People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1895 — GALE FANS A FIRE. [ARTICLE]

GALE FANS A FIRE.

Sawmill and Skewer Work-4 Burned at Muncie, Ind., ®32,<.00 L-h. Muncie, Ind., iViarcn z7.—At noon yesterday, while a gale ti.ai was in the form of a small cyclone v.-.s blowing, fire Started in the old Johnson sawmill, now owned by J. C. Wood & Co., and for a time the Indiana bridge works and a scor.- of residences were in danger. The sawmill and stock, valued at $12,0Q0, were destroyed, together with the Muncie skewer works, val ed at 120,0.10. There is 54,000 insurance on the sawmill and about SIO,OOO on the skewei- factor/. Two Lake Erie & Western 'ox ca - s filled with lumber burned, caur'. g $2,0 >0 loss. The bridge works are valued at SIOO,OOO. Polygamy Prohibited O’p-«r, Salt Lake’, Utah. M >rch -.—The 'om mittee on ordinance and f deral r I - tlons submitted a report to the constitutional convention ye tz <’*/. The Ar t section is as follows ‘1 feet toicpitlon of religious sen 1 ent shal‘ be secured, and no |nhr Hants of this stat shall ever be molested in person or property on account of bis or 1 or mod< of religious worship; and pol amy o plural marriage is forever ;n- bited. The convention adopted ar s tion <1 sympathy for the p ople of W„ .j.nlng 'i the calamity whl. It overtook t tern i the Almy mine di aster, and voted on day s salary of n.unbe-.s for t.e reli of the wives and chilcren of the vk time. John Y. McKatie Said to s’c In«*u New York, Msrch 26. —it is i jortea hat John 1. i cilane, ti e o.d n„.e po litical bbss of Cravesend, ~ .s no in Sing Sing, is insane. His pariicul;-. hallucination is that he ir tn be re leased from prison, always <>n the morrow. Every week it is the «ame John Kln<r Daxgero -ty 111 New York. March 26.—Ex-President John King of the Erie railroad is lying dangerously ill at his home. Mr. King who is 64 years old, was elected presi dent of the Erie railroad in November 1684, He was succeeded in Decembei I last by E, B. Thomas. Gen. McClernnnd on Hb> Keel ' gain Springfield, 111., March 26 Uen. John A. McClernand was able to ! t u* yesterday and spent a part of the time at his law office. He is still weak, but i unless he suffers a relapse he will fully . recover and has good prospects foi I many year* more of life.