Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A nine-year-old till tapper was arrested at Brazil. Charles Helper was dangerously shot by a tramp at Elkhart. BDiphtberetic croup has closed tho schools at Decatur. " Henry Cramer was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for stealing a coat at Brazil. The plant of the Arcade File Company, at Anderson, will double its manufacturing capacity. The company now'employs 400 persons. The NaturaLGas Company has served notice on consumers at Huntington-that on November 1 all supplies,to factories will be cut off. Christopher Matthews received a $550 judgment against the L. E. & W. railway in the Anderson Circuit Court for being kicked off a train. - Hammond sends out the report that winterracing on the Roby race-track will begin November 16, continuing until January 1, if not later. Twenty-five saloon-keepers at FJwood refuse to take out city license, but are Bt.il! doing business. Only ten saloons complied with the ordinance. During the sale of finely bred Poland China hogs at Portland seventy-six head were sold for $2,989. Buyers were present from Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. James Livingstone, who killed his son-in-law, Wosner, at Lebanon, in August, was acquitted, Tuesday;by the jury finding a verdict of “not guilty.” Livingstone pleaded “self defense.” Crystal, the two-year-old daughter of Mrs. Lulu Salyer, of Muncie, while hunting for candy in tho hand sachel owned by the little one’s grandmother, found a morphine pill and ate it. Death resulted. A tramp who had been refused supper by Mrs. Deitrich Bunk, near Decatur, is supposed to have set lire to her husband’s barn. .Two Norman stallions, seven Jersey cows, and much other property Was consumed. Phillip Mowrer, an honored resident of Greens buror, has been presented with a handsome gold-headed cano by his Masonic friends in recognition of his eightyfifth birthday, Mr. Mowrer has been a Mason for sixty-two years. 4 Frank Sharp, an i nmate of the Montgomery county asylum, revenged himself because of an unsatisfactory supper by attempting to burn the institution. He started a fire in his bedding and the damage was confined to his room. ; " James Stucker, convicted at Salem of trying to wreck a Monon train, and awaiting transfer to the prison south, attempted suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. His wife also swallowed a similar potion, and both are reported beyond recovery. Larrimer Bros’ photograph gallery at Marion was completely wrecked by a natural gas explosion, Wednesday, Miss Grace Speakman, a retoucher, was fatally Injured. Three other persons received very serious injuries. Mrs. Charles Wimmer and son Louis were killed by a train at a railroad crossing near Indianapolis, Saturday. They were in a buggy and the horse became frightened and plunged in front of the engine. The buggy wqs demolished but the horse escaped without injury. * The molten glass in Thompson’s greenglass bottle-works at Gas City was permitted to get too hot, aud before it could be cooled nearly forty tons leaked through Into the air tunnel, necessitating closing down until the mischief can be repaired. It will require two weeks to rebuild. Tho damage exceeded SI,OOO. 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 seriously, if not fatally, burned and the Morehead brotliers.contractors,and James Tyner yvere seriously injured. The Soldiers’ Monument Commissioners have made their quarterly report, showing that the total receipts in three months from admissions and other sources wpre $2,139.20. Tho cascade contractors say they will finish their work by Nov. 20. The new pedestal for the Morton statue is being cut, and the commissioners want to sell the old pedestal as a memento. During a repent session of the grand jury of Vigo county some time was spent In examining: the law providing for the punishment of drunkards,and a report was submitted to the presiding judge embodying the views of that body. The grand jury to6k the position that drunkenness Is a disease and that the sentencing of habitual drunkards to jail does not tend to reformation. It was recommended that the State establish one or more institutions for tho treatment of drunkenness, and that persons known to be habituai drunkards be sent to these institutions Instead of to jail. The Epworth League, of the Richmond district, held a meeting at Hagerstown, and resolved to ask every chapter In the district to pledge an offering at Thanksgiving toward raising the debt of the parent missionary board, which was con 17, traded by advancing money to hold the mission field during the stringent times. The indebtedness is $401,000, but all but 110,000 has been pledged. John Waldz, an old resident of Cambridge City, shot himself and his three-year-oid son, Monday morning, at 11 o’clock, and both will die. Family trouble Is given as the cause of tho 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 minutes after the deed had been done. The 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 tho file lettering of the hats. One month ago he demanded S2O a week and a two years’ contract, which was agreed to. Then he announced his intention of returning East unless he was paid $65 a week. This proposition was declined and Mr. Meyer closed down his works. Two hundred employes are temporarily laid off. A suit for $">.000 damages has been filed against Mr. Busch, r :. Patents have been granted to Indiana eßliensi C. E. Adamson. Muncie, tarncolor attachment for printing presses; N. P. Bowsher. South Bend, feed mill; Nordyke A Marmnn Co., assignees, Indianapolis, dust collector; Bulcqnbofsr A Weiss

Terre Haute, coal box; C. H. James, Wabash. spraying machine; J. Furr, assignee, Veedersburg, over-check relnbolder; A. Befer, assignee, Veedersburg, churn; J. W. Pile, Marietta, delivery wagon; Z.‘ Wirt, Monticello, umbrella. A special election will be held in Noble township, Wabash county, on the 3d December, on the proposition to vote $55,000 to the Big Four Railway Company, looking to rebuilding the shops of the Mlchican division, recently destroyed by fire. In consideration of this subsidy, thq company agrees to expend $200,000 in needed improvements at Wabash. Jasper Clapper, aged eighty, of Anderson, died, Sunday, in the county jail, where he had been confined one year. He was the father of John and Shelby Clapper, the loaders of the notorious gang. He did not know of his sons’ crimes until they were taken to the penitentiary. Disgrace overcame his reason, and ho went mad. Death finally relieved him. John and Shelby are serving long terms at Michigan City. The gang of outlaws was one of the most notorious in Indiana. George Rose, of Wabash, became violently insane and attempted to kill his wife. He was locked up. Rose has been a hard drinker, but eighteen months ago took the ; gold cure. His nervous system was apparently shattered by the treatment, and, it is thought, has now culminated in insanity.