People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Emery Roffett, a notorious tough of Brazil, who has committed many crimes, and is reported to have assisted in grave crimes in Illinois, was tried in 1 the superior court the other day on a charge of grand larceny, and was sentenced to Jeffersonville penitentiary for five years and fined >SOO. He served a term in the penitentiary some time since, and after his released became very religious and exhorted in several revival meetings and was a persistent church worker for several months, but finally returned to wickedness and crimes. Out of a number of civil cases filed against John W. Paris, ex-Governor Ira J. Chase, directors, and Cashier Walden, of the defunct Greentown bank, five were defaulted and judgment entered for creditors, amounting to about 53,000. The Logansport Brewing Co., which last year erected a 160,000 malthouse, has gone into the hands of a receiver, Walter A. Osmer being appointed to take charge of the company’s affairs. The company has been unable to meet its obligations of late, and this, with internal dissensions, forced the receivership. Little Sammy Tarkinson was gored to death by a bull near Spiceland. The first report of Drs. Whitesides and Metcalf, of the state board of health, convinces Gov. Matthews that the money advanced toward assistance of small-pox infected Muncie has been profitably expended. Part of it was used in the employment of inspectors, who have turned up several cases of small-pox which had been carefully concealed from the Muncie authorities, and through whieh there was great danger of infection,

Caleb S. Denny was sworn in as mayor of Indianapolis the other day, and Thomas L. Sullivan stepped down and out Mayox- Denny states that he will not announce any of his appointments for a few days, and the members of the present boards have been requested to hold on until their successors are appointed. Lee Nixon, as clerk, and George Stubbs, as police judge, were sworn in. Mayor Denny’s first official act was to instruct superintendent of Police Colbert that the saloons are to be closed at 11 o’clock at night and on Sunday, and that gambling is to be suppressed. The new mayor emphasized it that the order was to go into effect at once and permanently. At Huntington, Mrs. Cal Lyon obtained judgment against the Chicago and Erie railroad for >9,000, for the death of her husband, an engineer, who was killed in a collision at Huntington. The verdict has been set aside by the judge on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Frank Palmer, who a few days ago killed “Babe” Spurlock in a saloon at Phillipsburg, near Kokomo, had a narrow escape from lynching. The coroner’s verdict was justifiable homicide, and the officers refused to arrest Palmer, he being an old soldier, 67 years of age. The verdict exasperated “Babe’s” relatives, and being a tough lot, they organized a lynching party and proposed hanging Palmer to the first tree. They went to his house armed with Winchesters, shotguns, corn knives and pitchforks, but Palmer,who had been informed of their intentions, fled the country, and is now in Kansas. At Salem John Payton has turned state’s evidence in the Emeline Dalton white-capping case, and says that the woman’s husband assisted in beating her.

The supreme court ordered a suspension of the sentence in the case of Edward McAffee and John Parker, both colored, who are under sentence to be hanged at the northern prison November 3. The postponement was ordered to enable the supreme court to pass upon the case. McAffee and Parker were convicted of the murder of Chas. E. Eyster, a young druggist in Indianapolis, on the night of April 10, 1893. Gov. Matthews has pardoned Edward Wilson, of Vigo county, convicted of bigamy; Edward Burrell, of Jackson county, sentenced for forgery, and J. W. Kuhns, of Noble county, who was given five years for forgery. The latter is but 17 years of age, and the governor has become convinced that he was the tool of an older person in his forgeries. Wilson married a loose character at Terre Haute while drunk, and the evidence showed that his condition was taken advantage of to induce him to commit the crime, he having another wife at the time. Harry Sullivan, a picketpocket escaped from Sheriff Stout at Seymour, while the officer was taking the prisoner to the penitentiary. At Summitville, Jonesboro and Fairmount, north of Anderson, natural gas was burned the other night in flambeaux, on the streets and around the public buildings. Some action is-to be taken in that and neighboring county seats to stop the criminal waste of fuel at the places named. Train No. 8, east-bound, on Pennsylvania railway, was derailed at an interlocking switch at Whiting. The engine and two cars were wrecked. Fireman H. Warner was killed and Engineer J. S. Christie and Conductor J. Brown were fatally injured. None of the passengers were hurt. Joseph W. Shackelford, editor of the Anderson Daily and Weekly Herald, died of typhoid fever the other evening. The remains will be taken to Metamora.

Howabd Dill, a very popular yonng man living three miles east of Brooklyn, the other night, accidentally shot himself through the breast and lung with a pistol while out buggy riding with his sweetheart, M iss Sadie Hobson. It is feared he can not live. At Muncie, Frank Cga, a small boy, was shot in the abdomen with a flobert rifle, which was in the hands of his brother, who “did not know it was loaded.” He may die. Mike Fleming was struck on the head with a crowbar by James Thompson, and is lying at death's door st Muncie. They were engaged in a quarrel over a pretty girt