Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — Short State Items. [ARTICLE]

Short State Items.

N*nv Methodist Church dedicated at Hhnrpsville. Shelbyvilie Knights of Pythias dedicat ed a nc-w castle halt. Work has begun ou an electric line between Wabash and Peru. The 11. & M. Railroad will build a slo,ooodepot in Richmond. M. M. Nye will lie recommended for postmaster of Crawfordsville. Capt. William D. Htone. Union City, well-known soldier, preacher and teacher, is dead. There will be five postmasters to appoint in Madison County, and a lively light is on. Frank Samuels, Brawn County, crawled into a hollow log and caught five young wolves. Matthew Chambers, Andersou. has sued the Big Four Railroad for damages because of the loss of his Bible. At Brazil Benjamin F. Simpson was appointed receiver for the Chicago an 1 Southwestern Railroad Company. Mrs. John Jordan, near Dresser, is dead. She weighed 070 pouumis. and was the mother of thirteen children. Several flint bottle plants have been closed for au indefinite period, owing t > the depressed condition of the trade. Miss Lou Kudieil, 22. Connersville, killed herself with morphine. She is said t<• have quarreled with her sweetheart. Isaac Gibson. Linden, tried to board a freight train, but missed his hold and was beheaded, lie was going to a dying sis ter. Anderson Liquor Dealers' Association has ordered its members to observe the Nicholson law to the letter. Result of revival. Indianapolis capitalists have proposed, to furnish Anderson $200,000 to extend tile water works and electric light plant and build a city hall. J. E. Brady, Chicago, will buy 1.000 acres of land near Columbus to be used as a ranch for tho bleeding find raising of white-faced Hereford cattle. Word lias reached Terre Haute that Rev. William Situs, formerly a pastor at Highland Place, a suburb of Terre Haute, lias been convicted of wife murder at Poplar Bluffs, Mo. Ceci. 1 Miliick, near Yorktown, was badly injured by trying to ride a blind mule through a barbed wire fence. The unite hit the wires at full gallop. In the recoil the rider was thrown under the animal. A syndicate of capitalists has leased 10.000 acres of land ill two towusliips of Lupurte Comity, in the Kankakee marsh district. They will secure leases covering 15.000 acres more, it is said, and drill for oil. Experts say that this is one of the best oil fields iu the Htate. Milton Haney was accidentally shot by a woman member of the. local tribe of Daughters of Pocakontns in an initiation ceremony held at the lodge room in Kokomo. In mistake she used a revolver that had fallen from the pocket of a me tuber instead of the one filled with blauk cartridges provided for tin- occasion. Men interested in the Deitrich gas syndicate luivo a project on foot to build a a electric line from Fort Wayne to the Fountain County coal fields, through Lafayette. The only saloon in Deep River was cleaned out by women. Porter saloonkeepers have been warned that their places will be demolished unless they stop selling liquor to certain men. Minnie Hultx, 15, daughter of a wealthy farmer of Arcnna, Grant County, eloped with John Marlow, and they were married iu Niles, Mich. It was at first feared that the girl had been khlunped.