People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — INDIANA BRIEFLETS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BRIEFLETS.

RECORD OF MINOR DOINGS OF THE WEEK. Seven Days’ Happenings Condensed —Social, Religions. Political, Criminal, Obitnary and Miscellaneous Events from Every Section of the State. Diphtheria is causing alarm at North Vernon. The residents of Lyons have formed a company to bore for oil and gas. William Griffin, a painter, of Logansport, recently committed suicide at Chicago. Many farmers in Warren county are plowing up their wheat fields to sow in other crops. The police superintendent at Vincennes is enforcing the law against quart shops. Five schools in Pleasant township, Porter county, have been closed 'on account of diphtheria. Dr. Douglas Gray of Winchester, while bicycling, took a “header,” which broke one of his legs. Mrs. Lizzie Miller, sixty-six years, of Charlestown, was struck by a passing train, cutting off both legs. The three-year-old daughter of Wesley Horner, near Greencastle, was accidentally burned to death. Northern Indiana editors are dubbing Hon. John B. Stoll, editor of the South Bend Times, as the press censor of Indiana. Willie Feltz, six years old, of Evansville, while trying to board a moving train, fell under the wheels and was killed.

The Richmond Post, T. P. A., has Chartered a special car and will send fifty delegates to the state meeting at Marion. Burglars plundered several business houses at Spencer, among them the drug stores of Moss & Co. and Figg & Harris. The Ft. Wayne presbytery is holding a meeting at Goshen. The opening sermon was preached by the Rev. J. H. Hawks. G. W. Bond of Anderson is a candidate for United States Labor Commissioner, a position now held by Carroll D. Wright. Sanford C. Davis, a well-known attorney of Terre Haute, dropped dead shortly after eating dinner. The cause was apoplexy. ' President Burroughs of Wabash College, will deliver the address to the hig’h school graduates at Roann on Friday of next week. Herbert Hanson of Michigan City, eight years old, while fishing in the Michigan Ctiy harbor, fell overboard and was drowned. The six-year-old daughter of Mrs. Joseph Wicken, of Marion, temporarily alone in tihe house, caught her clothing on fire, and was fatally burned. Barney Van Hoorebeke, of Madison county, recently charged with wife murder and acquitted, proposes to sue his neighbors who bore false testimony. The saw mill and planing mill plant owned by Ezra N. Todd, at Windfall, was destroyed by fire last week, causing a loss of $4,000, with no insurance. The boys employed in the Pennsylvania glass factory at Anderson went on strike last evening, the orders calling for more work without increased pay.

Walling Miller, a wealthy farmer near Columbia City, while handling dynamite caps, accidentally exploded one of them, blinding him permanently in one eye. During a fight between colored waiters employed in the Filbeck Hotel, Terre Haute, Robert Bunkley was danerously stabbed with a knife wielded by William Mason. While John Hartman of Ft. Wayne was fishing in St. Mary’s river, his hook fastened to a bundle which proved to contain the body of an infant child, with a stone tied to its neck. Every indication pointed to murder by drowning. The graded school building at Washington caught fire during school hours and burned to the ground, causing a loss of $65,000. The insurance is $25,000. The children were mustered by fire drill and safely marched out, but many lost their books and wraps. The loss falls heavily upon the school district, the building being complete in all of its equipments! The litigation over the right of Hammond to tax the Forsyth tracts of land in the fourth ward began during the world’s fair and the city won both in the Circuit and Supreme Courts. Then the Forsyth interests tcok an appeal tc the Federal Supreme Court, and again the city triumphs. It means something over $20,000 annually to the city treasury. The taxation may reach $40,000.

««The new M. E. church at Decatur, costing $25,000, one of the handsomest houses o <t worship in northern Indiana, has been dedicated. The Rev. Dr! Payne of New York officiated. The contributions exceeded $7,000, SI,OOC more than was needed for the indebtedness of the church. While seeking subscriptions Dr. Payne ordered the doors of the church locked, to the indignation of quite a number who were ready to go out. The Rev. R. G. Roscamp, pastor ol the First Presbyterian Church of Kokomo, has resigned. He was a great admirer of athletics and a very active republican, which caused dissatisfaction; besides which a part of the congregation wanted to employ a cheaper man.

Prof. William J. Stabler, supervisor of music of the Richmond schools, has engaged to take charge of the school and church music department of the John Church Company, of Cincinnati. His territory will Its in the western states.