People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Columbus citizens have secured the services of a detective to run down the author of a number of anonymous threatening letters that have recently been received by many of the leading men of that city. A damage suit for $3,000 was filed at Richmond by C. E Caldwell against W. H. Steen for injuries received by the bite of a dog belonging to the latr ter. Columbus is aroused on account of a decision by the supreme court by which Cyrus Brown, who murdered his wife, gets a new trial. Brown was to have been hanged on April 20. The cause of the granting of a new trial was on account of the drunkenness of a juror pending the trial of the case. Fire at an early hour the other morning destroyed the barn and implement house of John P. Barnes at Anderson. Two fine horses were cremated. Smoke gained entrance to the third floor of the Hotel Dovey and created some excitement in the guests’ apartments. In the circuit court at Richmond the other day Albert Rose was acquitted of murder, but Bob Wilson got a five-year penitentiary sentence for stealing a PigThe other night Miss Bessie Catt, the 18-year-old daughter of Milton E. Catt, of Terre Haute, eloped with Zachariah Evans, aged 55 and a widower, who formerly roomed with the Catts. The police were notified, but no clew can be found.

Muncie Gun club has received and accepted a challenge from the Union City Gun elub, and a team shoot with five men on a side will be arranged. A purglab, supposed to be a tramps was shot and instantly killed at Palestine,Kosciusko county, the other night. Geoige Werrick, a Palestine merchant, surprised the robber in the act of burglarizing his store, and opened fire on him, with fatal effect A state militia company of 54 men has been organized at Shelbyville. Four children of Frank Bilski, a farmer, who lives on Chimney Pierre hills, ten miles south of Vincennes, were poisoned the other evening. Their father in plowing, plowed up some poke root The children ate the roots, thinking they were parsnips. All took violently sick, and next morning a little boy died, and the three others are lying in a critical condition. The Muncie bricklayers’ union re fused to accept a reduction of 10 cents an hour for work and a strike is now on. The oil refinery at Whiting is said to be about the largest in the world. Columbus claims to have the biggest cooperage concern in the United States. There are 100 empty dwellings in Brazil. The free soup house at Richmond has closed. An electric fire alarm system is being put in at Madison. The new tile factory at Columbus is about ready for business. Lloyd McGuinnis, a wealthy farmer of Homer, near Shelbyville, suicided by taking carbolic acid. The General Power and Quick Transit Co., of South Bend, has incorporated, the object being to construct an electric road from South Bend to Mishawaka. Capital, SIOO,OOO. Indiana G. A. R., in state encampment elected officers as follows: vicedepartment commander, A. O. Marsh, Winchester; senior vice-commander, J. B. Shaw, Lafayette; junior vice-com-mander, H. H. Reagan, Lowell; medical director, Dr. C. A. Boynton, Indianapolis; chaplain, John A. Maxwell, Delphi Mrs. Alvin Vinyard, of Florida, was instantly killed the other morning by being struck by a Pan Handle train as she attempted to cross the track at Anderson.

David Rhinehart, an inmate of the soldiers’ home at Marion, while drunk, was robbed of SBOO at Pulaskiville the other day. He had recently sold his farm for SI,OOO, and the indications are that local sharpers did the job. Burglars entered the general store of M. Gouchenour and Daniel Froxel at Manson, Clinton county, and secured a quantity of jewelry, clothing and groceries. A few nights ago at Hagerstown occurred the most brilliant northern lights that have ever been noted at Hagerstown. A block on fire would not have caused more attention from the people. Brilliant hues in unusual figures shot across a clear sky, and the night was illuminated as if a bright moon were shining. A young lady of Columbus is confined to her room nursing big blisters on her face, the result of mistaking gun oil for glycerine. The citizens of Anderson want a chemical fire engine. The dog poisoner is again playing havoc in the canine population at Anderson. William Julius Chomel, 30 years of age and unmarried, the son of Alexander Chomel, editoi - of the Catholic Record, Indianapolis, suicided a few days ago.

Albert Withams, a farmer living neaJ Muncie, while driving home from church with his wife and child, was dragged to death by a runaway horse. The wife and chil<J escaped injury. Edward Martin, hurt bv cars near Anderson, died at Richmond! The charity societies at Crawfordsville have completed the winter’s work. Nearly 1,000 persons have received aid. In the last year thirty murders have occurred in Clay county and thirty people have become insane. An accident at Klinger’s lake, near Goshen, the other morning, resulted in the almost instant death of William Barnes. He was training a colt, when the animal threw him on a newlytrimmed hedge fence. He was impaled on a sharp stick, which entered the neck. He was dead when found. A. R Woods, of Kokomo, deputy United States revenue collector, condemned 210 barrels of beer made a year ago at a Logansport brewery, and the other day the officer dumped the entire lot into Eel river.