Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — INDIANA STATE SEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE SEWS.

Wayne county owes $ 195.000. An Evansville negro is turning white. Farmland reports a damaging drought. Eugene Debs was given an ovation at Brazil on the : Oth. Pink-eye is affecting cattle in Ray township, Morgan county. There is one milcli cow in Bartholomew county to every four inhabitants. Many farmers hear Princeton are being swindled by traveling grocery agents. August Keel, living near Jonesville, has threshed over 6,100 bushels of wheat. A road hoouse to be owned and operated by women is the talk at Richmond. An extensive cave is supposed to exist in the Blackford-Wells county oil district. It is reported that the grape crop in New Albany neighborhood is almost a failure. Leroy Wright, an employe of the street railway at Muncie, Was killed by a "live” wire, Aug. 2. The tin-stamping works of Ball Bros., fruit-jar manufacturers of Muncie, have resumed operations. Canada thistles have appeared in the northern part of the State and farmers are greatly annoyed. Edward Haiderman, near North Manchester, lost four hundred bushels of growing onions by the blight. The Republican congressional convention at Greensburg, Aug. 2, nominated James E. Watson, of Rush county. Debs was granted an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals by Judge Woods, at Indianapplis, on the 28th. An after harvest picnic will be held at Veedersburg, August 11, the principal attraction of which will be the original

Coxey, White Caps visited Meredith Stanley’s house near Anderson, Monday night. and destroyed his threshing machine and engine. J. W. Rittenhouse, convicted of counterfeiting, and who escaped from the Prison South twelve years ago, was recently captured in Texas. . Tillie Sebran, of Richmond, aged seven teen, was instantly killed by a fall from a parachute at Anderson, Aug. 1. It was her first effort as an mreonaut. John Olglebay, a prominent young man of Tipton, Attempted suicide over his sweetheart’s grave, Sunday night, by taking chloral. He will recover. The building at Fort Wayne tenanted by Miller, junk dealer; Drier, druggist; Ward, chinaware dealer, and Bash, seed merchant, was wrecked by fire. Loss, 110.000. The old question of “worshiping God by machinery” is up again in the. Christian church at Odon. Some of the members say the organ must go and others say it shall not. At Terre Haute, Monday, Ed. Holloway, the self-accused wrecker of the Big Four train at Fontanet, waived preliminary examination and was held to the grand jury, The report that Graham Earle, the actor, has been placed in a Laportesanltarlum is denied by Mr. Earie himself. The actor is now at Hooperstown, Hl., in good health. 3 “King.” the largest dog in Indiana, was poisoned at Kokomo, Tuesday. He was valued at SSOO and weighed 208 pounds; was 39 inches high and eight feet four inches from snout to tail. Superintendent M cWhinney, of the Marion electric street railway, is sanguine that in a comparatively short time Anderson. Marion and Indianapolis will be connected by an electric line. All but two companies of the State militia were withdrawn from Hammond on Saturday over the protests of the sheriff of Lake county. The last two companies departed Monday morning. The Rossville Town Board declined to raise the saloon license, saying that the town already derived the major portion of its revenue from the saloons, and if the rates wore increased the saloons would move away. Miss Grace Cohee, of Bartholomew county, who was accidentally shot by Dr. C. 11. Beck, her betrothed husband, died of her wound. Dr. Beck is under $3.60) bonds, but he is not believed to be criminally liable. The directors of the Prison North have signed a contract with the Derby Cyclo Company for the employment of a large number of convicts. A bicycle factory sGby 150 feet, threg stories high, will be at once put up within the walls. . A heavy plate of glass burst into fragments while being carried by Ed Coombs and Ed Scott. ot Elwood, employed by the Diamond plate glass works, and both men were so badiy cut and lacerated that they will be permanently crippled. All the employes of the Diamond Plate Glass Company at Kokomo who were members of the Indiana militia on duty at Hammond, have been notified by the company that they will receive half-pay for the time marked by their absence. At Columbus. Sunday night. Dr. Conda M. Beck, by mistake,shot'iiis fiancee, Miss Grace’Cohce, whom he supposed to be an eavesdropper. The pair had been spied upon and Beck, hearing some one at the window, hastily fired. Miss Cohee was trying to close the shutters.

Morman Fisher, Jr., of Huntingburg, walked into an establishment in time to meet the Hying fragments of a burst emery wheel. One piece struck his arm above the wrist breaking both bones, and then bounded upward, striking the same arm near the shoulder, again shattering the bone. Ernest Aylesworth, of Valparaiso, died from the effects of excessive cigarette smoking. On theday preceding his death he purchased four boxes of cigarettes, nearly all of which lie smoked before retiring. The next morning at the breakfast hour he was found to be unconscious, and he died before relief could be afforded. 2 A stranger struck Columbus, Thursday night, claiming to be a noted evangelist. He hired a carriage and spoke on the street. -Ho denounced religious people, saying that saloonists were the best friends of the community. After the “sermon” he got gloriously drunk and was run ont of town.

Patents were Issued, Tuesday, to the following citizens of Indiana: A. Hatbershardt, Crawfordsville, holder for umbrellas; C. E. Herman, Indianapolis, railway joint; 11. P. Lenard, Terre Haute, self-closing switch; M. Rhodes. Warsaw, fence posts; J. B. Wayt, Indianajwlis, garbage furnace. Eugene Debs addressed an immense audience at the Terre Haute opera house.

Sunday night. He declared that the A. R. U. was not responsible for the rioting and regretted the lawlessness at Chicago Debs expressed his willingness to accept like a man any penalty that might be assessed against him. A freight train on the ,O. & M. was sid< tracked at Cochran, Dearborn county, or the 30th. Through carelessness or purposely the switch was left open and thf St. Louis express crashed into the rear of the freight. The engineer of the passenger engine. John Little, waS killed. The fireman lost a leg. William Bell, of Milan. Ind., lost a leg. The Pennsylvania Railway Company detailed a detective at Fort Wayne to look after losses in its paint department, and the detective traced missing goods to the possession of William G. Hochstetter. w hoh. ad been Intheeinpl oyof th e coni - pany as a painter for thirty years and who is worth nearly $20,000. Fire broke out in a strip of woods at Rome City in which a number of Fort Wayne people have located cottages, and for several hours the campers were put to the liveliest exertion to save their prop-, erty. The trees, shrubs and undergrowth were dry as tinder and burned fiercely Several ladies were badly prostrated by the excitement incident to fighting the fire. The New York Life Insurance(Company will contest the payment of ftoXxO. carried by. the late W. B. Thomas, who was killed by "Winnie” Smith, of Indianapolis, on the ground that in the application for a policy the statement was made that he was temperate in habits, while the conditions under which he met death show the contrary. It is claimed that the trolley system of the electric street railway at Muncie is

working great damage to lhe city water pipes. A leaky main was found to have been rendered utterly worthless by electrolysis; the process of chemical decomposition having progressed so far that the weight of the metal was destroyed arid sections of the main were perforated like a gas burner.. •Senator Voorhees is critically ill with bladder trouble, and has suffered great pain since the 23d. He has been confined to his ned ever since he left his seat in the Senate. His malady, it is feared, will not yield to ordinary treatment, and a surgical operation will probably be necessary. Mr. Voorhees is also threatened with rheumatism of the heart. J. P. Dunn, of has appealed from the decision of the county board of review fixing the assessments of the Indianapolis water company, street raHway company and the two gas companies, which, he alleges, are too low. Mr. Dunn claims that individual assessments have been placed at from 70 to 100 per cent, of true value, and holds that the same rule should apply to corporations. Eugene Debs arrived at Chicago from Terre Haute, Aug. 1. In an interview he said:“l will never again be connected with any strike organization. This strike has developed the fact that the sentiment of the people of the country is against strikes, and that “the Government stands ready to put down such movements at the point of the bayonet. I shall hereafter advise all workingmen to seek redress by the I a’lot.” — All the mines are running full-hand at Clinton and about one hundred car loads of coal are being shipped daily. Entrydriving is being pushed day and night to make room for more miners Fully 1,0(0 miners who were idle a short time ago arn again at work, and are, apparently, contented. The streets of Clinton are nightly crowded with miners and members o| their families making purchases, and Clinton has once more that appearance o| life and bustle which characterizea it previous to the strike. Mrs, Dr. Spencer, of Bourbon, recently married her eleventh busband. She is forty-four years old. She was a bride at fifteen, and it was ten years before her first marriage proved a failure. She separated from her second and third husbands. Her fourth marriage was romantic. A convict at Joliet won her love and she secured his pardon and married him. He lived but a short time. A fifth and again a sixth husband was chosen from a number of suitors. She married a seventh husband, and there was a charge of bigamy, but it was disproven, and she was given a divorce on statutory grounds. The eighth husband wgt the fruit of a matrimonial advertisement. He met with death bv accident. One child resulted from the ninth union, and then her husland disappeared. The tenth alliance was with Dr. Spencer, a venerable physician. which union was terminated by his sudden death.