Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Franklin, will build a city hail. Goshen claims a population of 8,250. A quarry of granite has been discovered near English. BThe Wagner Hottie Company has com-.: menced manufacturing at Ingalls. A. JI. Gamble, of Missouri, will loeate-a-Hundred-barrel flour mill atlrigalls. Hartford City is in the midst of ecstatic 1 - enjoyment, two rival circuses,billing the : town. —...... —_—; ;. Eighty-three days have been consumed* in the trial of lhe M orrison wtH- case at - Richmond. Tbe body of anmiknowii man was found, .hanging to a limb of a tree west of IJraziJ, close by the Vandalia track. April 2-1. Supposed suicide. t August Lehrsaek, a saloonkeeper of West Hammond, cashed a Sl,Oixi check on a business college bank for a stranger and is naturally "kickin' himself." Abraham Rfmes, of Kewana. lias a record hard to beat. He was married eleven times in thirty years and divorced .ten times.TZHß7mjW3J)p!ics for vorce. The Wabash Times has charged the commissioners <sf that county with boodling in connection with bridge contracts, and the grand jury is making a special investigation., r ■ Ailthe creameries fn White <*oft n ty h avo long since ceased operations. They were profitable investments only to the slick gentlemen who furnished the plants.— Monticello Press. One of the biggest gas gushers In the State has ,beqn struck on the Fleming farm, one mile from Middletown. The estimated daily output of gas is from ten to twelve million feet. Harry Gibson, colored, a convict in the prison north, who stabbed a fellow prisoner as the result of a quarrel oyer a game of' "craps,” has been indicted for niurde.t by the Laporte grand jury. Tie contract has been let for the erection of the Rochester Normal University building, and the conrmittce in charge expect to be ready for the reception of students by tho first of September. Joseph F. Gon t, of the Cereulfne: Manht lacturingCornpaDy. of ltidianttnoiis. has ordered all the machinery of the eerealine plant, at Columbus, which has been idle for some time, to be shipped to that city. The Chickamauga Commission, by Jas. R. Carnahan, Secretary, has issued an address to Indiana soldiers who participated in that battle, asking for their cooperation in selecting the designs for the monuments and locating the same. 3 John H, Lenhart. Clerk of Adams county, while seated at his home after nightfall, Jin plain view from the street, was fired upon by two men who had been observed on the o uns ide, the bullet eras bin g through the window within twelve inches of his nead. 5 Mrs. Emily Thornton Charles, the wellknown Indiana authoress, died at Washington, April 25. Mrs. Charles formerly resided at Lafayette. She was known in literature over the nom de plume of "Hawthorne.” She had been employed lor sever*! years in the State Department. '

I The secretary of the Indiana Fish and ' Same Association at Richmond has re- [ coived notice from the United States Fish Commission that within the next sixty lays 500,000 pike and perch will be distributed in the streams of Wayne county, Arrangements are also making to secure ’OO.OOO small-mouthed black bass. Thomas Talmage, of Madison county, i well known agriculturalist, while harrowing in a field, was thrown under the tpachine by his horses running away. One if the long iron teeth penetrated his back for several inches, and was torn out by the flight of the horses. His injury is re ported to be fatal. Louis If. Ley, an official of the Lake Shore railway, while examining a “mojul” engine at Elkhart, looking for a delect in the machinery, crawled under the sngine. While there some one started the engine, and he was decapitated. Mr. bey was sixty • years oh) and a Knight Templar. He leaves a wifcTmd a daugh-' ter. J. R. Stewart settled in Shelbyville in .821. and immediately joined the First Presbyterian church choir, where he remained thirty-eight years consecutively. Altogether he has been a member of that :hoir forty-four years. Dr. J. R. Clayton has been a member of the Christian thurch choir of that city for twentysight years. Daniel Weaver, twice elected Mayor of Huntington, and several times serving in Iho City Council, is insane, the result of repeated paralytic strokes,, Mr. Weaver s known in Huntington as •’Gladstone.” Weaver, and he is now serving as Prosi--1 ent of the Board of Police Commissioners. He was a leader of the Democracy ii> ihat section. Three masked men entered the NickelPlate Railway ticket office at Dunfee and jyerpowered O. S. Smith, the operator, tfter which they forced him to open the iafe, where they appropriated what money was on hand. They also tore up the tickets and robbed Smith of aJJOOgoid watch. A freight train passed while they were (till there, but the operator alleges that the thieves compelled him to signal that the track was dear. 5 While Sheriff White, from Tipton, Ind., was on his way to the Northern Prison at Michigan City, over the Lake Erie & Western, with a prisoner, April 24, the latter jumped from tho car window near Stillwell and escaped. The train was running forty miles an hour, it is said, and when stopped the prisoner could not be found. The officer and a posse of fanners ire In pursuit. The prisoner's name cannot be learned. He was going for a term jf one year for larceny. • Huntington is dismissing the feasibility if adopting tho system in Germany of finishing wife-whippers. In portions of Germany. where husbands are convicted )f this offense, they are compelled to work ill the week, turning over their wage* at the close of the week to after which they are plncfsl in jail, remaining ;here from Saturday night until Mofnlay morning. Jn this way a euro is speedily •fleeted. The bloated and dlsfiunod remains of Harney Ellwunger, the supposed wifeinurlerer, wore found Sunday evening floating n Lemon Lake, which lies near Cfdar Lake, where the tragedy of thirteen days tgo occurred. The body was floating face townward, and an examination showed .hat the throat had been cut, severing tho

and that there were marks o: blows bn tKe forehead. The supposltior is that Etlwanger, instead of murderini his wife, as was at first supposed, met hi: death at.the same time and bythesam< hand which killed Mrs. Ellwanger, anc that his body was afterward thrown jiitc the lake in the hope that the authoritie: would Believe that he killed his wifi. Great in Lake count} over the find. A rope was found dangling from th» prison south wall, last Saturday night oiggesting that a daring convict had mad< his escape, and the alarm was given. H was not long until tho guards discovered that Thomas Shepherd, a twenty-yeat man had left a dummy lying on his bed. while he had absented himself. A lively pursuit_was_then Instituted for the missing convict, who soon after reported voluntarily at the, prison and was agair locked up. It then developed that he wa? irt the habit of paying regular visits U’ s sweetheart in Jeffersonville, and foi mouths had been placing a dummy in hit bed and scaling the walls by means of a rope Jadder. in order to call npowhis inamorata, to wiiomhe is betrothed fn marriage.- Shepherd is a school teacher, wft.; was con v i eted-of- ass ass in a ting a» eriein y. He. has nearly completed his sentence. Several days ago John Schwartz, tieai Vera Cruz, in Adams edu'hty, had his Barn and its contents burned. The preceding day ?in incendiary attempted to burn hy smokehouse, well filled with cured meaG THre family were absent at the time oObv barn, bpr.ning, with the exception of at adopted daughter, and she told a thriJlinji story of a tramp who set fire to the property because she had refused him something to eat. Her story aroused tho community, and a crow f, several h.undrex strong, gave pnrsnit to thb imaginary tram pt in tept. u pon Iype hi ng. Las t the young girl confessed that she set. fin to the property becabse she liked to se. people run. The girl is a wait adopted from the Wells county infirmary by tile' Schwajftz family. Am effort is making tc send her.to the Htate female nfformatorv. Two marriages were consummated in i’effersbnville, Tuesday, which will ehusc a strange complications of relation. The contractihg parties were Edward E Weber and Miss Sadie L. Dietrich, amt Scott Dietrich and Lily Partlow. The •fact that Seott/ Dietrich is the father o! Mrs. VVelier and that her newly mads husband Is a brother of her father*< bride, Mrs. Dietriph, pee Partlow, will make Mr. Dietrich; the brother-in-law as well as the father-in-law ot Weber, while 6'eini; mother and gister-in-law to her son's wife. The unusual relations into which the assuming of the marriage vows hs' entangled the quartet is causing tiieii friends much amusement.