Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A mysterious disease is killing sheep Bear Hope. , ■ • —~ The estimated population of Terre Haute is 40,?5L _£i—__ —j— Hobart will build a $6,090 addition toits school building. Greencastle will have a new $12,000 Christian church. A train load of fruit jars has been sent from Marion to California. Ex-President Harrison arrived at Indianapolis, Saturday afternoon, from California. A saloon will occupy the room recently vacated by the Salvation Army at Valporaiso. A Lincoln League Club has been organized at Muncie with seventy-live charter members. t South Bend Anglo-msniacs will endeavor to popularize the game of cricket there this season. The crazy antics of an ouija board caused a Winamac young lady to tempdrporarily lose her mental balance, last week. Vermillion county does not owe a dollar It is able to pay on demand, and the county tax is but 30 cents on the SIOO valuation. A North Manchester husband has been granted a divorce because his wife, during the past year, struck him with pokers and flatirons. During a friendly fencing bout between two young Hammond men, the other night, one of them had his eye poked out. ad coxoY notes. Edward Workman, of Lebanon, shot his wife and then attempted to kill himself. Tuesday, Both are seriously wounded and can hardly survive. Jealousy. The Democracy of Monticello, nominated a city ticket, and then forgot to serve legal notice with the clerk. If the ticket is voted, it must be by pasters. The boys employed in the Thompson bottle works, at Gas City, who were rereceiving 69 cents a day. struck for 75, and after two days the management capitulated. John H. Scott, pf White River township, Johnson county, has a severe case of varioloid, contracted he knows not how. There is considerable alarm in t.ho neighborhood. A South Bend glutton, who is said to have eaten an eleven-pound roast at one sitting, has made a novel wager that he will suck eleven dozen eggs in thirty-two minutes if his candidate for Mayor is defeated. ... ■ C A number of well-to-do people of Anderson, styling themselves the “Coxey Contingent,” are negotiating for a special train to Washington, leaving Anderson on May 10 and‘‘remaining during the fun.” The train will be first-class.

Albert T. Beck, a well known lawyer of Indianapolis, was found dead in his bed, with a bullet hole in his head, Tuesday morning. There is a mystery about the affair, and it is not known whether it is a case of suicide or murder. An Anderson cat has given birth to four kittens whichjwere all joined together a la Siamese Twins. Two of the kittens have died, but they were separated by the surgeon’s knife from the two others, which are getting along well, and will live. Frank Benadum, proprietor of the saloon in Muncie in which Lawyer Bailey was murdered. Saturday night, made a confession, Monday, that his barkeeper, Michael Gorman, had killed Bailey by hitting him with a pair of brass “knucks.” /A hen belonging to Henry Otto, of Indianapolis, was so badly “rattled”, presumably because of the arrival of Frye’s Commonweal army, on the 26th, that she laid “twin" eggs—one weighing three and three-fourths ounces, the other one-third of an ounce. . A farmer named Tivetts, residing near Alexandria, comes to the front with a double-bodied calf that has eight legs and one head. The bodies are distinct, and are of the opposite sex. It can stand, but cannot walk. The two bodies want to go into opposite directions. The C. W. <fc M. railroad bridge over Lily lake, near Laporte, went down, Sunday, carrying with -it 15) feet of track. Nearly a hundred car loads of pine logs have been put in this sink hole but they served merely to hold up the bridge for a few hours. The hole seems to be bottomless.

Eighty acres of beautiful ground between Clarksville and New Albany, will be donated by the citizens of New Albany provided the Government will establish a military post thereon, A bill has been introduced in Congress looking to the appropriation of $50,000 in aid of the propposition. Sherman Waggoner, of Martin county, who deliberately murdered his young wife, some four months ago. and who took his time leaving his old neighborhood, is still at large. Recently the authorities began making some stir for his arrest, but it is the supposition that he is hiding in Texas. < A mob destroyed the only saloon at Burlington. Thursday night. A crowd of 100 men battered in the front doors, emptied the liquors into the gutter, and burned the furniture in the street. The proprietor, Bert Willis, and his bartender, were held, bound and blindfolded, while the work was done. Judge Brown, of the Marion County Circuit Court, Monday, rendered a decision in the case of A. W. Wishard vs. the clerks, auditors and sheriffs of the State, being a case to list the cohSlitptionality of the apportionment law’'holding that the matter was one within the discretion of the Legislature and therefore constitutional. The boiler at the tile-mill of Houser A Foust, about eight miles east of Huntington,, blew up, Tuesday morning, killing an employe, Arthur Benson, and fatally wounding both proprietirs David Houser anti P. Win. Foust. The boiler-room was completely blown away, and fragments of the debris could be found half a mile distant. f> As a result of the preliminary trial of Frank Benadum, Michael Gorman and William Watson, of Muncie, arrested for • the mtirder of Lemuel Bailey, the magistrate discharged Watson and committed Ren ad pm and Gorman without ball. Benadum and Gorman mutually accuse one another of the crime. Balloy was beaten to death by “knucks." Charles L. Henry, of Anderson, whom the Republicans'of the Seventh Congressional district have nominated for Congress, received a great ovation upon bls return home, the members ol both parties ■ailing in a demonstration his honor.

A similar demonstration marked the return of the Hon. Leander J. Monks to Winchester, in recognition of his nomination by the Republican State conventioi for one of the judges of the Supreme bench. “ The Kelly Axe Works, which is removing its plant from Louisville, Ky., to Alexandria, employed a number of colored men-of Louisville to assist in the-removal. Recently notices were posted by unknown parties, directed to the foreman of the works at Alexandria, warning him that unless the colored men were discharged the factory would be blown up, the colred men would be lynched and the foreman shot. 6Capt. Addison Barrett, who has been ordered to San Francisco, has been in charge of the military store-house at Jeffersonville since IS7). There is but on» ot.her person in the United States occupying the position of military store-keeper, and upon the death of Captain Barren and this man no successors will be named as the office expires with them. Captair Barrett was formerly stationed at San Francisco. He will be succeeded at Jeffersonville by Capt. Frederick Von Schrader, of Schuylkill Barracks, Pa. There was a dramatic scene in thf courtroom at Kokomo, Saturday, when Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, the wealthy German woman, was arraigned to receive a ten-years’ sentence for killing her tenant, Oscar Walton, last October. On hearing the momentous words the woman exciteely jumped to her feet and called down the wrath of the Almighty on her enemies, invoked vengeance on all connected with the trial and predicted an evil fate for them. She left the room shaking her fist at the. court and with curses and imprecations for all her enemies.

Of Anderson, the smallest Odd Fellow in Indiana. Patents were issued to residents of Indiana, Tuesday, as follpws: G. C. Ditzler, Uniondale, bag or fodder tic-; D A. Foster, Indianapolis, vehicle running gear; C. Henley, Richmond, lawn mo ver; J. I. Hoke, South Bend, pivoted tooth bar; A. Johnson and W. S. Campbell, West Point, safety switch; A. McKuin andW. Seburn, Indianapolis, pneumatic straw stacker; W. E. Murbarger, Indianapolis, combined shaft support and thill coupling; L.Rastetter, Fort Wayne, spoke attachment for vehicle wheels; J. Schenerecker, Indianapolis, assignor of seven-eighths to W. A. Miles and O. H. Perry, Columbus, 0.. E. E. Perry, Indianapolis, and J. W. Hahn, Toledo, 0., apparatus for manufacturing ice and for refrigerating. Trade marks— H. W. Bond. Fort Wayne, wheat flour.

FRANK EPPLY.