People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Th* Wabash School Bkumituro Co. will resume operations, the employes agreeing to a cut in wages of from 3 to 12 per cent West-bound passenger train Na 7, on the Big Four, dashed into an open switch in the eastern yturds, at Union City, the other evening, smashing six freight cars and passenger train engine. No one was injured. The express and mail cars were badly wrecked. Some person had thrown the switch and put out the light with intent to wreck the train. Plans will be completed soon for the establishment of a mammoth tin plate factory in Kokomo, on the site of the Kokomo Window Glass Co.’s factory. The controlling stock will be held by local investors, and the remainder by practical tin plate men from abroad. The new enterprise will receive free fuel from the enterprise Gas line, which has been built for the special use of the manufacturers

At Tipton, Carl Claud, 16 years old and subject to fits, met with an accident which the attending physicians say will terminate fatally. The young man was in a room by himsolf find was seized with a fit, falling on the stove face doivnward. It is not known how long he remained in that condition, as he made no outcry, and when found his face and head were burned so badly that large pieces of flesh adhered tci the stove. In several places the bone is exposed, and he has since been un der the influence of opiates. Bill Lloyd, brother of Abe Lloy*d, the pugilist, and Chas. Skelton, were arrested and jailed at Brazil ou the charge <of burglarizing Charles A. 1 Fisher’s grocery store some time ago. . Just after the burglary both disappeared, and, thinking the affair had blown over returned to Brazil a few days ago, and were quickly arrested and jailed. j Thk post office and Small Bros’, geni eral store at Rich Valle}*, five milefi west of Wabash, was entered by burg- ; lars, and the safe, in which was SIOO in i currency and the total stock of stamps of the post office, $1,635 worth, w; s blown open. All the money* and stain;, s were taken. No clew. | Burglars entered the residence of | Jacob H. Easton, at Huntington, the ‘ other night, and compelled him to give up $1,500, which he had drawn frcm the bank. No clew to the robbery, j Waldo G. Kokinson and Miss Emna ! Alice Brown were married at Indianj apolis, the other day. Mr. Robinson’s first wife was a cousin of President ; Cleveland, and her most intimate friend | was Miss Brown. When she died she exacted a promise of her husband to marry her friend. She had also per- : suaded Miss Brown to consent to tl.e j arrangement. ! The circuit judge at Noblesville is ' after participants in a prize light re- ; cently held there. Nellie Clattebaugh, a plumb and ; pretty maiden of 18 years, is in Anderi son from Newcastle to institute proceedj ings against John Linderwood, of Alexl andria, for breach of marriage contract and $5,000 damages. John married another girl after promising to make Miss Clatterbaugh his wife, so she say’s, j The case creates quite a social sensation.

j Fred Brecht, who swindled the Pru- : dential Insurance Co. while acting as their agent at Jeffersonville, is in ! jail at that place. He obtained about ! $1,500 by means of bogus death certifii cates, and fled from the city when an \ inspector of the company began an in- ; vestigation of his agency. He was j found in Monon, working in the ! smelting works under an assumed ‘ name. I The other day in court at ; Valparaiso, Hannah Brown began pro- ' ceedings for divorce from Gen. George ; W. Brown, a well to do farmer of th t i county. They were married last Novernj ber. The complainant charges hm with I with inhuman treatment, alleging tha< i at times he drove her from the house, j compelling her to sleep in the barn and ; put drugs in her cup with a purpose ol ; destroying life. The defendant is 93 ; and the plaintiff 20 years of age. She asks for alimony. i Postmaster Kennedy, of Lafayette, has suspended John McGrath, a carrier, who laid down his mail pouch at a gate while leaving a letter at a residence. A passer-by took up the pouch and turned it in at the post office. Mrs. Laura Balay. of Green township, Morgan county, has brought suit at Martinsville against her newlyfound husband. Charles P. Balay,whom she married but little more than a month ago, after but a few days’ courtship. The West Newton cemetery, southwest of Indianapolis, has been so frequently plundered by “burkers” th: t the greatest uneasiness prevails among the living that the graves of their dead will be despoiled. A few days ago marked the death of Mrs. G. F. Kouton, a well-known lady, who weighed over SSO pounds. So fearful were the family that the remains would be stolen that they called upon a Springfield (Ohio) firm to manufacture a burglar-proof steel casket of such weight and strength as to absolutely defy attack. This bur-glar-proof coffin was received and the burial followed. As an additional precaution, the grave will be visited daily until all fear of removal is gone. The city council of Richmond voted for a grand jury investigation of the charges against the maj'or and other city officials in connection with the passage of an electric light ordinance. A six-year-old daughter of MrsAlice Justice, living eight miles from Windfall, fell into a boiler of hot water and died. The flesh fell off her bones. The water was prepared for scrubbing purposes, and she fell head foremost. John Max«.ehson a woll-known young Elkhartan, has become violently insane and will be taken to an asylum. Worry over financial affairs ia the cause. W. T. Hayes & Co., of Anderson, have been awarded contracts for the construction of the Poiter corrugated iron works, of Cincinnati, which are to remove to Anderson.

“Wht was Bjones fired?” “He got the Idea into liis bead that he was one of the big guns.”—Philadelphia Record.