Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1903 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

GIVE 3 $50,000 FOR A LIBRARY. Terre Haute Accept* Handsome Gift From Crawford Fairbanks. At the meeting of the Terre Haute city council the offer of Crawford Fairbanks of $50,000 for a public library was accepted and a committee of citizens* was named to dispose of the money to the best advantage. The only stipulation made by Mr. Fairbanks is that the library be known by the name of his mother, Emetine Fairbanks. The school city owns two pieces of property that can be disposed of should the committee decide that this should be done to get the best results from Mr. Fairbanks gift. The present home of the library was a church property, bought some years ago for $6,600, and which is worth more than that amount now. The school city also owns a lot of 100 feet front on Seventh street, adjoining the high school, which is worth SIOO a foot. There seems to be a general desire to locate the new library on Ohio, near Seventh Btreet. This Is on the same block with the new Y. M. C. A. home and the new Congregational church. It was on this block that Demas Deming offered the city a library site and money with which to build it if the city would open Ohio street through the Evansville and Terre Haute yards, but this has not been done, and'the prospect of a final decision in the litigation for opening the street is so remote that the Deming offer has been abandoned. Mr. Fairbanks has said that the money will be ready as soon as the city can make use of it

Dies at 94. Mrs. Charlotte Huston, believed to have been 94 years old, and who was with several generations of the Hudnut family covering a period of eightysix years, died in the Central hospital for the Insane, where she had been taken for special treatment. She had been a slave of the father of the late Theodore Hudnut and remained with the family after her freedom. The body was interred in the Hudnut lot in Woodlawn cemetery at Terre Haute. Bharkey Buys a Horse. Tom Sharkey, the pugilist, stopped off at South Bend ou his way to New York. He "purchased the promising pacer Greenwood, a 4-year-old, not yet worked on the track, paying $1,500. Sharkey is in good condition, weighs 200 pounds and says he is anxious for a go with any of the big ones. He thinks Corbett is after Jeffries simply for notoriety.

Shoots Carrier Pigeon. Everett V. Riddle of Paoli, while hunting, shot a carrier pigeon with a silver band one-fourth of an inch wide on its leg. The band bore the inscription "G. A.., 31,878.” No Smallpox. The report that Newcastle has an epidemic of smallpox is untrue. There is not a case at present, and there has been none for twenty years. Old Merchant Is Dead. Henry Defbert, for fifty years in the grocery trade at Peru, is dead of heart disease. He was ninety years old and came to Peru in 1848. X, Consolidate Plants. The Witte & Alexander Manufacturing company of Greenfield haß moved to Charlottsville and will operate in connection with the Charlottsville Manufacturing company.

Buspects Foul Play.

The coroner thinks that Mark Kenny of the Marion Soldiers’ Home, found dead near Summitville, was murdered and placed on the interurban track. Kenny’s hat was picked up a mile from where the body was found.

Bons of Veteran*.

Peru Camp Gifford, Sons of Veterans, which will entertain the State encampment this year, has set the date for July 7, 8 and 9. Five thousand persons are expected.

STATE WINS IN BULLETIN CABK Gets Verdict for $4,500 Against Southern Railway Company. The Jury in the first case of the State against the Southern Railway company, on the charge of not posting train bulletins at the stations on the road, has returned a verdict of $4,500 in favor of the State. The complaint included 211 paragraphs and the jury found for the State in 180 of them. One half of the judgment goes to the school fund of the county and the prosecuting attorney gets the other half. It was this case that prompted Senator Gray to introduce a bill in the legislature to limit the amount that could be recovered from any one’station to S3OO. PRESENCE OF MIND SAVES HIM Farmer Loses His Overcoat in Flywheel of Flouring Mill. If Alexander Anderson had not had his overcoat unbuttoned while he was standing near machinery in a flouring mill near Albany he might have lost his life. Anderson is a farmer and while talking to a companion in the mill backed so close to the flywheel that the wheel caught the skirt of his overcoat. When Anderson felt the jerk he was thoughtful enough to raise his hands above his head and the wheel peeled off his coat, leaving him nhh&rmed. The coat was torn to pieces and the machinery was damaged.

Dies of Blood Poisoning. James W. Bradshaw, aged 26, died from blood poisoning, which resulted from a laceration on his knee from slipping on the icy pavement. After the poisoning set in he was delirious part of the time. When the weather was very cold, he wandered from the house half clad, and when he returned his feet were frozen. This misadventure hastened his death. Boys Go on Strike. Fifty carrier boys in the Boldt glass works at Muncie went on strike. Recently six boys were discharged on account of misconduct, and the other boys refused to work unless they were reinstated. The management will employ other boys.

Beer War. A beer war is threatened at Muncie and beer is expected to sell at 3 cents a glass. The war will be directed against a local brewery, which is not yet in operation. Sells Its Bonds. The Kokomo city council has ordered the sale of all the 3 per c<jnt government bonds owned by the city in order to carry the town over its financial stringency. Veteran Is Killed. Mark Kinney, wearing the uniform of a soldier, was killed by an interurban car, near Suminittville. It is thought he was from the Marion Soldiers’ Home. Stops His Nonsense. “Mickle” Cosgrove of Muncie went to the home of his wife, from whom he has been separated, and pelted the house with stones. His wife shot him in the leg. Man Has Enemies. Fred Turner of Fairview was shot at from ambush. The bullet cut a hole in the top of the buggy and he was not injured. His assailant is uot known.

Injury to Aged Man.

Elijah Lucas, sixty years old, while pulling bark from under a large saw at a Nashville sawmill, caught his hand between the saw and timber. Two fingers were cut off and his arm badly lacerated.

To Build Back Roads.

A petition is being circulated in Posey county to have the commissioners build twenty miles of Tock roads in Robb township. It ia thought a special election will be ordered.