People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Fairmont Rev. Isaiah Joy has been declared insane. Greenwood is to have a telephone ■ystAm. Columbus is to have a Second National bank. It is charged that gambling dens are running wide open at Shelbyville. The Standard Oil Co.’s refinery at Whit ney has shut down and will remain closed until oil shipments again becocie possible. Lin xie Sister, an eleven-year-old girl living at Shippeburg, near Laporte was killed at New Buffalo by being struck in the eye by a sky rocket. It cost a couple of Laporte boys S2O for tai ting a horse from the place where it was hitched and giving it a hard drive. The young married people of Anderson organized a club called “The Other*. ” The Columbia Rifles, of Anderson, will organize into a light artillery company. Floweb thieves are annoying the residents of New Castle. The telephone exchange is in successful operation at Bedford. Anton Schafer, an aged and wealthy citizen of Clark county, was shot and killed at Charlestown the other afternoon by James M. Van Hook, of Florida. Van Hook was to have married Mrs. Jennie Y. Bean, a rich widow, and it is alleged that Schafer, who was infatuated with Mrs. Bean, had threat* ened to kill Van Hook and his fiance. Francis Kirtland, a young farmer, living near Forest, was perhaps mortally injured while cutting wheat. At Peru Bessie Stewart, 13 months old, fell into a pan of boiling water and was fatally scalded. A cattle train on the Belt road, south of Indianapolis, was derailed the other morning by unknown parties. A switch was thrown and eight cars were wrecked. The train was running slowly at the time, which probably prevented a fearful accident, as there were eleven deputy marshals and a gang of trainmen on the cars at the time. Richard Sellers, a deputy, was hurled to the ground and his leg broken.

A sad double drowning occurred the other night in St. Joe river at Ft. Wayne. Albert Kent and Inez Golden went up the river late on the evening of the Fourth in a canoe. They did not return, but no attention was paid to their absence until next morning a boating party reported that they saw a canoe floating upside down a mile up the river. Mike Singleton, a chum of Kent’s, formed a searching party, and in about three hours Miss Golden's body was recovered about one hundred feet from shore. Kent’s body was found fifteen feet from that of Miss Golden. The man’s watch had stopped at 9:12, about the hour it is supposed the accident occurred. Kent came here from Lancaster, 0., and his body was shipped to his mother in that city. Miss Golden’s home is in Bryan, and her remains was sent there for interment. Chickenpox is the latest fad at Shelbyville. Seymour consumes ten tons of ice daily. The Fourth celebration at Greencastle was unique in that it was conducted entirely by the ladies, they furnishing both the music and the orators. A Valparaiso tonsorial artist has ent the rate for hair cuts to 9 cents. W. M. Egington, general overseer at the Elwood Diamond plate-glass works, had his eyes nearly burned out with nitric acid.

Robert Stewart, ex-commander of W ill Thompson Post, No. 443, G. A. R., has been successful in raisins’ a subscription from the citizens to erect “Old Glory” on the public school building at Shelburn. Three homing pigeons traveled from Anderson to Elwood, 18 miles, in 17 minutes. Three masked men entered the home of Albert Renhaus, at Leo, Allen county, the other evening at 9 o'clock, and threatened Mrs. Renhaus. She called to her husband, who was about to retire. When Mr. Renhaus entered the room the intruders fired on him. One bullet entered his neck and two others entered his right breast near the heart. The maskod men turned and left the house and physicians were called to attend Renhaus. The man can not live. No reason is assigned for the crime, as Renhaus is aa Omish farmer who was never known to have had an enemy. No clew whatever to the desperadoes. Mbs. Emeline Dotson, aged GO, has brought suit for divorce from her husband, Alexander Dotson, aged 70, at Goshen. The storm did $5,000 damage at Richmond. Edward Stallman, aged t), was drowned in the Ohio river at Evansville. Fibe destroyed St. Ann’s Roman Catholie Church, Terre Haute, a frame structure, doing damage to the extent of about $5,000. Last mass had been celebrated, and the congregation had been dismissed half an hour before the janitor discovered the blaze in the rear of the altar. Fifty-note students graduated from the state normal school at Terre Haute. Over 1,000,000 bricks will be used in paving La Porte’s streets this season. At Columbus, the case of the state vs. Cyxus Brown, for shooting and killing his wife August 19. 1893, who was convicted and sentenced to be hanged April 16 last, but granted a ne w hearing by the supreme court, has been set for trial the first day of the next term of the circuit court, September 24. Miss Lizzie Glendennino, aged 19 years, was found dead from self-poi-soning, the other morning, at the home of her parents, near Seymour. Id a note she stated that her despondency was due to betrayal and desertion by a young man of Seymour. Two women have been arrested charged w ith blackmail at Anderson.