Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A nine-year-old till tapper was arrested at Brazil. Batesviile factories are running to their full capacity. Charles Helper was dangerously shot by a tramp at Elkhart. Several more cases of smallpox have appeared ip Walkerton, Wabash has a new gas company and the prospect for reduced rates is flattering. A canniug company iu Wells county has put up 372,0C0 cans of tomatoes this season. 8 Henry Cramer was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for stealing a coat at Brazil. Mrs. Mary Myers, of Anderson, was stricken with apoplexy while driving in a buggy and fell to the road dead. In a runaway at Columbus, Wednesday. James Seward was thrown against a barbed wire fence and fatally Injured. 8 Christopher Matthews received, a *550 judgment against the L. E. & W. railway in the Anderson Circuit Court for being kicked off a train. During the sale of finely bred Poland China hogs at Portland seventy-six head were sold for 92,989. Buyers were present from Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. J. S. Sellers, seventy-two years of age, a minister of the Methodist Protestant Church at Marion, was thrown from a load of hay on Wednesday evening and instantly killed. PhlllipMowrer, an honored resident of Greensburg, has been presented with a handsome gold-headed cane by his Masonic friends in recognition of his eightyfifth birthday. Mr. Mowrer has been a Mason for sixtv-two years. While driving a nail in an oak board at his home near Flatrock, David, son of tho Hon. Sid Conner, was struck in the left eye with a nail, severing the eyeball and otherwise injuring him to such an extent that he will iosq his eyesight, Mrs. John M. Jones, of Avondale, a suburb of Muncie, was bitten last June by a largo yellow cat. Mrs. Jones suffered greatly at times from convulsians caused by tho bite, arid in one of ber paroxyms died on Monday last. The third annual reunion of the old soldiers, Sons of Veterans, and W. R. C„ of Randolph county, was held at Winchester, Oct. 11. Short speeches were made' by Adjutant-General Smock, Col. I. N. Walker and other prominent gentlemen. St. Joseph county will pay the cost in-' currcd by the smallpox epidemic at Walkerton, about 9900 up to the present time. The houso occupied by Dr. Doui and! family will be destroyed by fire as soon as It can be vacated, as it will be impossible to perfectly disinfect it. j John W. Griffin, near Spiceland, claims the largest yield of potatoes of the State. He had over five acres, the product ofl which brought him 9578.98, the weight being about ninety-six and a half tons. The, price realized was 96 a ton, averaging him' 1108.32 an acre.

Jacob Niles, of Albion, has a -pear tree ivith its third blossoms, Early in the} spring the tree budded and the blossoms were just opening, when the frost came and killed them. The tree then bloomed! again and bore a crop of fruit, and now it’ Is blooming for the third time. Mrs. Charles Wimmer and son Louis 1 were killed by a train at a railroad crossing near Indianapolis, Saturday. They vere In a buggy and the horse became ,tightened and plunged in front of the mgine. The buggy was demolished but ihe horse escaped without injury. In Valparaiso, Emma Dilion, fifteen years old, is suing for divorce from Dr. David Dillon, who has fled. They were married Sept. 28 and a few days later the wife was deserted. She claims that he married her after drugging her, and that he has a wife and family in Michigan.

Charles Robb, colored, who killed Eli Wilson, also colored, at Indianapolis, last July, because Wilson was delinquent in his rent, was sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary, at Lebanon, Thursday, the case having been taken to Boone county on a change of venue. -•As gas-well driller McPherson was drilling a well near Selma, and when the drill was 124) feet in the earth, It dropped as if into a bottomless hole, and now tho natives are excited as to what the find is. Trees, rock and long joints of eight-inch casing pipe have been lost in the hole. While employes were casing a gas well near Fountaintown, a bystander carelessly struck a match, and instantly there was an explosion. Martin Archibald, Plutarch Montrose and Edgar Tyner were lerlously, if not fatally, burned and the Morefiead brothers.contractors.and James Tyner were seriously injured. The Soldiers’ Monument Commissioners have made their quarterly report, showing that the total receipts in three months from admissions and other sources were 12,139.20. The cascade contractors say they will finish their work by Nov. 20. The new pedestal for tho Morton statue is being cut, and the commissioners want to sell the old pedestal ns a memento.

James Owen, in the woods near Clay City, had his hand pinioned on a stump on which a tree had lodged, the tree slipping and catching his hand while he was trying to get a chip from the stump. After crying for help a long time his uncle came, but alone could not relieve him from the trap. The uncle went after assistance, and it was not until five hours had passed that Owen was released. John Waldz, an old resident of Cambridge City, shot himself and his three-year-old son, Monday morning, at 11 o’clock, and both will die. Family trouble Is given as the cause of the act. In each case the bullet pierced the abdomen. Husband and wife have been separated for two weeks and she has been staying with relatives. She arrived, however, at the bedside of the dying ones within a few ¥inutes after the deed had been done. he affair has created unusual excitement there.

Nathan Meyer, of the Pioneer Hat Works of Wabash, three years ago contracted with Oscar Busch, a printer of New York, placing him in charge of tb<> file lettering of the hats. One month ago he demanded 920 a week and a two years contract, which was agreed to. Then he announced his intention of returning East unless he was paid #OS a weok. Thb proposition was declined and Mr. Meyer closed down his works. Two hundred employes are temporarily laid off, A suit for 93,000 damages has been filed against Mr. liueeh.