Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1902 — Short State Items. [ARTICLE]

Short State Items.

Ralph Heath, 7, Lafayette, lost a leg under a Monon train. J. D. Myers, Worthington, has 50,000 bushels of corn in storage. Ties slipped from a car on Brakeman' Wm. Beckshultz, Muncie, fatally injuring him. At Evansville Carl Blum, a small boy, was shot through the tongue by a companion with a rifle. John Brenton, a merchant of Clay City, shot and killed himself while crazed with drink. He leaves a wife. G. Wolff filed a bill in bankSfetcy a* Butler. His liabilities are placed at $1(1,500, with assets of $7,000. Jesse Wells was fatally shot at Pers by Frank Rowe, a private in the aj-my, while they were preparing for a hunting trip. A Indiana Harbor, the town laid out last June, is humping itself. Eighty new houses have been put up, and a $20,000 hotel Is under way. Orval Williams and Clarence Gable were stopped by two highwaymen near Royal Center and Williamson was relieved of a gold watch. By the explosion of a bottle of medicine in an oven Mrs. Julia Welsh and a baby of Mrs. Barclay Donahue were seriously burned at Kokomo. Charles Anderson, Shelbyville, placed a dynamite cartridge on a stick of wood and fired a rifle ball at it. The cartridge exploded and the ball, recoiling, entered Ws Ifg. t Many Hoosiers who went to North Da» kota last spring are spending the winter in Indiana. They find that the Dakota "crimp” pinches tighter than the Indiana article. A man supposed to have been Ffcd Barker of Cumpiingsville, Ohio, was knocked off a bridge seventy feet high into the river at Anderson and hilled. The Lake Shore limited ffttted Walenty Kybarkowios of Soath Bend and another train killed Mrs. Hiram Barnes and daughter near Carlisle the same day.