Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1903 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Items of Interest 6athered From All Parts of the State. The old Masonic cemetery at Huntington, abandoned more than thirty years ago, is being vacated. Over fifty bodies have been taken up, and four of them were almost entirely petrified. In some instances the clothing was so well preserved that it was possible to identify the bodies by stripes in the clothing. The order from the Board of Health of Terre Haute to exclude pupils from the schools who have no physician’s certificate of vaccination or oannot show a scar of a comparatively recent and satisfactory vaccination caused general demoralization of the schools. The repeated requests of the board for vaccination have not been heeded, and many pupils will have to be vaccinated. Mrs. U. F. Towneend, 81, of Walker, ton, is the granddaughter of John Holdridge, who fought in the war of the revolution. Holdridge lived to be 93 years old, and died in 1833. Mrs. Townsend remembers her grandfather well* having been 11 years old at the time of his death. As a child, she used to listen to the tales of the winter at Valley Forge, the crossing of the Delaware, and many other stirring events of revolutionary times. The shooting of one schoolboy by another last week in South Kokomo was followed by an investigation by Superintendent R. A. Ogg and boys were searched for weapons in all the schools. In the Fourth ward Principal Barngrover found pistols on nearly 100 boys. The result was the same at other schools. These weapons were sold as toys by the dealers, but they shoot regular 22-caliber cartridges and kill at close range. Superintendent of Police Taylor pronounced the pistols “deadly weapons” and there was a wholesale confiscation of them.

For the first time in many months the saloon business at Muncie was pulled up short Sunday. Private detectives arrested one saloon keeper when word of it spread to other places, and the doors were* soon locked. It is not known who is behind the movement. Foreign brewing firms have begun warfare against the Muncie Brewing Company, which has not yet placed its produot on the market, offering unusual inducements to local dealers to handle only foreign beer. The Muncie company will furnish ice to dealers without cost. A letter containing a certificate for f6OO has reached Mary Hankins, a domestic In the family of Edward Oglesbay at Rushville. The amount was left to her by Will H. Scott, a soldier in the regular army. Miss Hankins says Scott was her sweetheart when she was a young girl at Madison, this state. Scott enlisted in the regular army about two years ago, and went to the Philippines. After his return he was stationed at Ft. Meade, S. D„ and his skull was crushed by being thrown from a horse during a drill on February 1. He directed a comrade to send the cer-

tiflcate to his sweetheart after he died. J. 0. Daugherty, a ohicken fancier of Charleston, had 400 eggs in an incubator in a room adjoining a local newspaper office. When the eggs did not hatch on time, Daugherty investigated and found that the operation of a cylinder printing press in the newspaper offioe gave the eggs suoh a shaking up that they will never produce ohickens. Daugherty has fitted the incubator with springs to overcome the jars from the printing press and will immediately load the incubator with eggs for another trial. When Daugherty found what the trouble was, he said: “Now, wouldn’t that jar you?” Edward Good, crushed between two cars at Terre Haute, a few days ago, was from Kokomo, and had been employed on the Vandalla railroad for three weeks. When a youth Good promised his mother that while she lived he would not work on a railroad train, although he had been employed in a roundhouse. He kept his promise for fifteen years. His mother died five weeks ago, and the son went to her funeral, at Terre Haute. He concluded that his promise to her was no longer binding, and he secured a place on a Vandalia freight train, when he was killed. He was buried by the side of his mother.

The American Tobacco Company has introduced music in its factory at Evansville. Every afternoon, from 2 to 3 a musician visits the factory and renders popular airs. He is paid a regular salary for his work. The latest songs are typewritten and each girl in the factory gets a copy, so she can familiarize herself with the words. During the music hour the girls have the liberty to do as they please. Superintendent Mullen says he believes the girls do more work and do it better by having an hour each day for music and exercise. There are about 400 girls in the factory. Superintendent Mullen states it is the intention of the company to introduce music in all its factories in the United States.

“Not long ago,” said Grave-digger Warren, of this city, “while my son John and I were filling a grave in Oak Grove cemetery, there happened a very strange incident. We were filling a new grave into which a body had just been placed. The casket was put in a brick walled box and on top of it was placed a three inch slab. We were instructed to put a foot of dirt upon the slab and then tamp it, and continue that way until it was completely filled. I had just finished the first layer and John was tamping the second foot of earth, when slowly and easily the stone slab with the two feet of earth and John, he weighing 200 pounds, were raised to the level of the grave, and then it all settled down upon the brick wall again, not even breaking the slab. We never made an investigation of the strange affair, consequently we cannot say what caused the disturbance.” - —Peru Journal. See or telephone Joe Jackson, the busman, when you want to go any place. Prompt attention given to all calls. Day or night.