Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1901 — Short State Items. [ARTICLE]

Short State Items.

Rev. Olho Redmond, a former Peru boy, is dead of peritonitis, at Lewiston. Idaho. Mrs. Samuel Curtis, #B, a Noble County pioneer, is dead at her home near Perkinsvilla. George Burke of Yorktown was killed by an Anderson-Muncie electric car. Burke was paralysed aud fell on the track. L>. W. Minshall of Terre Iluutc lias given $25,000 to DePanw University for a chemical and electrical laboratory building. Arthur Reed, wire drawer at the Kokomo nail works, was caught in wire he was feeding the mill and was drawn ul most into the jaws of the machine before he was rescued. Three ribs were crushed by the wire. Tornado struck Princeton, doing damage amounting to thousands of dollars, but no lives were lost, though many had narrow escape*. High school and many business buildings were damaged, court house struck by lightning and the walls of the car shops blown down. One residence and hundreds of outbuildings were destroyed. f