People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

During the temporary absence from home, the other day, of William Baker his wife committed suicide by strangling herself to death at Indianapolis. She left a note laying the blame upon her parents. The skeleton of a mastodon was discovered on a farm east of Jeffersonville.

A telephone system was commenced at Bedford, but after the erection of the poles the scheme fell through Johnson county commissioners have appointed Miss Margaret Bergen to be matron of the Orphan’s home of Johnson county. Ross & Gott’s hardware store was broken into at Russellville and two hundred dollars’ elry and gold-filled-watches taken. clew to the thieves. There was an exciting wolf chase on the Godfrey reserve, five miles east of Montpelier, the other day. About three hundred citizens participated, with twenty-four hounds from the east part of the county, and about the same number from Camden, in Jay county. The wolf was a large white one, which was brought from Dakota two weeks ago. One dog was killed and several others badly wounded before his wolfship was killed. By a vote of 26 to 16 a second convention of the Indiana bituminous miners voted down a proposition to reduce the present scale of mining in response to the operators’ demands. An eastern syndicate purchased the artificial natural gas plant at Lafayette for 8840,000. A dozen young men were arrested at Pierceville for breaking up an evangelist’s meeting.

Fourth-class postmasters were appointed the other day as follows: Seymour Lennington, Blountsville, Henry county, vice James Templin, removed; L. O. Pickens, Crown Center, Morgan county, vice IL E. Warmouth, resigned; E. R. Wilson, Mixersville, Franklin county, vice Robert Wilson, resigned; Bradshaw, Hendricks county, Charles C. Miller appointed postmaster; Lippitt, Morgan county, Jacob A. Wilhite appointed postmaster. Lightning struck James Friddle’s barn, near Albany, the other morning. The building and contents, with two horses, was burned. No insurance. Elias M. Smith and wife have lived on the same farm near Crawfordsville for 58 years. On March 13 they had been married sixty years. The house of John Biddle west of Crawfordsville was struck by lightning and every window pane was broken. The family escaped with a slight shock.

Mrs. Mary Robertson, matron of the Madison county orphans’s home, has been turned down by the county commissioners. She resigned as a matter of form. Mrs. Mary Ferrell, of Summitville, a sister of one of the commissioners, has been given the position. Jacob W. Hoagland, of Sullivan, j whose proud boast it was that he had I voted a straight democratic ticket for i over half a century, dropped dead a ' few days ago in Indianapolis while walking along the street. He was 75 years old, and was here visiting a son. The Indianapolis ordinance taxing i breweries SI,OOO per year has been upi held by the supreme court. At Peru a tape worm 30 feet in length j was removed from Peter Whitehill’s ; three-year-old son. The new courthouse at Laporte, will . be dedicated in May. i A walking club is being agitated at i South Bend. Indiana has 530 G. A. R. posts. Clinton Cooper, aged 45, committed suicide at Indianapolis, by strangling himself with a handkerchief. ! The Indianapolis police raided an opium joint and a quartet of celestials ; were arrested. | The citizens of Wolcottville want > the town incorporated. : The Citizen’s National bank,Martinsville, was organized the other day by the following: J. T. Cunningham, W. ! S. Frazee, of Martinsville; Geo. W. . Robertson, of Mt. Vernon, and Fletcher ■ S. Heath, of Hamilton. Charles A. Manker is the new chapi lain at the Prison south. At Cutler, Mrs. Allen Sparks, 78, fell • into a cistern and was drowned. As the result of the supreme court ' decision Montgomery county will turn ■ back into the state treasury $4,764.49 of ■ unused school funds. Of this sum : 83,000 is from Crawfordsville. I “Good-by, worms of earth,” shouted I Jos. Harbarge to his family at a Crawj fordsville depot, then he jumped in front of a passing train and was instantly killed. Hawkins Hawkins, a prominent road i contractor of Brazil, was fatally hurt ■ the other evening. While moving under I an embankment a heavy fall of dirt crushed him to unconsciousness and badly mashed him up, breaking his shoulder bones and injuring him internally.

An unsuccessful attempt was made to blow up the office of the Iron Age, an infidel paper at Indianapolis. At Kewanna Joseph Drunker was fatally injured by being caught in the shafting of his milt John Rodgers, a worthless character, of Mulberry, Clinton county, was shot to death by a member of the Mulberry horse-thief association while resisting arrest on a charge of house breaking. AT Hartford City the Utility Co., straw pdper manufacturers, was fined $lO and $1,500 costs for allowing waste water to pollute a stream. A sensational rumor is current at Logansport that James Parker, who has been mysteriously missing since January, was killed by the late murderer and suicide, Philip Petri, on account of jealousy, and his body buried under the house. The authorities will investigate. The other night the saloon of Archie Gladman, at Scircleville, was destroyed by enemies of the liquor traffic, who poured coaloil on the building, and set tirv to it.