People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Th* United States Express Ca, which • has bad the Michigan division of the Big Four ever since it* construction aa I the Cincinnati, Wabash and twenty years ago, will, on February 1, be supplanted by the American Ca, which operates over the remainder of the Big Four system. • At Indianapolis “Sheeney” Armstrong, the mail box robber, was sentenced to three years in prison. j Geobge Roberts, a carpenter, died suddenly at Indianapolis from a peculiar cause. He was subject to epilepsy. He jokingly tossed a block of wood ■at his wife and she returned it with more vigor. The missile struck I him on the head, rupturing an artery ,of the brain. He was seized with convulsions later and died. The democratic caucus to nominate a camdidate for United States senator was an entirely one-sided affair, Senator Turpie being renominated without ■ a struggle. The caucus was thrown ' open to the public. At Jeffersonville a severe earthquake shock was felt at eight o’clock the I other night. The shock rattled the ; doors and windows and shook houses. ; Persons walking in the street felt thetremor. J. K. Henby has entered suit for 113,500 against the Western Union Telegraph Ca at Crawfordsville, for slowness in delivering a telegram. He alleges that a message was sent to Ladoga from New Ross, summoning a doctor to come and administer to a sick race-horse name “Swister.” The telegram was sent at night and was not delivered until next morning, and when the doctor arrived the horse was dead.

An overheated gas stove caused a 120,000 fire at Knightstown, Henry county, early the other morning. Will Crump, a young colored man, forced an entrance into his father-in-law’s house at Evansville, where his wife was staying, and shot his wife and her mother with a double-barreled »hotgnn. Both women were wounded. Mrs. Crump, who is but 17 years old, has both hands shot off at the wrist, and she will probably die. Crump escaped. Mr. E. P. Bicknell, late of the Indianapolis News, has purchased the I Jonesboro News, and takes possession soon. Johr Freeherer, of Rockport, one of the wealthiest business men of south- | ern Indiana, died suddenly, the other i day, at Louisville. I Edwin Green, alias Edward Davis, was arrested at Valparaiso, for bigamy. He is believed to have at least five wives ; in Michigan and Indiana. The Order of Railway Telegraphers ! i of the Big Four held a meeting at Indianapoiis and accepted the new sched- i > ule of wages and rules presented by the 1 I railway company. George Gougler, in an intoxicated i condition, appeared at the home of • George N. Hicks, at Elkhart, and stated i that he, together with a companion, ■ had been assaulted by thieves, and deI sired Hicks, who was 70 years of age, to go with him to the rescue of the other man. The story so excited Hicks that he was immediately taken sick and died before he could be put to bed. Engineer Geo. Stith and Fireman Wm. Warren, both of Terre Haute, met with frightful deaths at Jessup, on the Vandalia branch road, a short distance north of Terre Haute. They were on a coal service engine drawing five cars, and, while it wafe running at full speed, the engine left the track, turned over and crushed both men to death instant- , ly. None of the other employes were; | injured. The accident was probably due to spreading rails. The wrecked train is made up at Terre Haute, and goes to Rosedale each morning at 6 o’clock, returning at night Engineer Smith is an old engineer, and has been on the Vandalia many yeaj-s. He leaves a vnfe and family. Fireman Warren is a young unmarried man. This is the first fatal accident for many years ,on the Vandalia line, which has an unusual record in that regard.

Thj; new law abolishing fees for the delivery of prisoners to the penitentiary has gone into effect, and hereafter sheriffs will have no inducement to send them one at a tiinA Ihe most' terrific and bloody fight in history of Madison county occurred right after communion services the other day at Forest Chapel church six miles southwest of Anderson. The Communion table had just been cleared away when a row sprang up between the Lawsons on one side and the Swinfords, Smears and Hartzells on the othdr. If was a terrific fight, .and, as a result; ftrrn Lawson and Sanford Manis are in a critical condition, and the latter is almost sure to die. The fight was the result of an old feud between the j Lawsons and the other parties, named. Following is the list of injured: Bill Lawson, two cuts on head, nose mashed and other injuries; §ant Manis, bruised and cut about head and face, seriously hurt; Arthur Lawson, Several bruises and cuts, weak from loss of blood; Irvin Lawson, seven bad cuts on scalp, supposed to be dangerously hurt; Joe Swinford, ear nearly cut off by a slungshot, face cut and severely hurt; Albert Swinford, cut on head and neck, dangerously hurt, may not live; Louis Swinford, black eyes, several outs and bruises; Matthew Swinford was knocked down and skull fractured; Joe Hartzell (son of George Hartzell), badly hurt, may die. The franchise*' of the citizens’ Natural Gas Co., at Anderson, have been annulled, owing to the inadequate supply.