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ALL OVER THE STATE. The first annual fruit show will be held at Purdue university, Jan. 13 to 18. An option has been received on 800 acres of stone land near Bloomington. The stone will be shipped to Gary. Mrs. Nancy D. Morris of Shelbyville, who is 76, rode on the first train over the Edinburg and Knightstown railway. A negro of Richmond has patented a corn harvester covering thirty-eight points. It is said to be a great success. The second dairy train which went out from Lafayette covered 500 miles on the Monon and 4,000 people heard the lec tures. A farmer near Owensville raised some freak corn. Each stalk had but one ear It vas grown from one grain of corn to a stalk. Capt. Evan Sharp, one of the leaders of the successful plot by which 109 prisoners escaped from Libby prison at Richmond in the Civil War, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. William Haseltine in Kokomo, aged 70. Joseph Robson, 16, was accidentall killed by a bullet from a Flobert rifle in New Castle. He was with Freddie Scott and William Wallace. Scott was hold ing the rifle and it was accidentally dis charged, the bullet hitting Robson. A chicken thief broke into the henhouse of James B. Elmore near Evansville, carried off half a dozen chickens and tacked on the door a paper with the following verse: "Christmas time is drawing near; Thought I'd get my chickens here." Emery Shaffor was killed and Andrew Lindsay, a saloonkeeper, was seriously shot in a duel in Lindsay's saloon at Harmony. The duel was the result of a dispute over the price of drink. Much of the money offered in payment for the recent issue of Hagerstown electric light bonds was in bills that were damp and musty. This indicated that it had been buried for a long time. Local business men say that concealing money has grown since the failure of the Commercial Bank, in July, 1895. All of the issue of bonds was paid for by local people who were eager to get more. The mob injured five persons and riddled street cars with bullets in Muncie in a riot that followed an attempt of the Indiana Union Traction Company to run cars manned by non-union men. The strike followed the refusal of the company to re-sign the wage agreement that has been in effect for five years. While kneeling in prayer in St. Jo. seph's Roman Catholic church in South Bend, Miss Margaret Joyce's pocket was picked by two fashionably dressed women. Discovering her loss as the women were leaving the church, she gave chase, but though she ran after the pickpockets for nearly a mile, they finally escaped. The mystery of the disappearance of Miss Imogene Kinner from the home of her elatives in Michigan City Dec. 11 was leared up by the finding of her body near a creek two miles from the city. It was a wild and unfrequented place where the body was found, and it is supposed that the woman perished from exposure, probably having lost her way. Miss Kinner was 45 years old and had long been a teacher at Nyack and Yonkers, N. Y. Her aealth failed and she came to Michigan City in November to spend the winter. As the result of a "windy shot" in the coal mine at Princeton, McLelland St. Clair and Simon Lawrence were killed.