People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

■ ■■ A few days since the family of Clinton Stradling, residing north of Muncie, was poisoned by bad meat, and all six of the members, with a hired hand, came very near losing their lives. The meat peddler is being sought, but can not be found. Michal Cummesky, president of the Indiana district of the United Order of Mine Workers, has resigned "to become assistant to State Mine Inspector McQuade. Joseph Dunkerly, vice president, will succeed Cummesky. A Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis passenger train ran through an open switch at Boonville, wrecking the engine and several coaches. Breakman Elmer Smith, of Evansville, had a'rib broken, the fireman a shoulder blade broken and others were slightly wounded. At Indianapolis Charles Reitz, a wellknown electrician, is dead. He was among the first to see the capabilities in electricity a venacular motor, and w’as convinced of its applicability to carriages and wagons on an ordinary smooth roadway. He was the first to bring this idea to fruitage, the result being a street carriage. The grand jury of Grant county has returned indictments of murder in the first degree against Anderson Hatfield, Frank Stevens, Martin Adamson and James Lemon for the shooting of Abraham Stumpff in a potato patch, the other day. W. H. Smith, who resides near Atlanta, four miles south of Tipton, while passing along the public highway, just at the south of the city, was shot by some unknown person, the ball striking his body about one inch below the heart The physicians in charge of the case probed for the ball, but could not locate it He will probably recover.

Mrs. Greek, aged eighty-two years, residing twelve miles east of Wabash, was probably fatally injured by a vicious ram. A number of sheep belonging to a neighbor escaped from the pasture, and in trying to drive them out of her own place the ram turned upon Mrs. Greek, knocked her down, and broke an arm and leg, and hurt her internallj’. She can not survive. Before the news of his good fortune reached him, Rev. William Pettit, the wife murderer, died in prison north of consumption. He was the other day granted a new trial by the supreme court of Indiana. The strike of the Big Four boilermakers at Indianapolis, which, during its existence, cost human blood, has been formally declared off, and the company was officially notified of the fact by President Frohleyer, of the Indianapolis lodge. The action was taken unreservedly, no terms having been offered by the company. Mr. Garstag, superintendent of motive power, is of the opinion that few of the strikers will get their places back, as they are already filled.

The last Indiana legislature passed a law making it a misdemeanor to kill quail at any time during the year, except between November 10 and December 31. The penalty for violation is a fine of five dollars for each and every bird killed, and double the amount for the second offense. Hunting on Sunday is also made a more serious offense than ever before. The law was made severe for the purpose of preventing the wholesale slaughter of the innocent, but palatable bobwhites, and to prevent their total extermination. It is also unlawful to kill quail by any other means than shooting, and “pot” hunters who use snares and traps will be fined fifty dollars and imprisoned for thirty days if caught. Near Muncie, Farmer W. F. Watson left his horse and buggy in woods that were being cleared. The horse got scare, ran off and took a bee line for a large pile of burning Jogs. The animal dashed into the fire and was cremated. The buggy was also burned. The Muncie Flint Glass Co., of Muncie, Charles Boldt, president, has increased its capital stock from $250,000 to $750,000. One-half of the increase preferred stock to draw dividends of 8 percent, was taken by the stockholders. On the night of September 8 two masked robbers bound and gagged the driver of a small mail wagon at Terre Haute, and stole three heavy mail pouches. A few days ago the pouches were found in a corn-field. They had been cut, and every letter opened and rifled of any money. About sixty checks and drafts were found in a pile, the robbers not caring to take them. None of them are for large amounts. No clew. The letters will be forwarded as soon as a post office inspector arrives. A disastrous fire occurred at Winfield, in which a livery barn was consumed and nine valuable horses burned. Loss, $5,000.

The following fourth-class postmasters were appointed the other day: Wm. Chandler, New Marion, Ripley county, vice Theodore Brown, resigned; J. M. Smelser, Ohio Falls, Clark county, vice W. M. Reynolds, removed. After January 1, all prisoners in the penitentiary north will be provided with the regulation fare. This plan will abolish the custom of convicts being supplied with delicacies by outside friends and by purchase. This step will be taken in the belief that better discipline can be maintained. The management has also decided to uniform the prison attaches, and to prescribe regulations for the appointment of guaixia While boring a well near Turner, Ore., recently, a fir tree is claimed to have been struck at a distance of thir-ty-four feet under ground. The tree, it is said, measured two feet through, and the heart was sound. Twentyfour feet further down, it is stated, more vegetable matter was struck. The jaw of a woman became paralyzed while she was talking through a telephone at Dover, DeL. the other day. An attempt to force open her jaw resalted in ita fracture. The older wo become the more the wheels of time seem to have been oiled.