Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

fTEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAn Intr -esting Stnnmarj of the More fa. portant Doings of Our Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. ■ ■ " —-v? Minor State Newin^TT I—- 1 —- Arcadia plate glass works burtied. Loss, 525,003The "Die!erich syndicate has brought the Logansport natural gas plant for SSOO- - - Worms are destroying corps, meadows andotliervegctation in (’ 1 ark t' and Floyd counties. —Ob a ft dead from injuries, received by falling from a haystack. , The bakeries of Elwood have combined and raised the price of bread from 2 to 4 cents per loaf. Fulton county commissioners have let the contract for a new $78,000 court house, to be built at Rochester. Julius J. Hasel, Fort Wayne laborer,* has fallen heir to $50,000 left him by his Germany..- L Over one hundred new residences and ten new business houses are to lie erected in Parker City this summer. The county seat removal question is being revived in Lake county, Hammond disputing with Crown Point for a relocation. The members of.tlie First Presbyterian Church of Greencastle have extended a call to Rev. William K. Weaver, of Owattona, Minn. Mad dogs have done considerable damage to stock in Morgan county. Many hogs have been killed suffering with rabies. A child was born in ..Kokomo. recently that is the fourteenth daughter of the fourteeth daughter. Mrs. S. 11. Burt is the mother. Guy Shephered was waylaid by footpads at Vincennes, beaten robbed and driven home in a buggy by the robbers.

Walter Armstrong was seriously in-jured-at-ttmArenrde-fihf-woidvSi-AndeFSlm, by a grindstone bursting. A fragment strack him on the head. John Heidenreh h, who has been a switchman in Terre Haute for thirty years, whs run over and killed by the cars in tho Evansville & Terre Huato yard. South Bend will send a delegation to Washington to protest against the new public building in that City. The citizens are greatly dissatisfied with the plans. Mrs. G. W. Ross, who last winter fell through a grating on Main street, Brazil, while in a delicate condition, and suffered serious injuries, has filed suit in the Superior Court for $20,000 damages against the city. A young man, who was beating a ride over the Monon railroad, fell between the freight cars near Crawfordsville, and was cut to pieces. Nothing was found to identify him, but it is supposed that he belonged at Danville, 111. William Cummins, an employe of tho. Akron Forge Works, while operating the l(MldonJrip kammer v yvas knocked senseless by a fragment of the steel billet, which broke off, and striking him, hurled him across the room. A Plymouth man returned a stolen dress skirt to its owner, accompanying it with a note explaining in illiterate language that he stole it to clothe his naked wife, but. it was his first theft and his conscience hurt him. Edward W. Drieman. a commercial traveler who was seriously injured in a wreck on the Indianapolis & Vincennes railway some weeks ago, has filled suit at Vincennes for $5,000 damages against the Pennsylvana company. Four young men were playing poker in the heading mills at Bedford, when Paul Johnson quarreled with Homer Bruce. The latter shot Johnson through the head causingLajjiorlaL\xouujtl.llruce,Jiiabrotlmv—ami Win. Emery vy.s arrested. One hundred and fifty new residences are in course of ’erection at Wabash this spring, the building boom beingunprecedented. The estimated cost of each Molding is SI,OOO, making a total of $150,000 which local investors are putting into residences. Harry Kellar, who was formerly in lhe dry goods business at Logansport, was assaulted and robbed of $Bl5 shortly before midnight recently at his home. Hearing a noise he went to his barn ami was attacked and left in a dazed condition. Thera is nq clue and the affair is regarded as a mystery. At Lafayette, Judge Everett rendered a decision in ex-A^trney-general Smith's suit to recover from tluwhool trustees a considerable sum of money that had not been expended for tuition purposes. Tho court held that the law of 1895 did away with th<! laupof 1898 and that the attorneygeneral could not maintain a suit under the new law. Luther Smith of Logarispqrt, got on the cowcatcher of a Vaud ilia engine to ride to Maxinkuckee. Near Verona station, a few miles north, the engine struck three horses that were running loose on the track, killing two of them. When the train stopped the remains of Smith were, found terribly mangled. He was about 21 years old and lived with a widowed mother. He was formerly employed as a switchman on the Vandalia.

Patents have been issued to the following Indiana inventors: Charles F. Black, Topeka, dish cleaner; Janies D. Bowman, assignor one-half to 11. Y. Miller, Union County, Indiana, earth auger; Allen C. Brantingham, assignor to Nordykc and Mannon, Indianapolis, feeder for mills; Edward and L. Hedderick, Pettit, washboard; Steven G. Ilindsley, Union City, Hood gate; Joseph Beiff, Jr., assignor of one-half to E. M. Nichols, Hebron, vent controlling mecaniam for pumps; Valentine C. Rocholl, Fort Wayne, prize wrench; Ferdinand Seheumann, Logansport, safety valve; Fred and L. Winkler, South Bend, sprinkler head, two patents. As a result of eating onions purchased from a huckster, Herman Wilson, aged 7, died at •Jeffersonville, and two other children, Elmer Wilson and Paul Mozier, are dangerously ill with little hopes of recovery. During the day the children purchased several bunches of onions and ate them with salt. Soon they were taken ill and physicians were puzzled at the symptoms. Emetics were administered and it was found that they had overdosed their stomachs, but as this alone would not be sufficient to produce death, the physicians are inclined to the belief that something of a poisonous nature must have been mixed with the onions.