People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Unknowns attempted to assassinate Rufus Rice, a wealthy citizen of Hebron, as he was sitting in his house reading. The shot killed a dog back of its master. W bile R. D. Horton and wife were driving to their farm, northwest of Tipton, the team ran away, upsetting the wagon and instantly killing Mr. Horton. Mrs. Horton was seriously injured, and it is not believed that she will recover. They had but recently removed there from the eastern part of the state. The city council of Winchester has passed an ordinance raising the saloon license to the full limit, SSSO. Ervin Millard Gobin, youngest son of Dr. Gobin, of the faculty of De Pauw university, died at Terre Haute the other night John McCarty, a farmer, aged 87 years, feU from a fence near Tipton the other evening and was killed. He came there when the country was inhabited by Indians, and was the first white settler In the county. Wealthy Washington Salisbury was found dead on the street in Brazil. Mollie Morgan took morphine at Brazil, but got over it Lover the cause. Lillie May 4edau, colored, was found in her hbuse at Indianapolis, with a bullet wound in her bowels. All she said was: “Mamma, I’ve been shot” The gas well being drilled near Farmland by a stoek company of farmers, was shot the other day, and the output is estimated at three million cubic feet daily. Several other wells will be put down in that locality immediately. Mrs. Harry Mentzger, of North Manchester, was probably fatally injured by being thrown from a buggy in which she was riding with her husband. Mrs. Mentzger tried to raise her parasol, frightening the horses, which ran away, and she was hurled thirty feet, striking on her head, and sustaining concussion of the brain. She was picked up unconscious, and it is not thought sne will recover. Elihu Nickolson committed suicide in a schoolhouse twelve miles south of Marion, by hangings himself from a lamp shelf. He was 86 years old. Bird Tilley, aged 70, a wealthy citizen of Chrisney, died very suddenly just after he had’ taken dinner, lie had been in apparent good health up to the time of his death. He died in hia chair at the table, and the family thought he was only asleep. Ex-State Senator S. Day died the other evening at his home in New Albany, after suffering four years with a cancer on his face. During his last few months he suffered greatly, his entire lower jaw having been eaten away. Mr. Day was 51 years old and had always resided at New Albany. He was superintendent of the Monon system from 1868 to 1874, retiring when the road changed hands. The state convention of the colored Baptists met in Crawfordsville a few days ago. There were fof-ty delegates present, and Rev. J. R. Miller, of Crawfordsville, was chosen president; Rev. A. W. Jordan, of Lafayette, secretary; Miss Eugene Rollins, of Vincennes, assistant secretary; and George Oliver, of Crawfordsville, treasuWr. Etta Vincent and Rose Webb, of Moore’s Hill, pretty, romantic and sixteen, are missing. They left for Sun-day-school Sunday, and are thought to have started on foot to Chicago. Mrs. Sarah Stoner, of Brunswick, Mo., has sued the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Co., for 110,000 damages for injuries sustained last October in Laporte county. John Beggs, of Terre Haute, vicepresident of the whisky trust, who is in Terre Haute from Peoria on a visit to his family, announces Terre Haute distillery, the largest single distillery in the world, which was closed down by the trust, will resume again on or about September 1. One of the horses at the South Bend police station has a fancy for playing with the hose, and delights in taking it into his mouth and drinking from it. As a result of the interview of City Comptroller Woolen, of Indianapolis, with the New York Life Insurance Co. officials a few days ago in Chicago, Mr. Woolen has arranged to borrow 1100,000 from that company to tide over the situation of city finances. He has already secured 812,500 at 8 per cent. He will take the balance at 6 per cent, as he needs it. Max E. Leiter, one of the Columbian guards who participated in the gallant attempt to rescue the firemen imprisoned by the flame? that recently consumed the Cold Storage building on the World’s fair grounds, is lying at his home in Lafayette suffering from very serious and perhaps fatal injuries sustained while sliding down eighty feet of hose through fire and smoke. Leiter is aged twenty-five, and the son of a prominent dentist of Lafayette. A fishing party composed of Joseph Schaefer, Ed Reese, William Schu, Henry Bower and Henry Schaefer,were in a skiff on the Ohio river, at Evansville., They attempted to ride the waves caused by the passing of the steamer D. A. Nesbit, when the skiff was overturned, and Joseph Schaefer was drowned. His body was not recovered. William Corvis, aged 8, was fatally injured at Richmond. He fell from hie stilts and was impaled on a picket fence, one of the palings penetrating his abdomen. Joseph Hite, an ambitious youth, committed suicide at Kokomo because of his inability to acquire a high education, having a widowed mother withsmall children depending on him for support. n AViD Swabtzeli, and wife, living ne<«. Laport, were arrested, charged with robbing and burning the house of W. F. Lewis, which was recently destroyed. Fly poison placed in the reach of children came near resulting in the death of a child of James Monis. of Hazel Dell. It drank the poison, and only by several hours’ work is it living now, though about to diet