People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Arthur Harman, aged about 14 years, was seized with cramps and died whil* bathing in White river near Rockford’s. His body has not yet been found. Dunkirk capitalists want to extend the railway to Redkey. Wm. DeMoss, a German plate-glass worker, employed at the Elwood Diamond plate-glass factory, was helping to carry a large plate when it broke and a piece fell across his arms, cut- 1 ting them to the bone, severing muscies ligaments and arteries, from which he nearly bled to death. Suit for 515,000 damages was filed at Richmond by C. D. Mills against the county commissioners. His demand is on account of injuries received by the falling of a traction engine through a bridge. He lost a hand and sustained other injuries. The county superintendent of schools has decided to transfer the coun- : ty institute from Anderson, the county j seat, to Alexandria, on account of no ; available hall in that city. The prohibitionists of the Fifth congressional district nominated Elihu F. Barker, of Johnson county, for congress. At a meeting of the city council ol Burlington, the saloon license was reduced from 5150 to 5100. Dr. J. B. ] Stillwell, a councilman, at once tendered his resignation, saying he did I not wish to belong to a body that would reduce a saloon license. The Memorial association of Lafayette, composed of veterans, will decorate the graves of the heroes who fell at the battle of Tippecanoe, early in this century. Striking miners at Troy and Canneltbn went to work the other morning. Nearly all resumed Monday. The settlement does not affect wages. Chas. Johnson developed a case of smallpox at Richmond. His father died with a malignant attack of the disease a few days ago. At the state Sunday-school convention held at Muncie the following officers were elected: President, Charles F. Coffin, of Indianapolis; vice president, Judge J. S. Kirkpatrick, of Kokomo; secretary and treasury, Charles Weaver, of Kokomo; executive committee, M. T. Reeves, of Columbus; Rev. T. U. Kuhn, of Tipton; J. Morris, of Rockville; Rev. W. T. Stalt, of Franklin; S. W. Axtell, of Bloomfield; Rev. A. Myers, of Indianapolis; Rev. ,T. A. Pollock, of Lebanon; Charles L. Weaver, John D. McNeely and Charles F. Coffin, of Indianapolis. In addition to these there were twenty-four vice presidents selected. John Dyar, a prominent fancy horse breeder, of Kokomo, was kicked by a colt the other day and .will probably die. He had two horses killed by the cars that morning and was breaking colts to take their places, when one of them kicked him, crushing in chest.

A class of 21 was graduated at the Rose Polytechnic institute. At Ft. Wayne A. 0. Trentman, the largest wholesale grocer in Northern Indiana, made an assignment. The liabilities are between 570.000 and 5100,000, and the assets nearly the same. At New Albany Marion Pickering and Sim Booker were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Stephen Geir, a dairyman of Jeffersonville, on March 0 last. Mrs. Charlotte Hinkle, of Greenwood, died of sunstroke a (ew days ago. Edward Miller, 10 years of age, living near Homer, shot and killed himself the other evening. Tired of life. The grand jury has returned 75 indictments at Sullivan against the Shelburn striking miners, charging them with conspiracy to commit a felony. Eleven additional arrests have been made, and deputies are, looking for more.

The Yellowhammer Oil and Gas Co. was incorporated at Dunkirk with M. L. Case, T. H. Johnson, J. B. Newton, _J. T. Shtton, S. A. Wilson and C. W. Smalley directors. This company is the outgrowth of a co-partnership and is one of the most successful now operating- in the oil field of Indiana. At Kokomo, Frank .Mullen, ag-ed fourteen, while attern>to creep up on some birds in a cherrypfcrete the other day, accidentally shot himself, the load of shot plowing through his face, tearing away the right cheek and eye. He may recover. An unknown man, woman and child, apparently dead two days, were found on the Dow farm, near Borden, *the other morning. They had been shot. A pistol was found beside them. The case is one of suicide or murder. TJrey were wqII dressed. The 2-year-old infant of Prof. Ed. Utterbach, of Salma, Kan., was choked to death the other morning at the home of its grandparents, James Warfield and wife, near Waynetown, by getting a small screw lodged in the windpipe. At Anderson James Mullon, while talking to friends at home, suddenly exclaimed: “Good-by!” and dropped dead. Henry Bundy was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for stealing a horse from his father at Connersville. He stole the animal, sold it for $9, and inside of 10 days again stole it, th's time getting 57 for it. At Hopewell Charles Vamings, a farmer, was attacked bv a bull and gored almost to death. The coal famine has struck Kokomo. All factories use natural gas for general purposes, but some use coal for certain work, such as welding st;bl and iron. All are now out of coal, these and every blacksmith shop Will be closed until some comes in. There is not a ton of coal in the city. Mrs. George Zimmerman, the you lg bride of one of the wealthiest you ag men in Decatur, committed suicide by taking morphine Family trouble is ♦•he supposed cause. The Ft. Wayne Electric Co., recently incorporated, will begin work on its plant at once, employing over SOO mechanics

‘ Johnny, add seven apples to two apples, and what will you have!"—“Colic, air.’ 1 — Harper’s Bazar.