Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — Short State Items [ARTICLE]

Short State Items

Ralph Heath, 7, Lafayette, lost a leg under a Monon train. J. D. Myers, Worthington, has 50,000 bushels of corn in storage. Ties slipped from a car on Brakemaft Wm. Bcckshultz, Muncie, fatally injuring him. At Evansville Carl Blum, a small boy, was shot through the tongue by a companion with a rifle. John Brenton, a merchant of Clay City, shot and killed himself while crazed with drink. He leaves a wife. G. Wolff filed a bill in bankruptcy n» Butler. His liabilities are placed at $lO,500, with assets of $7,000. Jesse Wells was fatally shot at I’er.l by Frank Rowe, a private in the army, while -they were preparing for a hunting trip. Indiana Harbor, the town laid out last June, is humping itself. Eighty new houses have been put up, and a $20,000 hotel fs under way. Orval Williams and Clarence Gable were stopped by two highwaymen near Royal Center and Williamson was relieved of a gold watch. By the explosion of a bottle of medicine in an oven Mrs. Julia Welsh and a baby of Mrs. Barclay Donahue were seriously burned at Kokoino. Charles Anderson, Shelbyrille, placed a dynamite cartridge on a stick of wood and firefi a rifle hall at it. The cartridge exploded and the ball, recoiling, entered his leg. Many Hoosiers who went to North Da« kota last spring are spending the winter in Indiana. They find thnt the Dakota “crimp” pinches tighter than the Indiana article. A man supposed to have been Fred Jlarker of Cnnuniugsville, Ohio, was knocked off a bridge seventy feet high into the river at Anderson aud killed. The Lake Shore limited killed Walenty Kybnrkewlos of South Bend and another train killed Mrs. Hiram Barnes and daughter near Carlisle the same day.