Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Hartford City has voted to incorporate. A case of leprosy is reported at Trafalgar. The Wlnamac Republican is howling for a grist mill at that place. Elkhart hoodlums ruin bicycles by puncturing pneumatie tires with a knife. A German carp weighing pounds was caught in Wildcat river, near Kokomo. The police authorities of Terre Haute have ordered that the slot machines must go. The Great Western pottery works, employing 3CO hands, started up at Kokomo, Saturday. Albany, with no indebtedness, will issue 18,500 in bonds with which to furnish the new school-house. The spring term of the Central Normal College at Danville has opened, with over one thousand students in attendance. The annual exhibit by the Hamilton County Agricultural Association will be held at Sheridan, beginning August 13. Warren county commissioners rejected the petition asking the county to pay onehalf the shortage of Defaulter Cronkhite. Anderson will erect a new school-house costing $20,003. This will make the sixth structure by the present Board of School Commissioners. The City Council of Valparaiso has granted a fifteen-year franchise to a Chicago syndicate for an electric-light plant and telephone exchange. The Sixth District Republican Congressional Convention was held at Muncle; Thursday. Congressman Johnson was renominated without opposition. The corner stone of the new high school building at Wabash was laid, Wednesday, with impressive ceremonies. Fifteen hundred school children participated. While using dynamite to kill fish near Mishawaka, last week, one man had his arm blown off, another’s chin was shattered and the third was knocked senseless. Zimri Dwiggins, awaiting trial in Benton county, growing out of the failure of one or more of his banks in that county, has taken a change of venue to Warren county. At a country grocery, four miles west of Mt. Vernon, Tuesday, two fifty-pound cans of powder blew up. Throe men were fatally injured and the building reduced to splinters. Dr. Mattox, of Terre 11 a u te, coronor of Vigo county, cards the public in an article, “How I Became an A. P. A.” He is badly worried about it and says ho will never do it again. The meanest man in the State lives near Noblesvillc. He courted a schoelmarm for two years, and when she had taught him all she knew he gave her the shake and went to practicing law. 2 The board of school commissioners of Winchester havo established a free kindergarten in order to dispose of surplus revenue accruing from tho local tax for tuition and special school revenue. The remains of W. D. McCoy, ex-United States Minister to Liberia, arrived at Indianapolis. Monday. They were shipped from Monrovia, Fob. 24, in a metallic casket enclosed in a zinc lined box. Moses Bradford, of Marion, has brought suit for SIO,OCO against tho Big Four Railway Company, now owning the C., W. & M. railway, because a station is not maintained at North Marion, as per old agreement. Hober Fuller, while fishing at Jeffersonville, Monday, found on his trot lino tho head and shoulders of a man. Supposed that the body is that of one of the men drowned in tho Phoenix bridge disaster, last December. At Hartford City, Tuesday night, a west bound freight ran into an open switch. A terrible wreck resulted. Brakeman Benthim and Engineer Phillips were killed. A number of tramps were burled beneath the wreckage but were rescued. The argument in tho Legislative apportionment case at Indianapolis, brought by tho Republican State Committee to set aside the apportionment law enacted by the last Legislature, was concluded, Tuesday. Tho decision has not been rendered. The trial of Francis A. Coffin, Percival B. Coffin and Albert S. Reed for aiding and abetting Theodore P. Ilaughey in wrecking the Indianapolis National Bank began in tho United States District Court at Indianapolis, Tuesday, before Judge Baker. The Kokomo opalescent (cathedral) glass works, after a shut down of six months, has resumed operations at a reduced wage scalo. All of the thirty-one big industries in that city are now running except ono, anu that will start up May 1. While Michael Keogh was riding homeward in a vehicle from Brookville, he dropped his cigar, which set fire to the robe wrapped around his lower limbs. The old gentleman was unablo to help himself, and ho was terribly burned before being rescued. Every tramp arriving at Elkhart is first vaccinated, after which he is given a lunch, neatly wrapped in paper by a hotel in that city, which charges the city 15 cents for every lunch prepared. A policeman then escorts the tramp to tho corporation lino and ho is bidden to move on.

The holler In Christian Weber’s saw mill at Lancaster exploded, Saturday, and four of the six men working in the mill were killed ontright and the other two seriousjy injured. The killed are: Christian Webtjr, Lester Rinehart, Clifford Rinehart and Louis Weber. Charles Schaefer and John Shepper were injured. The mill was completely demolished and large pieces of the boiler were found 1,003 feet away. The two men who were Injured will probably die. The northern Indiana toachers. In session at Frankfort, elected H. G. Woody, of Kokomo, President; Frank Cooper, of Lake county, Vice President; Ora Cox, of Logans port, Recording Secretary; J. H. Bair, of South Bend, Railroad Secretary; E. W. Bohannon, of Jasper county, Treasurer, and W. R. Snyder, of Muncle, Chairman of the Executive Committee. Tho 1895 session will bo held at South Bena. Abraham Peters, near Sedalia, was Importmtod by lightning-rod men to rod his bare,and he consented. Some material was left over, which they asked him to store for them, and they coaxed him Into signing a receipt showing so many feet of rodding still in his possession. Soon after he found a promissory note In bank, calling for *233. Mr. Peters does not know how hla signature was obtained to tho note on-

leas a thin strip of carbon was placed underneath the paper which he signed, by which it was afterward traced on a note in bank. At Fowler, Tuesday, Judge Wiley decided the fee and salary law of 1891 unconstitutional and void in that it omits to include the treasurer, auditor and recorder of Shelby county within its provisions. The recent decision of the Indiana Supreme Court in the case of Sheriff Henderson, of Vigo county, involving the fees of sheriffs, in which the law was held constitutional, was largely Commented on. In this case tho treasurer of Benton county declined to turn into the treasurer’s fund the surplus receipts of his office, over and above his salary as provided in the 1891 statute, and the court holds that treasurers, auditors and recorders are entitled to the respective incomes of their offices under the statute of 1879. The decision is of far-reaching importance and effect in Indiana, and is a victory for tho association of county Tifficera “recently organized to fight the law of 1891. Burlington, almost en masse, opposed the opening of a saloon in that village, and the County Commissioners hearkened to their remonstrance. The petitioner appealed to the Carroll Circuit Court, and Judge Reynolds overruled the Commissioners and tho license was granted. The anti-liquor people will now bring suit against the saloonkeeper and his bondsmen, together with the owner of the building in which the saloon is located, for damages under the recent decision of tho Supreme Court. The following patents were granted to, citizens of Indiana, Tuesday: C. Bahret, assignor to West Gas Construction Company, Ft. Wayne, center valve; A. P. Boyer, Goshen, hay carrier; G. J. Kline, Goshen, wire stretcher; H. T. Conde, Indianapolis, typewriter cabinet; H. Delaney, Now Albany, smoko consumer; W, A. Ford, Indianapolis, sole; J. R. & J. E. Lambert, Indianapolis, window fixture; M. O. March, Goshen, folding stool; H. B. Morris, assignor to Ford, Johnson & Co., Michigan City, machine for scarfing ends of cano strips for splicing; G. N. Pabres, Sheridan, brick and tile kiln; W. E. Rose, assignor of one-half to S. C. Hicks, New Carlisle, sign printer; W. Shellenbaek, Richmond, engine turning lathe; N. Stedman, assignor to S ted man’s foundry and machine works, Aurora, disintegrator; F. Thalmuelier, Jr., Huntingburg, fluid pressure brake.