Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Investigation showsCOO idle men at Columbus. Tho Mod egg] ass-works at Cicero will »tart, Feb. 15. with about 300 hands. Vickery Bros.! grocery house, Evansville, burned, Sunday. Loss, $12,003. The new postoffice in Nottingham township. Wells county, is christened Petroleum. Hamlet is to have a curled grass plant that will use hundreds of tons of hay yearly. “The Midway Plaisance,” at Crawfordsville, managed for the benefit of the poor, realized about $4031 The Hotel Ingram was formally opened at Hartford City. Tuesday night. It is one of the finest in the State. Congressman Conn, through his business manager, presented his employes with $12,533.30 at tho Elkhart opera house, Tuesday night. Winfield Richards, of Needmore, has patented a machine to work the gold fields of Brown county. Last week he had great luccess, one day taking out S4O. Deputy Revenue Collector Pierce, of Lake county, discovered an illicit distillery near Plymouth, Tuesday, and destroyed the outfit, together with six barrels of whisky. Presiding Elder W. C. Wolfert, of the Elkhart district of the Northern Indiana Methodist Conference, lias resigned, Tho Rev. B. A. Kemp, of Mishawaka, is a possible successor. A big sensation has been created at Huntington by tho discovery that the A. P. A. records, containing names of all the members of that city, had beeq stolen from the lodge room. Tho Indianapolis free food market for for the deserving unemployed is run now at an expense of $1,200 a woek. Two hundre.l and two names were added to the list of applicants last week. The White county commissioners have resolved to sell tho old court-house at Konticello, over which there his been so much litigation. This is interpreted as meaning a new structure in time. Mrs. Ann Roust, of Huntington, hoarded $250 in gold in her cellar, burying it with great care and concealing tho hiding place, Tuesday she discovered that her bank had been plundered of its treasure. Philip Williams, of Huntington, who has been sentenced to prison for two years for forgery, has a wife and seven children. He claims that his family were starving, and to supply their wants he was driven to crime. While George Lee, of Jefferson county, was milking a restive cow, his head resting against her Hank, the animal gave a sadden lurch, bending him almost double and dislocating his spine. His death occurred Tuesday. ■i As the result of a quarrel at Stipp’s Hill between M. F. George and Stephen Dilks, over a shoulder of meat which Dilks had purchased and failed to pay for, Dilks used a dirk knife, stabbing George to death. Dilks was arrested for murder.

Finlay S. Collins, proprietor of the Seymour Democrat, is dead of consumption, lie was thirty-ode years old. The deceased was a Mason, and member of the Columbus Commandery, Knights Templers, He was also prominent in Pythian circles. Mrs. Cecilia Stone, wife of the condemned murderer of the Wratten family, with his children and father, paid a visit to the prison south, Sunday, for a final farewell. The scene was very affecting. Even the children realized the gravity of the occasion. E. S. Lancaster, of Jonesboro, worked out a method of manufacturing ico by tlio use of natural gas, but somebody patented ihoidea and is now prospering. Since then he lias devoted himself to the construction of a refrigerator, in which nat ural gas takes the place of ice. The following concerns are running in full or part at Elwood: Diamond plateglass works, MclJeth chimney factory, McClay factory, American tin plato works, EJwood iron works, Rodefer & Hoffman Window-glass Company and Nivison & Wieskoff bottle works. An eight-hunJred-barrel oil well has been struck five milos northwest of Montpelier. The lease is owned by the Standard. Two years ago the Manhattan Oil Company ran in a dry hole on the same farm and abandoned the lease, which was quickly snapped up by the Standard. W. J. Holt, superintendent of the Central Union Lifo Insurance Association of Fort Wayne, while in the Y. M. C. A. rooms, dropped his overcoat, and a revolver in one of the pockets was discharged. The bullet struck Mr. Holt in the back, causing a wound thought to be fatal. The farmers near Elwood hayo suffered so much from thieves during tho last few months that they have organized two thief catching companies and two bloodhounds have been secured. Tho trespassers will be tracked down, as the farmers despair of bagging them in any othor manner.

Ernest Perkins and Miss Emma Huddleston, of Somerset, were married, and a gang of rowdies assembled finder their window, firing shots into tho house, pounding tho weatherboarding with clubs, and otherwise annoying tho occupants. Tho bridegroom retaliated by causing the arrest of eighteen of tho party for rioting. H. W. Perkins,of South Bend, was a soldier of thelatowar and was shot in tho palm of tho left hand. Tho bullet was never cut out. It gave him no Inconvenience until recently, when he experienced a stinging pain at tho base of tho mlddlo finger. Examination showed the bullet under the skin.it having worked down from tho pain?. Ho had it cut out. The validity of the foe and salary law having been affirmed by the Supreme Court, county officers throughout the State are In something of a panic. At Wabash the county officials talk of resigning. Under tho law It is estimated that the Recorder of Wabash county will receive MOO per annum after paying nocessary expenses. The Sheriff will realize 8350. Tho other officers claim to bo in nearly as bad a predicament. Uoury Aailwurm, of Crown Point, has been appointed receiver of tho estate firm: of Lano & Lane, of Chicago. During the 1890 boom tho firm invested in real ostato In tho vicinity of Tolleston, subdividing it into town lots. Slnco thon one of the partners has died, and his widow seeks to force a sale of tho holdings, which the surviving partner says can only be done at a great sacrifice. The estate is valued at 160.000. The Ft. Wayne Street Railway Company donated its receipts oa Christmas Day to

the poor of the city, to be distributed by the city. The mayor of that city refused to receive the girt, insisting upon its distribution by the relief societies. Ths mayor explained that the city could not afford to place itself under obligation t« any corporation whose filter esti were in- * ter woven so closely with those of the municipality. Oscar Thrall, near West Liberty, while driving home from church with two young ladies was killed in a peculiar manner. The horse not moving to suit him, he struck the animal a sharp blow in the flank. The horse jumped, and almost instantly Thrall’s head was seen to fall forward and he was found to be dead in his seat. The sudden jerk had dislocated his heck. He was hut seventeen years old. A young fellow, styling himself Harry Owens, of Colorado, called upon William Hendricks, a substantial old farmer in the vicinity of Whitestown, representing himself as a nephew, and so cleverly did he play part that Mr. Hendricks was deceived and entertained his guest royally. Tho bogus nephew succeeded in getting his supposititious uncle to advance him SSOO on a gold brick, valued at $5,000, after which ho disappeared. Mr. Hendricks still has the brick. ; Trouble is brewing in the Indiana coal district over the prospect of a material lowering of the wage-schedule to meet reductions in the Ohio and Pittsburg fields. It is understood that the operators will ask for 15-cent reduct’on for the coming year, beginning May I. and it is the understanding that if the Ohio miners accept the 50-cent rate now offered, that this reduction will be called for before May 1, oi else the mines will shut down. Receiver Hawkins, of the Haughey Indianapolis Bank, has been authorized by Judge Baker of the United States court, to receive $25.00) in cash, In full settlement, from Mrs. Colfax and her son Schuyler Colfax, Jr., the amount having been furnished and tendered by a friend of the late Vice-Presi-dent, who will take a second mortgago on the Colfax es:ate and save it from being sacrificed to meet the assessment made by the receiver upon the stockholders of the wrecked institution. The arrangement is considered advantageous to all parties concerned.

Sheiman Wagoner, the wife-murderer, is still at large. He has so completely covered his tracks that no trace can be found. He was reported as located near his father’s house in Lawrence county, but hs could not be found. He was afterward reported to have been seen near the residence of his uncle, Newton McDemed, io the southern part of Martin conntv. but no further trace of him could be found. He is a well educated, shrewd, sharp manamt with tiie start lie has win ue liaru to find. His wife’s people are poor and un* ablo to offer any reward for ins apprehension, and no one seems willing to start on an uncertain hunt without somo hope of remuneration of expenses. The Hon. John Yaryan died at Richmond, at 3 p. m., on Saturday. He had been In feeble health for several months, but ho was at his office on Thursday last* On Friday ho complained of feeling badly, and he soon after, became unconscious Mr. Yaryan was a pioneer of Indiana. A* the last session of tho General Assembly he attracted much attention, being at that time tho oldest legislator in the world. He was born in Blount county Kentucky, in 1802. Mr. Yaryan had voted for eighteen Presidential candidates, be-

ginning with John Quincy Adams in 1824. He was a life-long Whig and Republican. The Montgomery county grand jury returned indictments againt several score of citizens of Crawfordsville for engaging in games of chance. It appears that for the past two months there havo been numerous “raffles,” the proceeds of which were devoted to charity. The prosecutor warned tho projectors that the raffling must stop, but it was persisted in. The defendant* include a number of prominent peoplo, and there is one local philanthropist who has twenty indictments against him. A number of defendants have given notico that thoy will stand trial, under the impression that no Jury can be found to convict, inasmuch as tho offense was solely in tho name of charity and no profit accrued. For somo time it has been known that the G< man Lutheran pastors of Fort Wayno were opposed to members of their congregations joining secret societies, and this has led some of tho Lutherans of that city to sever their relations with that church. Recently there was a Union meeting of tho four Lutheran congregations belonging to the synodical conference, at which time the Rev. H. G. Hauer submitted a paper giving the reasons why the pastors were a unit in opposing secret society membership. Tho position of the Bible on socrotism was liberally quoted, and the ground was taken that the Bible being opposed, the church hat no choice, because secret socictylsm and true Christianity were irreconcilably opposed one to tho other. Patents were Issued to Indiana Inventors, Tuesday, as follows: A. L. Baughman and D. L. Baughman, Albion, drill attachment for planters; C. F. Bettman, Jr., New Albany, fan attachment for rocking chair*; E. H. Goalln, Washington, wrench; L- G. Gustave), Monticollo. hamo tug; A. N. Hanna, Fort Wayne, pencil holder; G. J. Hcrth and G. Boncnborjer, Evansville, mlno trap door; J. L. Hutchinson, assignor to E. F. Bowman, Lancaster, Pa., jewel chuck; H. Kinzlcy, Indianapolis, hair structure; O. M. Pilcher, ditching machlno; F. W. Heaver, Bennington, saw clamp; G. Thomas and F. Kies, South Bend, minnow pail; J. J. Wood, Fort Wayne, journal bearing.

JOHN YARYAN.