Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There is great need of rain in the vicinity jftL-DecatniL ... . 7 • ‘ ■ Columbus is bidding for the next G, A. R. Encampment. An Anderson seance brokenp in a rough-anil-tumble fight. * * r The cropi of maple syrup in Rush county is unusualiy large. I The next pension payment at the Indianapolis agency will bo May 4. Frederick Briggs, of Decatur. lost his foot by jumping from a train in motion. Mrs. William East, of Anderson, attempted suicide by taking paris green. Telephone rates have been reduced qt Terre Haute in anticipation of competition.

Cnarlcs Sluss, a farmer near Bloomington, was fatally injured by a fall from a building. Dr. A. I?. Pitzer, a prominent citizen of Tipton, died suddenly. Friday morning, of heart disease. Mrs. Thomas Catron of Clinton, 'while delirious from an attack of grip, killed jmxsfiLLwj.t k ra Lpaiatin There is a blood hound craze at Anderson. Several pairs of the dogs have been ordered from Alabama. There is an epidemic of grip at Gosport, and a religious revival in progress was obliged to close down. Charles Herron, of Crawfordsviile, has been named as a cadet to West Point, and Is to report there June 15. The Indianapolis extension of the gas belt electric railway, projected by Charles L. Henry, has been abandoned The ten-year-old son of A. L. Goshert, of Warsaw, was trampled to death by a horse while witnessing a parade. 6 Geo. W. Merrick, one of tho most prominent farmers of. Clinton county, has be T came suddenly and violently insane. Tho heaviest Snow storm of the season prevailed at Jeilcrsonvilie, March 20. Navigation on the Ohio was suspended. Richmond is to have a new canning factory. A company composed of Dayton. 0., capitalists has incorporated, with a capital stock of 520,000. Frederick" Briggs, a young Greensburg man, jumped on a freight train for a free ride, but fell and had his foot crushed, necessitating amputation. The supposed burglar who escaped from the police at Valparaiso, dropped his hat, which was marked inside with the name, “G. T. Reeves, Columbus, Ind.” F. It, Coffin, of Cincinnati, is under restraint at Jeffersonville. He is insane with the hallucination that all tbe peoplo of the world have become cocaine users, Ex-Representative Gill, of Huntington, was badly hurt by a runaway horse at that place, March 20, lie was unconscious, and the chances are against his re-

eovery. | Gaston gushes gloriously, greeting great grand gigantic gas gusher. Gas galore goes growling. Gee whizz! geroosalem! gemently! golly! gushesgasbclt. Gaston yreatly gratified. Gas inspector gloomy. Glorious gasbolt. Frank Yeagiey, of Montgomery county, who has been in numerous escapades, finally stealing a horse and sleigh from his brother-in-law, has been sentenced to »ne year's imprisonment. There is a thargo of forgery hanging over Yeagiey at Muncic. Mart Liter, a farmer, living in the suburbs of Crawfordsville, has a ewe, which, last Sunday gave birth to five average Sized lambs. All lived for a portion of tbe day, but before night three were dead. The other two still live and are vigorously healthy. As a result of a series of temperance rerival meetings at Crown Point,conducted by Buck Stanley, of Logansport, for the first tirao in fifty years the saloons at that place were closed last Sunday in deference to the Sunday law. Altogether 70J persons signed the pledge. 2ln an interview at Laporte, Saturday, Col. Ingersoli said that the next RepubIcan candidate for President would come from one of the Western States and would be a free silver advocate. Col, Ingersoli tnnounccd that he is yet a Republican, but will take no part in any future campaign. Manilla Is becoming noted for its fat people, Five men employed In Trees’s ‘levator stepped on a scale together. Their combined weight was 1,635 pounds, in average of 207 pounds. It Is asserted that there are fifteen other persons in that little villago who will each weigh 200 pounds and more, r>The Interstate Hydraulic Company, capital #100,00.), has been organized at South Bond to build a dam In the St. Joicph river. It is proposed to furnish slectric power to run all t.ho machinery >f South Bend, Niles, Buchanan and Berrien and for an electric railway to Si. Joseph, Mich. Montgomery county farmers are complaining of drought. They say the ground Is wet for about a foot, then hard and dry Tor ten or twelve feet down. They regard the network of ditches in the country as a positive evil at present and say that thebeating rains of April and May will all run off without wetting the «earth properly.

The saloon keers of Decatur aro Indignant ovor the passage of the Nicholson bill. They have heon holding secret meetings, and it has leaked out that they Intend to stop all Sunday business, compelling drug stores cigar stores and livery stables to close" tight. Several announce that as Soon as their present license expires they will not apply for license again out will retire from the business. Joseph Wade, serving a life sentence in the Prison North for the murder of John Brown near Irvington In tho winter of 1880. was pardoned by Gov. Matthews, Thursday The pardon was secured through the efforts of ox-Warden Murdock, Warden French and Hon. John C. Shoemaker. Wado ha 3 been a model prisoner. lie (s in bad health. Mrs. Brown, convicted a 3 an accomplice, is Hill in prison. At tho residence of Hon W. (5, Cole-, yick, of Fort Wayne, Isabella Workman, aged ninety-live, died. March 21. She was born a slave In the family of Nell Gillespie, the grandfather of the late James G. Blaine, and after the emancipation proclamation was kept iu the family of I>avid 11. Colerick and descending to his son Walpole, at whoso house she died, James G. Blaine .oto his visits Ito Fort Wayne always made It a point to see “Aunty” Workman. | Livingston Cosgrove was arrested at

identified as an escaped convict from Columbus, 0., where he was under ten year sentence for highway robbery. He escaped ift April, 1893. after nearly killing -his guard. CoSgrbve begged the FragkfbrT authorities not to return him to Columbus, brrC~'ifiStPSfl""to"Traris I eFUTm to Lo~ Hans port, wliere there- was a reward of 1200 for his arrest. It is believed that he belonged to the gang of burglats who indulged in a running fight with the officers 3 at Voedersburg, two weeks ago*. The State Financial Board, composed of Gov. Matthews. State Treasurer Schultz and State Auditor Dailey-, has sent out notices of tho sale of temporary loan bonds of the State. Tho board offers for sale 5535,000 of bonds, which are to replace the 3.H per cent, bonds failing due April 1. The new bonds are to be sold at a rate not exceeding 3% per cent.' The bonds are to bo redeemable at the-pleasure of the State after fifteen years, and are payable in twenty years frpjn April 1, 1895. The bonds, it is announced, will be issued in denominations to suit tho purchaser. Several months ago Martin fourteen years old, son of Jacob Rose, near Kingsbury, 'Suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, and thefamily finally settled to the conclusion that he had been kidnapped and-was being hold for ransom. Photographs were sent in every direction, accompanied by offers of a handsome reward, but no- clew was secured untii Wednesday, when it was ascertained that he had been abandoned by his abductors at F’t. Keogh, Mont. 2 Jacob En o'ick, a wealthy German, living near Shcibyville, is nearly crazed by 1 petty persecutions perpetrated by unknown parties. Sunday night they removed tho shutters from his lower windows, tore down his fences, broke out his window light 3, shot off revolvers and committed other excesses, winding up with informing the frightened German that he would have to leave the country. Mr. Emeriek is one of the best respected residents in the neighborhood, and lie and his friends are at a loss to account for these attacks. S' The custodian bill which was “lost jn the shuffle” at the closing session of the Indiana House of Representatives, together with the veto message of Governoi Matthews, was unofficially brought to the office of Secretary of State Owens, Friday, by William G, Beach, who claims to have rescued the papers from a grate in u room in tho State House, where an attempt had been made to burn the same by parties unnamed by Mr, Beach. Secretary OSvens will take the advice of Attor-ney-General Ketcham before announcing the legal status of the bill. Jacob Miller, a farmer, was* stopped by tramps in the vicinity of Littleton, and robbed of considerable money. He trailed tho gang to Bremen and secured warrants for their arrest, but when Marshal Kaufman and his deputies undertook to serve process thero was a battle, in which a number of shots were exchanged. Citizens came to the marshal’s assistance, and six of the fellows wero captured and lodged in jail. Marshal Kaufman received a shot through his hat, and Frank Nehr, an express driver, not concerned in the affray, was marked by a bullet which grazed his skull. The tramps were taken to South Bend for trial. The Brown county asylum, located neai Nashville, with all the outbuildings burned, Thursday. The loss is #3,000. Th< inmates were removed to Nashville and given quarters in the court house, pending permanent disposal by the county commissioners. - •—_l_——