Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1908 — FROM OVER THE STATE [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER THE STATE

Jerry L. Johnson, a thirteen-year-old hoy was killed in a runaway last week on his father’s farm near Elkhart. i -'.*w i > August 14 has been set aside as farmers’ day at Winona, Many of the fraternity are expected there on that date. The salvation army of the state will hold its annual assembly this year at Anderson, from the 14 to the 24 of August. 1 The Winona Bible Conference will be held at Winona for ten days beginning Aug. 16th. Wilbur “Chapman will be the director. Judge Baker, holding federal court at Goshen Wednesday, declared that revenue officers cannot force brewers to label their goods “alcohol’’ Instead of “spirits.” Riding through the country by easy stages, Miss Grace Ewalt arrived in Terre Haute astride her black mare Dutch, enroute from Charleston IIL, to Richmond, Ind., her home. A man at Greensburg, Ind., bought a plow horse recently at a cost of $lB5, and he has developed a trotter with a 2:16 gait out of him. He did the same thing a year ago, and sold the horse for 83,500. Bud Patison, a blind Warsaw prodigy, has gone to Goshen to tend bar. He lost his eye sight when 8 years old by being struck by glass which he had batted with a ball bat. His ability to get about without sight is remarkable. It is thought that the attendance at DePauw University this year will exceed 1,000, All the rooms in Florence and Ladies’ Halls and the two dormitories have been engaged and |the president’s office 1b flooded with letters from prospective students. At the unveiling of the soldiers and saiiors’ monument at Butler Wednesday afternoon, under the auspices of the Butler G. A. R. post, Congressman Gilhams, of the Twelfth district, delivered the principal address; The monument erected in the Butler cemetery is one of the handsomest in northern Indiana. Mrs. J. K. Royer, of Anderson, fasted 29 days to cure herself of appendicitis. For the first three or four days, she asserts, she suffered much from hunger, but after that she (experienced but little lnconvience and lost but little in weight She drank water freely ahd feels certain that she has cured herself of the disease and that she will not have to undergo an operation.

j Judge John H. "Gillett, of! Valparaiso, who was defeated for renomination for supreme judge by Quincy Myer, of Logansport, has been engaged by the Valparaiso University to deliver two lectures daily in the law school after he retires from the supreme court Residents of the southern portion of Kosciusko county are planning a bear hunt. A big brown bear was seen by 4 several residents and has j taken refuge in a swamp on the farm jof William Caldwell in Clay township. So far all efforts to beat the bear out of his lair have been unsuccessful. The War Department has officially notified Culver Military Academy that it has again been reported to the secretary of war as one of the eight schools whose students have exhibited the greatest application and proficiency in military training and knpwledge. This permits the schools to haye an honor graduate appointed as second lieutenant in the regular army, and Cadet E. M. Balcom, of Nashua, N. H., has received the appointment. Milton Jeffries, a bachelor 74 years of age, was gored to death by a bull at his farm near Shelbyville Saturday. He was taking his cow to pasture when attacked by the bull. He was a wealthy man, having 360 acres of fine land. On Friday John Gast, a resident of Porter county for more than 40 years, was attacked by a bull when returning from salting some sheep and cattle. He was repeatedly down and finally fell down an embankment and out of reach of the bull. The accident occurred at 10 in the morning and he was not found until 3:30 in the afternoon. He was unconscious and remained so all day Sunday and It was feared he would die. His chest was crushed, three ribs broken and he had sustaind internal injuries. He was 66 years of age. Since the year 1901 twenty people have died In Indiana of the rabies, commonly known as hydrophobia. These figures are shown by the reports oft the board of health. It is thought tha/t 100 people have been bitten by dogs or other animals suffering from rabies. Many of these people have had the wounds cauterized and suffered no evil consequences. The large majority however, are finally rendered immune by means of the Pasteur treatment as administered at Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Indianapolis. Several cases have been reported in Indiana this year and some times rabies result from the bite of dogs not apparently affected, and these cases I should be cauterized at once. The j period of incubation in man for the disease is from six weeks to two months.