People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

William Chambers, superintendent of Anderson Steel Casting Co., has brought suit in the circuit court asking for the appointment of a receiver. The capital stock of the company is 160,000, with liabilities amounting to *20,000. The Indiana Brewing Co., of New Albany, went into the hands of J. O. ■ Endres, as receiver. The company .■ claims that it can pay two for one if allowed a little time. ' Ten years ago Woodson Bryan, of Plainfiojd, applied for a pension. He has just been granted $2 per month. There is general dissatisfaction be- | cause the grand jury failed to indict the proprietors of the Indiana cotton mill, at Cannelton, for employing children under fourteen years of age and working them eleven hours per day. R. H. I rank and O. H. Keller have brought suit against the Panhandle Railroad Co., at Marion, each demand* ing $5,000 for the killing of their sons, . Evan Keller and Henry Frank. The remains of Charles F. Tucker, i who was found drowned in the Chicago river, were brought to Laporte for interment. County Recorder Peter Carson died at Indianapolis suddenly the other morning of apoplexy. At Richmond, J. W. Fuller, the noted bank swindler and crook, was arrested the other afternoon for attempting to realize on a worthless draft for $1,003 drawn on S. Farnham & Co., of Sandusky, O. Wm. B. Lacy, an Evansville hatter, made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. Liabilities about $6,000; assets sufficient to protect creditors. The headless and limbless body of a man was found near the railroad tracks at Clinton, sixteen miles south of Newport. The coronial verdict was accidental killing. The high school pupils of Muncie have organized an athletic club. Harry George was sent to the state’s prison from Muncie for two years for pocketpicking. Sheriff Samuel Wintrode has sued John Renbarger for SIO,OOO damages for slander, claiming that Renbarger accused him of keeping the Huntington jail in worse condition than Libby prison.

At Madison the three-year-old child of Alphdnso Edwards fell into a grate fire and was fatally burned. James Gallivan, an L E. and W. switchman, was run over and killed, his body being almost cut in two, near Muncie. W. H. Ott killed an eagle while duck hunting near Eckerly. At Muncie Charles Cummeford, charged with burglary, was sentenced to four years. He is but twenty years old, and this is his third trip to the penitentiary. Frank Williams and Edward Murray, Muncie iron workers, who broke into a freight car anti stole a quantity of whisky, were the other day sentenced to one year each in state's prison. mile driving a well near Columbus the dri.l passed through a three-foot log at a depth of eighty feet, and struck gas at 200 feet. The fluid continues to burn, while the force is said to be increasing. Mrs. Racket, Reeder, of Hartford City, has been deprived of her sl2 pension pending further proofs. Mrs. Reeder is 74 years old, and was in the poor-house for some years, until her pension came three years ago. Her .only son, John W. Reeder, Company G," Thirty-third Ohio infantry, was killed ' in the War. The jury in the case of Ambrose Hedges, who has been on trial at Lebanon for a week for the murder of Daniel Gaddis, returned a verdict of not guilty the other day, after being out twentyfour hours. Miss Cyrena Stack, the fifteen-year-old daughter of John Stack, residing three miles east of Kokomo, was sent to the reform school by Judge Kirkpatrick for horse-stealing. Several days ago she stole n horse and buggy from a farmer near Windfall, and started to leave- the country, but was overtaken by the officers sent in pursuit, being captured near Greentown with the rig, and the little miss was brought to Kokomo and jailed. She pleaded guilty -and was given a sixyear sentence in the reform school.

The town of Matthews, near Gas City, has secured a glass factory. For the first time in many months the jail at Connersville is without an occupant. The paternity charges against Senator Boyd, of Hamilton county, were dismissed by the court, it being proved that his accuser was a depraved adventuress. Dr. E. D. Snyder, of Burr Oak, was arrested in Ft Wayne by Deputy United States Marshal McKinson,charged with sending medicines through the mails to be used for criminal purposes. The Humane society of Richmond is investigating the case of Edward Burkhardt, aged 12, alleged to have been cruelly beaten at the orphan asylum. Fari.ow Shalty was arrested at Kokomo, charged with stealing a drove of-hogs from a Boone county farmer. A girl tramp, eighteen years old, was picked up at Huntington, having come from Chicago on the blind end of a baggage car on the Chicago and Erie road. The post office at Soppa has been discontinued, as no one wishes to he postmaster.