Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — NEWS OF OUR STATE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Crimes— Pointers About Our Own People. Don's Waste the Gas. Prof. J. C. Leach,, State Gas Inspector, who has returned from a tour of the gas belt, authorizes the following statement, warningthe public against the needless waste of gas: “There are many sections of the gas field that 1 have not visited at all, and am, therefore, not sufficiently informed to give an intelligent estimate of the gas supply; but judging from what data I have at hand, 1 believe that the statistic pressure of the gas field is decreasing. True, I lie re are some wells that showa very slight decrease, if any 5 but thisis the Exception and not the rule. The belief in many places that gas will last forever, and the extravagant use ana waste caused thereby, are doing great damage to the commercial interests of the gas field; for no one knows better than the manufacturer, who is looking for a location for a factory, that at the present rate of reckless wasting of this precious fuel, the time is not far distant when he will have to return to coal. The gas companies have realized this for some time, and are doing ail they can to husband their supply, and I am glad to say that in some places the people are awakening to these facts; are doing what they can to create a sentiment against the waste of this fuel.”

Minor State Newi. Elkhart will build five miles of cement sidewalk. Wm. Walker, Jeffersonville, has been acquitted of killing Eugene Hogue. Homer Thomas was thrown from a horse at Elwood, and fatally injured. Survey for the new electric road between Elwood and Anderson has begun. Mrs. Elizabeth Pyles, 46, was kicked to death by a fractious horse at Columbus. Earlham college museum has received a tremendous alligator from a Florida friend. Henry county fair association has derided to build a half mile track at New Castle. Fred Yf.aton, of Indianapolis, was seriously injured in a runaway accident at Columbus, 1 ; The barn and four horses of Reuben Pierce of Sullivan burned. Loss, $1,500; no insurance. i i Immexse flow of water was struck 110 feet down, at Danville. Will be used for water works. Body of an unknown man,about 55 years of age, was found hanging to a tree near Farmersburg. The Muncie architectural iron works were destroyed by fire recently, for the second time since construction. Loss S2O- - Wabash road has paid Mrs. George Jones, Wabash, $5,200 for the killing of her husband by Geo. Gould’s special train, last October. Homer Thomas, 15 years old, while horseback riding two miles east of Alexandria, was -thrown from his horse and fatally injured. A piece of watch case has been ploughed up in Laporte county 120 rods from the spot where a man named Fletcher was blown up by dynamite eight years ago. Mrs. Banta’s three children played with kerosine at Washington, and ope of them struck a match. The house was destroyed and one of the children fatally burned. James Harding, fanner near Nashville, Brown County, was found dead with both feet and one hand burned off. Supposed he was overcome by heat while (fighting forest fires. The reunion of the Sixty-ninth Regiment will be held in Richmond the last week in September or the first week in October. There are now probably 250 survivors of this regiment, and nearly all of them are expected to be present. Near Ekin, Tipton County, workmen who were boring for gas were astonished to see the drill sink while in hard rock 300 feet below the surface. It was removed and a constant stream of water fifty feet high burst loose with a roar that could be heard a mile. James IL Chandler, running a restaurant at Indianapolis, was appealed to by a chambermaid for protection against three drunken fellows. Chandler undertook tp remonstrate with his customers, and was hurled down a steep flight of steps, fatally fracturing bis skull. John Siiuttrunpf, a Cass County shoemaker, mourned his first wife as missing, eighteen years ago. Eight years ago be married again and, the other day, his first wife made her appearance. Shuttrunpf hustled around and got a divorce after eight years of illegal wedded bliss. » Ezra Searles, of Muncie, has mortgaged his property for SSOO and gone to New York t<v try and get his son, Arthur Searles, out of prison by making good the money the young man received by fraudulently representing himself to be an agent of an Indianapolis newspaper. An enraged turkey gobbler tore the nose and part of the upper lip off and destroyed an eye of a small child belonging to George R. Cutter of English. The babe was in the yard, dressed in a red gown, which enraged the bird. Drs. Brent and Ilazlewood hope to restore the nose and lip by stiching, but the eye is torn from the socket. Veterinarians arc advised of the appearance of a new and peculiar insect which is alarming horsemen in the eastern part of Indiana. In appearance it is said to resemble a mosquito, though about three times as large. It attacks the horses dm mg the warm part of the day, stinging them on the inner membrane of the ears. The membrane becomes very sore, and in most instances the horses are unfitted for work for several days. No one has been able to name the pest thus far. Josephine McCoy, the young daughter of J. B, McCoy,of North New Jersey street, I ndianapolis, was burned to death in a celler. Her clothes caught fire from a natural gas furnace. In attempting to save her the mother was badly burned. The other night Mrs. Savanna Dugan, who deserted her husband in Ohio five y ears ago, died in Fort Wayne. She was alone with William Newman, her lover, at the time. The coroner’s inquest developed the fact that the woman’s neck was broken, and while the funeral was in progress Newman was placed under arrest on suspicion of being tho cause of her death. The prisoner declares his innocence. rop ’ ■ ;