People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A few days ago a dispatch stated that • man named Galley had jost died in California, leaving an estate of $1,500,000. John Galley, a farm hand at Coin mb as, is the only heir to this vast estate. _i The Indiana joint legislative oommittee which investigated the management of the prison south has submitted to the legislature a bill of expenses amounting to *2,300. The result of the investigation showed that the state Owes Warden Patten $1,500. John Kelly, a yard foreman in charge of a switch engine at the east yards of the Pittsburgh, Ft Wayne & Chicago railroad, Ft Wayne, was run down by a locomotive and instantly killed. A YEAR ago Orrell, the 4-year-old son of Esquire G. R. Shultz, of Brazil, swallowed a tack, which in some manner got into the lungs, eventually causing death. John Conrad, of Peru, signed a lightning rod contract for $7.50. His note for $750 was discovered in time for MK Conrad to meet the agent with a shotgun and save his wealth. The period had been erased. At Ft Wayne, Henry Beckers found in an alley a pasteboard box about which was loosely wrapped an old gossamer. It contained the dead body of a female child, neatly dressed in lace and embroidered clothing. At the inquest the fact was developed that the child had been dead at least four weeks, but that it was only a few hours old when killed. Mobris Reiss, agent for D. H. Baldwin & Co.’s branch piano house, at Evansville, has, it is said, left for parts unknown, leaving the company and many creditors in the lurch. Conductor W. E. Seldbich, of the C. & I. Coal railroad, fell between the cars at Brazil and was killed. At Anderson the other day the first test of a new crude oil burner for locomotives was made. It is thought the invention will work a revolution in iuel for locomotives Florida, near Anderson, has secured a mammoth steel plant with a capitaP stock of $125,000. The factory is to employ not less than 150 skilled laborers when in full operation. The noted ‘case of Joseph J. Fields, ex-treasurer of Orange county, against Clark Brown and the Orange County bank, has been set for trial in the Washington circuit court for Monday, March 6. The suit is for $20,000, the full amount of Fields’ shortage, with about eight thousand dollars added. The other night the house of John Bartholomew burned to the ground at Milford while the family was at church. They had been smoking meat in the house. It was the first brick house erected in Kosciusco county, having been built in 1847.

Albert Gibbons, son of John Gibbons, residing south of Brazil, and one of the wealthiest farmers in Clay county, was arrested at his home on a warrant issued by Deputy United States Commissioner W. P. Blair, of Brazil, on a charge of deserting the regular army in Montana two months ago. The case was tried before Mr. Blair, the father claiming custody of his son on the ground that the boy was under age when he enlisted. After a heated discussion the prisoner was turned over to his father. Denwis Bolin, a farmer living in Van Buren, Clay county, was killed the other afternoon in a runaway. His team became frightened at a passing engine and ran off, tearing the wagoq all to pieces and throwing Mr. Bolin to the ground, crushing his skulL A man giving his name as Fred George a noted burglar who has been operating in the vicinity of Vincennes, was arrested the other day at the instance of a tramp, to whom George had confided the extent of his operations. In some straw stacks, three or four miles west of Vincennes, on the Ohio & Mississippi railroad, were found probably $3,000 worth of stolen goods taken from country stores he had robbed. At Columbus, while resisting a rest for intoxication, Henry Schoonover, a contractor, seriously cut Policeman Ructree in the throat. The officer fired at his man, but missed him and struck a bystander in the hip. While. a colored man named Johnson was dancing in a saloon, at Brazil, a revolver fell from his pocket, exploded and killed Joe Smith, also colored. Henry Schoonover, who cut Policeman Rucker who was attempting to arrest him, has deeded to the officer a hqpse and lot. Fibe destroyed the big handle faotory of Surpless, Dunn & Co., at Lafayette. Loss, $25,000; fully insured. The body of an unknown man, evidently murdered, was found on the highway near Greenfield. Owen P. Scabff, of Madison City, has been appointed government gauger and assigned to duty at Hammond. C. S. CoTTiNfmAM, after fifteen years’ service as assistant postmaster at Kokomo, has resigned. M. S. Holman takes his place. During the funeral of Joseph Weaver, at the Christian church in Noblesville, the building was discovered to be on fire, and the alarm came near causing a panic The fire department was called out and the fire was extinguished without material loss. Thebe have been introduced in the Indiana legislature up to February 20 a total of 873 bills and less than fifty of these have been enacted into laws. Judge James S. Frazer died at his home in Warsaw, the other evening, of pneumonia, aged sixty-nine years. Judge Frazer was the best known jurist in Indiana, and his decisions made upon the supreme bench gained for him a national reputation. A difficulty occurred near Nashville, Brown county, the other afternoon, in which Douglass Moore shot Wm. Moore. The wound is said to be mortal. The foundrymen at Evansville have united under the name of Manufacturers’ Union, and have locked out the moldera, who struck several times bei font