People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The fact was developed at Richmond that an attempt was made the other night to assassinate John T. Norris, the Springfield detective. Gkegort and Turner, the gold-brick artists, who have bunkoed citizens of the central states out of over §IOO,OOC in the past year, turned a §5,000 trick at Logansport the other day. Their victim was a farmer named Moss. Detectives are on the trail of the swindlers. The woolen mills owned by Aaron Miller, at Goshen, burned early the other morning. Loss, §11,000; insurance, §B,OOO. Cause unknown. Joseph Weibel, an employe of the Star Piano Co., Richmond, was crushed to death the other, afternoon by the elevator. A sort of Dr. Parkhurst crusade is on at Goshen. D. K. Caldwell, of the firm of Moore & Caldwell, lumber dealers, was arrested at Frankfort by Maj. Carter, chief of the United States service of that district, on the charge of being in league with “Buck” Harlin, now in jail at Indianapolis for counterfeiting. Coi.umbus police are uniformed in metropolitan style. Ax Elkhart farmer raised a radish weighing seventeen pounds. In the suit of Henry Shackleton, of Selma, for §IO,OOO damages from the Muncie Architectural Iron C 0.,, for infringement of a steam heating radiator patent, the jury allowed §4OO. Mr. Hiram Monicle, who lias serred in the Princeton high school as principal for the past five years, tendered his resignation and accepted the position of superindent of schools at New Harmony, Ind. The Southeastern and Indian! conferences are now one. Officers as follows were elected: President, pastor of first charge of Greensburg; secretary, John Owens; treasurer, F. M. Dowden; board of managers, Stockman, Perry, Gavin, Cumback, Dean and pastor of Centenary charge, Greensburg. The report of the board of control was made, exonerating Treasurer Dowden from the charge made by the Indiana Phalanx some time ago, that he was using the money of the society for the saloon business in Greensburg. O. L. Ballou, of Lagrange, was the other day nominated by the democrats for circuit -judge in that judicial, district.

Elwood grocers and fruit dealers have perfected a union, and hereafter will keep closed after 9 o’clock on Sundays, and will meet to regulate prices every Tuesday. The organization comprises every grocer in the city. The city of Elwood has been made. defendant in an injunction suit brought by the Engle Sanitary Cremation Co., of Des Moines, la., to restrain the city from using a crematory or garbage furnace which is asserted to be an infringement upon the patent owned by the plaintiff. The crematory in question was constructed in 1892 by the VV. P. Jay Co., of Findlay. The Officers’ Association of the Indiana Legion has been organized with Adjt. Gen. Irvin Robbins, of Indianapolis, president; ex-speaker Mason J. Niblack, of Vincennes, first vice president; Gen. W. J. McKee, of Indianapolis, treasurer, and Lieut. N. W. Gilbert, secretary. Horseback riding is a fad at Connersville. A telephone system may be put ia at Greencastle. A two-thousand-foot gas well is being bored at Richmond. At Goshen Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Porley celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Their 50 years of wedded life have been passed in this city. Elder J. V. Updike, of Ft. Wayne, a noted evangelist, has accepted a call extended by the Christian Church of Valparaiso to succeed Elder J. 11. Smith. The opening services of the fortythird session of the Southeast Indiana conference took place at the First Methodist church, Shelbyville, Rev. J. M. Freeman, of New York city, delivering the address. Weibel, a young musician, was killed by an elevator at Richmond.

A mii.itia company and a football team are possibilities at Huntington At Maytinsville the 8-months-old child of Albert Thomas bled to death from a slight cut in its mouth. W hilk attending the fair at Huntington Mrs. Peter Kiser was robbed of her pocketbook containing over SI,OOO. The Knights of Pythias, of Montgomery county, held a grand* celebration and hßurv'est picnic in Crawfordsville. A severe storm passed over Tippecanoe county, injuring several people and destroying much property. John Artis, a colored carpenter, aged 70, fell from a scaffold at Sharpsville, Howard county, and was instantly killed. A wife and seven children survive. Mrs. Martha Hendig, of Warsaw, died of grief on account of the arrest of her wayward son, Frederick Hendig. Overcome with remorse he cut his throat with a razor, and fell dead by his mother's coffin. The barn of Alonzo Kiestling, near Richmond, eight miles south of Rushville, was consumed by fire. One thousand bushels of wheat, 75 tons of hay, S2OO worth of corn and three horse* were burned.

Victor K. Hendrix, chief engineer M. of W. of the Michigan division of the Vandalia, and H. S. Chesbrough, superintendent of signals, clung to a capsized boat for forty minutes the other evening in a storm at Lake Maxinkuckee, and were finally picked up by chance just as both were ready to let go. •The 14-year-old son‘of M. H. Kavlor, Marion, was probably fatally shot* the other night by the Accidental discharge of an old revolver with which the boy was playing. Man Emily, aged 26, who fell into a brush fire near Seymour, during a fit, Is dead

Scene, government office.—Chief (to industrious clerk) —“Why didn’t you dot the ‘i’in the last word of your report last night?” Industrious Clerk—“l beg pardon sir, but you see the clock struck four just at that point, and I didn’t care to work overtime.” Chief apoldgizes, and writes to the secretary in regard to allowance for extra time.