Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

A small boil on the chin of Frank Crum, residing east of Miss Creek, on the Crumstown road, which he picked and blood poison developed, resulting in his death. His death followed a week of intense suffering, the infection having spread rapidly until his whole system was poisoned. Preston Bell, age thirty-five, a convict, sentenced on March 23, 1905, from Indianapolis, for manslaughter to a term of from two to twenty years, died of tuberculosis in the state prison at Michigan City Monday. Mrs. Sarah Warner, of Terre Haute, coming from her house to start for California, found a 3-week-old baby on her porch. She took it along, as she did a 7-year-old child she found on the porch when it was only a day old. Kitselman Bros., owners of the Kitselman wire fence factory and the Indiana steel and wire mill, at Muncie, are at work on the construction of an addition to their fence plant that will give employment to fifty additional men and that will run the total number of employes in that factory to 450.

The Rose Polytechnic institute, of Terre Haute, received a bequest of about $500,000 by the will of Susan Frances Heminway, one of the chief heirs of Mr. Rose, the school’s founer. In addition Miss Heminway leaves the Rose homestead, an entire block in the heart of the city for the use of the school.

The Knights of Pythias lodge of Decatur, will build a new $15,000 home on their 16t on Third street, this summer. The new structure will be a two-story brick building and will be fitted with every modern convenience. The lower floor will be occupied by club rooms, while the second story will be used for a lodge room. Richard Conn, a machinist of Columbus, Ind., says he has not tasted water for 20 years. His reason for not drinking water are that the liquid is not fit to drink and he gets along very well without it. He does not drink any sort or liquid at meals and says he never perspires. In spite of the fact that he has not taken a drink of water in the time mentioned he has been in good health, and—says he never has the slightest desire to take a drink. With the completion of Michigan street this week all the newly-paved streets in Plymouth are now open to traffic. The city has this season added 15 squares of Boston brick pavement. Burleigh Hill, of Greenfield, died from the effects of chigre bites and drugs administered for his sufferings. Scores of the .little insects bit Hill, and drugs were given to him, but he went into convulsions and died.

Rev. Gustav Krause, of Laporte, who was recently ordained to the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran church, has received and accepted a call to the pastorate of the Evangelical Lutheran church at Louisville, Ohio. Benjamin F. Collins, about sixtyyears old, slashed his throaty twice in a room adjoining Justice Brumbaugh’s court, in Elkhart, while awaiting trial for assault and battery preferred by George Butters, whoße wife is the alleged affinity of Collins. He may recover. to it up," was the only explanation by N Collins.