Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Carbon will have electric lights. The Greentown bank cases have been - dismissed. . ~ ! z Garrett, Dekalb county, claims a population of 3.300. 5 Elwood and Kokomo glass works have been sold to a Pittsburg syndicate. ■ .? A box and basket factory is to be built at Shelbyville, soon. Capital. $12,(00. Levi Masterson, of Warsaw, was sentenced to the penitentiary for perjury. . Benjamin MoOreman, fifteen years old. bf Rockport, died of excessive cigarette smoking. John S. Jones, a prominent farmer, was I killed in a runaway accident at Idaville, March 14. ——- Work has begun on the new Masonic temple at Anderson. The building will cost $25,000. The dirrectos of the Gas City Land Company have set apart $70,000 to be used as bonuses for new factories. “Buck” Stanley, the Logansport temperance evangelist, is conducting a temperance revival at Crown Point. The Bedford Business College has been closed by attachment proceedings instituted by Thomas Jackman. ono of the teachers. 5 The Crawford county seat removal case on trial at Salem resulted in favor of the relocation at English. The jury was out I twelve hours. | Elwood is profiting by a war between the Pana and Bell telephone companies, ■ Contracts are now being made to furnish telephones at eight dollars per annum. There was great rejoicing at Whitestown when it was known that the Nicholson bill had become a law. Bolls vie re sung, anvils were fired, and a rousing rally i was held. Elwood authorities are anticipating a ; (naterial reduction in the number of saloons as a result of the operations of the Nicholson bill and a high city license recently imposed. Thomas Bedford, said to be the oldest Oiid Fellow in tlie United- diol at Danville, March 12. He joined the order nt Philadelphia in 1828, when ho was twenty-one years of age. j ..As there is no emergency clause in the Nicholson bill the law will not take effect till the publication and official promulgation of the acts of the General Assembly, i which will not be much before Juno 1, An effort was made to abduct the two little Bolton boys, who are cared for in the Madison county asylum, and who are Important witnesses for the State in the prosecution of the murderers of William Foust, at Elwood. William Holland claimed twenty-three turkeys, which had been sold by Henry S. Wales, and the litigation finally spread to the Hancock Circuit Cniirt r And_thegft.igaa a jury ttial at Greenfield, this week, terminating in a verdict for the defendant. Pho costs so far foot up S4OO. Jeffersonville has .a gentleman who made a curious vow during the HayesTilden election. He voted the Democratic ticket, and when Tilden was counted out he swore that he would never yote again. He has kept his vow and states that he ; will stick to it. It is Vai Cushman. —Jeffersonville News. T. W. Norton, who had begun the erection of a $60,000 brewery at Anderson, has ordered the work stopped 1 e ause of the , Nicholson bill. Several saloon men who were granted licenses at the March term will return the papers and ask for their money. The W. C. T. U, held a jollification ever the passage of the Nicholson bill.

The Elwood Council have decided to tonvert Duck Creek into a sewer. It will iffect over 4,000 pieces of property. The istimated cosj. is $82,000. The sewer will De 6,000 long and eight feet deep, and it will require 4,500,000 brick in the construction, The creek has always been a cesspool, and its abatement will add 100 per lent, to the health of the city. Miss Dora Giiman, twenty years old, irnployed in the Indiana cotton mill, at Cannelton, undertook to remove an obitruction which prevented the elevator from descending. In doing so she was (truck by tlie cable, which had accumuated considerable slack, and her neck ••as broken. The girl was instantly killed. CharlesTD.' Vinson, ti saloonkeeper of Soshen, opened his saloon at 5 o’clock.in Ihe morning, and he was immediately confronted by two masked men, one of whom held a cocked revolver at close range, while the other systematically plundered the saloon. Vinson was robbed of SB7, ifter which the robbers withdrew, Jockng him in his place of business and warn'ng him to keep quiet for ten minutes. Earlham College and the Richmond peo pie jollified over the honors won by Miss Wood in the State oratorical contest. Earlham Hall and President Mills’s home •’ere decorated with the college colors, Ind a large delegation, >headed by Presilent Mills, mot the young lady at the depot last Saturday night and escorted her io the hall, where a welcome was extended. 5 Active preparations are now being made for tho entertainment of tho sixteenth annual encampment of the G. A. R. of Iniiana, which Is to be held in Muncie the 17th and 28th Inst, The soliciting committee began making a canvas of the city tills week and find it an easy task to raise the money to bear the expenses. The work of decorations has begun and. will bo general and profuse. Lewis Patent of Taylorville, and Mrs, Carrie Ann Horner, of Brown county, were betrothed in marriage and the wedding day was set. While the bride elect was superintending the dinner, to which lixty guests had Deen invited, the bridegroom was supposed to be coming with the license. He failed to report, but the dinner was eaten with every expression of satisfaction, in which the bride elect cheerfully joined. ■ B. 8. Herz, near Cambridge City, while working in the woods, was attracted by tho barking of his dog, and he found a wildcat crouching in the branches of a tree. Procuring a gun he killed the animal, which measun d thirty-two inches from its nose to the tip of the tail and weighed fifteen pounds. Several shots were found in its body, indicating that efforts had previously Deen made to kill tlie. cat. It is tlie* first wildcat seen in tliat section for years, William G. Maguerk. of Salem, disappeared mysteriously twenty-one years ago, and lie was supposed to have been murdered in Louisville, Ky., Monday, he returned to his old home At the time of hU disappearance Maguerk left home os*

tensjbly to purchase a wedding outfit. He owned a good farm, which Was appropriated by his maiden sisters, who have cared for it to the present time. Maguerk is stilly a bachelor. He finds his former fiancee happily married and the mother of several children. * ' A pathetic scene was witnessed In the court room at Bloomfield when VV. 11. Cook, of Salisbury, one the oldest and best known citizens of Greene county, 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 this, coupled with his previous good character and high standing, makes his downfall most deplorable. Murray M. Green, the South Bend mason who last year built a stone wall in exchange for an old violin, supposed to bs worthless, has just received an offer of $2,000 for the prize. Green several timer refused large sums fee - the instrument, thinking the parties were joking. A Chicago man offered him $1,500 for it. Green got so angry at the proposition that ha threw tho Chicagoan out of his house. The late .offer comes from a Cincinnati firm. Green holds tho violin at $64,000 An extensive movement has been inaugurated in nothern Indiana looking to _c,olonization of Lawrence and Johnson counties, Georgia. The scheme looks ta the enlistment of 50,000 Americans and tho founding of a typical American city. At a meeting held at Plymouth 1,400 persons are said to have joined. Seven hundre I were found at Bourbqn. Altogether ovet five thousand shares have been sold. Another meeting will be held at South Bend on Monday next, at which time it is expected that an immense number will agree to co-operate. The colony is arranging to start for Georgia about the Ist of May. The following patents were granted, Tuesday, to residents of Indiana: J. VV. Udney, Darlington, steam feed cooker; C, A. Ames. Portland, machine smooths ing exteriors of casks; A. Bowser, Ft. Wayne, automatic self measuring apparatus for liquids; VV. H, Brown. Indianapolis, fireproof floor or ceiling; DA. Giiliom, Berne, mower; D. Grant, Indianapolis, car door; A. Heim, Liberty, gate; G. J. Herth, Evansville, lock brick; G. Janney. Muncie, corn planter;. F. E. King, Terre Haute, seal lock; H. S. Long. South Bend, guide for band saws; M. B. Moore, Indianapolis, framing of steam engines: A. P. Reid, Lincoln, dumping wagon; VV, Schwan, Indianapolis, casting window weights; VV. H. Southworth, Mt. Vernon, valise lock; M. L. Webster and P. VV. Hutchins, Richmond, steering device for traction engines; J. Williams, cabinet for typewriters; J, F. Woods, Noblesville, apparatus for discharging liquids from gas wells.