People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Anderson Mrs. Geo. Adams, who resides in East Lynn, placed a tub of boiling water on the floor and left the room for a short time. Her seven-year-old son, playing around the room, walked backward into the tub. When rescued he was burned and scalded so that the flesh dropped from his arms, shoulders and body. The boy lingered a few hours in great agony. When Fenton Epworth Mill arose from bed, at Elkhart, the other morning, he lighted a match and accidentally see fire to his clothing. Before he could extinguish the flames he was so severely burned that his death resulted next day. John R. McFee, of Indianapolis, the attorney who forged names to notes Aggregating (8,000, and who was arrested at Philadelphia, has proposed to the prosecutor to plead guilty to one indictment, if he will agree to dismiss the others.

Simmons, Cliff <fc Plummer have completed a monster gas well on the A. A. Grissell farm, at Camden, several miles northwest of Portland. It is good for 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas, and is the largest ever completed in the state The engineer on the early passenger train on the P. Ft W. & C. railroad discovered the body of Cornelius Curtis, of Wheeling, lying beside the track just west of Valparaiso. Le was a member of the G. A. R. and had resided in Wheeling about, four years, coming from Piqua, 0., where his mother still lives The manner of his death is not known, but it was thought he was assaulted and robbed, as he received quite a sum of money a few days ago and none was found on his person. At Indianapolis a jury which tried McClure for the murder of his wife was discharged after having been out fortyeight hours They were unable to agree, standing two for conviction and ten for acquittal. The defense was that the killing was accidental. The Taylor university will be removed to Upland. The state G. A. R. elected the •following officers: Department commander, James F. Johnston, Rockville; senior commander, C. J. Murphy, Evansville; junior commander, W. F. Medsker, Cambridge City; medical director, J. G. Hitt, Greensburg; chaplain, J. W. Reed, Noblesville. Council of administration, Ben Starr, Richmond; L. A. Foote, Crawfordsville; J. W. Senior, Madison; H. H. Ragon, Lowell; Ed G. Booz, Indianapolis. Delegates at large, Irvin Robbins, Indianapolis; alternate delegate at large, Phil Dickerson, Ft Wayne. Dr. N. M. Elrod has discovered a “blowing” well near Dora. J. H. Longdon. formerly editor of the Atlanta Herald, committed suicide by taking morphine at Noblesville. He made an attempt three years ago in Kokomo jail. He established more papers in this st ate than any other man, and was brilliant

Mrs. Nellie Boycourt, of Indianapolis, aged 22, was adjudged insane. When the disease first came on she attempted to kill her child, and would threaten all who approached her. She imagines that she is dead and in a vault from which she is trying to escape. Mrs. Boycourt was a confirmed cigarette smoker, and it is the opinion of her family that her persistent indulgence in this habit has a great deal to do with her insanity. At the State encampment of the G. A. R. at Evansville, the other day, the resignation of George Langsdale, president of the State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument association, was demanded, that action being precipitated by the dispute over the question of placing Mexican dates on the Indianapolis monument

Dr. George F. Edenh arter, superintendent of the Indianapolis City hospital, was elected superintendent of the Central insane hospital at Indianapolis, one of the largest institutions of its kind in the West. William Kelly, a Lake Shore engineer, who was killed at Burdick the other morning, has lost his life gradually in the service of the road. Several years ago he a finger, then an eye, then a hand, aiW finally his life. The Indianapolis cabinet works, the D. F. Stone Furniture Co. and Herman Lanter, all engaged in the manufacture of tables and fine desks in Indianapolis, have formed a combination for the purpose of fixing a scale of prices. The combined concerns employ 1,000 men. * North Manchester, Wabash county, is to have a system of water works with sixty-four fire hydrants, five miles of mains, the largest being twelve inches, a standpipe 110 feet high and engines with a pumping capacity of 750,000 gallons per day of twenty-four hours. Harvey Robinson attempted suicide at Valparaiso, because his wife gave him a lecture. He went to the basement and was about choked to death when she arrived and saved him. Then he got it again. An Indianapolis man is the owner of a parrot that is noted for its talking power. Early the other morning the man was awakened by an unusual burst of profanity, intermixed with screams and ejaculations, the purport of which explained itself when a burglar was discovered making his escape through an open window. The man fired several shots at the robber, without taking effect, but it encouraged the bird to continue to scream in a way which have shocked a less susperson.