People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The boy murderers of engineer Wm. Barr, on the Vandalia, during the coal miners’ strike, were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by the jury at Brazil, the other evening. The four defendants who were tried are James Booth, Wm. Wilson, Robert Rankin and Ernest Poor, and they were given two years in the penitentiary, Poor being sent to the reform school, he being only fourteen years old. The boys, with many others, stoned a Vandalia train at Harmon, on June 6, one of the missiles striking Barr, who fell dead in his cab. Three others who were indicted were given a separate trial. The new normal school at Marion is completed. Many gypsies are camping near Union City. Ei.kiiart authorities are getting rid of the hobos. There are only eleven children in the orphan asylum at Franklin. The Elkhart & Adnnasville telegraph line will be converted into a telephone service. At Portland a pony recently bought by Bob Branch went mad and hanged himself at the end of a halter. Fire the other afternoon destroyed the residence of Maj. George Feasor, of the Third regiment, I. N. G., in Myler, a suburb of South Bend. The house was burned to the ground, together with the stable in the rear and A. B. Burbank’s stable, just south. David Porter, 70 years old, en route from West Virginia to Glenwood, Mo., walked off the Pan-handle train, near the city limits of Indianapolis, lie was removed to the city hospital unconscious from concussion of the brain.

The force of men in the employ of the Central Union Telephone Co., erecting the long distance line between Indianapolis and Waterloo, the other day began at Wabash on the section to Fort Wayne. The line will be ready for operation between Indianapolis and Waterloo, where connection is made with the New York-Chicago line, by September 1. Henry and Daniel Shields, two Monroe county lads under age, were ar-' rested and placed in jail at Martinsville for passing counterfeit dollars. Twenty-four dollars of the spurious metal were found in their pockets after arrest.

At Portland, Mrs. Joseph Nickerson was thrown from a buggy and instantly killed. William Sykes, a tinner, committed suicide at Shelbyville the other evening by taking arsenic. Benjamin Oglen, of Washington township, Allen county, was struck in the st jmaeh with a hay fork and killed.

The law-abiding citizens of Sheridan, in a mass meeting the other night, passed resolutions indorsing the action of the president and Gov. Matthews in their endeavors to suppress lawlessness and anarchy. Dr. H. E. Davenport was selected captain of a company of one hundred men who volunteered their services to the governor. Joe Lewis, who is confined in the Pike county jail and who is wanted on a charge of murder by the officials of Clay county, 111., attempted to dig through the walls of the jail. lie was discovered by several small children, who gave the alarm. Harve Hancock and Olie Health, farmers living four miles east of Lebanon, got into an altercation the other morning over the pasturing of some hogs, which may result seriously. Health attacked Hancock with a club, while his wife aided him with a scythe. Hancock was badly cut about the head and may die. At New Albany, Carrie Waterhouse, a twenty-year-old young woman, attempted suicide by shooting and will die. The bullet passed through the lungs. She was depondent over a love affair.

Mrs. B. F. Stephens, wife of Attorney Benjamin F. Stephens and a pioneer at Elkhart, died at her home a few days since aged sixty-three. A train on a Big Four road set flro to a field of wheat north of Wabash belonging to Thomas F. Payne. The grain was all destroyed, entailing a loss of nearly SI,OOO. William Wise filed a SI,OOO damage suit at Anderson against William James, a prominent business man, alleging that James alienated his wife’s affections.

Maj. Charles T. Doxey, of Anderson, telegraphed Gov. Matthews, the other afternoon, tendering his services and offering to raise 1,000 armed men in forty-eight hours to aid the state in maintaining order and preventing the destruction of property. Thousands of black birds roost In the trees at Tipton every night. Worthington is getting a great reputation as a fishing resort. The citizens of Seymour strongly resent the imputation that Seymour cows prefer browsing 1 in the streets rather than in the pastures. The freight handlers, bill clerks, operators and entire force at the Big Four offices at Lebanon, with the exception of Agent Rice and the night operator, have been laid off until after the strike. James Riddle, of Martinsville, was treated to a dose of fifty lashes by unknown men the other night and given ten days’ time in which to leave the city. Riddle is accused of general worthlessness.

Joe Henenbery, a Monon fireman, was drowned in the Wide Water, near Lafayette, the other afternoon. He and two friends had gone out in a leaky scow to fish. The boat sank in twelve feetof water. Henenbery’s feet became entangled in some grass, and he did not come to the surface. Printers on the new directory at Anderson walked out because the company ~efused to take them off piece work and give them time work. Tnos. Dwyer a restaurant man at Greenville, fell headlong from the top of a stairway at 11 o'clock the other night, and died from his injuries foui hours later.

“Don’t you consider Miss Bonby rather dull!” said one society man. “Well,” replied the other, “after tho manner in which she cut you tins morning I can’t say that 1 do.”—Washington Star.