Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — HOOSIER HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS QF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Neighbor* are Doing—Matter* of General and Local Interest—Marriage* and Beath«—Accidents and Crime*—Personal Pointers About rndlanlana. “ Minor State New*. r A telephone rate war is on at Frankfort. Mishawaka is toliave a new Christian" church. I John Hide of Staunton, was killed by a Vandalia train. John Steven’s barn, near Martinsville, was destroyed by lightning. Milo Thom as’ hard ware store at Corunna is in ashes. Loss, $15,000. 7 Ben Lapidl's robbed four clothing stores in daylight at Madison, and nearly escaped. -Madison County is infested with robbers. Supposed to have headquarters near Elwood. -The twenty-fn st annit ersavy of the oM settlers and the soldiers reunion will be held at Quincy, Aug. 8. A darn belonging to Frank Owens, seven miles west of Monticello, was struck by lighting and destroyed. The old settlers of Eaglestown will bold their twenty-fifth annual meeting in the grove near that place on Aug. 10. a picnic at Mbnroe~t3ty, recently, colored woman 111 years of age was given the prize for being the oldest person on the grounds. Every business house in Brazil closed Its doors during the funeral of County Clerk Wherle, who was accidentally shot by Bon. G. A. Knight. Frank E. Hall, of the Standard oil company, was murdered at Whiting, and his body placed on the B. &O. tracks. He was robbed of his watch and S6OO in cash. Wm. M. Davis, near Franklin, swallowed carbolic acid for cough medicine and will die. His brother, who made the mistake by handing him the acid, is crazed with grief. Death came in a peculiar manner to David Troyer of Peru. He was sitting on the porch at his home, and bis nephew, Hiram, was trying a revolver in a shed. The weapon was fired and the ball passed through the boards and entired Mr. Troyer’s head. | IWillie Hoover, 7-year-old-son of A. A. Hoover, principal of the Ohio side schools at Union City, met with a painful accident recently. While playing around Snooks’ tile factory he, in some manner, got caught in the ten-foot fly-wheel, cutting several large gashes in bis head. The contract of the Amazon Hosiery Company will expire at the Northern Prison December 1, and the board has been informed that the company will make other arrangements. This will throw about 200 men out of work. Secretary Hicknell, of the Board of State Charities, believes that the only remedy lies with the Legislature. The next General Assembly, he thinks, will be compelled to solve the problem of furnishing employment to the prisoners. Fire at Tyrone, destroyed the general store, saloon, billiard hall and liquor storage house of James Gee, also two dwellings and an icehouse. Loss, $25,000. The whisky was stored in barrels in the second story and James Gee took the bungs out' of two barrels and lighted a match to inspect them. They exploded and caused the fire. Mr. Gee is so badly burned as to render his recovery uncertain. John Berry, his clerk, was seriously but not fatally burned in rescuing Mr. Gree. Patents have been granted to Indiana inventors as follows: Elias C. Atkins, Indianapolis, and N. H. Roberts, j’asadena, Cai., rotary plow; John T. and 8. W. Collins, Kokomo, bank cutter and seeder; John R. Etter, Crawfordsville, electro-medical apparatus; Sebastian C. Guthrie, Evansville, dispensing case or cabinet; Anton Hulman, Terre Haute, shutter fastener; James J. Keyes, Peru, basket; Britton Poulson, Fort Wayne, road grader; Rudolph H. Ripking, Aurora, extension table. The estimates of State Statistician Thompson as to the wheat crop in Indiana are that his ante-harvest figure of 20,000,000 bushels was not far from right. He thinks that one-fourth the crop will be required for seed, and one-half consumption, which will leave only 5,000,000 bushels for sale, as compared to 35,000,000 bushels last year. Fred P. Rush, authority on the wiieat crop, says the yield in the State is not more than 18,000,000 bushels, or about 40 per cent, of the ayerage crop. He says the wheat will grade 20 percent. A dozen or more old soldiers of Clinton County are making arrangements to attend the dedicatory ceremonies on the Chickamauga battlefield, to be held Sept. 19 and and 20. They propose to travel tlie entire distance with team and covered wagons and will start on tlieir journey the first day of August, taking their time to it, hunting and fishing on the way and having a good time generally. Their outfit will be elaborately painted in tlie colors of “Old Glory,” with the names of the companies and regiments In which each of the party served during the war, printed where it can be conveniently read by comrades on the way?

Nearly every day the Governor and other state officers are besieged by convict* returned to Indianapolis for release under the new law, and there are many pitiful scenes as the discharged men beg for food and clothing, so that they may go out in thgworld and make their own living. Frequently they are sent home still wearing the prison shirt with the prison number stamped on it and the poorest and shabbiest clothing, and under such circumstances they find every door closed against them. When released they are not provided wish money, and this adds to tlie forlornness of the situation. The more the operations of the new law are noted the more generally is it condemned as an utterly heartless and a most wretched enactment. Its effect will be to drive men back into crime. David Gapen, a well-known fanner residing north of Thorntown, dropped dead at dinner, in O’Rear’* restaurant. L IBs dinner had just been placed before him, when he was noticed to lean suddenly forward and when assistance reached him lie was beyond the power of medical skill. The deceased was a'ed 48, year* and wu unmarried. This death takes another member from a family whose history is closely Interwoven with that of Boone and Montgomery counties. Zachariah Gapen, the father of the deceased, WM one of the pioneer settler* of Montgomery County. Later, with bis family, he removed to Tborntpwn