People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — STATE OF INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

STATE OF INDIANA.

Hews nuggets gathered in HILLS AND DALESL. Week’* Car*fally Coadatwed far Our Headara —Social, Personal, PoI.tlcal, Religious and MtseoUanooM Intellixende l'p to Date. Mrs. Frank Messraerc nearly beat the life out of Clementine Heeter, a young man of gcod family, in front of the postoffice at North Manchester. A rumor concerning the conduct of Heeter and Mrs. Messmere reached the ears of Mr. Messmere, and he confronted Heeter, who boasted of the favors he had received from Mrs. Messmere for over a year. This so enraged the husband that he would have taken Heder's life on the spot but for the interference of friends. Mrs, Messmere then armed herself with a rawhide and started out in search of her slanderer. She met Heeter, who is a cripple, us he was entering the postotuev building and gave him a sever® thrashing with the whip. She grabbed one of his crutches and dealt him a fearful blow, felling him to the sidewalk, then pounded him unmercifully for some minutes. An officer arrived and look the enraged woman in custody. Heeter was taken to his home, aud is in n critical condition.

The farmers of Adams county are working a successful boycott on the merchants of Deeatur. They have been holding meetings in various small towns in the county and now havo, as they claim, the names of over seven hundred farmers who will refuse to do any trading in Decatur. They have already established two general stores at Preble aud Mon mon th and expect to put in several more at other placea soon. They are working together something like the “grangers" did several years ago. As a result of thia boycott but very few people were in Decatur last Saturday and the merchants did a very light business. Usually there are from three to five hundred farmers doing business here on Saturdays. The fanners give as .heir reason for boycotting the town that the city will not furnish them a yard in which to place their teams w'liaie doing their snooping and that they are not allowed to luiul heavy loads over the brick streets. The merchants have already felt the effects of the boycott are somewhat alarmed. Information has been received at Logansport by Rev. E. S. Scott, «uperiutlindent and secretary of the Presbyterian Assembly and Summer school which is to be established at Bass lake, Indiana, that the Big Four and Baltimore & Ohio railroads and the people of Kosciusko county are combining to make a more favoraqle offer to that association to locate the assembly at Turkey lake, Kosciusko county. Bass 1 ke, Starke county, was selected as the site of the assembly at a meeting of the stocks holders at Indianapolis, early this month, provided certain conditions were fulfilled. The advocates of Turkey lake, however, still i ave hopes of securing the school, which will be similar to the Chautauqua of New York state and In charge of President .1. M. Coulter of Lake Forest university. B. &. 0. passenger train No. 7, due nt Seymour Pi o’clock a. m.. failed to arrive until m. one day last week, on account of the wreck at Cold Springs Sunday night. The wrecking car returned to that place to finish clearing up the track. Of the fourteen cars piled up many were broken to pieces and burned. The ears were loaded with cotton, freah meats and live poultry.

Two convicts named Connor and Blake were brought down from the Michigan City prison to testify against Charles Shirk, on trial in the Kosciusko Circuit court for grand larceny. The men were placed in cells in the Warsaw jail, and during the night Shirk got at t hem, saturated their bunks with gasoline and touched it off. Fortunately there was but little of the fluid, and the men were aroused and extinguished the blaze before they were singed. Daniel Baugh, Sr., residing near .Jeffersonville, ,who on April 1 next will lie 100 years old, is reported confined to his r<x>m by a severe cold, or a slight form of the grip. The venerable gentleman is a staunch republican and says that not only will he le well in a few days, but live to vote for and see another republican President. His son, Daniel Baugh, Jr., is 65 years old, and residing together on the farm are four generations of the Baugh family. About a year ago William Augerbright, who resided near Lincoln, Neb.,murdered his father-in-law, William SmeLser, a well-known farmer near Anderson, who was making a visit at his daughter’s residence, Ahgerbright took offense at a remark of his guest and brutally murdered him. A telegram was received here last week stating that Augerbright had been convicted of murder and sentenced to imprisonment for ten years. The trial lasted nineteen days. William Decker & Sons, one of the best known gas well drillers in the Indiana belt, have made a successful trial of a patent which they invented for separating gas and water. Jacob Erther, a wealthy farmer and owner of over 500 acres of rich land near Yorktown, Delaware county, and also owner of one of the largest dry goods stores in Farmland, was forced to make an assignment last week. Th« assets are sufficient to more than meet all liabilities. His downfall was caused by being security on several large notes given last summer. Daniel Moyer, one of the old tim* settlers of Elwood, died last wee! after a long and painful illness with dropsy. He was identified with th< citv's growth and was well known al’ «rc. the county. *