Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Snmmnrj of tbs Mors Important Doing* of Our Nelghbon-Wed. dlng»und Deaths—Crime*. Casualties and Gan oral News Kota*. Condensed State News. Minor State Hews. Terre Ilaute has been chosen as the next meeting place ol the Northwest Indiana conference. — —'—— Jacob Kckman of fioekport, a baggageman, lost a hand while making a coupling at Rockport. The total amonnt given away to the poor by Indiana township trustees during 1894 wMtcakga&g?. • t ' v -~ John Leisure, of AHngton, was kicked to death'!)) horses after being joltet} from his seat on a wagon. i./. Henry Hale, who has been missing at Goshen, has been found dead in the woods. He committed suicide.Knightstown is enjoying an oil boom. Major Dotty of Anderson, is said to have made a rich strike there. The old Masonic Temple at Logansport was torn down, and several old coins were found in the corner stone. Fort Wayne will celebrate her Ceptennail anniversary, Oct. 15, 1(5, 17, and 18, and will celebrate it right. August Koscncrahz, a Laporte carpenter, hanged himself. lie had been married three times, and leaves two children. John Barillo and Michael Sabo, employed by the Standard Oil Works at Whiting, were suffocated by escaping gas. Terre Haute coal dealers have raised the prices of anthracite 25 eents a ton, and It is expected that they will advance the rate of soft coal. The American Plate Glass Works at Alexandria, the largest plant outside the . trust, lias resumed operations with 600 hands, An epidemic of diphtheria is prevailing in Yorktown, and the opening of the public schools bus been indenfiniteiy post- — poned. - — Tlie Home Land and Improvement Company, with a capital slock of $(50,000, has been incorporated to build houses at Alexandria for-factory-employes. The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Judge Hackney, held that the statute under which (he humane societies of the State kill hors s and other animals is invalid. By a surgical operation 14-year-old Blanche Bigham of Laporte, was relieved of a hair-pin that had found lodgment in her body, causing her acute suffering for ten years. A small child of Mr, and Mrs. Samuel Bishop, of Elwood, while playing around a tub half filled with scalding' water, tumbled in, and was blistered in a horrible manner.Mrs. Fouts, the first female white child born in Wayne county, still lives on the old Fouts farm, five miles from Richmond. She is eighty-eight years old and in very good health. The City Council of Elwood passed an ordinance compelling the railroad companies to maintain flagmen at all crossings, and limiting speed of trains within the jg&v&mULiimite.r. There has been a fair strike ofpetroleum near Upland by the Upland Gas and Oil Company. Two wells have been drilled in there within the last week, each yielding about fifty barrels of high-grade oil daily. Andrew Wallis was run over at Fort Branch while trying to board the midnight E. & T. 11. train. He had both legs ground to pieces. lie was taken to St. 3lary’s Hospital, Evansville, Jand the legs ampu- . tated, death following in two hours. The entire family of Charles S. Krueger, of Michigan City, father, mother and five children, now lie bnried in the cemetery. The family was poisoned by eating diseased pork, and one after another they succumbed, the last one dying this week.

A curious accident occurred at the Marion fruit jar works. The bottom dropped out of a large tank, spUling and rendering worthless a mass of molten glass weighing 120 tons. It will be necessary for the factory to shut down two weeks for repairs A well-to-do farmer near Eminence,was run over by a wagon and almost instantly killed. He was hauling his winter coal home, and in going down a hill his hand slipped from the brake, throwing him under the wheels. lie leaves a large family. A man by the name of Anderson and two young women were probably fatally injured in a runaway at Wiillamstown. The team dashed down a hill, throwing the party out and injuring all three. The horses were ruined and the vehicle wrecked. Well drillers near Brownsbnrg drilled through a twenty-foot layer of substance resembling India rubber. At a depth of 85 feet they struck a piece of-pine timber in good preservation, then came a black deposit resembling very coarse gunpowder, followed by an indigo-blue substance, the water also being blue. A lease war is said to be waging near Van Bnren between the Grant County Oil Company and the Ohio Oil Company. Both companies claim a particular lease, and both have rigged timbers. The firstnamed company took out ten teams to remove the opposition company’s timbers, but were repulsed with shotguns. Patents have been issued to Indianians as follows: James B. Baird, Elwood. tinning machine; John J. Gaynor, Indianapolis, self-binding attachment for reaping machines; George Cross, Plymouth, bicycle frame and finishing; Emsley Harper, Lawrence, earth anger; Francis A. Hedges, Vera Cruz, bundle binder; John Uetberington, Porter, insect powder distributor; Albert 11. Kennedy, Rockport, ba.l bat: Thomas Neisom, embossing machine; John E. Kouth, Jeffersonville, mail bag carrier; 'Washington F. Walb, Greencastle, harness. Roscoe Kimble, receiver of the Citizens* Bank, of Converse, which went to the wall in Jane, 1893, has declared a dividend of fifteen per cent, to depositors, payable Sept. 21. This will make a total of 62 1-2 per cent, paid thus far, and there are enough assets to pay all Claims in fail. The corn crop in Wabash county is now gathered and is one of the largest yields the county has ever known. The grain has ripened without frost, is well developed and is drying so rapidly that it can be cribbed! with safety next month. In former years much corn has been shipped In for feeding purposes, but this year there will be a great deal of com shipped ouL - .