People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At a meeting of the striking street ear conductors and motormen at Evansville, it was decided to return to work. Lockjaw, the result of a cut on his finger, caused the death the other morning of Dr. W. V. Cook, of Evansville, a bacteriologist. John Turpie, brother of Senator Turpie, of Indiana, returned to Delphi, the other day, after and absence of thirty years, during which time he amassed a fortune in the west. He is a republican. The senate in executive session the j other evening confirmed the nominai tion of Charles Schindler to be post- [ master of New Albany. Allan H. Dennison, agent of the i Star Union Line Freight Co. at Ft j Wayne, was found at his desk uncon- , scions the other morning and did not j regain his senses until late-in the afternoon. He is now in a serious condition, but will recover. He informed his friends that he had been drugged and his watch, diamonds and all valuables were missing. He managed to reach his office in a dazed condition and opened it for business when he swooned way. R- C. Chani.leb, proprietor of the Chandler hotel. Russiaville, for twenty years, dropped dead while carrying an armful of wood upstairs. He was 64 years old, and a pioneer resident of the county. At Valparaiso Nathan Howe, who • shot and killed C. F. Robinson, one of I the students who attempted to rob the ■ normal school safe, has been exonerated from blame. Jack Conners and Eva Flint, charged with being implicated in the Kendallville train robbery, were bound over to court by Mayor Marcy at Kendallville the other day. In the case of George Lowe against the Citizens’ Street Railway Co., of Indianapolis, the jury in the Hamilton circuit court returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at f 1,300. This is the largest verdict ever recovered against the company in this kind of a case. The casa will be appealed to the supreme court. John Kauffman, a well-known farmer, near Laporte, has developed a strange mania and has come to be known as the “trance preacher.” Ha lapses into unconsciousness, his body becomes rigid, his arms assume an upright position with fingers extended far apart and in an instant he springs to his feet, kneels in prayer and then rising commences to preach, strangely making use of both the German and English language in his discourses. Many have been convinced of the reality of his condition and hundreds of people gather Wednesday and Saturday evenings of each week to listen to the discourses. The state health board went to Anderson, the other day, to investigate the one small-pox case. The affected man, Geo. Collier, is. not seriously ilL' The disease will not be allowed to spread, if money and men can prevent it The Indiana yearly meeting of Hicksite friends completed its session at Richmond, and adjourned to meet one year hence at Waynesville, O. Mrs. Phoojbe Randall, aged 45, living at Northview, a suburb, of Muncie, took a pot of coals with her into the garden to light her pipe, when in some manner her dress caught, and her body was literally cooked before aid arrived. She lingered in terrible agony until noon next day, when she died. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck a north-bound Pan-handle train a short distance south of Noblesville, some time ago. Daniel Potoriff was arrested for the deed, but released for want of evidence The other day he made a full confession to a detective, giving as his reason that he was angered by being kicked off a Panhandle train by the brakeman when trying to steal a ride, and was determined upon revenge. He was locked up in jail, and will be held to await action in his case. , Peteb Fromlet, W. J. Brophy, J. N. Tonnelier and Peter Nutler were arrested and brought before the mayor at Anderson for selling liquor without a license. Each was found guilty, and in addition to the required $250 for license, was fined SIOO. * H. P. Hughes has been compelled by the Appellate court to pay Annie Nolte $2,500 for breach of promise. Coan Killer, and Henry Frank, each about 17 years old, were killed at Marion by a Pan-handle train. They were in a buggy and attempted to cross the track on Western avenue, where Miss Ihrig was killed and Mrs. Heath severely injured by the same train eight weeks ago. Diamond, the ten-ton elephant of Wallace & Co.’s circus, in winter quarters near Peru, broke loose from his chains, butted down the heavy doors of the building, broke the heavy gates of the yard and fording the Mississinnewa, crushed through everything in his way, wire and other fences proving no obstacle. Farmers putting corn along his line of march fled for their lives, and pandemonium reigned for many hours. Patsy Forepaugh, his keeper, with the assistance of twenty men, Anally managed to subdue the brute after much damage was done, and landed him at the farm. The father of the Robinson brotners, the Valparaiso bandits, fully identified the one in prison and the dead one in the morgue both as his sons He is an old soldier and appears broken-hearted. The coroner’s inquiry into the supposed suicide of Frank Linschmidt, whose body was found in the river near Columbus, leads to the conclusion that he was murdered. Wm. Simms was fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting near Columbus. A young man named Bayr.e was in a boat on the river at Marion, while a brother on the bank was throwing stones in the water to splash the water upon him. One of them struck the boatman upon the head, throwing him forward over the side, where he hung until rescued. The skull is fractured* and the victim may die.