People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Col. Thomas D. Wright, who died near Madison, was one of the oldest journalists in the state. A fine skeleton of a camel has been received by the Earlham museum, Richmond, and is being prepared for mounting. The Fairmount bottle works at Fairmount shut down the other day for an indefinite period, throwing one hundred men out of work. Winslow & Rau, the proprietors, say the step was taken to work off accumulated product, and that the works may not resume this winter. Mabtinsburg is to have another sanitarium. That makes four. Rebecca, wife of Hon. O. W. Huston, of Winchester, was killed by leaping from a carriage behind frightened horses, while going to the funeral of the wife of Rev. Fred A. Kemp, of Mishawaka. At Noblesville, Norah Badtorff. aged 10 year, was thrown from a horse and killed. Muskrats are unusually plentiful along the Wabash. Albion people will have a canning factory next season. *Mrs. Elizabeth Housn, of Wooster, 0., died about ten years ago. She had no children and bequeathed her property, valued at §15,000, to the Reformed Orphans’ home, of Ft. Wayne. The relatives to break the will carried the matter to the supreme court of Ohio, which the other day decided the case in favor of the Orphans' home. The other night at the home of the bride, Muncie, Reuben Pence, aged 72 years, and Mary Gainor, aged 67 years, were married in the presence of a large number of friends. Mrs. Pence has grandchildren, but this is the groom’s first marriage.

Within the last month two large wildcats have been seen near Boiling Springs, Wells county, the first being shot and killed. The other one was discovered a few days ago, and arrangements have been perfected to hold a wildcat hunt. Lines will be formed on five thousand acres, with Boiling Springs as the center. It is the intention to take the animal alive, as no guns nor dogs will he allowed. Albert Ridgley, of Idaville, supposed to have been killed by the Panhandle cars at Anoka junction, two years ago, turned up at Monticello a few days since alive and well, lie had been ijj the far west and knew nothing of the accident. The victim of the accident was mangled beyond recognition, and the Ridgely family buried the body, believing it to be their relative. Who the victim was will probably never be known. Frank Sullivan, a well to do farmer, living near Geneva, Adams county, was instantly killed while cutting down a tree on his farm. Martinsville school teachers are not allowed to attend dances. The other day a Putnam county farmer killed a fox with a white tail. Gas has been struck at Nashville, Brown county, at a depth of 180 feet. Elkhart is proud over a nSw thoroughfare which is called Commercial street. An Auburn merchant advertises a “pop-corn"’ day at his store, at which time all visitors are treated to popcorn. The New Albany Tribune daily hoists a scriptural quotation at the head of its editorial column. Rev, Wilbur Chapman, now holding revival services in Indianapolis, will begin a series of meetings in Richmond February 1. South Bend police stopped a sparring match in a social club room because no license for a public exhibition had been secured. An admission fee had been charged. The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity banqueted at the Dennison hotel, Indianapolis. Among the guests of honor were Congressman-elect Watson, of the Fourth district; Henrj’, of the Seventh; and Farris, of the Eighth, all of whom made speeches. At Princeton up to within a few months ago Wallace W. Howland, a stone mason, was a happy husband and father. Early in the spring his little daughter died. Howland began drinking. Two months ago Mrs. Howland was taken to her parent's home sick. Her husband was not permitted to see her. Afew days ago she died and was buried. As her remains were being taken to the cemetery Howland stepped in a restaurant, asked for a glass of water, emptied ten cents’ worth of poison, swallowed it, and died a few minutes later. He left a note to a sister, who lives in Delphi, saying that he had nothing left to live for. Columbia City people are boring for gas. Chicken-pox is raging at Columbia City. There is said to be not a vacant house in Rockville. Kokomo citizens are raising a fund to secure factories. Terre Haute grain men contemplate erecting an elevator with a capacity for 350,000 bushels. In a suit for §50,000 against the Big Four road at Newcastle, the complaint contains over 700,000 words. At Muncie Frank Verne, aged 17, took strychnine and died. Love affair. Lige Clenenger took morphine but was saved. Same cause. Diphtheria is raging to an alarming extent in Hamilton county. George B. Zoellner, a prominent young pythian, while riding on a street car at Indianapolis, struck his head against a trolley pole, and his skull was fraetnred. H. O. Huffek, a prominent educator and at present teacher in the Farmland public school, committed suicide. He had been complaining of ill health for several days, and imagined that he was losing his mind. The eastbound Lake Erie & Western passenger train, struck John Toban, a rnolder. aged 24 years, instantly killing him. near Muncie, He undertook to walk across a long t.wstle and was •mgkV.

Ready to Go with Mother.—At Frank’s house they had quince jam for supper, but Frankie had been ill, so his mother said to him: “Frank, you cannot have any jam; it will make you sick, and then you might die.” Frank took this like a little man until he saw his mother help herself to jam a second time. JThen he pushed his plate slowly toward the forbidden dish and said, with deliberation : “Well, if you are going to die, I might as well die, too. Gimme some of it.” —Harper’s Bazar.