People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Evangelist E. F. Goff and J. P. Quinn, the reformed gambler, are conducting a crusade against vice in Terre i Haute. A Butler young woman swore out a j warrant against her father for assault 1 and battery in “firing” her beau from the house. SEVERAL Franklin college boys have been suspended for jollifying over a football victory. Miss Mayme Sweeney won first prize in the Jasper county oratorical contest at Howland. Laporte county is suffering greatly from the scarcity of water. Marsh fires have burned over thousands of acres. The corner-s' tne of the new courthouse at Winamac has been laid. Edinburg is losing much of its oldtime prestige as a grain market. There are 10,000 pensioners in Clark county and they receive annually about §144,000. Wheat swindlers are getting in their work on the farmers near Newport. A Huntington couple, after twentysix years of married life, now want a ; divorce. The largest oil well in the Indiana ! field was struck a few days ago on the Widow’ Grissel farm, Penn township, Jay county. It is flowing 105 barrels an hour, or at the rate of 2,520 barrels daily.,. It is worth §1,200 a day to its owner. Elbert Page, who shot and killed Hiram Gregory in Brooklyn the night of April 28, was found guilty of man- ! slaughter in the circuit court at Mar- • tinsville and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. At Seymour, John Himler accidentally shot his 8-year-old daughter, Rosa, with a flobert gun. Mr. Himler was shooting at English sparrow’s, and fired towards the grape arbor, in which his daughter was at play. The ball was cut out of the calf of the leg by Dr. Casey. Henry Stone, aged 60, was run over by a Lake Shore freight, at Kendallville the other morning, and died shortly afterwards. Mrs. Josephine Bottorff, residing at Sellersburg, Clark county, was found dead in bed the other evening. She was the wife of Henry Bottorff, a wellknowm farmer. At the annual meeting of the executive committee of the Universalist church, at Pendleton, the other day, it was decided to hold the next annual state convention in Muncie, in August of next year. Anderson’s colored brass band has disbanded. Bedford stone quarries are closing for the winter. Adj’t-Gen. Robbins has presented his annual report to the governor. It shows the cost of the militia for the year to have been §22,360.71, and to this is added §1,095.14 of the governor's contingent fund. Gen. Robbins recommends a permanent camp, with rifle range, be established near the center of the state. The legislature will be asked to increase the appropriation to §7-5,000, and to change the name of the militia to the Indiana National Guard. Postmasters commissioned a few days ago: M. A. Volport, Altoga, Dubois county, vice H. I. Cummings, resigned; F. P. Davis, Barnes, Jennings county, vice J. A. Deputy, jr., v signed; Mac Sims, Rentley, Fayette county, vice J. E. Smith, resigned; J. M. Culver, Culver, Tippecanoe county, vice F. M. Edmonds, resigned; S. 11. Alexander, Sunshine, Harrison county, vice Patrick Lord, resigned. John Buchanan, postmaster at West Point, was removed from office by Inspector Fletcher. Buchanan had been on a spree and spent §SO of the money in his hands belonging to the government. His bondsmen were placed in charge of ihe office. I Charles Rowan, charged with killI ing Rufus Brumfield, was acquitted by a jury at Richmond on the ground of self defense. A new oolitic stone company has been capitalized at Bloomington for §1,000,000. The new company has already secured options on two large quarries. Stuart Cravens, aged 24, a student at Culver military academy, Indianapolis, died from an injury received in a game of football played three weeks ago between the cadets of the academy and the Ind'anapolis high school team. A Fort Wayne woman, on leaving her home for a shopping tour, hid her jewelry and pocketbook containing §2O in the rag bag. She forgot aU about the valuables when she sold the bag to a rag dealer the next day for a few cents. Elkhart’s public school board has arranged a free lecture course for public school students. W. J. Davisson, jeweler of Farmland, has invented an electric street car with the dynamo inside instead of underneath the car. All the schools at Portland have been closed for two weeks, or unt 1 further notice, on account of the prevalence of diphtheria. Elkhart county is credited with having 30 evil doers in the prison north. Oscar, son of Frank Mclntyre, of Peterville, filled a pint bottle witty powder and took it out in the back yard, and laying it down took a match and touched it off. The bottle exploded and he will lose one of his eyes. Gentry Giles, of Rockford, aged 75. was accidentally killed by his son. Nathan Meyer, proprietor of the Wabash Importing stables, was given a verdict of §2,000 damages against the •Big Four for injuring his business by building a sidetrack around his barn. Robert Fenwick, a coal miner, died at the hospital, Terre Haute, from a fracture of the skull received during a fight with his landlord over the nonpayment of his board bill. The fight occurred at Geneva, Vermillion county. 1T is proposed to introduced a bill in the next legislature of Indiana limiting the number of saloons in the state to one for each 1,000 inhabitants. Saloonkeepers are organizing to prevent ! .ta passage.