Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1902 — Among Our Neighbors, [ARTICLE]

Among Our Neighbors,

Oil has been found at MHlersburg. Elwood la after a $50,000 Iron bedstead factory. The Hercules sawmill, Outer, burned. Loss $5,000. Georg* Carr, Gaston, was badly burned by a gas-explosion. Henry Baker’s residence, Aurora, waa damaged SSOO by fire. Clinton E. Etch Ison, Elwood, whose hand was crushed in a punching ms- 1 chine at the Diamond foundry, has sued the company for $25,000 damages. Daniel Watts, s saloonkeeper at Ehrmandale, amused himself for an boar by making a miner named Tipton ait in a chair by occasionally rubbing tbe muasle of a revolver ovtV-kWface. When Tipton waa permitted to go away he went In a harry for a shotgun, and, returning, shot at Watts through a window. The window glass deflected some of the shot., and perhaps saved Wats’ life, bnt he lost we eye and some shot are in hla head.