People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A JURY at Logansport gave Brakeman William Sullivan, of the Panhandle, $4,500 for the lose of hi* right arm. The wife of Lara McAlphin, a well-to-do Irish resident of Columbus, has mysteriously disappeared. She has threatened to drown herself, and it is thought she has carried out her threat. The river has been dragged, but no body has been recovered. Jab. Hill, a wealthy farmer near Donelson, was kicked In the abdomen by a horse and died in a few ttk>mentg. The other night Chief Detective Splan, of Indianapolis, received a telegram from the marshal of Yellow Springs, 0., requesting him to arrest Samuel and George Ross, colored, for the murder of John Valentine, whe before his death said that while in Indianapolis he had been assaulted and robbed by the two men named. The two men were arrested. The men deny the charge. Valentine was an ex-sol-dier and came to Indianapolis to draw his pension. J. C. Fawcett, of New Albany, has been appointed a cadet to West Point Military academy. 0 The late floods caused the Ohio river to overflow the Indiana bank for three miles above and below Henderson, Ky., submerging the farming lands two and a half miles back, to a depth of from 12 to 36 inches. One mile above Evansville the rushing flood has cut through a channel a mile and a quarter long, coming out at A. Stanley’s farm, over a mile from Henderson, deep enough to float large steamers. Should this divergence become permanent it would save a ten-mile detour, but leave Evansville an inland city. The other morning nine miles south of Goshen Chas. McCrantz was returning home, and while driving through the gate his two little ones rushed out to meet him. One, 3 years old, was under the wheels .before he noticed them. It was down grade, and the wagon could not be stopped, the wheels passing over the child’s head and crushing out its brains. Alfred Lockard, an old soldier of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, was found in an unconscious condition at Madison the other day, and died late in the evening. He had just received his pension money and is believed to have been drugged and robbed. The Richmond Typographical union the other night ordered a strike of the ■ printers employed by the Register Publishing Co., because of the failure of that firm to pay union schedule prices. A large barn, the property of Ed Winklepleck, near Clay City, burned, together with 2,000 bushels of corru Loss, 81,500. The fire is thought to be the work of an incendiary. ! Fire the other morning destroyed the barn of John Sparks, three miles east of Borden, a station on the Monon railroad. Four horses, three buggies, farming implements, and his entire stock of feed were burned. Loss, $2,0C0, with no insurance. The fire was of incendiary origin. In the circuit court at Corydon Wal- ' ter Montgomery, aged 28, was sentenced •to the penitentiary for one year for issuing a check on a Louisville bank in I which he had no money on deposit. I George Krause, for sending a white-cap I notice, was given a term in the county i jail. Frank Hall, fined for assault and j battery, made a dash for liberty and I escaped from the sheriff. He has not ; yet been apprehended.

The pecuniary damage done by the i late floods in White and Wabash rivers will amount to $50,000. M any farmers ' are badly crippled, and to that extent the business outlook here is very unfa- ! vorable. The stench in the bottoms from decaying matter is almost intolerable. At Evansville there was a settlement ' by agreement in the superior court of the case of Mary N. Shelton against the E. & T. H. Railroad Co. Plaintiff in this action was the mother of Eva Williams, who was killed near the John ■ street crossing June 1, 1892, by an E. & |T. H. switch engine. She sued for ' $5,000. Thirteen hundred dollars was the amount for which the suit was compromised. The Indiana traveling salesmen elected the following officers: President, C. M. Taylor, Logansport; vice presidents, C. S. Dunning, Lafayette; Wm. Stewart; Logansport; F. E. Riblet, Ft. Wayne; secretary and treasurer, E. A. Keller, Logansport; directors, Frank Stone, Ft. Wayne; W. Uhl, J. H. Riethemeyer, Logansport. Dajrcus Green was arrested for drunkenness and placed in the station- * house at Richmond. An hour afterwards he was found dead. He was 25 years old and unmarried. ■ The following fourth-class postmasters were appointed recently: Ash Grove, Tippecanoe county, J. R. McAfee; Crandall, Harrison county, Mrs. S. A. Heuser; Hillsburgh, Clinton county, I. N. Pennington; Mackey, Gibson county, John Niederhaus; Orange, Fayette county, Levi S. Hunt; Turner, : Clay county, Frederick Mackel; West i Point, Tippecanoe county, John Bu- ! chanan; Austin, Scott county, J. W. Montgomery; Bargersville, Johnson county, Mrs. Mary A. Jones; Boundary, Jay county, C. N. Heister; Bud, Johnson county, R. S. Parkhurst; Eames, ■ Warrick county, Mrs. Susan Condict; Lincolnville, Wabash county, Jas. Billiter; Ramsey, Harrison county, Edward Davis. At Fowler, Nellie C. Payne was found ! guilty»of an attempt to kill her husband i and given four years in the Women aad Girls’ reformatory. • • Charles Schreiver and wife and a man named Hunter were .arrested at Madison and taken .to. Indianapolis, charged with counterfeiting. , They are supposed to belong to the gang lately exposed at St. Joseph, Mo. Mrs. Biddle McKee, at Seymour, colored, died aged 101 years, 2-’montha and 5 days. She was born in Virginia, and was a %lave until slavery was abolished. She was the oldest person in tha t section of the country and the mother cf nineteen children.