People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

LAST September Uncle James Ambrose, a noted character of Evansville, died suddenly and unattended. He owned real estate valued at $3,500, and being without relatives, had made a will bequeathing all his property to a business partner and friend named James Holloway. The old Negro was buried in Potter’s field. It is now claimed that poison had been placed in the old man’s food, and that he was murdered. SARAH LAGRO brought a $5,000 breach of promise suit against Daniel Hill, a retired business man of Goshen. Hill is very wealthy, has passed 80 years, and was married but a few months ago. A FREIGHT on the Wabash extension was wrecked near Millersburg, badly damaging the track and demolishing the engine and four cars. Michael Coon was crushed to death under the locomotive. MRS. WM. MIDDLETON, of Hatfield, Spencer county, committed suicide the other morning by jumping in a cistern. Only six months ago her son killed himself. THE other morning Mrs. M. J. Rankin was found dead in her bed in an old and lonely house near the Baltimore and Ohio tracks at Milford Junction. Her little dog, sole companion of her solitude, was whining disconsolately, lying in the bed with her. The unfortunate woman was addicted to drugs, and she either got an overdose, or heart failure, brought on by an excessive use of stimulants, caused her death. MRS. GEO BRISCOE was driving into Greencastle, the other day, in a spring wagon, when one of the wheels came off and the team ran away. She was thrown against the curbstone, fracturing her skull and otherwise injuring her. Her recovery is doubtful. PADDY CROAK and father, while drunk, undertook to drive down a street pavement at Anderson. Deputy Sheriff Coburn attempted to arrest them, but were fired on by Croak, Jr. The shots were returned. Coburn will die. CHARLES KRINER, hunting ducks near Martinsville, lost an eye by reason of his gun exploding. JAMES HAGGARD, of Morgantown, lost all the fingers on his left hand by sawing them off while at work on a fence. THE other day John S. Welch’s barn, including two horses, southeast of Muncie, in Henry county, waa destroyed by fire.

MR. AND MRS. G. W. HESTER'S ten-months-old baby, at Farmland, upset a pot of boiling tea, scalding itself so that the flesh fell from its limbs. PETER J. CLARK, one of the men indicted for participating in the riot at the opera house, Lafayette, at the time George P. Rudolph, the ex-priest, was shot, has filed a most voluminous affidavit asking a change of venue. It is under advisement. GEORGE CAFFEY, a young farmer living near Switz City, went to the barn, and, failing to return, his wife searched for him and found him dead. He had committed suicide by hanging. Financial troubles. I. H. LANGDON, editor of the Atlanta Herald, filed action in the circuit court at Kokomo against the Tipton County Fair association, asking damages in the sum of $5,000 for false imprisonment. Last fall Langdon contracted with the association to supply printed programmes for the fair, and while he was distributing the paper a special policeman, mistaking him for a faker, arrested him. AT Lawrenceburg George Sedler caught 1,000 pounds of fish at one haul. The story is vouched for by creditable fishermen. AN unknown man, supposed to be a minister, was killed by the cars at Union City a few days since. THE dead body of E. J. Hurley, of Valparaiso, was found in a pond near his home. He disappeared last December. ARTHUR SHAW, an employe of the Monon railway at Lafayette, was run over and ground to pieces the other morning. It is supposed he fell between the cars. A KEELEY institute has been organized at Liberty. DR. LEVI RITTER, of Indianapolis, is dead. ON Monday, March 27, Winchester will vote on the question of incorporation as a city.

SUIT was brought the other afternoon at Columbia City by John Young, of Fort Wayne, for $25,000 damages for injuries sustained in a wreck February 22, at that place, when several coaches left the track and rolled down the embankment, killing one and injuring thirty people. Dr. Young received three fractured ribs and was otherwise injured. This is the first suit growing out of the wreck. ED GODFREY, a druggist of Columbus, while hunting near the Jackson county line the other morning, killed a large gray eagle, which measured seven feet and three inches from tip to tip of its wings. These birds are exceedingly scarce in that locality. He will have it mounted. AT Anderson Thomas Hollenbach was cowhided by Mrs. Zohns for having made a disparaging remark about her. A GANG of tramps, near Winchester, after having broken open a freight car, retreated to a school house, where the whole outfit was captured by plucky farmers. SAM and Bill Conrad have been jailed on the charge of murdering their father, Edward Conrad, in Boone township, near Corydon. THE governor has appointed H. F. Work, of New Washington, and G. H. D. Cole and M. B. Cole, of Charlestown, to supervise the erection of a monument over the grave of the late Gov. Jennings, the first governor of Indiana. The remains lie in an unmarked grave at Charlestown. FIRE destroyed the dry goods store at Wiler & Wise, at Logansport. Stock valued at $75,000. Building damaged to the amount of $3,000. Insurance on stock $43,000.