People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Ten days ago William L. Wilson, at Clifford, was seized with a sudden and serious illness, and the other morning his condition grew alarming and toward noon he breathed his last in the presence of his family, and to all ap- ! pearances was dead. An undertaker i was sent for and preparations begun for the funeral. When the funeral director, Philip Spanger, arrived the “dead" man had come to and was sitting up in bed. He grew worse again, however, and died two days later and was buried the next afternoon. A militia company will be reorganized at Elkhart. A new theater is to be built at An- ; derson. Flower thieves are working at Shelbyville. At Lafayette Edward Cool was ae- ■ quitted of the charge of assault with ; intent to murder, on account of in- ' sanity. i A supposed mad dog bit several i people in the northern part of Indianapolis. Adeline Bobay has been appointed i postmaster at Saint Vincent, Allen county, vice Francois Lardier, removed. Robert M. Cammon. aged 88 years, died at Vernon, a few days ago. He , had held every county office in Jennings < ounty at least two terms each, i and some of them thrice. He was a I freak of nature, having been born with j one arm, the other, the left arm, being a stump, reaching not quite to the eli bow.

The stone quarrymen at Westport are out on a strike. A band has been organized at Porter to give summer concerts. A mineral spring, equal to the famous Waukesha water, has been discovered near Attica. A dozen oil wells are to be struck near Valparaiso. Marion authorities have put a stop to Sunday baseball. Indiana flint glass manufacturers have formed a combination and contracted with Fox Brothers, glass brokers of Chicago, to take the produce of the several factories. The factories are located at Peru, Dunkirk, Frankton, Muncie, Anderson, Parker and Middletown. As the trade has been running some of the factories cut prices so there was no paying business for any one. Judge Friedly the other evening ordered the foreclosure of mortgages amounting to 8120.000 against the Louisville and Madison woolen mill, at Madison, which will be sold at auction, reorganized and started up again.

The most terrific windstorm in the history of Bloomington passed over there the other evening, resulting in considerable damage to property. The front of the Dunn business block was blown down. A number of houses were damaged. It is feared much damage has resulted in the country. Two children of Mart Alder, living in Monroe, near Decatur, are dead and Mrs. Alder is dying, from poison. It is believed that some enemy of Alder threw some deadly drug into his well. A hailstorm, about one mile in width, passed through the section four miles north of Patriot, almost totally destroying every growing crop in its path. Walter Kai.er, aged 24, of Andersonville, was drowned near Metamora while bathing. Wilson Simmons, aged 00, has disappeared from Newcastle. His daughter was betrayed by a neighboring farmer, and the disgrace was more than he could bear. The supposition is that he has committed suicide. Mrs. Prudence Bateman, of Crawfordsville, swallowed an entire box of morphine pills. She never regained consciousness. At Seymour, Fred Kelley, aged 2.0 years, a Baltimore, Ohio and Southwestern railroad brakeman, accidentally and fatally shot himself while cleaning a revolver. He leaves a young wife and two small children. The Indiana Funeral Directors’ association had it closing session, the other day, at Indianapolis, and elected J. H. Fetter, of Peru, president; F. A. Flanner of Indianapolis; Charles J, Buchanan, of Indianapolis, vice presidents and W. O. Neal, of Portland, treasurer. D. C. Barnhill and F. A. Flanner were elected as delegates to the national convention at St. Louis.

The Anderson police force is to be increased. The dead body of William Edward Hillis, the 17-year-old son of John Hillis, living about four miles south of Bracken, near Huntington, was found suspended from the rafters by a halfinch rope in the tool house in the cemetery in Warren township. The water works of North Manchester are completed. Lightning struck the outhouse on the premises of Smith Coffing, of Covington, and severely injured Mrs. Coffing and three young Indies as they stepped out. All the parties are in a dangerous condition, and one miss can not recover. Judge Kirkpatrick, of Kokomo, in habeas corpus proceedings, awarded the 2-year-old daughter of Mrs. Barna Kell}’ to her mother, who lives in Providence, R. 1., the child having been abducted a year ago and brought to Kokomo by its father. The woman came here and found the girl at its grandmother’s. The parties are prominent

The 14-year-old son of Win. Leonard was perhaps fatally injured by an elevator at the tile factory of William Noftsker, Elmwood, falling a distance of fifteen feet, catching his head between it and some heavy timbers. Recruiting Segeant Geo. J. Walsh, formerly of the Thirteenth Infantry, U. S. A., was found dead in the bath tub at recruiting headquarters, Indianapolis. The supposed cause is a clot on the brain. The common council of Columbia City has passed an ordinance for the issue of $22,000 of water works bonds. These bonds are to run 20 years and. bear 6 per cent