People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The directors of the Muncie Street Railway Co., who principally reside in Burlington, Vt, held a meeting there the other day, elected new officers and declared the aeal off in which Russell B. Harrison, representing a New York syndicate, was negotiating for the purchase of the road. They also decided to at once supplement the steam motor propellers with the more modern electric system of cars. This is very gratifying. Fike started in Crawford’s barn, Russiaville, and spread until 140,000 worth of property was burned. Coffin Bros., dry goods and groceries, loss $5,000; Jeter & Dixon, hardware, 110,000; Crawford, livery, SI,000; Hodson & Gilliland, shop, $1,800; Wm. Eikenberry, buggies, $1,000; Mrs. Moulder, residence, $2,500; Mel Douglass, residence, $1,500, and other smaller losses. A serious shooting affray occurred at Richmond and caused much excitement from the prominence of the parties. Rev. John N. Beaver, a divine and evangelist who has been in the religious work for years, shot four times at Thomas G. Gray, one ball taking effect in the thigh and making a bad wound. The cause of the trouble is jealousy, Beaver believing that Gray was attempting to alienate the affections of his wife.

A saloon building at Gas City owned by the Indianapolis Brewing Co., collapsed the other afternoon. The building was nearly completed. Two workmen engaged on the inside barely escaped being crushed in the ruins. Willard, the four teen-year-old son of Thomas Shidler, was swimming in Delaware lake, at Muncie, with a half dozen playmates, when he got beyond his depth and was drowned. His body was recovered after the lake had been raked for one hour. James Drummond, a pioneer of Laporte county, and one of the veterans of the Black Hawk war, is about to receive a pension in acknowledgment of services rendered. The pension will date from 1882, and the money which has accumulated during this long lapse of time will make the pensioner the possessor of a comfortable fortune. Four boys were walking up the slopes of a coal mine near Rosedale when three empty cats rushed down and caught them. Joseph Crane, aged thirteen, was instantly killed: Otto Crogan, aged fourteen, received fatal injuries, and Rolla Crogan and Joe Blacketer, aged eleven and thirteen, respectively, had bones broken. Milton Bliley, foreman of the straw departmental the straw board factory Gas City, dropped dead instantly while at work. He was a man of brawny stature and apparefltly good health, and only an autopsy could throw any light on the cause of his death, which came from heart disease.

Rev. J. A. Sanpert, an aged Lutheran minister, died at Evansville, a few days since, the result of a stroke of paralysis. He had preached there continually for 47 years, and his congregation numbers 1,000 souls. He is well known in Lutheran circles all over this country and Europe. He was 71 years of age. The Hebron bank muddle is at an end. A committee of the depositors met with Zimri Dwiggins and secured a settlement. Dwiggifts is to pay SI,OOO a month until the amount is paid. Editor J. K. Bush was instantly killed and his wife seriously injured in a runaway at Noblesville. An only daughter, who was with them, escaped injury. A post-office has been established at Cornelius, Brown county, and Samuel F. Long appointed postmaster. Joe Hill, a colored paper-hanger, and wife, of Shelbyville, have had numerous quarrels, and are now living separately. The other afternoon Hill paid his wife a visit at her mother’s house, when they had another fight. The mother joined in and struck him on the head with an ax, injuring him seriously. Pensions have been granted the fol-lowing-named Indianians: Original— Michael E. Bricker, Nathaniel Davis. Increase—James G. Ryan, Wm. Hines, Martin Wagner, John Cogle. Reissue— Samuel Burton, John Vore, Moses Powell, Christian C. Mikesell. Original Widow’s, etc.—Mary E. Lawwell, Phebe Jane Metzger, minors of David Hill, Harriet Bedgood, Nancy Zwygers, Ann Rebecca Dye (mother), Ellen Burris (mother),* Mary E. Crosley, Evaline Nang, Mary Eisen, minor of Jacob Albright. As a result of the continuous stringency in the money market nearly 5,000 men employed in the various manufacturing industries of Indianapolis were thrown out of work the other day, and until relief is afforded as will enable the proprietors to resume business with the usual force. A majority of the manufacturers have a large amount of its manufactured products on hand, but the demand has fallen off in every class of business within the past month, and collections are so slow that many factories will close dtown, while others will continue, but with reduced forces.

The other night a gang of horse thieves made a raid in Muncie and stole three valuable horses and three buggies. A stranger representing himself to be a railroad man went to the home of Amos Richardson, near Hartford, and gave a small boy 12 to drive him to Muncie. When they arrived, the stranger skipped with the rig, leaving the boy alone. During a heavy rain and hailstorm, at Hartford City, the other afternoon, two lightning flashes shocked a score of people, struck the Catholic church, J. P. A. Leonard’s house, Postmaster Gibbs’ house and a number of trees. The excitement amounted to almost a panic, and yet no one was seriously injured. Chauncy Vermillion, a farmer living near Anderson, while unloading hay front a wagon by means of a pulley and nope, caught his head in the noose and was carried to the top of the barn and was almost dead when (he rope was cut and he dropped to the Boor. His condition is serious .

Hi— “ How many bridesmaid ■ are you going to have, dearest!" She—" None." He—" Why. 1 thought you had set your heart on it." She—“l had; but from present indications the girls I want will all be married first.’’—Life. Government detectives in some of the "moonshine" districts carry kodaks with them to secure evidence. They pick up many a little bit of still life.—Philadelphia Ledger.