People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

John Minxick, superintendent of the Lebanon Electric Light Co., was instantly killed the other morning by a rotten telegraph pole on which he was placing a wire. It gave way, and he fell under it Representative Conn introduced a bill for an additional appropriation for the public building at South Bend. The bill provides that the limit of expenditure for the South Bend building be extended to $50,000. On March 19. 1893, a Sunday performance at the Empire theater, Indianapolis, was stopped by the police, and the participants arrested. A test case was made. The appellate court decided a few days ago that a performance on Sunday is unlawful, uncommon labor, and punishable. At Indianapolis Judge Woods appointed E. P. Huston and E. O. Hopkins receivers to operate the Indiana branches of the Peoria, Decatur* and Evansvillle road.

At Ft. Wayne the coroner’s jury has completed the examination of Martin Howley, who is charged with brutally killing his mother. He will be indicted on a charge of murder in the first degree. Edward N. Elam of Indianapolis, broker for the Owl Tobacco Co., found a dynamite bomb in his pocket It is thought the would-be assassin mistook him for President Frenzel, of the Merchant’s National bank, who had been threatened. Clint Babwick, who shot Ida Robberts in Anderson last November, was acquitted after an exciting trial. Barwick lives in Muncie, and many from that place attended the trial. John Mullen, engineer at the Sunnyside coal mines, near Evansville, stopped the mammoth wheel to tighten fly bolts. He leaned forward between the spokes, and with a wrench was screwing a nut tighter, when suddenly the wheel, which had stopped on the center, started to revolve under his weight. His head and shoulders caught on the engine, while the great weight of the wheel bore down on him with such force as to break his neck and nearly tear his right arm from the shoulder, causing instant death. Numerous attempts have been made in the past few weeks to destroy the mill of John Blackburn, in Fulton county, north of Peru, by placing dynamite in the boiler. A watchman was employed who found unknown parties endeavoring to place two pounds of dynamite in the flues. In the melee the watchman, Louis Bowan, was shot and badly wounded, the parties escaping. Friends of Theodore P. Haughey, who is under indictment for wrecking the Indianapolis National bank, say that the old banker is losing his mind under the strain to which he has been subjected the past few month a Dr R. P. White and Elias Smith, while operating an ice boat on Center lake, Warsaw, were thrown into open water and Smith was drowned.

A company of Indianapolis and Chicago capitalists have organized with 1250,000 capital stock to investigate the oil field in the vicinity of Albany. Oil has been discovered near here that flows from the well as clear as water. Thousands of acres of land have already been leased. John Koerps, of Lincolnville, a hamlet in Wabash county, is in jail charged with stealing SBS from the residence of Charles Bitner, while the family was at church. A man supposed to be A. C. Davis, of Kokomo, was picked up on the Cloverleaf railroad, at Marion, the other morning in an unconscious condition. He was cut about the head and bore other injuries. It is supposed he was struck while walking on the track. A suit was begun at Huntington the other morning by Mrs. Hattie Gibler against her husband’s father, John Gibler, for $15,000 damages, for alienating her husband’s affections. The couple eloped in November of last year, were married in Michigan, and afterwards went to Denver, Col., to live. The father of the groom followed them and, it is claimed, by threats, promises and persuasions, induced the young husband to abandon the wife, leaving her friendless and penniless in that city. The democrats of Indiana elected the following state central committeemen at their various district conventions throughout the state, a few days since: First district, John G. Shanklin; second, Thos. B. Buskirk; third. Isaao P. Leyden; fourth, Win. H. O’Brien; fifth, W. C. Duncan;. sixth. John M. Loutz; seventh, Thos. Taggard; eighth, Thos. J. Mann; ninth, W. M. Black* slock; tenth, M. M. Hathaway; eleventh, J. A. M. Kintz; twelfth, Judge Allen Zollers; thirteenth, W. H. Conrad. The litigation growing out of the Franklin P. Nelson assignment at Greencastle has been compromised. Twenty-two hundred acres of land were deeded to the creditors of Nelson, while Nelson’s wife was given the family residence and allowed to retain SIB,OOO.

William Pate, residing three miles from Jcffersonvillei, early the other morning *i\ot and, it is said, mortally wounded Benson Veasey, a prominent farmer. Veasey of late has been missing chickens, and he accused Pate of being the thisf. Veasey, it is said, found a number of his fowls concealed on Pate’s place. So enraged did Pate become over the charge that he procured a shotgun and fired upon his a©cuser. Pate made his escape. The sixth congressional district of democrats met at Richmond and elected John M. Loutz a member of the state central committee. They passed resolutions indorsing the Wilson tariff bill and indorsing U. S. Senator Daniel W. Voorhees as the nominee of the democratic party for president in 1898. Alex M. McCurdy, wanted at Golden, CoL, on a charge of murder, was arrested at Martinsville by City Marshal Mills, who will receive S2OO reward. James Scibcle, whose saloon at Tailholt was wrecked by temperance women. attempted to secure warrants against them, but the state’s attorney refused to issue them. ~