People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There are ten candidates for the Elkhart post office, the salary being 13,000 per annum. Garriett Massman, a prominent citizen of Seymour, has been declared insane and he will be taken to the insane hospital. The Eureka Land Co. at Muncie was incorporated with a capital stock of >2(XLOOO, and purchased one thousand at Selma, six miles east of Muncie, for a boom. • The board of county commissioners appointed experts Heabon and Guernsey to examine the shortage of exTreasurer Jenkins at Jeffersonville. They find his defalcation to be >2O - 661.19. Ezra Wood, president of Jefferson county Horticultural society, and a well-known citizen, died the other I morning. At South Bend, Frank M. Smith, a 1 farmer, suicided by hanging hims«lf I from a rafter in his barn. When the 1 body was discovered it was resting upon the knees, with a halter strap about the neck. Since the death of his ; wife several months ago, Smith has ; been despondent, and about three ! weeks ago was found hanging from a rope nearly dead, but recovered. Martha Sargent, Mary Long and ' John Long, three more witnesses, were arrested the other day at Goshen for , perjury in the famous case of Peterson against the Lake Shore railway. After three trials Peterson has secured a judgment of >5,000 against the company. The Indiana supreme court has de- ' cided that women may be admitted to the practice of law in that state. The , decision was based on a test suit ' brought by Miss Antoinette D. Leach, of Green county, whose admission had been denied. Thk flow of natural gas from the Pierceville (Ripley county) well is gaining strength, and the stock of the com- J pany which sunk the well is selling at 100 per cent, premium. Spencer Cluckner died from blood poisoning at Danville, cadsed by a hen pecking him. A better feeling exists at New Al- ’ bany now among the depositors of the New Albany Banking Co. Dr. Breyfogel has returned from Chicago, and he says that he and the Windstanleys will endeavor to pay dollar for dollar, i with interest, to every one who has any claims on the New Albany ba>k. In the circuit court at Anderson “Dutch,” or “Paddy,” Ryan was sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years. Recently he shot Miss Maggie Barrowman, of Brazil, but the bullet was intended for a young lady who ' had refused to reciprocate his affec- i' tions. Miss Barrowman has recov- ' ered.

The livery stable, at Arlington, with its contents, including six horses and one mule, was burned. Albert Hassean made a bold stroke for liberty by dashing headlong through a car window of a Lake Erie and M estern passenger train, running at a speed of forty miles an hour, near La Porte. Hassean is a noted crook, and at the time of his daring leap was securely handcuffed. The frightful fall rendered him unconscious. Hiainjuries will likely result in the loss of his eyesight, and also make him an imbecile for lisp. • The Summitville bank has closed its doors. Its suspension is due to the stringency of the money market. Nd statement has yet been m ade, but it is believed that the liabilities are far in excess of the assets.

The supreme court decided as unconstitutional the Firemen Fund law. The case was Auditor of State Henderson against the London and Lancashire Insurance Co. The law was passed by the legislature of 1891, and provides that all insurance companies doing business in Indiana should pay into the county treasury in such counties where its business was transacted and where there was a paid fire department, 1 per cent of its net business. This percentage was to constitute a firemen’s pension fund.

The largest bond ever filed in Grant county was placed on record at Marion by County Treasurer-elect William E. Heal. It calls for $500,000, and is signed by Philip Matler, James V. Sweetser, George Sweetser, Geo. Webster, H. D. Reasoner, W. W. McCleery, A. B. Morrison, James W. Wilson, James Johnson, Levi Scott and Joseph W. Parker.

Three young gentlemen, Dot Washburn, David Maine and Buttse Meyers, were sailing onLoon lake, near Columbia City, when their boat was capsized within a quarter of a mile of the shore. Meyers is a first-class swimmer, and started for the shore, but his clothes were too heavy and he gave out. He was rescued just as he sank for the second time. Maine got hold of a board and floated until help arrived. Washburn had on heavy clothes and rubber boots. He sank to the bottom, but had ttjp presence of mind to kick off the boots, and then he came to the surface. He was assisted to shore. The gentlemen are all first-class swimmers, or else they would have drowned. In the test case in the circuit court In Indianapolis of state ex rel.. Stout vs. Henderson, auditor of state, Judge Brown decided the fee and salary law unconstitutional. This is the law that placed nearly all the state and county officers of Indiana on salaries and reduced their compensation more than one-half.