People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

In making her first balloon Ascension in Anderson, the other evening, Tillie Sabern, of Richmond, feU from the parachute, which did not work, and was dashed to death on the river bank. Miss Sabern’s brother had make three ascensions of late and it was his feats | that the unfortunate girl admired and I tried to imitate. Her brother had plead- ■ ed with her not to do it. Bicycles will be manufactured by the convicts in the penitentiary at Michigan City. The state gas inspector thinks that the natural gas supply is slowly giving : out in the gas belt. James Geraghty, a saloonkeeper of Rushville, undertook to extend the liquor traffic into the quiet little town of Arlington. The building was blown to pieces recently by some terrible explosive. Geraghty at once rebuilt and i had just laid in a supply of goods, intending to open up in the morning, but , the other night the building was again blown up, presumably w’ith dynamite. The barn of Jacob Sinkle, near La- | gro, Wabash county, was struck by , lightning and entirely destroyed. Loss, 82,000; insurance, §1,350. John Spangler, farmer, residing two miles north of Decatur, was gored to death by a vicious bull, the other afternoon. At Columbus late the other evening, Miss Grace Cohee, who was shot by Dr. Conda B. Beck, a few nights before, for a "ghost,” died from the effects of I the wound. The coroner is to look into i the affair. Beck is not criminally liable, it is believed, but is under §3,000 bond. At Shelbyville Miss Elizabeth Spurlin ran a needle into her foot and died of lockjaw. A New York man is in Elkhart looking up a location for the manufacture of cotton sweep. i Members of the Elkhart militia who I lost their situations while on strike I duty, now call upon the people for em- | ployment. Anderson dairymen who dampen I their milk are being prosecuted. John A. Humphrey, aged sixteen years, was shot and fatally vi’ounded at Indianapolis the other evening by Joseph Michael, a huckster. Humphrey, with a number of companions, was playing about the courthouse yard when Michael came along drunk. Ho J stumbled over a piece of board with which the boys had been playing and i became greatly enraged. He ordered ! the boys off the sidewalk and Humphrey refused to go. Michael repeated his order, and emphasized it by drawing a revolver. At this Humphrey started to run, and Michael blazed away. Humphrey fell and Michael disappeared. Walking down the street he fired his revolver in the air and was taken into custody by Patrolman Walker. At the station-house he was recognized as the man who had shot young Humphrey. The bullet entered the boy’s back and penetrated the lungs. A freak has been discovered at Evansville, in the person of a colored man aged forty-five, who is gradually turning white. The four teen-year-old son of Wharfmaster Cox, of Vevay, was drowned in the Ohio, the other afternoon while bathing. At Rockport fire the other morning destroyed Anderson’s drug store, Dr. Dailey’s office and Mason & Pay ton’s law office. Loss §IO,OOO, partly insured. The sixteenth annual re-union of the Tenth regiment, Indiana infantry, will be held at Lebanon, on Wednesday, September IQ. Mr. Lewis E. Martin, cashier of the Terre Haute Savings bank and a member of Gov. Matthews’ staff, found a burglar in his house the other night, and, with the assistance of two neighbors, arrested him. He gave the name of Charles McDowell, and is a stranger there. Laporte Is overrun with hobos. There is danger of », water famine' at Anderson. Work on the new courthouse at ' Monticello has begun. A horse-radish canning factory will be established at Goshen. Judge David Moss, of Noblesville, died a few days ago, aged 70. He was a member of the legislature in 1852, and in 1885 was elected judge of the Madison and Hamilton circuit court, and has been a practitioner for fifty years. A seven-button rattlesnake was killed near Elkhart the other day. Johh Hill and Maude Wingate, Albany elopers, were married at Muncie, In a garden at Centerville is a radish 18% inches in circumference. Nearly all the professional men of ■ Elkhart reside on one street. I ortville wants several policemen ; to prevent depredations by drunken rowdies. R. C. Wood, the promoter of numerous newspaper enterprises in Laporte and adjoining counties, has mysterious! y disappeared. J. L. Kilgore’s mammoth heading factory at Anderson shut down the other night to move to Paducah, Ky., it being impossible for the company to obtain suitable timber in Indiana at a reasonable figure. The plant is probably the largest of the kind in the state, employing three hundred men the year round. The new plant at Paducah will be an improvement over the Anderson plant, and will employ 350 hands. Henry Shade, night engineer at the rolling mill, at Terre Haute, was assassinated three years ago. It now develops that Mrs. Moore, an old Negress, confessed upon her death bed that she shot Shade at the instigation of his wife. Emanuel Davis, a leading citizen of Montreal, Can., died at Elwood, the ! other night, at the home of his parents I from gangrene caused by picking a I wart on his hand with a brass pin. He suffered awful agony and was a horrible sight to behold. Many farmers near Princeton are being swindled by traveling grocery agents.

A Woman Never Sleep* in Church. In church a man a nap will take, Regardless of the sage expounder, But lovely woman keeps awake To note the various styles around her. —N. Y. Press. Small favor* have long memories.—Chicago Herald.