Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Dunkirk will have water-works. 6 Very little building at Shelbyville. Marion is to have a chewing gum factory. Mitchell Odd Fellows are erecting anew building. * , The Pythians have instituted a lodge at Veedersburg: Connersville proposes to organ!/* t commercial club. / Counterfeit halves and quarters are circulating at Summitville. There was a general observance of Memorial Day throughout the State, Valparaiso pastors will preach sermons to boom the proposed public library. Dory Welsh killed “Dote” McCullough in a saloon at Anderson, Saturday night, A flowing gas well has beep struck at a depth of forty-eight feet on a farm near Columbus. A bald eagle has been killed near Columbus that measured six feet four inches from tip to tip. Elkhart is the only city in northern Indiana that enjoys the novelty of a lady pulpit speaker. Severe frost did great damage throughout the northern part of the State, Wednesday night. Watermelons reached the Indianapolis market on Decoration Day and sold to a limited extent at $1 each. ?A flowing well lias been struck on the farm of Charles Pence, near Columbus, at a depth of forty-eight feet. —“ Knightstown's 120.003 worth of water works bonds were sold, Thursday night, at a premium of $1,750, to a Chicago firm. The new Presbyterian church building BtMuncie/will be dedicated June 17. It is a handsome structure, costing nearly SOO,OOO. The Populist convention of the Ninth Congressional district, at Frankfort, Tuesday, nominated Alonzo Burkhart, of Tipton county. Jndge John 11. Stotsenberg, of New Albany, predicts good times, beginning the very day the President signs the new tariff b.ll.

The Populist congressional convention for the Seventh district, at Indianapolis. Wednesday, nominated Thomas S. East, of Delaware county . Gas belt cities are raising a fund of SIOO,OOO to fight the Ohio pipe line company that is laying mains to Lima, 0., from the Indiana gas belt. It is said that there are, 7,716 young people in Henry county belonging to the Young People's Reading Circle and that they have read nearly 30,030 books, Valparaiso barbers aro cutting rates and drum corps aro employed to march the streets and advertise the rival tonsorialists. Nine cents pays for a haircut. Two attempts in succession were made to wreck a passenger train on the Michigan Central railway near Hammond —first by piling scrap iron on the track, and again by placing ties in a cattle-guard. John Crowley, a lawyer, and D. E Gold, u newspaper man, fought a.duel ac cording to the old-time code, at Boston, Saturday night. Both were wounded and felt that their honor was sufficiently vindicated.

Dory Welsh, of Anderson, who shot-and kitted "Dote” McCullough in a wine-room brawl, has been acquitted, it being shown that he acted in self-defense. It was in evidence that McCullough wanted to kill Charles Paxton and Aggie Skidmore. During a meeting of the Wabash County Farmers’ Institute Calvin Cowgill submitted a paper entitled “Is the outlook for wheat such as to justify its cultivation?” Mr. Cowgill claimed that the cost of wheat raising in Indiana was thirty cents a bushel, and that its cultivation did not pay. A Republican mass meeting was held at Chesterton, Porter county, Tuesday night. Strong resolutions condemningthe actions of the recent Congressional convention at Hammond were passed, and a new con vention was demanded. The nomination of Landis was declared illegal, and he will be opposed to the last by Republicans in that region. Congressman Hammond has addressed a letter to M- M. Hathway, chairman of the Tenth District Democratic Congressional Committee, in which he positively says that he is not a candidate for renomination and that his name must not be considered among the list of possible candidates. Mr. Hammond says that he accepted the first nomination under protest and at a great personal sacrifice. William H. Artman, the brutal murderer of his wife and son, of Perry county, was tried, during the past week, at Cannelton, and on Saturday the jury returned a verdict sentencing him to life Imprisonment. There is a well-grounded belief that l Artman is metally unbalanced. While in jail at Cannelton awaiting trial he attacked a commission which was examining the condition of the institution, and during the trial he attempted to assault the prosecutor. Frank O. Stannard, tho man who attempted to act as a go-between for juror Armstrong in an attempt to secure bribe money from the Coffins in the Indianapolis bank wreckers’ trial, failed to appear in the United States Court, Tuesday, and his bond was declared forfeited. The grand jury also returned an indictment against Stannard for conspiracy. His bondsmen came to Indianapolis, Friday morning, and paid the bond, $4,000. An alias warrant was issued by Judge Baker for Stannard’s arreste if he can be found. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: Wm. T. Heylman, Muncie, buff wheel; Wm. H. Miller, South Bend, sprlnking head for street sprinklers; S. H. Abshier, Newburg, weather-board gauge and adjuster; J. J. Berry, Indianapolis, hinge; S. E. Blake, Indianapolis, shoe-string fastener; B. D. Minor. Indianapolis, assignor, invalid bed; Sedgewick Bros., Richmond, wire twisting machine tiffin: J. Shackleford and J. F. Mlltonberger, Warsaw, surgeon’s chair. The Alexandria Chamber of Commerce has under consideration the advisability of calling a convention in furtherance of a proposition looking to the repeal or modification of tho Gifford law, relating to building and loan associations, and It is sending out circulars to kindred organizations and municipal .bodies, soliciting cooperation. The Alexandria Chamber of Commerce is of the opinion that the Gif- 1 ford law practically prohibits the introduction of a large amount of money which formerly sought investment in this State at the hands of foreign associations, while at the same time the home institutions are supplied with insufficient eapi-

tai to meet the demands of the people. A a result it claims that the borrower fc compelled to give extraordinary security and pay exorbitant rates of interest. The question is regarded by the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce as of vita, importance, and it is thought that unanimity of action throughout the State may Secure the result desfrnd —— Fortwo years and more ladles of Ft. Wayne have been annoyed by a scamp known as “Jack, the Paint Thrower.’Many costly gowns were ruined by the fellow, who daubed them with paint anc oil, while their owners were wearing them on the street. Last Saturday evening, while Miss Bird Bulger and Mr. Moni Orff were walking on the street. Miss Bulger felt the liquid spurting on her dress, and her escort collared a man close at hand. He was identified as Charles Reasenow. In his possession was a can of paint, similar to that thrown on the lady's dress. Mr. Orff held to his prisoner and he was locked up. An excursion of unique interest will leave Anderson on the 4th of next month for a visit to Richmond, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, the national capital and other points of historic interest. It will be composed of the high school and pupils of the eighth year of the other schools, and it is intended to be the inauguration of a system of teaching history and geography in the public schools by ocular demonstr?stration and personal inspection. While at Washington eight executive departments of the Government will be inspected, and explained, and Congress w 11 1 be used as a school for the inculcation of national politics, legislation and general statesmanship. Wm. 11, Artman, of Perry county, who ki] 11-d his w ife and son and was sentenced To life imprisonment, has been removed from Cannelton to the Prison, South. Artman is credited with having made confession of a number of misdeeds. Among these was complicity in the murder of a peddler named Henderson, who held a mortgage on his farm. This murder occurred in I'BB3. He also confessed to burning a barn in 1885. which belonged to a neighbor named Brinksneider, against whom he held a grudge. Ex-Rep-resentative Jesse Cunningham married the widow of Henderson, and he was foreman of the jury which sentenced Artman to life imprisonment.