People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Anderson Isaac Goodman, 80, got four years for thieving. He is said to have once been a member of Quantrell'a band. Mbs. Jons Taylor, of Crown Point, ill with consumption, was cured by Christian science, and walked two miles without aid. The democratic state executive committee will call upon local organizations for funds. The convention will be held August 15. Prof. John Fought, professor of mathematics in the State university, Vincennes, was married to Miss Nett.e Brook'e. a teacher of the city schools. In Iflymouth, a few days ago, occurred three conventions. The democratic congressional convention unanimously renominated Hon. Charles G. Con.-j, of Elkhart, present congressman. The second convention nominated for joint senator for St. Joseph and Starke counties Hon. Sylvester Bertram, of Knox. Mr. Bertram has served two terms in the legislature as representative from Starke county. The third convention of the day was called to nominate a judicial ticket for St. Joseph and Laporte counties. After several hours of wrangling E. V. Bingham, of Mishawaka, was nominated for judge and W. H. Bruce, of Michigan City, for prosecutor. A post office has been established at Brown. Clark county, and Frederick Schardein appointed postmaster. The republicans of the Twentyeighth judicial district nominated J. J. Todd, of Bluffton, for judge. C. W. Kennair, of Montpelier, was named for prosecuting attorney. A case resembling smallpox has developed at Hudson. John Day, of Shelbyvilfc, a painter, went to the city cemetery and swallowed a half ounce of laudanum. Out of work. Mbs. Mary Gebhart and daughter, Miss Ollie Quinn, have been placed under arrest by the Anderson authorities. They have been levying a tax on at least a dozen of the wealthy merchants and farmers in the county. They are also wanted by the authorities at Danville, Lebanon, Muncie, Kokomo, Hartford City, Logansport and Madison. They came from Findlay, 0., to Anderson. Farmers in the eastern and northern portion of Miami county report a curious freak of nature in the fact that a perfect letter “B” is to be found on the leaves of the growing oats. Samples brought in show a perfectly form initial lying neai the head of the leaf. Superstitious people regard it as an ill omen, and say it means blood. They claim that preceding the war of 1812, the Mexican war and the civil war the same freak occurred all over the country. They argue that the recur rence of it now with the strained condition of capital and labor, internal strife and strikes all over the country means nothing more nor less than violent bloodshed. Wheat harvest is on in Indiana, and the bulk of the crop will be harvested in a few days. The acreage this year is two and three-quarter millions, which is nine per cent, less than the average. John B. Conner, editor of the Indiana Farmer, estimates that the Indiana wheat crop this year will be 43,500,000 bushels. Henry Discenee, engineer at a coal mine west of Terre Haute, died the other day while on a surgeon’s operating table. His hand had been caught in a cable, and the surgeon was cutting off his fingers, having put Discenee under the influence of an anesthetic. The coroner is investigating the case. John O. Lewellen, Delaware county school superintendent, has been commissioned deputy grand chancellor Knights of Pythias for the district composed of Delaware, Henry, Wayne, Randolph, Jay, Blackford and Grant counties.

The White River Iron and Steel Co., of Muncie, has been recovered from the hands of the receiver, where it has been for some time, and is now in charge of a board of directors composed of E. C. Caleyron, E. R. Templer, W. L. Ball, V. O. Foulke and George M. Cobb. The capital stock is 8100,000, The new articles of incorporation were filed the other day. Mbs. Daniel Etchison, of Indianapolis, was the mother of sprightly twins, six months old. One child was taken v lolently ill and died in a few hours. VV ithout knowing that the trouble lay in some condensed milk it had been fed on the other child was fed from the same can and its death followed. Ths coroner found the cause to be toxine poisoning. John Northway, one of the old-time contracting plasterers of Indianapolis, while overseeing the work of his employes, suddenly reeled forward and died. He was 60 years old. The cause was due to a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. Shearing the dogs is a great fad at Muncie. A crematory may be established at Richmond. Omer Knotts, aged 7, was ' instantly killed by falling from a horse at Elwood, the other day. At Peru, little Bessie Stewart was fatally scalded by falling in a vessel of boiling water. South Bend will have a Ferris wheel junior. At Anderson, Rowell Bartlett committed suicide by hanging himself. His death was due to despondency. Omer Knotts, the 7-year-old son of Christopher Knotts, of Elwood, was thrown from a horse the other evening, his head striking a stone, crushing his skull. He lived nearly two hours, but never regained consciousness. A section of the skull four inches in diameter was forced into the brain. Dr. Levy Connor, trustee of Union township, Howard county, is dead from an overdose of morphine. His books are said to be in a bad tangle. Postoffices established the other day: Peerless, Lawrence county. Jackson J. Barrell, postmaster, and Young, Franklin county, Philip Young, postpiaster.