Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1901 — Among Our Neighbors. [ARTICLE]

Among Our Neighbors.

Brown County fruit growers expect an immence peach crop. Samuel Burrus, a telegrapher, aged 30 years, was drowned at Wheatland while bothing. , i A 2-year-old son of William Oden, Converse, was killed by an engine on the Chicago, Indiana and Eastern. E. S. Mellale, foreman in the shoe department of the State prison at Jeffersonville, was beaten to death by Lee Kelly, a convict. Two Big Four freights collided on a aiding west of CraWfordsville, kilflng J. W. Mathers, brakeman, and wrecking both trains. While no one was at home, somebody built a fire against the door of Edward Abejl’a residence. In Petersburg. It was totally destroyed. \ Edward Hasxledon, the saloonkeeper who volunteered to marry Edith Houk, the 17-year-old girl who was about to be recommitted to the reform school from Anderson, backed out at the last moment and Samuel L. Miller, s bartender, took his place.