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Indiana News Bits Chronicle Big Gas Gusher Farm Fires
A hodgepodge Indiana roundup reports crimes, fires, political moves, and civic plans across towns like Terre Haute Shelbyville and Greenfield. Notable items include a Fort Wayne gas well crash and a Levant waterworks push, efforts to build a new Lebanon school, a humane society forming in Lafayette, and local officials facing scrutiny over electric stocks. Also noted are a dead Knighteville citizen at 73, a collapse in Shelby county pike appraisals, and a marriage at Martinsville with quiet ceremony.
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Fairland
G. A. BR. Post
Lebanon
Grip
Anderson
Humane Society
Lafayette
Fort Wayne
Terre Haute
Probaly
Shelbyville
Jackson County
M. W. Maseingale
P. m
Mt. Aus Lup
Shelby County
Terre Bante
Harrison County
Frederick Rodemeier
Jacob Gohn
Taylor’s Mill
Columbus
New Albany
Washington
Dorsey O. Elliott
Knighteville
Gordon Robinson
Terre Hauta
Isaac Endaily
Madison
Noah
Sons
Electe
State Board of Control
Portland
Jay County
Matilda Gooding
Greenfield
County
Horseshoe Bend
Wabash River
Hazelton
Bud Markeberry
Greencastle
Or. Cummingen
Fulkerson
Blackford County
James Thompson
Edinburg
Lonaville
Dickereon
Chas. McCarroll
Ryan
J. C. Collins
French Lick Springs
John Kane
Joseph Donkerly
Elsie Hastings
Martinaville
J.T. Carrol
Miss Shireman
James Milburp
Pont Delphi
Turpie
Indianapolis
Terre Raute
United States Senate
Seupentenna Certs Haute Express
Callen
Logansport
Elizabeth Connor
Granville Cooprider
John Y. Miller
Cooprider
Simae Cae
Ian Dames
A. Williams
Dames
M. Ergenbr
Ja Dane Gem
Feo