People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Daniel Boxwp.ll’s little child was incidentally scalded to death in a tub at Huntington. John Craig’s 18-month-old child fell out of a window at Noblesville and was fatally hurt The marshal of Red Key, while walking along the tracks of the PanhaDfi e railroad, saw a package lying near ti a end of the ties, lie examined it and j found it to be the body of an infant j wrapped in paper. It was frozen. It had evidently been thrown from a pa^a* | ing train. At Portland the grand jury returned | indictments against Joe Gemmill, N;m j Williams, John Farris and Wm. John- : son. charging them with murderous assault. They are accused of attacking W ill Elder, a dairyman, and neary ' killing him. The Anderson Cathedral Glass Co. began the operation of its plant at Gas city a few days ago, after an idleness of more than five months. This plai t was formerly operated by the American Glass Co. Joseph llendebson, of Muncie, had his twelve-dollar pension suspended for further evidence last summer. He furnished the additional proofs and was restored to the rolls. He has now been cut to an eight dollar pension without any reason given. Mrs. James Moran, aged 72, was buried at Martinsville the other day. bhe was born in Ohio, and had reside ! continuously for forty-seven years in the house in which she died. Si a leaves five children—Mrs. F. D. Rundell, E. L. Moran, Milton Moran and Miss Jennie Moran, of Martinsville, and Mrs. I. N. Reames, of Urbana, O. Mil J. M. Woods, a prominent bnsiness man and secretary of the Citizens’ Gas Co., committed suicide at Knightstown by shooting himself with a revolver. He had been sitting by tl a fire reading till nearly 2 o’clock, win n his family was aroused by hearing a pistol shot They rushed down stairs and found him sitting in his chair stone dead with a bullet hole in bis right temple. He leaves a wife and son. John Piersoi,, of North New Jersey, street, Indianapolis, reported to tie coroner that while walking along t,.« bank of Fall creek, near Meridan street, he had found a box containing th*j bodies of two infants. Max Jacobs, a elothing merchant-of Napanee, assigned. Liabilities $10,00,>. Assets $14,000, *5,000 of which is in book accounts not very available. Heavy losses in wool and slow collections the cause. The Terre Haute police have been notified of the operations of a man giving his name as Rev. A. M. Taylor, who, it is alleged, offers pianos for $3 \ in advance, but never delivers the in- i strument.

The wool growers of Wabash countv are greatly alarmed at the prospect . f the removal of the duty on wookas pn - vided in the Wilson bill, and, jvithout regard to patty affiliations, will take steps to enter an emphatic protest. Messrs. .1. K. Haas and Ben Wolf, leading democrats, and among the largest wool growers in the county, logetlu r with Hon. C. Cowgill and J. W. Busicir, have issued a call to the sheep owners to meet at the courthouse in Wabash,t on December 23, to formulate a prote.-t which will be forwarded to the Indiana members of congress. dhe call, as published, sets out that the adoption < f the Wilson measure means the destrnction of the wool growing industry, representing an investment of $200.000,000. Michael Ezekiel, a prominent Hebrew citizen of Indianapolis, committed suicide in a most horrible form, lie first cut his throat and then shot himself in the forehead. Ezekiel had been suffering from paresis for some time. He was forty-five years old and leaves a family. At Richmond, J. W Fuller, alleged bank swindler, under $2,000 bonds tor attempting to cash a fraudulent $5,030 draft, will plead guilty. There are fifteen cases against him in nearly as many states. Near Noblesville John Badgely, aged thirty, a farmer, was instantly killed by foolishly trying to climb a falling tree, a limb striking him on the head and crushing liis skull. He lean s a wife and one child. L. & N. switchmen struck at Evansville because the ten per cent, reduction was not restored. Marion Stone rock and Hiram Devol, two well known young men of Bennett’s, near Peru, were arrested f< r the stealing of all the l*sh in the private pond of James Brown. Seines were used.

When the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis train from the east arrived at Princeton the other night a babe of two weeks was found deserted, lying on a seat in one of the coaches. Ti e little one was turned over to a police officer, who took it to his home, where it still remains. It is thought the mother deserted her child at the shops just east of the city. There is no clew to the mother. At 1 avlorsville, the other morning, Bennett Colin, aged 32, was found hanging by the neck, dead. He had attached a play line to a beam and around his neck and jumped off a box, breaking liis neck. He was a hopeless cripple and had grown despondent William Stifflkr, of Muncie, has entered suit against the Common Sense Engine Co. for SIO,OOO. Fire from an emery wheel destroyed the sight of his eyes. : The administrator of the estate of the late William M. Oobberrt, a farmer, has filed a damage suit against the Big For~r Railway Co. for ?10,000. Cobbern was killed at Elkhart. In the Columbus circuit court, on a plea of guilty, Judge Herd gave Samuel Fisher and Louis.Lazell one year each for stealing one dozen chickens from John Crump some months ago. John W. Smallwood an 1 Ida, May Smallwood, both of Terre Haute, were -tedded at Marshall. 111. the other day liliey were a divorced couple, the Amman having secured a decree onlv a few weeks ago on account of cruel t.. ; She is but nineteen years old