People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Columbus, James Seward, aged 76 years, was thrown from his buggy by a runaway horse and landed on a wire fence. His clothes and flesh were literally torn to pieces, face horribly ,torn and left arm broken and was am* putated. He will die. Near English, George Goldman, a farmer forty-eight years old, while mentally deranged, killed his wife with a smoothing iron the other night and then emptied the contents of a double-barreled shotgun into his own brain. Goldman spent a few* months in the insane hospital and had been pronounced cured. There is said to be a suicide club at Madison. f Kokomo city dads have passed an anti-saloon ordinance. Knightstown council has accepted the water works plant. The attending physician at the Indiana State Home for the FeebleMinded was horrified the other morning when he discovered cases of scarlet fever in both the boys’ and girls* dormitories. There are nearly seven hundred inmates and all have been directly or indirectly exposed to the contagion. The feeble-minded patients have been isolated. The discovery has caused a big sensation at Ft. Wayne. The other evening, at the home of John Cunningham, four miles south of South Whitley, the little child of Mr. Cunningham, aged 18 months, pulled a lighted lamp from a table over on it and the infant, covered with blazing oil. was burned so badly that death resulted in a few hours. J. S. Sellers, a minister of the Methodist Protestant church, Marion, was thrown from a load of hay, the other evening, and instantly killed. The load of hay went over when the wagon was turning a corner, and the man fell on his head, breaking his neck. He was 72 years old. For a number of months there have been frequent incendiary fires at Laporte. The general anxiety which has prevailed has been augmented by the finding of a warning posted on the Fox Woolen mill, stating that the plant would be destroyed by fire. Daniel Ryan, formerly of Jeffersonville, and until the last two or three years the most popular young grocery clerk in Columbus, w r as the other afternoon taken to the county poorhouse. People at Middletown kick because the tin-plate mill’s engine makes a noise at night. Money is being raised to sink a gas well at Columbia City. The convention of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary society of the Richmond district closed w’ith an address by Mad. Sorabji Cavalier, of Poonak, India. The officers elected are as follows: President, Mrs. W. H. Daniels, Richmond; vice-president, Mrs. Kelley, Richmond; recording secretary, Mrs. Morgan, Knightstown; corresponding secretary, Mrs. A. G. Neal, Hagerstown; treasurer, Mrs. J. J. M. Lafollette, Portland. C. B. Bodine, a well known citizen of Rushville, is dead.

Elkhart druggists want a Sunday closing schedule. In a sixteen-mile bicycle race from Wabash to Peru, the other afternoon, with four entries, against time and championship, J. Sommerland won. Time, one hour and six minutes; Murat Blizzard second, in one hour and twelve minutes; Bert Sommerland broke hia wheel. Nearly four miles of the course was over newly graveled roads. Milt Ring, a young man of Anderson, entered Sam Hong’s laundry at 8 o’clock, the other night, and without drew a revolver and shot Sam Ling. He fired five times, three of the shots taking effect, two in the left arm and one in the neck. The last will likely prove fatal. Ring backed out into the street and, coolly emptying the shells out of his revolver, walked to the front alley and disappeared. He has not been captured. The Chinaman says Ring was drunk and that the two had never met before. John C. Russell, one of the oldest residents of Jackson county, died, aged 93 years. A factory to manufacture fiber from corn stalks will be started at Bloomington. At Franklin Leslie McCool, 20, and Martin Donohue, 19, were struck by a train and both badly hurt. Twenty-three men were caught in a gambling raid in one night at Brazil. The criminal cases against Michael Gottschalk, cashier, and George Ober, president of the burst Citizens’ bank, Converse, have been dismissed. John Koeplen, mailing clgrk of the Indianapolis Journal, died the other morning of pneumonia. He was a Christian Scientist and persisted in that treatment, although his wife died the same way a few months ago. The Ligonier fair, financially, was a failure.

The L. E. &W. railroad depot, Montpelier, was entered by unknown persons and robbed. Two ladies’ trunks and two belonging to traveling men were demolished and the contents scattered over the depot. Later a citizen on his way home was assaulted by two persons, and made to give up Sls and a new suit of clothes he had on. This occurred within a short distance of the depot. Francis Murphy is conducting a series of temperance meetings in Connersville. and great good has been accomplished. At Vincennes, the home of Charles Purrier, colored, was blown up by dynamise. Purrier and his family escaped serious injury. Their home is a total wreck. There is no clew to the perpetrators. At Elwood, a gas well drilled in by the Dehority Land Co. and finished a few days ago, shows a pressure of 350 pounds to the square inch, which shows that the gas pressure is not failing in that city. Mrs. Mary Miller, of Indianapolis, lost her voice through an attack of grip four years ago, and suddenly f ound it again while. hearing her favorite hymn, “He ieadeth Me."