Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1901 — State Items of Interest. [ARTICLE]

State Items of Interest.

Daniel S. Loehr, 89, died at Noblesville. Isaac Milburn, 80, Anderson pioneer, is dead. Anderson has 3,800 children in the public schools. James Beard, 75, wealthy farmer near Frankfort, dropped dead. Henry Newby, 93, Greenfield, oldest man in Hancock County, died. Stephen Hamilton, 75, and Catherine Record, 75, died of grip at Muncie. James Murphy, Crawfordsville, who fell under a caboose, died of his injuries. Charles Ruge, 93, Lake County, has entered the State soldiers’ home, Lafayette. A man in Odon beat his baby till it could not cry and then left for parts unknown. It is said that Henry Giles, who killed himself at Elnora, the day before election, had nine wives living. Workmen on the Jeffersonville reformatory have struck. They demand that two non-union men from Louisville be discharged. Lieut. Wm. McLeod of the 157th Indiana is suffering from a ruptured blood vessel at Fort Wayne. He fell at a skating rink. Bonds have been sold for the extension of the Greenfield electric line to Kaightstown. The extension will be completed by May 1. Organization of the new Citizens' National Bank, Hope, has been completed, with Joseph Burney president and Frank Stapp cashier. W. A. Gourley, 65, who died at Hartford City of Bright’s disease, selected his coffin and made funeral arrangements three mouths ago. A Peru team ran away with a bobsled filled with children. In turning a corner a number of the children were thrown out. None seriously injured. George D. Partington, Evansville, overjoyed at his election as precinct chairman at a Republican primary, fell dead while telling his wife of his victory. A pious detective employed by the Crawfordsville ministers traded canned peas for drinks of whisky. It now develops that the peas were stolen. Application for a receiver for the Chicago and Southeastern Railroad has been made at Brazil by fifteen creditors with claims aggregating about SI,OOO. An oil prospecting company that wants leases on 25,000 acres of land in the southern part of Laporte County, has already secured leases on 10,000 acres. A Rochester young lady called up her “fellow” to make a date. His father answered the girl and jollied her for fifteen minutes, finally arranging to meet her at 7:30. James Reilly, Corning, carried off the honors in a school contest by forming the greatest number of words from the letters in “investigation.” He found 231 words. Florence Yates, 16, Elkhart, rushed into the burning home of Harry Steffiu and rescued his baby, which was asleep. Miss Yates was nearly suffocated. Thehouse was destroyed. Thieves robbed two saloons at Waldron. A 1 Peak, a bartender, was compelled to get out of bed at one of the places, and march a mile from town. Then they told hirn to return. Frank Wall, accused of safe-blowing at Andrews, testified that the nitroglycerin found in his possession l was usedp as a heart stimulant. In a preliminary trial he said it was cough medicine. | ' Edward Buchanan of Butlerville disappeared mysteriously last November, leav%ing his wife and six children destitnUf ' Foul ,piay was suspected,! but Bnehnnaijfc was found in Muncie in buainess *mr, says he will not return. E. P. Baker, a fanner, near has received a letter, purporting to b» written by one of a gang that had plan-' ned to rob his house. He give* the warning, he says, because he quarreled with other member* of the band. The writer;! says theghng once tried to rob the house* but was frightened away by the crying es the baby. , • -