People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The mysteries surrounding the murder of Louis Parsons, whose dead body was found some weeks ago near Indianapolis. are likely to reach solution. John Hulen, a known thief and ex-eon-vict was committed for grand jury action. Ihe authorities claim Hulen and Parsons were robbing freight ears and Parsons was killed in a quarrel over a division of the spoils. Dick Townsend, landlord of the Randall Hotel, of Ft. Wayne, and A. C. Katt. a local bicycle dealer were taken to Indianapolis by a deputy United States Marshal, accused of sending a paper containing a lottery advertisement through the mails. Near Alum Cave, Eugene Fry was shot dead by George Casey. Mary Cash, aged 14, is mysteriously missing from Anderson. Perhaps kidnaped. The populists of the Eleventh Indiana district nominated A. M. Benson for congress. W hile Senator James Hill was returning to his home at Brooksburg he was thrown from the wagon and seriously injured. He is 70 years of age. At Valparaiso while Frank White and James Perrine, young men, were going home, some unknown man hiding behind a large tree on the opposite side of the street shot at them, the bullet just missing the face of James Perrine. Solomon Lawrence, George Goldman and Irvin Gammel were sent to the penitentiary for two years, from Vincennes, Gammel for robbing Wm. Trout, a saloonkeeper, and the other two for robbing Charles Hulen, a farmer at Edwardsport. The citizens of Anderson are becoming alarmed at the pollution of White river by dying fish above the city. A mile or so east of Anderson the hanks of White river are strewn with’thousands of decaying and dead fish. It is thought that the waters of the stream are poisoned by the sewage from the strawboard works situated near Muncie. The water supply for the city is taken from the river, and an effort will be made to enjoin the further pollution of the stream from that source. The Eastern Indiana Oil and Gas Co. at Union City has begun work on its pipe line, piping gas to that city. Gas will be ready by September 1. John Carter, of Plainfield, who has been deaf for several years, has regained his hearing by removing a ball of cotton which he stuck in his ear sixteen years ago. Union City school trustees have elected Mrs. Susan G. Patterson superintendent. Mrs. Patterson was formerly principal of the high school there, but was principal of the schools at St. Paul, Minn., last winter. Charles H. Cadwallaber, former manager, has purchased the Union City opera house, which was destroyed by fire one year ago. He will rebuild at once and have the house ready for opening by the middle of September. Fourth-class postmasters commissioned a few days ago: Matthew Kays, Pierre, Starke county, vice Michael Hogan, re-signed, and S. J. Hinkle, Saratago, Randolph county, vice Elizabeth Goff, removed. David Cuppy and Joseph Oliver captured two big Mississippi catfish in the Wabash river at Logansport, the other morning. One weighed seventy-two pounds, and was four feet, two inches long. Its head weighed eighteen pounds. The other fish weighed forty pounds. Wm. Hatfield was crushed under a load of brick at Goshen, the other afternoon, and sustained injuries from which he died.

John W. Morgan, assignee of Miller & Wickham, the defunct agricultural dealers of Columbus, made a report the other day showing a dividend of 20 per cent. Seven Indianapolis painters were badly injured by a falling scaffold. The Northern Indiana Editorial association celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary at its meeting at Spring Fountain park, Warsaw. The Dunkirk post office was robbed of fifty pennies the other night. Henry Mingle, of Pendleton, received a cub bear from Aspen Junction, Col., a few days ago on which the express was $19.25. In the Scott county circuit court Edward Neff was found guilty of arson and sentenced to the state prison for five years. Smallpox has broken out at Ashley. The footrace craze has died out at Edinburg. A FOUR-TIIOUSAND-DOLLAR School house will be built at Hazelwood. The high school of Elkhart is securing subscriptions to build an observatory. Tee Scott Creamer Carriage Co., of Milton, has decided to locate at Richmond. At fiYabash Samuel Barrett was sunstruck while plowing. In the divorce case of Farmer Wm, Woods against his wife, nee Dora Wreelet, at Anderson, the attorneys havo asked for a male stenographer, the testimony is so racy. Oliver Woods is co-respondent. At Kentland a vein of coal eight feet thick has been struck at a depth of 40 feet. The price of land in the neighborhood has risen $l5O an acre. The cerealine mills of Columbus arc now grinding four thousand bushels of corn daily. John Butcher, a Chicago & Erie employe, was arrested at Marion, 0., for stealing goods from cars. He was brought 127 miles to Huntington and given one year in the penitentiary within twelve hours ■ ffter his arrest. At Pike's Peak, Brown county, twenty miles west of Columbus, the other night lightning struck the frame barn of John Aitis, tearing it to pieces, and burning it, with SI,OOO worth of farming implements. At Stone Head, near Columbus, during a terrific thunder storm, lightning struck the residence of D. Shoemaker, instantly killing his seventeen-year-old daughter.