People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Alexandria John Patton, colored, quarreled with John Anderson, with whom he had been boarding, and after the latter had retired entered his room as he lay in bed and stabbed him, prob' ably fatally. The crank epidemic has broken out m Indianapolis. A few days ago Adolph Olshwaskej’ was declared insane and committed to the asylum. He claimed to be a brother to President Cleveland, and says that the latter owes him a large sum of money, which he will get or kill somebody. Olshwaskej' claims to be immensely wealthy, and had a large number of cigar labels, which he was attempting to pass for money. Mrs. Coox Links, one of the oldest residents of Wabash county, died almost instantlj’ the other night, at her home near Lafontaine. Seized with a violent fit of coughing, she burst a blood vessel in the abdomen, and died before any one could reach her. She was seventv years of age. Engineer A. J. Now was killed by the explosion of a boiler at Windfall. Georgiana Howard, a divorced woman, suicided at Indianapolis with morphine. At Ft. Wayne the family of August Feustel found him lying on the floor of his room in a pool of blood with a shotgun between his legs. His head, from the lower jaw up, was blown completely away, and a portion of the skull was lying against the wall, six feet away. John 11. Davis, a Madison confectioner, has become insane over financial troubles. Lewis Black, of North Madison, sold all the household furniture while his wife and daughter were at the World’s fair, and left for Indian territory. Bev. Milton Cox, who was standing near the sawmill in Windfall the other day when the boiler burst, was blown twentj- feet without being injured. John Dick and Miss Maggie Ford, residing in Hamilton township, Delaware county, went to Muncie for a marriage license, and. meeting George Moore, a local preacher, were married ofi their way home without leaving their buggy. Johnnie Brewer, a 13-year-old orphan, who was taken to Delphi from Lafayette and adopted, while playing cricket was struck behind the ear with a bat. That evening he was seized with spasms and died in fifteen minutes. He was the son of a Monon engineer killed in one of the Broad Rippl® wrecks.

i James A. Rogers, 33 years old, a I workman at the Indianapolis Light | Co.'s power house, Indianapolis, was ; instantly killed the other night. In ■ oiling a dynamo he touched the brushes : with both hands and a voltage of 2,500 ; went through him. i The town of Bicknell, Knox county, i was visited by burglars the other night. | The iron safe in John Donaldson’s store I was blown open, and the cracksman i secured forty-two dollars cash, a large I quantity of clothing and other articles ■ to the value of 8250. Hocsey Johnson's fine new barn and ! contents, and Charles Triger's large barns, north of Brazil, were destroyed jby fire the other night; also, sev- [ eral hundred dollars’ worth of feed Loss very heavy, partly insured. The fire originated by a cow kicking over a lantern in some dry straw. Dr. Eppy and the students at Rose Polytechnic, Terre Haute, are again at I loggerheads over Halloween capers. Andrew M. Lockridge, widely known as a cattle king and early pioneer of Putnam county, died the other night I of pneumonia, aged 80 years. I Earl Mull, of Dunkirk, was held up | and robbed the other night a few miles from Portland. He had brought s?me traveling men over from Dunkirk, and on his way home, while about four i miles from Portland, a heavy-set man stepped out in the road and compelled him to halt. The thief had gone through Mull's pockets and secured all of his money, when the latter struck him a heavy blow, jumped in his buggy and fled. No' clew to the thief. The following fourth-class postmas- ' ters were commissioned a few days ago: A. C. Crago, Carmel, Hamilton county, vice J. W. Nutt, removed; S E. Colvert, Plum Tree, Huntington county, vice W. H. Eckam, resigned. Wm. Duckworth, an old soldier of Seymour, has been notified that hi* pension will be discontinued. Brent Derf, of Wabash county, pleaded guilty to outraging a ten-year-old girl and received a two-year sentence. Thompson’s green glass bottle factory, at Gas City, has gone into operation, giving employment to a large force of men. Five shops are being operated, and the number will be increased before long. Harry O. Dte, of Indianapolis, committed suicide by taking morphine. He had been discharged from his position as gateman at the Union station. He leaves a wife. A valuable mare was stolen the other night from John Campbell, of Delaware county. At Muncie the wife of James Parker ■ slipped up behind him as he sat in a chair and fractured his skull with a club. Ihe large pulp plant of the Indiana Paper Co., South Bend, was destroyed by fire, the other night. Loss, 820,000; insurance, $5,000. The fire was probably incendiary. The plant will hardly i be rebuilt.