Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Carbon will have electric lights. o Navigation on the Wabash is now open to Terre Haute. The Baptists at Bluffton are preparing to erect a $20,006 church. A five-hundred barrel oil well has been struck on the Ware farm, near Portland. Thp outlook for mhple sugar and molasses in the neighborhood of Bedford it excellent. James Ciiiver, ncar Spetijibr, claims to be the oldest man in the State. He is 1(M years old. Frankfort will pave the streets about the public square; with brick as soon as spring open r ‘ William Schoenmann, a guard at the Pr ison North. wb ije cleaning his firearms, accidentally shot and killed himself. The Miles Medical Company and other manufacturing establishments of Elkhart celebrated the adjournment of Congress by running out flags. (•ardiner Haines, a Christian Scientist of Indianapolis, pastor of a Science church at Greenfield, was prosecuted in that town for practicing medicine without a license. , , Abad wreck occurred on the’l. & V„ near Sandborn, March 6. The Indianapopolis express struck a broken rail. The ladies’ coach and the smoker were overturned and took fire. The woman’s coach was destroyed. Five passengers were seriously hurt. Rev. Dr. Tucker, pastor of the CmwfordsvilleMrE. Church, has preached a sermon in denunciation of Du Maurier’s famous book, “Trilby.” He insists that the work is totally unfit to lie read in the family circle—much less to be talked about and made the subject for “teas,” “pictures” aud home theatricals. At Warsaw, George A: Miller, proprietor of the elevator at Burket, Kosciusko -county, was sentenced to three years ip the )>eni tentlary-anff—fi ned $3,060 for the theft of 10.GX) bushels of wheat. Miller received for store the entire crop of wheat of the farmers in his vicinity in 1893, shipped it out as fast aS it came in, and then decamped, but was captured. A tramp, who, with four companions, was in a cattle car going west on the Lake Shore, the other day, was terribly beaten between South Bond and New Carlisle because he would not join his companions in breaking into a freight car and steal some, goods. He had to'jump from the car to escape worse Injury, and was badly hurt. Laporte raised money to buy him a ticket to Chicago. - Wirt Hurst, an Anderson motorman was injuro.il by a bowhleruffiich some one threw at him as lie guided his car. He was struck in the stomach.. He managed to stop his car, and then sank down in‘a semi-conscious condition. He finally made his way into the car and laid himself out on the seat.a As his car did not show up, another was sent out after it, and he was found in great pain. His condition isserious.

A pathetic scene was witnessed in tho court room at Bloomfield when WL H. Cook, of Salisbury, one of tire oldest and best known citizens of Greeirecounty, was sentenced to prison for one year for embezzling money belonging to tne Brewer heirs, for whom he was guardian. Mr_ Cook is over seventy years old. He was prominent in Masonic circles, and Uris, coupled with his previous good character and high standing, makes his downfall most deplorable. _ Indiana patents were granted, Tuesday as follows: J. Herrin. Ft. Wayne, eavestrough hanger; E. Goff. Franklin county, door or window screen; I'. S. Hunting, Ft. Wayne, transformer; L. Johnson, New Albany, electric light support and cut-off; M. R. Moore, Indianapolis, steam boiler: J. h. Olds, Ft. Wayne, wood pulley; F. W- Robinson. Richmond, strawstacker; W. S. Rowell, Muncie, measnrinff and drawing instrument; L. 11. Williams, Indianapolis, valve. Within a few days over one hundred (logs have been killed in Terre Hunte. Some of them were valuable animals. One person who was bitten used the loadstone, and when applied it adhered several hours, drawing virus. Tho Humane Society officer does not think there is hydrophobia in the city, hut that the dogs act queerly because they have been "poisoned. Tlio drug stores have sold a great deal of poison for that jnirpose, and. Monday eight dead dogs were reported in one square. While “Horse” Lahey was in a saloon at T< rre Haute in a wcarv stare of intoxication, a few nights age. I enny Shngrne, In his anxiety to play a telling jqkc, poured liquor on tiie drunken man’s hand and applied a lighted match. "The'cxcruciating pain awakened the sleeper, and bis contortions furnished fun for Shnegrue and his companions. Since then the injury to Lahey has developed most seriously. The flesh has dn.pped from his hand, and his arm has swollen to the shoulder. It is doiibtful if he ever regains the use of either the hand or the arm.

The Terre Haute Literary Club has been startled by a paper from Rev. Dr. Hickman, pastor of the First Methodist church, which presented a long array of arguments in favor of solving tbc negro problem in the South by amalgamation of the two races, the abrogation of laws prohibiting miscegenation, an I the intermarriage of the two races. Dr. Hickman said that lie presented the argument for what it was worth. B.irn a Virginian, and himself a slaveholder at the breaking out of tli" war, the idea was naturally repulsive to him. tnt he expressed tho conviction t hat do-into our prejudices the proldpm Is de<tine I to b • solved in jti«t this way. and conten<le I that mixed races have in the past produced tho Strongest people. Sam Spith r. rhe -.Burlington,, Carroll county, saloon man. w h'.se throat was ent in a row Friday night, cannot live. The Burlington people are opposed- to saloons, and they look on the fate of the proprietor as a just judgment. The saloon hns been blown up with dynamite six times in the past four years. At the last annihilation, six months ago, tho structure was rebuilt in the. form of a fort, without doors or windows, the only opening being a 'mall aperture in the rear to admit eustonurs. The structure is dynamite proof, or it would have beetfl destroyed again. Spitler, at tho time of lift*. falaFTow, had sold the place to a Frankfort man, bnt had not yet given possession. A short time ago a mob took possession of tho saloon, making the bartender strip, sing and dance on the bar and act the clown generally.