People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The calaboose at Waterloo has been sold for three dollars. The plant, stock, etc., of the Indianapolis Cabinet works was sold atpublio auction to a local syndicate for §76,000. Err.Gi.ARS blew up the Bloomfield, bank with dynamite and 'Secured, $4,700. One of the robbers was captured. G. Forenger and W. G. Fitzhugh were horribly scalded by a boiler explosion at Jeffersonville. At Brazil Coroner Mershan rendered his decision finding' that Mrs. John Dickens, aged C 9 years, was killed by her husband. Dickens is in jail and denies the crime. Mrs. Kate Mann, a well-dressed, intelligent and respectable-looking woman of Indianapolis, got drunk in order to show her husband that the habit was disgusting. John Hate, a farmer of Elkhart, has been adjudged insane by a commission, and taken to Logansport. His strange hallucination was that he feared the doctors would poison his 15-year-old daughter, and he refused to allow them to prescribe medicine, claiming that she would recover by his wife annointing her. Several doctors were called, but in each instance Hate drove them away, until finally the sheriff was compelled to take him into custody. The girl is very low with typhoid fever. A faulty indictment may save Hiram A. Foulks, the Vincennes bank cashier. The Jay county fair is reported to have been the most successful, financially of any county fair in the state. The association netted .$4,000. The Anderson Coiled Hoop Co. has been organized and will erect a factory in Grand View, an Anderson suburb. It will employ thirty-five men. Passenger Train No. 6, on the Louisville. Evansville and St. Louis railroad, which left Evansville at 7 o’clock the other morning struck and instantly killed Mrs. Leah Kellam at Temple At Vincennes, the administrators of the estate of John Marone sued the Big Four Railroad Co., the other day for SII,OOO damages for killing the deceased last August. At Madison a horse ran away with a carriage, probably fatally injuring Robert Elliott and killing his grandson, Charles Carver. -James Hass, of South Bend, was visited by two horse buyers, who made a proposition to buj’ a horse owned by Haas, provided the latter bought a horse of the first man's confederate. This Haas agreed to do. He went to a bank, secured S2OO, and when he returned to the designated point he was assaulted by masked men and robbed of the $.200. Nearly everj’ person at Rockville has signed the temperance pledge during the Francis Murphy meeting. A slick forger attempted to pass a check on the cashier of the New Albany National bank, but failed. Bailey Payne, one of the leading citizens of Fairmount, was arrested the other evening, charged with the attempted assault and murder of Mrs. Clark Wright. •

Attorney Samuel R. Hamill was heavily fined for insulting - Judge Taylor in the courtroom at Terre Haute, but on his apologizing the fine was remitted. Neap. Shelbyville James 11. Hamilton, a wealthy farmer, was fatally beaten and robbed of §7OO by unknown assailants on his way home from a circus. Peter McGovern, of Frankton, took too much chloral, and is dead. Filxnk Powell, a glassblower, was run over and killed by a local freight at Red Key the other night, on the Panhandle road, lie was lying on the side-track asleep. Spearmen are depopulating Elkhart river. George R. Jones, of Muncie, cut his throat from ear to ear, but he may recover. He is a leading grocer, and is worth over §25,000. At Muncie John Lawrence’s 2-year-old daughter drank an ounce of carbolic acid. She will die. She thought it was ■water. At Kendallville a fruit grower raised a peach that measured 10X inches in circumference and weighed 15 ounces. A movement is on foot to keep minors off the street at Valparaiso after 9 o’clock at night. Union City had a circus parade and big fire at the same time, the other day. The Christian Endeavor societies at Jeffersonville are advocating the question of a “good citizenship league.” A merchant of Cbestertm set a trap gun for burglars and then Thoughtlessly ran into it himself. His legs were nearly shot off. The Fowler Bolt works, Anderson, which has been shut down for two years, resumed operations, a few days ago, and is now going at full blast. Two hundred and fifty men are being employed. Am unknown woman threw a baby from a train near Crown Point. The infant was killed. Henry Demberger was the other day appointed postmaster at Stewartsville, Posey county, vice W. P. Robb, resigned. 1)1 rs. Peter Kiser, while attending the Huntington fair, lost her pocketbook. It contained §I,OOO. Middlep.ury will put up §15,000 for the extension of the Goshen electric railway to that place. Frederick Ehle, a Ft. Wayne contractor, was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train at Ft. Wayne, the other morning, and instantly killed. He was a wealthy and prominent business man. , In a street car and sprinkling cart collision at Kokomo, B. K. Delon, the driver, was completely scalped, as though with a knife. His skull was also fractured. George Film, German, aged thirtyfiye, living at Haubstadt, twelve miles east of Princeton, committed suicide, taking* rat poison. The death of his wife recently caused temporary insanity. w ‘ ... .