People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The other morning a case of smallpox was discovered at Straw’s Mill, • three miles north of Jeffersonville ; The victim is James Crandall, aged 45, 1 and owner of the mill. Fire originating from a hot boxing 1 totally destroyed the large plant of the Hamlet Hay Co., at Hamlet, eight miles north, the other day. Loss $lO,000. The Adams County bank, of Decatur, has been incorporated; capital, $120,000. LaPorte papers are urging that about three-fourths of the dogs in the town be killed. The Muncie militiamen have boycotted Milton Hamilton, a dairyman, because he discharged his brother, a militiaman, forgoing with his company to Hammond. A Bedford mechanic has invented a machine which makes one hundred stone bricks a minute from limestone slabs. The Goshen water supply is running short. Chewing gum socials are the latest at Elwood. Frank Marshall, near Valparaiso, was burglarized by tramps who missed a suit of clothes which containedsl,2oo. At Muncie, the other day, Mrs. W. H. H. Johnson and Mr. John Addison, brother and sister, met for the first time in thirty-five years. They were parted at their home in Fairmont, W. Va., when children, and since that day they have not known the whereabouts of the other. Mr. Addison was compelled to exhibit an old scar on his neck to convince Mrs. Johnson that he was really her brother. Postmasters were appointed the other day as follows: Emma A. Courtney, Center Square, Switzerland county, vice A. G. Hunter, resigned; and J. W. Senor, New Middleton, Harrison county, vice Mrs. Maggie Watson, removed. LaPorte has a village, blacksmith who whistles from morning till night. August Fleetwood, a well to do farmer living near Morristown, was in Shelbyville, recently, and instituted proceedings against a company of white cappers who have served notice on him to leave the county. The notice was w’ritten in blood and contained the skull and cross bones. He is greatly excited, and declares that he is prepared to give them a warm reception. At Shelbyville Frank Kellogg and James Stivers quarreled the other evening. Stivers is minus one ear and most of his nose, while Kellogg is in jail. The Midland steel works and the Indiana iron works resumed operation at Muncie, the other day. Over one thousand men are employed in these mills. Miss Anna Hunt, of Indianapolis, a young lady nineteen years of age, has gone to Chicago to take the Pasteur treatment as a preventive of hydrophobia. Miss Hunt was bitten by the dog of Fred Bunte on the same day that the same dog bit little Bertha Wenning, who died a few days ago of hydrophobia. George Milton Guy, of Logansport, filed suit the other day against Owen Hurd, of Walton, demanding SIO,OOO for damages and false imprisonment. Hurd lost $503 on the street, and believing himself robbed, had Guy arrested for theft. The latter proved his innocence and the money was found later, where Hurd had’dropped it. Defendant is a wealthy grain dealer. Eddie Pough, a 16-year-old schoolboy of Logansport, died a few days ago from excessive bicycle riding. A year ago he became the owner of a wheel, and has, perhaps, covered more territory on the machine in the last twelve months than any other boy of his age in the country. A few Sundays ago he made a long excursion on his wheel and came home exhausted. He was taken violently sick that night and the next day was partially paralyzed. He grew steadily worse, losing even his vision and power of speech before death relieved him.

At Brazil Mrs. Marieta Kress, wife of Thomas Kress, who was murdered by Charles Cooperider, June 12, 1893, filed suit in the superior court for §IO,OOO damages against her husband’s slayer. The defendant is now serving a two years’ sentence in Jeffersonville prison for the crime. He is the son of Elias Cooperider, one of the wealthiest farmers in the county and an eminent minister of the Baptist church. The Populists of the First district nominated James A. Boyce, of Gibson county, for congress. The nominee is at the head of the Princeton (Ind.) Normal school, and is thirty-five years of age. Two hundred farmers from Posey county came to the convention in wagons and buggies. At Wabash, Carl Fosbury, a fourteen-year-old boy, was drowned in the Wabash river. Gov. Matthews granted a pardon the other morning to John L. Gentry, of Warwick county. Gentry is an inmate of the prison south, and was sent up for life in 1886 on the charge of having murdered C. J. Agee. The murder was the result of a saloon quarreL Agee, who was a candidate for office, invited Gentry to drink with him, but the latter refused on the greund that Agee had been a rebel. Agee reached for a four-pound weight, and Gentry stabbed him to death with a knife. The claim was made that Gentry acted in self-defense, and on this ground the pardon was granted.