People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — INDIANA BRIEFLETS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BRIEFLETS.

RECORD OF MINOR DOINCS OF THE WEEK. Sevan Days’ Happenings Condensed — Social, Religions, Political, Criminal, Obituary and Miscellaneous K vents from Every Section of the State. Miss Emma Hayes, of CrawfordsVille, has been appointed assistant secretary W. C. A., New York city. A petition is being circulated in northern Indiana, asking the Legislature to revoke the charter of the Tolleston Gun club. Gil Mack, a well-known resident of Hillsdale, is dead from the effects of injuries received in an accidental fall some time ago. Abraham Woods, of Anderson, who shot and wounded Patrolman John Pritchard, has been sentenced to five years’ Imprisonment. The Kurtz Telephone company haß applied for a franchise at Anderson, and a war of rates with the Central company is anticipated. The Rev. T. J. Stevenson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Seymour, has tendered his resignation to accept a call to Petersburg, 111. The Elnora Tribune insists that when ordinances are passed by the Town Council, they should be published, Instead of being nailed to trees like horse bills. The city council of Crawfordsvllle has reconsidered its determination to construct a sewerage system, and tho whole matter has been tabled indefinitely. Samuel Swalsgood, a fanner, whose numerous forgeries were recently detailed In these columns, was arraigned at Peru and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. William Earhart, eighteen years old, of Jefferson county, is mysteriously mlßSlng, and a financial controversy leads his parents to the belief that he has been kidnaped. The plant of the Distilled Water Ice and Cold Storage company of Crawfordsville has been sold to Sterling R. Holt, of Indianapolis. Its manufacturing capacity will be Increased. Mrs. James Lawrence, of McKeesport, Pa., has arrived in New Albany to lay claim as the only legal wife to the remains of James Lawrence, who recently died. Her claim is disputed by the second wife.

It is now claimed that the ruling ot Judge Heller, of the Jay County Circuit Court, was on demurrer, and did not involve the main issue to dredge the Salemonie river, which matter will come up at the March term. Among the allegations presented by a woman at Muncie, who is suing for divorce, is that her hUßband is so stupid that he often fell asleep while standing. Wonder if he was stupid when he asked her to marry him? —Ex. Frank David and family, of Wabash county, were awakened In the night by the crash of a falling stove, apd they found a fierce fire had burned away the flooring and thrown the stove into the cellar. The house was consumed. Aaron Ross, of Montgomery county, Indicted Jointly with George Gobin In the so-called Tomlinson arson case, has been released, there being no evidence against him, but on the contrary, it being shown that he did what he could to save property. Escaping gas under the office of the North Anderson box-works communicated with a flame and exploded, tearing out several feet of the floor, knocking out the windows and portions of the walls, and causing damage altogether footing up several hundred dollars. Henry Breetz, of New Albany, while walking homeward after nightfall, was assaulted by three colored footpads, robbed of sl4, and there was an attempt to thrust him head-first into the man-hole of a sewer. Breetz yelled so lustily that this was abandoned, and he was released. The story Is afloat In DeKalb county that H. M. Cofflnberry, the banker of Garrett, and ex-audltor, who had been indicted for malfeasance in connection with county affairs, did not die, as reported, but instead that death was simulated, and that an empty coffin was burled, while Cofflnberry absented himself from the country. Few give credence to the story. Charles Kelly, sixteen years old, of Osgood, who had been sent to the county infirmary, escaped from the institution during the recent cold spell, and sought refuge in a corn shock, where he froze to death. He had been dead for several days before discovery of the body, and it Is said that dogs had torn and mangled his face until it was almost unrecognizable. George Ibach, who attempted to wreck a Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railway train near Mitchell some months ago, and then told a tale calculated to reflect great credit upon his own daring, hopeful of realizing a reward, has been placed on trial in the Lawrence Circuit Court. Ibach conspired with others, according to the confession, to wreck the train, but at the last moment weakened and gave the alarm, for which he was shot in the leg by one of his associates. The jury disagreed in the damage suit brought by Editor Crampton, of the Carroll County Citizen, against the Bradshaw family, father and two sons, of Delphi, growing out of a business disagreement and an assault upon the editor by Arthur Bradshaw, in which he was aided by his brother. Jack Brannon, of Springfield, 0., has lain unconscious for many hours at Muncie, the result of collision with an electric car. No bones were broken, and there are no marks of external injuries. His death is probable. Bran* non is a molder, forty years old. —• ' -- J