Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. \ 7 -7; .■ ■■■ < Bad Failnr « Thorntown Firm— Mrs. Loomis Gets a Divorce from Her Dangerous Husband —Carious Operation of Big Paper Mills. Thirteen Cents on the Dollar. Last April Aaron Mossier, of Thorm town, a dry goods and clothing dealer, made an assignment. The final report of 11. (X Ulen, trustee, has just been filed. The unsecured creditors receive verylittle. The available assets were sll,207.51. The preferred claims of Lew Mossh-i-. koi> of the assignor, amount to $2,300; Of Joseph Franklin, son-hr-taw; S!MJI; of Bettman Brothers, of Cincinnati, $1,000; taxes,“s3oO. The assignee charges SI,OOO, while his attorneys ask for SSOO. The unpreferred creditors have_ ciainis pending for $12,737.61, with but $1,765.02 with which to pay it, making about IX! cents on the dollar. Indiatiapolis wholesale men are among the nnpreferred creditors. Divorced from an Insane Assassin. Mrs. Eliza J. Loomis, of Shanghai, has been granted a divorce and alimony from Horace Loomis. It was in evidence that the defendant was serving a life-sentence for assassinating his cousin. .James Gregory, as the latter, while acting ns nurse, was administering a dose of medicine to the assassin’s sick mother. It was also in evidence Jhat Loomis had been in the insane asylum eight times since their marriage, /sixteen years ago, and had frequently threatened to kill his wife and children. Loomis has been the terror of , Shaughai -neighborhood or jnany years. He is an expert marksman, and his favorite pastime during his crazy spells was to mount an unbridled horse and while ridtrigatbreakheckspcedshoOtcverythiiig and everybody in sight. . The Drough t A ffeclln g she he at. Although the wheat crop in Wabash County has not yet suffered seriously from lack of rain, it is in a condition where moisture is needed, if damage is to be averted. There have been a few light showers, but the autumn winds have dried out the soil and carried it away from the roots of the plants, and the situation of the wheat is precarious. In some of the adjoining counties, notably. Kosciusko, where there have been no rains, tfie wheat is being damaged. It is spindling in itiTgrowth. of bad coldr. and in some fields the plants scarcely show above the ground. Drenched Into Subjection. The in the Frankfort jail built a tire of their bed clothing. The Sheriff’s family gave the alarm and the fire was extinguished. An hour later the match was applied again, and this time the. fire department was ordered out and —under the direction of City Marshal Baird the jail was flooded. The prisoners begged for mercy, but the stream was not turned off until they were thoroughly drenched. This was their fourth offense, and the authorities considered their sport a trifle monotonous. Pumping the River Dry. It is said that the large paper mills along the headwaters of the Mississinew-a River, at Hartford, Eaton and other points ate literally pumping that stream dry. A. C. Trentman, of the Hartford City Paper Compand, says that his company alone is using nearly all the water in the river, and that some establishments are unable to run because of the lowstage. Unless rain soon falls there will be absolutely no water reach the lower river, all being absorbed in Blackford and counties cast. A Serious Runaway»Acci<lent. While John McCarthy and Miss Deila Huffman were driving to their homes, a few miles south of Ix-banon, their horse became frightened and began to rear and plunge forward, finally upsetting the buggy and falling and breaking its neck. The young lady suffered a broken limb apd was otherwise seriously injured. The young man was considerably bruised, but out seriously hurt. All Over the State. Rollin Stibbins, of Kokomo, is dead, the result of a fall from a roof. , Joseph Hill, of Steubenville, Ohio, fell from a train at Blornington, losing a leg. He claims he was pushed off by a brakeman.

Ebner. Weaver, who was arrested at Waterloo, charged with arson, has beeii adjudgedjnsane. Weaver has a mania for starting fires, nnd his arrest was the outgrowth of his work in burning a house and barn. The sixty-third annual session of the Indiana Baptist State convention was held at Terre Haute in the First Baptist Church. The Rev. S. C. Fulmer, of Elkhart, vice president, was chairman. Reports showed 585 churches in the State, 416 ministers, 58,090 members, 483 Sunday schools, with 35,610 pupils and teachers. The church property includes the college at Franklin, the grounds and buildings of which arc valued at $65,000, with an endowment fund of $225,000. During the past year SBO,OOO was contributed for salaries and other church expenses; $16,000 went to missions, and $37,500 was "otherwise expended. The largest crop of potatoes ever grown in Fulton County is being harvested. Until five years ago the farmers did not undertake the field culture of this popular tuber, and one seldom found a “patch” covering an acre. The first field planted contained eight acres, and was viewed by hundreds of people. It netted the owner SIOO i»er acre. The yield this year is a great surprise to the growers, many of whom reported in July that the crop was being ruined by the drought, and they are digging from 100 to 250 bushels per acre. Some have been marketed where it only required from twenty to forty tubers to weigh a bushel. The price has fallen to 25 cent* a bushel, but the large yield makes it the beatpaying crop the farmers have harvested this season. At English triplets were born to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley McMahel, two dauglC ters and one son. The father has named the children Patience, Constance and Courage, saying that he. himself, will have need of these virtues. Joseph Brown, a miner, employed in the’ Brazil mine of the Jackson company, had gotten into the cage to ascend from the ■atine, and, while the cage was in motion, his kit of tools eaught in the machinery in some manner, drawing him between the cage and the. wall of The shaft, crush* ing his body into » shapeless, bloody