Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1906 — SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCUST DUE [ARTICLE]

SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCUST DUE

He Is to Visit the Southwestern Portion of the Hooster State This Year. Indianapolis. April 27. —The seven-teen-year locust is scheduled to appear this year. The brood of 1000, however, is an especially aristocratic brood. It traces its ancestry as far back as any Daughter of the Revolution can trace hers, and then leaves her far behind by making its way without a single flaw into the days of Hid!!. The cicada of lflOtl. so far as iis reappearance In Indiana is concerned, will affect only a small area. The scientists of the department of agriculture assert that it will infest only the southwestern portion of the state, and will be especially numerous in vhe following counties: Clay. Crawford. Daviess. Gibson, Greene. Knox, Lew rence, IMke, Posey. Sullivan, Vunderburg, Vigo and Warrick. Death Has Ended This Suit. Columbus. Ind.. April 27. The divorce suit brought by Mrs. Anna It. Davis against Jesse C. Davis was called in tiie circuit court and dismissed. There was nothing else to do, Davis having murdered his wife and then killed ldinself. The divorce suit was tiie immediate cause of the tragedy. Diamond Thief Is Captured. Richmond, Ind., April 27. Harrv Walker, colored, of Indianapolis, employed at the home of Edward McGuire, tlds city, took a diamond ring and two other rings of lesser value from a jewel ease and left tiie premises. Two hours later Walker was captured at Greenfield. Andrew Carnegie to Give $25,000. Indianapolis, April 27.—1 tis announced that Andrew Carnegie has pledged the last 125,000 of the additional endowment of #250,000 being raised for Butler college. University of Indianapolis. Of this sum #IOO,OOO has been raised, leaving #125,000 still unpledged Gone to Manage a Mine. Anderson, Ind., April 27. Lase J. Burr, a well-known capitalist of this city, has left for Revel Stroke, Alberta, Canada, where tor flve mouths he will be general manager of the property of the American Mining company.