Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING PAST WEEK. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Oar neighbor*—Wedding* and Deaths—Crime*. Casualties and General News Notes of the State. Booster Happenings The apple crop, near MadiSon will be Very large. All the toll-roads In Wayne County have been made free. Citas. Fee, aged 14, was drowned in a small lake near Kokomo. : - Jacob Akbekson, a fanner near Greenfield, was found dead in ted. Accohotno to the last enumeration, Montgomery county contains 8,504 voters. Jay Hubbard, aged 17, fell from a smoke stack at Brazil, and was fatally hurt. -

Yasderruro Couxty wants to enlarge by taking Ohio Township from Warrick County. Tite old jail at Petersburg is to be remodeled and rented out for residence property. J. F. Stanley was killed by a Panhandle passenger train near Anderson.. He was blind.” Only a few fields of wheat will be cut in Hamilton County.GCrop will not average three bushels to the acre. . ■ ‘ GoTi.F.m Free fell 50 feet from a high tree near Wabash alighting on his bead and killing him instantly. Leading lumber men say that hard woods in Indiana are about all gone except oak, and that is very scarce. Ninely-sevex taxpaying farmers of St. Joseph county have formally protested against the building of a new court house. ' Colfax residents are tired of living in a city, and a petition will be circulated for the purpose of disorganizing the corporation.

A number of the recent large fires at Laporte have been traced to incendiaries, and it is believed that an effort is being made to burn the city. David S. Watson and Henry Borgman, two life convicts in the Prison Month, have become insane. They will probably be removed to (lie insane asylum. Mrs. David Goss, of Plano, Morgan county, hung herself, by tying two towels together and suspending herself from the casing above the door of her house. Ex-Auditor James C. Lavelle, of DavKTss county, serving eight years in the prison south for attempting to burn tho court house at Washington, is dying of dropsy. The Monon railroad has paid Geo. E. Miller, of Frankfort, $12,500, the amount of judgment secured by him for injuries sustained in a wreck near Indianapolis in 1890. A horse driven by Mrs. MaryHoehn, of Sellerburg, took fright while Mrs. Hoehn was on her way homeJrom Jeffersonville and ran away, thrdifing her out and probably fatally injuring her.

Ait Elwood servant girl, who is a somnambulist, got up in her sleep at 2 o’clock and prepared breakfast. Wasn’t awakened until her mistress went down stairs to see why she was ringing the breakfast bell. Frederick Smith, an employe of Barnes’ saw-mill at Knightstown, was, fatally hurt recently. While operating a cut-off saw a sliver in some manner struck him with such force as to break his skull and penetrate his head about two inches. John Newman, a mere boy, entered Miss Emma Sheppler’s home at Raleigh, and playfully snapped an old revolver. It exploded and the bullet crushed into her brain killing her almost instantly. The families of the boy and girl are almost wild over the affair. The Lane Bridge Company, of Chicago, will at once roniove from that city to Wabash, having made a deal with the Wabash Board of Trade. Wabash business men offered to take stock if the works were removed to Wabash. The offer was accepted and a new company organized. Tiie Governor lias appointed the following trustees of Purdue University, as authorized by the last General Assembly: Six year term, Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis; Charles B. Stuart, Lafayette; William A. Banks, Laporte. Four year term, Charles Downing, Greenfield; James M. Barrett, Fort Wayne; Jacob 11. Van Natta, Battleground. Two year term, David E. Beem. Spencer; Sylvester Johnson. Irvington; William 11. O. Brien, Lawrenceburg. Indiana possesses shale and sandstone deposits of untold value according to Stategeologist Blatchley, who has just return ed from a thorough inspection of the ledges in the western part of the State. Sandstone of the highest quality is found in Parke, Fountain and Warren counties, he says, and the r/iale beds are near Veedersburg, Attica and Cayuga. At the latter place a factory lias been started that is turning out 35,000 pressed brick a day. By merely combining the shales any desired color is obtained. At Cayuga is another factory that turns out 30,000 brick a day. Mr. Blatchley left Assistant Hopkins tocomplete .the prospecting, but he has learned enough, he claims, to convince him that the deposits are among the state’s greatest resources.

The Governor has pardoned Peter ,1. Clark, one of the men who participated in the opera house riot at Latayette in January, 1893. Theriot was the result of religious excitement growing out of a lecture by George P. Bndolph, an ex-Catbouc priest. Clark was charged with assault and 1 latter) - with intent to kill, and was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for four years. Two other participants were convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. They were pardoned sometime ago. The persons who partitioned for the pardon of Clark say he was misguid .l; that he had previously been a good citizen of Lafayette, and that he has a wife and four children dependent on him. Many of the citizens of Ts ppecanoe County signed the petition. Jons Sphixciek, a well-known resident of Connersville, while fishing, near' Alpine, became overheated and fell dead. Heart trouble contriputed toward his demise. lie was about forty years old and leaves a family. Wesley Gross, of Henryville, sleeps with his artillery in closs proximity, because of a letter, accompanied with & bundle of switches, threatening him with violence if he does not cease paying his addresses to a lady in that vicinity. Mr. Gross is an old soldier, and he has retaliated with a warning that the first White-Cap crowd molesting him will bo warmly welcomed to hospitable graves