Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1902 — State Items of Interest. [ARTICLE]

State Items of Interest.

Mrs. David J. Holmes was killed by a street car at Indianapolis. Greenfield Methodists raised $20,000 to pay off the debt on their new church. A. J. Burdett, a farmer, near Frankton, is in a precarious condition from a kick by a horse. Charges made against the soldiers’ home at Marion will be investigated by a Grand Army committee. Muncie park commissioners decided to begin an extensive development of the park system next spring. Miners of the Indiana block coal district met at Brazil and may demand a 10-cent increase in wages. The buildings of the Crystal Ice and Cold Storage Company at Anderson burned, causing a loss of $50,000. Arthur and George Lynet, aged S and 9 years, tried to start a fire in a stove with gasoline at Elkhart and were burned so badly that both died. Jonathan Roberts of Richmond is 91 years old and has lived all his life on the ground where stood the house in which he was born. Within 100 feet of his home is a log cabin built iu 1812 for a school bouse, the first in that region. The plant of the Brookville Manufacturing Company was destroyed by lire. The loss is SIOO,OOO, with insurance of $52,000. Three car loads of candy, two car loads of canned goods and $40,000 wor'h of glucose and sugar were destroyed. The proposed excursion of Terre Haute teachers to Chicago for a two days’ visit to the schools and nrt galleries has aroused hostile discussion because Terre Haute merchants object to public servants promoting an excursion which would take many persons to Chicago to do their Christmas shopping. Kittie Thompson, aged 18 years, who has been mysteriously missing front home in VrawfordsviUe since Thanksgiving, has been located iu Lafayette. It now develops that she went away to marry Tom Black, formerly a waiter in her father’s hotel. Thompson knew the young couple were in love and discharged Black. The organisation of a company to deal in Indiana coal lands and the purchase for $45,000 oF the coal under 400 acres of land near Terre Haute, by President McDoel and Director Dickasou of the Monon Railroad Company, is taken to indicate that the road, which has been getting some of the Indiana coal traffic by way of Greencastle, will enter the field direct. Muncie public school teachers are planning a visit to Washington in the spring. Clinton people keep their chickens in the house nights because of chicken thieves. .