People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Merrett Alexander, a young man Who has been in the employ of Elisha Williams, a farmer living nine miles west of Connersville, fell out of an apple tree and was impaled on a pole standing against the tree. He can not recover. Chester Chase, twenty-two years did, son of Lephi Chase, of Eel River township, Allen county, was drowned while bathing in a fish pond of Adam Maxwell. It is supposed he took cramps, as he sank without any noise or struggle. A Lake Erie <fc Western switch engine ran wild from near the roundhouse in the western part of Muncie to a point just east of the city, where it collided with a west-bound local, badly smashing both engines. Mrs. Pettit, said to be 100 years old, is dead at Terre Haute. Henry Koutz, a farmer living near Boonville, was killed by lightning during the thunder shower. A remarkable freak of nature is a chicken with four legs and feet, aH of which are perfect. The extra pair of legs do not interfere with its locomotion. The owner, Mrs. J. N. Young, of Peru, is very proud of it. David Hahn, a patient for dipsomania at the Columbian institute at Milford, died suddenly the other morning. He alluded his attendants and the excessive heat was nrobablv the immediate cause of death. Amoo iiahuiu, residing east of Bourbon, near Larwell, was drowned in Boulder’s lake. He took cramps. A sawmill boiler exploded at Poplar Grove near Noblesville, and Wm. Williams was killed. Two other men wer® seriously injured. Columbia City has a councilman who refuses to draw his salary. Clyde Carings, a 12-year-old lad of Reynolds, fell between cars and was cut in two.

At Anderson, while bathing in White river, Albert Poor, aged 14, was suddenly taken with cramps. He was rescued, but his body remained rigid, and all efforts could not relieve him. All parts of his body, with the exception of his tongue, are still in the same condition. The Indiana Foreman Tailors’ association, in annual session at Indianapolis, elected Gustavus Rosburg, of Indianapolis, president; J. C. Kern, of Richmond, vice president; Frank Sumner, of Richmond, corresponding sectary, and Frank Hessler, of Indianapolis, secretary and treasurer. The American Wire Nail Co. the other day put the nail department of its mammoth plant at Anderson in operation for the season of 1894-’95, giving four hundred men employment. Notice was also posted that the rod department,which furnishes employment for three hundred men, would resume soon. Waterloo schools will have a gymnasium. Bloomington is very anxious for free delivery. The Muncie Fencibles arrived home the other evening from Hammond and East Chicago. The boys were given a rousing reception. The death of Henry Lemasters, a wealthy and eccentric resident of Washington township, Shelby county, occurred the other morning in his seventy-second year. Recently he went to an undertaker’s in Shelbyville and selected one of the finest caskets to be had, and a burial outfit, paying for the same, at the time remarking life was uncertain, and that he had not long to live. On arriving home he informed his family of what he had done, and telling them that when his death occurred he wanted them to ring the old family dinner bell, whose sounds he had heard since his boyhood days, that his friends and neighbors might know that he had passed to the great beyond. His wishes were carried out. There was great excitement created in the convention of Federated Trades and Labor unions at Peru, when nine of the different unions of Peru withdrew as delegates, owing to the convention showing a desire so run the S, F. of L. into partisan politics. The Peru delegates, joined by several from Indianapolis, went into convention in another hall.

Mike Hogan, of Lagro, reports tho largest yield of wheat ever grown in that section of the country. From seven acres of ground he threshed 371 bushels of wheat, machine measure, making an average yield of 53 bushels to the acre. Caleb Linsey, aged 70, was killed while crossing a railroad bridge at Fames, six miles east of Boonville, on the Air line. Tramp printers are abundant at ristown. A militia company may be organized at Chesterton. Muncie streets are being paved with asphalt. An epidemic of measles prevails in the prison south. At Indianapolis, “Winnie” Smith, who murdered Weston B. Thomas recently, waived preliminary examination the other day and was committed without bail for grand jury action. The defendant persists in his determination not to talk.

The American Strawboard works, o£ Anderson, resumed operation the other morning’, after a shut-down of two mot ths. The entire force of two hundred men were employed. The Richmond Telegram has put in tyj»e setting machines. The Muncie Flint Glass Co. closed down, the other night, and will remain idle until August 15, when one-lialf of the big' concern will resume. The Muncie Pulp Co. has , resumed operations after two weeks’ idleness, caused partially by the strike. The mill employs over 100 hands. The Midland Steel Co. has signed the Amalgamated wage scale, and will resume work with 350 hands in a few days. The twentieth annual reunion of old settlers and soldiers will be held at Quincy, Owen county, this state, August 10.