People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Unemployed mechanics, at Colnnx jus, to the number of one hundred were put to work the other day at 91 a day at the county’s expense. Geo. N. Jerauld, probably the old« est active merchant in the state, died at Princeton. He was 83, and had been in the mercantile business at the same stand for more than sixty years, during which time he accumulated a fortune of 9150,000 to 9300,000. John Turner, a colored youth at Marion, was arrested for tapping the cash drawer in the county treasurer’s office. He got 913. For several months Gov. Matthews has been troubled with a peculiar affection of the stomach, which is giving his friends much concern, although the governor himself is disposed to make light of it, and so far has steadily refused to call medical advice. Philip Stevens, south of Kokomo, is distracted over a fatal error tho other night, nis baby was suffering with a cold and he got up to give it some squilla By mistake he got hold of the wrong bottle and gave it creosote. The baby died two hours later. A monument has been placed in position at the grave of Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. The stone is plain and massive, with a seven-foot base, and it rises to a height of nine feet It is of Barre granite, in four pieces Upon the third base is the word “Harrison.” The carved capitals and astragals give the necessary relief. The story that Rev. C. G. Hudson, pastor of the First M. E. church of Noblesville, had lost his mind is emphatically denied by his friends, who assert that the story was circulated by some parties whom the pastor had occasion to reprimand. Mr. Hudson had been down with an attack of the grip, and is now in Florida recuperating. The affliction in no wise affected his mind. The state board of health has sent orders to Huntington to have a thorough inspection made of every train coming from smallpox infected places. Chas. Kreugek and wife occupy one grave in the burying ground at Michigan City. The other day their j'oungest child died. The four remaining members of the family are in a critical condition, and their lives are despaired of. The family ate diseased pork,and death resulted from trichinosis.

The dead lock in the city council at Madison over the election of a mayor to succeed the late Isaac Wagner, was brought to a close the other night by the election of Hon. John W. Link, re* publican, over the regular republican caucus nominee. Wallace Hinds, on the seventh ballot, five democrats and two republicans voting for Link A carload of corn that came to Terre Haute, from Chicago, was found to cor.* tain in one corner a large heap of mail that had been opened and rilled from some mail pouch. It is believed to be the mail stolen from a pouch at Danville Junction a few days ago, for which Wm. Ivunze, of Terre Haute, and Daniel Close, of Philadelphia, are under arrest at Danville. A tramp who applied for lodging at the city prison, Lafayette, confessed that he was Samuel Young, alias John Smith, who escaped from the Kokomo jail with Calvin Armstrong, the convicted Tipton county embezzler. He says that he and Armstrong sawed the jail bars a week previous to their escape, and says the jail officials’ negligence gave them the opportunity to escape. He has not seen Armstrong since they left the jail together. The Greentown bank embezzlement case against John W. Paris, of Indianapolis, was called for trial at Frankfort before Judge Kent, but at the eleventh hour the attorneys for the state discovered a fatal error in the indictment, and going before the court asked that the case be not pressed. The defendants’ attorneys objected to the motion, but it was sustained by the court, and the grand jury at the March term of court will be asked to find another bill against the defendant. The following postmasters were appointed in Indiana a few days ago: P. F. Michael, Gilbertviile, Porter county, vice Henry GilbertsoD, resigned; Miss Lillie M. lleiney, ML Aetna, Huntington county, vice G. S. Plaster, resigned; William Hughes, Pittsburgh, Carroll county, vice G. A. Thayer, removed, and D. E. Weaver. Shipsne.wana, Lagrange county, vice J. H. Weaver, resigned. Wm. Hyatt and Wm. Woods were arrested at Madison for passing one-dol-lar counterfeit bills. Burglars went to the residence of Dr. Frady, at Patronia. after nightfall, and demanded his money, it being understood that he was in the habit of keeping considerable sums about the house. Dr. Frady apparently acquiesced, and stooping, as if to open his safe, he suddenly straightened, revolver in hand, and began shooting. The burglars tied. Dr. Frady believes that he hit one of them in the face, as there were spots of blood along the road taken by the fugitives. Paul Hauk was found gui’tv of burglary in the circuit court, at Laporte, and sentenced t@ a term of six years at hard labor in the Michigan City penitentiary. Hauk was convicted on the testimony of his son, Frank Ilauk. The elder Hauk was arrested, with six of his neighbors, for burglarizing Michigan Central freight cars of valuable merchandise. It is estimated that $2,000 was secured in plunder. Yeung Hauk turn.ed state’s evidence. An Indiana athlete who was supposed to be dying 6f dyspepsia two years ago has lived since that time on ice cream. • , • Northern Indiana was recently visited by the most terrific snow storm in , its history. About 5 o’clock in the morning thp flakes began to falL A heavy wind blew all day, and big drifts of snow from three to six feet were, visible ’in all portions of Ft Wayne and-count}’.' The remains of aD infant child that had doubtless been murdered, were found iu v- market-basket in the alley back of 04 West Fifth street, IndianI apo'ita

Ang*l Klmm. From out that portal, gleaming with its soft »nQ holy light, Floating genUy downward though the calmness ot the night, A wave ot love comes stealing on the golden, starry Ups, And the breath of angel kisses lingers sweetly on my lips. The touch o! baby lingers finds a glad responsive thrill, Giving peace to empty arms that nothing else can fill; Thoughts ol morrow vanish, as the present swiftly slips. And I eagerly reach for kisses—the kisses of angel lips. The dreary, weary aching of the wounded heart's forgot, In this hour of blissful dreaming, which is and yet Is not; And when the dread awakening with its loneliness I greet, I thank God for the dreaming, and the angel kisses sweet. —Edward N. Wood, in Atlanta Constitution. Haunted, I am haunted, gentle reader, but in such a pleasant wny, I do not fear the "speoter" one iota. In fact, I would oonslder it a dreary sort of day In which I was unablo to devote a ; Good portion of the fleeting hours Into my cheerful “phantom,” j And I'm “awful sorry" for the folks who have no “ghost” to “haunt” 'em! j My little “spook” came down the stair to “haunt” me t’other night, As late I labored o'er a dreary matter. Through the grim shadows of the hall I caught a glimpse of white, And heard a tiny slipper’s gentle patter; i And presently a baby voioe came thro' the doo to greet me: ‘Say, popper, did you fink I was a gobblum come to eat ye?” —Harper's Magazine.