Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Rabbits are scarce in St Joseph county. Oakland City reports an earthquake, Jan. A “Good Citizens’ League” has been organized at Greenwood. The Sweetzer opera house, at Marion, was burned, Wednesday evening. There was a serious natural gas explosion at the paper mill at Eaton. Jan. 15. Anderson is bragging about a two-leggei dog that walks on its hind feet like • kangaroo. ’ , Wm. O'Connor, insane, was burned te death near Kennington, Jan. 15, havint set fire to liis own bed. Decker & Sons, of Anderson, have perfected a device for separating gas and water in wellsthat have been drowned out David R. Leeper has been appointed metropolitan police (commissioner at South Bend, in place of W. H. Longley resigned, The Indiana Canners’ Association met at Indianapolis. Tuesday, and discussed the outlook, which was conceded to be rather bad. Connersville is having a good deal o! trouble for want of gas. The gas is piped from the Carthage field, a distance ol twenty-six miles. The burglar killed at Tangier, Parke county, Nov. 1, by Merchant McCord, ha* been finally identified as Charles Love, o) Logansport, one of the worst outlaws that ever infested Indiana. The Big Four and B. & O. are endeavoring to have the proposed Presbyterian “Chatauqua,” recently located at Bass Lake, Starke county, relocated at Turkey Lake, Kosciusko county. Alonzo Tubbs, who disappeared from New Albany in 1867 and who has been mourned for dead by his relatives foi many years, has turned up as a member of the Missouri Legislature. Decatur merchants are being boycotted by neighboring farmers for the alleged reason that no suitable hitching yard has been provided for farmers’ teams. The movement has assumed alarming proportions. Joseph Cloud, aged seventy-two, living near Goshen, was murdered by his youngest son, a lunatic. The assault was committed New Year's Day, the aged father lingering until the 15th inst., when he died from his injuries. The Indiana Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association met at Indianapolis. Jan. 15. “The Grand Concatenation of Iloohoos,” a secret order composed of members of the Association, banquette! and “had fun” at the Denison in the evening. A man who goes by the name of “Malica Bill” Scott took morphine at Crawfordsville, Monday night, with suicidal intent. Scott had stolen some tools and sold them to a second-hand store. He attempted to commit suicide to escape at'* rest. A doctor saved his life, and now h® is in custody. The mammoth towboat Boaz, bound for New Orleans with 503,000 bushels of coal, while running rapidly, Tuesday morning, struck a mudbank on the Indiana side ot the Ohio river at a point near Leavenworth. and the entire fleet was sunk. The loss will be $50,0.0. The accident was dua to the heavy fog. Wednesday, two convicts, named Connor and Blake, were brought down from Michigan City to testify against Charles Shirk, on trial in the Kosciusko Circuit Court for grand larceny. The men were placed in cells in the Warsaw jail, and during the night Shirk got at them, saturated their bunkswith gasoline and touched it off. Fortunately there was but little of the fluid, and the men were aroused and extinguished the blaze before they were singed. 4 Louis and George Shirley, well-known railroad men of Jeffersonville, claim to be heirs to a large part of the ground on which the city of Georgetown. Ky., now stands. The site of the court house is also claimed by them. They claim to have deeds to the property which descended from their grandfather, and that the land has never been deeded from the Shirley family. The property is worth at least half a million. Attorneys have been engaged to push their claims. John P. Quinn, the famous evangelist, now in Cincinnati with evangelist E. F. Goff, both of whom are sent out by the National Anti-Gambling Association, is well remembered by old prison officials at Jeffersonville, Quinn having served fourteen months in the Prison South for working a “bunco" game. His term was much longer, but he was found to be innocent after serving fourteen months and pardoned by Gov. Gray. Previous to that he was a noted gambler, but reformed.