Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1901 — Among Our Neighbors. [ARTICLE]

Among Our Neighbors.

Brown County fruit growers expect nn immencc peach crop. Samuel Burrus, n telegrapher, aged 30 years, was drowned at Wheatland while bothlng. A 2-year-old son of William Od«Ti. Converse, ’.vat killed by an engine ou the Chicago, Indiana and Eastern. • E. 8. McHale, foreman in the shoe department of the State prison nt Jeffersonville. was beaten to death by Lee Kelly, a convict. | Two Big Four freights collided on siding west of Crawfordsville, killing J. W. Mathers, brakeman, and wrecking both trains. While no one wns nt home, somebody built a fire against the door of Edward Abejl’s residence, in Petersburg. It wag totally destroyed. ftdward Ilnzzledon, the saloonkeeper who volunteered to marry Edith Houk, the 17-year-«ld girl who was about to be recommitted to the reform school from .Anderson, backed out at the last moment and Samuel L. Miller, a bartender, took his niece.