People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

William H. Jones, of Spencer county, the other day filed suit in the Spencer circuit court against Noble Boyd for 41,500 damages for knocking out three of the plaintiffs teeth while they were engaged in a fight. At Kokomo the court fixed the bonds of Gov. Chase, John W. Paris and L. S. Walden, the indicted Greentown bank officers, at 43,000, which they gave. Trial is not expected until October, though Chase made a demand for trial at once.

Muncie officers are searching for J. M. Kennedy. A few days ago he purchased a fine steer from Edward Stewart, near Yorktown, and in payment gave a check for 444 on the Citizens’ national J»ank of Muncie. When the check was presented it was, discovered that Kennedy had no account there. Before leaving Kennedy sold the steer to a local butcher, then borrowed 460 from a relative and departed. Adolphus Minton, a prominent contractor, fell from the top of a threestory building under course of construction at French Lick Springs, the other day, and was killed. He lived only twenty minutes. He leaves a wife and two children. Coroner Davidson has filed his verdict in the inquests caused by the wrecking of the Big Four passenger train at the union depot, Lafayette, on Sunday morning, May 7, in which ten lives were lost He declares the curve was too steep, and the outer rail was not elevated enough. He further declares that, although the brakes were in good order, some one had shut the air off at "the tender. Tony, the 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hitchcock, was found dead in a cistern at his home in Indianapolis, where he had fallen.

Rev. W. H. Bamford, of Scranton, Pa., has accepted the pastorate of the Christ Episcopal church, of Madison. At Valparaiso, Paul Depolis, aged 60, on returning home found his home deserted. He had a young wife, who left home, taking the furniture with her. Contracts have been signed for the location of a large factory for the manufacture of glass tableware at the new manufacturing town of Ingalls, five miles west of Pendleton. This latest acquisition comes from Washington, Pa., and will give employment to 200 men at the start, and is to be completed by September 1. 11. A. Cowing, secretary of the Muncie board of health, says that there is no smallpox in that city. Mr. A. W. Dickenson, late general manager of the Missouri Pacific, is having plans prepared, and will erect a fine residence in Seymour, which place he will make his future home. George Pfister brought suit forSlO,000 damages in the United States court at Indianapolis, against the Bromwell Brush and Wire Goods Co. The plaintiff alleges that in 1891 he was a convict in the Jeffersonville prison, and the defendants worked him by contract inside the prison. He was compelled to work on this contract. He -was put to work at a buzz-saw, and the foreman in the employ of the defendants required him to “hurry up.” Through this order and some defect in the machinery he mangled his left hand, and received such injuries that his arm had to be amputated at the elbow. He charges gross carelessness on the part of the defendants.

At Indianapolis Mrs. Lena Kiel made a desperate attempt at; suicide, the other morning. Going to a neighbor s she secured a butcher-knife. She then put on a night gown and drew the knife five times across her throat, in front and at the sides. The knife was dull, and she could not touch a vital spot. Then she attempted to sever the arteries in her wrist, but failed. When discovered, Mrs. Kiel presented a ghastly spectacle, being soaked in blood from her neck to her feet. Mrs. Kiel’s husband had left her, her children had been placed in a benevolent institution, and she was tired of life.

A cyclone completely razed the residence of Mr. Lowe at Economy. Gen. James C. Veatch and wife celebrated the fifty-fourth anniversary c f their marriage at their home in Rockport a few days ago. The general is 73 years of age, and Mrs. Veatch is r 2 years of age. Gen. Veatch served h\s country faithfully as a brigadier-ge; w eral in the Jpte civil war. Charles Temier, aged fourteen, ,wi .s sticking lumber at Ed. Moran’s mill, at Martinsville, when a tall pile toppled and fell on him. His skull is thought to be fractured. At Columbus, just after returning from church, Mrs. Marshall Fultz and three daughters partook of a light lunch and retired. In a few minutes all were taken deathly sick. Their symptoms were tho.ie of arsenical poisoning, and for some hours it looked as though all would die. The mother and eldest daughter will recover, but no hopes are entertained for the two younger. All efforts to locate the cause of the strange affliction have failed.

Alonzo Myers, of Richland, while out hunting the other day, accidentally shot himself through the abdomen with a rifle, causing instant death. The little three-year-old girl of Edward Livengood, living seven miles east of Lebanon, was choked to death the other morning by a coffee grain lodging in her windpipe. The operation of tracheotomy was performed, but too late to save her life.