People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Daniel McClintic, school trustee of Clifty township, Bartholomew, county committed suicide. Financial troubles caused the rash act. James Whistlee, a farmer, was instantly killed south of Tipton, while felling a tree. The postmaster of New Albany will have to make good the loss sustained by the office in the recent robbery. Grace Speakman, one of the victims of the explosion at the Larrimer photograph gallery, Marion, died the other night. The others will recover. Edward C. Miller had a very frightful experience the other morning at the Muncie veneering works, and he was badly scalded. He accidentally stepped into a large vat of boiling water, and was just in the act of toppling over when another workman caught him. As it was the flesh on his legs to the knees was cooked. The Big Four railroad will immediately rebuild the shops of the Michigan division, w’hich burned at Wabash. At Spiceland, John W. Griffin raised 96% tons of tomatoes on about six acres of land and sold the product for $578.97. Two more deaths occurred the other night at Fairmount from diphtheria. Stephen Abernathy was appointed postmaster at Odd, Parker county, vice J. N. Seybold, resigned. An itinerant pearlhunter had such good fortune in Blue river that some of the Columbia City citizens went hunting themselves and had fair success. A stock company may be formed to dredge the creeks and lakes thereabouts. Frederick Dietz, a pioneer of Indianapolis and a wealthy manufacturer, died the other day. He was sixtyseven years old. He was a Mason, Druid, Odd Fellow and Red Man, and prominent in all these fraternities. At Columbus, City Marshal Schooler, who was elected at the May election, was arrested the other night on an affidavit of Richard Sanford, who charges Schooler with buying his vote for sl. James Lacy was also arrested as an accomplice. The State Brewers’ association met at Evansville, the other day, the object being to discuss the matter of changes in the existing laws for the better protection of the brewers’ cooperage and bottles and to take the necessary steps to procure favorable action thereon by the next legislature. The brewers of the state claim to have lost over §40,000 last year as a result of defective laws. Masked robbers entered the house of John E. Koontz, Union City, the other evening while all the family, except a boy about 14, was at the theater, and, holding revolvers at the boy’s head, ransacked the house, securing only some change in the children’s bank and Mrs. Kaontz’s pocketbook, containing about §3O. The Merchants’ Mercantile Agency, of Chicago, doing business in Evansville, manages the publication of a “Credit Experience Guide,” in which citizens are rated as to their standing in a financial way, and as a result many are badly worked up over the publication, claiming that they have been misrepresented. Joe A. Sanderson, a newspaper reporter, who claims that he does not owe a cent on earth, has been rated as a man not to be trusted, and as a result sues for $5,000 damages. Mrs. Roche Heinmann is rated in a manner similar to that of Mr. Sanderson, and sued for §IO,OOO damages. Others have threatened to institute suits also. Leonard Sanders, of Loganspoit, worked hard all summer and saved $l5O. He placed the money in the parlor stove for safe keeping and his wife started a fire there. » Valparaiso officials received word that Thomas Lucas, who is confined in the county jail on the charge of swindling Mrs. Lyda Johnston, of Valparaiso out of $2,800, is also wanted on a like charge in Chicago. in the canal, ten days ago, with a bullet hole through his head has been identified as Charles Heriekson,’ a butcher of Peoria, 111. A revolver, with two exploded cartridges, was found on the bank, and the trampled weeds showed there had been a struggle. Black diphtheria is raging at Anderson.

The post office at Hopewell will be discontinued. An oar factory is to be started at Wakarusa. Young colored men will organize a brass band at Peru. There are said to be no idle workmen in Seymour. Capt. Wm. R. Myers, democratic nominee for secretary of state, Las broken down, and for a time, at lea st, has been compelled to retire from Ihe canvass. Since the war Capt. Myers has been a sufferer from chronic trouble, which at times has totally incapaciated him for work. He was a iso injured a few years ago in a railroad wreck, the effects of which are still apparent. It is doubtful if Capt. Myers will again be able to enter the campaign. Charles Allen, a Crawfordsville cabman, drove off an embankment the other night and was killed. Several persons in the cab were badly injured. Thurston, 22, of Franklin, a girl who has fallen, attempted suicide at Shelbyville. At Wabash George W. Jones, father of five children, was struck by a train and killed. His two horses were also killed. Mrs. A. N. Wagner fell into a trench ten feet deep and nearly met death at Huntington. At Muncie Crystal, the 20-months-cld daughter of Lulu Sayler, opened a hand-sc.tchel owned by her grandmother, Mrs. Lizzie Bow’ers, the other day, to get some candy. The woman had some morphine powders in the satchel, and the child swallowed one of these. She died a few hours later. The family moved there from Anderson re» cently.