People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Capt. Felix Hawkins, of the steamer Tell City, died at Evansville of pneumonia, after being ill ten days. The remains were sent to Louisville for in- : terment Martin Coren, living northeast of Warsaw was found dead in his cornfield. He had evidently committed suicide early in the day, as the body was quiet cold. No sign of a struggle was evident about the spot At Anderson, Elias Skinner, a wag-on-maker, suicided with morphine. He had been drinking heavily. The post office at Will vale has been discontinued. Considerable trouble has been caussd by the school trustees prohibiting country children from attending the Peru schools Miss Gertrude Morse, of Hanover, who created a sensation by suing Paul Scharff for breach of promise, has withdrawn her suit At Kokomo, the (10,000 damage suit brought by the parents of Oscar Walton, who was murdered by Mrs. Augusta Schmidt has been compromised for (600. At Logansport Mahlon Roderick, the ex-school teacher, was found guilty of forgery and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. His mother and broth., both gave direct evidence against hin> There is a ranch near Crown Point with a capacity of hatching 1,000 chickens per day. At Valparaiso a saloon will occupy the vacated Salvation Army hall While Mrs. Frances Thomas was milking at the home of her parents, John and Mrs. Pearce, near Greentown, her brother, Marion Pearce, made an attempt to murder her, firing two shots that passed through her hair, making scalp wounds. The reported case of small-pox in Ft. Wayne was subsequently diagnosed as chicken-pox, and the small-pox scare has been abated. At Huntington a “Jack the Peeper” ■was shot and wounded by a woman. Mrs. Edward Wharton sat at her winwindow and watched the peeper gazing into the windows of the residences of A. W. Rader and William Grim, next to her own home. She got her revolver, and when the man came around to a convenient point Mrs. Wharton fired twice. The man screamed and hobbled away. He was tracked a square by bloody tracks, showing that he was wounded. The populists of Madison county, headed by Leroy Templeton, candidate for governor in ’92, are at the head of a movement to have all delegates go overland ia buggies and wagons to tho state convention, which will be held in Indianapolis about May 22. The move* ment has been kept quiet Letters ; have been sent out to all of the county ■ central committees, asking them to in* ■ terest their delegates in the scheme. I They propose to start three or four i days ahead of time, and allow time tc ' stop and make speeches as they ' gradually draw near to Indianapolis. ' They will form into platoons. Many J of the counties have been heard from, ■ and every one is in favor of the scheme. It is safe to predict that Leroy Templeton will again be nominated for governor. Small boys, who jump on and off trains at Bloomington, are arrested. i Logansport has a “Jack the Push--1 er,” who slips up behind women at night and pushes them to the ground. I A pickle factory has been established at Kewanna.

The other day Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Webb, of Logansport, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J*ohn Studebaker, in Bluffton. Mr. and Mrs. Webb are aged 74 and 72 years respectively, and were married April 25, 1844, at Greenville. Of those present at the marriage ceremony none are now living, except Mrs. Jeffrey Bliss of Blufton, and Capt W. W. Angel, of Chicago, sister and brother of the bride. Tramps are driven from Knightstown as fast as they put in an appearance. Muncie claims to have the best band in the state. A sneak thief epidemic is on at Noblesville. Allen DeHart,, an old, honored and wealthy citizen of Tippecanoe county, residing in Wea township, ended his life and sufferings by the rifle route. Mr. DeHart had been for several years a sufferer fron, cancer on the face. All efforts to secure a remedy having failed, he became despondent and concluded to end his days. Moses Groom, of Richmond, has been notified that he is one of the heirs to a $600,000 estate left by a wealthy uncle. Gen. Harbison and family have returned from California. A contract was signed with E. Stauford the other day for the location of u tin-plate factory at Marion to be in operation by September 1 next. Tb a plant is to cost SIOO,OOO and to emplo ? 300 operatives. Stanford, of Atlant, . Ga., is to be the manager. A bicycle (hub will be organized ♦ Elkhart The barber shops of Evansville ha« • agreed to keep closed on Surfdays. Prosecutor Woods, of Lafayette, has asked that the authorities at Lebanon issue a warrant for the arrest of the Big Four brakeman, Buckhalter, who assaulted a colored man named Crawford and pushed him from a mov ing train. Crawford is in the Lafayette hospital dying of his injuries. Some one has stolen the corner stone of the U. B. church, at Burket. Kosciusko county. It contained S2O and some relics. C. C. Matthews, of Kokomo, superintendent of the Alexander Pipe Line Co., was badly beaten and kicked off the train by a Lake Erie * Western freight conductor, the other night, two miles out of Alexander. He lay unconscious for several hours Mr. Matthew's has brought suit against the road for $2,000 damages G. A. Hunt, treasurerof the Nsthmal Association of Florists, committee suicide, at Terre Haute, because his 'vife lost her mind.