People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

State Fish Commissioner Kiascnhaa decided to have every net and 6eine in Indiana destroyed. A Goshen citizen loaded some sticks of wood for wood thieves. One of the sticks got into his own stove and he is now having one side of his house repaired. An organized gang of house-breaker* has been committing many burglaries near Manilla. Brazil has a tramp who cries for a living. Ft. Wayne is alive with tramps. The proposed canning factory at Noblesville is practically assured. A roadhouse will be built near Richmond. Robert Wiseman, a pioneer of Corydon, dropped dead. A tornado passed over West Madison, the other morning, barely touching the ground, in some places uprooting great trees. There was a peculiar noise and friction in the air, with red and blue colors followed by a hailstorm. A colony of 100 Indiana people, chiefly from Plymouth, Delphi and North Manchester, will leave this spring for Towner county, South Dakota, to locate permanently. They will engage in agriculture, having made purchases of a large tract of land. The exodus will take place in April. At Hartford City Charles Mack lost his left arm in the rollers at the paper mill. The people of Columbia City are still clamoring for water works. The proposed electric light system of Danville has been contracted for.

The county commissioners of Wayne county have decided to tax circuses $25 for each performance. At the democratic primary in Jeffersonville Thomas Sparks was nominated for mayor. The Steece architectural iron works will be located at Anderson, giving 100 men employment to start. A tapeworm measuring 120 feet was removed from a woman at Richmond. It is said to be the largest known to the medical world, and was removed alive. Robert Spaugh died the other night at Hope, of paralysis, aged 69 years. He was a prominent acutioneer and republican politician. Deputy United States Marshal Lase Woods, of New Albany, who was removed from his office by United States Marshal Hawkins, says he will make some sensational charges against Hawkina Manfred Ellers, of Miami, was struck with a flying board in a sawmill the other day and probably fatally hurt Receiver Krishkb, of the First National bank, of North Manchester, has announced his second dividend of 20 per cent The Anderson branch of the American Strawboard Co. has been leased to C. W. Fairbanks, president of the Terre Haute Brewing Co. At Noblesville, Osiah Juteau was given $3,000 damages against the Arcade File works for injuries sustained while working with a machine he did not understand. The Christian ministers at Muncie have inaugurated a fight against Spiritualism. Ax Indianapolis an unknown woman attempted to kidnap the 2-year-old child of John Quigley, but was forced to relinquish her charge at the point of a revolver held in the mother's band. She then escaped. John T. Pressly, a wealthy widower, of Indianapolis, caused the arrest for trespassing of a matrimonially inclined maiden lady, who he claims has been annoying him with her attentions. A live snake 14 inches long was hewn out of a rock by the stone dressers at the new courthouse at Hartford City. A gang of thieves has been broken up at Kingwood. Thomas Bfjtton was gored to death by a bull near Elkhart, j James Hoover, a railway brakeman, of Wabash, was shot in the breast at Claypool by a tramp he put off a train. W. C. Smith, who resigned the superintendency of the Ariel bicycle works, Goshen, has left for parts unknown, and it is alleged his accounts are mixed. There are 100 more prisoners in the Prison North than there have ever been before. John Galloway, the wealthy septuagenarian, arrested for stealing wraps and robes from a church at Kokomo, entered a plea of guilty the other day, and was given a year in the penitentiary. This was on the advice of his grandson, Lee Nash, a prominent attorney of Tipton. At Muncie the small daughter of Frank Cribbs pulled a pot of boiling bean soup from the stove over herself, cooking her face, neck and breast It is thought her sight will be destroyed. Frank Chew, aged' 12, of Noblesville, accidentally shot himself in the left leg while engaged in cleaning in old revolver. Doctors have failed to locate the ball.

A tinplate works employing 200 will be started at Montpelier. The proposed water works at Lebanon will cost $42,885. There are forty pedro clubs at Elkhart. The miners employed at the Anderson mines, at Clinton, have agreed to work at a reduction of 20 cents from the scale. Postmasters appointed the other day: A. G. Hunter, Center Square, Switzerland county, vice J. 11. Hitchens, removed; J. H. Bluvelt, Nebraska, Jennings county, vice P. W. Coyra, resigned; Edward Whalen, Sardinia, Decatur county, vice D. J. Moore, removed; Valentine Heiberg, Sellersburg, Clark count 3% vice Stephen Allen, resigned. The Citizens’ National, of Martins ville, the new bank will commence business with SIOO,OOO capital. A suit for $10,030 was filed against Richmond by the Shale Manufacturing Co., of Canton, 0., for brick furnished for the Main street paving.