Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — State Items of Interest. [ARTICLE]

State Items of Interest.

Diinici S. I.oelir, 89, died at Nobles-” viHe. Isaac Mitbunt 80, AndersOn pioneer, is dead. Anderson has 3,800 children in the public schools. James Beard, 73, wealthy farmer near Frankfort, dropped dead. Henry Newby, 93, Greenfield, oldest man in Hancock County, died. Stephen Hamilton, 73, and Catherine Record, 73, died of grip at Muncie. James Murphy, Crawfordsville, who fell under a caboose, died of his injuries. Charles Ruge, 93, Lake County, has entered the State soldiers' home, Lafayette. A man in Odon beat his baby till it could not cry and then left for parts unknown. It is said that Henry Giles, who killed himself at Elnoru, tlie day before election, had nine wives living. Workmen on the Jeffersonville reformatory have struck. They demand that two non-union men from Louisville be discharged. Lieut. YY'tn. McLeod of the I.>7lii ludiana is suffering from a ruptured blood vessel at Fort YY'ayue. He fell at a skating rink. , Bonds been sold for the extension of the Greenfield electric line to Knightstown. The extension will be completed by Ma> 1. Organization of the new Citizens National Rank. Hope, has been completed, with Joseph Burney president and Frank Stapp cashier. YY'. A. Gourley, 63, who died at Hartford City of Bright’s disease, selected his coffin and made funeral arrangements three mouths ago.

A Peru team ran away with a bobsled filled with children. In turning a corner a number of the children were thrown out. Noue seriously injured. George D. Partington, Evansville, overjoyed at his election as precinct chairman at a Republican primary, fell dead while telling his wife of his victory. A pious detective employed by the Crnwfordsville ministers trailed canned peas for drinks of whisky. It now develops that the peas were stolen. Application for a receiver for the Chicago urd Southeastern Railroad has been made at. Brazil by fifteen creditors with claims aggregating about SI,OOO. A Rochester young lady called up her “fellow" to make a date. His father answered the girl and jollied her for fifteen minutes, finally arranging to meet her ut 7:30. Edward Buchanan of Butlervllle disappeared mysteriously lust November, leaving his wife and six children destitute. Foul play was suspected, but Buchanan was found in Muueie in business aud says he will not return. E. P. Baker, a farmer, near Lebanon, has received a letter, purporting to lie written by one of n gang that had planned lo rob hii house. He gives the warning, he says, because he quarreled with other members of the band. The writer suys the gang once tried to rob the house, but was frightened away by the "crying of the bnbv.