People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The burglars who bio.ved open Axiom Overman’s safe at C&mpbellsburg on the night of February 7, were arraigned a few days ago, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to the state prison soutli. Ed Garrity gets eleven years, Jas. Kirk ten, Thomas Smith seven and Wm. Roberts four years. Three of them have served terns before and two were professional safe blowers. It is claimed the three first-named were sent up from Orange county in 1889 for robbing a clothing store at Orleans. Fob fear of killing some of his family, Daniel Manning, of North Indianapolis, suicided by taking morphine and laudanum. The principal streets of Muncie are to be paved with asphalt The new Christian church at Poseyville has been dedicated. “Star chamber” sessions of the Frankfort council are becoming quite frequent The Commercial club, of Richmond, now r numbers 450. The Kokomo paper and pulp mill was partially destroyed by fire, the other day. The flames were confined to the stock rooms, and the mills are running as usuaL Loss, $3,000; insured. Ax Indian’s skeleton has been dug up on a piece of ground east of Columbus, on the bank of Hawk creek, where a heavy growth of timber formerly stood. It is supposed to be an old burying k round. Thieves broke into T. B. Parkison’s hardware store at Yorktown, the other night and stole one hundred dollars’ worth of revolvers, razors and knives, and thirty dollars’ worth of wines, liquors and cigars from Sol Donovan’s saloon. Over 2,500 signed the pledge at tlio Murphy meetings at Alexandria. Mrs. Elizabeth Goings, aged 109, colored, believed to be the oldest woman in Indiana, is dying at Indianapolis. Harry Francisco, aged 17, was killed while attempting to board a moving 8.-& O. S. W. train at Seymour.

At Iventland Samuel Bair, a farmer, suicided by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. At Indianapolis Philip Traugh recovered $5,000 damages from the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. for the loss of an arm. Owing to the feeling against Jo! n Hushman, who murdered Gus Cline ; t Clinton Locks, Parke county, a few months ago, he was taken to Tene Haute. He will be tried there on a change of venue. The old Blackford county courthouse* bell has been sold to the U. B. churth for SSO. John C. Craig has sued the Lippincott Glass Co., of Alexandria, for $5,000. The plaintiff lost his eyesight on account of a piece of glass striking him in the eye. Wm. Castennie, 18 years old, of Marengo, while climbing a tree to di;lodge a coon, was accidently fired up«.n by a companion, who used a shot-gun. The load took effect in the calf of h a left leg, and thigh of his right lie was badly wounded, and came near bleeding to death before a physician could reach him. It is said that thirteen drug stores ai Elkhart have combined to run the fourteenth out. The Wabash agent at Kingsbury has been discharged. He was robbed recently. Thihtv-two Big Four trainmen will be discharged because their wages were garnished by an Indianapolis saloonist John Cedaks, a wealthy farmer aged 74 years, living near Waynetown, con - mitted suicide the other morning ly cutting his throat with a razor. IP's wife has been very low with the grip for several weeks, and it is suppost d that this prej-ed on the old mar s mind.

Mrs. Annie, residing a few mi es from Madison, was horribly burned 1 y her clothing taking fire from a co< k stove. Before assistance reached her she was seriously if not fatally burned, and now lies in a critical condition. In her efforts to extinguish the flames tl e house was set on fire and entirely consumed. A party of ladies from Muncie and from Anderson, will make a tour of Europe this summer. Clay City jollified, the other night, on the occasion of the initial lighting of the street lamps. A “jag” cure institute has been opened at Logansport The market house question is to be voted on at Columbus shortly. Ft. Wayne sportsmen are importing quail from Kansas to the county. A paid fire department will be organized at Laporte in the near future. Lebanon is getting very metropolitan. The latest is a board of trade. A new bank will be opened at Clay City April 1. Twenty-three dogs were poisoned at Osgood recently. An Edinburg inventor is trying hit luck at a flj'ing machine. A new glass tumbler works will locate at Greentown. Lou Paxton is in jail for stealing the horse and buggy of Dr. B. F. Hutchings at Crawfordsville. He was caught at Lebanon. The jury at Brookfield found P'epnrn Deilkes guilty of the murder of maricn George, and sentenced him to 20 j ears* imprisonment Buck Stanley, reformed drunkard, induced 800 to sign the pledge at his meetings in Muncie. Oakland City was visited by a $40,000 fire the other morning. The Columbia mills and elevator, Klenck Bros., proprietors. Loss, $35,000; insurance, $15,500. Geo. C. Klenck, residence, loss $1,200; insurance, $l,lOO. G. W. Kimble, dwelling, loss $350; insurance $250. Other property close by was slightly damaged. Origin unknown. Mrs. Elizabeth Christian, living ten miles northeast of Lebanos, while ia attendance at her daughter’s funeral. fainted, and died before regair ng eonsciousue.M.