Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Masons have dedicated a new hall it Richmond. Several valuable diamonds have been found in Brown county recently. The fotir-year-old daughter of David McCord, of Odon, was burned to death. Dr. G, W. Poole has been appointed a pension examining physician at Green:astle. Eight cases of glanders have been discovered among the horses on a farm north as FL Wayne. Ernest Denwire, a farmer near Crown Point, fall into the hands of lightning rod th arks, losing 8875. Melvin Jones, near Yorktown, died from blood poisoning induced by the extraction if a decayed tooth. A. N, Grant, a prominent attorney of jKokomo, has removed to Indianapolis and Bstablished an office. The four-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Groves, of Frankfort, was burned to death in a mysterious way, Dec. 6. Christian Slouder, of Goshen, fell asleep Sunday, Dec. 2, and all efforts, at last accounts, had failed to awaken him. A second explosion occurred on the lower work at Huntington, Dec. 4. Five men were badly hurt and two will die. SA new gas well in Ripley township, Rush county, was “shot,” Dec. 6, and at a nee developed into a first-class “gusher.” 8 Indianapolis labor leaders are making preliminary arrangements for a State iemonstration on Labor Day, 1895, at the capital. Kokomo, formerly rated as a notoriously wicked city, is now willing to line up on moral questions with any city of its size In the country. Mrs. Crowe, the "fortune feller,” of Crawfordsville, who foretold Congressman Brookshire’s defeat, died Dec. 1, tged seventy-three. 8 Seven Franklin college boys are in trouble with the faculty, because of too much football and other alleged misdemeanors, and may be suspended. James Sheperd, of Waveland, who robbed the Monon ticket office at Ladoga >f 8108 and a ticket to Florida, has been tenteneed to prison for three years. Terre Haute will probably be selected lor the headquarters of the American Railway Union. President Debs favors ;he removal of the headquarters from Chicago.

Crawford Fairbanks, of the American Strawboard Syndicate, purchased the Inderson paper mills at the receiver’stale. The capacity of the mills will be loubled. An attempt was made at Sullivan to vreck the home of Mrs. Mollie Pearson, lynamlte being used. The floor was torn ip by the explosion, but the inmates escaped hurt. Eight hundred people engaged in a wild sat hunt near Uniondale, Dec. 6. The ‘critter” was seen by several, but escaped. The hunt will be continued till the anloal is killed. Thousands of acres of Kankakee marsh and in Laporte county have been burned »ver recently. Great damage has resultid, the fire in many places lingering in .he muck beds. Ex-City Treasurer Schworzkopt, of Valparaiso, is alleged to be a defaulter to the extent of 913,000 or more. Suit has been irought on his bond. The ex-treasurer llsputes the correctness of tha figures and viU make a defense. James Freeland was successful at Lebmon in setting aside the last will and testament of hfs brother, William Freeland, leceased, in which an estate valued at 115,000 was bequeathed to Kate Baula. Indue influence was alleged. State Geologist Blatchley has appointed I F. Hall, of Danville to be State Oil Inspector; J. C. Leach, of Howard County, obe Gas Inspector; Robert Fisher, of May County, to be Mine Inspector. The lew deputies take office in March. The family of Marvin Personett, of Idarille. who disappeared while visiting the iVorld’s Fair, have abandoned all hope of lis return. It is their belief that Mr. Perlonett was murdered in Chicago, as he vas known to have considerable money vlth him. There is an unprecedented corn crop in Howard county. At every railway station the elevators are filled to overflowing tnd cars cannot be obtained in sufficient lumbers to carry off the grain that is offered. At Cassville and Galveston thoulands of bushels have been temporarily piled in the streets. William Pettit,of Hibernia, Clark couniy, was killed by Milas Smith, a storekeeper, while “guying” the merchant, Dec. 6. Smith gave himself up. Pettit tnd a number of boys had tormented Smith for some time past, at one time Irivlng a horse Into the store and keeping It there over night in spite of protests. President Dice, of the Gas Belt Electric Railway, in an Interview at Anderson, Dec. 4, stated that the project would be pushed and the line completad from Indianapolis through Ingalls, Fortville, Pendleton, Anderson, Alexandria, Sumtnitville. Fairmount, to Marion, the Northern terminus, by Aug. 1,1895.. The Smith-Barrow contest case for the legislative seat, from Tipton county, was taken before a court composed of two justices of the peace, at Tipton. Dec. 5. Smith, Republican, was declared elected by a majority of six. Barrows then withdrew. The case is now certified to the lower House and Smith will doubtless be teated* In response to a caH from Senator Wishard, chairman of the Republican Senatorial caucus, the Republican members of the Indiana Senate convened at Indianapolis, Tuesday, Dec. 4. Reports of> the committee appointed at a previous meeting were read, and the members of the Handing committees for the coming session were named and indorsed. A caucus was held and many subjects of importance were discussed. There is great excitement in Starke and Marshall counties over the arrest of Claude Ransbottom, of Marshal) county, who is accused of forcibly abducting the thlrteen-year-old daughter of Widow Shrall, of Knox, and concealing her in a lofiely cabin in the Kankakee swamp. The girl was found and Ransbottom was arrested and taken to Knox, where the jail was guarded to prevent threatened lynching. Ransbottom has figured in a similar offense before. * John Qulun, the reformed gambler, now engaged in a crusade against gambling, in company with W. G. Goff, has formed the Anti-Gambling League at Chicago. They arc now travel to- over the country in a

private car fn form. In an Terre Haute, Dec. 5, Mr. Quinn made serious charges against ex-officials of that city, accusing them oi corruption of a smilar character to that prevailing under Tammany rule in New York. A notable religious revival movement,, in charge of the well-known evangelist, Dr. J. VV. Chapman, D. D., of Philadelphia, is now In progress at Indianapolis, Forty-seven evangelical churches are cooperating to make the meetings a success. In thd beginning the services were held in various parts of the city, but beginning Dec. 9 revivalistic mass meetings will b« held nightly at Tomlinson Hall. Rev. Mr. Chapman is being ably assisted by Rey. W. A. Sunday, formerly a distinguished base ball player, and Mr. P. B. Bi 1 horn and other musical celebrities, whose efforts are said to add much interest to the services. A natural gas reservoir underlies tlw vicinity of Utica. A specially strong veni Is found in the vicinity of the farms oi Will Goodwin and Ed. LaDuke. Sunday, before daylight, Mr. LaDuke awoke with a choking sensation as if ho was smothering. The gas had gathered in the room and if Mr, Goodwin had not fortunately awoke there might have been a catastrophe. His little daughter and wife felt the same choking sensation. Farmers say it will drift into their houses and settle iu some particular room.

The twelve-year-old boy who lights and puts out the switch and target lights Colburn, on the Wabash railroad, discovered a drunken farmer with one of his legs fastened in a cattle guard. He tried to extricate the man, but was not strong enough. A freight train was approaching from the east, and the brave little fellow ran ahead as far as he could, swung his lantern across the track, thus attracting the attention of the engineer, who stopped his train when wi thin ten feet of the man Patents were granted to the following named citizens of Indiana, Tuesday:H. F, Ganon, thread-cutting machine; J. F. Ilomburger, Lawrenceburg, device for steaming coffee, tea, etc.; E. Keating. Terre Haute, span of arch, also girder for truss bridge; E. R. Kirby, Terre Haute, car coupling; W. M. Six, Westfield, train-time Indicator; A. G, Wade, Elkhart, plate and base for printing; A. Weed, Anderson, assignor to Ar cade .File Works, machine for stripping file blanks; C. A. Kitts, assignee, Muncie, hay machine. Miss Josephine Brant, a school teachei of Lawrenceburg, was robbed of 510,500 iu cash, at Fourth street and 'Central Ave., Cincinnati, Thursday evening. The money was the accumulation of years of work added to an inheritance. Miss Brant had just withdrawn the funds from a safety deposit vault for re-invest-ment, antkjvas carrying them in a black satin band satchel to the» depot, In a crowd at the point mentioned some one seized the satchel from behind, pushed her violently forward and escaped dn the darkness. There is absolutely no clew. The police theory is that it was the work of some hungry tramp who was not aware that he was grabbing a fortune. President Langsdale hopes to have the cascades of the State Soldiers’ Monument, with engines and electric plant, in working order by Christmas. The work on the cascades has been delayed by a failure to receive the terracotta. Other parts ol tho monument will not be completed foi several years. The statue of Clarke is to be delivered next April, and another subsidiary statue to be completed April, 1896. The figure to represent the Mexican Wai period has not been decided upon, and ii may not be made for two or three, years. The army astragal will be shipped from Germany next spring. It will be put In place before June. 1895. The other ornamentations will not likely be complete and placed In position before 1898.

John Burns, M. P., the celebrated English labor leader, has arrived at New York, and will make a lecture tour of the United States

JOHN BURNS, M. P.