People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Jake Press y, a farmer living four miles north of Petersburg, in Knox county,was burned to death. By some unknown means Pressy’s meadow hay eaught on fire and he left his house to fight the flames, and not returning within a reasonable time, search was made for him by members of the family. In one corner of the field the body was found, the clothes burned off and the flesh having fallen from the body in places. Charles Lambert, of Union City, was killed by a boiler explosion near that place the other day. Jos. Trusty, a farmer, accidentally shot himself the other day with a shotgun while attempting to climb a fence, near Pittsburgh. John Martin, aged 56, was killed in the Mecca coal mine, Rockville. A large rock weighing several tons, fell on him crushing him to death. He waft, married and leaves a large family. One of the quickest deaths on record was that of Andrew Luark, at Wabash, the other day. He was helping load cabinets on a dray at the Underwood factory, in the best of spirits and apparent good health, and without a sign or a word of warning he sank in his tracks lifeless, in an instant The supposed cause was heart disease. Luark was about 86 years old and married.

Miss Maria Thompson was very seriously, but not fatally burned, at Noblesville, by her clothing catching from a bonfire. Her clothing was entirely burned from her body. Dr T. W. Gronendyke, a prominent physician of Newcastle, while driving over a road crossing of the L. E. & W. railroad, was struck by a passenger train, which instantly killed the horse, smashed the buggy and hurled the doctor to the ground with great force, breaking his leg and otherwise injuring him. Early the other morning, as Ray Dinkins, driver of the United States mail wagon, was returning to the post office at Terre Haute, he was attacked by three men and robbed of the three mail pouches. The robbers jumped in front of the horses and leveled their pistols at the driver, compelling him to Btqp. They then tied his hands behind his back and put a small mail bag over his head. The men drove to the outskirts of town and escaped, taking the mail pouehes with them. No clew. James Conners, head roller of the American roll mills, of Anderson, was fatally injured in a runaway accident. His horse became frightened, and Conners was thrown thirty feet, alighting oh his head, which fractured the skulk The bolt works at Anderson will resume under a twenty per cent reduction.

J. Al. Jenkins, the defaulting treasurer of Clark county, was arrested in Louisville and taken to the Jeffersonville jail. For several months he has been in hiding in Louisville, and at one time it was reported that he was dying of consumption. Jpnkins’ crime was the theft of $29,000 from the county treasurer. Wm. Poor, an ex-soldier, seventythree years of age, died at his home in Newport, the other afternoon, and was buried next day. The circumstances connected with his death are peculiar. He was drawing a pension of twelve dollars per month under the new law, for double rupture. Two weeks before tye received word that his pension had been suspended, and ordering him to report for re-examination at Williamsport He reported for examation the following Wednesday, and one week from that date he died. Of course, the suspension of his quarterly* allowance was not the only cause of his death, but it was the chief one. He worried about his pension being stopped until his mind became jmbalanced, and for several days was a raving maniac. At Huntington Ervin Dean was attacked by footpads and robbed of a valise containing ovt-r SIOO. The empty valise was found later. The robbers escaped.

At an early hour the other morning the dead body of George Reichler, a baker, recently employed at Fairmount, was found in Riverside park, in Anderson. Reichler was out of employment, and in a fit of despondency had suicided by taking chloroform. He was forty-five years old. His relatives live in Aurora. Dick Campbell, aged 70 years, dropped dead a few miles east of Albion the other day of heart disease. This makes the fifth one of the family to die suddenly. At Bolton, Samuel Hanner, aged twenty-five, single, was shot and killed by Jacob Lambert, aged seventeen, the other afternoon. The boys lived on neighboring farms, and for some time had been quarreling over a line fence. Lambert had been hunting, and.trespassed on Hanner’s farm. They quarreled for some time, and when Hanner advanced toward Lambert as if to strike, the latter emptied both barrels into Hanner’s body, killing him instantly. Lambert then went to Versailles, the county seat, and gave himself up. Some unknown person made an attempt to poison the family of Henry Page, living on a farm near Brooklyn, by placing the contents of a box of rough on rats wrapped in a piece of newspaper, and as a consequence Mr. Page’s daughter Rosa is not expected to recover. Other members of the family are sick. Several chickens died from the effects of drinking the poisoned water.

Dan Mahone, a bar-tender, fatally shot John Reynolds, a porter, during a quarrel at Indianapolis. Wesley Lee, sr., aged eighty, and Sarah Richardson, aged sixty-bight, were granted a license to marry at Connersville the other day. Mr. Lee lived with his son, Wesley, jr., and said as his son would not marry he just got tired of washing dishes and scrubbing ardund the house and thought he would take a partner to help him. Mbs. M. Thomas, of Kelso, in Huntington county, was taken sick the other morning while making arrangements to go to Huntington, and died before assistance could be procured.