People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Near Huntington, Giannon Sloan ras killed by Chicago and Erie trains. Sldan fell between cars at DeLong and was cut in two. His head was mashed a’so. He was only married a few days before to Miss Mary Sites. James Wiseman, a hardworking shoemaker of Lafayette, mourns the loss of SB2O which he left in an old trunk while he went to supper. Twenty-six merchants of Plymouth have signed an agreement to discontinue the practice of giving premiums with merchandise after January 1. Frank Williams, who lives near Vincennes, went home the other day to find that his wife had fallen into the fireplace and was burned to death. While Arthur Jones, a young man about 20 years of age, living at Morristown, was returning on the night express from the Rushville ratification, he fell from the train to the tracks, and was severely wounded about the face and head. Years ago a well was drilled in the eastern part of Laporte to a depth of nearly three thousand feet, when salt water was reached and the well was abandoned. Many people think natural gas may be obtained at Laporte, and the trial this time will be made in the extreme southern limits of the city. Wm. O’Connor, formerly a newspaper man and lecturer on Catholicism, wandered to Kokomo, the other day, in a demented condition. He attempted to commit suicide in jail, and was pronounced insane and taken to the asylum. He is an Irishman, 51 years old, and was highly educated for the priesthood. A horrible accident occurred in Muncie by an explosion, in which five men were dangerously scalded and burned. The injured are: John Garner, aged 50 years; Valentine Gibson, aged 45 years; John Curtis, Lenzy M. Taylor and John Bowers They were employed by the Muncie Muck Bar mill. At Muncie, Miss Mary Baney attempted suicide by shooting herself in the right breast, aMd the chances for her recovery are very poor. She is aged 20 years, and very attractive. The attempt at suicide was the outcome of her having an untrue lover. W. J. Golighty, of the Indianapolis Pipe Line Co., engaged in laying gas mains at Elwood, was looking for a leak with alighted match. In the explosion that followed he was seriously burned about the face, his hair singed off and his hands terribly blistered. Fred House, a wealthy land owner living four miles west of Crawfordsville, was instantly killed by a tree falling on him while driving along the public highway. A damage suit will probably follow. Andrew Jackson is a republican and lives in Carroll county and will be a member of the next legislature in this state.

Adam Dobson, the oldest man in Madison county, died near Pendleton. He only lacked two weeks of his 100th birthday. Scarlet fever has broken out at the home of feeble-minded children near Ft. Wayne. The institution contains about five hundred inmates. The annual reunion of the Fortieth Indiana volunteers and the Tenth Indiana battery, held at Sheridan, was a grand success in every way. Richmond has the building fever and is forging ahead in great shape. Jesse Conn, the 20-year-old son of Steven Conn, residing near Muncie, met death near Marion the other evening by a log rolling back on him while being loaded on a wagon. By the faulty condition of the dam in the St. Joseph river at Elkhart, there was a rush of water into one of the hydraulic races, whereby the embankment on one side was washed out and a section 30 by 20 feet of the Elkhart Knitting Factory was carried out, together with a large quantity of manufactured stock and machinery, causing a damage of SIO,OOO to the knitting company alone. Large quantities of socks floated down the river, and many persons fished out a supply. The matter will result in litigation. Louis Woods’ residence at Muncie was destroyed, and a two-year-old daughter fatally burned. The child Was asleep. In the anxiety to save the furniture the child was forgotten until the house was enveloped in flames. Dick Wheeler, a farmer, shot and killed Ambrose Wilcox near Mt. Carmel. Wheeler claims self-defense. Terre Haute will ask the next legislature to give her a charter like that held by Indianapolis and Evansville. At Lowell, Mrs. Jacob Ball was terribly bitten by a vicious hog. A wreck of a freight train on the Chicago & Erie railroad, at Markle, resulted in a heavy loss to property. Several cars were destroyed and a tramp severely injured. Delbert Brown, a seventeen-year-old boy was arrested at Gas City for stealing several razors and pair of shoes. He was brought to Marion and placed in jail. Next morning he was found hanging from the bars of a window. Eight other prisoners were in the jail at the time. Mark Porter, of Elwood, is the victim of a strange malady, which has left him a life-long cripple. A peculiar weed, resembling hemp and growing along the Wabash, is being experimented by Capt. Campbell, of Rockville. Fire broke out in the business portion of North Vernon the other morning. Two valuable horses were burned. Loss about SB,OOO. Partly insured. John H. Jones, a flour and feed merchant of Indianapolis, died the other day of injuries received some months ago, when he was sandbagged and robbed by footpads. E. R. Evans attempted to burn the Delaware county jafi, and thirty prisoners narrowly escaped being burned to death. Evans was a crank on religion, and the other day his mind became so unbalanced that it was nece» sary to place him in jau