Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1901 — Among Our Neighbors. [ARTICLE]

Among Our Neighbors.

The City Hotel, Knightstown, burned. Loss, $3,000. Dynamiting is said to be going on in the Elkhart river, r ■ ■ Richmond Quakers will found a mission at Uganda, Africa. The southeast part of Anderson is to get a new fire station. New Palestine town board is investigating the coat of electric lighting. Anderson business houses are shutting off their electric lights because of high insurance rates. Perry Willis, Modoc farmer, is dead from a blow from William Swain in a quarrel over a boundary fence. An abandoned well belonging to the Pittsburg Glass Company, near Elwood, was reshot, and proves to be a gusher. The Columbus, Ind., high school graduating class proposes to use commencement exercises proceeds for a banquet to Principal Caruugey, who has been bounoed by the school board. The board objects and there ia a tight on for tha funds. Philip Phipher, of Hagerstown, treated himself for measles by fasting for seven days and bathing from once to three times daily. He pulled through. Thomas Wainscott, 27, and his brothers were resting on the banks of the Wabash at Terre Haute. Thomas took morphine, unseen by his brother, and died in two hours. It is reported that the Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie Railroad will again ask k subsidy of the township in which Marion ia located. The subsidy proposition was once voted down. The road wants $50,000.