People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The other afternoon, during a heavy snowstorm, James Fost, of Bucyrus, 0., a brakeman on the Nickel Plate, was run over by a freight train east of Wanatah, and instantly killed. Gov. Matthews has pardoned Mrs. Martin, of Dubois county, who had been sent to the Female reformatory for life for infantcide. Charles Mullen, at Winchester, got two years in prison and a $25 fine for an assault on Minnie Smith. XV m. Houston, a well-known young man, was killed by a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern train while crossing the track in a carriage. He was blinded by the snow and did not see the train. Mrs. Wm. Schult, who resides just east of Flat Bock, Bartholomew county, was making soap the other day near her house, when her dress caught fire and was burned off her. She lingered in great agony a few days, when death released her from her sufferings. Jack Southers, a tool-dresser, fell fifty feet from a derrick near Nottingham late the other evening, and was instantly killed. His body struck the ground with a terrible thud, and almost every bone was broken. He was a Canadian by birth, and was a very heavy man, weighing over 200 pounds. There was a sad Thanksgiving day at the home of Wm. Fuller, Terre Haute. Their little son Willie, aged 4, had been sick with the croup and while playing mixed some bottles on the medicine stand so that his parents gave him carbolic acid by mistake. He died in great agony.

Mrs. A. Davidson, a niece of Andrew Jackson, from Portland, Ore., lays claim to 1,000 acres of land near Daleville. ten miles west of Muncie. The new I. O. O. F. temple at Manchester. was dedicated by Grand Master C. F. Northern, the other day, in the presence of many visiting brethren from southern Indiana. A city hospital is to be built at Vincennes. At Warsaw the diphtheria epidemic is abating. The gambling houses at Frankfort are being shut up by the authorities. An artificial stone manufacturing company is to be located at Muncie. Lewis Marts, the man who worked the green goods scheme on his farmer friends near Matamoras, Blackford county, wa? given a sentence of three years in prison, a fine of SSO and disfranchisement for fifteen years by Judge Vaughn on a plea of guilty. Hugh Monroe, working for Kenton Bros., fell from the top of an oil derrick in the southern part of Adams county, sustaining injuries from which he died. Mrs. John King, of Cannelton, was perhaps fatally burned, her dress taking fire at a grate. James Yost, a Nickel-plate brakeman. was so badly crushed while coupling cars at Knox that he died on the train taking him to Ft. Wayne. In the circuit court, at Lafayette, the other evening, Reuben Meyer?;, convicted of burglary as a confederate of the notorious crook, Edmund Fahnstock, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Sam Snider, a young farmer living

five miles west of Geneva, committed suicide the other morning. He was missed and some of his relatives went out to look for him. On entering the barn they found his body hanging to a beam. He had been dead several’hours. Snider was only 22 years of age, and no cause can be assigned for his rash act. The state banking department has prepared its annual report. There are eighty-seven state banks in operation in Indiana. Eight banks have failed since May 1, but their places have been taken by other banks that have since organized. Some of the banks .that suspended have resumed. The following resources are for 1893. Resources— Loans and discounts. $8,333,060.72; overdrafts, $115,233.46; U. S. bonds, $42,100; other stocks, bonds and mortgages, $565,570.82; due from banks and bankers, $1,228,113.96; banking-house, $188,982.54; other real estate. $121,835.53; furniture and fixtures. §151,199.82; current expenses, $100,787.39; taxes paid, $7,576.39; premiums, $24,097.35: cash on hand, $1,615,402.45; total, $12,494.260.65. Liabilities —Capital stock, $4,509,150; surplus, $638,968.45; undivided profits, $137,491.84; discount, interest and exchange, $243,722.36; profit and loss, $93,702.18; dividends unpaid, $8,368.19; demand deposits, $5,733,804.25; time deposits, $955,913.86; certified checks, $1,107.89; cashier’s checks, $1,221.34; due banks and bankers, $54 772.15: notes and bills discounted, $39,296.14; bills payable, $65,750; total, $12,494,263.65. Uniontown, near Seymour, the other night, furnished a quadruple murder, ‘ followed by suicide. It is stated that ! John Foster, a well to do, but erratic . farmer of Uniontown, in a fit of tern- ; porary insanity, killed his wife and i their three children with a revolver, and then blew out his own brains. Foster has always been regarded by his fellow-villagers as a little weak-minded and queer. He has frequently had trouble with his wife, and several years ago they separated. Recently a reconciliation was affected and Foster returned to his family. There was no witness to the terrible affair, but the position of the bodies point to the fact that the wife was the first one killed, and the slaughter of the three children followed. U sni-m,.