People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Thebe w&i a concerted move the other day by the express companies doing business in Indiana, attacking the law passed by the last legislature, which multiplied several times the taxes which the express companies have ! hitherto contributed to the state treasury. Separate suits were filed by the American, the United States and the Adams Express Co.’a The American \ Express Co., in its complaint, alleges that its assessment, $480,000, was based by the state board of tax commissioners upon the market quotations of its stock, and that the assessment is exorbitant and unreasonable; that the stock representing the property is held by 4,000 shareholders residing in fifteen different states, and many of them outside of this country. The constitutionality of the act is attacked, it being alleged that the bill passed the senate the last night of the session, while the constitution provides that no bills shall pass either branch of the general assembly during the last three days. The complaints filed by the Adams and United States Companies are in the same general terms as that filed by the American. The sleepingcar, dining-room car and fast freight lines are preparing also to make an onslaught on this same law, which has proven very obnoxious to all the companies whose taxes were increased. The three suits were filed in the circuit court atlndianapolis. Summitville veterans are highly indignant because Charles Hamilton, one j of their number, has been dropped from the pension rolls. John Qsborn, manager of the Evans--1 ville cotton mill, was fined SSOO for working children under 14 years of age over eight hours. | Wm. Parker, aged 93, the oldest man in Morgan county, is dead, j The Potts schoolhouse near Crawfordsville burned. The strike at the Indiana Wire Fence , works, Crawforcsville, is ended and , the men have returned to work. I At Anderson the populists hare nom- | inated a municipal ticket, i Seven members of a family named Core, at Irvington, are prostrated by trichinocia. The poisoning was contracted by eating bologna sausage purchased at a public mart. Howard Ditfev, the largest poultry and egg dealer in southern Indiana, failed.

A post office was established at Justus, Scott county, and Wilmer J. Smith, was appointed postmaster. At Milton, a carriage works, a planing mill and two flouring mills are running full time with a full force ol men. Rogers &, Com.a m, hook dealers at Madison, were closed by the sheriff on an execution for §SOO, in favor of GeoK. Birge & Co., of New York. R. T. McDonald has purchased the interest of Aaron Rothschild in the Crescent Paper mill at Hartford City. This gives him the controlling interest 1 in one of the largest paper mill plants j in the west. The new courthouse at Monticello will be of stone and will cost §70,401. At Angola the jury in the Samuel Deetars trial, after leing out 10 hours, brought in a verdict of guilty of murder ' in the first degree, and sentenced him to j the penitentiary for life. The crime for j which Deeters was tried was committed j August 30, 1893, near Ilutler, when he j shot Laura Lowe and Amos Ilachtel J and seriously injured William Yates. | The defense was insanity. George Barkus, an employe of the I Standard Oil Co., in Columbus, with! clothing saturated with oil, stood too near a stove and his clothing ignited. Barkus was fearfully and fatally burned. The building was set on fire hut saved by the fire department. Montgomery county thief detectives held a convention at Crawfordsvill& Delegates were present from eighteen lodges, and it was shown by the reports that the order was in good condition and was doing much good. The death of Kossuth brings to mind the fact that Mrs. C. C. Yunker, of Winchester,, has several hills dated , [ February 2,. 1852, and signed by Kos-isuthin-his endeavor to raise funds to carry on his war in Hungary. Postmaster A. Weinberg, of Boone Grove, Porter county,, put a charge of buckshot into one of four burglars who j entered his store, adjoining his home, I early the other morning. The burg- ! lars got away, but a pool of blood j showed that the postmaster’s aim had ! been true. They firecti two shots at i him, hut both missed. He found that i they had rifled his cash drawer of small change. A fuse and a hole that had been drilled into the door of the safe, in which were §SOO, showed that they had bnt just begun their work when iua interrupted them. At Morristown the child of John Huffman was dangerously scalded by an upsetting coffee pot. English is experiencing a well-de-fined boom. A chair factory is to he started at Goshen.

J. D. Berger, one of the wealthy merchants of Albion, was sandbagged the other evening about 8 o’clock while on his way home. The robbery ©c- | curred on one of the principal streets, j which at the time was thronged with : pedestrians Mr. Berger is a hardware | dealer and as a general rule carries I considerable money with him, but on this occasion the robbers only secured a few dollars. At Bloomington, James R. Hicks was indicted for murder in the first degree for killing his 10-year-old child. The crime was revealed by its mother. The free lodging house at Elkhart has closed. During the three months of its existence it cared for 1,135 unfortunates. The cold wave which swept over the country has probably cut the chances for a fruit crop in this state down to a very low degree. Cherries, plums-and apples are almost totally destroyed in the central and northern part of the state, but it is hoped that the hills in the southern part, the great apple seo* tion, have f»*~od tho staple fruit