Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Diphtheria is epidemic in Brown county. Joseph Goim, of Blaine HilT, near Carbon, disappointed in love, blew out his brains. ' A company headed by Bussell Harrison bas secured a five yeaxs* contract fori lighting the city of Term Haute, the price calling for 963.95 a light. The Wabash Paper Company has given notice that it will Immediately atart up its lithograph department, whlen ha 4 been closed for a year and more. Samuel Wallace, of Richmond, eighty years old. who speaks Hebrew. Greek and Latin, is writing a poem relating ta tkq ■tory of Abraham, Isaac and Rehokah'. Mr. Wallace Is accounted one of the finis t Hebrew scholars in the _ Three men were killed by an explosion if dynarnyte at Huntington, Friday. Tbtf jvnamite was in a box on the bank of a tewer in process of construction. The box iccidentally took fire, and the explosion resulted. Half dozen bosses were ruined; the property loss will reach tio.oco. Edward M. Holloway, who was arrested snd imprisoned at Terre Haute for seyer»l weeks, charged with wrecking a Big Four passenger train at Fontanet, which resulted in killing tho engineer, and who was finally released, owing to the capture M the really guilty party, has brought suit against the railway company, claiming 925,000 damages for false Imprisonment. Miss Lizzie Hdrknes9, of Coal Bluff, has been arrested sos wanting to kill H. P. Davis and his wife and sister*in-law, whom, she claimed, had spoken unpleasintly of her. The weapon with which the was armed was loaded with cartridges which required a center concussion, while the weapon itself was made for rim firing. For this reason the cartridges failed to explode. Miss Harkness gave bond. Tho last jointing of the Louisville & Jeffersonville bridge ha 9 been completed, tnd the structure is now sufficiently ttrong. with the support of the false work to stand any ordinary strain. There is much bolting and riveting yet to be done before the bridge will be delivered to tho railway company, but It Is expected that ill work will be finished within two weeks. Nearly four score livo3 were lost in the building of this great structure, there have been two caisson accidents, beside the groat disastor caused by the falling of the span In December, 1892. The friends Of W. H. Leedy, of Marion county, elected a representative, are urging him for the Speakership of the House. Wc have a personal acquaintance with Mr. Leedy and believe he would fill the position with ability. Ho is thoroughly iquipped, a ready and forcible speaker, and a fair and just man. He is not known (n politics as largely as some others, but has as wide and favorable an acquaintance in the State. He was born on a farm near Logansport in 1855, and Is therefore a a young man. In 1873 he entered the Logansport Journal office as an apprentice, and for twenty-two years has been with the firm or Its successors, occupying positions of honor and responsibility. What be undertakes he does, and does at once. IVe believe the party will not be disappointed if it shall select him as Speaker >f the next House.