Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — Brief State Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Brief State Happenings.

Logansport Council will float $70,000 worth of bonds.

Corporal Mark A. Hilfis, Kokomo, died in the Philippines of meningitis. Rose polytechnic school students kick on "gym” work being compulsory. Scarcity of men to run the window glass plants in Madison County. Daniel Rhodes, 20 years old, died from effects of accidental shooting at Princeton.

That magazine solicitor who has been going over the State gave Columbus $75 worth.

Evansville police judge has placed the minimum fine for carrying coqcealed weapons at $25.

The safe in the store of Jeff Blankenbaker at Crandall was blown open and about S3OO taken. At New Albany. Mrs. Andrew Ford, 26 years old. was accidentally shot by her uncle, John Cooper, who had been out hunting. The oil drillers from the gas belt who went to Egypt to make tests four miles from the Red Sea, have arrived in Cairo. The duty on their tools was SI,OOO. Lucy B. Garr, aged 87, and Miss Millie S. Garr, aged 55, mother and daughter, died at the Garr homestead, east of Kokomo. They had lived on the same farm fifty-five years and expired within fifteen minutes of each other.

Suit has been brought in South Bend to test the constitutionality ■ of the Barrett street improvement law, under which many millions of dollars* worth of improvements have been made in Indiana and bonds sold to pay for same. Electric roads in the north part of the State are considering the plan adopted by a Toledo company of carrying farmers, wagons and all, on a truck arrangement, so that when they reach town they can drive off to sell their produce. The plan is especially adapted for muddy roads. While Pierson Loer. w farmer. near New Castle, was feeding fodder into a horsepower cutting machine, his arm caught in the cogs and was crushed to the elbow. Benton Beall, his brother-in-law, being unable to turn the wheels back, cut the arm off just below the elbow, with a butcher knife, to save the man’s life.

The Anderson police found the body of John Goodall, a steel worker, in Pipe Creek, under a railroad culvert. The skull was crushed in and near by was a coupling pin. It was evident he had been murdered with the pin and the body thrown into the water. A week before Goodall went to Cleveland, saying his mission was to draw $1,400 from a bank. He returned and spent several hours about the saloons. Once he remarked that he believed two negroes were following him. Lee Taylor, colored, Frankfort, Ky., while waiting fir his trfiln at Mitchell, to go home, walked on to the tracks in his siee{> and was killed. At Roachdale Junction a young man named Hammond of Lafayettedns .killed by a train. He was ou his hijy home from the State University at Bloomington. I i '---J-' - Mrs- M- D I-iffntv of Nnhln U<»»nrr reefiynd information,of the death df teeri brother,. Ephraim. Ytder, an Indiana sd-., diet ih the Phitwpmes.'Ypder‘was.hir by j Mt* UedMdnfal shot of the guns of his own commagA. '193 »:sy