People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Lightning struck a house on the farm of E. M. Spencer, weet of Mt Vernon, instantly killing James Jennifer and severely shocking George Kirk. The house and contents were destroyed by the flames. Congressman J. B. Bbown, who has been suffering for some months from a cancerous growth on the lower lip, is greatly prostrated at Seymour, and his condition is regarded as exceedingly serious. An A. P. A. lodge has been organized at Laporte. A crane was killed near Bloomington, the other day. The wing measured eight feet from tip to tip. Crawfordsville is to have another brass band. Frank Crump will build an amusement park at Columbus Fish are plentiful in the streams near Crawfordsville. Huntington council has I”*; contracts for street improvements and sewers to give the unemployed work. Rev. John L. Aten, for ten years pastor of the United Presbyterian church, of Madison, has resigned. Marshal Sargeant, of Valparaiso, arrested for being drunk and disorderly Prof. Patrick O’Connor. He was formerly a temperance lecturer. James Rhoda, a farmer, while crossing railway tracks at Chesterton, was struck by a train and killed. At Valparaiso a warrant was issued for John Sowards on the charge of attempting a criminal assault on his crippled daughter, aged 17. He escaped. The Preble Oil Co., drilling a number of wells on a farm nine miles southwest of Decatur, struck oil early the other morning at a depth of 1,100 feet The output of the well is over six hundred barrels per day. W. H. Copeland, who the other day shot Lawyer Harris and Litigant Bruning, in the law office of Harrison, Miller & Elam, Indianapolis, was arraigned in the police court next morning, charged with shooting with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. Judge Stubbs fined Copeland $250 on the latter charge. Upon protest by Copeland’s attorney this fine was stayed. Copeland was released on a $5,000 bond on each charge, which was furnished by two friends. The coroner has decided that Charles Moody, the Alexandria barber, was murdered and his body placed on the railroad track to destroy evidence of the crime. Edward Rudesal, locomotive engineer, was acquitted at Lafayette of murdering Michael Horen, on December 8, 1893. Rudesal is a prominent A. P. A. man.

Some few weeks ago Dr. Hindsman, of Indianapolis, opened up dental parlors at Sheridan. The other day he was vulcanizing a set of teeth and was using an old vulcanizer without a steam register. While out of the laboratory the machine let loose and blew a hole in the ceiling and iron roof large enough to throw a good sized dog through. The report was equal to that of a small sawmilL The damage was considerable in the laboratory. The following fourth-class postmasters were commissioned a few days since: Louis Holloway, Belda, Wabash county, vice Joshua Culver, resigned; C. W. Amos, Carrollton, Hancock county, vice J. P. Armstrong, removed; J. J. Bryant, Clarksville, Hamilton county, vice L. M. Haogland, resigned; S. S. Hopkins, Mechanicsburg, Henry county, vice T. A. Goodwin, resigned; F. L. Taylor, Stallwell, Laporte county, vice Frank Learn, removed; W. A. Baldwin, Waco, Daviess county, vice Levie Reeves, resigned. Mineral water has been struck at Greenwood. The coal output of Indiana last year was 3,681,751 tons. A big boiler factory will be erected at Columbus. The slot machines at Anderson rake in about SSO each daily. The citizens of Grand View are kicking for a new tire engine. While burglarizing a store a short time ago at Cambridge City B. F. Miller, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was seriously wounded by an officer. He was removed to the hospital at Richmond, where he died. A Goshen undertaker claims to have buried 3,700 people since 1847. Greenfield will have a military company soon. Mrs. Gorman, a farmer's wife, was probably fatally burned while making soft soap near Leavenworth. South Whitley has voted to incorporate. Harry Bishop, Owen Miller and Archie Gilbert were a few days ago arrested for conducting a series of most daring burglaries among Crawfordsville business houses. For months these robberies have been continued, and large amounts of goods have been stolen. The other night the boys were found in their cave in the midst of bales of stolen goods. The astonishing part of the affair is that none of the lads are over fourteen years old. They confessed their guilt and will be sent to the reform school. The boys were inspired by dime novels. The Muncie council the other night awarded asphalt paving contracts to the Warren-Scharf Co., of New York. The contract price was SBO,OOO. Parts of Walnut, Main, Jackson, Mulberry, Washington and High streets will be paved. Work will begin inside of five weeks. The Indiana board of health issued an order to the Indianapolis board commanding it to issue an order requiring all persons within its jurisdiction who can not show satisfactory evidence of vaccination within the past seven years to be vaccinated at once. Sylvestr Weir, colored, stabbed and probably fatally wounded Henry Heneson, at Michigan City, a few days since. Heneson’s wife interfered and was seriously cut. Weir is confined in the county jail pending the result of the victims’ injuries. There is a grocer in Knightstown who.it is said, has never been on a train of cars