Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Washington is striving for a street car system. Many gypsies are camping around Marion. A rich oil well has been struck near GaaCity. . - ■ ’ The Canandian game, lacrosse, is being Introduced at Portiand. One Bedford quarry is shipping thirteen car loads of stone a day. Kokomo papers claim there is not a prisoner in the Howard county jail. A new postoffice, called Alfonso, has been established in Laporte county. The Indiana District Turnfest will be held at Evansville, beginning on the 9th inst. - , The count at the northern prison is 926, the largest in the history of the institution. ' h Over 5700 has been subscribed by Greenwood citizens to light the saloon at that place. A Washington creditor tried to collect ’ abiTl a few days ago amlw as struck with a brick. Candidates for public offices at Brazil are nearly worried to doath by requests for “beer'’ money. Ward Ilumphey, of Princeton, fell under a moving train and was killed. He was an old soldier. The strawberry crop in the vicinity of Azalia, famous for its fine berries, will fall three-fonrths short th is season. A probable caie of smallpox has made its appearance among the tramps sheltered at the Ft. Wayne police station. The Lutherans have laid the cornerstone of a new house of worship at Elwood, The structure will cost 52,000. The work of the assessor in Wayne township, Wayne county, shows a shortage in values of more than 51,000,000. Bread is now selling at two cents a loaf at Columbus, owing to the bread war, and it will probably go down to one cen t. LLcL. The Thirteenth District Republican convention at Warsaw, Wednesday, nominated L. W. Royse, of that city, for Congress. Trunk line association will give the -Pythians—who visit the Washington encampment one fare rates for the round trip. Reports from Laporte county state that a man unearthed the skeletons of three human beings while digging a well the other day. Every saloon keeper,at Lebanon, with a single exception, was fined for-selling intoxicants on the day of the recent Republican primary election. The Fleming family association, consisting of about 13,000 members from all over the United States, will hold a reunion at Muncie. Aug. 22, 23. The Auditor of Montgomery county has JieenSued for 52,000 attorney’s fees claimed to he due the lawyers who prosecuted the late Rev. W. Fred Pettit. Congressman'Conn, of Indiana, has bought the Washington Times, a new one-cent daily. The paper will be conservatively Democratic. F. A. and P. B. Coffin, the Indianapolis bank wreckers, were taken to Michigan City, Tuesday, and are now behind the walls of the Prison North. The Masbnic fraternity assisted in laying the corner-stone of the new school building at Fowler. B. Wilson Smith, of Lafayette, delivered the address. ■ The returns of the assessors of Mont

gomery county show a decrease of nearly $350,000 in personal property subject. to taxation. In the citv of Crawfordsville the falling off is $70,330. Herod Johnson, of Richmond, is dead of malignant smallpox. It is believed that he contracted the disease while unloading lumber which came from the north, he finding a pair of trousers and a vest,which he appropriated. Frank Rice, near Milroy, while seated on the beam of a plow which Was being guided by his brother, slipped off and fell underneath the plowshare, the point of which penetrated his abdomen. His death soon occurred. Peter Kempf, the Russiaville saloonkeeper, who was finally forced out of the' business by the pressure of public opinion, coupled with timely prosecution, has made a proposition in effect to forever abandon the traffic if pending cases are dropped. The seven-year-old son of M. W. Gregory, of Danville, p;.tired the powder from a shotgun shell into a cup and exploded it with a lighted match. The flame flashed into his face, probably destroying the sight of the right ore. His right hand wqs also pitifully burned. “Doc” Brown and James Wiggins, at Wabash. Tuesday, were sentenced to fifteen and twenty years respectively for conspiracy to assassinate W. A. Mackey. Wiggins agreed to pay Brown SI,OOO for shooting Mackey, and Brown badly wounded his victim. An anti-liquor league, □numerically strong, has been organized at Valparaiso to oppose the granting of saloon licenses in Porter county. It is proposed to organize branches in every school district, and to elect County Commissioners who will pledge themselves in advance to carry out the wishes of the league. The Lake Erie & Western and the Mun cie Btelt Railroad companies are again at war and are tearing up railroad crossings. The Lake Erie people made a raid, Monday, and damaged a crossing about SSOO. The Muncie Belt Line will guard their property day and night until the case now in court is decided. Judge McNutt, of the Vigo Superior Court, in the McHugh bill controversy, in which the Republicans are trying to oust the old chief fire engineer, holds that it can not be done by any strategic move, but that the suit must run Its regular course in the courts. This ruling virtually continues the old incumbent in office until September, at which time he is willing to retire. Patents were granted, Tuesday, to Indiana inventors as follows: 8. J. Austin, Terre Haute, scale beam; J. M. Elder, Indianapolis, automatic hatchway; C. Grues, Delphi, and J. F. Thomas, Camden, fence post; Louis Koss, Indianapolis, reversible traversing movement; M. SieberJing, Kokomo, glass melting furnace. A group of Spiritualises at Anderson claim to have been entertained at a seance by the spirit of the late “Doc” McCullough, recently killed in that city in a saloon brawl. McCullough talked with the group, saying that his murder was the result of a conspiracy concocted two years ago. He also said that whWb ho 'uad been a bad fellow in his life, he

had been driven to crime by those who should have been his friends. The Garden City Paving Company, of I Chicago, which has contracted for considerable block paving at Crown Point, Imported Italian laborers to do the work. Upon pitching their tents at Crown Point, s however, the imported laborers were surrounded by enraged home workers, who, demanded that they return at once to Chicago.-. The police were called to prevent violence. Details of the so-called Cardwell forgeries im Tipton county show that Joseph Cardwell’s name was freely used. Mr. Cardwell is eighty-three years old and highly respected. His son, Pleasant P, Cardwell, is about fifty. He also stood well. Pleasant Cardwell cannot write, and he always signed his name with an “X.” The forged notes purported to have been signed by him, with his father as surety. Already 52,000 of notes have come to light, and it is supposed that,over $3,000 of spurious paper are still afloat. The forgeries have been running over a period of five years, and when a note mature.d the interest was either paid or else a new note was forged. The present address of Pleasant is unknown. It is now thought that other parties are also concerned in the forgeries. The results of the post-mortem examination held over the body of George Leggitt. the famous aquefyingm Hill, are made public, and the strangeness of his malady is now explained to the physicians. The vital organs had grown fast to the spinal column. The trouble originated in a severe sprain, said to have been received nineteen years ago. During his sickness, which baffled doctors, Leggitt was tapped sixteen times, and fifty®five gallons of watergwere withdrawn. 6Much spurious coin is being circulated in Madison county, and there is a suspicion that it is manufactured at Summitville. The Ninth District Republican congressional convention at Kokomo, Wednesday, continued from 10:30 a. m. until 7 p m. Ninety-three ballots were taken. The fight was a spirited one between J. B. Cheadle, of Frankfort, W. R. Woods, of Tippecanoe county, and Thos. E. Boyd,, of Hamilton county. J. F. Hanley, of: Warren county, as a dark horse, received the nomination on the ninety-third ballot. Saturday night the newly-elected fire committee and chief fire engineer of Terre Haute dispossessed the reigning chief fires engineer by a strategic move. Monday the dispossessed re-possessed himself of. his office by securing a temporary restraining order from .Judge McNutt, and the controversy will now be settled by the courts. The old chief claims the right to 'the office under the McHugh bill till September.