Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A “Good Citizens’ l eague” has been formed at Franklin. Laporte has one.case of smallpox, ths -firston twenty-Jivo years. ~ Hon. W, H; English has resigned from the Board of Monument Commissioners. Ex-Mayor Woolley, of Jeffersonville, died at Austin, Feb. 16, after a brief illness. Oil »was “struck” at Parker City. Feb. 19. A sharp advance in real estate in ths vicinity has resulted. A great religious revival is In progress at Arcadia. All denominations are bolding protracted meetings. At tho funeral of the mother of Rev. J. A. Ruley, at Muncie, Feb. 16, six of her sons acted as pal) bearers. Mrs. Nancy J. Hickman, of Winchester, was fined a total of $ 125 for mistreating her five year old step-son. Three children in one family at Kokotna were successfully cured of diphtheria by the anti-toxin remedy, administered by Dr. RusselJ. • The Sheridan brick works, owned by Speaker Adams and D. H, RootTof Indh ~ anapolis, were destroyed by fire, Tuesday. Loss in excess of SB,OOO. William Vandusen, in jail at Hammond, on a serious charge, attempted sulcids with a case-knife, Feb. 16. His injuriei are serious and it is expected that he will die. — 4 Mrs. Breedlove, near Zionsville, has an orange tree, now sixteen years bld, that it now bearing its first crop of eleven oranges. The fruit is ripe and of a choice flavor. A petition indorsing John G. Shanklin for the Mexican mission, signed by both Senators and a majority of the Indians delegation, was presented to ' Presldenl Cleveland, Wednesday. Brownsburg has an Infant phenomenon in the person of Robbie Euliss, nine years old. who is blind, but Is endowed with remarkable mental and oratorical powers. Ills friends predict that he will develoj into a great “boy preacher.” While Henry Johns, a well-known farmer, was attempting to drive across the Big Four railway tracks, a short distanceeast of Wilkinson, he was struck t>y a train and thrown fifty feet. He 1s thought to bo fatally injured. A blind horse which he was driving was instantly killed. Basil Ledgerwood. In the Prison South for complicity in burning the Daviess county court house, has been paroled by Gov. Matthews, All thepapera in Daviess county, all the attorneys and nearly all the leading citizens have askei for Ledgerwood’s parole or pardon. He had served three years on a seventeen-year sentence. Congressman Holman Is in very poos health. Private misfortunes have followed closely upon his political defeat, and there has been much sickness in fils family. Al) combined have made serious Inroads upon his strength “The Fatherof the House” Is tho recipient of much sympathy from his colleagues, whose respect he has always enjoyed. In the Smith-Thomas murder ease al Indianapolis, Feb. 18, the motion for a new trial, which was argued by counsel last week, was overruled by Judge McCrea. The prisoner was then sentenced to eighteen years’ imprisonment according to the verdict rendered. Smith will be taken to the penitentiary and his attorneys will appeal the case to the Supreme Court.

Patents have been awarded to resident* of Indiana as follows: C. F. Bettman. Jr., New Albany, vehicle bolster; A. A. Bowser, Ft. Wayne, extension step ladder; S. F. Bowser. Ft, Wayne, self-measuring pump; J. Clarke, assignor of one-half t* S. B, Rude, Liberty, tuyere iron for forges; G. W. Demaree, IL O. Smith and J. W, Ditmars, Whiteland, tire tightener; W. IL Duncan, Rock Lane, wire stretcher; J. Leach. Indianapolis, barrel hoop fastener; J. F. Miller, Lafayette, burner for crude oils and steam; E. Morris, assignor t* Ford, Johnson <t Co., Michigan City, crossing needle for cane weaving; E. Morris, assignor to Ford. Johnson & Co,, Michigan City, machine for Inserting threads into woven fabrics; F. W. Robinson, assignor to Robinson & Co., Richmond, straw stacker. , Two well-known and prominent farmer* of Shelby county have been the victim* of lightning rod tricksters. D. W. Fansler was’ waited upon by an individual claiming to represent a Chicago firm, wha isked permission to put up a rod for advertising purposes only. He offered tc make Fansler a present of the rod, charging only a nominal sum for the lal»or, tb< material being free. An agreement wa» made between them by which his assistants could proceed with the work, but when Mr. Fansler drew a copy of hrfs contract, which had been obliging y placed in in envelope for him by the negotiator, h« found only a blank piece of paper, wbil* the assistants held a contract calling for H9O. which he was compelled, to pay.. Samuel Pfendler, of the same township, was caught for $509 within three-quarter* sf an hour after Fansler had been swindle!. Ata mass meeting of Republicans at Rushville, Feb. 16, at which Chairman Dowdy. of the State Central Committee presided, resolutions of a sweeping character were passed, indorsing the action of ;he Republican joint legislative caucus. A resolution defining the term “non-par-iisan.” was us follows: ..lie believe the term “ndn-partlsan,” as ised in said platform, tins always been taken to mean that the party in power ’houid have a majority of the members ot the boards controlling each of our benevlent, Irenal and reformatory institutions, ind was so understood in the last convention and during the campaign. ■V D,—.. .b.u The San Francisco Cali prints horrifying details of the methods used by Hawaiian officials to extort a confession-from "apt. Davies, implicated ia the recent treasonable uprising-in that country. Th* prisoner was strung up to ring bolts by the thumbs until he confessed, and th* testimony thus obtained was used, to Implicate others who were-afterwards ar•ested Another native revolutionist was ’hackled arid placed in a tank of ice cold water and kept there until he became unjonscionS. He was then restored to life with stimulants and his testimony was taken down and used against bls followjunspirators. 4 Senator Newson, of the Tennessee Legslature, resigned, Feb. 18, because of,the wavagance of tho Assembly in forcing icrgeants-at-arms and other useless attaches at $4 a day. upon legislative comnittees appointed to visit State instita,lous.