People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — STATE OF INDIANA. [ARTICLE]
STATE OF INDIANA.
NEWS NUGGETS OATHERED IN HILLS AND DALE& A Week’s Doings Carefully Condensed for Onr Readers —Social, Personal, political, Religions and Miscellaneous Intelligence Up to Date. An Anderson company headed by C. IT. Ilarriman, F. Bradburry and R. H. Coekefair will build a complete tele* phone plant in New Castle. Henry Dixon, Harry Beard and Wal* ter Carter, all colored, were sentenced to the penitentiary for one year for larceny at Vincennes. The body of Airs. Anna Ray Love, formerly of Martinsville, waS taken there for burial in Hilldale cemetery. Mrs. Love was a daughter of John F. Ray, a contractor and builder of Indianapolis. Rev. J. E. Devoe of Salem has accepted a call to the Christian church at Richmond, and will preach his first sermon next Sunday. A new building association is now being formed at Richmond, the capital stock of which will be $'1,000,000, making it one of the largest In the state. There was a joint public installation of Rovnl Arch Chapter No. 111, Blue Lodge No, lon anil Eastern Star Chapter at Masonic hull, in Hartford City, last week, I. I', Clifton, aetin rr installing officer, A Tier the installation a h" nonet was given, a 1 which nve** one hm 1 red were enti" - tain*”l. Th n toastmaster was I'm 11. 11. Smith, and rcanonses were made 1> -.1 H. Hindman, Dr. If. C. Davisson and Mrs. A. 11. Crn nnell. T' e in hound movement of loaded cars i ver the Indianapolis A Vincennes showed some improvement, the road bringing in 458 carloads of coal. 'Che Vanda lia last wpek touched the lowest figure in some months, bringing to Jnd'annpolls 1,0»0 loaded cnrs, against 1.384 in the week preced'"g, anil forwarding west but 717 loaded cars. The empty ear movement westward continues heavy. The Vandalia Inst week hnndlcd west 458 empty cars, the St. Louis division of the IMg Four 48‘i, the Chicago division 330 and the Indianapolis & Vincennes hauled Bouth 433 empty cars. The Big Four lines proper handled at Indianapolis in the week ending Deo. ~8, <i,“Hil loaded cars, u decrease, as compared with the week ending Dec. 77. of 1.7(11, and 1,387 fewer than the week ending Dec. 15. The decrease was quite equally divided between the four divisions, all being troubled more or less by snow in the movement of trains. Col. A. I) Rose, an old-time Indianapolis printer, is dead. The wholesale trade of Indianapolis for 1804 showed an improvement over 187.1.
W. W. Smith, who conceived the Indianapolis Belt road scheme, died in Kansas City. ► t City of Indianapolis compromises a number of Sellers farm damage suits by paying the costs. County Treasurer Holt of Indianapolis readjusts his office undei the recent Supreme court fee and sulary decision. Albert Gall, state treasurer, tarns over all bis property to two trustees for the benefit of creditors. Mrs. Newlin of Indianapolis was attacked 1# Abe vt il on, a burglar, who was caught by the aid of a passer by. The ready made clothing linn of Galanty & Wolf of Elwood passed into the hands of a receiver, W. A, l)cIlority filing his bond as receiver in the srm of .>3,000. The : ction was forced by Israel I’aumbeiger of Cincinnati bringing action against them for $3(1(1. .So far but few claims b, ve been presented for set’lenient, the whole nmount barely exceeding SI,OOO, The firm came here from Cincinnati one year ago and has not prospered, A special dispatch to the Commercial Gazette from Bryan, Ohio, says: Considerable excitement was cnncdi.n Lake Shore passenger train No. ”, yesdentay afternoon near Kih.rerton. when one of the pa - icngers. Charles Smith, began to froth :>■ the mouth snap at and bite at everything within reach and soon caused the cn to he vacated. It. to* k a half dozen men to ov< , power and 1 old lon nn il they reacbe I Brvan. when officii: to< k him in charge. He was taken before Dr. J. Hip s and he pronounced it a case of hv rophobia. Where Smith got on the train no one knows, but bis ticket was a pauper's, and called for Bryan as its destination. It is thought he is from South Bend. President Ijams of the VVesternSouthern Trotting association lias issued a call for a meeting at Chicago Jan. 8, when the dates for the m etings next season will he arranged. The cities in the association are Chicago. Stur is. Grand Hapids, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Tiffin, Columbus. Chillieotlie an I Lexlugton. Terre Haute will a-k for two dates, now that the trotting association and the fair association have mitered into an agreement for profit ami loss sharing. The unfavorable exhibitsof the Lake Erie it Western and the Monon are due largely to the snow storm of Thursday and Friday, whieh passed over the northern part of the state. John Tet h'“ 'ngton, a well-known cit'/"n nn . .llor, died suddenly at Am._.sou in his chair after partaking-, oi an unusually hearty meal. He served with distinction during the war of the rebellion in the Nineteeth Indiana, being three times wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness. The remains were buried under the direeti on of Major May post, G: A. H State Association of Traveling Men met and elected officers. P <° *hb% |» khe aew president, _ Jt
