People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Charles A. Zollinger, mayor of Fort Wayne, died the other night He was state pension agent under Mr. Cleveland’s former administration, and was to have been reappointed. The death of Britton Smith, a colored man, aged 102 years, was reported at Richmond the other day. He was the oldest man in the county, and was a native of Virginia. The barrel factory of Peck & Abbott, Lafayette, was totally destroyed by fire. About fifty men are thrown out of employment The loss is estimated at from $5,000 to $6,000, insured for $3,500. The factory will be rebuilt The indictments against Cashier’ Foulks, of the Vincennes National bank, just made public, accuse him of making false entries and committing perjury. At the town of Ilsen, six miles south of Bourbon, indignant citizens painted black Henry Meter, a white farmer who had married a Negress. William Wiiokh&n, of Hartford City, while on one of Muncie’s principal streets. was slugged by highwaymen and rendered unconscious. When he recovered he discovered that he had been robbed of S4O. Morris Gore, a son of Haymond Gore, at Shelbyville, had his eyes burned out by a cannon firecracker that exploded in front of his face. Cyrus Long, of Fort Wayne, was perhaps fatallj' hurt by jumping from a train which went through New Haven without stopping. Sylvan Ballard, a-four-year-old grandson of contractor Elijah Ballard, of Shelbyville, was severely scalded on the back by falling in a kettle of boiling water. James B. Condrey, a well-known man about Indianapolis, died very suddenljr the other night of symptoms indicating acute poisoning, and there is a suspicion that he committed suicide. The coroner is investigating. Wji. Byers, 24, living ten miles north of Boonville, shot his mother because she remonstrated with him for being drunk. She may die. During a recent storm at Michigan City the wind reached a velocity of sixty miles an hour. At Snarl town, a suburb of Michigan City, Howard Kinnel was shot and seriously wounded by Jeanie Metcalf, a woman of ill repute. James Logston, a farmer living near Bicknell, Knox county, was sandbagged, and robbed by thugs on First street, Vincennes. In the assault Logston’s leg was broken. In Liberty township, Wibash county, Homer Hale, a turfman, assaulted Elder Keley because the litter attempted to talk religion to hirnl An attempt to wreck i Pan-handle I train near Logansport! by remov- ! ing a rail was discovered! by the offij cials in time to prevent a terrible acci- ! dent. I A music dealer of Anderson has come I into possession of a violin: that is supi posed to have been made b* Stradivarius in the year 1632, at Milan. The instrument, it is said, was unparthed at Chesterfield a few days ago Judge Gruggs, at Martinsville, has refused Henry Myers a nev! trial and sentenced him to the penitentiary for one year for stealing notes ajainst him that were in the hands of an attorney for collection.

Frank Harris and Wm. Leader, of Elkhart, have filed suits aggregating $15,000 against Farver Bros., of Shipshewana, Elkhart county, for damages recently received by the falling of a scaffold on which they were standing while at work. Both men were seriously injured, and Leader is not expected to live. Mr. Robert Young, a resident of Roachdale, took morphine with suicidal intent and died the other night. In a letter found on his body he gave as the cause of the act his wife’s refusal to live with him. Driven to desperation by poverty and inability to get work to support his family, Charles F. Miller, a wellrespected young man of Kokomo, attempted to pass forged checks for S2O each, on the Citizens’ National and the Howard National banks of Kokomo. He was arrested and admits the crime. He said his family was starving and he committed forgery as a last resort The Belvedere hotel, Columbus, one of the largest and finest in Indiana, under the management of D. K. Johnson. formerly of Cincinnati, changed hands the other day. John Scrump becomes the owner, Mr. Johnson retiring. Joseph Decker, a well-known citizen of Valparaiso, received a letter a few days ago from his sister, saying his mother had died in Bavaria, Germany, and had bequeathed to him $25,000. Cel. Moore, while celebrating Christmas at Petersburg, shot himself thrpugh the right thigh. Michael D. Wagner, a saw mill man, aged 40, living four miles east of Milton, committed j uicide by hanging. William Russel?, and family, living one mile north of Void Springs, were poisoned by jimson seed and may die. One of Russell’s horses was sick and he ground some jimson seed in the coffeemill to make a poultice. His wife being away from home, his 12-year-old daughter, Anna, prepared supper. Not knowing the mill had been used to grind the seed, she ground coffee in it and served it at supper. The whole family were taken very sick and a physician hastily summoned. They are still in a dangerous condition.