Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson will have a May music festival. u Fowler has about thirty men wno are There are about jen tramps vaccinated at Elkhart every night. A postoffice has been established at Jerusalem, Lake county. Louis Smith, of Paoli, has a chicken with four legs and three wings. Two young Peru men killed sixteen long-billed snipe the other day. —Whltely county’s school superintendent is establishing a county museum. Evansville’s Board of Public Works has ordered brick pavements for nine streets. The Standard Oil Company, Wednesday, leased 2,030 acres of oil land in Grant county. The iivc-year-old daughter of Wiliam Bowen, of Gas City, was accidentally burned to death. There is no let-up in the war Greenwood citizens are making on the quart saloons in that town. A Logansport man has patented a rat trap that has caught as many as eighteen rodents at one time. The spring term of the State Normal School, Terre llaute, began, Thursday, with 360 new students. A burglar was shot and killed at Palestine, Grant county. Tuesday night, while in the act of robbing a store. 1 Ex-Congressman Cheadle has entered the race for the Republican nomination for Congress in the Ninth district. Tho annual exhibit by the Hamilton County Agricultural Association will bo hold at Sheridan, beginning August 13. The veracious Bulletin says that discussions of spiritualism become so lively In Anderson streets as to interfere sadly with traffic. State Geologist Gorby was arrested for the third time for drunkenness at Indianapolis, Saturday. Ho got off with a 55 fine, which he paid. The old court-house at Monticello, tho source of so much litigation, has been torn down. A 570,000 stone structure will bo built on the same site. An Eastern man is canvassing Elkhart for white horses, but has been unsuccessful in finding any. There are plenty of red-haired girls in Elkhart, too. The saloon element at-Milford burned Capt. North’s barn and fivo horses, Wednesday night. He was leader of the organization that was tiiaking war on tho saloons. ‘ . * —.—,

Michigan City has advices indicating that a handoomc appropriation will bo made during the present sitting of Congress for the improvement of the harbor at that point. John Chardernon, a young farmer, living near Tyner City, was instantly killed by tho accidental discharge of a shot-gun-in his face. Both barrels took effect, blowing his head off. Wayne county has made a modest request—that tho Government place 50.000 black bass minnows in the three streams of Wayne county—the Whitewater, Nolan's Fork and. Green’s Fork. Thomas Faker, a colored boy of fourteen, was playing with the wire ropo used to lift an electric street lamp at Franklin The current was diverted to this wire in some way and tho boy was instantly killed. Gen. Lew Wallace and other veterans left Indianapolis, Tuesday, to visit the battlefield of Shiloh. Gen. AVallace will have a survey made of the route over which he marched with his division on that occasion. ITho breach of promise suit of Mrs. Christina Smelzer, of Boone county, against William Wilson, a business man of Lebanon, which was transferred to Frankfort on change of venue, resulted in a verdict for plaintiff for $1,803. Three children of Edward Rice, section foreman on the Nickle Plate, at Calumet Pit, west of Valparaiso, perished in a burning house, Monday night. Tho house was burned to the ground and several other inmates narrowly escaped. General Manager McDoel'has signed a contract binding the Monon railway to establish and maintain shops, at Lafayette., The township in which Lafayette is located donated SIOO,OOO, and the railway company has agreed to spend two dollars for every one contributed. Tho Republican Progress, of Bloomington, says tliat a boy in that town has planned six different times to climb down the back porch at night- and run off from home, but every time as he was going to bed ho happened to see his mother preparing buckwheat cakes for breakfast and he made up his mind that he would not go. ’ ~ .

William Carey, of Fort Wayne, of dissipated habits, seated himself near a railway track and was killed by a passing train. Thomas Carey, his father, some time ago was found dead on the riverbank with a whisky flask in his pocket, and another brother was killed in the railway yards at Chicago. A tremendous flow of gas was struck, Wednesday, at a depth of 930 feet, on the farm of Fletcher Hines, south of Millersville, a little less than seven miles northeast of the court house at Indianapolis. The well is a gusher that can be heard half a mile away! and is regarded as proving that tho natural gas supply has not been materially impaired in tho territory tributary to the capital. A free-for-all light between about thir-ty-live tramps on one side and railroad trainmen, under the ieadei'shlp of ,Detective Grady, on the other, occurred as tho west-bound mail train pulled out of Lebanon; Tuesday. The tramps were en route to the Lafayette encampment and had been ejected from a freight train. Several shots were fired and rocks thrown by eacli side. Jerry Mason and Willis Carson, both tramps, were seriously hurt. David Rhinehnrt. until Recently an inmate of the Soldiors’ Home at Marion, drew SI,OOO from the bank and went to Pulaskivilic, where ho owns soven acres of laud. It was his purpose to open a fishing ledge for the entertainment of sportsmen, but thieve* catered to his weakness for strong drink and robbed him of his money, save $l5O, which was overlooked. A process, by which natural colors can be obtained in photography, has been discovered by Edward Stigieman, of Richmond, and, he is preparing to secure a patent. Experimenters have worked for years to discover this secret, but never until now ha.s it been known, It will revolutionize the art of photography and is of great importance to tho world of art.

Thus far pictures have shown 'natura colors, but by a secret process Mr. Stigleman has been able to secure every color as it appears to the eye in real life, with the exception of blue. The jury in the case of Mrs. Augusts Schmidt, on trial at Kokomo for the murder of Oscar Walton, Tuesday, returned a verdict of manslaughter, and fixed the penalty at ten years in the female prison. Mrs, Schmidt broke down, but on being returned to jail regained her composure and denounced the laws of the country for convicting a poor woman for protecting herself, stating that had it been some tramp he woulcLhaye gone free. A motion for a new trial was filed. In case of denial the case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. A claim involving 591,000 for annuities due the Miami tribe of Indians living In Miami, Grant and Wabash counties, under former' treaties with the government, is being pushed by the sixty odd families living in the counties mentioned. Washington Bundy, of Miami county, and William Peconga, of Grant, havo been chosen as the representative, and, accompanied by W. A.. Shoemaker, of Marion, their attorney, have left for Washington to press the claim. In addition to the claim mentioned they ask the recovery of six sections of the choicest land in that part of the State, of which they, as Miamis, claim to have been unjustly deprived. Til? amount involved will aggregate 5300,000. Congressman Martin, is assisting in prosecuting the claim. Judge Wilev at Rennsselaer, Wednesday, decided the district drainage law wholly unconstitutional. This law was passed by the Legislature of 1893, and is similar to one now in existence in Illinois. It was drafted by Benjamin J. Gifford, Of Kankakee, 111., a large land owner in Champaign and Kankakeo counties, Illinois, and in Jasper county. The case decided was the application of this law to the drainage of his twenty-thousand-acro ranch in Jasper coupty. It was under this law that it was expected to drain the Kankakee river marshes, involving a half million acres of land in this and adjoining counties. The decision has a far-reaching effect throughout Indiana and will render invalid all proceedings commenced under the law. Patents were Issued, Tuesday, to tho following citizens of Indiana: M. L. Garr, Indianapolis, baby carriage; W.G. Burns, Fort Wayne, game apparatus; I. L. Carman, North Salem, assignor of one-half to J; H. McGee, Max, tire tightener; R. S. Carr, Hamilton, 0., assignor to F. C. Ball, Muneie, jar fastener; F- E. Davis, Columbus, assignor of one-half to J. B. McCoy, Indianapolis, piano truck; C. Mills, Gas City, device for heating and ventilating rooms; J. W. Nethery, assignor to Indiana Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, pneumatic straw stacker; T. Reeves, assignor to Reeves & Co., Columbus, strawstaeking machine; W. H, Rickaback, assignor of one-half to W. L. Huston,Mishawaka, elevator; A. E. Whitaker, LaPorte, motor.