People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Mis* Maud Chadwick had her arms nearly cut off with a mower, near . Mace, Montgomery county. Lee Whittington, aged 5, of Jeff er- , •onville, while playing with matches, set his clothes on fire, and was perhaps fatally burned. Thk Burton family, which has about , 70,000 representatives in the United States, held its annual reunion at Mitchell the other day. Thk Indianapolis and Michigan divisions of the Big Four men, with headquarters at Anderson, have decided to accept a proposed reduction in wages. A big strike was threatened. | A statement has been received at the treasury department to the effect that the Citizens’ National bank of Muncie, which suspendedjn July, will resume business. Thieves entered the house of T. Murray, south of Mitchell, the other evening and stole $755. Bloodhounds from Seymour were put on the trail and traced them to the Monon track at Orleans. 7 An eleven-year-old boy by the name of Beakley, living in Blue Creek township, near Decatur, while attempting to climb on a moving wagon loaded with wheat, the other morning, lost his footing and fell in front of the hind wheel, which passed over his breast, killing him almost instantly. A post office has been established at Rapture, Posey county, and Henry Mentel appointed postmaster. Wm. Porter, a colored ex-soldier, was murderously assaulted and robbed by two other Negroes at Indianapolis. It is believed they are the murderers of Engineer Kline. Samuel Deeters, a batchelor, residing just east of Waterloo, who built a new brick house this summer and lost considerable money in the Davis bank failure at Auburn, now has crazy spells. About 5 o’clock the other evening he went to his mother, who reside# near Waterloo, to borrow some money. On being refused he shot her, causing a severe wound, and then set fire to her barn, destroying it with its contents. Amos Bachtel and a married daughter, Mrs. Lowe, neighbors, went to the rescue and were fired upon by Deeters. Bachtel was shot through the abdomen and died three hours later. Mrs. Lowe was severely and perhaps fatally wounded, the ball breaking her arm. Deeters was arrested and taken to Butler. Excitement is intense, as Deeters threatens to shoot any one who passes his house.

Lewis Moore was fatally shot while trying to enter Mrs. Emeline Rich’s house at Perkinsville. The Barnett hotel, one d the leading hotels in Logansport, burned, the loss being almost total. All of the guests were rescued, but many of them lost their baggage. The employes escaped, but lost all their clothing and personal effects. The fire originated in the basement at the rear of the hotel; cause unknown. The insurance is $35,500; $29,000 on building and SC\SOO on furniture and fixtures. Some persons have created a sensation at Delphi by mailing to every sa-loon-keeper in Delphi a threatening notice to stop the sale of intoxicating liquors. The notices are in many respects similar to those used by the whitecaps of southern Indiana, except that they bear the counterfeit signature of some deceased friend of the person to whom they are addressed. Marion Webb, as the next friend of Charles Webb, the other evening filed suit against the Wabash Paper Co. for $20,000 damages, alleged to have been sustained by his son Charles, whose leg was badly mangled in a paper machine at the mill nearly a year ago. He alleges negligence on the part of the company. Mr, Webb himself also sues for $3,000 for the loss of the lad, who is a minor.

Mbs. Margaret Meyers, aged 43 years, committed suicide at Layfayette by taking morphine. She was recently arrested on the charge of receiving stolen goods, released on her own recognition, and, nursing the hallucination of life imprisonment, she systematically sought self-destruction. While the woman was- dying her husband was intoxicated, and was refused admission to the death, chamber. During a race between the drivers of a water tank and a farm wagon on the public road, near Huntington, the tank upset and fell upon George H. Buzzard, killing him. C. F. Dixon, a cdtored eonvict from Jay county, suicided at the northern prison by strangulation! Little James McCrea, aged 10 years, was horribly crushed under a wagon at Brazil, and will die. The other morning in the Lafayette jail John Daily, aged 40 years, committed suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear. Another thief was caught in the West Muncie post office the other morning, making two that have been trapped there in a week. While court was in session at Madison Judge J. H. Gibson and Prosecutor Edgar A. of the Clark circuit court, arrived and; proceeded to file quo warranto proceedings against Judge Friedly and Prosecutor Perry Bear, of the Jefferson circuit court, to test the question as to who is the judge and prosecuting attorney of the Jefferson circuit court, and also to test the constitutionality of the entire law of the late legislature in reference thereto* The claim is that Jefferson circuit was abolished by the last legislature. The other evening, while the 3-year-c3d child of William Hopkins, of Brazil, way play mg in the yard, apparently in the best health, it suddenly made an oqtcry and fell dead. The cause of the j sudden death of the child is puzzling the physicians. Frankie Finch, the eighteen-month-old son of a widow, was found dead the other evening in a water barrel, in which he had fallen at Indianapolis. The child drowned in six inches of water. John F. Doods, one of Logansport’s pioneer settlers, accidentally took an overdose of ammonia with fatal suits.