People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fire broke out at Worthington the other morning and destroyed part of the business section of the little town. The loss will reach about $16,000, with but little insurance. Ed Brown, the alleged train robber, who has been on trial atCrawfordsville charged with an attempt to rob the American express car on the Big Four road August 11 last, was the other i morning, upon a third trial, acquitted. ! Brown, claiming to be a tramp, was | shot by the trainmen and for a time ! was thought to be fatally wounded. j lie will now sue for damages. James Hussey, aged 24, atrampprin- ■ ter from Chicago, had both feet cut off j by a passenger train at South Bend the 1 other morning. He was beating his ! way home from Buffalo. He may pos- I sibly die. At the meeting of the Eleventh dis- , trict congressional committee it was i decided to hold the convention to nom- | inate a congressman on May 10. The Carothersville high school will : open a normal department March 6. | At a meeting of the republican coun* ; ty central committee, at Hartford City, ! I the other day, March 31 was fixed as the time for a mass convention to select delegates for state, congressional ! and judicial conventions. Goal Mattiieavs issued a requisition for the return to the state of 11. Ackley Sackctt, the adventurer and hypnotist, ! I under arrest at Topeka, Kan., for elop- j ing Avith Miss Davenport,the heiress’of Elkhart, Ind. | A party of coon hunters discovered 1 body snatchers in the act of robbing a I 1 grave in the West Newton c9metery, 1 near Indianapolis, containing the body i of Mrs. Rebecca Spray, buried on the | previous day, and fired on the ghouls , | with guns loaded Avith buckshot. A i yell of agony followed the volley, but , nobody dropped. | , The final papers for the location of , the Kitz Implement Co. at Alexandria 1 are signed. The company locates for a • consideration of $50,000 and gas. The ! factory will be a substantial one, and j Avill employ 250 men when in full oper- j ation. Moivers, rakes and other agri- | cultural implements will be manufac- ! tured. j Y\ illiaji Cooper, of Sullivan, the ! other day brought suit in Marion county against John Ellis, of New Augusta, for SIOO,OOO damages for slander, j The defendant is Cooper’s father-in-law. I A novel wedding was solemnized the other day by Ilev. W. H. Whitsett, j of the M. E. Church, at Scotland, a j small toAvn ten miles from Bloomfield. ; The contracting parties Avere Otto La Rue, 10, and Mrs. Martha A. Catron, 00. ! The bride has Avealth to the amount of ! $20,000, while the groom has nothing 1 to commend him to the good graces of { his wealthy spouse except a handsome j face and a robust figure. The authorities of Warsaw have or- j dered that all slot machines in town I to cease operations. Mrs: Isaac Trout has sued Elkhart j for $2,000 damages for injuries received j by falling on a sidewalk. A young man of Delphi has made a bet of $l5O that he can ride on a bievcle from Delphi to Logansport and return in six hours, a distance of 52 miles. A storm struck Michigan City at 3 ! o’clock, the other afternoon. It swept j through a lumber yard, carrying every- I thing before it, and then passed over j the Monon and Michigan Central ! freight yards, where it carried five cars i from the tracks and wrecked them, j The funnel then disappeared over the lake. The Baltimore express. No. 47, with ! three Pullman passenger cars. John N, j Elder, conductor, was wrecked at Whiting the other morning. The injured are: J. Moore, engineer, Garrett, Ind., bruised about the head; D. W. Linville, fireman, Garrett, Ind., shoulder injured. The train struck a load of brick which stood on the track. Attorney A. N. Mundkn filed nine suits in the Jackson circuit court the other day against the Gernian-American Building and Loan association, of Indianapolis, in sums ranging from $25 to SSOO. The suits are brought by stockholders of the company, who were robbed of $4,000 by the company’s former general agent, S. J. Warner, by misrepresentations. Warner secured the money for paid-up certificates in the company, but since the exposure of his rascality they refuse to honor the certificates. The shareholders now seek redress through the courts. The governor has pardoned Dr. J. Frank Benham, of Richmond, convicted one year ago for the criminal betrayal of Miss Anna Fuller, a remarkably beautiful girl of 17 years, and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. One of the five liose-cart houses maintained by Laporte, burned down the other night, destro\ r ing a valuable hose cart, a large quantity of hose and other fire supplies, including one of the Gamewell electric fire-alarm boxes. There is a probability that the house will not be rebuilt, as a large majority of the citizens would like to see the present volunteer orgaui;- ation displaced with a paid department. Dr. Sam Bolzkk, a prominent veterinary surgeon, living at Millville, five miles west of Hagerstown, shot himself, the other morning at 2 o’clock, with a revolver. The ball passed through the body near the heart Drink is the only cause assigned. He owns a little farm, owes about 5000 and is about sixty years old. He died in the afternoon.