People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Barney Six, a member of the Marion Soldiers’ home, was attacked by two men near the home the other night and robbed of 150 and his watch. The Clay County bank at Clay City has become a thing of the past The stockholders were the only losers, the depositors having received all their money. It has been discovered that a gang of boys from 13 to 15 years of age has been committing various depredations in the vicinity of Bourbon and concealing its plunder in an old house in the woods, where nightly meetings are held, each member wearing a mask. An effort is being made to identify the young rascals and bring them to justice. There were three attempts at suicide in Indianapolis the other evening, all by young girls. A small boy at Goshen lost a finger and thumb in endeavoring to analyze the contents of a loaded cartridge by dissection. At an early hour the other morning Alphonso Brooks was discovered trying to effect an entrance into Wm. Kreider & Sons’ grocery, Logansport Four policemen surrounded him, but he drew a revolver and gave them a desperate battle in the dark. Seven shots were exchanged without any one being struck. The fugitive was finally fished out of an empty salt barrel in which he had attempted to hide. Noodle soup socials are the latest fad at Warsaw. The prison north has nine hundred inmates. Two fine, large swans were killed on a lake near Vincennes. While he was in a boiler at the paper mills, Anderson, steam was accidentally turned on and Samuel Roach was nearly cooked. He will die. At Shelbyville, George Kiport, aged 72, has taken his sixth bride, Mary Hensley, aged 10. At Jeffersonville, Houston Starks, aged 10, fell 70 feet off the approach to the Louisville & Jeffersonville bridge and was fatally injured. Dr. W. H. Brown, of Sheridan, was arrested and fined ?20 for practicing dentistry without a license. The unemployed of Indianapolis, at an indignation meeting passed a resolution appealing to Queen Victoria for aid. Residents of Hartford City will shortly vote on the question of a city charter.

I The parents of Chauncey Moore, the 15-year-old boy who disappeared two ' months ago from Terre Haute, have : offered a reward of 1100 for informa- , tion concerning his whereabouts. Hammond has petitioned for free mall ! delivery. | Anthony Beck, of Lebanon, a : wealthy farmer, became enraged at a steer for tearing down a fence, and, ! driving it into a pen poured coal oil all ' over it and set it on fire, burning the : animal to death. The grand jury is in- ! vestigating the affair. During a terrific thunder and rainstorm at Clay City, the other night, lightning struck the residence of Jos. I Funkhouser. Mrs. Funkhouser was ; knocked senseless for a few moments. When she recovered she found the stove-pipe demolished, the paper on the wall burned and the children screaming with fright A small child of John | Long was knocked flat, but not seriously hurt. Several persons on the street felt the effect of the shock.

Gas well No. 9 was drilled in at Pen* dleton, a few days ago, and it is much the strongest of any of the Pendleton wells, which are all above the average. A fifteen-year-old lad, supposed to be Chauncey Moore, who disappeared from his home at Terre Haute some time ago, was arrested at Geneva, the other afternoon. Policeman Van Tilbury took him to Portland to jail. The boy is a son of M. S. Moore, of Terre ‘ Haute, and a reward of SIOO is out for ! him. His father has been notified to i come to Portland. Two of the North Anderson window glass companies’ factories resumed operations, the other evening, putting 250 men to work. The outlook in the window glass trade is encouraging. Calvin Darling, living near Mulberry, ended his life, the other night, !by the rope. Darling was a wealthy i farmer. 11l health is supposed to have i been the cause of his rash act | Robert Bruce, night watchman of : the offices of Receiver Falley, of the i Iron Hall, Indianapolis, was shot while resisting an attempt to burglarize the I offices, He will recover. The street railroad project is being boomed at Bloomington. i While duck hunting on the Ohio near Evansville, Louis Eckerle fell over- : board and was drowned, being weighted down by the loaded shells in his : pocket Thirteen people near Anderson -were I poisoned by eating tainted cheese. AU are out of danger. De Kalb county has an indebtedness of $109,000. Miss Angelina Lamb, of Goshen, i who lost her voice 12 years ago as a result of severe sickness, has just regained it in a peculiar manner. An unusually severe paroxysm of coughing resulted in a rearrangement of the vocal chords. She now speaks in a distinct, but moderate tone, and she says that she seems to be speaking unusually loud. The case is regarded by medical experts as one of the most remarkable ever encountered.

Julius H. Beaver and Margaret Beaver, of Bedford, were married while seated in their buggy at Paoli, the other day, by Justice D. M. Hudleson. They were divorced about two months since, and are making an effort to keep their remarriage a secret At Newcastle, John 11. Gauz was given a verdict of $2,000 damages against the Panhandle railroad for the killing of his two children at a crossing last summer. Db. Joseph M. Bulla, coroner of Wayne county, filed a damage suit for (5,000 against Dr. W. W. Zimmerman lor alleged slander. Both are candidates for ffuroncr.