People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

Dave Pink, living in an old shanty near Madison, was found nearly starved to death. Food was taken to him, but he ate too much and will die. C. M. Barlow, of Kokomo, has a hen that laid an egg in which was another egg incased in a perfect shell. The inner egg was all yolk; the other one all white. At Logansport the octogenarian race had only two entries —H. Pur cell, 82, and Benjamin Simmons, 88. One halfmile heat was run, and was won by Purcell in 5 minutes and 58 seconds. A horse was found in a pond near Sullivan, and a spring wagon on the bank. The outfit is supposed to have belonged to George Vonderhide & Son, of Terre Haute, and it is feared they have met with foul play. The county commissioners made the final adoption of plans for the new court house at Winamac, the other morning, and have advertised for bids. The structure will built of red Portage stone and will cost SIOO,OOO. The Muncie flint glass works are idle, and 200 men are thrown out of work on account of ninety “carry out” boys going out on a strike, demanding sixtyfive cents per day, a ten-cent raise. The saloon at Burlington, which has been blown up with dynamite six times in the past five years, the last time about three weeks ago, is being rebuilt. This time the proprietor, Bert Wills, is rebuilding it on the plan of a fort, with deep stone foundations, brick walls and iron doors. The temperance people of the village are looking on complacently. A GAS well near Montpelier, w’ithout any apparent cause, suddenly changed into an oil well. It will be good for two hundred barrels per day. Five buildings were destroyed bj r a fire at Kentland. Loss, $15,000. Homer Greer and Link Irwin were arrested at Evansville for working nickel-in-the-slot machines with spurious coins.

A Goshen grocer captured a big tarantula in a bunch of bananas. There are ninety-four colored children of school age in Columbus. A year ago Nicholas Weiss, aged 14, was struck by a Big four passenger train while on a street crossing at Muncie. He asked $5,000 damages. The jury the other day awarded him S7OO. Jesse Overstreet, of Johnson county, was the other day nominated as the republican candidate for congress for the Fifth district There were eleven ballots, and in the ninth C. B. Case, of Putnam, led, but in the next ballot Hendricks county broke for Overstreet, which proved the winning movement The other candidates were Enoch Fuller, Monroe county; David B. Beein, Spencer county. At Madison the storm the other evening upset a john boat, and Edward Cooper was drowned. Peter Barman, a wealthy farmer living near Leroy, committed suicide the other morning by hanging himself in his barn. There is no cause assigned. A Terre Haute policeman, suspended for ninety days, is putting in his vacation tending bar at a saloon. Jesse Giri.en is in jail at Albion under bond of SSOO, charged with fraudulently voting at the Ligonier city election. Lizzie Elder, of Cannellton, has been indicted for the murder of her child. Directly' after it was borfa she took a case knife and cut its throat, and then hid its body under the kitchen floor.

Mrs. John Thornton, near Rockport, gave birth a few nights ago to four babies. They were stillborn. Hon. E. H. Staley, late of Frankfort, and formerly editor and proprietor of the Elwood Free Press, while walking on the roof of the hotel he is opening at Elwood, broke through, falling a distance of twentyfive feet and sustaining severe injuries, none of which, however, will prove fatal. Herbert Gibson, of Idaville, was drowned while seining in Tippecanoe river. The saloon recently blown up by temperance people at Burlington will be rebuilt The new chapel of the Prison North has been formally dedicated. Muncie has forty-eight saloons, twenty-eight quart shops and a number of drug stores. A nine-pound salmon was caught in the river, near Columbus, a few days ago. The state sons of veterans camp at Kokomo, June 3. Lightning the other evening struck a tree in front of the residence of Mrs. John Hale, Wabash, ran to the house, tearing a hole six inches in diameter in the plastering of one of the rooms and making a loud report Strange to say. the weatherboarding was not injured, nor is there any trace left by the bolt at the point where it left the room. During the storm a horse belonging to a man named Berry, in the western part of the city, was killed by lightning. At his home in Columbus, the other evening,George Gunnels, aged 20 years, and married, died in great agony.* Four weeks ago he stepped upon a rusty wire nail,that entered his foot through a shoe. The wound soon healed, but a few days ago the unfortunate man was seized with cramps, first in his stomach, but which soon extended to his entire system, and when death came his spin-.* was curved backward like a rainbow.

A leibked rabbi of Cincinnati, in a lecture on the Talmud, stated that although in twelve volumes, each containing several hundred pages, there are a great many European Jews who know it by heart from beginning to end, and, as an instance of the familiarity with it said that if a pin were to be run through a word on, say, page 69, they could tell the word in the same place on page 169. In explanation the rabbi said it was largely due to wonderful memories for location, and to the fact that in all editions of the Talmud, large or small, there are the same number of words on every page.