People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Martinsville insurance rate haa been increased ten per cent on account of the fire department being inefficient Greenfield’s water-works now have one hundred patrons. Charleston citizens have organised a fire department • The Parker City News is agitating the lighting' of the streets. Anderson will have a new $30,000 Christian church next spring. At Muncie, Dr. J. S. Mann lay at the point of death the other day from the effects of a very peculiar case of poisoning. The evening before he administered a dose of medicine to Mrs. Frank Raburn. A few hours later she developed all the signs of hiving been poisoned. The doctor pretested, and to prove his confidence he took a dose of the same medicine. In a short time he dropped to the floor unconscious, and it required hard work all day to save him, and his eyes are seriously affected. In filling the prescription the drug clerk put up the wrong medicine. Fourth-class postmasters appointed a few days ago: Harry Kindrick, Ashland, Henry county, vice H. H. Yanky, resigned; William Erwin, Burton, Tippecanoe county, vice William Lugar, removed; Charles Jean, Farmer, Owen county, vice M. D. Chillson. resigned; G. W. Landes, Libertyville, Vigo county, vice J. P. Tutmiller, resigned; M. R. Show, Luray, Henry county, vice John Powers, resigned; J. Krausch, Rome, Perry county, vice R. F. Conner, removed. At Shelbyville the other night Marshal Sparks arrested Wilber Gully, charged with attempting to murder Telegraph Operator Sehlemmer on the night of November 24, while he was lying asleep in the depot. Greenwood will ask the legislature for a permit to be incorporated. Nappanee has added a fine hook and ladder truck to its fire apparatus. A Huntington young man was recently fined heavily for misrepresenting his age in order to obtain liquor. The saloon man, who had been fined for selling him the intoxicants, was the complaining witness. Jesse and Arthur McCoy, aged respectively 14 and 8 years, have disappeared from their home, at Muncie, and their whereabouts can not be learned. John Bias, a wealthy farmer residing in Putnam county, took a boy ten years old from the Reform school to raise a year ago. He acted kindly until the other night, when he stole $250 from Mr. Bias. The little fellow walked to Reelsville and bought a ticket for St. Louis. Officers captured him at Harmony, east of Brazil, and all the money except that paid for the ticket was secured. Dr. G. W. Green, of Muncie, has in his possession a curiosity which was found near that city. It is the shin bone of a calf and was found in the heart of a large walnut tree. A movement is on foot in Terre Haute to establish a German Protestant orphan asylum. Hunters in Rush county report that they have seen a wild woman in the woods about five miles from Rushville. Ed Kline, the young, man who got injured at the Steel Casting works, Anderson, two months ago by being hit in the head by a piece of broken emery wheel which buried itself in the skull, and when taken out left a hole as big as a half-dollar, exposing the brains, was a few days ago turned out the St. Mary’s hospital, and is considered out of danger. In • order to get boys from 12 to 20 years old to attend church at Martinsville a minister of that city has organized a military company, furnishing a uniform free to each member who will agree, among other things, to attend church regularly. Elkhart is to have a hospital for horses—a private enterprise. North Vernon is to have a chemical engine for fire protection. The Indiana state board of commerce was organized the other day. The main object is to form a strong commercial organization at each important trade center in the state. The officers: President, George W. Steele, Marion; secretary, C. I. Murphy, Evansville; vice presidents, Jas. H. Crozier, Madisou; W. Dudley Foulke, Richmond; E. C. Johnson, Evansv’lle; C. T. Mattingly, Plymouth; A. L. Mason, Indianapolis. Every comme’cial organization in the state is rep.- esented in the council chosen. At Mehaffie & Smith’s hardware store, Logansport, Marcellus Silver, a tinner, fell through the open 'elevator shaft and sustained injuries which resulted in his death. Richmond’s new street cars will be vestibuled and have gates on the sides of the cars. 1 Richmond and Ft. Wayne consume more pretzels than any other two cities in the state. Cattle thieves are s».t work in Delaware county. At Prescott, Ferd Orschel wagered that he could cross the track ahead of an express. The usual result. George Stone, an aged tinner of Elwood, fell down an elevator shaft, sustaining injuries of a very serious nature, but he will recover. Pendleton has secured a new glass plant employing 100 men. Warsaw is thinking about paving her main thoroughfares with brick. Dr. Anna Davidson, aged 23, was appointed by the county commissioners of Fayette county as physician of the poor of Connersville township, being the first lady in the state known to occupy such a position. La Porte county commissioners have learned that they were being systematically defrauded bj' persons in Michigan who were sending hundreds of woodchuck scalps to La Porte to receive the fifteen cents bounty on each scalp. The commissioners withdrew the bounty entirely. Wabash merchants are working against the establishment of free mail delivery.

“Now, Johnny,” said the arithmetic teacher, “suppose that one man were to put a stone two feet thick on top of another like Stone, and the next day another on top of that, and keep on thus for seventy years, what would be the result?” “Idunno,” replied the student, “but 1 guess he’d have a pretty good startfor a new post office.”