Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

Company H, of Warsaw, won fM honors In the test contest at the big Indianapolis state guard encampment. Dr. George H. Grant, secretary of the Wayne county board of health, killed himself with a revolver at Richmond. He had been in poor health. —O— The continued dry weather haa tended to ripen the big crop of Hoosier bananas, (paw paws) earlier than usual this year. Usulaly a frost must come before paw paws are ripened. This year they are ripe before frost. The prolonged and unexplained absence of Rufus C. Griffith, a wealthy resident of Kokomo, is causing his family and relatives grave anxiety. He left two weeks ago ostensibly for Montana. No word has been received from him. Prof Hary MUlis, son of Councilman Mills of Bloomington and brothof President W. A. Millie of Hanover college,has Just accepted a position in the employment of the United States government, to be at the bead of the Immigration Bureau of California. The Rev. John J. Morton, an evangelist, in an address at Evansville, predicted that the world would oome to an end on or before October 25. The present drought that prevails throughout the Ohio valley Is a forewarning of the dsetruction of ths earth by fire, the preacher declared.

Emotional Insanity will be the plea of the defense in the -trial of Heny F. McDonald, who shot and killed Chief of Detectives William E. Dwyer, wounded two policemen and fired on Prosecuting Attorney James A. Cooper Jr., at the culmination of a trial in the Vigo circuit court room, April 2. The special reports from the 188 private banks throughout the state, which were called for by the bank deparment in the office of the State Auditor Billheimer, have practically all been sent in to the auditor’s office. The reports are all satisfactory, so far as the condition of the banks Is concerned, but L. A. Wiles, head of the bank department, who has gone over the reports, has found it necessary to retdrn some of them because of the lack of signatures of stockholders, as required by law. A pond fire In which fish, frogs and turtles perished by the Boore is the latest dry weather freak story. It comes from Harrison county, where on the farm of Benjamin Luslie, near Iris, a pond became so devoid of water that the growth on the bottom was exposed and became dried. To this dry vegetation a spark was communicated from the forest fire and for more than an hour flames raged over the pond. After the fire sooree at dead fish, frogs and turtles were Connfloating on the water, which had been heated almost to a boiling point