People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A correspondent writes: “Catch several rats without injuring them and put them in a tight cage. Do not feed them anything and they will eat each other until all but one are eaten, and he may be let loose. He has now such a love for cannibal diet that he will soon eat every rat on the place.” The farmers who take the papers for the news are hereby notified to be on the lookout for two smooth tongued sharps who are going through the country appointing agents for a patent wire fence. The men are frauds and their scheme is to secure the signature of the agent to a contract which turns out to be a bank note. It is said that farmers in LaPorte county are being worked on a telegram racket. A party drives up to the residence and delivers a telegram on which $3 or $4 is due. The telegram afterward proves to be false and the victim is out of the money paid for the telegram and traveling expenses to a relative which it falsely told him was ill. The house of representatives passed the Barnes bill Monday, prohibiting racing in Indiana during the winter months, and forbidding that there shall bo racing on any track in the state for a period of more than sixty consecutive days. The bill will have to pass the senate before becoming a law. It is aimed at the Roby track. In 1892 the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago added 1,360 cars to its equipment, six new passenger coaches and three passenger locomotives. This year it will add 1,550 cars to its freight equipment, three complete vestibule trains and four, heavy passenger locomotives. The road is well provided with freight locomotives.