Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

Gas City has voted to incorporate. Richmond is moving to secure the fall tncampmentof the Uniform Rank, K. )f P Gus Cornel), twelve years old, of Greensburg, was accidentally and fatally shot by a playmate. George Edwards, of Jefferson township, Dubois county, has gone insane through religious excitement. Superintendent Charlton, of the Piainield Reform School, has been re-elected ■or a term of four years. As a result of the bread war at Elwood, '.he rival bakers have agreed upon a* iniform price of 2 cents per loaf. By a vote of 7 to 3 the Jeffersonville City Council refused to pass an ordinance preventing cattle, hogs and geese from running at large. Isaac Horn, of Rossville, recently had in eye removed, the sight of which was lestroyed by a gunshot wound during the y a 111 eo f All a n ta.——-- . . '—C-.—--William Walls, a Monroe county farmer, was hauling logs when the wagon iurned over and he was caught under the og. being crushed to death. Jacob Ott, of Laporte, who F'ahrenhehn, his drunken son-in-law with i blow of his fist, has been placed under 1500 bonds pending grand jury action. Addison Albertson, near Selma, fell bnd*r a wap.pn loaded with tile, and one if the wheels mashed his skull to a pulp His dead body was found some hours 'a ter. While Lafayette Winstead,-a wealthy farmer, near Kimmell, was comfortably leated at home, his family having gone Io church, a masked robber robbed him >HBO.— ——- The Spades-Patton seduction case, at mdianapolis, was given to the jury. Saturday. Monday, the jury reported that they were unable to agree and were distharged. t The young son of Samuel T. Baker, of Franklin, touched a “live” wire and was tilled. The father is now suing the Franklin Light and Power Company for 12,000 damages. Whiting will be made a lake port. The Standard Oil Company has decided to load Is barges there for the Lake Superior Irade. The announcement has -Created treat surprise at Chicago. The alleged discovery of “mineral wax” tear Wabash, proves to be a “fake.” An (Xpert who was summoned states that the deposits are merely the softened bones of an unknown species of animal. Mr. D. A. Coulter, cashier of the Farmers’ Bank of Frankfort, has contracted with an Indianapolis firm for a ten thouland dollar maiisoleuifi, to be erected on bis lot at Greenlawn cemetery. Bishop Chatard, of Indianapolis, has framed the Roman Catholic churches of his diocese against the doctrines of Col. Ingersoll, although he does not name the treat infidel in his lette r of advice. Basil Zegenfus and wife, of Ossian, are bnder arrest, charged with stripping ilotheslines of sheets, with which they proposed to furnish a hotel at Marion. Thirty sheets were found at their home. One of the prisoners at the court house it Bedford was discovered to have the neasles, A panic ensued and the building has been quarantined. People who have never had the disease have been framed to stay away. The first Presbyterian church at Elfrood has -adopted the “Edna Brown plan” of raising funds with which to build 1 new church. W JI, Banfield, secretary >f the society, has been placed in charge if the undertaking. Wreckage from the loststoamer Chicora Yas been coming ashpra along the northern line of Porter county. Furniture, ioxes, bottles, jewelry and many other articles have so far been recovered. A conitant watch is now maintained for bodies. The decision of the Attorney-General on >he Holler fish law, which did not pass he House, but was signed by the clerk, Speaker and Governor by mistake, and vhich he says is therefore a law, we fear vill lead some to believe that we have an Ittorney-General thatdoes not AttomeySeneral.

A mortgage forger was arrested at' Frankfort, April 13, under the name of' Marion P. Thompson. Investigations re- ' foaled the fact that his true name was A. Morgan, an ex-real estate dealer, of Ko<omo, with an excellent reputation at that place, April 15, on the advice of bis attorney, Morgan plead guilty and re--J-y-d a four year sentence. full i J- Vanhook, near Crawfordsville, the | llbar ' <e(i in the business of dog and lising.lising. He will cultivate the critters loir hides, and it is given out that he iscovered a process by which the anients ca n be skinned alive and made to tprilhce another hide within a year, is not vouched for, however. Vi alter Campbell, aged fifteen, of LibSrty, is missing from Chicago, where ho had gone in company of Rufus Campbell, tn uncle. The boy's grandfather is said to be very wealthy, and it is feared that the uncle has dealt foully with the lad in tho hope of increasing his own share in the Inheritance expected from the senior Campbell. Rev. J. 11. Weston, a Methodist clergyman, has filed suit against tho saloonkeepers at Chesterton, Porter county. Members of tho pastor's congregation have fallen victims to tho drink habit, ind Weston will now retaliate by bringing suit against the liquor dealers for iamagc. The Supremo Court, Thursday, handed Jown a decision which ends all litigation is to the fee and salary law of 1891. The •ourt refuses to grant Attorney General Ketcham a rehearing growing out of tho tttempt to correct the errors In the law tnd holds) that the enrolled act must Hand. It has been established, the doslslon says, that there can not be a resort Io the engrossed bill. tcWhen Anthony Beck, a wealthy farmer Iving five miles west of Lebanon, stepped rut of his door, Monday morning, he found a bundle of switches and a white rap notice, which informed him ho would receive a visit unless he treated his family better and mended his ways generally. Ho immediately secured the bloodhounds used In tracking the desperado, Jeff. Powsll, recently, but tho attempt to trail his kould-be Ihtlmldators proved fruitless. Mr. Beck is very wealthy, and says he will Ipend every dollar ho has In trying to find the offenders. Benton Chandler, of Kokomo, had a barrow escape from death by belladonna bolsonlng. Mr Chandler bad been in the I

habit of using a tonic of his own eca»pounding, he calling at a drug store and namingoff the ingredients. Druggist Mecfc compounded <one of bis prescriptions, tilling the same as Mr. Chandler, and. as he recalls it. the mixture was composed of one pint of whisky, two ounces of wild ounees fluid extract of dande-i llun and one ounce, if not two ounces, of fluid extract of belladonna Mr. Chandiet was dangerously prostrated after taking one dose of this alleged tonic. Dr. Thomas B. Redding, of New Castle, fell into tlur cistern in his conservatory, April 11, and was drowned before being found. It is supposed that he fainted, as he was known to be afflicted with heart trouble. Dr. Redding was one of the most prominent citizens of Henry county. He Was a member of many scientific, societies throughout the world and was a thorough naturalist. Within the past fifteen years he has discovered more than fifty forms of animal life in eastern Indiana which has hitherto been unknown to the scientific world. For many years he had been a member of the board of trustees o f De Pa u w un i vef si ty. The village of Arcona, twelve miles from Marion, is enjoying a sensation caused by a strong flow of natural gas which comes from a depth of only sixtythree feet. It was struck by David Taylor, who was drilling for water. The drill struck quicksand, and a strong flow of gas resulted, and the pressure is constantly increasing. The phenomenon is not yet explained, but it is suspe -tod that the gas comes from a leak in the casing of an adjacent gas well which reaches Trenton rock at a depth of a thousand feet. When the sixty-three foot well is “on fire” the blaze is twenty feet high. Sargent’s, celebrities, a farcc-comedy combination, gave a street parade, Thursday, at Bloomington, with one of their number, an actor named-Moss, dressed as a convict. Inorder to attract attention MoSs started on a run, with the company pursuing and yelling to stop him. A bystander named “Biz” Saders, not realizing that it was an advertising scheme, waylaid Moss with a stone, which struck him a glancing blow on the head and inflicted very severe injury. The claim is now made by Spiritualists in Madison county that the first clew to the celebrated Foust murder mystery al Elwood was (detained through Mrsl Johnson Stover, a medium well known throughout Eastern Indiana. She lived dost to the scene where the dead body was found, and having a presentiment that ii was within her power to solve the mystery, she went “under control,” and soot identified the boly, described the plact where the murder was committed, which was at the Bolton residence, and then gave such a description of the supposed murderers that the arrest of George Hirei and his companions followed. Scott Sti vers, of Liberty, recently underwent treatment for the drink habitat a Richmond Gold-cure Institute, and returned to his home. It was soon apparent that, he was mentally impaired. Las| week his diseased mind c mcelved the idet that God had commanded him to torture himself, after which he was to kill his family atra'himself. Last Saturday he removed-his clothing, and, using a rusty knife, he began cutting himself in the abdomen and on the lower limbs. He managed to inflict over one hundred cuts, some of them very serious, before- he war overpowered and disarmed. Stivers will be removed to the Insane Hospital. Ht continually raves that it is his duty U kill his family.