Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1904 — Short State Items. [ARTICLE]

Short State Items.

The body of John Masee, aged 23, with the top of liis head blown off. was found near Logansport. Nicholas Bibow, aged 21, is being sought by the police. A* the result of a general row In the woman’s ward nt the Central hospital for the insane in Indianapolis, Sarah Patterson, an aged patient, was killed. Charles Sprague and John Welch of New Carlisle were hunting when the gun of the former was accidentally discharged, Welch receiving the full load of ahoL The Injuries will prove fatal. William Bennington waa arrested at Linton for passing raised bills. He had passed many $1 bills raised to $lO and J 2 bills raised to $5. Captain Sails of the secret service, who made the arrest. Secured thirteen of the blOa.

THURSDAY Mies Lecna Grant, who is attending a business college at Orawfordsville, is home for the holidays. This is the first day of winter, aocoTding to the almanacs, and the temperature was 48 degrees, and the mornir)|'eun was bright as May. Ernest Cavinder in the west part of town, has a severe case of malarial fever It seems to be a fresh out-break of the disease contracted while he was in the Spanish war. It is the duty of the township trustees to post notices for eleotion of supervisors ineaoh road district on or before the first Monday in January. The new trustees take their offioe Monday. January 2, so they will be compelled to hustle. Senator Fairbanks has officially announced that he will offer his resignation from the Senate on January 9 to take effeot March 4. This will majke way for the eleotion'of Congressman Hainan way as his snooessor on January 17, the same day that Senator Beveridge will be re-eleoied to succeed himself. Trevor Eger from Harvard, Nina Martindale, Ernest Lamson, Isaao Lewis, Boss Dean and t ßlaineGwin of Indiana University and Misses Alice end Edith Shedd, of Northwestern, are oollege students home for the holiday vaoation. J. 0. Mitchell, the blown-up smokeless powder man, of Reynolds, or what is left of him, anyhow, is showing wonderful vitality and it is now believed that he will recover. At present he is totally Mind and the Logan*port oculist rho is treating his remaining eye las bat little hopes of his ever seeing with it again. Harry 8. Elliott, oounty clerk of

Casa county, spent sometime looking up statistics on the number of cjunty treasurers that have de faulted in various states. He found that ladiana leads the entire list. It U even stated in Indiana 93 per cent more treasurers go wrong than in any other cjmrn :n-----weath. “The figures rather starting and there is no way in which they can bj explained,” eaid Elliott. County Superintendent Hamilton wes made happy this morning by receiving an elegant gold watoh as a preeent from the teachers at the county institute, as a token of their appreciation of his able and faithful work, as the head of the public system of Jasper county. Sheriff John Wildasin came over from Newton county this morning, on what is probably his last official trip over here. He brought a rather tough looking individual who gives his name as Ed Smith. He was caught just as he had b;oken into the railroad depct at Goodland, but before he succeeded in securing any cash or other property. He was bound over to the oirouit by a justice, and sent here for safe keeping.