Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1901 — Among Our Neighbors. [ARTICLE]

Among Our Neighbors.

At Flora a bursting emery wheel fatally injured Samuel Cook. Catherine Cooper, 5, was fatally burned while playing about a pile of burning leaves. Mrs. Samuel D. Millet has been granted a divorce at Indianapolis from her husband, the son of ex-Attorney General W. H. H. Miller. Howard County has broken into the Indiana oil belt. On the farm of Henry Thomas, five miles south of Kokomo, an abandoned and plugged gas well broke its anchor, and a rush of crude oil spread over the barn lot and escaped through an open ditch. The well is said to be flowing a stream the full capacity of its twoinch casing. An unknown man of 73, supposed to be William Forham of Louisville, Ky., was found near Bruceville, horribly burned. He died. It is supposed he touched a match to his clothes or fell into the flames. John Mortz pf St. Croix was kicked almost to death by his brother-in-law, Thomas Conley, who entered Morta’a house while Morta was urging a vicious bulldog to attack his Wife. Mrs. Morta was badly lacerated on one arm by the dog. Mortz was drunk and Conley might hare killed him but for Mra. Morta'n pleadings.