Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The steam forge-works at Elwood has started up. Frank Bell; near Roanoke, was fatally kicked by a horse. There is an epidemic of distemper among horses in Laporte county. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan-Porley, of Goshen, have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. While Frank Clifford was in the act of •having M. Eveland, at Mendon, lightning struck the razor, severely shocking both men. John McJohnston, of Logansport.claims the distinction of being the last man twonnded in the civil war, He served with th e Thirty- sou rt h Indi an a. ; Postmaster A. O. Mayfield, of Lebanon, Mo., had his ear bitten off, Wednesday, in ■a rough and tumble tight with Clarence (Vernon, a rustic. Vernon was fined $1 for the offense. L A second flow of gas has been struck at Colfax at a depth of 100 feet. It is believed that the gas at that place is only fen “pockets,” but a company will be formed to put down a regular well. L James Vanlaninghain, of Terre Haute, narrowly escaped death at the hands of a stranger, who plunged a knife into his breast. The injury is a dangerous oue, the thrust barely missing the heart. “Cowboy Evangelist” Justin R Rice, who created a. furore in Atlantic City by preaching in the middle of the principal streets, in defiance of the authorities, was adjudged to be a common nuisance and fined $25 and costs.

A lunatic claiming to have a divine mission to kill Cleveland was arrested at Alexandria, Sept. 24. He says he is the Bon of God, and after he has laid out Grover he proposes to cross the Atlantic, and take the life out of the Pope. The jury in the case of Mrs. Cordelia Coleman, of Boone county, indicted for burning property belonging to her divorced husband, brought in a verdict of acquittal. Mrs. Coleman has still another suit to face, her ex-husband demanding damages for losses incurred, The oil fever in Grant county is epidemic. In Van Buren township, on the Burris farm, lite biggesr well yet found was brought in Sept. 24. It yields sixtyfive barrels of oil every twenty-four hours. All the land in the township is now held by leases to New York parties. John Moore, who keeps a grocery store at Deming, Hamilton county, and Jones Bailiff, while returning from Indianapolis with a load of groceries, were “held up’ two miles south of Broad Ripple by two highwaymen and relieved of SIOO in cash. The robbers then escaped. There is no -dueß-

The Republican legislative convention atlndianapolis, Sept. 22, nominated Wm. U. Leedy, W. C. Van Arsdale, John McGregor, J. G. Adams, Clemens Vonnegut and Omar Boardman for Representatives from Marion county, and W. M. Blakeley, of Shelbyville, for joint representative) (or Shelby and Marion counties. A Big Four special, Sept. 21, made thq run from Chicago to Indianapolis, 195 tuiles, in four hours and eight minutes. Deducting the time taken to take water and slow down through city limits, the Actual running timn was about fifty-three miles an hour. Big Four officials consider It a remarkable run. Last Saturday night, while C. P. Hinds, nigh,t operator for the Indianapolis & Vincennes railway company at Spencer was sending a messsge, and a friend, Guy Williams, was standing near, an unknown assassin fired five shots through a rear window, all of which struck uncomfortably close. It is unknown whether the would-be assassin was trying to kill Williams or Hinds. Tuesday night Robinson’s circus pitched its tent at Winchester, but when time came for the performance Fred Lamont, the clown, was missing. Soon after he was found outside his dressing tent with his skull crushed and his money belt gone. He was known to carry considerable funds about his person, The injured man was taken to the home of John Robinson, at Terrace Park, Cincinnati, where he lies in a critical condition.

The American Wire Nail Company, at Anderson, the largest manufacturing concern in the gas belt and one of the largest of its kind in the United States, broke all previous records in the wire department last week. During the entire week 953 tons of finished wire was turned out. The banner night wire run was on last Wednesday, when 210.400 pounds were turned out. A great majority of the wire was made into nails by the end of the week. The capacity of the nail mill is about 25,000 kegs per day. The following Indiana patents were issued Tuesday—C. H. Dale, Hartford City, continuous cut-off register for steam engines; J. A. Hadley. Brazil, assignor of one-half to W. F. Mauer, Harmony, lamp; J. F. Hatfield, 'Dublin, combined grain cleaner, fannlng-mlll and elevator; W. Lash, Avilla, sliding door-lock; C. F. Parks and A. A. Hamilton, Muncie, fenep; P. Shellcnback, assignor to Liberty Manufacturing Company, Liberty, machine for finishing eccentric surfaces; G. H. McLiii, Huntington, trademark. Nineteen “wild” freight cars broke from a train in the L. E. & W. yards at the top of the hill at Lafayette, Thursday, and ran north three miles to the station at South street, where a Big Four passenger train was standing. Fortunately Yardmaster Brighty heard them approaching and turned a switch and saved the passensenger train. The wild cars dashed into the depot and demolished the structure. A terrible wreck resulted. One hackman was caught and seriously Injured. The accident was very similar to the one last year at the same place. The proposed short line railroad from Muncie to Newcomer. Wheeling and Cumberland seems to be a sure thing. The line will be eighteen miles long. It will be a standard gauge track, equipped to Randle the rolling stock of any company, but not a large number of regulation box or stock cars at one time. The propelling power wiU be the steam motor engines used a year ago as street car propellers in Muncie. Small flat, box and stock cars will be built, so that the motors can handle a good string of them. The shops necessary will be constructed nt New Corner.

Charles Clendennen. eighty-one yean old, of Ellettsville, where he located on the farm upon which Ho still lives seven-ty-one years ago, took his first ride onth« railway cars last week.