People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Porter. & Sod's new cash grocery, first door west of post office. Prices the lowest. See following list and call and exaiiine our goods. 2lilt granulated sugar §1 00 22ft> Extra C “ ...>.. 100 24tt> New Orleans “ 1 00 California fruits at lowest prices. Canned goods of every Inscription. Coffee 23c@ 35c Pea 30c@60c Crackers, per pound 6c(§Bc First class coal oil. per gal. .10c All grades of standard flour, a full line of queensware, glassware and wooden ware at lowest prices. Highest market price for all country produce. Come and see us and be convinced that we are here to meet all prices of our competitors.

John Fawcett, Jr., editor of the Monon Review, is laying at his home in White County dangerously injured from blows dealt by James H. Turpie. His assailant is the millionaire cattle king of northern Indiana, md a cousin of David Turpie, United States Senator from Indiana. The trouble was over Turpie’s daughter, a beautiful school girl now in her fifteenth year, whom Editor Fawcett is alleged to have slandered. Turpie heard of this and prepared for a meeting. The editor, warned of the fact, took to the country and for over a week had been in hiding near Francisville. Wednesday evening he took a freight to go to Delphi and at a small station on the way Turpie and other men boarded the train. Fawcett was assaulted with a cane and beaten to insensibility. His skull is said to be fractured and one arm is broken in several places from his attempts to ward off Turpie’s blows. The full extent of his injuries is not yet known, but little hope is held out for his recovery. Turpie has not been arrested.

“The Story of the Commonweal,” by Henry Vincent, official historian, is on our desk, and it contains a full history of the Coxey movement, from the first to’the last, the pilgrimage from Massilon. Ohio, to Washington, together with the movement under the leadership of Fry, Kelly and others, and it is a volume well worth perusing. By it, one can fully understand the peculiar ideas of the Coxey movement. The Iroquois ditch case was before the county commissioners this week, but we are unable to state the decision of that body in the case, as it is still before them. As to the outcome we are not prepared to give any comment.

Spring styles in straw hats are making their cooling appearance in the show windows of oui’ merchants; Warm -weather draws them out. B. F. Ferguson is agent for Gaar, Scott & Co.’s steam engines and threshers and solicits correspondence. Say, farmers, G. M. Wilcox, at Surrey, is selling galvanized two point hog wire at $2.50 per 100 pounds. The Rensselaer Symphony Club has rented the room over the post office to use as a practice room. Dr. Stockwell is making some improvements on his residence on south Van Rensselaer street. Iroquois ditch was the principle topic about the court house this week. For a good smoke try the Crown Jewel cigar. The recent rains are a boon to gardens.