People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A league of young ladies has beau formed in Shelbyville with thirty-one signers np to date, who aay they will ■ot wear hoopskirta. Edwin Stcabt, manager of the opera house, a prominent Elk and a wellknown actor, died at his home in Logansport, of paresis. He was buned in Chicago. " Hxnbt Nelson, a workman at the Stiner chilled plow works, in South Bend, was fatally injured by the fragments of a broken emery wheel One cheek was crushed, and the right eye Will have to be removed. Little river is np, and ten squares of Huntington are flooded. Albert Qliek’a i two-story house and a barn on Samuel Johnson’s property were demolished. Heavy ice did the business. The Cleveland clnb, of Indianapolis, has been assigned to the first division, next to Tammany, in the inaugural parade. At Martinsville Mrs. Jos. Felix, aged 85 years, fell bn the icy pavement a few days ago. She thought she was little, if any, hurt at first Later, one of her limbs turned real black and slie went to bed, dying in great agony. She left a husband and two children. A mail pouch thrown off at Orleans was cut open and robbed. The Fielding sisters, evangelists, are doing good work in the vicinity of West Fork. The people of Dublin are up in arms about the starting of a saloon there. The Indiana house of representatives passed a bill taxing the receipts of foreign building and loan associations, also subjecting them to inspection and requiring them to deposit 150,000 with the auditor to protect local shareholders. The new city directory will give Muncie a population of 19,763. The census report of ’BO gave Muncie 5,219. In '9O the population was 11,545; eighteen \ months ago the Emerson directory peo- i pie issued a book that gave the city ' about 14,000. The growth is wonderful. Milan is about to begin a bank. At a meeting held recently to inaugurate the enterprise ninety-one shares of stock were subscribed. Milan is a village of 300 to 400 inhabitants. There are banks at Versailles, Osgood and Batesville, in the same county. The body of Saloonlst Robinson was found in a gravel pit pond at Anderson, j Suicide. John P. Johnson and A S. Hughes, i were arrested at Columbus by a deputy United States marshal ior violation of the United States revenue laws. Chables E. Graves has been appoint- j ed receiver of the New Aveline house at j Fort Wayne, by consent of all parties concerned; and has taken charge of the I hotel. At a contest the other evening K. G. Davis of Crawfordsville, was chosen to represent Wabash college in the state oratorical contest His subject was '‘The Conflict of the Closing Century— Capital and Labor.” Otto Faulkknburg, upon a charge of assaulting John Underhill in the form of white-capping near Branchville on February 15, 1892, pleaded guilty the other morning in court. Ha implicates four others, including Marsh Land, a local lawyer, as well as two cousins and a brother-in-law. The evidence of Linton Carr, the defendant’s brother-in-law, agreed with Underhill and the state’s witnesses that Faulkenburg was the leader. Underhill displayed his arm in which a shot is still lodged. The defendant was sentenced to five years in the state’s prison. Chables Kohlmeykr, a young farmer of Knox county, was killed by being kicked in the breast by a Texas pony. As A result of the recent gas explosion at Lebanon the Lebanon Light, Heat and Power Co. is made defendant in a suit by Martin Hohl for $25,000 damages; $15,000 for personal injuries and SIO,OOO, for damage to his property. The controller’s certificate authorizing the Merchants’ national bank, of Muncie, to begin business, was issued a few days ago. Hardin Roads is the i president of the new bank, and a capital of SIOO,OOO w;ll be employed. It is semiofficially announced that the quartermaster-general of the United States army, through congress, -will establish a military post at Jeffersonville, where recruits for the army can enlist Seventy-five acres of ground necessary for barracks and other buildings and parade grounds will be donated to the United States by local capitalists at the proper time. The ground in question is located three miles west of Jeffersonville, fronting on the line of the P., C., C. and St L. railroad and the Ohio river. John Strahle, aged seventy-nine, a pioneer of Elkhart, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, nearly severing his head. A few days before he placed himself in front of an approaching passenger train for the purpose of being run over, but was pulled from the track in time to save him. During the night he tried to strangle himself to death with a handkerchief. 11l health and the recent death of his wife are supposed to have unsettled his mind. Thousands of fine carp were set free in the White river, near Columbus, several days ago by the breaking of a levee which destroyed a large fishery. Zora Peyton has been appointed postmistress at Riddle. Some miscreant placed a dynamite cartridge under the G & I. C depot, at Brazil, but it was discovered before an explosion took place. The heaviest verdict ever returned in Madison county for personal damages was given fay a jury at Anderson, in the case of Joseph Beck, of Lebanon, against the Big Four Railway Co. It amounted to $5,500. At Columbus Ed Saladine, a tinner, 18 years old, fell from a scaffold that was fifty feet high and broke his back. His right arm and leg were also broken, the bones protruding through the flesh. He will die. A CAREFUL estimate of the wheat | crop of southern Indiana places 70 per | cent of the crop as good and 12 per j cent as fair. This shows no change in I the autumn condition- j