People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

MicuAei Koontz, whose home is at Connersville, cut his throat with a pocket knife and threw himself in front of an approaching train at Rushville, which ran over him, cutting his body in two and one arm off. Two colored men were killed at a barn raising near Sullivan. Fire in the Sun printing establishment, Portland, threatened for a time the entire office, but was confined to the press room. The loss is 8500. County Superintendent I. V. Busby, of Anderson, has resigned. He was recently selected superintendent of the Alexandria city schools at an increase of salary. The annual report of County Auditor Canfield, clerk of the board of turnpike directors, shows the total number of miles of free pike in Randolph county to be 244 miles. A Wabash jury rendered a verdict for 81,050 in the damage suit of Marion Webb against the Wabash Paper Co Eighteen months ago Charles Webb, son of the plaintiff, was caught in the machinery and had his leg so badly crushed that he will lose it. Prof. W. C. Wier, of the Springfield (0.) public schools, has been chosen by the Richmond city school board to succeed Prof. O. L. Kelso as principal c f the Richmond schools, the latter bavin f resigned, to accept the chair of mathi - matics in the Normal school at Terri Haute.

The test case of the power of a boar d of health to enforce compulsory vaccination of pupils of the public school.-., which was interrupted a few wee! $ ago, was resumed the other day in tt ? circuit court of Terra Haute. The de ositions taken at Muncie were read a id the argument begun. Plans have been ordered for the n< m hotel, to be built by the Richmond Commercial club. It will cost 875.000 and be located in the heart of Rich mond. It will be modern in every way , and contain extensive office quarter besides those designed for the hotel.

The case of Earl Crabb, who su s! the Richmond Gas Co. for 810,000 1: injuries received in a gas explosion, 1 1> h««en compromised for 84,000. < AMuiutMiK City was visited by ft. b the other morning, which re si J > •si iu the following damage: E. , f . IL.hri. dry goods, 85.000; insured f ir in North British, 81,000 in'/te < Mledonirin and 81.000 jn the Norther a. F M. Els‘rt. grocer. 83,300; insured n Merchant*’ and Mechanics’, of Milwaukee, for 81,500. F. W. Fraunburg, hotel, 8500. and J. I’. Sears, broker, 8-300; partially insured. Cause of the fire unknown.

Over forty head of thoroughbred horses were sold at the Little River Stock Farm sale at Huntington. Prices were poor. Royal Defiance, a Cleveland bay stallion, sold for 8115. lie cost 82,000.

The other day a suit was filed by Leads Lorenson, a former employc at the American Tin -Plate Works, at Elwood, against the company for 810,000 damages for personal injuries While working a crane. His left leg was so badly crushed that amputation was rendered necessary. The other morning Gottlieb Bower, a wealthy German tailor, of Kokomo, aged seventy, took arsenic with suicidal intent. The doctors resuscitated him but in the evening he was found dead in his room, having take:-. another dose of poison.

A resident of Elkhart county named Jake Leaf tobacco neither smokes,chews nor uses snuff. Ft. Wayne newsboys will wear brass badges. All danger from smallpox has passed at Richmond. The McCoy lamp-chimney factory at Elwood has closed down for the season. Its warehouse is filled with stock. TAe annual convention of the Woman’s Missionary society of the First Ohio Presbytery has closed its session at Richmond.

John Brannan and John Mcßryer pleaded guilty to stealing cattle and Judge Johnson, of Shelbyville, sentenced them each to four years in the penitentiary. Crops in the vicinity of Elwood have been greatly damaged by hail. Pupils in the Anderson high school will enjoy a trip to the battle .fields of the south.

At Kokomo William Lewis has lived two years with a broken neck. He was accidentally shot in the neck by his sweetheart, the bullet severing the spinal column.

If a member of the Muncie police ball team misses practice he is fined 82. The Richmond police may be mo anted on bicycles. A boARD of trade has been organized at Churubusco. At Bedford the stone quarries are rushed with orders. The citizens of Valparaiso are subscribing for a public library. Edinburg is out of debt and has a balance of §5,000. Fish dynamiters are at work on the Wabash river at Terre Haute. Newcastle houses are being numbered. Green goods circulars are being floated at Valparaiso. Frank D. Benadum will be tried for the murder of Lawyer Lemuel Baily at inchester on a change of venue from Muncie. A belle at New Albany has an aluminum bicycle.