People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

8. T. McConnell. of the law firm of McConnell & Jenkins, of Logansport, •ne of the best-known attorneys in northern Indiana, fell from a stone wall at his residence in that city and broke his leg, besides being badly bruised. He had just returned from Nantucket, Mass., where he spent the summer with his family. The Hamilton county teachers* institute held its session at Noblesville. Judge Ellison, of Anderson, lectured the other night and Dr. Rice, of New York, entertained the teachers the next night. Oliver Miller and Fanny Tyne, deaf mutes, eloped to Anderson from Stout and were married by Elder Clifford. The ceremony was of an hour’s length, in writing, and was witnessed by a number of people. About 300 representatives of the religious societies of the state met at Indianapolis and organized the Good Citizenship League of Indiana. A stranger borrowed a bicycle from a Goshen man, the other day, to use for a “few minutes.” The guileless lender is still waiting. Elkhart is rapidly becoming famous for the numerous baby cabs that throng the streets. The Kokomo ball team carries a little Negro mascot dressed in a red suit of clothes. Silas Martin committed suicide by shooting himself at Jeffersonville. Financial reverses.

A young man of Walkertpwn claims to have killed twelve rattlesnakes in ten minutes the other day. Hon. “Bob” Kennedy is to marry Mi's. Emma Mendenhall, a young widow of Wabash. Seymour young men are trying-.to organize a social chib. Columbia City has a bakers’ war. At Jeffersonville, wjiile boarding a passenger train, James Rose, aged 14, | fell under the wheels, and lost both j legs and his right arm. The Kosciusko County Teachers’ in- I atitute held its annual session at Warsaw. Prof. C. H. Gurney, of Hillsdale college, Michigan; Hon. L. W. Royse, of Warsaw. Prof. L. W. Fairchild, of Angola, were the lecturers. The enrollment of the Lawrence county institute, conducted by County Superintendent G. M. Homan, has reached nearly two hundred. The instructors are Craig, of Purdue, and Mrs. Kate Durow-Gilbert, of S. I. N. college, of this place. While attending the M. E. Sunday school picnic at Brook’s Jake, near "Winchester, Judson Cassey, aged thirteen, went into the lake to bathe and was drowned. At Ft. Wayne, Henry Vodde, a fif-teen-year-old lad, was almost instantly. killed the other evening by falling under a Wabash passenger train while, trying to run across ahead of the locomotive. The other day a resident of Lafayette had another man arrested for provoke, and then paid the fine himself. , When a Franklin minister called for converts two eminent thugs went forward on a wager of one dollar. They acted very unruly and were led out. A Goshen man has a sand hill crane on exhibition, and calls it a “rate bird.” At Decatur Joseph W. Smith fell through a cellar door ahd was probably fatally injured.

Fbanklin is overrun with tramps and thieves.

Geo. Cuscaden died at Shell yville, aged 91. Andebson is anxious to have a superior court. , ' ■ At Indianapolis Mrs. Ida Spring was stung by a tarantula concealed, in a bunch of bananas. She will recover. A South Bend man recently shot a buzzard that measured eight feetfroiu tip to tip. The New Albany militia company was paid $1,350 for services during the miners’ strike in Sullivan county. Hon. Delano E. Williamson, of Greencastle, was nominated for joidt representative by the democrats for the district composed of Clay, Montgomery and Putnam counties. Diphthebia prevails in Waterloo. Thebe are twenty-six Jewish families in Anderson. A Richmond druggist advertises his soda as “colder than charity.” Gbandma Hendbickson, of Vincennes, waltzed at the celebration of her* ninetieth birthday anniversary. At Muncie Charles Rutherford, aged 10, fell 75 feet from abridge into White river without injury. Edinbubg has already organised a football team. Shellwobkebs got in their work at the old settlers’ picnic at Burlington. The Ohio and Indiana Pipe Line Co. has completed its pipe line, and is now putting in immense pumping machin-, ery on the line in Jay county to force the natural gas to Dayton, Springfield, Lima, Piqua and a dozen other Ohio cities.

The two brass bands at Richmond may combine. Cybub Cbawfobd, of Anderson, was appointed superintendent of the printing department in the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’s Orphans’ home at Knightstown. J. S. May, trainmaster on the Richmond division of the Panhandle, baa been appointed to a similar position on the Chicago division, with hdUfkiuarters at Loginsport. The long and serious drough t baa been broken by copious and prolonged showers of rain at Vincennes. At Ft. Wayne Sheriff Clausmeier arrested James Rodabaugh, alias Slippery Jim, Wm. Meyers and Wm. Manning on a charge of attempted murder. At Leo they assaulted Paul HirSchey, a horse-trader, and his condition is such that death may result. Albert Bowden, a middle-aged faun claiming to be the son of a commodore in the British navy, an ex-manager of a British bank, and once possessed of an ample fortune, was received in tha county asylum at Indianapolis as a Wiper.

Practical Definition of Commencement, “Why do they call it ‘commencement,’ maw?” ‘ asked Susie Simperly, carlesslyi tossing the essay she had read half an hour before upon the center table and heading for the pianostool. “Because,” came the reply in cruslv ing tones, “because it designates the period when you’re g“oin’ to commence to hustle around and do. something. As soon as you can conveniently take off that white dress and those button gloves you will find a pile of dinner dishes in the kitchen that need your attention. ” —Buffalo Courier.