Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

fTEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAa Interesting Summary or tbe Store la. portant Doings of Oar Neighbor*—Wed. 1 dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana Nows Notes. Minor State News. Mu.o TribjtAA* hardware store at Corunna is in ashes. Loss, $15,000. A Wabash milling firm bought 73,000 feet of first-class growing timber within, the city limits of Wabash. O.u.v one erder for the relief of poor has been issued in Cass t wn3hip, Clay county, during the last, five years. The Shepard Canning Works, of Anderson, which burned, is preparing to rebuild the plant at an expense of $7,000. Patrick Patigkn, cf Orestes, who was crushed almost to death by asewer eaving in on him a year ago, is now violently inTBUie. 1 -nr, • o-. - , ■ ■ • 6 Rev. G. P. Feson has resigned Ms pastorate of the Baptist Church at Crawfordsville, where he has been for eight years. Farmers of Madison County believe that the eom crop will not he half what was expected a few days ago, owing to the intense heat. . . llf.xry Seagi.e, a boy about 16 years old, was run down by a Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City through freight train near Decatur and almost instantly killed. Sami ei. Ci.tntox, North Clinton, is dead from turns received while fighting afire in his wheat field. He worked so hard that be became exhausted and fell into the fire. Tiierf, are thirty-five cases of typhoid fever at Richmond, but no deaths have occurred. The trouble is said to be due to impure water used by the dairymen for their caltle. -i - - Loris Brooks, one of the best-known young men in Goshen, was run over by a Baltimore & Ohio express at Lake Wawasee and instantly killed, his head being severed from the body. Thomas Nui.r., aged 60, an inmate of The Sold refs’ Home, at Marion, was struck by an electric car and received fatal injuries rhissiruH and right leg were crushed. Null was intoxicated and fell under the wheels of a passing car. The S-year-ohl daughter of Robert Early, three mUes south of Wabash, fell from a second story window and received injuries which the doctor fears will prove fatal. The child was restored to consciousness, but her condition is critical. The Twenty-fifth Annual Reunion of Old Settlers of Hamilton County met at Eagletowu. Twelve or fifteen thousand people were present. Prizes Were awarded to the oldest man, ninety years, and the oldest woman, eighty-seven years. The Indiana State Board of Charities has announced a program for the Fourth Annual Indiana Conference of Charities, to be held at Fort Wayne, September 15 to 17. Circulars have been sent to all the Township Trustees calling then* attention to the meeting, and requesting their attendance.

I Jesse Smith, a well-known fanner of Monroe County, met with a terrible death. He and Jame 3 Douglass were running a traction engine, when it got out of -and. Saiiili. under the.machine to repair it. Th j ponderous machine started backward and the rear wheels cut his body in t ; >vo. He died in a few hours in terrible agony. Sherman Xobi.e, an employe of rhe American tin-plate works, at Elwood, while at work met with a bad accident. A sheet of wet tin dropped into the both of acid flux and melted tin, causing the mixture to explode and fly all over his head and chest, burning him in a terrible manner. He will recover, but will be scarred for life. Ax epidemic of glanders is raging among the horses of Perry Township, Clay County, although every effort is being made to stop it. The State Veterinary Board, accompanied by Drs. Xussell and Fate of Brazil, went to the scene and saw about thirty-five horses suffering from the disease. The board ordered four of the animals shot and the rest quarantined. The premium list for the forty-fourth annual State Fair has been issued. The exhibit will be held daring the week beginning Monday, Sept. 16. The Board of Agriculture has set apart Tuesday as Old Soldiers’ and Childrens’ day, when school children and veterans will be admitted free. Wednesday will be music day, and Thursday will be known as Indiana day. Patents have been granted to Indianians as follows: Jasper L. Ackerman, Monon, measuring device; Stephen G. Baldwin, Marion, ink well; Charles A. Bertsch, Cambridge City, metal-shearing machine; John K. Carfield, assignor of to A. N. Wilson, Indianapolis, shaft support for vehicles; William L. Cassaday, South Bend, Wheeler gang plow; Andrew Krieger, Indianapolis, detachable tooth saw; John Salary, South Bend, axle skein; Joseph S. Urban, assignor of two-thirds to A. P. McKee and W. £. Jones, Anderson, fan attachment for rocking chairs.

At the request of Vicomte R. de Comely, director of the foreign department of the Mexican International Exposition, which will open in Mexico City, April 2, 1896, and continue for six months, Governor Matthews has made the following appointments of commissioners to represent this State: James Studebaker, George Ford and Benjamin Birdsell, South Bend; John 11. Bass, Fort Wayne;. Ralph 11. Hemengray, Muncic; John J. Cooper and Volney T. Malott, Indianapolis; James H. Willard, Bedford Francis J. Reitz and Benjamin Vonbehren,Evansuiile; John F. Beggs and G. W. Bement, Terre Haute; George Pence, Columbus; Walter Evans, Noblesville; Benjamin Starr, Richmond. These men, are, for the most part, manufacturers, who intend to make exhibits at the exposition, and would probably attend anyway. This makes twenty-two States that have appointed commissioners to this exposition. Tiie new gas well drilled near Swaysee by the WaUash Fuel Company, isoee of the strongest in the State, its daily flow u measured being 4,000,000 feet. So powerful is the gas pressure that five hundred feet of casing was forced out of the hole and it was with the greatest difficulty the well could be anchored. Arraxoemkxts are being made to have a battalion of two hundred veterans go from Crawfordsville to Louisville on Sept. 10 to the G. A. R. National Rneampment. They will go via Indianapolis and will be in command of Gen. Lew Wallace. Their banner will be inscribed: “Lew Wallace Veteran Battalion Indiana."