Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A touho man Ea }> "•* cHnnioyed as a section a t Lafayette, fell c-ts . - gS< gmh r south and wan m, ■ —•. c—r ;ae car. He will probe a - is a brother of R, v R lev. a leading minister c. s u-i-t enarch Goy. Mattb.the testimon;. .a Charles ! Oder ' ... . guilty of shod-' ( both cases p, ■ k.'* cuseri were : c'r .iled eve r L « . fnr tha- Logr.r . h ■have y- i ’)■, • ■ ■ ' A F.nt-piV he corn pa n ~ new t,ampin. am lib. for The , .. r.ear 'Guy,. 11 o' T, L. a ,- port. The co; . to strengthen :t j e -h ■stems i.'yl uij.T'.;'.. " • '■" iT.lu ' :'B;i£tion umfre-wa■ .v~ , . , •jrtiiinvr a ffenit or < f S'■(! ■■■ ':• ■ A lEiuya:.;; r i.t ■ i at AsherT.i ,e cxMween .-.ti Cier:- to t.eo. Lnzvvell. t-oih minert T t. -,.■., got t. lark down and chewed hsui in a horrible manner. '• C. >S. JoXKi, of ilockpovt. has gcvp.e to Litfle Rock, Ark., to ,rv to save nis son, Jesse, who is under sentence to hang. A respite has been grunted to December 0. Thk damage suit case of J. C. Downey, who sited the Fairmount Fair association for damage a on account of being crippled 'O’- ii-e wnile racing on the ir track in 1891, is now pending iD the Madison county court, having been taken thereon a change of venue. Xmc—i r.f.L-. tl.ti Life ln<civra I Hngh:^P^ , has appeal.d its ease to the aupreme eourt itr the smt of 'I n <’tnas .b-nicins for 8T75. the amount of a policy on a child, which th£ agent refused to turn sick when it came. The child after? ward died, and Jenkins.sued for tiie amount - - - . ' Frank Matley. an employe of the Kokomo Wood; Enameling Co., wait rwarned sl.ooo damages against the company for injuries sustained in the fall of an elevator. He sued for

*20.000 At Rock port Mrs. Sarah Davis shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Isbell Goodman, her neighbor. They quarreled about their chickens. Mbs. Maggie Garb, of Indianapolis, while in the Union Railway station the other morning intending to take a train for Middletown, 0,, to attend the burial of a kinsman, died suddenly of heart disease. She was 54 years old, and the wife of Charles W. Garr. Black diphtheria is raging in Tipton county. Several deaths were reported a few days ago. The country schools are being dismissed. The malady is mostly confined to children. Montpelier people are going to turn the faucet next spring and the new water works will do the rest. Wm. H. Evans, a veteran editor of southern Indiana, died at his home at Oakland City. Alexandria is to have fifty new •dwelling houses, and by January 1 expects “toTfave 8,000 population. Noble county has granted a franchise to-the Huntington, Columbia City & Ligonier.Electric railway. At Frankfort Mrs. Margaret Fulkerson has filed a claim of 314,000 against ■the estate of the late Di. T. B. Cox. Dr. Cox for the last five years of his life made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Fulkerson, and they attended him in his last illness. James Loudin, of Hammond, has been released from the Marion county jail, where he has been confined since August on a charge of counterfeiting. The 25-barrel oil well developed in the vicinity of Fortville is the property of a private company. Contractors commenced putting in the Vernon water works plant a few days ago. and expect to have it completed by the first_of the nevv year. Morrill & Co., of New Albany, are tho contractors. Gov. Matthews has selected Mayor Thomas Taggart, Dr. J. L. Thompson, Co!. William R Holloway and Charles R. Williams, of Indianapolis; Gen. Lew Wallace, Crawfordsville; Hon. S. P. Staerin, Logansport, and Hon. Arthur W. Brady, of Muncie, to act in conjunction with himself and John H. Holliday, of Indianapolis, in selecting a silver service for the battleship Ini diuna. .. Danville is going to have a public ; library. : Noblksvili.es opera house wRI soon be completed. A railroad extending from Evansville to Nlsw Albany along the Ohio river is being talked of. Rev. W. It Nelson's residence at Union City, was enured by burglars the other night while he was hto'.ding aervioes. -The burglars secured sl4 and two gold ringa The Wayne County Teachers’ association will hold its annual meeting at Richmond on Friday and Saturday, November 2# and 3<». * < Habeas corpus proceedings have been brought at lx>gatu>oort to secure the release of Peter Lauer. a wealthy T'drtar cnunty man, from the Logansport hospital. Luther I. Hals, an aged resident of Hibbard, stuck his head under the second car of a Nickel Pbte freight train the other morning and his head wascut off. Hale was out of work, and deepen ency prompt' d the act Jakk Cass,- living near Alliance, smelled natural gas and struck a livht to laohJfor it A . flash fallowed. Tne bowse was blown to pieces and Capp and bis daughter were blown across the street a * At Fraaklin James D. Lacy has filed •nit against his father-in-law, N M. Maria, for 810.00# damages for alleged Mander alienating hk wife’s afiw-