People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Madison the jury in the case of Richard Bandurant, indicted for mur der in the first degree, for killing Geo. Armstrong returned a verdict of not guilty. Jacob Thurston, an aged and respected farmer, went to his farm lot at Shelbyville, to do his feeding, and fell into a pool of water and was drowned. Heart failure. As John Cripe was pulling his cloverhuller through North Manchester, Wabash county, with a traction engine, Joseph Covrgill, a boy of 6, tried to mount the engine, and, falling, was crushed to death beneath the wheels. Word has reached Munciethat Frank X<andahl has been killed by wild beasts in Mexico. He left a small town there in company with another man, recently, for a lonely camp. The route was through a dangerous pass, and they have never been seen since. Landahl recently lived at Muncie, and is wellknown in Richmond, Logansport, Fort Wayne and Anderson as a real estate agent. Two fourth-class postmasters were appointed in Indiana the other day: J. H. Cook, Hendricks county, vice P. P. Thomas, removed, and L. Gates, of Milledgeville, Boone county, vice I. T. Huffman, resigned. At Centerville a vicious horse kicked Mrs. Emma Kitterman in the head, fracturing her skull. Mbs. Anna Sef.kin, wife of Rev. W. J. Seekin, of Washington township, Shelby county, became violently insane. Her hallucination is that she is sent by God to exterminate the human race. Otis H. Clark, a well-known young man of Richmond, died the other morning from the effects of an overdose of morphine taken to alleviate pain due to headache. Eddie Smith, 9 years old, while playing with a girl at Evansville, was shoved from the sidewalk, struck by a passing buggy and fell before an electric street car. He was mangled so badly that he died in a few minutes. The grand jury at Lebanon has indicted James Livingston for manslaughter in killing the son of Judge Wesner, who was shot in the Danville courtroom by James C. Brown. Young Wesner was killed while trying to enter the house of Livingston, whose daughter Wesner married. Livingston’s bond was placed at $1,500. Union City has natural gas for the first time. Thos. Hanna and J. N. Bradwell were appointed to defend Charles Robb at Lebanon. A Big Four freight was wrecked, near Crawfordsville junction the other night, and a dozen cars demolished. Work has been commenced on another Methodist church at Crawfordsville. The building will seat four hundred, and be completed during the coming winter. The Howard county farmers and Kokomo canning factories, employing twelve hundred operatives, are swamped with the tomato crop. The packers are taking all they contracted for, and empty the surplus in the river. Besides this thousands of bushels are rotting on the ground daily for want of a market, a tremendous loss to the growers. The Ohio and Indiana Pipe Line Co.’s main bursted while being tested under full pressure near Red Key. The force was terrific and broke windows in houses many yards away. The pumping station was damaged. George Edger, of Red Key, banker, was blown sixty feet and his wooden leg torn to splinters. He can hardly survive his injuries. While playing in a third-story room of a Main street block, Elkhart, Orpha Young, seven-year-old daughter of J. H. Young, fell through the window to the ground below, a distance of fifty feet, striking on a large square timber, breaking her leg above the knee and fatally injuring her internally. Indiana University has opened for the fall term with the most flattering prospects in the history of the institution, the enrollment the second day numbering 551, as against 500 this time a year ago. The attendance will, of course, be largely increased within a short time, and President Swain believes the total attendance this year will exceed that of last by one hundred or more. Frank Bell, who shot and killed Jacob Peaslev, near Eaton, the other night, has been acquitted on the ground of self-defense. Frederick Stumps was the other day appointed postmaster at Oak Forest, Franklin county, vice J. C. Pfium, deceased. A convict at the Jeffersonville penitentiary died at the hour his sentence expired. Uriah Lowe, aged 70, one of Muncie’s best known citizens, was kicked in the face by a horse, the other night, and the upper and lower jawbones broken. His injuries are pronounced fatal. Athletics will receive more attention at Earlham college this year than ever before, and the athletic society has already been organized by the election of the following officers: President, Elbert Russell; treasurer, Elmer Stout; secretary Bert Woodward. There is better material this year than last for a football team, and a preliminary game will be played soon, when there will also be preliminary field day exercises. Georgs W. Smith and James E. Harrison, of Columbus, have filed suits for $5,000 damages against the P., C., C. &. St. L. Railroad Co. for injuries. Three patients confined with typhoid fever at the home of Lee Costman, in Congerville, had a close call from being cremated. The house took fire, and it was some time before neighbors could be summoned to rescue the patients They were two of Costman’s children and William Hall, a relative. The house was destroyed. Ambrose Johnson, a wealthy farmer living four miles south of Crawfordsville, committed suicide because of financial difficulties.