People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Terre Haute, Edward Pace and his divorced wife, Matilda Pace, both of whom have been trying to obtain the custody of their 10-year-old daughter, Flora, were disappointed. The custody of the child was given to the board of children’s guardians and the child was at once taken to the home of the city. Marion is overrun by hobos. They have been put to work cleaning the •treets. No change will be made in the Twelfth. Senatorial district, says the committee. Indianapolis will soon be entitled to be known as the Headquarters City. After a two days’ session the state convention of the Tin and Sheet Iron workers, at Terre Haute, adjourned the other night after electing these officers: President, Christopher Bennewitz, Lafayette; vice president, William Neukom, Terre Haute; secretary and* treasurer, George Hockett, Indianapolis.

Spencer Clouse, a wealthy citizen of Albion, dropped dead. Richmond has five citizens who carry $50,000 insurance on their lives. R. I. North was the other day appointed postmaster at Ceylon, Adams county, vice C. D. Kennedy, resigned. Ambrose Croxton, a resident of Coesse, eighteen miles west of Ft. Wayne, was shot and instantly killed by Adam White, who was quarreling with Daniel Croxton, a brother of Ambrose. Daniel Croxton was intoxicated, and meeting White a fight ensued, and Ambrose interfered with the result as above stated. There are several cases of scarlet fever in Rockport and the citizens are greatly alarmed about it. There have been no deaths by the malady there, but several in the adjoining county, Perry. All means of precaution are being taken by the health board to prevent its spreading. South Bend and Ft. Wayne papers deplore the fact that their respective towns can not be placed in the list of Indiana cities having commercial exchanges. Bad boys at Mishawaka placed a dummy on the street car track, the other night, and frightened a motorman almost to death. South Bend’s council has given the school board permission to expend $lO,000 for a new public library. Two hundred Mishawaka girls go to South Bend every morning on the street cars to work in the factories there. Miss Lizzie Bose, of Michigantown, committed suicide by swallowing a quantity of paris green. Miss Bose was engaged to be married to a prominent young farmer, and had prepared her wardrobe for the event, when the young man disappeared. Burglars entered F. V. B. Minnick’s hardware store, at Goshen, the other night, and stole S6OO worth of cutlery. . John McGovern, night-caller at the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern shops, at Seymour, fell into the turn-table there and had his left arm broken. McGovern lost his right ai-m a few years ago. Hendricks county commissioners have ordered a special election to be held on Saturday, January 26, for the purchase of the only remaining toll road in the county. This road extends from a point three miles west of Plainfield to the Marion county line on the east and is what is known as the National road. Suit for SIO,OOO damages was brought in the United States court at Evansville against the Evansville & St. Louis Consolidated Railroad Co. for the death of James Wright, who was killed in September last by a passenger train on the Rockport branch. The deceased was traveling in his buggy on his way to Corn island and in crossing the railroad at that city his horse became frightened and Wright was thrown from his buggy on the track. The train passed over his body. The other night George Davis held up a number of men in a saloon in Indianapolis and robbed the place, taking with him two revolvers. Later he was found in a saloon, and when the officers arrested him he tried to blow up the place with dynamite. The dangerous explosive was taken away from him before he accomplished his purpose. Davis admitted that he and a number of companions were in a plot to blow up the Home brewery and rob the safe.

Wm. P. Smith, of No. 50 Laurel street, Fall River, Mass., is in jail at South Bend. He was found in the Chicago and Grand Trunk railroad station biting at the floor and snapping like a dog. The police overpowered him after a fierce fight. In a lucid interval Smith said he was bitten by a dog five months ago, and has had four series of these attacks. Huntington is infested with clothesline thieves. Warsaw has given up all hopes of obtaining natural gas. Elkhart has organized a crusade against dissolute characters. Johnson county has 126 schoolteachers, 65 females and 61 males. Columbus anglers are taking many fine bass from White river. Edward Waltz, a young man at Muncie, attempted suicide because a chum named Will. Stewart, left Waltz and began keeping company with a girl. A Freda Ward-Mitchell case reversed. By the terms of the will of J. H. Jaquieth, of Goshen, who died recently, the Seventh Day Adventists association, at Battle Creek, Mici., received $120,000. Mr. Jaquieth was an ardent believer in the faith. Five years ago David Friday, a wealthy Hebrew, donated a $40,000 library to Kokomo. He became insane, shortty afterward, and died. His relatives will undertake to secure the library. At Terre Haute, the other evening, Mrs. William Gerold, aged 35, suicided by shooting herself through the right temple She had trouble with her busNOIL