People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Mbs. James Hall, of Attica, has a curiosity in the shape of a cucumber that has been preserved in alcohol for thirty-two years. The cucumber was started in- its bottle growth by Mrs. Hall’s mother in 1862. As exchange says: Down in Jasper county a district school-teacher, who is trying to keep up with the procession, has been “fired” because he tried to make his scholars start with p when spelling “taters.” A female highway robber has been seen near South Bend. A committee from Wabash visited President Ingalls, the other day, and made overtures to build the new Big Four railroad shops at Wabash. President Ingalls replied if Wabash would give fifty acres of ground and §50,000 and natural gas at a lower price, it would secure them. The shops will cost §200,000. Other cities competing are Anderson, Marion and Greensburg. Cleveland township, near Elkhart, has developed a haunted house. The I doors open and shut without human assistance and many queer happenings are reported. As an outcome of a little flow of gas being struck while digging a well at Colfax, a stock company has been formed with §3,000 capital to bore for the combustible stuff. At Montpelier the Epworth league will give a Thanksgiving dinner. Also on November 20 the cantata of “The Old Fashioned Husking Bee” will be brought out at the town hall. Thomas Huffman, north of HuntiLgton, was fatally injured by a runaway team. He was thrown from the wagon, and the wheels passed over him. He is a wealthy farmer. A company has been formed to build a new hotel at Ashley. Mrs. Harry J. Briggs dropped dead on the streets of Cicero. Some Kendallville youths had to pay §ls for damages done Halloween. During the past year 70 names have been added to the pension list in Floyd county. Isaac Hanawalt, of White county, met with a peculiar accident. While throwing a club at a cow his arm was given a singular twist and the bone broken squarely off above the elbow. Another remarkable accident is that of C. D. Meekham, who dislocated his shoulder the other night by striking at a mouse as it ran across the floor. At Huntington Thomas Tracy was perhaps fatally injured by falling from a building upon which he was working. The Grocers and Butchers’ association formed several weeks ago at Elwood for the purpose of inaugurating Sunday closing has given up the job. A sensation was produced at Portland by the filing of a suit by Miss Ola Brown against Frank Gimmell, claiming §35,000 damages for breach of promise. Mr. Gimmell is one of the wealthiest men in the county, and a prominent democratic politician. While Peter Somers, a brakeman on the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville railroad, was coupling cars at Montpelier, he was fatally hurt. His home was at Fort Wayne. He was married. Williamsburg is all excitement over the discovery of a vein of soft coal that is said to be of excellent quality. Natural gas under Jernes Galbreath’s store at Swayzee exploded and blew the front of the building out. No one was hurt. There were 26 more marriage licenses granted in St. Joseph county than in Elkhart county during October. The estate of the late Charles W. Horr. of Wellington, after deducting all indebedness, amounts to §IOO,OOO, which all goes to his widow. Clara Diebold, one of the girls burned in the gas explosion at Westminster seminary, died at Ft. Wayne. The others who were burned will recover. Joe McGowan, of Van Wert, O.; John Rhoads, of Chicago, and John Lehew, of Warsaw, this state, started in a rowboat fer points in Arkansas. They go via the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers into the Ohio, down the Ohio to Cairo and thence by the Mississippi. The State Horticultural society, at its thirty-fourth annual meeting elected the following officers: President C. E. M. Hobbs, Bridgeport: first vice president, E. Y. Teas, Irvington; vice president southern district, Mrs. W. W. Stqvens, Salem; vice president south central district, Dr. F. D. White, Connersville; vice president northern district, George F. Newton, South Bend; secretary, W. H. Ragan, Greencastle; treasurer, W. A. Workman, Greencastle. By an explosion of sewer gas in the basement of Westminster seminary, a young ladies’ college at Ft. Wayne, the other morning, Clara Diebold was fatally burned and Edith Masters was seriously injured. They were servant girls at the seminary, and had gone into the basement to see about a leakin the water-pipes, lighting matches for that purpose. On a farm near South Bend is a hog that has been dieting on cow’s milk for some time, receiving the lacteal fluid from the original package. The cow doesn’t object in the least. The othei night, Louis Robinson probably fatally cut the throat of Bettie Bruce. Both were colored, and it Is not known what the trouble was. Wm. Burke, of Walton, came near losing his life at the circus winter quarters. Peru. After selling old horses for meat he inspected the animals. In attempting to pat one of the tigers, Burke was caught on the scalp and fearfully torn. The controller of the currency the other day declared a third dividend of 15 per cent, in favor of the creditors of the First National bank of North Manchester, making in all 60 per cent, on claims proved amounting to §BB,589.03. South Bend has celebrated the ~ftynii'th anniversary of her incorporation

Jasper— “ Why are you roping un your trunk) You are not going away till to-mor-row.” Jumnuppe—“So I’ll have time to And all the things I have forgotten to put in It. One never finds those things until after his trunk is locked and roped.”—Harper’s Weekly.