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Brief State Items. Edward Stock, aged 14, was fatally shot at Terre Haute by the accidental discharge of a small rifle. Scott McClure, a saloon keeper at Terre Haute, committed suicide by drowning in the Wabash river. He had been drinking. The Merchants' Association of Bedford is arranging for a two-day horse show, to be held on the public square about the middle of October. Ray Weeks, aged 14. of Terre Haute,who prepared meals for his father, his mother being dead, was burned to death by the explosion of a gasoline stove. The body of George Boyer was found near a watering trough on the farm of Chris Popp, four miles west of Evansville. It is supposed that he was killed by a horse. Burglars entered the residence of Don Armstrong at Laporte, drugged Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong and Mrs. Clint Brooker, a guest, and secured $600 in money and jewelry. Louis Young, aged 20, of Evansville, was shot in the arm by Charles M. Metcalf, aged 21. The youths quarreled over a girl. Metcalf, who resides at Danville, Ky., escaped. Commodore Reprogle of Monticello, has been committed to prison under the indeterminate sentence act for assaulting Florence Denton, 5 years old. The defendant is 58 years old. Frank Bailey, a 13-year-old boy of Albany, was arrested at Sandusky, Ohio, charged with having broken into the residence of Sylvester Seltz of Albany, securing about $100 in gold. The large barn on the Elizabeth Rigdon farm, in Van Buren township, Shelby county, was entirely destroyed by fire, caused by spontaneous combustion. Loss, $4,000, with $700 insurance. While Jesse Flauding, near Bryant, was assisting in the removal of some oil machinery, a smokestack fell on his head, cutting a deep gash in the scalp, bruising his shoulder and breaking both bones of one leg. Charles M. Johnson, who went to Pennville to establish himself in business. became discouraged at the outlcok and attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a bread knife. He was a former resident of Dundee. No trace of either Obadiah F. Bowman or Oliver O. Jones, the two men who recently broke jail at Rushville, have been received. Sheriff Bainbridge has increased the reward for information leading to their arrest to $50 for each man. All police departments have been notified. The family of Charles Salzman of Princeton, had a narrow escape from being burned to death when the dwelling was destroyed by fire. The household was awakened as the roof began tumbling in, and the inmates fled in their night clothes. Mr. Salzman was slightly burned. John Glenn, farmer, near New Albany, accused of insulting women,has been fined $50 and costs and committed to jail six months, on a confession of guilt. He was arrested by indignant women, armed with corn-knives, who surrounded him in a field and held him till the police arrived. South-bound passenger train on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railway came in collision with a freight train at a point eight miles north of Terre Haute. The passenger engine was damaged, and several of the freight cars were tumbled into the ditch, but no one was injured. Three people were killed at Kimmel by a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train "side swiping"a light engine which had taken a switch for the passenger to pass. The dead are: Engineer Stephen Snyder of the passenger train; Baggagemaster Frank Smoots of Chicago Junction, Ohio, and Walter Wilson, supposed to be from Zanesville, Ohio. Owing to the unexpected withdrawal of the $20,000 deposited by ex-Auditor Sherrick in the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank at Cicero, a slight run was made on the bank. The directors assured the depositors that they had sufficient funds on hand to meet their obligations and as a consequence only a few hundred dollars were withdrawn. Fire destroyed a barn owned by Columbus Gladish, three miles west of Petersburg, and the home of Mrs. Sarah Butler, two miles distant. Only one shoe was saved from the Butler home. Loss on the barn is $600, and on the residence $900. Fire also destroyed the residence of Isaac Murray in Petersburg, cremating him in the ruins. He was seen going home in an intoxicated condition. His wife and son were away at the time, and be is supposed to have fallen with a lamp. His body was recovered in a badly charred condition. Property loss, $600. Baron Kunovoneltz, a member of the German nobility, who has been studying American methods of operating a railroad that he might give his knowledge to the government of Germany, was probably fatally injured in the Michigan Central shops at Michigan City, where he has been employed as foreman for the past six months, by being caught between an engine tender and a turn-table. The nobleman's chest was crushed and internal injuries inflicted. During the three years he has been there he has worked in every department of railroad operation. While he was crossing a car line in Anderson, William A. Carpenter, a glass worker, was struck by a Middletown traction car and seriously injured. He