Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Anderson wants a Superior Court. Elkhart had a $50,000 fire, Dec. 18. Seymour has organized a library association. Jeffersonville’s “good” citizens are forming a league. . The new High School building at Middleton will cost $20,000. A big tin-plate factory will locate at Frankton. Capital stock, $350,000. | ,William Barlow, near London, tore off his left hand by an accidental discharge of his shotgun. Fourteen Ft. Wayne saloons have closed because of the “reforms” instituted, re cently, in that city. J. will erect a $160,000 block at Anderson to be used as a theater and as a home for the local Y. M. C. A. Miss Eya Dooley, of Boston, Ind., was so badly poisoned by wearing red stockings that both legs were amputated at the knee in the hope of saving her life. The physician is not hopeful of her recovery. . L 2

W, O. DeVay, a prominent business man, died of consumption at his home in South Bend, Dec. 17. He was president of the Indiana Paper Company. The interment took place at Indianapolis, where ho resided for several years. A representative of the Hammond horse sausage factory is canvassing in the northern part of the State offering $3 to $5 a head for broken down horses. He makes no secret of his business. There is no law in Indiana against killing or selling horse meat.

The heirs of 1 Henry Lorenz, of Crawfordsville, who committed suicide twentyfour years ago, have just discovered a life insurance policy for $5,000 on Mr. Lorenz, in the Northwestern Mutual. The policy is valid and the heirs will receive the money. /

Turkey lake is to be drained and the summer resort of Wawasee is threatened with annihilation. If the plans now proposed by farmers in that region are carried out, great Iqss will result to owners of hotels and summer residences on the shores of the lake. John Gale, aged sixteen, of Chrisney, ambitious to be a circus performer, became adept at walking on'his hands. His face and neck became abnormally large. Last week/over exertion at his favorite feat resulffed in congestion of the brain and he died from the effects Dec. 17. In a saloon row at Andersoh, Dec. 18, Lon Woods and hi? brother James were shot, Samuel Haskell, the saloonkeeper, was dangerously hurt with a billiard cue, and Mrs. Reagan, Haskell’s housekeeper, who came to his rescue, was fatally hurt with a brick thrown by James Wood. The saloon was wrecked. Mrs- Helen M. Gougar, president of the Woman’s Suffrage Association, has brought suit in the Superior Court at La fayette against the officers of the election board that refused her ballot Nov. 6. The suit is friendly and ig being conducted with a view to test the status of the wo • men of Indiana with regard to the ballot. AH the Congressmen-elect of Indiana have been invited to visit Marion as the guests of Major Steele, on the 27th inst. Major Steele says that the object is to bring together all the Indiana Congressmen that they may become better acquainted. While at Marion they will also be entertained by the .Commercial Club.

Edgar Waltz, of Muncie, aged twentyeight, attempted suicide, Dec. 17, with morphine. He was supposed to be insanely in love with Will Stewart, a young man whom he met at College Corner, O. Stewart repeatedly threw Waltz off, but Waltz persistently pursued him with his attentions, Waltz wrote a letter previous to his attempted suicide, stating that he died because Will, the only person he ever loved, had jilted him. D. K. Caidwell, the Frankfort lumber merchant, charged with having conspired with “Buck” Harlan and Philip Coup to manufacture and circulate counterfeit money, was found guilty, Tuesday, by the jury in the United States Court at Indianapolis. Harlan changed his plea to “Guilty.” The friends of Caldwell claim that he is and has been insane, and efforts will be made to have him committed to an asylum. 4 A large party of old veterans is organizing at Osgood to march in army style to the dedication of the Chickamauga bat tiefield, next September. Two wagons will constitute the supply train and will carry in addition to provisions and camp equipments, fowling pieces and fishing tackle; The route traveled will take the boys over fields that must inspire reminiscent moods, arid the trip made in this way cannot fail to ba highly enjoyable.— North Vernon Sun.

Henry Chasteen, a hunter and trapper, met with a terrible experience near Holman Station, Tuesday night. His dogs had treed a coon and he climbed the tree ta shake it down. A limb breaking with him he fell to the ground, a distance of thirty feet. No sooner had he struck the ground than the trained animals were upon him. His clothes were torn from his body and his flesh terribly mutilated. A searching party went out and carried him to his home, where he remains unconscious.

Patents were Issued, Tuesday, to tho following residents of Indiana: F. W’ Baker, Kokomo, spirometer; C. W. Black andß. J; Chapman, Michigan City, fish* ing-linq sinker; C. W. Clay bourne, Indianapolis, apparatus for burning granular fuel; F. G. Dokkenwadel, governor for air brakes; J. W. Horn, Arba, detonating burglar alarm; C. A. Hutchinson, Spencer, barrel truck; L. E. Kretzmeler, school seat and desk; L. Lazarus, Indianapolis, feed device for locomotives; S. Longadecker, Anderson, window shade; J. A. McGraff, Anderson suspender buckle; N. Roberts, Indianapolis, rotary plow; A. Sellers, Muncie, wrench; J. H. Shan beck, Mulberry, gate.

Ex-President D. S. Jordan, of the Indiana State University, now President of the Leland Stanford, Jr„ University, of California, has written a private letter to E, E. Griffith, of tho Institute for the Blind, favoring the removal of the State University from Bloomington to Indianapolis. Kansas City had a tidal wave of outlawry. Monday night. Two persons were shot and seven “held up” and robbed by footpads. t 4 The manufacturers of mattresses and bedding have formed a combine.