Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Wabash iron mill at Terre Haute has resumed. Claimed that gold has been discovered on a farm near Boonville. Thirteen persons have died at Carbon Indiana has 520 G. A. R. posts. There is a slight falling off in the membership. The people of Wolcottville are clamoring to secure the incorporation of tbat town.

Several farmers in the neighborhood of Redkey have been swindled recently by lightning-rod sharpers. Washington Walker, living near Wakarusa, is forty-five years old, six feet tall and weighs 500 pounds. A tape worm 30 feet in length was removed from Peter Whitehill’s threc-year-old son, at Peru, Monday. Bedford started to build a telephone line. After putting the poles and wires up the scheme fell through. ■ * Work has commenced on the proposed extension of the Chicago & Southeastern railway from Anderson to Muncie. • The Lafayette natural and artificial gas plants have been sold to C. F. Dietrich and G. F. Prowl, of New York, for $840,000 cash. As the result of a Democratic factional fight at Clay City, enemies of Augustus Oberholtzcr cut every plate glass in his business block. The penny in-the-slot machines at Monon have exhausted all thp pennies and the business men are compelled to use postage stamps for change. In a single section of land on the Clay county line, near Eel river, gold, silver zinc, kaolin, silex and cannel coal have been found in paying quantities. As the result of the Supreme Court decision Montgomery county will turn back into the State Treasury $4,764.49 of unused school funds. Of this sum $3,000 is from Crawfordsville. The commissioners of Pulaski county paid a visit to Waukesha, Wis., to inspect the new court-house recently completed in that city, It is proposed to duplicate the structure at Winamac. George Lowman, Mrs. John Wampler, Mrs. Etfa Craft and Alf Lowman, of Wabash, will divide $140,009 between them, as their portion of the estate ,of the late Hepry Yester, of Wash. ... An Elkhart landlady is puzzled. She stole theclothing Of a delinquent boarder while he slept, expecting to negotiate a settlement the hext morning, but the de-1 linquent fled. . He walked away in a barrel- - i. • ' 1 Fratik Benadnum,' a' saloon-keeper of Muncie, while in a fit of dr|ihken iage; attempted to murder his son, Charles, whb ; fe ’tw^nty-thrOe l years' Bld; " TWd'-bullets Struck the . young man’s,hat, land; a,.third i V ierced his arm. ; ... Men who own land along the Kankakgq fivei; having despairedbT iebdrfiig any , furthq| are, to, , raise ssoo|otyj’unahrig themselves to s<f■'aSfehteriAlfe'flyei! , frbm English m the cooper shops at the prison north under-, tomhS ’ hint® ‘Mtycfr wa h^ i! putj’jjey made a. miscalculation on qis;,, ’ratiefe, and camß’tfe the ■prison wtHsk within anfewiftet of Scircleville, pouring oii''on< Wdmrfltljng jgnd ApplxWja .flitch,. ago 1 ' a lialf dozen women, armed with axes, inolished another'salo'dn 1n fhat' vrtlagp'! ■by ghopp ing through ihft floors and idm p- > tying.thQ liquor into the gutter. . I ' Alexandria hdthoriiies have ■'decided jto assume more miftropoiitail airs by settling' thp. lyorkj, problem. A compjrteiil ‘ engineer from Chicago will at onpe prepare • the plans and specifications' and if cqiMr trabtwill be lot for eight iniles of water maip§. |s propped to .-hayo brlcjt foliow'the water works'linproyeiAent.’ i MTss'Florence HathOa'y, fitter years old* pf Peru, (fook i /morphine' ,to> relieve 1 neuralgias pains, and it proved to bp aai' dveraOser.' tier condition ered until it was too .late to give relief. A' note was fojind.after her depth, op, which she'nad IVrittetf: ‘ l i£vdryAhihg iS turning green before my ey.esi’ I believe I‘am dying,” .She was a -.piece of Dr. Aljord, of Peru, and' hies home was. in Milwaukee, .WIA'-il'"' ' koi .».) bUI ATI' I '■ YTphpjStaitfi.Hoayd.ipf Health,wps; in,‘Session at .Indianapolis, Thursday,, and " passed rosfolutfons httffing upon all codntyiboards to detain all trahnps appearing jin, their territory whp have pot.been yaccinitbd ahtl 1 th ’ qii arh’fit i rife 'Ail' 1 who'tip^e ar; ton Ibo sick uuDtih the: natkAe of, their illness that Indiana is now entirely frep from 1 e dSHoiLt ,vFmI o[(f« : ~ .The CJlty. Gopnoil-Qf •, rit iWIII proceed : against the strawboard works of JVabath, whitfh effthtifes its'refuse'lhtd ! the Wafeqsfl' .rivear, following amiulliar lineito that pi)rpund,,against, the : . w 9rk9;at Noblesville, wherein the Supreme Court ! he!d- that a nriisahce- was rtialhtained. Peru dipends upan the river for Its water for domestic uses, and It is claimed thafthe refusto frbm th’e stinwbodrd works renders It Patents were granted to Indianainventors, Tuesday, as follows: 1 T. A. M. Brnencr, Ihdiahapolis, floral stind'; H. M. Marquoll, Albany, Car coupling; F. L. McGahan, Indianapolis, electric arc lamp; S. M. Mullin and S. C. Green, Liberty, gas apparatus; Vj. Parks, Fort Wayne, dril for drilling metal; L. Shanabarger, Mulberry, hay and stock rack; J, Weathers, Indianapolis, combined vise, drill and anvil; H. H. Weyer, Bedford, beehive. 4The Supreme Court, Wednesday, declined to reconsider the Stehlin case. This was the case of Mary E. Haggart et al. vs. John H. Stehlin, an Indianapolis sa-loon-keeper, for damages to value of real estate caused by the opening of Stehlin’s saloon. The original ruling giving Mrs. Haggart the right to demand damages is sustained. The decision is regarded as a heavy blow to the liquor interests of Indiana.

George Willman, one of the wealthiest farmers of Blackford county, had a prejudice against banks and always kept large sums ot money at his home. He outgrew this prejudice, Tuesday, and took his mopey to Hartford City to deposit It In a bank. "While he was gone three masked attacked his wife at his home and demanded the money that was still sup- • be ig th* house. She them 625, all she had. Mr. .Wjllipan is now •baking hands with himself.