People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Uncle Nathan Strawn, aged 101, died at his home in the northern part of Crawford county. I Every G. A. R. post in the county met at Huntington and organized a county bataliion to attend the national encampment at Indianapolis next September, and initiated thirty-six new • members. A camp fire was also held. Peter McDonald, at Lebanon, the other day, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 1200 for shooting with intent to kill Bud Ghaut atThorntown last September. I Byron Cospor, son of a prominent citizen of New Waterloo, secured 11,500, it is alleged, by forging his father's nams He has fled. The IS-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Kisman, of Peru, while playing some weeks ago, broke a needle off I in her second finsrer, the eye of the needle entering the end of the finger and disappearing. The child did not experience any serious results from the ‘ accident, and nothing was thought of it until the other night, when Mrs. Kisman was undressing the child, she felt the clothing catch on something and the child scream and place its hand on her arm. Upon examination the broken needle was discovered about midway between the elbow and shoulder. i Jos. Clayton fell from a train at Valparaiso, and stuck a nail into hi* skull. He will die. I I. H. Longdon, a well-known editor , at Anderson, has lost his mind. I Prof. Jos. Swain was elected president of the Indiana university at Bloomington. He was teacher of math-

ematics thera I At Warsaw the other evening Mrs. Ed. Patterson started down stairs with her babe in her arms. Her foot became tangled in her skirts, and she fell headi long to the stone pavement, causing instant death. She fell on the child, killing it also. i Never before in the history of Bedford has so much activity been displayed in church revivals The Methodist, Christian, Presbyterian and Baptist churches are all holding a series of meetings. I The annual meeting of the Northern , Indiana Teachers’ association was held ' at Lafayette, a few days aga There were 300 delegates. > The first business session of the Southern Indiana Teachers’s asssoeiation was held in Wesley chapel, in New . Albany, the other morning Ove r 250 teachers, representing every city and ■ town in that section of the state were present ! The Doxey opera house at Anderson, ; one of the finest in the state, caught fire, and the entire interior was totally destroyed, leaving the bare walls standing. Both balconies and the gallery ; fell. The theater cost when built ■ <53,000. The fire originated from a gas jet on the stage. I Evidence accumulates to show that I Mrs. Minerva Wadley, who died very suddenly several days ago at Indian- ; apolis, came to her death by foul play. , The autopsy shows that sho died of i strangulation, but the doctors were unable to say whether it was from outside or inside causes. Two years ago Laura Newhouse, of Lawrence, sent a telegram to her brother, Thomas J. Newhouse, of Terre Haute, saying: Come at once if you would see your mother alive.” Mr. Newhouse claimed that the telegraph company failed to deliver the message on the day it was received at Terre Haute, and he sued for damages. The court in Vigo county gave him <4OO. The decision was affirmed in the appellate court, and a few days ago it was reaffirmed. Samuel and William Conrad, charged with murdering their father, in Boone township, Harrison county, March 7, were acquitted by ’Squire Kirkham the other morning, and started home with shotguns on their shoulders. There is some talk of mob violence. There was no direct proof against the young men. John Campbell, who was seriously injured while coupling cars the other night at Bedford, died from h’.s injuries. Fletcher Valentine, aged 28, a laborer employed at Gaar, Scott & Co.’s, in Richmond, fell thirty-five feet down a hatchway the other afternoon. He can not recover. The post office at Bainbridge, z ear Greencastle, was robbed of <9O. A la-ge amount of money was in the office, but the robbers failed to find it The people of Anderson are excited over the arrest of one of their wealthiest citizens, whois proprietor of a large slaughter house, for feeding his stock on dead horses. The new police force of Muncie succeeded in closing up all the s&loons on Sunday. The managers of the Indianapolis & Chattanooga railroad report that work will be begun within a few weeks, and that the road will be graded to Mitchell this summer. Mrs. Wm. Middleton suicided by ‘ jumping into a cistern at Booneville. It is supposed that grief over her son, who shot and killed himself sometime ago, was the cause. James F. Smith was found dead in bed at La Gro. He was an old soldier, j Mrs. James McCard, pf McCardsville, was killed during the recent storm by falling timbers from her house. i Dr. John M. Coulter has been placed at the bead of the Bay View Summer university.