Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A silver fox was recently captured in Putnam county. - The Ft. Wayne Knights of Py th las will build a fine castle. ‘ Webster & Ames, saloonists, of Gas City, have assigned? A new railroad will be built from Muncie east to the State line. South Bend City Council has appropriated $30,(0) for improvements. An electric line is projected to connect South Bend with St. Joe, Mich. The Edinburg Call accuses 136 people of that town with lying to the assessors. Police officers at Muncie discovered a complete outfit of burglar and counterfeiter tools, Friday. Lebanon will build water works and’ a new Pythian castle hall this winter and the coming spring. A rich deposit of gold was found In the heart of Elwood, Saturday, by some laborers digging a drain. >An unknown party entered the African M. E. church at Corydon and cut the organ to pieces with an ax, Jeffersonville J. P.’s still enjoy a lucrative business in the-matrimonial line from eloping Kentucky couples. Mr. and Mrs! A. J. McCarty, each over eighty years old, were buried in a double grave at Colfax, Saturday. The town of Hebron has placed a tax of S7O on pool tables with the result that there are three less there now. o Elkhart has an industry which expends more for postage than the entire annual receipts of the Goshen postoffice. —John Crowley, employed in the tin-plate factory at Elwood, caught his right arm in the big shears and it was clipped off, Thomas Brock and John Bensennower, of Madison, have spent several hundred dollars in litigation over a worthless dog. Thirty-one new buildings, many of them residences, were erected in Wakarusa during the past year, altogether costing over $40,00J. Knightsyille citizens have boycotted the Brazil electric street railway, which runs to that place. Their grievance is the fare.. The Star piano works at Richmond burned, Wednesday. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $30,000. One hundred workmen thrown out. Ex-President Harrison appeared in the Federal Court at Indianapolis, Monday, as attorney for the Citizens’ Street Railway Company. Congressman Conn has introduced a private bill to pension Mary E. Cole, relict of George'W. Cole, second lieutenant For-ty-Fourth Indiana. Simon P. Lantz succeeds to the Presidency of the Indiana Traveling Men’s Accident l Association Schuyler Colfax, ntSouth Bend, declining to accept. Some unknown person entered W. Borcherding’s barn at Madison, 'Monday night, and cut to pieces five sets of fine harness and shaved the manes and tails off of two horses. The receiver of the Indianapolis National Bank has paid to depositors a dividend of 25 per cent., and thinks that eventually the bank will pay fifty or sixty cents on the dollar. James Stone, the murderer of the Wratten family, who is awaiting execution in the Prison South, continues to eat greedily, arid to employ his leisure Hours in reading the Bible, singing and praying. Leonard B. Hogdin, one of the eight well-known Kokomo citizens indicted for the Garrigus White Cap tar-and-feather case, was acquitted, Wednesday, The other cases will be tried in April. H. P. Scherer was elected Mayor of Ft. Wayne, Tuesday night,.by the council, to succeed the late Cob Zollinger. The seven Republican votes were thrown to him on the tenth ballot, and it was this which secured his election. Charles S. Newton, of Terre Haute, after securing a divorce, remarried before paying costs of court proceedings. The judge thereupon ordered the record to show that the divorce was refused, and hjs first wife is prosecuting him for bigamy.

The forty-fifth annual report of .the Central Insane Hospital for the year ending Oct. 31,1893, shows that the amount appropriated for maintainance was $260,900, of which all but $75.81 was expended. The average number of patients cared for was 1.492. A company of Indianapolis and Chicago capitalists have organized with $250,000 capital stock to investigate the oil field in the vicinity of Albany, Ind. Oil has been discovered near there that flows from the well as clear as water. Thousands of acres of land have already been leased. Rival dance-masters at Centerville have set that staid old village by the ears. One of them said the other “couldn’t play a fiddle for shucks,” and the other revenged himself by purchasing some trivial articles on Sunday at his rival’s store, and then prosecuted him for desecrating the Sabbath.

The Jeffersonville News says that Miss Florence Seip, of Deputy, walked to Blocher, six miles, with the express purpose of whipping Miss Elizabeth Jones, of whom she was jealous. Miss Jones was equal to the emergency, and with a heavy board she knock ;d out her assailant. Miss Seip thereupon walked back to Deputy. Wm. Mahan and Samuel Morgan, whT» own adjoining near West Baden, met in the road, Tuesday, and quarreled over business affairs. A fight ensued and Morgan drew a revolver and shot Mahan twice. The latter nulled his gun and fired, the bullet entering Morgan’s left side near the heart. Both men fell to the ground and fired at each other until their weapons were empty. Harry Harrington, of Elkhart, aged 28, the notorious son of religious and wealthy parents,is now an inmate of the poor house, temporarily, awaiting the time for the interest of a legacy left him by his father to become due, so that* he can renew his wild career. His mother, driven Insane by his dissipations, is an tnmate of the Central Insane Hospital and can not long survive. He lost both of his legs a few years ago, being run ov?r by a train while intoxicated, and is always dependent on charity after he exhausts his Income from his father’s estate, which he invariably does In the speediest manner possible. CapU William Barney, of Elkhart, met with a wonderful surprise during the present week. During the war and while his command was serving In Missouri, Oscar Hewitt was a member of his company. One day t>* Mftain gave Hewitt his canteen with instructions to fill it with

water, am that was the last seen of Hewitt until vey accidentally met in the obiLvia ui H lulaivtiuuvvUtiUttj • lir 11 v reported that while filling the canteen at a spring he was surrounded by half a dozen rebels, who took him prisoner. After bis release many months thereafter,he .wandered to a distant part of the country and only recently returned to his old home. While visiting the World’s Fair, Orville H. Stewart, of Adams, threw a tightlycorked bottle in Lake Michigan, containing his name and address. Thursday he received a letter from Clara M. Kinkle, of St. Louis, Mo., saying that the bottle was found floating in the Mississipi river at St. Louis on the Sth Inst. As a result of the investigation by the coroner of Allen county Mart.n Hawley is held responsible for the death of his mother, Mrs. Catherine Hawley, of Fort Wayne, who was knocked down and kicked. The murderer was permitted to attend the funeral, and as he kissed the face of his victim he said, “Dear mother, DI be with you soon.” Claim is made that the accused is insane and that his mother was advised to have him commitmitted ten months ago. The fiftieth annual report of the Indiana Deaf and Dumb Institution shows an attendance for the last year of 257. The annual appropriation was $60,000 for maintenance, and $5,000 for repairs. A balance remains in the special funds of $2,011.14. The property of the institution is valued at $644,261.91; products of farm and garden for the year $2,818.61; amount received from the sales and from shops $902.78. The net per capita expense was $203.01. The average per capita expense for ten States is $234. Sherman Waggoner, the Martin county wife*murderer, is still at large, and a telegram. Friday, from Shoals says there is no immediate prospect of his capture. Ho is armed with two revolvers and a repeating rifle, and he is supposed to be in hiding in the hills. Waggoner was accused of causing the death of one or more of his children, and his wife prosecuted him for brutality. She then left him and returned to her father’s home. Waggoner followed and deliberately shot her dead. It is oven said that after sho fell he dragged her for several yards, to make sure that life was extinct, after which he went to the home of his parents and boasted of what he. had done. His father advised him to rapid flight to escape lynching. Before leaving he boasted that he would never be taken alive. Lewis J. Noe, formerly a prominent citizen of Pulaski county, having several times been elected to office, is under arrest, charged with inhuman treatment of wife and family An elder daughter attempted to protect her mother, and was herself assaulted and badly injured. ' The neighbors thereupon interfered, and-Noe was. arrested and turned over to the 1 sheriff. Several months ago he was sent to the insane asylum at Logansport, but the officers soon released him under the belief that he was not Insane. His continued brutality to his family has led to a White Cap notice conspicuously posted, in which Mr. Noe is warned that if his conduct does not materially improve for the better he will be taken out and horse-whipped; this failing to work reformation, th in a lynching will follow. Patents were issued, Tuesday, to Indiana inventors as follows: B. Dearderff. of Mooreland, assignor of one-half to J. W. Dick, of Hagerstown, corn planter; J. B. Haberle, South Bend, sprinkler; A. Heim, assignor of seven-sixteenths to G. W. Heim, of Brownsville, machine for attaching address labels; W?S. Jewell, Ihdianapolis, and A. C. Stevens, Des Moines, time and dating stamp; C. E. Johnson. Mount Jackson, ribbon reversing mechanism for typewriting machines; C. J. Kelly, Terre Haute, piston-rod packing; J. Mandel and J. P. Henderson, assignors to National Metallic Pocket-fastener Co.. Logansport, staple-inserting and clinching machine; V. P. Parks, Fort Wayne, pavement: L Springer and H. Eviston, Indianapolis, assignor to Indianapolis Basket Co., shipping basket; J. J. Wood. Fort Wayne, alternating current dynamo; J. J. Wood, Fort Wayne, connection between separately excited dynamos and their exciters.