People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A boy named Stewart fell from & wagon near Red Key the other night It ran over his body, killing him instantly. The Baptist State Missionary society elected these officers: President, S. A. Northurt. Ft Wayne; vice-presidents, C. S. Davidson, Camden; F. C. Fulmer, ■'.khart; secretary, R. E. Neighbor, Seymour; treasurer, J. J. Billingsley, Indianapolis. Postmasters appointed the other day: D. Alice Smith, Chestnut, vice J. F. Pence, resigned, and W. H. Hazard, Reddington, vice O. S. Brooks, resigned, both in Jackson county. Another large factory is promised at Richmond. At Rushville F. M. McMillan was killed in a runaway. Shirk & Miller’s hardware store, Peru, was robbed. Capt. Robert Curry, of Martinsville, has just been notified that he has fallen heir to 20,000 acres of land in Logan county, W. Va. Cholera is playing havoc with the hogs in Chester township, Wabash county. At Elkhart a drunken man is accused of falling into a sewer and sleeping there all night. Centerville town board has provided SHX) for Marshal Rowan’s defense. Row’an is the man who killed Brumfield while attempting to arrest him. A sensation was created at Indianapolis the other night by the arrest on two criminal court indictments of Frank Darlington, superintendent of the Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania lines charging him with violations of the anti-blacklisting law and with discharging men from the company’s service because they were members of the labor unions.

“Shaky Hill,” near Milton, is one of Indiana’s national curiosities. Robert H. Johnson, 36, of Kokomo, married his stepdaughter, Alice Andrecos, 18. A new venture in the insurance world has been made by citizens of Richmond who have formed a company under the name of “The American Union Accident Insurance Co., of Richmond, Ind.” Articles of incorporation wHI be filed under the laws of the- state of Indiana. It is the intention to establish offices over the entire country and after the United States is covered to work Europe. At New Albany the skull of George Montz was fractured by a hammer wielded by James Mann. Trouble about a blacksmith’s bill. During the K. of P. parade at Lebanon George L. W. Powell, chief of the Indianapolis police force, received an injury which will, in all probability, result fatally. He was in command of a platoon of police at the head of the procession, mounted on a fiery steed. His sword accidentally pricked his horse’s side, causing him to become unmanageable. The animal began plunging and Mr. Powell was thrown, his head striking the curbstone. Robert Marquis, of Kokomo, seven-ty-one years of age and a helpless paralytic, asked his little grandson the other night to hand him a saucer which the child supposed contained tea, but which in reality contained arsenic. The child placed the vessel to the lips of his grandpa, who was a moment later in the throes of death. He had caused tho drug to be prepared, pretending that he wanted it as a deodorizer, but with the fixed purpose of committing suicide. He was one of the largest land owners in that part of the country. The other afternoon Otto Avery, while working in a gravel pit near Trafalger, Johnson county, was caught under a falling “dump” and completely covered. Men worked like mad almost three hours before the body was reached. The face was black and the head fell limp. Word was sent to Mrs. Avery that her husband was dead and all thought he was. He shortly after gave signs of breathing, and to the astonishment and joy of all he was soon conscious and able to converse.

Fbancis M. McMillan, a wealthy stock raiser atGings, Kush county, met death the other night in an unexpected manner He was returning home from a neighboring town, when a team of horses hauling a heavy log wtgon crashed into his vehicle. Mr. McMillan was seriouslg injured, and death resulted. At Goshen the tax levy is 90 cents per SIOO. At Greenwood a $7,000 water-works plant is a possibility. Reports from the prison north show 889 prisoners. The postmaster at Elkhart now has two clerks and the office is open at all hours. Aaron Hancock, of Lincolnville, War bash county, is at death’s door from the effect of a fall. He attempted to cross the floor, tripped on the carpet and pitched forward. He is 90 years old, and the shock will cause his death. At Vincennes while children were burning leaves, the clothes of a little son of Hon. John Burke caught, and instantly the child was wrapped in flames. Friends rushed to the rescue, but the child was so badly burned thnt it died in great agony. Mr. Burke is United States revenue collector for the district. Campbellsburg has twenty men over six feet in height. The crew of a south-bound freight on the Michigan division of the Big Four road, found a man badly mangl< d and unconscious along the track at a point north of Marion where the Big Four line runs side by side with tl e Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City. Tl e man was unknown. All his limbs we. e broken and he was hurt internally. He can not survive. Bedford now has an allnight telephone service. Wm. N. Whitely, the reaper king, has begun active work towards rebuifding his factory near Muncie on the site of the one burned several mouth* ahice.