Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1901 — Short State Items. [ARTICLE]

Short State Items.

Peter Staub, 100, Madison, is dead. Indiana glass plants will close April 1 instead of June 1. H. K. Ross’ dry goods store, Sullivan, burned. Loss SIO,OOO. Said that zinc in paying quantities has been found in Carroll County. New Indiana postmasters: Bremen, James M. Ranstead; Whiting, Charles D. Davidson. John D. Stewart, 83, died in Laporte. He assisted in the construction of the first brick building in Indianapolis. Andrew J. Guy, formerly of Logansport, who was one of the heirs to a large estate, but could not be found when it was divided, has been located in a Colorado hospital, in need of financial assistance. Benjamin Miller, father of the four children cremated near Pashan, is a raving maniac and it takes three men to restrain him. He imagines he is still able to eave his children and wants to rush to their rescue.