People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

For years past it has been the custom to ring the South Bend courthouse bell long and violently when a lost child is picked up. Marshal Rose has ordered the ancient practice discontinued. P. Jonks, of Valparaiso, was elected high chief ranger of the State Foresters. John Elliott, bank boss at Nellie mine, Brazil, received probably fatal wounds by falling from a scaffold. W. B. Woods, of Anderson, filed a suit against Drs. Houston and Miller, homeopathists of Anderson, asking 510,000 damages for malpractice. At Shelbyville Charles Vincent has a I corncob on which is growing a potato. , The plant took root in the pith of the cob. j James E. Sexton, a young freight i brakeman, fell from a Lake Erie and Western train, north of Peru, and was ; killed. When the supreme court begins its i September session the number of eases awaiting consideration will be fifteen hundred. New brick walks adorn the thoroughfares of Warren. The chewing-gum social fad has struck Greencastle. Farmers all over the state are feeding wheat to hogs. At Montpelier John McElwain fell from a ladder and was killed. At Metamora W. U. Pierce was instantly killed by a runaway team. A cow became unruly at Knightsville and it took 20 men to hold her down. Ft. Wayne saloonists have decided to disregard the Sunday closing laws. At Muncie John Turner, colored, a j jail prisoner, is trying to suicide by I starving himself. The Presbyterians of the state have : just finished preliminaries to the esi tablishinent of Chautauqua assembly grounds on the shores of Bass lake, j north of Peru.

Thk neighborhood of Macksville is said to be infested with a bear and a hyena, supposed to have escaped from the Sells Bros.’ show about two months ago. M. M. Fox claims the championship of Indiana as a banana eater. Tho other night he ate four dozen in thirty minutes on a wager. The first twentyeight were eaten in, seventeen minutes. At Kokomo Prof. Hatch, a music teacher, after a quarrel with his wife, w r as pursued four blocks through the public streets by the enraged wife, armed with a revolver. He escaped by hiding in a barn. Tuoa. Ryan’s crop of oats and wheat was burned near Union City by a fire started while threshing. Thh Adams County bank, at Decatur, has been reorganized with a capital stock of $175,000. James K. Niblick ia president and li. K. Allison cashier. Thk annual old settlers’ and soldiers’ picnic of the Quincy Picnic association was held at Quincy, Owen county, the other day, several thousand people attending. At Shelbyville, the store of Wm. Yager was burglarized and robbed of $1,500 in goods and $l2O in money. The postoffice at Fountaintown was also entered and robbed. Lewis Oliver, aged 87, was run over and killed by a careless driver at Oakland City. Milton Moran, plumber, fell head first from a house, and lit on a rock, at Martinsville. May die. The democrats renominated John W. Redmon, of Vermillion county, joint representative. William Gorsuch, of Goshen, was attacked in a dry goods store by his 18-year-old son Alonzo, to whom a sudden fit of insanity gave herculean strength. Prompt action saved him. At South bend A. L. Hudson, aged 45, druggist, was found dead in his drug store by his daughter. The drug store had been closed for several days. Hudson had been a morphine eater. Rev. D. C. Ciiristner, pastor of tho Presbyterian Dunker church at North Manchester, has abjured the faith and resigned his position as president of the Brethren state conference, vice president of the National Ministerial association and the Brethren’s National conference. Butler will have a street fair. The glass factories at Anderson will resume in September. Gold is said to have been discovered in Brown county. Harry Knight stole a watermelon and was soaked $14.50 in a justice’s court at Vincennes. The government will place 1,400 black bass and yellow perch in the Whitewater river. A huge tooth, supposed to have belonged to a mammoth, has been plowed up near Vincennes. W. J. McElaib, dry goods, failed at Kokomo for $25,000. At Shelbyville Jay Glessner lost a hand in a cutting box. At Decatur Miss Jenny Brodbeck was kicked to death by a horse. Clarence Scudder was crushed to death in a hay baler at Shelbyville. Jerre Truill was frightfully gored by a mad Jersey bull near Muncie. Frank Lkigjity, of Lisbon, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. At Wabash, Ed Repp, aged 21, took an overdose of morphine to relieve toothache and his life was saved omy by a physician. A farmer residing near Hobart, Lake county, who eould not afford to pay $1 for a newspaper, recently received a circular offering for $lO to mail a recipe to keep butter from getting strong. He sent the money and the return came—“eat it.” Mrs. Albert Siieckles, a bride of a few weeks, did not find married life all she had expected and took a dose of poison with suicidal intent at Elkhart. Her condition was discovered and her life finally saved. George Cook, of Anderson, who deserted a wife and eight children, was captured at Kokomo and taken horns. He pretended to be crazy.

The congregation of a country church Were horrified during a morning service to bear their new (and atlilcticl ourato cry out kt the end of tho lesson: “He-ah eui.Vuui the first Innings.”—Tid-Bits.