Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1893 — PRIZE FOR PURDUE. [ARTICLE]

PRIZE FOR PURDUE.

Tho award has just been made of the prizes offered by the Engineering News of New York, for the best graduating from any engineering course in any American college. The first prize goes to two graduates of the Ohio State University, the second to a graduate of Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., and the third to two graduates from Sibley engineering school at Cornell. Two feet of snow fell at Bourbon,Thursday night. B. B. Thomas Is mysteriously missing from Richmond. A “spirit photographer” has been arrested at Indianapolis for obtaining money by false pretenses. Calvin C. Blizzar was killed at Lynn by a passenger train on the Big Four. Owing to the cold he had his head wrapped up and did not hear the cars till too late. Mrs. Kersling on trial at Knox for the murder of her step father at San Pierre last September, was sentenced to five years in the female reformatory. There were 6,850 chickens, 1,700 geese, 1,250 turkeys alive, and more than that number dressed, and 970,000 dozens of eggs shipped from Seymour to Indianapolis, New York and Louisville by only one firm the past year. This does not include the large amount used at home. There is immense excitement at Brownsburg over the appearance of a strange and formidable animal the name of which Is unknown. It was at first supposed to be a bear,but later it has been decided to be a member of the cat family, probably a lynx. It is ferocious, and does not hesitate to attack a dog or an unarmed man. Frank Hall, a prominent business man of Jamestown, attempted to climb over a freight train. The train started and then backed. Mr. Hall’s leg was caught between the bumpers, tearing the flesh from the leg between the ankle and Hie knee and breaking the small bone. He shouted for help, but no one was near. He tore his leg loose and dragged himself, to a fence resting on that till help arrived. He almost perished with cold. Young Author—-Is it true true that my poems have really set you dreaming. I am — ' Maud —Mercy, yes; I’ve gone to sleep every time I’ve tried to read them. “You must not be discouraged, George,” she said. “Papa may be abrupt, but his heart is as warm as ? a June day." “Yes," replied George, “I’ve noticed that his manner is very summary.’*—Washington Star.