People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — INDIANA BRIEFLETS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BRIEFLETS.

RECORD OF MINOR DOINGS OF THE WEEK. Seven Days’ Happenings Condensed —Social, Religious, Political, Criminal, Obituary and Miscellaneous Events from Every Section of tile State. James Ottlnger of Lebanon, convicted of chicken stealing, has been sent to prison for two years. The Rev. P, J. Albright, of Alexandria, has succeeded the Rev. J. H. Smith of Noblesville, as chaplain of the prison north. J. F. Devor has purchased the RidgeviUe News, leaving Prof. W. F. Kendall to devote his entire time to RidgeviUe College. William A. Gavitt, of Waterloo, a retired manufacturer, after several months of suffering from pain In hia head, has been stricken blind. Burglars returned to Farmland on Saturday night, securing two gold watches in William House’s residence and $7.50 at Mrs. Ella Norvlel's home. James Haynes, of Fredericksburg, whose wife recently died, committed suicide because of grief over his iloss She was a sister of the late Col. Horace Heffren. It Is reported at Hartford City that on the Ist of March there will be a general raise of 2V£> per cent on glass, affecting only the Western and Pittsburg jobbers. Omer Lowden, of Clinton county, sent to Michigan City prison for four years, being convicted of robbing Miss Rosa Bacon of S7O is said to be dying with consumption. Mrs. James Lucas of Farmland, who has been experimenting for years, has succeeded in raising home-grown lemons, some of which measure fourteen inches in circumference. Delegates to the National Cannera’ association, in session at Cincinnati, on Saturday made an excursion to Elwood, where they wero the guests of the American Tin-plate Company, John D. Cochran of Franklin, under suspicion at one time of having killed Frank Redmond of Indianapolis, has been arrested and transferred to Pomeroy, 0., on a charge of highway robbery. Alfred McEwen, of Edinburg, accused of stealing S2O from the safe of Pruitt Bros., of that city, 'has been acquitted on Jury trial at Franklin. He belongs to one of the leading families of Edinburg. The box-factory and pl&nlng-mIH owned by W. C. Fear & Co., of Summltville, was partially destroyed and one of the employes, sleeping on an upper floor, was severely burned. The loss Is $1,500, with no insurance, Frank Ford, of Evansville, employed by an Installment house, embezzled funds and fled t*> 3t, Louis. He was returned to Evansville on Friday night last, and the following day he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. Charles Sparr, of Lafayette, was pursued and arrested at Franklin, on Saturday, charged with attempting to pass a check on the Franklin National Bank, to which Frank S. Record’s name has been forged. The check called for |BS. G. B. Hlllegoss, of Wabash, while attending a dance, met Joseph Way, and struck him behind the ear with his fist, to the very severe, if not fatal, injury of the victim. There was an old feud between the men. Hlllegoss was arrested.

Frank Sparr, alias Frank Smith, who attempted to pass a forged check at Franklin and was arrested, on a plea of guilty, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. He is supposed to have been the man who defrauded a bank at Cambridge City out of S7O. The ashes of the late George W. Shanklln were sprinkled over the graves of his parents at Evansville, as by his dying request, the body having been cremated. The services were short, conducted by the Rev. Mr. Wilson, and only members of the family were present. The other night forty tramps were quartered in the Jail at Kokomo, while 171 were stored away in the dry klThs attached to one of the brick-yards. All of them lived by begging. As a result the citizens feel that philanthropy has played out, and the mayor has instructed the police to drive the Intruders out of town. The experts appointed to investigate the books of Dekalb county, following the arrest of ex-Auditor Coffinberry, now dead, and others, has reported, showing the following shortages: ExTreasurer Fair, about $12,000; ex-Aud-itor Coffinberry, $5,400; ex-Clerk Moody, $2,700, while other ex-offloials, whose names are withheld, are short In amounts ranging from S4OO to $3,000. The bondsmen of T. G. Stout of Grant township, Newton county, have seized his books and papers, and report that Mr. Stout, township trustee, has issued orders for S4OO in excess of the law, while others are thought to be held by the banks. These orders were negotiated by George M. Ray of Shelbyville, a school supply agent, who has figured in such work for years. A special meeting of the county commissioners will be held, looking to further action. Two expertß employed by the auditor of Madison county to unravel the confused accounts extending over a series of years, are reported by the Anderson News to have found mistakes aggregating $85,000, with forced balances everywhere, and the books a bundle of errors. The news also says that Treasurer Breneman has refused to accept the tax duplicates of Alexandria, fearful that if he use 3 the auditor’s figures in collecting taxes much confusion will arise. There is also said to be many errors in the tax duplicates of Elwood.