People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Muncie the 2-year-old daughter of Gus Hollman tell in a tub of boiling water and was horribly scalded. The flesh dropped from the bone in many ! places. The child can not recover. A five-foot vein of coal has been i discovered in Harrison township. Knox county, at a depth of fifty feet A merchants’ carnival will be held ' at Goshen November 23. i The Anderson Cathedral Glass Co. has bought out the American Glass Co., of Gas City. The famous Peterson damage suit against the Lake Shore road has been venued to Warsaw from Goshen. i The state of Indiana has brought suit against the Hartsville college, demanding the forfeiture of its corporation charter, charging wrongful use of the permanent fund, which it is al- : leged has been exhausted and spent for other purposes than for that which it was created. The plaintiffs in the action are heirs of the late William Fix, whose father, Philip Fix, during his lifetime gave $5,000 to the permanent fund to endow a chair for his only son, William. The college was founded in 1850 by the United Brethren church, under a special act of the legislature. Wm. Knott, of Elwood, has. reoeived notice that his pension has been discontinued. Swamp fires are said to be raging along the Kankakee river, and a company of men has gone out to fight the flames. Dr. R. B. Jkssup, sb., one of the best known physicians and surgeons in that part of the state, died the other evening, at his home in Vincennes. Dr. Jessup was a member of the late Gov. Hovey's staff. He leaves a large estate. Indiana lays claim to having within her borders the oldest man in the country, he being Alexander Hockaday, who but recently celebrated his 114th birthday. He was born in Virginia in 1779, the date it is claimed being authenticated by the record of a family Bfble now in the old man’s possession. When quite young he went to Kentucky with his parents, but removed to this state when it was a part of the great Northwestern territory. Seventy years ago he removed to the farm in Harrison county, where he now resides, and has lived continuously since that | time. i The Columbian Athletic club, of In- ’ dianapolis, filed its bond for $20,000 in ; the supreme court the other day. The I demands of the court in transferring , the property to the club pending a final hearing of the case, were fully complied ' with, and the organization is again in : control of its property. In addition to I obligating the club under the $50,000 bond to conform in all respects to the decision on final hearing, the instruI ment specifies that no mills, fights or i fistic exhibitions will be held at Roby i until all the questions involved in the I receivership suit are considered and finally disp sed of. I Mrs. Bryan and her daughter, of ! Shelbyville, are suffering from lead ; poisoning.

The new $1,500 G. A. R. memorial hall at Valparaiso, will be dedicated November 27. At Richmond Mrs. Anna Frankburner was arrested for picking the pocket of saloonist E. M. Evans of S6O. At Anderson Alfred H. Clark has sued his wife for divorce and his friend Absolom Strakengast for $5,000 for alienating her affections from him. Further developments in the murdering of Noah King at Martinsville, by Milton Ferrand and Bernard Kent, show that after’King’s throat had been cut they relieved him of $lO or sl2 in silver money, which he carried loose in his pocket. W. 11. Durham, who until a few days ago was president of the First National bank, of Crawfordsville, made an assignment the other night to O. M. Gregg. Mr. Durham was owner of the Muncie Nail works, and was surety for Frank P. Nelson and T. J. Darnell, of Greencastle, who failed. Their failure is supposed to have caused Mr. Durham to make the assignment. The liabilities and assets are unknown. But it is thought the liabilities will reach $200,000, with assets sufficient to meet them. Mb. and Mrs. John Fehner, Muncie, while passing the Midland Steel works, were attacked by a gang of drunken iron workers and nearly killed. The men attempted to take Fehner’s wife away from him. He made a hard fight, but was nearly murdered, and the woman was badly injured by being hit in the face with a stone. There were seven men in the crowd. A number of them were arrested. Clarence Rittenhouse was killed the other day in the Auburn band sawmill. He was roiling logs on the carrier, when he fell backward, being caught in the carrier and breaking his neck and crushing his head. Mrs. Ollie Nye, aged 32, was struck by a Terre Haute and Logansport passenger engine, near th~ Union depot, Terre Haute, and was instantly killed. She was trying to cross the track >n front of the engine. Pensions issued to Indianians a few days ago: Original—John Fitzsimmons, Marion; Lewis D. Hammond, Argo; Robert Hollis, Royal Center. Increase —Rolla Hofsteater, Knox. Reissue— John Sheaks, Teegarden; Terrell Bunch, Monon; Austin F. Harper, Eugene. Original Widows—Sarah J. Freel, Lafave tte.