People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fob sl6 cash Mrs. W»n. Moore sold her 18-months-old babe at Wabash. Fpankort police are to be decked out in new uniforms. A will soon vote on the water works question. All the Protestant churches at Edinburg are without pastors. When the postmistress at Eames resigned office was discontinued. At Waterloo, Henry Maggins, a farmer, was kicked to death by a mule. Richmond police are learning the art of bicycle riding. South Bend is said to be overflowing with gambling-rooms. Watson, a village near Jeffersonville, was raided by a gang of twentyfive tramps. Thomas J. Mull, a banker of Manilla, has been nominated for senator by the republicans of Hancock and Rush counties. Arrangements have been perfected by which the Twenty-second and Sixtyseventh Indiana regiments are to hold a joint reunion in Columbus on September 19 and 20. Newton Gilliland’s large barn near Cross Plains burned the other morning at 1 o’clock. All the grain, hay, wagons, buggies and farming implements were lost. Light insurance. A case of fire-bugs. Wm. Matthews, of Muncie, woke his wife the other night with the cry, “My father just died.” It proved true to the minute. His father died in Covington, O. The jewelry store of Max Prop, at Kouts, Porter county, was entered by burglars, and S2OO in money and goods amounting to more than S4OO were taken. A farmer near Chesterton claims to have raised over 60 bushels of wheat to the acre. Wm. Maxfield, of Huntington, in attempting to board a Wabash train at Ft. Wayne, was killed. ’Squibb J. L. Powell died at Goshen, aged 93. He had been a justice of the peace since 1843. A man lives at South Bend who fattens horses to eat. He claims their meat is better than beef. The poultry establishment of Samuel E. Noftzger, at North Manchester, Wabash county, was completely destroyed by fire. Loss on building and contents, $6,000.

MuNcie expects a boom this fall. Much sickness prevails at Michigan City. Postmasters appointed the other day: J. T. Miller, Cloverland, Clay county, vice Mrs. C. Varley, resigned; R. B. Harrison, Ellisville, Boone county, vice H. A. Bradshaw, removed; Dennis Sheedy, Queensvillc, Jennings county, vice J. W. Corya, removed; and Grant Brown# West Liberty, Howard county, vice W. A. Lord, resigned. The annual meeting of the old set tiers of Wabash county was held in the city park, Wabash, a few days ago. The attendance was very large, over 2,000 people being in attendance. Hon. Calvin Cowgill, Hon. Elijah Hackleman and others delivered addresses, and there were many reminiscences. A few weeks ago commission houses in other cities shipped large quantities of berries to Wabash dealers on postalcard orders supposed to have come from these dealers. On their arrival the berries, not having been ordered, were refused and thus thrown back on the express companies. They were sold for a song. Post Office Inspector Fletcher has been there several days, and claims to have located the man who sent the orders. John Wershing, a prominent farmer and trader of Morgan county, has assigned, Samuel J. Anderson, of Morgantown, being assignee. Assets and liabilities, $4,500. Rebecca Checkner, of Richmond, has filed a damage suit for SIO,OOO against the Pennsylvania railroad. While she was driving beneath a trestle a passing engine caused her horse to run away and she was badly injured. All the alcohol held by the Wabash Distilling Co., Terre Haute, has been regauged, the tax paid and the goods removed from bond. The entire force of gaugers and storekeepers have gone off duty. During the past few weeks about 15.000 barrels have been removed from bond. At Crawfordsville, the estate of Chas. Osborn has sued the Big Four railroad for SIO,OOO damages because he was kept at work for seventy-four hours and finally fell from the car and was killed.

Col. Ross, of Indianapolis, mustered fifty-eight men in the new militia company at Franklin. The Hoosier Brick Co., New Albany, manufacturers of vitrified brick, has failed. Young quail are said to be very numerous in the vicinity of Seymour. Canada thistles grow on the streets of Seymour. Children under sixteen years of age are not allowed on the streets at Knox after nine p. m. without an adult escort. A sanitarium may locate at Rome City. Richmond carpenters are very busy. George Waites, of Logansport, is lying dangerously wounded and Bill Mclntosh, a horse-trading wanderer, is in the Cass county jail, charged with shooting with intent to kill. The trouble grew out of a horse trade. Four more cases of smallpox are reported from Atwood, a small town five miles west of Warsaw. This makes seven cases there now. L. Plummer, wife and two children were taken down a few days ago. The body of Edward Garrity, the eight-year-old son of Mrs. John Garrity, a widow, was found the other evening near his mother’s home floating in the Connersville hydraulic, dead, he having, it is supposed, fallen from one of the bridges and drowned a few minutes before found. At Matamora William Pierce wan crushed to death under a wagon load of stone.