Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — NEWS OF OUR STATE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. What Oar Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Crimes— Painters About Oar Own People, 5 Minor State Hews. The Pulaski county jail has been condemned and ordered torn down. Mii.o TnoMAs’ hardware store at Corunna is in ashes. Loss, $15,000. Vincennes band has changed its name to the “Electric Street Railway Band.” Nickei.-Pi.ate . passenger trains are frequently stoned in the vicinity of Edgerton. QfTXCY Nebrcxer Bnd James Hoffman wire killed by a boiler explosion at Warsaw. A farmer near Goshen sold ninety fine watermelons for $2. Melons are ciieap as dirt in Indiana. Ax unknown tramp was caught by. a Yandalia train at Terre Haute and literally tom to pieces. La pei, citizens are forming a stock company to own a bank and are erecting a fine building for that purpose. William Tooi.ey was perhaps fatally hurt at Columbus, being buried in a cave while working in a city ditch. Samcei, Nohmax, aged 25 years, wasdrowned near Morgantown while crossing a swollen stream to care for some stock. Mn». Johanna Birc.ert of Terre Haute, was tatally injured by stepping off an electric car while it was still in motion. A rr.AXT for the manufacture of icemaking machinery is to be located at Elwood, and will employ 150 hands, all skilled machinists. At Anderson, while practicing ladder movements, Noz/.leman Frank Myers fell from Ihe first extension to the ground, twenty feet below. There is no hope of his recovery. L

J. C. Beatty of Logansport, fell from a residence on which he was working and was badly hurt. Shortly after his removal Irome Mfsr Beatty feir down a stairway, breaking her thigh. A party of six young men of Elwood, headed by Robert Frost, John Minor, and his brother Charles, are preparing to leave for South America to take charge of a mining and exploring party. AnTnrn Sapp, an employe of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass works at Elwood, got his right arm caught in the polishing benches and it was crushed to a pulp, necessitating amputation. John Davis, aged 17, went down a well on A. W. Huron’s farm, near Plainslield to rescue Lon Crone, who had been overcome by firedamp. Crone was gotton out, but bis rescuer lost his life. William Worley, one of a party of hunters from Logansport, shot himself w hile making his way along the bank of the Wabash River. Death resulted instantly. Worley was 23 years old, and single. At Elwood Miss Lillie Douglass, frightened during a storm, attempted to shut a glass door. She ran her arm through the glass, severing the radial artery, two tendons and a nerve cord, and came near bleeding to death. Neal Sloan, fireman on the Monon, was killed In the roundhouse, at New Albany. He was coupling two tenders and was caught across the abdomen and crushed. Sloan’s parents reside in the town of Marengo. During the reunion of the Thirtieth Indiana Regimental Association at Fort Wayne, a costly dram was presented to Prof, W. JI. Mershon of North Manchester, known as the “Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” aha who is now said to be the acknowledged champion drummer of Indiana.

By the bursting of a cylinder of a hydraulic cider mill, William Wagler, o! the firm of Wagler & Turnpaugh, at Logansport, was perhaps fatally injured. Too much pressure was applied and the cylinder flew to pieces. Heavy fragments struck Mr. Wragler in the chest and head, and his life is despaired of. Ttie American Tin - plate Company, which isujoperating the largest tin-plate plant in the world at Elwood, is arranging to add a big steel mill to its plant, which will manufacture all kinds of steel supplies and employ about 800 hands. When "the twenty-one mills of the tin-plate plant all are completed and in operation (bat will require 2,000 men, making 2,800 in all whieh this immense industry' will employ Jn a few more months. Opponents to the saloon in Franklin ire rejoicing over their first victory under the Nicholson law. Two saloon keepers bad given notice that they would apply for license, for the eusuing year, at the meeting of the County Commissioners. These saloons were both located in the First ward of the city. Remonstrances were circulated and 230 out of of 280 voters in that ward signed the papers. The overwhelming majority caused tho Saloon keepers to make no application, and they will quite the business. One of them will open a grocery store and the other will continue in the ice and restaurant business. Of the seven saloons in the city, six, are located in the First ward, so it will be but a short time until the saloon will not be known in that place. Patents have been granted to the following Indiana inventors: John R. Alexander, New Albany, electrical burglar alarm; Cyrus N. Baker, Cjrawfonlarille, planter: George M. Barney, assignor of one-half to J. L. Clough, Indianapolis,’ for four patents on door-knob lock; Joseph A. Brunner, Fort Wayne, actuating mechanism; James W. Fishback, Goldsmith, well or post auger; Charles W. Gresham, Fredericksburg, wheel-handling device; Frances M. Hoover, Brookville, assigned to L. Kinsey and L. E. Ward. Milton, saw guard; Thomas P. Kenney, Hartford City, glass melting tank; David Shutters, Greenwood, device for lifting invalids; George Hymans, Sheridan, device for separating liquid from gas; Lewis P. Van Breggle, Groomsville, anchor for fence posts. At Union City, the 2-year-old child of Mrs. Stella Guard met with a serious accident. In some manner the baby secured a box of matches, and white playing with them they ignited, burning nearly all its elotbing off, and the front part of its body Into a crisp. It is thought that death will result. The supreme court has declared the law passed by the last legislature changing **ie time of electing County Superintendents to be unconstitutional. Had the law not been knocked out, seventy-six Republican superintendents wonld have been elected Sept. !, instead of Democrats, who now hold the offices for two years longer- , • ’ . •, ran