Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — State Items of Interest. [ARTICLE]

State Items of Interest.

Daniel Williams, New Castle, crushed by a falling tree. The hum of the corn shredder is the sound heard daily. Bartholomew County had thirty-two deaths in October. Rev. Moses C. Bridges, 73, Plainfield, died of heart failure. Hog cholera is prevalent in several places in Carroll County. Mary Gulley died at Logansport from an overdose of morphine. A professional spectacle snatcher has been operating in Kokomo. * Nellie Thompson. 16, daughter of a wealthy farmer, near Cadiz, is missing. James Haney. 45, killed himself iD Denver because he could not find work. Dolphe Gift. 11, Marion, is missing. Believed to have started for Cincinnati. G. W. Long, Huntington, former railroad engineer, has struck it rich in Alaska. Muncie City Council has ordered railroads to place flagmen or gates at crossings. John ’Williams, 82, fdr sixty yours* a resident of Delaware Count?, in iiiuncie. Tice Golden, a farmer living near Columbus, raised twelve tons of tomatoes to the acre. At the funeral of 11. 11. Boudindt, Terre Haute, a dirge composed at his request two years ago was played.