Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1902 — Indiana News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Indiana News

State Happenings Succinctly Told

by Our Special Correspondents

JABS PAPER KNIFE INTO HIS LEO Peculiar Accident to Secretary of Civil Service Board. W. L. Dynes of Indianapolis, secretary of the civil service board, while working at his desk in the postoffice, dropped a paper knife to the floor and in trying to catch it with his knee, jabbed it into his leg. The cut is about three inches deep and through one of the arteries. A doctor was called and he sewed the wound up and stopped the copious flow of blood. Mr. Dynes was taken to his home. ENDOWS PALMER UNIVERSITY New Yorker Gives SIOO,OOO to the Indiana Eastern Normal. Although the Eastern Indiana Normal University, when re-established at Muncie as the Palmer University with an endowment of SIOO,OOO by F.

(Donor of SIOO,OOO to Eastern Indiana Normal University.) A. Palmer, of New York, will not be sectarian, it will be a religious institution, so those who will control say. Dr. T. M. MeWhinney, of Dayton, 0., will be chancellor. The Christian church will dictate the management of the institution, It being designed to make this school the official Christian college of the west. Odd Fellows to Build. Muncie I. O. O. F. Lodge, No. 74, will sooh take possession of its new lodgeroom at Walnut and Jackson streets. The building was purchased for $20,000. The lodge will erect a five-story building on the site. Exposure Causes insanity. Mrs. Jane lsham, age eighty, became lost in the marsh near Springville. She was gone for two days and the exposure has made her insane. She is in a pitiable condition. Postpone Family Reunion. The Newby family reunion, always a big affair, has been declared off, because of the danger of spreading smallpox. No public gatherings will be held at Newcastle for some weeks. Glassworks Start. The nine plants of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company have started fires for the coming season. The 8,000 men go to work at an Increase of 5 per cent in wages. Colorado Copper. The Manitou Copper Mining company has been organized at Rochester, with D. M. Swinehart president. The company’s mine is located near Grand Encampment, Colo. Pastor Accepts Call. The Southport Baptist congregation has extended a call to the Rev. riarry Belton, of Flora, 111. He has accepted and will take charge October 1. / Glass Plant Resumes. The Lippincott glass-works will relume operations at Alexantrria in the incandescent bulb department. A gas producer is planned. Great Returns. Thomas Cowell of Michigan township threshed 270 bushels of wheat from five acres, an average of fiftyfour bushels. Hit Him with a Brick. James Brandon and Howard Tuck, employed at an Evansville Ice plant, quarreled and Brandon was struck with a brick. Capital Seeks Newcastle. The combined capital of industries obtained by Newcastle within the last twelve years is $2,000,000, and more are coming. Farm Hand Hurt. William Jordon was seriously injured, on the Legg farm near Windfall. A heavily loaded wagon struck his heaj}. t Hobson Brothers, Ministers. The Rev. Martin Hobson, the regular liberal United Brethren minister of Dublin, is one of five brothers, all of whom are preachers. There are three sisters, all being members of the same church. Houses Are Bcarce. The KreU-French piano plant at Newcastle is nearing completion and the company says that It must have 100 houses for Its employes. There is a shortage of rental property.

ALCOHOL FUMES CAUSE DEATH Woman Sprinkles Her Bed With the Liquid and Dies. Harvey Yaryan, of Ft. Wayne, returned home from work and found his wife dead in bed. She was addicted to the use of alcohol, and had sprinkled her bed with the drug, in order to lie down in the fumes of it. She is supposed to have covered her head with the bed clothes and smothered. Mrs. Yaryan was thirty-six years old, and, besides her husband, leaves a son. Is It a Meter? J. J. Ballinger and Louis Boyd of the Grant county gas works at Upland are backing a perpetual motion machine, which they Lope to have in operation soon. ' Relatives Had Died. Bert Devers reappeared at his home at Kokomo after an absence of eight years. He found that his parents and all near relatives had died in his absence. Missing Boys. Walter Carver, James Brown and Price Dean, three Alexandria boys, are missing. Carver’s father has returned from a fruitless search in Illinois. Injured by Molten Metal. Molten metal splasheu into the face of William Brown, living four miles west of Warren and it is feared he will lose the sight of both eyes. Accident to Boy. Homer Robinson, aged twelve, fell on a rock at the new Carnegie library at Muncie and his face, arms and legs were badly mutilated. Trolley Cars Collide. At Alexandria two cars came into collision in Harrison street, and both were badly smashed. The motormen escaped by jumping. Lightning Burns Wheat. Lightning struck a building on the farm of Conrad Hiambaugh, a mile west of Rochester and 300 bushels of wheat were burned. X-Ray Produces Pension. J. P. Ellis of Anderson has received a pension of $24 a month as the result of an X-ray picture showing a bullet in one of his lungs. Brown County Fair. The eighth annual meeting of the Brown County Fair Association will be held at Sprunica, Hamblen township, August 12-16? Edinburg Race Meet. The Edinburg Trotting association will have its annual race meet, Aug. 20-23. No gambling will be permitted on the grounds. Aged Citizen 111, Francis O. Bodine, age eighty-eight years, is seriously ill at his home in Manchester. He is the oldest citizen of that place. State Commander, K. of M. George Gunder of Terre Haute has been notified of his appointment as state commander of the Knights of Maccabees. Teachers’ Institute. Newcastle township trustees have decided to postpone the annual Henry County Teachers’ Institute, on account of smallpox. Child Drinks Poison. The child of John H. Smith of Dewberry, while visiting its grandmother ac Benham, drank fly poison. Its life was saved. Boy Cyclist Hurt. The ten-year-old son of Mrs. Clifford of Jonesboro had his head badly cut as a result of a collision while riding a bicycle. ♦ Elevator Collapses. The grain elevator of Jones & Watts collapsed at Oakland City. Several thousand bushels of wheat were ruined. Took Helibore. Sol W. Kahn, one of Peru’s best known citizens, took helibore, mistaking it for medicine, and came near dying. Elks’ Carnival. The South Bend Elks’ carnival will be held the week of September 1. Great preparations are being made. Falls From a Pole. Frank Parker, a Cumberland telephone lineman, fell from a pole at Petersburg and badly injured. Nears Five Score. Mrs. Lutitia Crawford, of West Lebanon, celebrated her ninety-seventh birthday. She was born in Kentucky July 29, 1805, and is the mother of eleven children. She is the oldest person in Warren county. Tries to Drown. Six persons attempted to commit suicide at Flora within eighteen months. William Riggle has just got through making four attempts to drown himself.

FAMILY QUARREL AT DUNKIRK. Boy Shoots a Man Whose Wife Struck His Mother. Albert Saunders, age fifteen, shot Noklie Suter, age forty, through the neck. The wound Is probably fatal. Suter is in the hospital. Saunders says that Suter’s wife had assaulted his mother, and that when he went to his mother’s assistance, Suter interfered. He struck the boy with a hatchet, and it was then that the lad shot. It was a toy pistol, loaded with a 22-caliber cartridge. He was arrested. Both families live in the suburbs of Dunkirk. Money Awaits Soldier. The will of the late Hiram E. Wells of Paoll leaves his estate of $200,000 to his four children. The one-fourtli left to his son Harry, who is now fighting in the Philippines, is to be held by the Union Trust Company of Indianapolis until the boy’s return. -ft Proud of Midshipmen. Centerville boasts of its representation in the United States navy. Roily Savage is In his first year and Ira Hunt is in his second year. Hunt was mascot of the 161st Indiana regiment during the Cuban war and is but 17 years old. Find Stolen Papers. The missing notes and mortgages belonging to A. L. Cox & Co. of Losantville and which were taken from the safe that was robbed two years ago, have been found m a garret near Farmland and turned over to the trustee. Hollow Building Blocks. Representative Otto H. Williams has invented a method to manufacture hollow building blocks. A company will be organized at once. Sand in the vicinity of Newcastle is said to be especially adapted for this material. Extends Water Fra-chise. The Kokomo council has granted a twelve-year extension of the American Water Company’s franchise. The company gives a 20 per cent reduction in rates and the two gives up the municipal ownership scheme. © ’Phone Lines to Merge. I. W. Smitn, H. L. Oldfather and others interested are at Goshen arranging to consolidate the Farmers’ Mutual telephone lines of Elkhart, LaGrange and Kosciusko counties, with an exchange in Goshen. Gives SSOO to Church. Francis M. Palmer, a New York millionaire who recently endowed the Eastern Indiana Normal University at Muncie, has given SSOO toward the construction of a new Christian church in Muncie. Bought Patent Lamps. John Ball, a farmer near Columbus, bought two patent lamps and is now in a dispute over the order for $5 which he gave to the strangers. Ball thinks he is being swindled. Suit for Slander. Solomon Harness, a wealthy farmer near Logansport, has been sued for slander by Abraham Johnson. He alleges that Harness accused him of stealing nad assaulted him. Prey on Farmers. Farmers about Nashville are victims of Chicago confidence men, who pay $5 for a permit to hunt. The permit turns up in a bank as a note for SIOO or more. Gas Leases. Leases of 1,100 acres of oil land in Niles and Delaware townships have been recorded at Muncie. H. C. Zefgler, head of the Muncie Gas company, is interested. Wheat Averages High. Wiley S. Haltom of Mooreville, owner of the old Ollerman farm on White river, has threshed eighty acres of wheat that averaged forty-one bushels per acre. New Electric Line. The Ohio and Indiana Construction company, organized at Fort Wayne to build an electric line to New Haven, six miles east, has begun work. Soldiers’ Widow Dies. Mrs. Mary Green, age eighty-two, is dead at the Soldiers’ Home. She was the widow of Thomas B. Green of Wayne county. Jefferson County Wheat. Every car and boat obtainable is being used for the shipment of Jefferson county’s wheat. They yield was unusually heavy. Trick Is Old. E. A. Clark of Franklin recently purchased a patent lamp of a traveling agent, signing an order for payment of $7 on delivery. The order turned up for S7OO. Clark got out with a compromise. Bryan Is Homesick* , A letter from Prof. E. B. Bryan, who went from Bloomington to Manila to take charge of normal school work, says he longs for the expiration of his contract, so he may return to Indiana.

FRANCIS A. PALMER.