People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

BRASS BUTTONS. The Gallant Indianiaus Who WiU Wear Them. Indianapolis, March 22—Gov. Matthews placed his establishment on a military footing Tuesday by announcing his staff. The following are the appointees: Adjutant-General—lrvin Robbins, of Indianapolis; rank of brigadier-general Quartermaster-Gen ral—S. M. Compton, Indianapolis: rank of brigadier-general Rank of Colonel— Commissary-General—Chas. Buchanan,Union City. Paymaster-General—L. B. Martin, Terre Haute. g Surgeon-General—R. F. Stone, Indianapolis. Military Secretary—Myron D. King, Indianapolis. Inspector-General—O. P. Lee, Danville. Chief of Artillery—J. B. Curtis, Indianapolis. Chief Signal Officer—R. E. Graves, Evansville. Chief of Ordnance—J. B. Plessinger, Bluffton. Chief of Engineer Corps—LeGrand T. Meyer, Hammond. Inspector of Rifle Practice—Chas. Kahlo, Indianapolis. Bank of Lieutenant-Colonel— Assistant Adjutant-General—Leon T. Bagley, Huntington. Assistant Quartermaster-General—Daniel FaBig- Terre Haute. Assis tan t Commissary-General—John Adams, Columbia City. Assistant Paymaster-General—& P. Strause, Ligonier. Assistant Surgeon-General—E. E. Carey, Indianapolis. Assistant Inspector-General—J. H. Murphy, Indianapolis. Rank of Major— Ordnance Officer—Louis Centilevre, Ft. Wayne. Engineer—A. J. Friend, Ft Wayne. Aide de Camps—Louis Nickel, jr., South Bend; J. M. Healy, Indianapolis; F. A. Hays, Spencer; J. W. Baugher?-Tyner City; W. H. H. Cullen, Greencastle; A. B. Mewhinney, Terre.Haute.

The directors of the Commercial club, Indianapolis, held a meeting 1 and discussed plans of raising the 150,000 more for the G. A. R. encampment by voluntary subscriptions. The funds, it is thought, can be secured easily. Fred Peters was killed by the flying pieces of a broken buzz saw, near Valparaiso. Mrs. J. D. Parkington was killed in a runaway near Milton. f? Wm. C. Towle was promoted to the position of assistant cashier by the T. Hammond Co., at Hammond, and before he had been in that capacity twen-ty-four hours absconded with about SI, OOO of the company’s money. His father is a wealthy broker in New York city. The sheriffs of about one-third of the counties in the state met at the Grand hotel, Indianapolis, to consider the fee and salary law and its relation to them. The meeting authorized the employment of attorneys to bring suit to test the constitutionality of the law. The meeting and its proceedings are in accordance with a plan agreed upon at a conference held during the session of the general assembly, when it was decided not to insist on the legislature amending the law, but to keep quiet until the adjournment, and then bring a suit to test the law. It was stated by delegates to the meeting that it had not yet been decided in which county the suit shall be brought

, Paul Atzpodien, an Evansville reporter, ridiculed Judge Gough and a jury of Boonville. He will be punished for contempt On a flatcar in the Pennsylvania yards, at Columbus, the other day rested the largest wood-split pulley in the world. It is a part of the Reeve’s Pulley Co.’s exhibit which will be made at the World’s fair, and will be shipped, together with other appurtenances to Chicago. It requires two and one-half kegs of nails and 100 pounds of glue to unite the 2,800 pieces of wood, of which it is composed. The pulley is eighteen feet in diameter, has a face surface of four feet, and will be fastened to a shafting eight feet in diameter. The movement to establish a state soldier’s home at Noblesville will not be abandoned because the legislature failed to make an appropriation for it. Eck Burke, a cigar-maker of Logansport, was shot in the neck by Marshal Lunsford, and perhaps fatally injured. He was trying to escape arrest for a minor offense when shot. The annual school oratorical contests of Montgomery county will be held at Crawfordsville, April 29. Every electric light in .Brazil was extinguished by a stroke of lightning a few nights ago, and Mrs. Linck’sbarn was demolished and burned. A peculiar gas explosion occurred at the Spencer hotel, Marion, the other night. The porter, Lyamas Meachern, had gone to the ice-chest and struck a match, when the explosion followed, throwing him several feet backward. His face, neck and arms were burned to a crisp. His eyes were burned out. The chest and the walls of the building were shattered. The Brazil Mining Co., composed of capitalists of Greencastle, Terre Haute, Louisville and Reedville, the other day began sinking a six-hundred-and-nine-ty-eight feet shaft on the Relsvil farm, near Brazil, where gold, silver and zinc were recently discovered. Experts say the output of the mineral will be very great Capitalists of Colorado' have been in Brazil for several days assaying the ore and trying to purchase land. The find has created quite a stir in financial circles.

Wabash county commissioners have authorized the issue of $25,000 of bonds for funding the county indebtedness and to pay for public improvements now under way. They were sold to a Cleveland firm for $25,000. A Stranger arrived in Lebanon a few days since and sought out Prosecutor Dutch, to whom he related that, while passing through the county in 1860, he had broken into a store at Jamestown and stolen some clothing, making his escape. He desired to atone for the crime in pleading guilty and paying a fine. He was informed that the statute of limitation ba.rred prosecution and that he could go free. At Richmond, William Marshall sued Henry Ganen for money lost at cards, and the court has ruled that the latter must tell whether or not he is a common gambler, and does not keep a common gambling house. ■