Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Clinton expects a building boom next { , spring. Gen. Lew Wallace has gone to the Pacific slope on a lecturing tour. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Porley, of Goshen, have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. W. H. Glascock, of Greenfield, has been elected Superintendent of the Indiana Institution for the Blind, to succeed E. E. Griffith, resigned. The mayor of Valparaiso favors the passage of an ordinance forbidding minors under twenty years old from being on the street after nightfall, j Joe Cowgill, a small bOv, fell under the wheels of a thrasher Ayliich was being drawn through the streets of Wabash, . and was crushed to death. I ’uMr. and Mrs. William King, of Boone county, were victims of a runaway accident, in which Mrs. King was killed and Mr. King received fatal injuries. Charles King, of New Albany, while returning from a hunt, , was attacked by a ’ bull snake, which he k’lled after a sharp ■fight. The snake measured seycn feet in length. Ground-.wasbrokcn, Thursday, for the ! National tin platemill at Anderson. Six buildings 87x509 feet are to be completed in ninety days, and six more within six months. The Forty-Third Southeast Indiana M. E. Conference held its final session, Oct, 1, at Shelbyvillo and tho appointments for the ensuing year were read by Bishop | Thobnrn. Judge Monks, of the Twenty-fifth Judicial circuit, has resigned. Judge Monks Isa Republican candidate for the Supreme bench and fears that his canvass will in(terfere w Ith his j udicialdtitles, I Mrs. Mutz, of Columbus, has received a letter from her mother in Germany, who has just celebrated her one-hundredth j birthday. The old lady reports her health . good, and that Mrs. Mutz’s father, who is ‘ 102 years old, continues physically active. The contract to lower the water in Lake Galatia seven feet will be completed. The I lake lies in Grant county. Heretofore it has been subject to overflow, and the lowering is with the hope of saving contiguous farm lands from Hoods in the ■ future. ■“ I Governor Matthews has appointed Garland D. Williams to succeed Judge L. J. Monks who resigned tbe.judgeship of the Twenty-fifth judicial district. Judge Monk’s successor is a Democrat. He resides at Winchester. A peculiar disease has broke n’ont among the cows in the vicinity of Palmyra, in Harrison county, and two dozen and more ■ have died. The local veterinarians are , unable to diagnose the disease, and the State authorities have been notified. Westley Adamson, a prosperous farmer living near Harmony, being afraid of all banks, hid a roll of money, containing something near $2,000, in a stove. His wife, not knowing of the presence of the money, built a fire in the stove, consuming it. There is a pronounced feeling at Kokomo against further trial of the John W. Paris case, because of the belief that conviction is impossible, and that nothing is to be gained by further prosecution, save to saddle Howard county with additional expense. | Robert F. Kraft, of New Albany, city clerk for two terms and an unsuccessful candidate for county clerk, and also mayor, committed suicide, Tuesday-morn-ing, by taking arsenic. He was despondent over his misfortunes for the past few months. While Lawrence Showe and friends were coon hunting in the vicinity of New castle, the dogs started a supposed coon, which they trailed for four miles before it was run to a stand. It proved to be a large-sized wildcat, which was only killed after a hard fight. While a Pan Handle train Twas passing through Crown Point a bundle was tossed from one of tho windows. A track-walker picked up the bundle, which was found to inclose the body of a child about four months old. The child was still alive, but soon afterdied of Its injuries. The jury, at Frankfort, in the case of John W. Paris, the alleged embezzling Greentown banker, Sept. 28, returned a verdict of disagreement. Prosecutor I Wolf declares that he will continue to push the case against both Paris and exGov. Chase and made the necessary motion for a new trial. The Hon. W. D. Owen, the Republican nominee for Secretary of State, who has been under treatment at Battle Creek, I Mich., has returned to Logansport Improved in health, but still much enfeebled. He has been cautioned by his physicians against taking any further part in the campaign. | Tho Democratic-’campaign in Shelby county was formally opened at Shelby- ‘ ville Saturday afternoon by a speech from Senator Voorhees, who followed the lines as struck in his key-note at Terre Haute. I In the evening, at the opera house, SenaI tor Turple made a speech, confining himself largely to State issues. - I George Neorr, an Indianapolis saloon keeper, fatally shot his wife and then killed himself with the same weapon because Mrs. Neorr was determined to move out of the saloon building, where they were living; to her own property where she had resided before her marriage to Neorr, about, a year ago. Mrs. Neorr objected to raising up the children, by her first marrige, in a saloon. The Indianapolis, Alexandria &. Marlon electric railway will be built next year. Wednesday the company was granted a franchise to construct a line through Grant county, and Is preparing a bond in the sum of $5,000 binding it to begin work not later than July 1,1895, and to complete the road to Marlon by October 1 of that year. The fare: between contiguous stations is not to exceed 5 cents. John U. Hamilton, of Morristown, driving home from Shelbyville, permitted a stranger to ride with him, and the latter repaid his kindness by murderously assaulting him, leaving him In the roadway and with his money missing. Hamilton was found about 8 o’clock. Tuesday night, andjiedid not regain consciousness until Wednesday afternoon. His horse and buggy were recovered at Freeport. John Roach and Moore ’ Parker, two i farmers from Morgan county, camo Into Indianapolis, Saturday, with two stalks of corh that measured eight feet from the toot to tho ear. and seven feet from the ear to the tassel, fifteen feet In all. The corn grew on the farm of Mike Upashaw, 7

in Morgan county. There are acres < such corn in the county. The ears ar -thirteen inches long. Two unknown men stood In front of Dr. ' J. W. Younge’s residence at Ft. Wayne I and deliberately fired through a window into the house, the bullet barely missing i Mrs. Isaac Van Winkle, who was making a social call. Patrolman Reinewald saw tho shooting and arrested both men, but while they wore walking to the police station one of the strangers dealt Relnewald a murderous blow over the head, stunning the officer. Then they both escaped. With the exception ,of a tew minor parts, the annual report of Stato Geologist Gorby has been.Ssimpletod.- One of the papers is a report on Indiana clay. Many of the deposits in Indiana are shown to be rich in aluminum. InLawreti?e county an 1 other southern sections the clay is being used in the manufacture of alum. The clay of northern Indiana abounds in silicon; it can be used chiefly for pottery. In southeast Indiana lime is present in-most day deposits, ruining them for many purposes. A heavily loaded wagon broke down in crossing the track of the Michigan divisiontif the Big Four railway near Elkhart, and there was danger of a serious collision with an approaching freight train until an unknown la ly pulled off her red -skirt and ran down the track wildly waving it over her head. Engineer Crowley caught sight of the danger signal and reversed his engine so quickly that the reverse lever slipped and struck him in -the side, breaking three of his ribs. Ho succeeded, however, in stopping the train. The lady rapidly fled as soon as she saw the train had been saved. 4 Some time ago a stranger located at Crown Point as the Rev. Father Soveski. He was accompanied by his wife. Soveski is a native of Russia, physically large, intelligent in appearance, and he dressed as a Catholic priest, claiming to be one in good standing. Recently he began delivering lectures in opposition to the Catholic religion, and he mado an appointment at Lowell. The Catholics at Lowell took offeffse and warned him not to make a second visit, but he found ft lends and defied the opposition. A second appointment was made and twenty-five special deputies were sworn in to see that there was no interference with free speech. The following Indiana patents were issued Tuesday: VV. Dunbar, Indianapolis, rotary plow; C. Westervelt and C. A. Clappell. .South Bend, sulky plow; D. Forsyth and E. T. Bell, Dublin; device for cleaning the interiors of boiler tubes; 8. Fry and S. L. Walker, Loogootee, spokeI sawing machine; E- Johnson, Mt. Jackton, ribbon feed-reversing mechanism; J. Long, Muncie, assignor of one-half to E. 1 L, Dunlap, Sandusky, 0., endless signs; E. Schlosser, Williamsport, corn-planter; A. Vaughan, Taylorsville, roller-mill. . C. E Buckley, of Muncie, has been ab- ' sent from his home on South Monroe i street for a week past on account of the tragic de ith of his father. The son and father cultivated a twenty-five acre garden patch, on which 1.691 heads of cabbage, a lot of tomatoes and other truck was raised. He arrived home Saturday night from Sullivan county, and on Sunday morning went to his patch to find that nearly every head of cabbage and the tomatoes had been stolen.