Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — Short State Items. [ARTICLE]

Short State Items.

John Bowman, his wife and three small children were injured in a runaway accident at Bethlehem. -The Hagerstown Town Council lias awarded the contract for building twenty thousand feet of cement sidewalks. Amiel Franklin of Covington, advance agent for La Pearl’s circus; was crushed b.v a passenger train at the Danville, 111., junction and seriously injured. Judgments aggregating over SI2,OCX) Were taken against the Steel Casting Company of Montpelier, in the Blackford Circuit Court. The largest of the judgments was that of the Fort Wayne Smelting and Refining Company for $10,858.15. Tony George, a policeman, on trial for murder in the first degree, was acquitted at Marion. George killed John Boyd in an attempt to arrest him laid August. The police board decided that George was just tilled, and kept him on the force, but the grand jury found an .indictment against him. The announcement has just lioon made of the marriage of Prof. Charles E. Spaulding of the Hagerstown High School and Miss Nora A. Faueett of West Baden. The wedding took place Dec. 29 and the announcement caused great surprise in Hagerstown, where Prof. Spaulding has been teaching for two years. Thewpodwork department of the A. W. Charles buggy works at Tipton was destroyed by tire. The wind was blowing a gale and several houses caught fire in the neighborhood. A great deal of seasoned material that had been on hand for one. and two years was consumed, togethe* with a large amount of work partially " "'''Dieted. Loss, $.‘5,000, with only SSOO insurance. Mr. Charles will rebuild at once. During the recent high waters the highpressure pipe line of the Southern Indiana Natural Gas Company broke in two in the middle of Big Blue river, near Skelbyville. A few days before, the low-pressure line of the same company parted. Since the waters subsided an investigation was made and it was found that some one had cut the line. The cut had been made with a eold chisel and a diamond point and in a diagonal direction nearly around the pipe, hut at no place did the chisel penetrate the pipe, showing that it was done by ab expert machinist. A large stump V»dged and completed the break.