People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Joh?i Phillips, a prominent yonng farmer of Princeton, died a few* days ago of dropsy. Mr. Phillips was well known over the state. A bicycle club will be organized at Michigan City. The citizens of Bristol are protesting rigorously against another saloon being located there. Another nest of coniaekers, composed of Bill McCombs, Jjill Clemmans and A. W. Cornell, are in the toils, and the other night were taken to the Knightstown jail. , Postmaster appointed the other day: R. E. McCleury, Folsomville, Warwick county, vice C. P. McCleary, resigned. A joint campaign has been arranged for the democratic and republican candidates for secretary of state in Indiana. Meetings will he held during October in each congressional district of the state. Twenty-five thousand people witnessed the races at Crawfordsville the other day. Mont Armstrong, the deputy treasurer of Tipton county, who escaped in July, 1893, when his father and brother Calvin were arrested for embezzlement of $43,000, has been located in Santo Mazetto, Mex. The health officers claim to have located a factory in Lake county where sausages and dried beef were made from carcasses of Chicago street car horses. A broken wheel caused a disastrous wreck to a Panhandle freight train at Knightstown which totally demolished eight cars and cost the life of Head Brakeman E. T. Heady. Horace Loomis, of Kokomo, who recently assassinated his cousin, James Gregory, who at midnight was giving medicine to the murderer’s sick mother, has been ordered to the insane asylum. A farmer near Shelbyville is the possessor of a six-legged pig. Earl Brown, 10, near Edinburg was drowned in a rain barrel. James Conner is in the county jail at Goshen, charged with arson, and the officers are close on the trail of his accomplice, John Rees, of Ligonifer. Rees has turned state’s evidence on himself and Conner, bqt escaped from the officers on tbe way to jail. At Noblesville Policeman John Harris was shot and badly wounded by burglars who were robbing the office of Metsker & Co. lumber dealers. They escaped. Dr. Wm. E. Chamberlain, of Oberlin, has been chosen Peck professor of chemistry and mineralogy in Wabash college. On the night of the 4th of ber, 1864, a well-known Elkhartan, named Charles Harding, disappeared under peculiar circumstances. A few days ago an alleged confession was found, written twenty years ago, and stating that Robert Ivarney had murdered Charles Harding and then committed suicide in Simonton lake. Immediately steps will be taken to investigate the authenticity of the confession. A new post office building will bo erected at Winchester. Very little fall plowing has been done around Madison. Michigan City will establish free kindergarten schools. South Bend has a city ordinance prohibiting the peddling of produce in the streets. The Seymour Incandescent Electric Light Co. and the Seymour Gaslight and Coke Co. have consolidated.

Thompson’s green bottle factory and the Sheldon-Foster flint bottle factory have both begun operations at Gas City, each with about 150 employes. The United States glass factory is also running with 250 employes and the American window glass factory will start October 1 with 250 employes. Gov. Mellette, of South Dakota, was given a grand reception in Muncie the other night at the home of F. W. Heath. Mr. Mellette was formerly editor of the Muncie Times. The Craven’s Corner schoolhouse, just south of Milan, was burned to the ground. There is no explanation of the fire, excep' that it was set afire. John Dailey was arrested at Logansport and taken back to Columbia City to answer to the charge for burglary and attempted murder on the night of August 22.' News was received at Greencastle that David Ader, the father of Hon. F. D. Ader, of Greencastle, dropped dead on his farm near Groveland. He was one ofthe wealthiest men of Putnam county owning over 3,000 acres of fine farm land. Sneak thieves are stripping grape arbors at Knightstown. Florence Boots won first prize in the oratorical contest at Crawfordsville. An elaborate counterfeiting plant ia thought to be in operation at Elk* hart. Madison expects a boom this fall. The new militia company of Franklin is a crack one. The Guilford pioneers’ association held their eighth annual reunion at West Fork church, near Guilford. The Irondale Tin Plate Mill, which has just been erected in Middletown at a cost of $200,000, has started. Ax. Leli», a prominent young man of Anderson, in attempting to jump from a moving train, was thrown on his bead and probably fatally injured. At a dance, at a beer hall in Anderson, John Oates stabbed Omcr Holey several times, inflicting probably fatal wounds. William and F,dward Hathaway, the last named of Terre Haute, while painting the smokestack of the street railway power house at Indianapolis, were both thrown by the slipping of a hook Edward fell on the roof of tl o building. William struck the pavement fifty feet below and was killed. At Muncie, over a month ago. Harry Ilobbs and Miss Anna Austin, of Albans, were secretly married by Rev. Ashy. She thought it was a mock wed* ding and now wants a divorce.