People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

District Attorney Puree has received instructions to proceed against the wreckers of the Indianapolis national bank, and from six to ten arrests are expected. Schuyler Haughey, who is heavily indebted to the bank, has left Indianapolis, and some express the belief that he has gone to Canada. C. Stutz & Sons’ general store at Middlebury, near Goshen, was entered by four masked burglars and robbed of SSOO worth of merchandise. No arrests.

Cook & Whitley’s circus, which showed at Spencer, the other day, was accompanied by a gang of pickpockets, gamblers, thieves and confidence men who fleeced the farmers and others out of several thousand dollars. Paßßengeb train No. 8, west bound, ran into the delivery wagon of J. C. Kelly, at Walnut street crossing, Anderson, demolishing the wagon and hurling the driver, Joe Mitzler, a distance of thirty yards. He was picked np in an unconscious condition. His injuries are regarded as fatal by the physicians who were in attendance. The Fowler & Son’s bolt and nut works, of Anderson, one of the largest industries of Anderson, was made defendant a few days ago in a damage suit for $30,000. In May last Arthur Miller, an employe in the mill, was caught by a line shaft making 140 revolutions per minute. The young man’s legs were battered into an almost shapeless mass, and for weeks his life was despaired of. He has recovered, but is left a helpless cripple for life. Two suits were brought against the company. Young Miller asked for $20,000, and his father, Melanthon Miller, joined in the complaint with a demand for SIO,OOO. Mrs. John B. Habrel, residing near Shelbyville, and the wife of a wealthy farmer and stockman, attempted suicide at her home by taking morphine. She had grown despondent from an incurable throat trouble. Her life was saved with a stomach pump. Eugene Todd, aged 20, died at Bristol, nine miles from Elkhart, from injuries received, in company with a young woman. He was seated in a hammock in a telegraph office, where be is employed, when a large letterpress, to which one end of the hammock was fastened, fell from the top of a high cupboard, and striking Todd, mashed his skull. J. R. Hiller’s barn, the largest in Miami county, together with his wheat crop, hay and farm implements, was totally destroyed by fire. Lose, $5,000; insured. Caused by a threshing engine.

Mks. John Alsfasser, of Chicago, committed suicide the other night at the residence of her father, Miller Baum, Valparaiso, where she was visiting. Handing her 11-months-old baby to her mother, she went up-stairs, where she fastened a rope about her neck, and tying it to the transom, stepped off a chair, and was dead when discovered. Continued ill-health and despondency was the cause. Effie Hornback, aged 15, of Columbus, committed suicide by taking morphine. Her mother had just been released from jail and her father had brought suit for divorce. Her future was all dark, she said, and she wanted to end her life.

Cyrus Brown, aged 50, while drunk, shot his wife dead and tried to kill her brother, at Columbus. Brown then escaped. Byford E. Cunningham, a popular Ohio and Mississippi railway conductbr, near Seymour, fell from a carload of lumber at Ft. Ritner, upon his head, breaking his neck. At Sullivan James McCullach was killed by the explosion of a thrasher boiler. Mayor Arthur W. Brady, of Marion,

filed his bond of $50,000 and accepted the receivership of the Citizens’ National bank. His bondsmen are Arthur Patterson, C. A. Spilker, Edward Tuhey and James Sprankle. By a local election Brazil has decided to build SBO,OOO worth of gravel roads. The six-year-old son of William Riehle was run over by a wagon and killed at Lafayette. The Fleming families of six different states held a reunion at Honey creek, near Anderson, a few days ago. Five hundred people were present. The next annual will be held in Ohio or New York when 1,500 Flemings will come together.

At Indianapolis, Rose Bailey, a pretty, seventeen-year-old girl, committed suicide the other day by taking morphine. She was engaged to marry Lon Smith and all arrangements had been made lor the wedding. He was out of work, and it is believed this made her despondent. She told Smith she had taken the poison, but it was then too late to save her life. Grant Olds, who shot a man in Marion three months ago and is wanted there for shooting with intent to kill, was arrested at Brazil, the other evening at the home of his brother and placed in jail. He will be taken to Marion for trial.

James Boee, living at Ogden, three miles east of Knightstown, who has been missing from his home for some days, was found by a 1 hunting party in a straw stack near home. He had not partaken of nourishment for twelve days and nights when found. A barking dog frightened Nelson Snyder’s team near Portland. Mr. Snyder, his wife and three children were probably fatally hurt in the runaway that followed. Ehrlich, 20 years old, son of Peler Ehrlich, a wealthy coal operator of Brazil, was bitten by a spreading viper, the other morning, as he was going to one of the mines. The venomous reptile sunk its fangs into Mr. Ehrlich’s leg, which quickly swelled to enormous proportions. It is thought ha will die.

A post office has been established at Frichton, Knox county. The post office at Daggett, Owen county, has been discontinued. Kindred Taylor, an old soldier, was fatally beaten with a dray pin in the bands of Bill Hoebin, a hoodlum at Mitchell.