People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEW [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEW

Nkasr Anderiwn, Farmer Henry ftiaaaman was killed by a sunstroke whil# ' pitching hay. * V IIPK j Fourth-clam postmaster appointed , the other day' for Indiana: Miss Belle j Fountain, Selma, Lawrence comity, i vice Cyrus--E. Nichols resigned. A dost office has been established at ' Earnest,- Fayette county, and John B. Sacre commissioned as postmaster, j The sheriff at Andersen has offered SSO for information leading to the conviction of any one participating in a prize fight in that county. * -; 1 One of the main buildings of the Kokomo wood 'enameling works,' the largest factory of the kind in America, burned the other evening, throwing 150 men out of employment. . ; At Indianapolis three of the principles of what is known as the “White . Star’’ gang of burglars have been arrested, and with them is a young man whom the police are trying to identify. J Woo Gay, a Chinaman from Troy, 6., died at Connersville, the other night, from cancer of the arm. He came to America twenty-eight years ago from j Canton, China. His last wish was to !he buri6d here. He said “America is good-enough for me.” Thomas Rodgers, of the Irondalc,--rolSng mill, of Anderson, left for Chi« A, cago. the other day, to have a mudstone f applied to a wound he received on his ! hand by a mad-dog while in the Fan- ! Handle depot at Cincinnati some days 1 ago. Rodgers' hand is in bad shape. George D. Clemmons, of Muncie, a leading carpenter, contractor and j builder, is mysteriously missing, and his family and many friends are great y grieved. He has been unsuccessful in i business, losing about SIO,OOO during the past ten years. R. W: Reinhart and Miss Tillio King, of Michigan City, were to have been married. The bride's wedding gown was in readiness, the clergyman had been engaged, the bridal feast had been prepared, when Reinhart mysteriously disappeared. The young lady is nearly prostrated with grief. Information received by the Terra Haute police the other morning from Guthrie, Oklahoma, states that Sheriff Hixon was indicted and held in $5,000 bond for allowing Ellsworth Wyatt, of j the Dalton gang, to escape. Wyatt was captured near Terre Haute last winter by Terre Haute officers, and the ' capture created a great sensation at the i time. Sheriff llixon took the prisoner back to Oklahoma and allowed him to escape. A Lake Shore news agent named Beyer, jumped from the train, about a mile out of Goshen, the other afternoon, and was instantly killed. lie imagined some one who had gotten off at Goshen had robbed him, and intended jumping off and coming back to investigate. The Bedford Stonequarries Co., of Bedford, the largest producers of oolitic limestone in the world, have made an assignment to Wm. L. Breyfogle, one of the company’s largest creditors. Inability to realize in time to meet maturing obligations was given as the cause. After an appraisement of the business, the quarries will be continued and all contracts filled. Great excitement was occasioned at Anderson, the other morning, by the finding of a dynamite bomb lying on the floor of county auditor's office iu the courthouse. The deadly machine was of copper, globular in form. Why it was placed there and who did it is a profound mystery. Auditor Allen reI moved the bomb to the street, where it ! was viewed by hundreds. The body of Walter Dresser, the boy loprano drowned in the Wabash river at Lafayette, has not yet been re- ■ covered. As the little minstrel entered 1 the water just previous to the fatality he was singing “Nearer, My God, To , Thee.” i Ferdinand Buesing, aged 9, a son of j Calbert Buesing, residing near Laporte, was drowned in the mill race by going : beyond his depth. The body has been recovered. At Reefsburg some enemy saturated,, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Isenhoff’s bed with : chloroform, but this state of affairs was ! discovered just in time. | The body of an unknown priest was i found in St. Joseph river, at Goshen; $l6O was found in the unknown's i clothes. | Mrs. Roland Kyle, of CrawfordsI ville, a bride, quarreled with her hus- ! band, took a dime’s worth of morphine ■ and can not recover. j Silas Owen was taken to Brrzil for i shooting a man named Biggs in the i neck. It was a cowardly act. Biggs I has since died, and Owens was placed | in the murderers’ cell to await the action of the grand jury. Great excitement prevails in Clav City, and threats of lynching are indulged in. Biggswas much liked, while Owens had but few friends. Wm. Ransdell, a clerk in Beck's grocery store, Lebanon, was bitten on the hand by a tarantula while handling bananas. Immediately after being bitten he was placed under the influence of liquor. He is in a serious condition, but will probably recover. Two hours after Ransdell was bitten a nest.of the tarantulas was found in the bunch of /bananas, and near two hundred young ones were killed. John Costello, 29 years old, who had his right hand mashed whil6\ coupling c&rs at Muncie several days ago, died a few days later of lockjaw at the home of his brother in Noblesville. He was married and lived at Indianapo'is. . The case involving the constitutionality of the fee and salary law was appealed to the supreipe court the other day. In the assignment of error'- the | attorney general says that the court j below erred in overruling the demurrer to the relators petition, and in overruling .the demurrer to the alternate e writ to which action of the court the appellant excepted at the time. Calvin S. Peters was gored to deaA by a bull on the farm of his uncle near Elkhart, where young Peters was visiting. The post office at Penobscot, Montj gomery county, will be discontinued after . uly 15.