People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Seven county jail prisoner escaped at South Bend, the other morning. They tore a hole with their hands in the iron floor of the first tier of cells and climbed into the basement, escaping through the cellar door. They were aided by i outside persona A murderer was; among the escapes. John Bacher, a farmer, living near I Greene, died in terrible agony, the other night, from blood-poisoning. He was kicked by a horse a week ago, and three ribs were broken. The injury > developed into blood-poisoning. Fourth-class postmasters were com-, missioned a few days ago as follows: I W. A. Gardner, Fairfield Center, De! Kalb county, vice G. A. Lippsett, re- > j signed; R. C. Murphy, Mecca Mills, | i Parke county, vice W. A. Tewbrook, I ■ resigned; S. W. Gwaltqey, Midway, ! j Spencer county, vice J. C. Meyer, re- ! moved. Rev. M. E. Kelly, a Catholic priest of note, died at Lafayette, aged fifty 1 years. He had filled stations at Mari ion, Wabash, Lebanon and Remington. ThOmas Boyer, the town desperado of Vincennes, was killed by the cars the other day while drunk. The twenty-fourth annual etate convention of the Young Men’s Christian ; association, of Indiana, will be held at j Marion November 2 to 5. B. Prins, a Marion clothier, made an assignment a few days ago, the first failure in that town since the beginning of the business depression. 1 The Carroll county fair, at Camden, is declared off. There were not enough I entries to justify opening the gates. j Ed Brumfield, aged 94, was foundj dead by the roadside near Markleville. He had started from his son’s to go to a neighbor’s, and probably died from old age. Peter Oldhammer, aged 79, fatally shot his neighbor, J. G. Winslow, near • Madison. Quarreled about a fence. Thos. Boyer was run over and in- ; stantly killed by an 0. & M. switch engine at Vincennes, the other evening. Boyer was sitting on the end of a tie, probably asleep. He had been drinking. The deceased was a desperate character and about 15 years ago killed a stranger in this city. He was sent to the penitentiary for life for the crime, but two years ago was paroled. Township Trustee Woland, at Elwood, paid out SSOO to the poor of that city during September. The Muncie Wheel Co. has been notified that it had been awarded first prize at the World’s fair. John Barton, a farmer near Rigdon, Madison county, believes he has struck silver in a gravel pit on his place. Frank Shoecraft, who was wanted at Newcastle for robbery and assault with intent to kill, was arrested in Winchester, taken to Newcastle and lodged in jaiL The annual convocation of the Central Deanery of the Indiana diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church has been concluded. Twenty-five parishes were represented. It was decided to hold the next convention at Richmond, in January, 1894. The wagon bridge across the Muscatuck river, five miles southeast of Seymour, was destroyed by fire. The bridge was built by Jackson county at a cost of SIO,OOO. The destruction will cause the farmers much inconvenience. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. A grand jury indictment against Dudley Hedge, a gypty, for manslaughter, was returned at Lebanon. In a quarrel recently Hedge struck Daniel Gaddis, of Whitestown, a blow on the head with a neck-yoke, from the effects of which he died. Caroline Gerardy, an inmate of the female reformatory at Indianapolis, was declared insane the other day. Two years ago she was sent to prison for life for the murder of her husband. The latter, from whom she had separated, followed her to her daughter’s house, where he broke in the door. He was set upon by the infuriated wife, who killed him with a hatchet and literally hacked him to pieces. Sarah Jane Williams, another inmate of the same institution, ■was declared insane. She is serving a twenty-year term for choking her sister-in-law to death. Edward & Adams’ grain elevator, on the W’abash railroad, in Wabash, burned. The building -was a large structure and held nearly 30,000 bushels of wheat, which is almost entirely destroyed.' One thousand bushels of clover-seed were carried out The wheat was owned by the farmers and but little of it was insured. The elevator was the property of the Wabash , railroad company, and is said to have been fully covered by insurance. The losses on grain and buildings will ap- ■ proximate $25,000. The fire Originated from the engine-room and spread with great rapidity. Late the other night Kumler & Gayj lord brought a $12,000 damage suit at Lafayette against the Monon roadin behalf of Frederick Gillespie, a boy aged 8 years. In August, 1892, the lad climbed upon a caboose platform of the Monon road and was ordered off by the conductor. The train was running at the time, and the stern command of the conductor, and the lifting of his foot (as is claimed he did), as if to kick him off, frightened the little fellow and he ; attempted to get off of the step. He i swung around under the wheel and his : foot was so erushed as to require ampui tation.