People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Goshen's chief of police has issued an edict to prevent snow balling among school children. The mayor of Indianapolis issued a peremptory order to the police officers instructing them to notify the keepers of all resorts that hereafter they will not be permitted to sell intoxicants of any kind without both a city an county license. The grand lodge of Oddfellows elected the following officers: Grand master, M. A. Chapman, Anderson; deputy grand master.C. F. Northern,of Greensburg; grand secretary, B. F. Foster, Indianapolis; grand treasurer, J. A. AVjldman, Indianapolis: grand warden, George L. Reinhard, Vincennes; grand representative, AA*ill H. Talbott, of Orleans; grand instructor, John A. Ferguson, Indianapolis. Kokomo citizens are raising a fund to bring new' factories to that city. One of the three schools of Alexandria has been closed on account of diphtheria. It has just come to light that a bomb has been lying in thd oflice of the chief of police at South Bend for several weeks. It appeared to be a giant firecracker, and was brought there by a German who found it near the Oliver Chilled Plow works. It excited so much comment that Capt. Cassidy opened it and found that it contained powder and a stick of dynamite four inches long. Had it, from any cause, exploded, it would have destroyed the station and other property and killed a number of people. The intention may have been to blow' up the station, but this is unlikely. The he is a sidewalk war on at Columbia City. There is considerable destitution in Seymour. New Albany capitalists are talking of starting a cotton hose factory. Rev. Charles P. Jennings, Shelbyville, well known minister, is dead. Brazil police are bothered by two young girls who loaf around the depot. The 4-year-old daughter of A. L. iClup, a barber in AA'abash, got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid, and, breaking it on a stone, the fiery liquid flew into her face, burning her terrible/ It is feared that her eyesight will be lost.

As an Indianapolis, Decatur and AVesflfeVn passenger train was running through the suburb of Ilaughville, a shot was fired through the window. The bullet barely missed J.C.Pike, of Maplewood, a passenger, and the broken glass cut him severely in the face. A POST office w'as established, the other day, at Cunot, .Owen county, and Daniel P. Campbell was appointed postmaster. Richmond wants another express company. South Bend police wall knock out slot machines. Charges of vote-buying are being made at Monticello. Rush county people are divided on the courthouse question. The cobbler, Camean, w’ho has been in jail for several days at Goshen, under a sentence for alleged assault, has, during his long confinement, eaten but one meal and drunk but one glass of water. He imagines the guards are trying to poison him, and can not be prevailed upon to eat or drink. He is becoming greatly emaciated. The 100th regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry, held its ninth annual reunion in Portland, the other day and night with a large attendance. The address of welcome was delivered by Mayor George AV. Bei-gman, and responded to by Col. R. M. Johnson, of Elkhart. Capt. Theodore AVilkes, of Shelbvville, states that at his house they have a Maltese cat that had five kittens recently. After three of them had been killed she caught a halfgrown rat, which she is keeping alive, with the remaining two kittens. The depositors of the Citizens’ bank, of Hebron, owned by R. Dwiggins, which failed last fall, will receive 25 per cent, in a few days. They will realize about 90 per cent, on their claims. Michael Johns, a prominent farmer residing east of Brazil, was found dead in the woods a short distance from his home, buried beneath a heavy saw log. Mr. Johns left early in the morning to bring the logs into town, and, as he did not return for dinner, his family became fearful and a search was made. His team was standing by the dead man, being unable to move, as one end of the log blocked the wheels of the wagon. Mr. Johns was 45 year« old and leaves a wife and two children.

It develops at Indianapolis that H. 11. Howard, the insurance swindler, known as Holmes and Mudgett, has been there often. Richmond claims the best telephone system of any town of its size in the state. Matthew Chandi.ee, while slightly intoxicated, swam White river and was found the other morning on the Portersville road, Daviess county, frozen to death. The dead body of a 2-months-old babe was found in the brush by a hunter near Edinburg. Tom Samsil, aged 30, a Vandal ia switchman, was killed by cars at Terre Haute, his body being cut in two. Wm. Kbenz, of Terre Haute, a fugitive wanted at Danville, 111., for robbing a mail car, committed suicide at Joplin, Mo. The New York Bowery Insurance Co., of New York, has been blacklisted and forbidded to operate in Indiana. It is announced that this company had withdrawn from the state and afterward solicited insurance. The policies were to be written in New York and thus avoid taxes in Indiana. A factional fight is brewing in republican ranks over the proposed reapportionment of the state for legislative and congressional purposes. The supreme court has affirmed the yerdPict of 5it, 350.50 given Airs. Catherine Burton, whose husband was killed by the Panhandle cars at Royal Center.