Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1899 — Short State Items. [ARTICLE]

Short State Items.

Terre Haute now has a curfew law. Churches and schools at Colfax are closed. Scarlet fever. Glass tableware trust has been formed with $4,000,000 capital. Indianapolis-Greenwood electric line will begin operations Dec. 15. Big Four headquarters will not be. moved from Wabash to Anderson. Of the $4,000 worth of stolen goods found in the Alexandria “fence,” $3,800 worth has been claimed. Two-year-old child of Berry Warrum, Fortville, played with a box of matches and was burned to death. Plant of the Lafayette Bridge Company, destroyed by fire Oct. 9, has been rebuilt, and will enter the trust. Joshua Bruce, Lafayette, suddenly became insane, rushed into the street nude, and tried to commit suicide. Police overpowered him. A supposed jilted lover fired through the window of Geo. Carpenter’s house, near Seymour; barely missing his 16-year-old, daughter? Thieves who robbed Wilson Trueblood’s house in Sullivan of S3OO threw off the bloodhounds by sprinkling the ground with cayenne pepper. Miss Maude Neal, Noblesville stenographer, was taking down the statement of an old soldier who was applying for a pension. He mentioned the name of Cart. Neal, who turned out to be Miss Neal’s father, and it was the first any of the family had heard of him since he went to war. The captain died in Andersonville. Justice of the Peace M. U. Orr, Frankten, has disappeared, making the second in a year. James Dolan, inmate of the Marion soldiers’ home, was found dead in the Mississinewa river. Thought to have fallen from a railroad bridge. .. - Mrs. James O’Dell and her three children, Evansville, were awakened by the howling of a dog and escaped from their burning home just as it collapsed. * Yadock R. Hamaker, driver of a laun-