Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1903 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Items of Interest Gathered From All Parts of the State. Fort Wayne is to have a wirfd mill factory. A wild cat has been killed near Huntington. Four deaths have occurred in Winchester from smallpox recently. Twenty people have gone insane in Wells county within the past year. The town council of Ridgeville imposes a tax of $5 on all public dances. The county clerk of Adams county has not issued a marriage license for over a week.

Jacob Jacobson, of Kontz, was instantly killed by a fast passenger train Friday afternoon. Over SIOO,OOO worth of live stock has been shipped from Columbia City within the past ninety days. Florence Hager, of Elkhart, choked to death Friday as a result of getting a piece of bread in her windpipe. D. R. Martin, of Rochester, has been sexton of the city cemetery there since it was established, forty-seven years ago. The jewelry store of R. M. Munich, of South Bend, was robbed of $5,000 worth of stock by burglars early Sunday morning. William Trende, of South Bend, an aged man, was frozen to death in his own home two weeks ago and his body was not discovered until Friday. Peter S. Holmes, an inmate of the Marion Soldiers’ Home committed suicide Thursday by drowning himself in the river.J [He was a resident of Laporte county. The office of the Goshen Novelty and Brush company was gutted by fire Tuesdayjnight and a quantity of valuable papers were destroyed. It cannot be learned how the blaze started.

Prosecutor Clarke has declared that he will have the entire South Bend police force indicted by the February grand jury if possible. He alleges that the officers neglect their duty and get drunk. The Hartford City and Fort Wayne interurban line has reached a stage ’of building where it feels justified in appointinga surgeon. Dr. J. M. Atkinson, of Eaton, Ohio, has received the appointment. Jacob Dodson, of Muncie, 75 years of age, has never had his photo taken, but at the urgent request of his family finally consented to do so. On his way to the gallery he fell unconscious from paralysis and will not recover.

The commissioners of Fulton county are unable; to secure fuel for use at the court-house [and the officers are working in half-warmed rooms. Unless fuel is soon secured it will be necessary to close the building for sometime.

An effort is being made by several cities in Northern Indiana to establish a high school base ball league, composed! of the teams from a dozen or more high (schools. The scheme is looked upon) with favor by all interested.

Joseph E. Mallory, George Rankins and George Sherman have been arrested for the murder of John M. Koonsman in South Bend on December 13, and are now in the jail at that place. Rankins has confessed tp the murder.

South Bend people indignantly deny that its people have resorted to the use of beanslfor fuel. When the story was started in the newspapers, we thought it was a “windy affair” for South Bend. Now, had it been Boston the “report” would have had a different sound.

The city council of Elkhart will create an office to be known as inspector of weights and measures. It is alleged that some of the coal and wood dealers of that place have been shorting the fuel and in some instances a ton of coal contained only about 1,400 pounds. The people are indignant over the outrage, and some indictments are expected.

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