People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Frkd Ohnino, trustee of Barton township, Oibson county, was found dead in bed the other morning. He died of heart disease. His death gives the republicans a majority of trustees, and means a republican county superintendent of schools next June. George Roberts, who confessed to complicity in the wrecking of a passenger train on the Big Four railroad at Fontanet on the night of July 22, was tried at Terre Haute, found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. At Elkhart the pastor of a Congregational church left his pulpit and pitched a disorderly member of the congregation bodily out of the house.

A commercial club wiU be formed at Princeton. Thornton has dedicated her new high school building. In drawing a jury recently to serve in the Bartholomew circuit court,three men were excused on account of being too old. David Jones, the, wealthy farmer near Elwood, who is unable to sleep, has passed his ninety-third day and night without sleep, and still there is no relief in sight. Harry about 7 years of age, while playing with a toy gun,shot Blackford, a girl of about 16 years, putting out her eye. The parties live at Freeport, about three miles from Morristown'. , ' j Mme. Jubijer, the handsome young woman arrested by the government for fraudulent use of the mails at N'ew Albany, has been transferred (rom the jail in Indianapolis to the state reformatory until the federal grand jury considers her case. E. C. Ruddy drove over an embankment near Cambridge City, and was killed. Clay county attorneys have organized a permanent association. Mrs. Frank Christman fell, dead on the street at Frankfort. She had been making Christmas purchases for her children, and was returning home. Edward Schlagie, a middle-aped resident of Richmond, was found dead on the Pennsylvania railroad bridge. Both legs had been cut off by a train, and he was frozen stiff. ' " ~ > The new judge in the Lagrange circuit will not allow lawyers to sit in co,ur.t with their leers piled up on a table in frontjof them. Henry Stein, of Niles, 0., had his throat cut from ear to ear near Logansport by one of a gang of tramps, and will probably die. There are an average of a dozen letters a week deposited in the Delphi postoffice minus either, stamp or address. « A flower party will be given in Anderson soon. The young ladies will wear costumes to represent different flowers. Tiie secret marriage of Mrs. Mary Cooper, aged 30, to James A. Peak, aged 18, qccurred at Goshen.- . Mrs. Cooper secured a divorce a few days ago from her former husband. While shooting off a revolver on the streets of Geneva, Shelby county, Edwin Leavitt was fatally shot by the careless handling of the weapon. The bullet passed through his neck and struck Walter Jones, a bystander, and lodged in the muscles of his arm. Leavitt was drinking. Bloomfield expects a boom as soon as the narrow guage road running into that city is made a standard width. John.D. Biddle, a wealthy farmer of Jonnson township, Knox county, was fleeced out of S3OO by two strangers on a three-card monte trick. One man wanted to buy a farm and he and Biddle met the other stranger in the road, where the trick was accomplished. Representatives of the several teachers’ .associations in session at Indianapolis held a meeting the other day at the office of the state superintendent of public instruction, and drafted a series of resolutions to be presented to the coming legislature. They ask a law defining the qualifications of city and county superintendents; a law relating to the institution of a township library in each teuln.ship of the state; the enumeration of school children, and the recommendation for a larger support pf the state institutions, referring to the Indiana university, Purdue and the State normal. In a side hunt for game near Crawfordsville 570 rabbits were killed. One man killed sixty. There are thirty-two divoree suits pending in the Elkhart circuit court. A Whitley county man will be investigated by the grand jury for stealing six skunk skins. Mischievous Goshen boys pass away the time breaking the glass fronts of the fire alarm boxes. Pleasant township, Johnson county, voted upon the question of whether the Franklin, Greenwood <fe Indianapolis Electric Street railroad should receive a subsidy of $34,000. The returns are all in and the subsidy has carried by fifty-three majority. W. S. Blatciiley, the state geologist, is of the opinion that Indiana should make a collection of her birds and animals *t once. Many are becoming extinct. Of the 225 birds in Indiana, there are in the state museum specimens of only 140. He desires to have the collection complete. Bloomington vigorously objects to the proposed scheme of moving her university to Indianapolis. Vincennes may take steps to preserve the old Harrison house and relics of the elder Harrison. Near Homer, Rusli fioutity, Nimrod Wiley and Wm. Miller had a controversy over a crop of tobacco, resulting in Wiley striking Miller in the face with a board, and before he could repeat the blow dropped dead. He was subject to heart trouble. Geo. Hitzenberger, son of a North Indianapolis saloonkeeper, the other day, went into police headquarters and turned over two dollars which he said j he had stolen. He claimed he was mis- j treated at home, and said be wanted to ! be sont to the Reform school.

At a German Court-Martial.—Captain (preskiiug)—“Then 1 am to understand that tne accused offered you a cigar when you were doing sentry duty!” “Yes, your honor.” “And you declined!” “Yes, to command, your honor 1,” f’And what reply did he make!” “You are an ass, your honor I”—Koluische Volkszeitung.