Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Elkhart is getting rid of tramps. Many gipsies are camping near Union City. i Digging ginseng root is the chief industry near Franklin. A fire in Evansville destroyed 191,000 worth of property. There will be a light nutmeg melon crop in Jackson county- , Four of the alleged Engineer Barr were arraigned at Brazil, Monday. The condition of the melon crop in Bartholomew county is said to be very promising. - - • In the river and harbor bill as amended in the Senate 131,000 is appropriated for Michigan City. El wood G. A. R. passed resolutions en - dorsing the course of President Cleveland and Gov. Matthews... Charles B. McCullough has secured a franchise to connect Redkey and Dunkirk with an electric line. Windfall has secured a 12-pot flint glass factory, employing 250 hands, to be in operation by September 15. The Democratic State convention has been called to meet at Indianapolis, Aug. 15. to nominate a State ticket. The new Christian church at Liberty,has been formally dedicated. The sermon was preached by Chase. . Charles Hubbell, near Clay City, while felling timber, was crushed to death by a descending tree. He was nineteen years old.

Sparks from a Big Four locomotive set fire to a field of wheat owned by Thomas F. Payne, neat* Wabash, causing ¥I,OOO Joss. Charles Swift, fourteen years old, son of W. T. Swift, Jr., of Newton Stewart, was drowned while bathing in the Patoka river. A Muncie constable has announced that he will stop gambling in that city and that the gambling fraternity will have to get out of town. Jud Thompson, of West Baden Springs, who killed George Leonard, of Paoli, claiming to have acted in self-defense, has been committed to jail for manslaughter. The Madison Courier is giving professional burglars pointers on how to break into houses. The Courier says that a key can always be found under a pan at the bactc door. George Baker, jr., of Covington, in attempting to walk home from Veeders-bn-'g, was assaulted by three men who beat him until he was unconscious and robbed him of his money. Before Frank Benadum, under sentence for fifteen years for killing Lemuel Bailey, was taken to prison he was taken to Muncie to be examined for an increase of pension. He now receives eight dollars a month.

There is a little village in Wayne county known as Bethel. It is half a century old. It has.but one church, one man who lives in rented property, and but one Democrat. Themis also but one dog. No saloon is tolerated. About twenty delegates materialized Monday, in attendance upon the antiLandis convention at Hammond, havingfailed to receive notice of the postponement until the ITth Inst., caused by the railroad troubles. Attorney-General Smith says the railroads will have to suffer the loss from mobs In Indiana. There is no law on the subject in this State, and municipalities, counties or the State can not be held responsible for the loss. W. W. Canada. Brigadier General commanding the Patriarchs Militant I. (), CL FTof Indiana, has'telegraphed tne Governor, from Winchester, offering the services of 40 > Oild Fellows to aid in restoring peace in the State. John Madden, of Los Angeles. Cal., was tried at Columbus for assaulting .John Worden, of Springfield, 0., while camping along the banks of Blue river in Bartholomew county, and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Unknown parties placed fiat bars of -ironon the track of the PanhandlegtMarfon, the evident design being to wreck an incoming passenger—trajn. Two glassworkers returning home discovered the obstruction and removed It. RH liih' plowing in a field the other day William White, a prominent farmer of upper Vermillion county, struck a stone which proved to be a splendid specimen of the stone hammer and ax combined, supposed to have been used by the aborigines. A quarrel over the pasturing of hogs ended in a collision between Harvey Hancock and Ollio Heath, of Boone county, in which it is alleged was assisted by his wife. A club and a scythe figured as weapons, and Hancock was badly injured. .Some one secured the keys to the Marion jail, late Thursday afternoon, and unlocked the door so that the prisoners might escape. Two men got out. Frank Cowgill, charged with murder, would not accept the opportunity and remained in his cell.

The annual State militia encampment may be abandoned this year. The “boys” have had so much actual service in the field that they feel like they can dispense with their usual holiday vacation and settle down to business “when this cruel war is over.” Worthington, a small town on the I. & V. road, is rapidly gaining a reputation as a fishing resort. During the bass season a good string of the finny tribe can be taken from the Eei river in short order. Catfish, of the sweet meat variety, are also very plentiful. The clerk of Decatur county having occasion to look at a certain order book found that it had been stolen. It contained tho proceedings of the last two terms of court, embracing tho entries of the Duke murder caso and a number of gambling cases. Tho M. Rumley Company, of Laporte, manufacturers of traction engines, separator, etc., is closing down because of in ability to ship goods. Thirty men were released on Saturday night, and many more will follow unless the railroad embargo is speedily lifted. At Monon, Tuesday night, at a spiritualistic seat c>, James Turple, a nonbeliever. caught tho alleged spirit, which proved to be Mrs. Carr, the medium. Mrs. Carr’s husband became very angry on account of the exposure, and drew his revolver with the intention of shooting. With difficulty trouble was prevented. David Cade, of New Albany, reprimanded Mrs. Fred Eisele for throwing water at ono of his children. The indignant woman thereupon attacked Cade

with a revolver, firing one shot, which went wild. Before the weapon could b< again leveled Mr. Cade was out of range Judge White, at Terre Haute, Tuesday gave his decision in -the Blue—anti-vac-cination case. He held that the Board o: Health had the authority to require al pupils to be vaccinated, if there had beer exposure to small-pox, a»d that the presence of the diseise in Muncie was sufficient to warranTthe board in issuing tht order. There was a quarrel at Switz City between Albert Steele, eleven years old, anc Frank Hardy, fifteen, over the ownership of a whistle. Hardy struck Steele with his fist and the Steele lad returned th< blow with a club, fracturing Hardy’i skulk It is probable that the injured lac will die. Steele fled to Linton, where hi was arrested. •— —"/-• The Oliver plow works has just finished a plow which will be sent to Queen Victoria for the great fair soon to be held al Balmoral castle, her Scotch home, undei the patronage of the Princess Beatrice Several months were required to construi and paint it and it is one of the finesi pieces of workmanship of that kind evei produced. The Democratic Congressional convention in the third district, at North Vernon, Thursday, nominated S. M. Stock* slager to succeed Congressman Jason B. Brown, the present incumbent. Mr. Brown was present, and, being called upon for a speech, gave his ideas of the cause of his defeat, alleging spite work because he had failed to get an office foi every applicant, His remarks were sensational and characteristic. The convention adjourned in great disorder.. A memorial chapel in memory of Daniel Stinson is to be erected at the Soldiers' Home at Marion. About a year and a half ago a gentleman by the name ol Stinson who belonged to the navy, desired to leave a sum of money for the ben lit of old and infirm soldiers. After examining the system, etc., at Marion, and believing he could in no way benefit them better, he left a legacy of ¥IO,OCO to the home to be disposed of as the managers thought best and proper. The chapel will be in keeping with all the other buildings and will he called the ‘Stinson Memorial Hall and Cahpel.’ > Weston B. Thomas, of Anderson, assistant secretary of the American Wire Nail Company, was killed Beach, a tough resort on the northwest of Indianapolis, by “Winnie” Smith, a well known local sport, at daylight, Thursday morning, Both men were badly intoxicated and quarreled in the bar room. Thomas died from a wound in the throat, the jugular vein being severed by a pocket knife in the hands of Smith. The fight was desperate and bloody. Smith fled in company with a woman who had gone with him in a buggy to the resort, and was captured at Broad Ripple and landed behind the bars at the city police station before 10:30 a. m. Both men were wealthy and connected with prominent families. Patents have been granted to the following residents of Indiana: C. H. Bartlett, assignee to Spring Curry-comb Company, South Bend, curry comb; J. J. Berrv, Indianapolis, tank supply valve; J. B. Cleveland, Indianapolis, fencing wire; J. Delaney. Plymouth, fastening for horse blanket; J. E. Donaldson and J. Arthern, Montezuma, roofing tile; J. and A. W. French, Michigan City, nut lock; H. H. Gibbs, Indianapolis, elastic thread horse shoe; H. A. Goetz, New Albany, joist hanger; J. Hyatt, Richmond, wire fence machine; W. P. Jaqus, assignee of one-half toF. H. Schuller, Indianapolis, pneumatic tire; G. H. Judy, Fort Wayne,, chain for rolling brake shoe key blanks into shape; E. Wood, Marshall, garden cultivator. —lsaac Goodman, nearly eighty years old, a pioneer of Madison county, has been removed to the Prison North. He was convicted of receiving stolen goods, and he was a member of the Dundee gang of thieves which gave the authorities so much trouble. Some months ago DeputySheriff Coburn, of Anderson, attempted to capture burglars in the act of robbery atrlSummitville, and-there was a. dangorous affray, in which he shot and dangerously wounded Dick Goodman and was himself badly Hurt:' Dick Goodman Is still nursing his wound and is likely never to recover, Thomp. May, his companion, was capturcdjand sent to prison for nine years. The senior Goodman nearly beggared himself in paying surgical and attorney fees, and just before his own conviction he deeded what little property remained to his wife.