Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A big revival is on at Dnnkirk. Lebanon has started a Board of Trade. Crown Point is in the throes of diphtheria. “There are 129 patent medicine firms in Sonth Bend. Bluffton has evidence that points to a murder, but they can’t find the victim. Muncie’s Conncil has decided to pave the principal streets of that city with asphalt. A joint stock company has been organized at Elwood for the erection of a $20,000 hotel. Bread sells at 10 cents a loaf In Laporte. The bakers there do about as well as the bankers. An Elkwart young man finds It necessary to wear gloves while asleep' to avoid scratching himself, The Democracy of the Eleventh congressional district will meet at Decatur on the 28th of June. Belle Houser, twenty years old, of Marlon, Is reported to have lost her mind, due to the cigarette habit. There are fourteen drug stores in Elkhart and thirteen of them have combined to run the fourteenth out.

Mrs. Elizabeth Christian, Lebanon, fainted at her daughter’s funeral, Sunday, and died without regaining consciousness. The Republicans of the Tenth Congressional district will hold a nominating convention at Hammond on the 24th of May. F. D. Hnzenga, farmer near Winamac, has been arrested, charged with selling dressed chickens that had died from cholera. The large flour mill of Klenck Bros., at Oakland City* together with five residences, were destroyed by fire, Tuesday. Loss, SBO,OOO. James Whitcomb Riley entertained a Washington audience, Wednesday night. Every seat in the hall was sold before noon of that day. A newspaper man near Fortville named Camp has named his first baby Helen and there is Helen Camp every time the baby opens its mouth. The Richmond Register prophesies that, since gold has been found at Hagerstown and Elv.-ood, diamonds will soon be picked up on the streets of Goosetown. A colored woman gave birth to four daughters recently at South Bend. She smoked a pipe the while and didn’t think the occurrence anything unusual: Philip Anthony, Chicago capitalist, while crossing Cedar lake on the ice near Knox, Saturday, fell in an air hole and was drowned. Body recovered. Sunday. Ex-Prcsidcnt Harrison left Indianapolis, Monday, for California, for the purpose of lecturing at Stanford University. Ho will remain on the Pacific coast for six weeks. William D, Fryer, ofCrawfordsville, undertook to lead four horses while riding a fifth. This led to a runaway, in which he was thrown off and trampled under foot, fracturing his skull. Under the belief that gold in paying quantities could bo found at Southgate, the citizens of Rockdale organized a company and sent out an exploring party. The expedition came to naught. A wind storm unroofed the residence of the Rev. E. W. Fisher, near Nevln, in Harrison county. Soon after, while walking through his fields, tho ministor was attacked by a hull and painfully hurt. , Charles Moore, of Toronto, Canada, burned a stack of hay near Elwood, belonging to Daniel Smith. After his arrest he kaid that Rewas not sorry, because Smith had insulted him while at Frank ton. The unemployed at Terre Haute are getting desperate. It was necessary to send for the police, Tuesday, to quiet a disturance caused by 200 men who were fighting over who should get the thirtyfive tickets to be given out for work. William Pryor, of Noblesville, as the result of a street fight, was carried home in an unconscious condition. John Pryor, his father, was informed that Wilbur was killed, and the excitement of the moment brought on an attack of heart disease, during which ho fell dead, A half-dozen Anderson school boys organized a cow-boy band. They cairied pistols, knives and razors during school hours and terrorized their playmates. Supt. Carr took the boys to his office and searched them, finding quite a layout of weapons. The band was broken up. Frank Epply, City Clerk of Anderson, is said to be the smallest man holding office in this country. He Is but four feet in height, and weighs less than ninety pounds. Mr. Epply is fifty-two years old, and Is the father of four children, who are giants compared to their sire. One of the bents supporting the roof of the court-house at Greenfield gave way under the strain, snapping like a pistol shot and stampeding the occupants of tho building. Examination shows that the foundation under the southeast corner of the structure is sinking, causing openings in the wall. Tho creed of tho permanent organization of spiritualists recently formed at Muncio is that there is no death; that the spirit is immortal and eternally progressive; that spirits return and communicate with mortals through mediumship, and that individual moral responsibility is recognized. The seal adopted is a sunflowor, signifying “sunshine and light of truth.”

Dick Goodman, the Summitvillo burglar shot by Deputy Sheriff Coburn some months ago, is lying at tho point of death. . His vitality has been something wonderful, but the surgeons report that there is no possible hope of recovery. Cobum is still suffering from the wound he received at the hands of Goodman. Miss Emily Wardwell, of Converse, who claimed $3,000 damages from Jacob Drook ■ for slanderous talk, was given a verdict for S3O in a trial by jury at Marion. The litigants were neighbors and the troublo arose over a predatory brood of chickens, during which Drook lost hts temper and nsed hasty language, Tuesday the police raided a cabin in a dense woods near Cloverland, occupied by an alleged stock thief named Taylor, and found In the hut a pretty ftfteeh-year : old girl, who says that her name is Murray, and that she was kidnaped from the houso of her father, a prominent farmer in Ohio, three years ago. She says she was kept in the closest confinement and was kept ir> submission by her abductor and his revolvers. 4 Violations of thb ’fishing law received a sudden check, Tuesday, lat Indianapolis, when Judge Stubbs, in Police Court, fined Wm. Carney and Lase Staret $lO3 each for

using a seine. They went to the workhouse. Monday afternoon Sergt. Thompson and Officer Balcom went to a point two miles sonth of the city and caught Wm. Jones and the two meafined, in the landing a net of fish. Five seines, all over fifteen feet, were confiscated. The men all live In shanties~oh~tfie river, and have made a living by seining and selling the fish in the city. Peter Edwards, an old resident of Converse, met with an accident which will cost him a foot. The old gentleman, who is subject to epileptic attacks, was sitting by the fire in his stocking feet when he was seized with a fit and fell, his right foot resting against the hot stove. He lay for a long time in this position, and when he recovered found that his foot was literally cooked. Physicians say amputation will be necessary.^::: Versailles is wildly agitated over spiritualism. It Is claimed that* one-third of the population are now firm believers and many business men are willing to wager all they are worth that they can converse with their departed friends at any time through the mediumistic powers of Jesse Conyers, the eighteen-year-old son of John Conyers. The exhibition of supernatural phenomena that young Conyers gives are said to be the most remarkable ever attained in this line.

The double B bass tuba horn, manufactured by the Conn Manufacturing Company of Elkhart, for the Worlds Fair,has been sent to Michigan City for trial by the Ames band, and it will probably be purchased by that well-known organization. The instrument weighs twentyeight pounds, and the bell is nearly three feet in diameter. It is the largest Ameriican horn ever madufactured. It is said of the instrument that "it is intended to excavate the lower notes in the subcellar of the score, and also to serve as heavy artillery when the occasion requires.” The Republicans of Hancock county claim that they have never had a representative on the ticket outside the borders of the county—that is. on any Congressional, State or National ticket—and for this reason are urging with much vigor tho nomination of Hon. Richard A. Black of that county, for Clerk of the Supreme Court. They claim for Mr. Black that he is a native Hoosier, is forty-six years old, was a soldier, is qualified and popular, having carried the strong Democratic county of Hancock at two successive elections—once for Prosecuting Attorney and at another time for Clerk. A Michigan City school teacher instructed a pupil to purchase a grammar and received the following note from the child's mother: “1 cdo not desire my daughter to engage In grammar as I prefer her engage in youseful studies and can learn her to speak and write properly myself. I have went through two grammars, can’t say as they did me noqzood X prefer her engage in german and drawing and vocal music on the piano.” A fatal shooting affray took place at Moscow, near Shelbyville, early Wednesday morning. For some time a grudge has existed between Jack Barlow, the postmaster at that place, and. George Mounts. They met and Barlow used a 38-calibre revolver, while Mounts who was the aggressor, pounded the postmaster with a club. Mounts was shot three times in the breast and will die. Barlow is in custody. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, awaiting trial at Kokomo for the murder of J. Oscar Walton, of Cass county, has lost heart since the failure of her appeal to the Supreme Court, and from a stout, robust woman in good health, she has fallen into a decline which threatens to terminate fatally. She bemoans ner fate-incessantly,- sleeping and eating but little. Her chief concern is about her children, who are living alone with their father on the little farm in Cass county, which is all that Is left of the handsome fortune which she inherited a few years ago, and the bulk of which has been spent in litigation. The contract has been let for the erection of the new building of the Knights of Pythias at Lebanon. The architect Is Louls Gibson, of Indianapolis. Tho building is to bo a throe story structure with stone front. The first floor and basement are for business purposes, the second floor is for offices and the third floor is devoted

to the purposes of the order. The hall Itself is to be provided with a gallery running around three sides. Itwillhavean open timber roof. There will be property rooms, ante rooms and other appurtenances which belong to the order. „The building is to be completed by Sept. 1 and is to cost $25,000. Patents were granted Indiana Inventors; Tuesday. as follows: Albert R. Baker, deceased, Indianapolis, M. C. Baker, administratrix, label for file binders; J. Buchanan, deceased. Indianapolis, W. W. Buchanan, administrator, steam boiler; W. L. Butts, Evansville, stove or range; D. Curran, Indianapolis, candle extinguisher; J. T. Ferren, Anderson, bottlepacking wrapper; F. Grote, Evansville, sectional boiler; W. O. Ilarland, Monon, mop and wringer; G. B. Martin, Indianapolis, wrench for vehicles; T. McDonald, Indianapolis, oil burner; M. D. Smalley, Plymouth, friction clutch; W. L. Sonntag and R. A. Brennan, Evansville, display counter; F. Waidner, Mishawaka, hfnge for wln,d mill rudders; J. Warrington, assignor of one-half 1 to Nordyke & Marmon Co., Indianapolis, cloth fastening device for bolting reels; J. Winner, Bluffton, laundry frame Ed Mitchell, a Jackson, Nab., .farmer tried to save 25 cents by crossing the Missouri on the Ice, at Sioux City, la., instead of on the toll bridge. He and his team broke through and were swept under the tea

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