Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — LATEST INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST INDIANA NEWS.

Improvement at Chaimorn, Chalmers is a pretty little city situated in the grain belt of White county. This summer two and a half miles of cement sidewalks will be laid in the town. Monticello, Brookston and Chalmers are the only three towns in White county having commissioned high schools! Chalmers received its commission from the state board about April 1 and has an enrollment of 300 students, of which seventy-five are in the high school proper, with a fouryears’ course under the directorship of Professor Green of the Northwestern, assisted by Professor Matlock of Purdue. The town has recently erected a ten-thousand dollar school building. Sixty-sixth Anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben T. Webb have celebrated the sixty-sixth anniversary of their wedding at their home in Romney, near Lafayette. They were married May 5, 1835, in Brown connty, Ohio. Both are natives of that county, the groom being born in 1817 and the bride in 1816. They moved to Tippecanoe county in 1844. A family dinner was given and an informal celebration held. One hundred guests were present. The living descendants are four children, forty grandchildren, fifty great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild, most of whom were present today. Heirs Form a Combine. Michigan and Indiana claimants to the Magness estate in New York, upon which there is a valuation of $80,000,000, have formed an association headed by William Hatfield of Heston, this state, as president, to contest their claim to heirship in the courts. The estate-consists of 6,000 acres of land upon which a fair-sized town has been built and valuable mines are operated. Important documents pertaining to the estate have been placed with a firm of leading Indiana attorneys and action to establish heirship brought into the courts. X. XB*lt Water KllMnr Fl*h. The big reservoir at St Mary’s, the source of the Wabash river, which has been a great resort for fishermen, Is ruined for all purposes of angling this summer. Fish in the reservoir are said to be dying by thousands in consequence of the enormous discharge of salt water from oil and gas wells into the reservoir. The fish are found by thousands on the surface of the water and on the banks of the river. Bicycle Blder Killed. John Anderson, aged 18, a coal miner at Grant, was killed by a trolley car near Highland Lawn cemetery. He was riding a bicycle behind a car on one track and turned out to the other track in time to be struck .by a car on that track going in the opposite direception. He was yet alive when taken aboard the car, but died on the way into Terre Haute.

Rector Called to Ft. Wayne. The Rev. P. F. Roche, for fourteen years rector of St Ann’s church, announced to his congregation at Lafayette his appointment as rector of the Cathedral church in Ft Wayne, to succeed Father Quintan, who returns to his old parish at Huntington. Father Roche will assume his new duties about May 15. Settles for Injury to the Ear. The case in which Dr. Burton demanded SIO,OOO for the loss of a portion of his t right ear, which was chewed off on election day by Philip Wolford, has been compromised at Logansport, the terms not being made public. Both men are prominent in Indiana politics. Changes In Notre Dame Course. At its last meeting the faculty of Notre Dame university has determined on changing its course for the degree A. B. The course in Greek has been reduced from seven to six years, and two modern languages added. Fatally Hort by a Negro. Albert Raner, mate on the ateemar Crescent City, of Evansville, wan struck in the head by a negro at Bowling Green and will die. Monon Office* Consolidated. The city council has passed an ordinance consolidating the offices of town clerk and treasurer. Believe Ralph Was Murdered. It is now stated that John Ralph, who was killed at his tin shop in Geneva by an explosion of his gasoline stove, was probably murdered, and that, Instead of the stove, a can of ni-tro-glycerine containing at least a quart was discharged. Friends of Ralph say that nothing short of the powerful explosive would have wrought the damage, and that the crime was probably committed by a personal enemy of Ralph. Folic* Look for Missing Oirl. The police are looking for Bertha Frank at Evansville. She left home suddenly and told her parents she was going to jump in the river. She was in love. ' Shovel Company Organised. The Richmond Shovel and Tool company, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO, has been organized at Richmond. The plant has been put in operation and will have the largest output in the United States outside of trust concerns.