Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

Ts MS GATHERED FROM OVER 't - THE STATE-.. , An Interesting; Summary of the (lore Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Wed* dings and Deaths—Crimes. Casualties, aud General Indiana News Notes. .... "T"™"*""" - "* - - Returns to His Family After ThirtyThree Years Absence. ‘ Thirty-three years ago Aaron Swain'of Kokomo, went to Cnttfornra. leaving behind a wife and infant daughter, promising to return from the gold fields with a fortune. Twenty years rolled by. and, no tidings of the absent husband coming to the ears of the family, Mrs. Swain married again and is rearing a second family. The infant daughter deserted by Swain was married to George Conner eighteen years ago, and she now has children grown. The other day Swain, after a third of a century’s 'absence, reappeared on the scene, calling first at the home of his daughter, the wife of his youth being now the wife of a prosperous fanner in Henry County. On being told that she was presiding over another household and the mother of a second set >f children, the old gentleman manifested no great concern. “Well,’’ said ho, “3he has got none the best of me on that score. I have another wife and children in California myself.” All parties are on friendly terms, and there is much speculation as to the outcome of the matrimonial tangle. The old gentleman is puzzled to know which wife to keep. The old lady will probably decide the matter. Minor State Items. El wood is to have a $60,030 theater by Christmas. .•' -= ••• - The next State turnfest Will be held at South Bend in July. Hannibal Fletcher aged 78, was found dead in bed at Sbelbyville. Oliver O’Neil, a Brazil butcher, fell into a vat of boiling lard, and was fatally scalded. Chiefs of Police of Indiana met at Terre Haute, Tuesday, and effected a permanent organization. Mrs. Marion McKay was thrown from a runaway buggy at SheibyvHle, and fatally injured. During the centennial Fort Wavne will give bicycle races in which $1,500 in prizes will be awarded, The silverware found in a corn field near Elwood has been identified as that stolen from a Noblesville jewelry store. The State Convention of the Young Women’s Christian Association of Cities and Colleges will be held in Richmond, Oct. 17. lip t rymg tQ cliiiib on the cars at Jonesboro, Randall Chimitkin fell under the wheels and lost both legs. He was only 11 years old. A. J. llinkley, aged 04, a patient la the Central Hospital for the Insane, at Indianapolis, committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel. South Bend board of education has-In-troduced the teaching of Swedish into the public schools. A night school twice a week is held for that pufyosc. The strike at the plate-glass works at Kokomo has ended disastrously for the men. The company put men in the place of the strikers and the plant is in operation again at, the old wages. Tbe Elwood Police Board has issued an order closing up all the gambling rooms in the city and ordering the proprietors to keep them closed in the future, or have all the fixtures burned in the streets. The order is being obeyed. Patents have been issued to residents of Indiana as follows: Edward Brewer, Green wood, rotary photograph album; George Pederson, neck yoke; James Simpson, Veederslnrg, gate; James C. Burgess, Yountzville, bolt clipper. Sheriff JBurk investigated the Shclbyville jail and discovered that the bars had been sawed away from a window, and that a wholesale delivery had been planned. A saw and a file were found in one cell. Among the prisoners are two alleged murderers. The seven-months-old child of O.P. Kerr of Brazil, who was given a tablet of corrosive sublimate by its grandmother, who thought it was a tablet left by the doctor for the child, is dead. The aged lady who gave the poison is distracted with grief. The Rev. Nathan Caldwril McDill will have completed his forty-third year as pastor of the United Brethren Church, at Richland, Rush County, in November. He is now 71 years old, but continnes in the active discharge of his duties as pastor. He has been married three times. , The private bank of C, D. Porter, of Geneva, has been reorganized under-the title of the Geneva Bank, as a State institution, with a paid-up capital of $00,009. The officers elected are: A. G. Briggs, President; 8. W. Ilale, Vice President; C. I). Porter, Cashier, and Eugene Ash, Assistant Cashier. State Gas Inspector Leach gives the cheering intelligence that the gas companies will furnish satisfactory services this year, ne says that experienced men are at the head of the companies now, and he does not believe that patrons will have cause to complain. Inspector Leach has begun a number of prosecutions against those who use gas recklessly in the field, and will pash them. He has had considerable trouble over the flambeau light, and most of his pTosecffiions will be directed against those who have refused to abandon this practice. The people of Posey township Clay County, are excited over an oil find made there. When the firm of B. Roberts & Bro. was sinking a well on the Jeff James farm, a mile and a half southwest of Staunton, the men were suddenly driven out of the well by a flow of oil which gushed up from the bottom and filled it to a depth of twelve feet. The oil was struck at a depth of thirty-flvo feet. Property has already risen to ten times its value. The find was made about a mile from where Terre Haute people two years ago made an unsuccessful attempt to find oil. While Jos. Pye was hauling gravel at Oaklandon, his team ran away, throwing , him under the wagon, which passed over his body, killing him almost instantly. Mr. Fye was a son-in-law of the late D. G. Ilanna. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. and leaves a wife and one child. Clinton Miller committed suicide at tbe fairgrounds at Marion by sbooting-Him-self through the head. He left .a Jotter stating that, having spent all of hi* wife’* money as well as his own, and bating otherwise grossly misbehaved, he frit that the best thing be could Ofi w&rto’pttt *a end to hie exi ~