People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Ft. Wayne Albert Drewett, aged 11, fell from the railing of a bridge to the track and was killed. Ax attractive, well-dressed little girl, who gives her name as Edith Sharpe and her age as 9 years, alighted from a west-bound train at Elkhart alone, and has since been unable to recollect to whom she was going, further than that she was to go to Chicago. At Anderson two ball teams bear the direful cognomens, “The Avengers” and “Bloody Terrors.” Frederick Davis was drowned in White river, at Vincennes. Samuel Ci.abk. a farmer of Nottingham township. Wells county, slid froln a strawstack the other evening and was fatally injured. He alighted on a pitchfork, the handle of which penetrated his abdomen. Stark has five motherless children. H. Wesner was shot and killed by his father-in-law, James Livingston, the other night at the latter’s home in Lebanon. Wesner is a son of Lawyer C. W. Wesner, who was killed by J. C. Brown in the courtroom at Danville a year ago last May. At Warsaw Herman H. Berger, sixtyeight years old, committed suicide by taking morphine. The county commissioners of Madison county, granted a syndicate of Indiana capitalists a franchise for an electric railroad through the county, giving them the right to use highways. The line as projected will run from Indianapolis to Marion, via Pendleton, Anderson and Alexandria, a distance of 75 miles. The company', which is headed by N. J. Clodfeller, of Crawfordsville; Secretary of State Myers, of Indianapolis, and C. V. Quick and A. N. Painter, of Alexandria, will be incorporated with a paid up capital stock of 3200. The line between Alexandria and Marion is to be completed this fall.

George Hendricks, while on the highway near Cumberland, was knocked senseless. He claims that the assault was made by Omer ltay, his son-in-law. Oscar Beaver, a well-known young man of Martinsville, has confessed to stealing a horse. A large corps of civil engineers is at work on the proposed ltoekport, Indianapolis & Chattanooga railroad, at Rockport. Peter Hkrslkp, of Noblesville, known as “the Hermit,” is dead. Of 35,000 sent him by a brother in Denmark he gave 31,000 to the Kansas sufferers. A fire destroyed the graveyard at Plainfield. A Pan-handle freight train ran into a couple of cars standing on the main track at Gas City, the other morning. Eight tars were ditched and the engine thrown across the track, requiring all day to get the track clear so that trains could pass. The well lenown “Hoosier Blue Man,” Thomas H. Hood, died at his home, west of Kokomo, a few days ago, aged 74 years. Hood, several years ago, took an overdose of nitrate of silver as a remedy for epilepsy. The drug cured him, but his skin turned as blue as indigo, and no remedy could be found to restore his normal complexion. He had been offered large salaries by museum managers, but refused all offers. A four-year-old son of Ellsworth Luce, who lives on the Monon railroad, two miles east of Salem, was struck by passenger train No. 3 on the Monon and instantly killed. A sharp curve hid the child from view of Engineer Crawford. The little one had followed the father to work, and neither parent had missed him from home.

A five-year-old child named Plummer has the smallpox at Atwood. Velerie Kern, an invalid,was burned to death at Bourbon. Survivors of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Twenty-fourth, Forty'-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-second, Sixty-seventh and One Hundred and Forty-fifth regiments, Indiana volunteers, met at Mitchell, the other day, for a threedays’ reunion. They gave an old-fash-ioned barbecue to the old settlers in Southern Indiana. The 812.000 faith cure church at Muncie, is to be sold to pay debts. The Merchants and the Meridian national bank, of Indianapolis, may consolidate. Richmond wants a large grain elevator. . There are 1,500 men in Richmond out of work. At Richmond coaching parties ara all the rage. The baseball fever has struck Tipton. Muncie has a one-legged bicycle rider. Winchester voted in favor of water works the other day by a small majority. The old Sixteenth regiment will hold its eighth annual reunion at Pendleton September 18. Long Long and Wong Long, two Chinese laundrymen of Elkhart, have left for their native land to enlist in the emperor’s army. A valuarlk yearling Wilkes colt, owned by James Morehouse, of Muncie, fell and broke its neck while being broken to a cart. At Shelbyville, Isaac Hendricks the other morning opened his front door and found a basket with a little girl baby in it. The foundling was taken to the orphans’ home. At South Bend the police last year arrested 31 persons who were under 14 years of age. A company has been organized at Tipton with §50,000 capital, to establish a national bank. Ex-Minister S. F. Chandler w'as shot in the shoulder by Lon. Davis, a brother-in-law at Noblesville, while trying to kidnap his child. W. C. Mathews was permanently disabled in a peculiar manner a: Huntington. While holding a board which another man was chopping, the a* slipped from the handle and cut both his hands nearly off. They may ha rw to be amputated.

“Too are nothing but a big bluff,” remarked the river to the bank. “Is that so!” retorted the bank. “If I take a notion to come down on you your name will be mud.” —lndianapolis Journal. A fair lady becomes still fairer by using Glenn’s Bulphur Soap. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents. “Did you invite Susie to come and see you!” Flossie—“ Yes; I told her she must some over and stay all night some day.”