People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

James Helms, assistant master mechanic of the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis railway, died at his home in Princeton. The Indiana supreme court has affirmed the decision of the Porter circuit court in the contested election case of J oseph Sego vs. Heber Stoddard. Two years ago Stoddard was the republican and Sego the democratic candidate for sheriff in Porter county. Stoddard received three more votes than Sego. The democrats contested the election, which was decided in Stoddard’s favor. Capt. John K. Gowdy, of Rushville, was the other day re-elected by acclamation chairman of the state republican committee. Lemuel Bailey, a member of the Muncie bar, charged with stealing two stacks of hay from his neighbor, was acquitted in the circuit court Miss Edna Magley, the 16-year-old daughter of Albert Magley, a mail carrier, had a beautiful head of auburn hair. She lives with her grandmother at Indianapolis, and the other evening she received a visit from her father and accompanied him to the electric car, a short distance away, and then returned home. As she was entering the gate an unknown party tl]rew a heavy cloth over her head, and before she could free herself or give the alarm her hair was closely clipped off. The girl had no enemies and was a general favorite. It is supposed that her hair was taken for the purpose of profit only, as it was very long, heavy and of unusual beautv.

The other night Samuel Jaekson’u residence burned in Whitely. I 51,200, and a residence of Soney Me Williams, on Beacon street, was destroyed. Loss, 5500. Several firemen were badlj- frozen while at work with the temperature at 3 degrees below zero, and Ted Whiteman, another fireman, was injured by a chimney falling on him. William Baugh ran several squares in his bare feet to turn in tho alarm and his feet were frozen. , ' i No. 4 shaft, north of Brazil, belong-* ing to the Crawford Coal Co., was destroyed by fire the other night. Th-j large engine and boiler and other valuable machinery was greatly damaged. The loss will be heavy, but is covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown.

| Samuel Griffiths, an old soldier i was found dead in a house in the out 1 skirts of Warsaw the other morning. I Griffiths lived by himself and a Mrs. i Garvin found him lying on the floor of ; his dwelling. He had evidently been ; dead several days. i Quite a sensation was caused by the : filing of a $5,090 damage suit against : John Neff by Riley C. Goodwin and i wife for slander at Muncie. The parties are well known. The death of Mayor Wagner, of Madison, has brought out a large number of aspirants for the unexpired term. The outcome of the fight is uncertain. The Lake Erie & Western Railroad Co. was made defendant in a suit for 815,000 damages at Muncie, the other day, by A. L. Smith, who alleges thafj he lost a hand at Tipton while in tho employ of the company last summer, and that the accident was the result of the recklessness of a drunken €ngineer.

The natural gas was acting badly the : other day at Ridgeville on account of the : cold weather. Next morningat 8 o’clock i the wife of Prof. Watson lighted a ■ match to start a fire in the cook stove, j The room was full of gas that had es- ; caped during the night, and the con- ; sequence was a terrific explosion, in 1 which Mrs. Watson was terribly I burned. The windows were blown out ! and the house set on fire. Near neighi hors were at the scene in a moment : and succeeded in stopping the fire and : probably saved the life of Mrs. Watson, ' whose dress was on fire when they i reached the house. There was a terrific gas explosion at the Jlndiana Iron mill. Muncie, which ■ imperiled hundreds of lives and caused a damage of .$3,500. Indiana has eighteen special pension i examiners. i D. Bajjgher has been appointed re- : ceiver of the Adams Electrical Co., Elk- ■ hart. A young lady of New Albany has col- ' looted 43,000 of the 50,000 canceled • stamps necessary to get an invalid I chair. ! L. A. Vobeheren was nominated for • mayor by the republicans of Marion. : He represents the younger element. i Mack Dixon, a colored desperado i from Louisville, went to Columbus, the ' other day and was arrested for draw- ■ ing a razor on Howard Hill. An effort : was made to apply the handcuffs, when I the Negro knocked the constable and ! his deputy down, raised a window and • jumped to the pavement, fifteen feet ! below, and escaped. The arrest of Miss Lulu Van Slylce, the only daughter of ex-State Senator Van Slyke, a retired Methodist preacher, has caused a big sensation at Goshen. Miss Van Slyke is charged with the theft of a valuable ring, which was found in the possession of her lover, Vernon Young. Young swears he will go to prison before he reveals anything as to how it came into his possession. Miss Van Slyke is IS years of age, of rare beauty and possessed of a mind unusually well cultivated. She is a daring horsewoman, and her skill has made her.known throughout Northern Indiana.