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

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Israel Asburt, aged 60 and insane, was killed by the cars at Ellsworth, four miles from Terre Haute, on the Logansport division of the Vandalia road. Noblesville citizens are condemning the Lake Erie railroad for permitting a crowd of sports to charter a train' for the prize fight that came off in Hamilton county the other night. There is no truth in the report that Company F, the crack South Bend organization of the Third regiment of Indiana had received orders from Gov. Matthews to muster out its men. The state law requires all companies to reorganize every three years, and Company F is doing so The Muncie puddlers at the Indiana Iron works refused the offer of the company to work for $4 per ton, and this part of the mill will remain idle. The co-operative plan to start the defunct Darnell mill has also fallen through. It was intended to find forty men who would subscribe SIOO each and make a pool of $4,000 to rent the mill. The extensive grain and general store business of Florian Groshour, of I jamsville, Wabash county, was closed up a few days since, under a chattel mortgage. Liabilities, $25,000, with assets considerably less. The defunct First national bank, of North Manchester, is creditor to the amount of $12,000 io cash advanced for buying wheat The name of thp post office at Brown’s Corners, Huntington county, has been changed to Toledo William H. Tebpany, of New Carlisle, a prominent resident there, is dead. “Lumpy jaw” is said to be breaking out among the cattle at Albion, this state. The Common Sense engine works at Muncie will resume business with a full complement of men. David Corbin, a prosperous resident of Toronto, en route to the World’s fair, was done out of S4O by confidence med at South Bend. In the suit of Miss Hershey against W. Cheeseman for damages, at Portland, on a change of venue from Winchester, the jury awarded her S3OO. The following fourth-class postmasters were appointed the other day: Margaret M. Dove, Leo, Allen county, vice J. B. Haifley, resigned: W. 8. Gorman, Long Lake, Switzerland county, vice J. W. Roberts, resigned. Mrs. Reneta Shultz, aged 65, was cut to pieces the other morning by a Lake Erie and Western passenger train at La Porte. The unfortunate woman was crossing a long bridge north of La Porte, when she was warned by the whistle of the approach of the train. She started to run, and in another instant would have crossed in safety, when she swooned and fell between the rails. The dismembered remains became entangled in the locomotive, and were extricated with difficulty. Mrs. Anna M. Wilson has brought suit against three eff Danville’s prominent druggists for selling intoxicating drinks to her husband. She claims that by reason of such sales her husband became abusive and injured her hotel business to the extent of SIOO per month and the sale of her property SI,OOO. She asks for damages in the sum of $6,000. The financial affairs of Indianapolis are in exceedingly bad shape, and the authorities will be compelled to ask for temporary loans before the first of the year to meet current expenses. Through the failure to carry out the refunding scheme, the city is compelled to pay 7X per cent interest on $600,000 in bonds, and this proves a heavy drain upon the treasury. This interest has to be met promptly in order to preserve the city’s credit, and with the interest charges on temporary loans proves a heavy burden. David Dillon, a farmer near Anderson, took twenty-five cents worth of morphine with suicidal intent, but the doctors may save him. The receiver of the defunct Indiana Folding Bed Co., at Goshen, made a final report a few day? ago, showing three cents on the dollar due the numerous creditors.

McNeese, Kell"er & Co., extensive lumber dealers of Alexandria, made an assignment a few days since. Liabilities are estimated at less than $10,090 and assets at $25,000. J. S. Shannon is the assignee. John Hilty, an oil-well driller living at Geneva, attempted suicide by Hanging. He procured a rope, fastened it under a stairway, placed the end around his neck and leaped off. He was discovered in time and cut down. Bilty was intoxicated. “Aunty” Baldy, the oldest woman in Indiana, eelebrated her 104th birthday at Terre Haute the other day. She came to Terre Haute in 1819, two years after its incorporation, and has ever since remained a resident. A celebration was to have taken place in honor of the event, but it was abandoned as a result of her precarious health. Fibe destroyed the C., H. & D. depot at Indianapolis early the other evening. Alonzo B. Jones, who was a life prisoner for the killing of Thomas Moody at Orleans in 1875, arrived at Mitchell the other morning from Jeffersonville, having been paroled by Gov. Matthews. Jones was township trustee when arrested for the crime, and has been in the penitentiary since 1877. An unknown colored man was found dead on the Monon track, near Lee, twelve miles from Rensselaer. He is supposed to have been knocked off a night passenger train. At Brooksburg William Greenwood, who had been out hunting, came home and set a loaded gun down in the corner. His daughter picked up the weapon, and in examining it the gu > went off. instantly killing her father.. At Orleans, Clark Wilfong had a quarrel with his father the other afternoon. and stabbed the old gentleman through the heart The trouble grew out of the division of some property. The young man was arrested.