Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1901 — State Items of Interest. [ARTICLE]

State Items of Interest.

Fowler's got the measles—got 'em Wi. Xoblesville ministers are making war on card parties. I)r. W. H. Bowman of St. Joe is Dekalb ('qunty's new coroner. The project of an electric road from Peru to Converse is to be revived. Geo. Giblin. 56, of near Moore's Hill, prominent farmer and Democrat, is dead. Wild ducks and geese are plentiful in tlie ponds and creeks near New Albany. Thought that gas belt manufacturers will have gas for fuel for eight or ten years ye(. Merchants ia Montgomery County nre being fined for keeping their stores open on Sunday. Farmers near Valparaiso say crows are dying in great numbers either from cold or starvation. A tramp with stove and cooking utensils has spent the winter in a big sycamore tree near Peru. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Westfall of Tippecanoe County celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. The. only union of glass snappers in Indiana has been organized in Muncie, with nearly 100 members. , Glen Hodapp and two companions, Seymour, caught threfe wild geese, which weighed over forty pounds. Crawfordsville Elks have invited Carrie Nation to be one of the attractions at the Elks’ carnival July 4. George Davis. (VS, a wealthy farmer near New Albany and a brother of Jeff. C. Davis, died of pneumonia. Paul Asher, at Greenfield, finding his wife in company with Cy Henby, tired two shots at the couple, but did no damage. William ltedwine, of Elwood, fugitive from justice for two years, under a larceny charge, was arrested while visiting his family, at Elwood. On excellent authority the statement is published that all the stock in the Union Traction Company Ims been purchased by George F. McCulloch of Muncie. Unknown man tried to kidnap a child from the Logausport orphans' home. Supposed to have been the father of a boy recently sent to the institution by tlie court. Mr*. Agnes Bronger was arrested in Celina on the charge of baptizing her 2-wccks-old babe in a creek. She belongs to a fanatical sect nod is supposed to be insane. George W. Jarrett, 18, who killed his stepfather, Anton Maloy, at Columbus, has not been indicted by the grand jury, as it was shown he shot his father in defense of hi; mother. Theodore Ileckmnu, 81, of Galena, caught, between Oct. 1 nnd Jun. 1, eighteen woodchucks, sixteen Skunks and five rabbits. They weru all taken in one trap and from one hole. Will It. Mack drove into Monticello the other day with a lighted lantern in his buggy, to keep his feet warm. He left the lantern burning while transacting business in Monticello, spreading the robe over it. The fire that followed destroyed the buggy. Alderman Ivebble end Walter Johnson, of Columbus, had a fight over the bursting of the water mains there, aud both were badly battered. Mrs. Winnie Wilson, a Kokomo •‘grass’ widow, has gone into court to get |M>asession of her 13-months-old baby, which, she says, is detained by her brothers to prevent her marrying again. George Woods, a whits man,, who wit-, nessed the lynching of the negro Ward at Terre Haute, was made insane by fear that he would bo held accountable and died in jail, Where be waa placed foe safekeeping.