People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

HEVERLING'S grocery and saloon, Porter’s saloon and restaurant and a cottage, at Owensboro, were burned at an early hour the other morning. The two saloons were notorious resorts. Loss about $3,000; insurance light. The fire was incendiary. ANDREW CORRAN, a brakeman, fell between his moving engine and the tender at Frankfort, the wheels passing over his shoulder. He lived three hours thereafter. THE creditors of W. H. Thomas & Co., the wholesale whisky dealers of Louisville, who recently suspended payment on account of the stringency in money matters, met in their office and unanimously agreed to hold off until matters could be arranged. They agreed to Maj. Thomas’ proposition and he gave full assurance that all creditors would receive dollar for dollar. A TWO-STORY frame warehouse, containing hemp, wheat and blue grass seed, belonging to Brent Bros., at Paris, caught fire from a spark from an L. and N. switch engine and was destroyed. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $4,500. THE post office at Regina, Green county, will be discontinued after May 31.

THE way of the reformer is not an easy one at Henderson. CoL S. A. Young and Dr. O’Neal have been conspicuously active in endeavoring to cleanse out the moral nuisances of that city, and each has received a letter warning him that friends of the “persecuted wimmin” will always avenge the wrongs of the poor creatures. ADJT-GEN. GROSS has decided to recommend to Gov. Brown that the three regiments of the state guard be ordered to camp at Bowling Green during July and August. THE convention of the Kentucky Homeopathic medical society, which had been in session at Danville two days, adjourned the other day. Next year’s meeting will he in Lexington. THE house of Anderson Givens was broken open at McKinney, the other night, while the family were at church, and robbed of $840 in cash, and a few articles of little value. COUNTY CLERK PROWZ, of Hopkinsville, was aroused from sleep at 11 o’clock, the other night, and brought from his home to his office to issue a marriage license to James B. Clifton and Miss Lillie Barnett, of Caskey, a station south of Hopkinsville, who repaired to the Methodist parsonage and were united in marriage at midnight by Rev. G. W. Lyons. THE Hopkinsville board of trade has forty members, and the entire forty have started out to get better freight rates for the town. THE Christian county levy court has fixed its tax rate at 27½ cents for 1893, with $1.50 poll tax. This will not much reduce the tax bills, as the assessment is higher.

All turnpike stock is not unprofitable. The stockholders of the Liberty and Middleburg turnpike are enjoying a dividend of 17 per cent. on the last year’s business. THE Hissem bill to prevent pool-sell-ing and bookmaking was defeated in the house of the Kentucky legislature, the other day, owing to the failure to receive a constitutional majority, the vote standing yeas 37, nays 25. OWENSBORO'S canning enterprise seems to be hi troubled water. OVER $10,000 has been subscribed at Maysville to the capital stock of a new tobacco factory. THE following fourth-class postmasters were appointed a few days ago: Blandville, Ballard county, J. M. Bishop; Kingsville, Lincoln county, W. L. McCarthy; New Columbus, Owen county, A. Jackson; Pembroke, Christian county, Nettie Smith; Alton, Anderson county, J. H. Gudgel; Biddle, Scott, county, G. E. Palmer; Columbus, Hickman county, W. W. Carig; High Bridge, Jessamine county, A. G. Winscott: Hyden, Leslie county, John Lewis, jr.; Jamestown, Russell county, O. B. Vaughan; McAfee, Mercer county, W. W. Davis; Magnolia, Larue county, J. M. Grove; New Liberty, Owen county, Mollie E. Nicholas; North Middletown, Bourbon county, G. T. Bradley; Rocky Hill Station, Edmonson county, W. H. Ford; Sharpsburgh, Bath county, Wm. Barker; Stamping Ground, Scott county, C. C. Lewis; Tyner, Jackson county, G. W. Moore; Wooton Creek, Leslie county, J. C. Brewer. A BLOCK of bituminous coal 4 by 4 feet and 7 feet by 7 inches high and estimated to contain 4½ tons has been shipped to the World’s fair by James Foley, of the Foleyville mines. THE Big Four railroad has settled with the passengers hurt at Lafayette as follows: Wm. Place, of Frankfort, $100; Jefferson Peese, of Kempton, $60; Richard Jones, of Pontiac, Ill., $100; Louis Leffler, of Fowler, $50; Charles Roush, of Lafayette, $300; Amos Hodge, of Smithfield, $83; Wm. Stinson, of Smithfield, $10. THE L. E. & W. ticket office, Rochester, was robbed of $33. AN oak tree nearly five centuries old was recently felled near Castleton.

THE unknown killed at Union City, the other day, was Edgar W. Pike, a traveling man whose home was at Everett, Mass. He was insured for $5,000 in the Indiana Travelers’ association. Letters held at hotels have established his identity. GEO. W. ROBINSON, ex-chief of police of Muncie, died a few days since. ADOLPH AEROMET, the well-known insurance man, fell dead the other day at Indianapolis. WM. PENCE, aged 70, was killed at Roann, bring crushed under a heavy saw-log. He was a retired farmer, and a man of considerable wealth. THE little Fuguate girl, who has been fasting for ten weeks, at Brazil, is said to be improving on a diet of cod-liver oil, the yolks of eggs and brandy given her in limited quantities. THE following fourth-class postmasters in Indiana were appointed a few days ago: Blue Lick, George Bollinger, vice Joseph McRose, removed; Ione, J. R. Foutz, vice R. D. Lane, removed; Marts, S. E. J. Sutton, vice M. S. Tult, resigned; New Maysville, L. T. Buchanan, vice L. B. Mills, resigned.