Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

After brooding over family troubles for some time. Jay Thompson sought to "end it all" via the carbolic add route, but was prevented from carrying out his threats by Alonzo Patrick, who seized the vial when Thompson made a feeble attempt to swallow its contents. Thompson then went into Herman Doyle’s barber shop and succeeded in getting hold of a razor and declared his intentions as he had done before, but was overpowered by Mr. Doyle and forced to give up the razor. —Hebron News. = x = Because she was too fat and believed she was a burden to herself and relatives, Mrs. Mabel Zust, fiftyfive years old, and weighed more than 300 pounds, took her life by swallowing laudanum at her home in Kokomc The Rev. Dr. Thomas Deherrel, 84 years old, for fifty years a minister in the Methodist church, and prominent in the Odd Fellowship and Masonry, is dead at his home in New Albany, where he had lived the greater part of his life. = X =5 Frank Wolf, aged 45, a farmer, was killed by the Chicago Flyer on the Michigan Central railroad yesterday afternoon near Lake Station, with both his horses. It is exactly a year ago that h'is father and mother were killed at Hobart by a Lake Shore train in the same Ray. = x = Dispatches from Laporte state that the famous Lake Shore sand case has been sent to the state supreme court after a judgment had been reumed in the lower court. The suit was venued to Laporte from Lake county and 1300,000 is involved. Bond was filed yesterday morning. Mrs. William . Dunfee, eighty-three years old, captured first prize as the best woman rider of more than eighty years at the old settlers’ reunion held in the Wabash city park. Ten thousand cheered as she rode in the contest, handling her horse gracefully and easily. In riding she was accompanied by her husband, eightyfour years old. They rode as they had in their youth.

Dr. Edward C. Davidson of Lafayettte, who was held up and robbed a year ago of S6O and a SSOO watch by William J. Hyde and a confederate, has been given a check for $225 by a man giving the name of C. E. Channell. of Gloversville, N. Y., who said he was Hyde's friend and wanted to settle his "accounts. Hyde, who was known as the "gentleman burglar,” is serving a term in the state penitentiary at Michigan City. He operated in Indianapolis also before his capture In Lafayette. Many Ills come from impure blood. Can’t have pure blood with faulty digestion, laxy liver and sluggish bowels. Burdock Blood Bitten strengthens stomach, bowels and liver, and purifies the blood.