People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A letter has just been returned from the dead letter office to LaPorto that was sent from LaPorte by N. Weber fourteen years ago. It contained a sum of money for an address in New York. It has been lying in the dead letter office at Washington, and the explanation is that it was found in the desk of a clerk who had recently been removed. At a primary election, held at Shelbyville, Mr. Majors was nominated by the citizens for postmaster, and he has been recommended for appointment by Representative Holman. The fol olwing fourth-class postmasters were commissioned a few days ago: Flackville, Marion county, W. C Rush; Lasher, Perry county, Mary E. King; Mier, Grant county, C. M. Harrison. The president sent to the senate the names of the following to be postmasters: Edgar A. Smith, Converse; David A. Fawcett, La Grange; Ossian H. Cook, Pendleton; Adam R. Ebert, Hammond. Judge McNutt, of the superior court, at Terre Haute, fined Ex-Judge Mack twenty-five dollars for contempt of court, and ordered him out of the slander suit which was being heard by the court. The ex-judge said something which displeased Judge McNutt.

Ex-Auditoe Parvin was crushed to death while assisting at a barn-raising, near Sullivan.

In the Owen Biggs murder case at Brazil, the other evening, the jury brought in a verdict finding the defendant guilty of murder. He will be sent to the pen for life.

The Lake Erie & W'estern railroad has sued Receiver Hawkins, of the Indianapolis national bank, for >19,000. The company claims that amount represents drafts, deposits and collections which have been wrongfully allowed to commingle with the general assets of the bank.

Four years ago Emma Huston, who lives near Seymour, wrote a note in a sentimental moment, and, having consigned it to a corked bottle, she gave it to the waters of the Blue river to carry where they would. For four years Miss Huston heard nothing from the note. A few days ago Frank Always, while digging in a gravel bank, found the bottle buried beneath four feet of deposit. It was within two miles of Rockport There has been no wedding. The superior courtroom, Brazil, was packed to suffocation to hear the argument in the Elias Owens murder case. The jury ths other evening rendered a verdict sentencing the defendant to the prison south for life. Owens shot and killed James Biggs at Clay City, June 8. Mbs. Geo. Kuerlt, of Valparaiso, suddenly recovered her speech, lost twenty-three years ago, when she heard of a railroad accident in which her brother was killed.

A dastardly attempt to wreck the early passenger train on the Wabash road, at a point just west of Logansport, was made. Ties were placed on the track, but a freight train which came ahead of the passenger train, at a slow rate of speed, pushed the pile off before any damage was done. A similar attempt was made to wreck the same train a few weeks ago.

Foub years ago Robert Iron Skyles, awaiting trial in Indianapolis on a charge of receiving several thousand dollars by pateut right frauds, made his escape from jail by the aid of his wife and another woman. A communication has been received from the police superintendent of Stillwater, Minn., saying that Skyles is serving a term in the state prison in that city, and that he will be released in February. The Orphans’ 1 home at Columbus now shelters 36 inmates. Columbus fishermen are taking many fine bass from M’hite river. Thebe have been 15,000 acres of land leased in the Muncie gas belt, and the wells will be drained to supply gas to the Lima (O.) fields. The Indiana Highway Improvement association concluded its meeting the other day and elected the following officers: President, J. A. Mount, Shannondale; secretary, Evans Woolen, Indianapolis; treasurer, Christian Holler, St Joseph county. Resolutions were adopted opposing any immediate increase in the taxation for road purposes.

A Big Four freight train arrived in Muncie from the west*the other morning on fire. The city fire department was called out and quenched the flames. The loss is several hundred dollars. Frederick Tescheb is in jail at South Bend charged with securing poison for Lilie Lloyd, an abandoned woman, that she might commit suicide. By strenuous efforts her life was saved. Tescher is the son of a well-known and eminently respectable parents who have used every effort to make a man of him. L. Rodgers & Son’s carriage factory in New Castle was totally destroyed by fire the other night, the stock in the warehouses and the warehouses themselves, alone being saved. Its origin is unknown.

At Kokomo Mrs. August Schmidt, indicted for murder in the first degree in the killing of her tenant, Oscar Walton, October 20, was denied bail the other morning on habeas corpus proceedings. She will appeal to the supreme court. The murderess is a wealthy German widow, 45 yeans old, and the daughter of a baroness At Madison, in charging the grand jury, Judge Friendly specially in* structed them to investigate the recent bloody prize fight between Stapp, of Madison, and Essler, of Lawrenceburg. Russell, the 16-year-old son of S. N. Davidson, a Jefferson merchant, while out hunting, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a gun. The other night a fourteen-year-old named Armstrong went into the stable of John Hogeman, near Prescott, Shelby county, to feed a stallion, when the animal rushed on him and tore through one cheek with his teeth an 4 otherwise injured him. Prompt anUtance savoi the boy’s life.