Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There are one hundred income taxpayers in Terre Haute. Fifteen weddings are announced for the next two weeks, at Decatur, this State. . Six hundred persons signed the pledge at Booneville as a result of the Stanley tern pcranee i e y i v al Superintendent Charlton, of thtTPlaih-' field Reform School, has been re-elected for a term of four years. George W. Kigar. in Warren county, was almost instantly killed in an accident at his sawmill, Tuesday. Hagerstown will lay two miles of ce-' 1 ment pavement this summer and is considering a plan for water works. The City Council of. Washington has let the contract for'twenty-nine squares of vitrified brick street paving, for $60,580. ’• Isaac Horn, of Rossville, recently had an eye removed, the sjght of which was destroyed by a guhshot wound during tho I battle of Atlanta. • Addison Albertson, near Selma, fell •under a wagon loaded with tile, and one ‘of the wheels mashed his skull to a pulp. i His dead body was found some hours ! dater. I ! The Spades-Patton seduction case, at findianapolis, was given to the jury, Saturday. Monday, the jury reported that -they were unable to agree and were discharged. i Many years ago James Finley, near .'Vienna, secreted SSOO in his smoke-house. {During the present week, while workmen jwere tearing down the old structure, the 'money was found. -V— . - • Whiting will be made a lake port. The Standard Oil Company has decided to load Its barges there for the Lake Superior . trade. The announcement has created great surprise at Chicago. ,6 Ex-Congressman Bynum is in Washington trying to secure the position of DepuI ty Controller of tho Treasury, made vacant by the death of Mr. Mansur. The bffice is worth $5,080 per year.

■ The State Finance Board, April 18, awarded the new issue of $500,000 -State ibonds due May 1, to Blake Bros, & Co., of New York, who bid a premium of SLF,4SO. H’he bonds bear 3% per cent, interest. The village of Scircleville is rejoicing over the disappearance of its only saloon. _ The grog-shop was so com plete 1 y boy cotted that the sales of last week amounted to only 15 cents, and that was spent by a traveling mam Ex-City Marshal Bruce, of Shelbyville, has been sent to the penitentiary for two years for burglary on a plea of “guilty.” Bruce retired from office last August. His arrest and sentence Is a severe shock to his many friends. i Maj. Chas. T. Doxey, of Anderson, is heading a company which proposes to sink a well below the salt water, going to a depth of at least 2,000 feet. He has a theory thathlgh-pressure gas will be found similar to the discovery in Pennsylvania. A special train on the C. H. & D. railroad, conveying the Llederkranz Society, of Cincinnati; homeward, while crossing the Whitewater river bridge at Connersville, struck a drayman named Marentos Muzzy, hurling him into the water, forty feet below. Muzzy was instantly killed. The decision of the Attorney-General on the Holler fish law, which did not pass I the House, but was signed by the clerk, j Speaker and Governor by mistake, and ' which he says is therefore a law, we fear will lead some to believe that wo have an Attorney-General that does not AttorneyGeneral. Charles Hesten, colored, transferred to -the smallpox hospital at Jeffersonville, under the impression that ho was sick with the dreadful disease, proves to be suffering from the effects of vaccclnation. Gangrene has appeared in his right arm, and it is thought that the member will have to be amputated. 6 Hannah Darby, eighty-four years old, of Converse, was found burned to death. She was fully dressed, and the dress was I not even scorchel: still, her eyes were burned out, and her left arm and side were roasted. The gas tn her stove was turned on, but was not burning. The authorities are trying to solve the mystery. I A mortgage forger was arrested at Frankfort, April 13, under tho name of ( Marion P. Thompson. Investigations reI voaled the fact that his true name was A. Morgan, an ex-real estate dealer, of Kokomo, with an excellent reputation at that place. April 15, on the advice of his attorney, Morgan plead guilty and received a four year sentence. Mr. J. Vanhook, near Crawfordsville, has embarked in the business of dog and cat raising. He will cultivate the critters for their hides, and it is given out that he has discovered a process by which the animals can be skinned alive and made to produce another hide within a year. This is not vouched for, however. sThogas well drilled la few days ago northeast of Sheridan has proved to be a wonder. People for miles around are driving to see tho great sight. Another effort will be made to anchor tho well. A five-inch stream of water is shooting twenty-five feet above the derrick, reaching a hight of one hundred feet. Unless the owners get tho well under control loon, tho farms in the neighborhood will be flooded with water. Truman Stewart, of Anderson, who has organized what he calls a “Providence colony" to be located in Tennessee, set last Sunday as the day for every man, woman and child in the United States to contribute 4 cents each to the enterprise. He has cnly realized $1.56 so far. but still “has hopes,” and has issued another proclamation. The land he had under contract is In eastern Tennessee, and Is large •nough to accommodate the 5,000 people tie proposes to take with him. At present It is the property of a Chicago man. •' There Is very bitter feeling between the Whites and the Indians on the Indian restrvation near Fort Wayne, and during a Iree-for-all drunk theother night in a saloon run by two Indians, there was a free-,'or-all fight, in which several whites were badly handled. The Fort Wayne papers tall upon the authorities to revoke the liquor license, claiming that there will loon be a race war between the whites who have married Into Indian families Ind the full-blooded Indians If Intoxicants Continue to be sold on the reservation. State Geologist Blatchley, after a thdrlugh examination of a specimen of the hn al I, green bug now ravaging the fruit buds in Wabash county, sent to him by bis request, pronounces the insect the orlinary aphis. He states that ft is likely io inflict great Injury upor> the crop if I Its ravages are allowed to go on un-

checked, and ho suggests as • remedy I 11beral s pray in g w fth so •ps uds.The bu fj have appeared in countless millions i* northern Indiana. When Anthony Beck, a.wealthy far ma living five miles west of Lebanon, steppe# out of his door, Monday morning, hi found a bundle of switches and a whit; cap notice, which informed him he woulf receive a visit unless he treated his fam • ily better and mended his ways generally I He immediately securea the bloodhonndi used in tracking the desperado, Jeff. Powell, recently, but the attempt to trail hit would-be intimidators proved Tuitless Mr. Beck is very wealthy, and win spend every dollar he has in trying to fin# the offenders. ■4The Washington Democrat tells a ro mantle incident as occuring at Short, it Martin county. Mrs. Luly .Green. _i young widow of Kentucky, was betrothe# in marriage, but in someway there was ar estrangement, and she removed to Marti* county, where she married Michael Utterback, a worthy citizen. A few days ac< her Kentucky suitor appeared upon th# scene, and, in his chagrin over her marriage, he began dissipating very heavily This so preyed upon the young woman# mind that she took poison and died.

Joseph Allen, near English, owns a genuine natural curiosity in an absolute); halrless’or woolless lamb. It is as smooth as the palm of one’s hand, and, judging by its friskiness, is. proud of its distinction among its woolly brethren. The lib' tie fellow is supposed to be a cross between a Southdown and a Shropshire The skin is soft and tender, of a pink oi light red color, and is very susceptible d cold. The owner Is said to have alread; refused enough to pay for a respectable flock at the present prices, and will endeavor to continue its kind by breeding. It is a male ten days old. John Ezra was sentenced to the penitentiary for life at Sullivan, April 17, fol the murder of Solomon Finklestein. Ezr* killed Finklestein at Jackson HU), lasi January, with a heavy iron poker, Finklestein was a Russian Jew and t pack peddler, and was sitting in a chaii warming himself at Dunn’s saloon. A dispute over an old account of forty cent* arose between the two, when Ezra called the Jew a liar and he returned the compliment. Ezra became angered and struct tbe back of-the head, crushin; his skull and causing death in a fen hburs. Ezra is a young man. The claim is now made by Spiritualist; in Madison county that the first clew ti the celebrated Foust murder mystery al Elwood was obtained through Mrs. John- i son Stover, a medium well known throughout Eastern Indiana. She lived clos; to the scene where the dead body wa; found, and having a presentiment that 11 was within her power to-solve the mystery, she went “under control,” and soot identified the body, described the plac; where the murder was committed, whid was at the Bolton residence, and the; gave such a description of the suppose# murderers that the arrest of George Hire; and his companions followed. Scott Stivers, of Liberty, recently underwent treatment for the drink habit at t Richmond Gold-cure Institute, and returned to his home. It was soon apparent that he was mentally impaired. Las| week his diseased mind c mceived the ide* that God had commanded him to tortur* himself, after which he was to kill hU family and himself. Last Saturday h* 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 some of them very serious, before he wa; overpowered and disarmed. Stivers will be removed to the Insane Hospital. II; continually raves that it is his duty t* kill his family. 3 Patents have been issued to the following persons In Indiana: M. B. Boudinot, Vincennes, wagon; P. G. Decker. Ander son, means for separating gas and watei or gas and oil; W. Dunckel. Terre Haute, tilting hoist; A. JI. Hoy and H. D. Harris, said Hoy assignm\to V. H. Lockwood, Indianapolis, valve lock; VV. A. Scott, Evansville, gig saddle; C. N. Teetor, Muncie, railway velocipede; M. Wanner, Yorktown, process and apparatus for refrigeration; D. W. Williamson, F. J. Milholland and C. A. Kessler, assignors to D. W. Williamson & Co., and Adams & Williamson, Indianapolis, pressure plate for veneei cutting machine: J. J. Wood, Fort Wayne, electric switch. Attorney-General Ketcham has finished the papers In the northern prison litigation, involving the constitutionality of the law taking the appointing power out of the hands of the Governor. Tho case is entitled State of Indiana ex rel Charles Harley vs. James W. French, and is a de4 mand for a writ of ouster against the pretended board and the pretended warden. The complaint was submitted to Messrs, Menzies and Wilson for examination and mailed to the clerk of the Laporte county court. The Governor’s attorneys agreed to the issues and have begun their answer, which they will also mail to the court Judge Hubbard is expected tb put th, cause down for early trial and the appeal will at once be taken in order that tho Supreme Court may have time to reach tj decision before the adjournment for tho summer, which usually occurs in June. Evansville politicians are discussing the possibility of the appointment of Editor “Gil” Shanklin as consul to Manchester. England, a position which will pay him financially to accept. In the same connection it is said that Mr. Shanklin declined to represent this country at Prague because, while the office is rated as returning $12,000 annually in fees, yet but $4,000 of this is salary, the remainder being turned over to tho Government, The report comes direct from Washington that Mr. Cleveland said to Senator Voprhees; “I must and will take care of Shanklin, and you may say to him that I said so.” Mr. Shanklin** friends are greatly encouraged over the ,.kv