Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — State Items of Interest. [ARTICLE]

State Items of Interest.

Jacob Sheffer, 87. Richmond, is dead. Nellie Sn rehot, 4, Brazil, was burned to death. Seymour masons will build a new $15,000 temple. Muncie butchers can't get hogs enough to supply the market. Lafayette will have a new bauk, the Fnrmers and Merchants.’ Three more men at Crawfordsville disfranchised for vote-selling. Connersviile Odd Fellows laid the corner stone of their new temple. A. O. White, 77, Greencastle, prominent business man, died suddenly. Complaint is made at Columbus, because boys sit in buggies during church services. Daniel Surface, editor of the Palladium, will be Richmond's new postmaster. Conrad Mapel, 27, was entombed in a gravel pit at Nevada. Died before he could be dug out. Jeffersonville reformatory now has SDfi inmates. During January 28 were received and 32 released. William Musgrave, Evansville, was killed by the explosion of a starch machine at tiie cotton mill. Thomas li. Crawford, Gi). died at New Albany. He worked for tiie Mouou railroad company fifty-three years. Montgomery County Commissioners granted franchises for two electric lines from Crawfordsville to Indianapolis. Capt. W. B. Carter died at Jeffersonville. He was a pilot between Louisville an:! New Orleaus for nearly fifty years.' Walter Adtnis. 12, Warrick County, accidentally shot himself while hunting. He crawled three miles for medical attention. Capt. J. It. Nation, Howard County, brother-in-law of tho Kansas saloonwrecker, says she menus well, but is crazy. The Cincinnati, Lnwreucebnrg nnd Aurora electric street railway company may extend its) Hue from Aurora to Rising Buu atul Vevay. Oldest resident in Washington County is said to l*e “Grandma” Canble. She was DO in December and lias lately recovered from a serious illness. Marlon police board hns given orders that saloons must close at 11 p. in., nnd that gambling houses must go.out of business. Gambling paraphernalia found in tile future will be coutiseated. An electric railroad is being talked of between Spencer and Pntricksburg. A fine quality of coal is found nt Patrieksburg, but is not mined, as the town has no railroad. W. C. T. U. and young ladies of Vincennes nsked Connetl to enforce laws on curfew, selling cigarettes to minors, spitting on pavetneuts and using profane or vulgar language. Tramps took possession of Cumberland Presbyterian Chnreh at Vincennes, sleeping on chairs and rugs iu front of the altar. Vessels of the church were tniaYu»d. but nothing stolen.