline Dalton, the woman who was whitecapped by her husband and several friends, now d jing time in the Jeffersonville penitentiaro, has secured a divorce from her brute of a “lord and master,” together with alimony,. The turnkey at the Indianapolis police station tried to put a refractory colored man in the dungeon. The man resisted and the turnkey struck him on the head. The blow did not hurt the "coon,” but the turnkey has a disabled hand. Colfax is boycotting the Big Four railway because of alleged unjust discrimination against that town by the company. Fast trains on the Big Four no longer stop at Colfax, a new system of interlocking switches making it unnecessary. 'Trank Gelding and John Martin, of Greentown, engaged in a friendly scuffle, during which Martin was hurled through one of his own plate glass windows. His neck was frightfully cut by the broken glass and he narrowly escaped bleeding to death. The trial of Pettit, the wife murderer, in Montgomery county, where It was taken on changeof venue. county $15,000. Recently an additional claim of 12,000 turned up and Tippecanoe

county is wondering if the account will ever be closed. - Solomon Neideffer. of Bono, is dead after brooding for three yean over tne death of his wife, who was murdered by an Unknown party. The murder occurred while he was absent at work, and the young woman alone in the house. The murderer is still at large, i Sunday night a fourteen-year-old boy named Armstrong went into the stable of John Hogeman, near Prescott, Shelby county, to feed a stallion, when the animal rushed on him and tore through one cheek with his teeth and otherwise injured him. Prompt assistance saved the boy’s life, aA letter has just been received at the Laporte postoffice from the dead letter office that was sent from Laporte by N. Wober, fourteen years ago. It contained a sum of money sent to parties in New Ybrk.lthasbeenlayinginthedeadleU ter office at Washington, and the explanation is that it was found Jn the desk of a clerk who had recently been removed. The Swine Breeders Association of Indiana met at Indianapolis, Thursday. B. W. Harvey, of Bloomington, read a paper on “What Advancement has the Chester White Breed Made ip the Last Five Years?” Mr. Harvey showed that inbreeding and careful feeding had developed the Chester White into a prolific economical farm product. Other matters of interest to the members were considered. 7 -1 T -~ Sam Reynolds, whoiresides about two miles west of town, had on exhibition here, Wednesday evening, a white chicken hawk, which he had the good fortune to wound sufficiently by a shot to render its capture possible. It is perfectly white with the exception of a very few brown feathers and was quite a beauty. We have talked with several and have to find any one who ever saw one in this vicinity before.—Poseyville News. Several days ago, while John and Edward Noe, of Hibernia, were 'coon hunting, John was killed by an accidental discharge of Edward’s gun. While a companion went for assistance, Edward disappeared, and is supposed to have drowned himself by reason of excessive grief. The boy’s mother was fatally 111, afid she died without knowing of the accident befalling the family. The senior Noe is prostrated by the triple calamity, and his recovery is ’not anticipated. Attendant Woods, who killed Lawyer • Blount of Muncie at the Eastern Indiana Hospital at Richmond, is now a free man. He had been released on bond, from the penitentiary, where he had served two years and five months, a new trial having been granted. Tuesday, Prosecutor Starr, at Richmond, nollied the case, and Wednesday Woods was married to Miss Kauffman, a young lady of high character. The action of the prosecutor is sustained by public opinion at Richmond.

Mrs. Olive Cloud, a widow,iwas shot and killed by Louis Snyder, at Indianapolis, Saturday night. Both are said to have been drunk. Snyder escaped and wandered about the country until Monday, when he returned to the city with the intention of giving himself up, as he says, but was arrested at the house of his sister and lodged in jail. The prisoner states Mrs. Cloud was jealous and tried to shoot uim and, in the struggle, both being intoxicated, Mrs. Cloud was shot accidentally, Snyder is a well known character of some local prominence as a saloon keeper. A Eph Winder and a companion, living near St. Mary’s abandoned cemetery. Richmond, arrayed themselves in white sheets and pa par masks, and undertook to scare superstitious pedestrians at the midnight hour. Among the first to pass was Theodore Hoffman. He had armed himself with a bowlder before reaching the cemeterv, and when two ghostly figures stalked out, uttering dismal groans, he cracked away at the nearest, felling the object like a stricken lamb. It proved to be Winder, who lay insensible for some time. The other would-be ghost hastily decamped. The case against ex-County Treasurer Nurpillot, pending at Winamac, has been compromised and dismissed. He was accused of illegally collecting interest from the county by paying for county orders and failing to stamp them paid, carrying them for periods of time and then collecting interest thereon. Mr. Vurpillot claimed to have used .his own money on authority from the county commissioners incashing the orders.and the amount oi interest collected was due on such money used. The law, however, did not authorize such a deal, and accordingly he refunded to the county (911.50. Another fatal accident, due to careless handling of firearms, occurred In Montgomery county Wednesday night, the victim being Timothy O’Connor, the son oi Enos O’Connor, a wealthy farmer. Timothy, with his brothers, were ’coon hunting, and about midnight “treed” something in a hollow log. Enos O’Cennor. Jr., leaned upon the log and, in the excitement, discharged his shotgun against the head of his brother, Timothy, almost blowing it off. The unfortunate lad instantly expired. The young man who did the shooting is crazed with grief. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: J. V. Ashcraft. Dunkirk, pliers; F. Berner, jr., Indianapolis, assignor of three-fourths to M. B. Christ, wood embossing machine; W. T. Eastes, Muncie, medical case; W. K Fraley, Lebanon, hoof trimmer: C. M Kller, assignor of one-half to S. Urmston Indianapolis, station indicator; C. N. Leonard, Indianapolis, continuous table for physicians; G. Philion, Mishawaka, truck; W. H. Spence. Fairmount, blackboard eraser; J. R. Staudt. Indianapolis, flour bolt; J. W. Underwood, Sheridan gas heating apparatus; 8. D. Van Pelt. Anderson, slatc-drtsslng machine; J. L Wagner, Terre Haute, box car door. The Indiana Traveling Men’s Association in session recently a South Bend, Increased the membership fee to $2. onehalf to go to the reserve fund. Officer; elected: President, Schdyler Colfax; Vice-President. I. A. Sibley; Associate Vice-Presidents, 11. M. Kellinger, of Var Wert, O.; E. R. Lightcap, of Chicago; John J. McElrain, of South Bend; J. W. Raynor, of Ontario, and Mr. Clark, of De* troit; Secretary,EL B. Russell; Treasurer. M. B, Staley; and Directors. E. A. Schaffer, L. C. Axford. C. B. Htbben. Georg* Woodruff, C. A. Darland. A. D. Baker, W. H. Mock, T. S. Taylor, Schuyler Colfax and E. B. Russell. All the officers whos« addresses are not given live at South Bend. Reports showed 7,294 members in good standing. A change in the benefits was made so as to pay $1,250 for the less of an eya.