Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

EvaAsville had a big fire. Feb. 7. Martinsville will have a pressed brick factory, ' r - - 2 Ft. Wayp/a. |s threatened with an epidemic of glanders. Jacob Nipple was accidentally killed near Delphi ivhile hunting. A daughterof the Prince of will marry the Crown Prince of Italy. Adolph Seidensttcker, a prominent German citizen of Indianapolis, died Feb. 13 Ex- Sen a tor J ohn H Win terboth am d ted at Michigan City, Feb, 10, aged eightythree. TfievMasonic order at Shelbyville will build a fine three story brick temple this season. ~ ~ ~ An arctic bird of unknown species dropped exhausted in the streets of Burnettsville. Charles Beech, of Crawfordsville, will represent Wabash College in tIA State oratorical contest.. ' - James Graybeale was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for the killing of William Jones, at Laporte. The “Mysterious Twelve,” an organization for moral purification at Marion is becoming a terror to evil doers. Several children attending the public schools at Albany were badly frost-bitten while returning home from school. Judge Gibson, at Jeffersonville, Feb- 12, granted a divorce, the entire proceedings being got~EEroughwithitt seven Ifi'inotes Mr. George Ihinger. of Muncie, has recently contributed SSOO good money to “green goods” sharks, but failed to get the "stufl.” 5 The story telegraphed from Muncie that Philip Lykens, an old soldier, near Silin an, had been murdered and robbed, is not founded on fact.

Mrs. Grounds, nea| Martinsville, who dost her speech last August. is reported to have recovered her voice through the instrumentality of a faith doctor. - Ferd Basler,-of Sullivan county, and D. C. Bryant, of Frankfort, have been appointed collectors of the income tax in the Terre Haute revenue district. Herbert B. Crawford, near Evansville, while playing with a revolver, which was supposed to be unloaded, shot himself through the brain, dying instantly. ( B. F. Matson, a fruit tree agent of Mun-? pie, was arrested at Hartford City, charged With raising a note given him by<Peter IMannix. Matson gave bond in the sum of SI,OOO. The residence of J. C. Hedrick, of Anderson, was wrecked by an explosion of natural gas, Feb. 11. The escape of the family from serious injury is considered miraculous. Albert Gall, Treasurer of State, turned over the office to F. J. Scholz, Feb, 9. The State funds, amounting to $603,000 in cash were intact and duly counted by a competent force of assistants.

Oliver Kenley, the proprietor of the largest student boarding house in Princeton. has absconded with $4,000 of the local students’ money, Peter Henry, liis manager, has been arrested and is held is as an accomplice. 4 Ralph Joliff, eleven years old, of Washington township, Shelby county, ran away from school Feb. 13, and was found on the streets of Shelbyville late at night with both feet and ears frozen. Amputation may be necessary. . ... ..

A mysterious hermit is located in a ravine near Curvetoh, Cass county. Fbr over a mbntli he has lived out of doors, Sleeping upon a willow bunk beside a fagot fire. He begs food and does not complain of any hardship or exposure. Frederick MacMonnies, the sculptor, In & letter to President La.ngsdale, from Paris. Feb. 1, withdraws from all connection with the State Soldiers’ Monument, and asks for the return of his sketches. No reason for his action is assigned.

5 Anderson militiamen are said to be dissatisfied with the Roby medals, although they politely accepted them from the hands of Mrs. Roby. They are said to entertain a suspicion that they are simply being “worked” as walking advertisements for the town of Roby. Mr. Roby improves all occasions to boom his town. 4 Samuel Myers, the aged father of exSecretary of State W. R. Myers, died at his home in Anderson, Feb. 12. Mr. Myers was one of the pioneers of the county and his demise is regarded as a great mis fortune by the poor people of that town. Ho was universally respected. The business men of Elwood held a mass meeting, Monday night, to take steps -toward closing the gambling dens of the town. They called on the mayor and made known their wishes. The mayor accordingly issued stringent orders closing gambling houses and regulating “wide open” saloons. The Greenfield electric light plant has been sold to a company headed bv Hon. Charles L. (Henry, of Anderson. The plant was under the control of John Corcoran as receiver, and it was owned by Mrs. Mary P. Thompson, of Crawfordsville, and others. Mr. Corcoran will continue as business manager. It is the purpose of the new owners to enlarge the plant. The county treasurer of Wabash county has been enjoined from selling the property of the Wabash Paper Company, worth half a million dollars, for . delinquent taxes. Two years ago the county auditor addeQ J30,030t0 the tax valuation, to which the company took exceptions, and for the purpose of testing the legality of such addition the company permitted Its taxes to become delinquent. 3 August W• Elder, of Terre Haute.- five days sick with delirium tremens, escaped from the control of his nurse, and several hours later he was found in the outskirts of the city, lying on the floor of a barn. Ho was clad only'in his night clothes, with the thermometer marking seventeen degrees below zero. He was not restored to consciousness for several hours and ho may yet die. . *■ E. A. Enos, of East Connersville, notified his friends that he felt moved to preach the gospel, and a great crowd assembled at the M. E. church to hear ills first effort in the pulpit. After a long wait the congregation was dismissed, the deacons concluding that Mr. Enos had yielded to the wishes of his wife, who doubted his pulpjt ability, and concluded not to try it. The ladies of th„ M. E. church of Sheridan, having assumed cIOO of the indebtedness hanging ojrer the church,. have emulated the example of Miss Edna Brown, of Kaneville, 111., and have called for ten-cent contributions by the letterchain method. Mrs. Minnie F. Scott will

look after the correspondence. The ladles figure out that if the whole fifteen series are carried out it will bring) much aid to the church and great notoriety to Sheridan. John E. Holman, the- missing Kokomo attorney, is expected home in a few days. His friends have made good all his leeitimate indebtedness, and as ha’is supposed to still have in his possession all ths money obtained in an irregular way, i| will be an easy matter to square himsell in that respect. The theory that Holman is in Mexico was exploded by an acquaintance who saw him in Indianapolis but a few days ago. Patents were Tuesday granted to the residents of Indiana: G. N. Clymer, Bloomingsburg, bridge; H. E, Geisscndoff t assignor of one-half to W. L. Brown, Indianapolis, musical instrument; J. Gilliland, Lincoln City, car Coupling; J. 11. Holland, Indianapolis, dust collector; Elias Lewis, Terre Haute, safety piin; R. McGowan. Washington, pump cutoff mechanism; for stand pipes; B. B. Moss, Pekiq, .car coupling; F A. Rider and S. Vevian, Ft. Wayne, gas engine; F. G. WiselogHT,'"' Indianapolis, extractor and evaporator for garbage, etc. James Johnson, of Grant County, one of the richest men of the county, has been victimized to the extent of $7,000 with the “gold brick” swindle. The brick was worthless. An attempt was made to conceal the transaction, but Johnson„jnevcrtheless, has been quietly carrying on an investigation with a view to the aporehension of the swindlers. The recent arrest of one Parker, of Richmond, Va„ for a similar offense attracted his attention and led him to suspect that Parker was the man with whom he had been associated in business. A letter from a detective confirmed him in these suspicions, and a visit to Parker in jail at Richmond led to the identification of Parker. Gov/Matthews will likely be called upon for a requisition for Parker, and an effort will be made te bring him to Marion for trial.