Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — NEWS OF OUR STATE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. Itlwt Oar Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Crimes— Pointers About Our Oirn People. Minor Btate News. John Brady, a school teacher of Rock* port, was drowned while bathing in the Ohio River. John C. lleuser of Seymour, shot himself in the head with a 38-caliber revolver. Financial troubles. Hendrickson Bros’, stock barns at Kewanna burned, together with a famous stallion. Loss $15,000. Dr. S. W. Edwins of Elwood, has been appointed medical examiner of the Indiana militia for Madison County. Miss Clara B. Kei.t.y, of Ft. Wayne, was burned severely. Ilcr clothing caught fire from a flying bit of burning paper. Mrs Patrick Duffy of Wabash, was fatally burned by her clothing catching fire from a gas stove. She is 75 years old. Three valuable horses lielonging to Jesse Beard, near Needham’s Station, were poisoned one night recently by unknown persons. R. J. Collins, colored, of Indianapolis, was killed by an Eric train near Noblesville. lie is supposed to have fallen from the train. • ■ Counterfeit silver dollars of unusally good finish are circulating in several towns in Montgomery County, and there is much complaint. L. D. Keptixoer, employed in a sawmill at Loogootee, was dangerously hurt by a flying fragment of wood thrown off a circular saw.

The work of erecting the North Baltimore glass factory buildings at Albany has commenced. There will be eight buildings and two smelters. Burglars entered William Sumption’s residence at Muncie while the family were seated in front, and stole diamonds and Jewelry valued at $400. Fred Weidell, aged 18, was killed in a Michigan City saw-mill, by a piece of timber which rebounded from a circular saw and struck him on the breast. The orchards in Washington Township, Harrison County, are bending and breaking so heavily are the fruit trees loaded. The estimated value of the fruit crop is placed at $60,000. Mrs. Thomas Lewis, wife of a coal mirier of Brazil, has been notified that she is heiress to $100,000 by the death of an uncle at San Francisco, from whom she had not heard for 30 years. Capt. J. F. Fee of Greencastle, has been appointed by Gov. Matthews Major of the First Battallion, First Regiment Infantry, I. N. G., to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Major H. P. Cornick. Mell Boone, Jr., aged 22, a brakeman on the middle division of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad, was struck by the spout of the water tank at Brownstown, knocked from the car, and his skull fractured. He will die. Henry Emmelman, a clerk at J. L. Moore’s wholesale grocery, in Indianapolis, was literally scalped by a freight elevator. He was leaning over the shaft when the elevator descended. His skull was laid bare from his forehead to the back of his head. Benjamin Dooling, of Vincennes, fooled with a revolver, and there was an accidental discharge of the weapon, the bullet lodging in the shoulder of Richardson Davidson. Davidson was dangerously hurt and he was removed to Keensburg, Ill., where his people live. Charles Thennes of Michigan City, who operated a saloon in his hotel with the door opening on a small alley, and who was arrested under the Nicholson law, has been acquitted, the jury holding that the alley was a highway sufficiently within the meaning of the law. W. F. Brown, of Rochester, and Lyman Evans, “trusties”, in the prison South, upon being sent to the prison "garden for vegetables, took advantage oftheoppoitunity to escape. They were accompanied to the garden by Cal Armstrong, the defaulting County Treasurer of Tipton, but be refused to join in the flight. The Board of Directors of the Northern Indiana Prison have made the following appointments: Chaplain, the Rev. A. L. Curry of Noblesville; physician, Dr. Spinning, Covington; steward, D. S. Durbin, Indianapolis. Warden Harley is authority for the statement that United States convicts will not be removed to Leavenworth prison. Patents have been issued to the following Indiana inventors: Russel W. Guilford, assignor to Auburn Iron works, Auburn. Ind., steamer engine; Harney K. Harris, Michigan City, moistener and paper weight; Frederick T. Wright Fort Wayne, assignor of one-half to J. N. Neal, Cold Water, Mich., wire fence; John F. Snapp, Frichton, fire alarm device; Wm. S. Taylor, Rensselaer, hog ringer; John A. Wright, Indianapolis, tack catcher for bicycles. Isaac Goodman, leader of the notorious Goodman gang, was released from the Prison North on a pardon by Gov. Matthews, and returned to Anderson. He is now 68 years of age. He received his training under the guerrilla Quantrell, in Kansas. In 1860 he came to Indiana and organized a gang. He educated his son Dick in this line, and they headed the gang, which made nightly raids, and plundered everything within fifty miles. His house was made a depository. He entertained no one, and his house, which set back off of the roads, was not invaded by callers of any kind. His fortune continued to grow, until he was worth $100,000. The gang was rounded up at Summittville two years ago, and in the fight that followed Dick Goodman was shot and all were taken prisoners. The gang was sent up for nine years. Isaac’s years and failing health, and the fact that his wife was rapidly sinking, secured the pardon. He cannot last long. Dick, who was shot several times in the Summittville fight, is in the hospital, dying. There is a hermit living in the Patoka River bottoms, near neyden, who calls himself Bill Cox. He tells a story in effect that years ago his family died until none was left but himself, and then a mysterious voice whispered in his ear that his life was in danger, and that he must leave the State at once. Thereupon he returned to Indiana, and finding this secluded spot in the Patoka River bottoms, he erected a rude little cabin, and there he has remained in seclusion ever since, subsisting on roots, berries and small game. He belives that his hermit way of living is an atonement for crime, of which he refuses to speak.