Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson’s brass band his disorganized. New Castle has a resident named Shingold. Lebanon streets are all tore up for water Vniiliis -- . . j / . - ... 1 ■- -" Bloomington has two kindergarten schools. Cambridge City has voted in favor of water-works. Elkhart people will not patronize a Chinese laundry. There are ten practicing physicians in the v ill age of llope. Pink-eye is affecting cattloin Ray township, Morgan county. Cattle in Morgan county are suffering from a strangeTffiseas'e. Camp meetings at'ZionsviHe and Acton were opened on the 27th. The force of D puty Marshals at Fort Wayne has been reduced. Marion militia had to ride home from Hammond on a hog train; A Vincennes bank was burglarized to Ihcji&teMzOf the 23d, . A member of the Laporte militiacompany is named Bueltzingsloswen Funerals at Richmond are now contracted for on the installment plan. The banks of White river near Anderson are again covered with dead fish. A gas well at Montpelier has changed its tune and oil now flows freely from it. George Powell, of Mt. Vernon, tried to cut his wife’s throat and she killed him.

All but four of the £>.tate militia comItairies have-seeß-active service this year, - -Overso)veterinary surgeons in this State have signed a paper condemning tight check reins. Several young men at Rising Sun are in a precarious condition from excessive cigarette, smoking. Smallpox has been in the State since May and there have been fifty,-five cases and eleven deaths. ■> Mr. Brookshire was renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Eighth district at Covington. A fourteen-year-old girl, of Allen county. dying with consumption, was seven feet throe inches tall. The present number of saloonsTrTßrelT-mondds-too.small to supply the demand, and new ones wTlHeeatolhere. Eighteen buildings at Somerset.’lncluding five small store rooms, were burned, Thursday morning. Loss, >4,000. Charles, son of William A. Gregory, near Monrovia, was. terribly hurt by a horse rearing back and falling on him. The New Albany Lodger says that Mrs. Blanche Culbertson-French has been compelled to pay out >62,000 in attorney fees. Judge Johnson, of Valparaiso declined the nomination for Congress given him by the recent Republican convention at Hammond.

The tin-plate works at Atlanta, which were thrown into a receiver’s hands nearly one year ago, will soon resume operations. William Bartmcss, near Dayton, harvested 20;000 sheaves of wheat off fiftyfive acres. He used seven and one-half miles of twine. Great Western pottery works, Kokomo, employing 3CO men; and the Brookside canning factory, working (500 hands, have resumed operations. Mrs. Frank Sheets, of New Castle, was thrown out of a runaway buggy, Monday. Her corset stays were driven into her stomach, killing her. Mrs. Minnie Hutchinson, of Greenfield, while busy with household cares, stepped upon a match which ignited her clothing and burned her to death. 5 Graham Earle, a well-known actor in northern Indiana, has been committed to the sanitarium at Laporte, it being feared that he is losing his mind. Another electric lino is projected at Hammond, to run through West Hammond and Burnham, connecting with the Calumet line for Chicago. Joseph Sego, of Valparaiso, notninated for sheriff by the Democracy of Porter county, has withdrawn from the ticket, alleging press of private duties. Chas. Robb, colored, shot and killed Eli Wilson, also colored, at Indianapolis, on the 24th, because Wilson was in arrears $3.50 for rent.- Robb was arrested. k y Dr. Robbins and other gentlemen propose launching a small steamer on the Wabash at Montezuma, on which they will make a tour to the Arkansas river. Entire Muncie police force raided Thos. Conner’s beer garden, Monday night, and arrested fifty men and womeii. Fines and costs of the crowd aggregated S7CO under tbe,4ll fame laws. Col. C. G. Conn has consented to meet the Democratic Congressional committee at South Bend, July 24. and explain in full his position for declining the Thirteenth district nomination. Boone county crops are unprecedented. The wheat is being rapidly threshed from the shock and measures up an average of thirty bushels to the acre. The yield of oats will be phenomenal. The meeting of the Republican Central Committee in the Tenth district, held at Logansport, resulted in a call being issued for a new convention, to meet at Logansport on the 22d of August. About a dozen pickpockets were arrested at Union City, Wednesday, during th - * circus parade. Theywere jailed but were aided to escape by two Italians who gained entrance to the sheriff’s house and broke the locks.

Mrs. Nellie Jones, the young widow employed as a domestic at Lebanon, inherits 143,000 by the death of her aunt in Brooklyn, N. Y. She is receiving hosts of letters from persons willing to assist in spending the legacy. A schism Is reported in the ranks of the American Railway Union at Terre Haute growing out of the persistence of President Scoltz in continuing the strike and his refusal to permit a vote on the question of returning to work. Charles B. Laqdis, Republican nominee for Congress in the Tenth district, has handed his resignation to Chairman Harley because of the factional fight prevailing in several counties, which, Mr. Landis thinks, imperils the success of legislative and local candidates. The Populists of the First district held a convention at Evansville, Thursday, and nominated Prof. James A. Boyce, of Gibson county, as a candidate for Congress. Professor Boyce Is at the head of the Princeton normal school. Two hundred and seventeen delegates were present. Richard Goodman, of Dundee, badly wounded in the act of committing a burglary at Summitville, some months ago,

and who was recently surrendered by his bondsmen,has given notice of his Intention to plead guilty. He is hopelessly crippled and can only move about wlth-th aid of crutches. A head-on collision at. Griffith, oh the Big Four, fifteen miles from Cincinnati, on the 23d, resulted in the death of Frank Taylor, fireman, of Indianapolis, and two tramps. Several passengers were severely injured and some may die. A gravel train, by some unaccountable error was going cast and met the west bound express. 4 Geo. Herron, who was so brutally whipped by white caps near Columbus, Monday, says he will bring suit for >IOO,000 damages against his assailants. Hu claims to have recognized them as prominent and wealthy men. They warned him to leave the country, but he has armed himself and says he will fightto th« death. GTuirty-two years ago Joseph Steffy, of Bruceville, purchased a five-doilar coat on credit from Michael Hersheer, then doing business in Vincennes. The debt was never paid. In the course of time Hersheer removed to Cincinnati. This week he received a letter from Steffy, Inclosing >23, which he begged his creditor of thirty - two years’ standing to accept in satisfaction of the claim.

Th e Rev. Joh n Reece, a pioneer Bapti s | minister of southern Indiana, seventy-five years old, died at Shelbyville, July 24. lle was torn in Clark county, October 17, 1819, and was educated at Franklin College. He was pastor of one church over twenty-five years. It is said ho preached more funeral sermons, married more people and received in to the church more person sth an any ot her in in is ter. . - Friends of Edward M. Holloway, who was arrested at Crawfordsville for the wrecking of a passenger train at Fontanet. by which the engineer and firemen were killed, have struck a trail indicating that Holloway was not concerned in that ■ affair. A witness has been found at Rosedale who talked with Holloway three hours before accident occurred, to whom Holloway told that he had been chased off his train by miners. Holloway was then bleeding from a wound on the head, and he claimed that he had walked from-Fontanet to Rosedale.

A very peculiar boycott has been inaugurated against Milton Hamilton, a dairyman residing north of Muncle. The boycott lias been declared by the members of the Muncie Fencibles, Company G; Indiana Legion, who achieved much honor at Hammond and East Chicago recently. William Hamilton, a brother of the dairyman, is a member of the Fencibles and driver of one of his brother’s milk wagons. He, like all the other members, had no opportunity to arrange business affairs, and left his employer without notice. When he returned Milton discharged him, and now the Fencibles are making itj their business to see Mr. Hamilton’s patrons and solicit them to change milk. At Richmond, Saturday, Judge Fox, attorney for a creditor, made sensational charges of fraud against the management of the Richmond Street Railway company. The brief alleges that the capital stock was placed at >200,000 and the projectors of the line succeeded in raising >150,000 more, making in all >350,060, which they pretended to use for a line that cost not more than >IOO.OOO. This, the brief says, is evidence within itself that the money was never expended on the line, but went for other purposes. Judge Fox says that the case is one of the worst examples of railroad wrecking that has ever come under his notice.