Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1901 — Within Our Borders. [ARTICLE]

Within Our Borders.

Columbus Elks gave a minstrel show. Anderson’s furniture factory destroyed by fire. Loss SIO,OOO.

Skull of Valentine Huffman, Brazil, crushed by a street car. Dr. H. W. Cure, Martinsville, wellknown physician, is dead. About SIO,OOO was raised for the new Christian Church, Shelbyville. Indiana oil has gone up to 82 cents a barrel, and ‘there is rejoicing among producers.

Sudden death of Vardeinan Brown, (58, Elwood, thought to have been caused by his grieving over his wife’s death. Mrs. H. Miller Howard, well known in the theatrical profession as Nellie Esmonde, formerly of Bloomington, died in Colo'rado, of consumption. Marion’s police force doubled, and all persons suspected of being criminals, who cannot give a good account of themselves, will be arrested. Crime has been common of late. Loogootee doesn’t want her ntftural gas piped to Washington und Vincennes. The town board will -appropriate money to buy or drill wells, to furnish free gas to factories, as an inducement to locate there. During a severe windstorm at Michigan City Charles Ely and Fred Mecklenburg, two fishermen, went out to their nets in Lake Michigan, and before they could return their boat wastcapsized and both lost their lives. . Miss Lizzie Biers of Waterford is fatally injured as the result of being made the victim of a practical joker. Miss Biers attended a dancing party and as she was about to take her seat her chair was jerked away and she fell, sustaining Internal iujuries. It is the purpose of the family to hold the joker responsible for her (loath. Liberty school pupils, Bt. Bernice, were so Interested in their work that they voted not to take holidays. The old-time method of inflicting punishment on criminals with block and tackle has been Introduced at the county workhouse in Muncie and will be utilized where prisoners refuse to work after being sentenced. W. H. ‘McDoel and Bayard Taylor of Chicago, with local capitalists) have incorporated an electric railroad thirty miles long, lending from Crawfordsville to several nearby towns. The stock subscribed is SIOO,OOO.