Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Washington will fiave a telephone exchange. * ‘rrr • 7 Tramps are receiving rough treatment at Franklin. Tho southern Indiana peach crop is still uninjured. The work on the Immense new tin-plate plant at Elwood will begin Feb. 1. Muncie will pave many streets with brick and asphal t the coming season. • The city directory of Indianapolis, Just issued, shows a population of 143,995. Terre Haute is to have an anti-trust distillery. It will be the largest in the world. The eleven o'clock liquor law and the anti-gambling statutes are dead letters in Ft. Wayne. The Crawford county jail is empty and that county has no representative in the penitentiary. Mrs. E. Williams, living near Brazil, was attacked by a yearling calf and fatally injured. Satnrday. 4 Elkhart has a blind wood splitter who nfever fails to hit the stick right and has never tested his ax on his toes. Edward Thornton and daughter, colored. of Indianapolis, were asphyxiated by natural gas, Wednesday night. Tho Bell Creek Church, near Muncle, is “all broke up” over the question of an organ being used in divine services. Dubois county has the smallest delinquent tax list in the State, there being hut fifty-si* names on the published schedule. i Sherman 'Wagner, who killed his wife and babv, Is thought to be in hiding near West Baden. The sherllf and posse are still searching for him. Elkhart county has disposed of *50,000 in bonds to Harris & Co., of Chicago, at a premium of *2,315. The bonds run ten years and draw 5 per cent. Mathias C. Barth, of South Bend, discovered a small pimple on his nose which he pricked with his finger-nail. Blood poisoning set in and he died. The factional strife in the Black Creek church (United Brethren) which found its way into the courts of Allen county, has been decided in favor of the Liberals. Col. A. L. Conger, of Akron, 0.. who has large interests at Muncie, reports that business is improving all over the country, and that the mills are starting up on a better basis than over before. Congressman Duborrow, of Chicago, came to Indiana at the age of four years, was educated in Indiana schools, and began business life at Indianapolis. His early life was spent at Williamsport. The new Heavilon Mechanical building at Purdue University, dedicated on the 19th by the Governor and other dignitarres was completely destroyed by fire, Tuesday night. Loss *200,030. Partially insured. Laporte “sleepy hsads” have been worked again. A slick swindler claiming to represent a Chicago tailoring house took orders for several suits and demanded 10 per cent. cash. Hs secured about *503 in alh Elkhart people are warned by the press of the town not to carry anything of value on their persons when going about the place at night, so numerous and bold have become the hold-ups on the streets and corners of the town. William Doteror, a saloon-keeper of Bunker-Hill, who made one of a crowd to pour coal oil on an old man named James McDonald and apply a torch,.was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. McDonald was terribly burned. According to the Salein Democrat, Mrs. Emeline Dalton, whose husband and three other men are serving terms in the Prison South for whitecapping her, has been ordered out of Salem by the city authorities because of her depravity. Mrs. Frederick Lindeman, of Richmond, who purchased a ticket issued by a German lottery company at Berlin, is firmly Impressed with the hallucination that she has drawn a capital prize, and that the money is withheld from her. On all other subjects she is entirely rational. The Hammond News warns investors to be careful in purchasing lots purporting to be additions to Hammond. East Chicago and Tolleston. These ad litions, says the News, are scattered from Lake Michigan to the Kankakee river, and from the Porter county line to the State line, and many of them are miles away from the towns they purport to belong to and are worthless for any purpose. Washington Park, for Instance, which purports to be to be between Hammond and South Chicago, is. in fact, in Porter county. And the Myrtle Grove addition is in the swamps of the Kankakee. - Burglars entered the home of J. P. Alen, Wabash railway agent at Kingsbury, chloroformed the family and stole *2OO from Mr. Allen and *450 In money orders belonging to the National Express Company. The family remained In a stupefied condition throughout the night, and Mrs. Allen was dangerously prostrated. The Washington Democrat says that notwithstanding the newspaper accounts to the contrary, Stone, the Wratten mnrderer, will be executed at the southern Prison on schedule time—at sunrise on the morning of Feb. 16—that the order of the court will be strictly executed and no refusal nor delay on account of technicalities.

T. H. Booe, of Covlmrton, was prose cutcd at Veodersburg by a Pythian for wearing the badge of the order, the complainant alleging that he had no standing with the order. The trial developed that Booe had been suspended for non-pay-ment of dues, but the defendant pleaded that while he was cut off from the benefits, still he was a member and entitled to wear the badge until he had been finally dropped from the rolls. The magistrate thought differently and final Boos one dollar and costs. An appeal was taken to the Circuit Court. Patents were Issued Tuesday to Indiana inventors as follows: G. A. Foster and and C. E. Hoffman, New Albany, dental plugger; J. C. Groseclose, Bargersville, fence; E. Hays, Warsaw, nut lock, vehicle brake aud car coupling; C. M. Kiler, assignor of one-half to S. E. Urmston, Indianapolis, fence post, H. F. Kuhlmann assignor to E. Kuhlmann and J. R. Barthl Indianapolis, split pulley; O. A. Marmon, assignor to the Nordyke Sc Marmon Company. TnJiadapolis. return air purifier; J. T. M itthews, Shelbyville, wrench; A. J. F. Mill, Aurora, radial drill; C. P. Re Ist, Lebanon, support for fence post; If. 8. Smith, Bolling Prairie, rail fence. The farmers of Howard, Cass, and Tipten counties hare organixH a farmers’

company under the name of the Farmers* Insurance Company of Kokomo, Ind. The company Is for the purpose of insuring farm property against the hazard of fire, lightning, cyclones, wind storms and- tornado*, and will confine its business to the counties of Howard, Cass and Tipton. Tho officers elected were: President, W. M Souders; vice-president, Samuel Sommerviiie; secretary, L. C. Collier: general manager and adjustor, J. T. Collins. The growing demand for a company to indemnify against these losses at a reasonable expense to the insured has led up to the organization of this company. Robert D. Salmon, a wealthy farmer living a few miles east of Bluffton, was held up on the highway and robbed of *B.OOO in cash Monday night. Mr. Salmon received 58,0 X) for the salo of his farm, lie lingered about town ail day and at 10 o'clock in the evening started for his home. He had scarcely gotten outside of the town when he was assaulted by two men who, at the muzzlo of a shot gun, compelled him to hand over every cent of the money. Ho was then bound and gagged and left in a helpless condition, while the robbers made their escape. About midnight a pedestrian found Salmon and liberated him. As soon as his storv was made known a posse was organize! an! tho robbers tracked to a swamp near Kingsland.