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General State News. The Muncie planing mills have resumed operations. John Blainney, of Decatur, is missing under circumstances suggesting foul play. John Crittenden was instantly killed by a passenger train at Hausdale crossing, near Speeds. Loius Munior, of Lawrenceburg, owns a handsome Newfoundland dog which catches fish. Jacob Young, near Owensboro, wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of his son, is dead. Mordecai Whitney, seventy years old, tried at Muncie on charge of assaulting Stella Ketelwood, nine years old, has been acquitted. Francis M. Wilson, of Mohawk, is dead of injuries received by a board striking him in the stomach while he was running a buzz-saw. The Citizens' Savings Bank of Owensboro has decided to go into voluntary liquidation on account of the recent bank tax decision. The Union Traction Company, of Anderson, has applied for a franchise at Marion. and it proposes to build a competing line from Summitville. The Rev. Earle Wilfley, of Wabash, will remove to Pittsburg, Pa., to assume charge of twelve missions. Marking the seventeenth annual commencement exercises of the Hartford high school, Otho Gillin, the youngest member of the class, was awarded a gold medal for the highest average. James Murray, an employe of the Eastern Indiana Hospital, was summoned last evening to Jackson. Mich., by the sudden death of his father, sister and cousin, all within a few hours of each other. Mrs. Judith Fanning, of Porter county, whose death occurred yesterday, was one hundred years old. Miss Nora Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Robinson of Lafayette, and William Gaston of Evansville met yesterday at Terre Haute and were married. The parents of the bride did not favor the match. Miss Estella Hart of Muncie returned home from a dance to find her mother, Mrs. Thomas Slater, unconscious, the result of morphine taken, it is alleged, with suicidal intent. Mrs. Slater was resuscitated with difficultv