Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

A huge tooth, supposed to have once been one of the molars of mammoth was found in Elkhart county last wsek. It weighed Ilf* rounds, and had a grinding surface of.sj by 3j inches. . The ares of wheat sown in the State this fall win far exceed that ol any previous year. In some cases the seed drills are run both night and day by neighbors, one working at night, tbe other by day. Mrs. John H. Wade, wife of a wellknown printer, for many years foreman of the Evansville Journal news room, is one of the two heirs to the estate of Bimeon Jaseph, sr., of Cannelton, worth SIOO,OOO. Four students who were suspended from Purdue, University, for not complying with a new regulation requiring all students to pledge themselves not to be members of “Greek letter” societies durir g their college course, have sued to test the authority of the faculty to make such a regulation. Daniel Dukenhill, an old citizen of Itoward township, Washington county, tied a rope around his body and arranged a signal, and then descended his well to clean it out. Feeling the effect of the “damps” he made the agreed signal, aud those on tbe outside commenced drawing him up. He shouted out to them to draw faster, aud this so excited and frightened them that they ceased pulling on the rope when he was half way up, aud, fastened it to the curb, went for help, leaving the old man dangling head downward. When help arrived he was dead. A nearly occurred near Greensburg. While cleaning a well David Lanham was overcome by noxious gases, anq called for those above to pull him qp, which they proceeded to do, but after raising him fifteen feet bis strength failed and be fell to the bottom. A man named Terhune descended, nut could not succeed in getting him up, and let him fall again. After some more delay he was taken out, but died soon after.