Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

V —————f Cherry tree accidents are now ih order. | Fox scalps are worth money in Washington county. ■The little town of Bedford consumes 300 kegs of beer weekly. Banker tried for embezzlement at Terre Haute, was Wednesday. A number of fine shade trees at Shelbyville has been killed by escaping natural gas. James E. Graham, of Ft. Wayne, is the Prohibition candidate for Congress in that district. . A. M. Benson, of Huntington, has been nominated for Congress by the Populists ■ of the Eleventh district. The State convention of the Epworth League convened at Pern, Thursday. The attendance was very large. Fire insurance rates have been increased fifty per cent, in Huntington and a ponderous kick from the policy holders is the result. The employes of Irvin & Son’s circus went on a strike at Noblesville for back salary, and the circus was tied up at last accounts. , John Carter, of Plainfield, recovered his hearing by removing a wad of cotton which he had stuffed in his ear sixteen years ago. 6 A special term of court will be held at Brazil, beginning July 6, for the trial of the miners of Harmony, indicted for the murder of engineer Barr. The Democratic Congressional convention for the Thirteenth District at Plymouth, Wednesday,renominated Congressman Conn, by acclamation. White river, near Anderson, is polluted with dying fish, the cause of which is attributed to the poisonous refusfe from the strawboards-works at Muncie. E. G. Walker, a trusted employe of Baker & Miller, lawyers, of Goshen, who disappeared with 53.(100 of funds belonging to the firm, was traced to a small Canadian village and compelled to disgorge. The friends of William Cook joined in celebrating his ninety-first birthday at Maple Run. Five generations were representeffTnTnembiifsi of the family present Mr. Cook settled in Grant county in 1848 Carl Lee, son of Luther Lee, near Lapel, starting upon a hunting expedition, stopped at the home of his sweetheart, Miss Carrie Woodard, and while laughing and talking with her he accidentally shot himself through the heart, falling dead at her feet. George Swisher, deputy sheriff of Grant county, levied upon a horse and wagon belonging to Adolph Eckerlin to satisfy a claim of 5150, and then he loaned the rig to Mr. Eckerlin to make a delivery of goods. The deputy is now hunting for his property. James Beyer, of Goshen, has gone to San Francisco to assume the directorship of a vaudeville company, which is billed for its first appearance at Honolulu, after which it will make a trip through Japan and China, and possibly goto Germany. The Ohio Oil Company brought In an 8,000,0 X) gusher, four miles south of Portland, Friday. There are no other gas wells nearer than eight miles. On account of the tremendous pressure the drilling was abandoned and the work of anchoring the well is expected to be very difficult, . -—■ Kelly’s army of conunon.wealers terrorized Lawrenceburg, Wednesday. They demanded and took what they wanted. The citizens helped them to start for Cincin nati, where they will be stopped outside the city limits. Twelve hundred men still hang together under Kelley. Mrs. John Taylor was very ill of consumption, and her family carried her tcP Chicago on a cot to consult with a Christian Science doctor. After he had prayed with her she arose from her cot and walked back to the train, and upon reaching Crown Point she walked to her home nearly two miles away. Llewellyn Daugherty, of Walkerton, employed as a track walker by the Baltimore & Ohio railway, after completing his task sat down upon, the rail to rest and fell asleep. He was killed by a passing train. He hud recently passed civil-ser-vice examination preparatory to entering Government service, and in a few day would have been married to a young lady at Teegarden.

The Indiana Steel Casting Company, composed of Chicago capitalists, have located their manufacturing plant at Anderson, in consideration of a small bonus and free natural gas wells. The company, which was incorporated under the law'of Illinois one month ago, with $200,090 capital stock, originally located at Frankton, but the factory site seemed to be open to the wind, as the buildings, while in course of construction, were leveled twice. The chairman of the Republican committees of Pulaski, White, Porter, Fulton and Lake counties have united in issuing a call for the reassembling at Hammond, July 9, of the Republican Congressional Convention for the Tenth district, which met at Hammond May 24th, and which, as they allege, dispersed without discharging the duty delegated to it. This is another chapter of the great LandisJohnston fight. Richard Gade, leader of the Cannelburg strikers, went to Cannelburg with the intention of whipping Sheriff Leming and several other people who had incurred his displeasure, among whom was Martin Cahill, storekeeper for the Cannelburg coal company. Cahill tried to avoid the difficulty, but Gade would not Ik* denied. In the first round Gade was knocked down and kicked so badly that one leg was broken in two places and several of his ribs were fractured. Reuben Smalley is one of the proudest men in Greensburg and justly so. He has received word from the War Department that he has been granted a medal for special bravery during the war. At the siege of Vicksburg. May 22. 1863. volunteers were called for to lead a forlorn hope in storming a certain portion of the Confederate fort. Amopg those who responded was Mr. Smalley. Oiitof the 160 men who rushed in the whirlwind of that awful charge, less than a dozen survived, but they did all and more than was expected of them. 1 Last Wednesday nitrht, while an impromptu dance was in progress at a residence in West Washington, an unbidden guest appeared in the person of the Rev. Mr. Grayville, of the West End M. ,E. Church. He occupied a residence close by and demanded that the dance should cease, as it created a disturbance in the neighborhood. He seized the fiddler I roughly to illustrate that he was in earneat, and then extinguished the lights.

.Saturday afternoon he was brought before Squire McCafferty, charged with assault and battery, and fined 51 and costs, which he refused to pay. He was taken to jail, where he was visited by members of his congregation, who promised him their earnest support _ : —Congressman Martin was unanimously renominated by the Eleventh District Democratic convention, at Decatur, last Thursday. * - 1 -