Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — INIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson is to have a corrugated iron factory. The Jackson county roads are nearly impassable. Great religious Interest continues at Farmland. . Progressive pedro is all the rage at Mishawaka Columbia City schools are de-populated d>y the mumps. Tire hard times have closed two more El wood saloons. What is known as black diphtheria is reported at Wcllsville. The Modes Glass Company at Cicero now employs 150 hands. No delinquent tax list is reported in LaGrange county this year. Greased pig races are the chief fun at the Elwood skating rink. The Elkhart driving park owes $20,000 and will be sold at receiver’s sale. Chaplain Strouse, of the Prison Sonth, dropped d ad from heart disease, Tuesday. A twenty-pound wiid-cat was recently killed in Wayne township, Fulton county. The President, Wednesday, nominated Albert Sahm to be postmaster at Indianapolis. 6 Five residents of Mishawaka, supposed to be honorable, have been arrested for Stealing chickens. Lowery Dick found an English shilling on his farm near Waterford bearing the coinage date of 1783.

A grey eagle measuring seven feet four inches from tip to tip was killed near Lewisville, recently. The old Marion county Jail has been sold for S3BO and the work of demolition began at Indianapolis, Tuesday. Newton Baldwin, a huckster, while driving in the vicinity of Hagerstown, was robbed of S3O in silver by highwaymen. Luther Smith, aged seventeen, who recently married Mary Slusser, aged fifteen, at Huntington, has already deserted his bride. Philip Stevens, near Kokomo, undertook to give his little child squills, but instead administered creosote. The little one died in two hours. John Reno, tbo reformed burglar and safe-blower, of Seymour, has closed tho door of his saloon and vyill sell the vile stuff no more, he says. The Hardcrville coal mines, near Sullivan, were suddenly flooded through some unknown agency. and the miners waded to their chinsin escaping. Tho prosecution in the case of John W. Paris, of Indianapolis, cliargud with wrecking the Greentown Bank, dismissed tho case at Frankfort, Wednesday, because of errors in the indictments.

There was a special session of the grand jury at Tipton, Wednesday, and additional Indictments were returned against Cal Armstrong, alleging conspiracy to murder, embezzlement and forgery. Stephen Perry, the cattle thief, whose operations covered several counties, and who was arrested in eastern Indiana after a long search, was arraigned at Greencastlc and sentenced to six years’ Imprisonment. The tramp who escaped with Cal Armstrong from the Kokomo jail turned up at Lafayette, Thursday, and applied for lodging at tho city prison. He claims not to have seen Armstrong since they left the jail togetlior. ■ Philip Williams, of Huntington, whoso wife and seven children were starving, forged a note for a small amount, on which .he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. A defect has since been found in t the indictment and ho has been released. North Manchester is electrified over tho report that a wealthy old gentleman in tho East, without heirs, offers to endow the United Brethren College at North Manchester with sl.< 03 COO, provided that tho college is conducted on the university plan. Certain other eonlitions are also stipulated, all of which will be complied with. Jonathan W. Sickles, township trustee of Lakeville, is still on tho missing list, and it is now claimed that his shortage in tho township will reach 14.000. He left -33CQ~uHtouebed-4u~the- South- Bend-- National Bank, and this is supposed to be Masonic lodge money, no carried away with him a check, drawn by the County Treasurer in his favor, f6r 81.353. A wind storm blew away the crib surrnnnding the well on the premises of Frank Fogel, at Brookville, and Mri Fogel, who is blind, walked into tho trap, falling feet foremost. The well is twentythree feet deep, with fourteen feet of water, and is walled with rough stono. By exercising great care Mrs. Fogel managed to drag herself to the top without assistance.

The Rev. C. G. Hudson, of the Noblcsvillo M. E. Church, as the result of mental overwork, has been compelled to resign temporarily and go South for his health. For several years lie has serve l as secretary of tho North Indiana Conference. besides which ho has be n known as an indefatigable student and a thoroughly earnest and hard-working pastor. Of recent y<-ars he is said to have mastered several languages, spe xking and writing them fluently. Ho is prominent in Masonic and Odd Fellow circles. Gold has been discovered in paying quantities on a farm owned by Dr. Arthur. two miles west of Portland. The quarry is in the bed of the Salamonia river. Hundreds of tons of this gold-bearing rock have been crushed and used on the streets of Portland for paving and grading purposes. Tho specimen picked up at rahdom on Main street, Portland, assayed 879.47 to the ton and Dr. Arthur Is willing to pay 85 for every wagon load of broken stono that ho has ever sold to the city. There Is great excitement in that part of the State.

At llolford. Thursday night, Joseph Glover, night agent for the American Express Company, shot F. M Cook an i Samuel Ellis, tho latter being a bystander. Wednesday afternoon Mts. M. A. Wobb,» who keeps a restaurant, cowhtdod Cook on the public square. Cook armed himself with a hatchet, and about midnight met Agent Glover, whom he gavo credit with inciting tho assault. Glover, without waiting to be attacked, began firing at Cook. One bullet struck Cook In the groin, and may prove fatal. A stny bullet struck Jeweler Sam Ellis in the breast, and he is in a serious con lition. Patents were granted Indiana inventors Tuesday, as follows: G. J. Bowlcy, Indianapolis. assignor to H. B. Brown, F. Q. Wtthoft and H. Swoye, Dayton, 0., farnituro castor; P. C. Borns, Faro, eleo-

trie battery eeU; T. P. Butterfield, a*, signor to M. W. Baker. North Indian&po lis. washing machine; VV. T. Duthte. In dianapolis, cigar tip cotter and lighter: R. W. Furnas. Indianapolis, (3), stree sweeper; A. J. Graydon, Indianapolis electric cigar lighter: C. S. Hlsev. Aurora gas engine; C. H. Jenne, Indianapolis, assignor to Jenne Compound Rail Company New York, railway rails" D. D. McKee Anderson, photographic embossing press; W. E. Murbarger. Indianapolis, combined umbrella tie and name plate; B. F. Perry. Spleeland, trace fastener; D. P. Stlrk, Indianapolis, gas mixter; P. Walter, Mount Vernon, bake oven.