People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Several relics of antiquity Lave bee* found on a large hill near Huron, where a group of seven mounds can easily be traced, with an obscure winding path leading to a cave below. The central room where the relics were found has a double, circular wall, and was probably used for sepulchral purposes. Investigation at Richmond showed that the natural gas explosion which occurred late the other night was one of the worst that has occurred in the gas belt The residence and store of T. Q Crabb was completely wrecked. His mother, aged eighty-five, was fatally injured. The child was blown against the wall, where it caught and hung to a nail The explosion was felt for eight squares. The total loss is $3,500. W. A. Guleten was elected postmaster of Bluffton the other day by a vote of 147. The candidates were an even dozen. Isaac Hamilton, wealthy farmer, fell dead at Greenfield. The extensive milling plant of the Thos. J. Sayler Ca, of Renssalaer, was destroyed by fire the other morning. A colored female servant is supposed to have been the one who attempted to poison Lawyer James J. Walker’s family and who set fire to the house and barns at Evansville. A large number of minor road laws have been introduced in the Indiana legislature, but the first comprehensive measure came a few days ago from Representative Dailey, of the road committee of the house. The bill abolishes road supervisors and puts the township trustee with an advisory board, composed of justices of the peace, in charge of road building. It provides for a tax of not less than ten cents on the SIOO and not more than twenty-five cents for roads, half of which is to be used in permanent improvements. It also provides for a vehicle tax and turns various fines for misdemeanors into the road fund. It provides that the cost of building roads shall be assessed onehalf against property within a two-mile limit and one-half against the whole county. R. O. Cbandall, one of the oldest physicians and’ residents of Laporte, was found dead in his sleigh a few miles from town, a few days ago. He was returning from making a country sick call, and is supposed to have died from apoplexy, having suffered from previous strokes. The special committee consisting of Senators Stewart, Wray and McCutcheon, to whom the matter was referred, have prepare a bill redistricting the state for judicial purposes The number of districts by this measure has been reduced from fifty-four to fortyfour, and the districts have been as nearly equalized as possible with reference to the amount of business done. It is claimed for the bill that it will save ten circuit judges and ten prosecutors, whose salaries would cost the state $30,000. At Richmond James A. Sales and A. C. Scott became engaged in a quarrel, and Officer Betzold was sent to make the arrest He attempted to arrest Sales, who resisted and showed fight After a short struggle Betzold drew his revolver and shot Sales through the mouth.

At Hammond a fire destroyed three business houses and an adjoining dwell- ; ing. The fire originated from the ex- ' plosion of an oil stove. The loss is ■ (15,000. The jaw of Robert Broadhurst, of St i Joseph county, is slowly but surely rot- ■ ting away. His physicians can do noth- | ing and the unfortunate man will die. | The trouble all came about through the use of an ansesthetic in having a tooth drawn. Cocaine was administered hypodermically and the effect will prove fatal Peteb Johnson, a well-known young man of Muncie, was jailed and bound over to ths circuit court charged with passing a forged check bearing the name of Maring, Hart & Co., glass manufacturers. The amonntwas fifteen dollars. Johnson always bore a good reputation, and the affair caused a sensation. John Leverton, a wealthy man of Huntington, has been sued for (3,000 damages by Miss Belle Holmes. She alleges Leverton wrote a letter in which he charged her with criminal offenses. Two explosions of natural gas at Muncie in factories did (20,000 damages the other day. Polk McFadden has brought suit in the circuit court at Mt Vernon against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. for (10,000. The plaidtiff alleges that he bought a ticket on that road, i and was forcibly ejected from a train ; because the same did not stop at the ' station his ticket was good for. He was thrown off at V abash bridge, and came near freezing to death before he could get to a habitation. At Huntington, Chauncey F. Meyers, who was sentenced to the penitentiary for black-mailing Mrs. James Crane, was given a rehearing and acquitted. The satchel and hat of P. C. Slocum, aSt Louis traveling man, were found near the river at Columbus. No trace of Slocum can be found.

The painters in the Chicago & Erie railroad shops at Huntington struck because an advance of 8 cents an hour was refused. Thbee children of Geo. Paugh, at Sterling, died within a few hours of each other of diphtheria several days ago and were buried in one grave. George Duncan, an Indianapolis barber, was seriously shot a few nights ago, opposite the state house on Misissippi street, by footpads. When siezed by them he broke away and ran and they fired, striking him in the small of the back. A sensation has been caused at Huntington by a suit filed against the late board of county commissioners, in which they are charged with allowing themselves illegal fees. It is alleged that they allowed themselves per diem pay when they were not in session. At Fountaintown, James Mack, while hunting, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun.