Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — Death of a Heavy Woman. [ARTICLE]

Death of a Heavy Woman.

Mrs. David Lumb, the largest woman in the State of Indiana, was buried at her old home in New Middleton. Mrs. Lamb weighed 50b pounds. No coffin could be found to fit the corpse, nor hearse to carry It. Mrs. Lamb was very poor, hut refused numerous tempting offers to accompany shows. All Over tho Btuto. The annual statement of the ninetyeight Htate hanks in ludlanu, complied by the Htate Auditor, shows that the total resources of these banks are $15,081,843.52. They have a combined capital stock of $4,700,400, their loans and discounts amounts to #10,727,630.07, and their cash on hand at the end of tho fiscal year was $1,500,351.80. Their demand deposits on bund amounted to $8,380,081.47, and tho time deposits were $481,144.50. During the year eight new hanks were established. Judge Dlven made n ruling in the Superior Court at Anderson that is of much importance In gas belt cities uml boom towns, where factories are located by tho Male of lots. It bus been the custom in ninny places to sell tho required number of lots, and then have a general drawing to select the same. Persons had to accept the number of the lot drawn, regardless of its position and value. In a case of this kind in Franklin certain peoplo failed to pay the installment, and suit, was brought. It was ruled that the form was nothing less than gambling, and, therefore, the contracts could not bo carried out by law. It. developed Monday that Louis E. Rhainhold, who wus sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years from Indianoi>ollh in 1881, was pardoned by Governor Matthews Oct. 12 and has been a free man since that time. Rheinhold was an attorney and defended n gang of burglars who were convicted. They then turned apon him and declared that he had been cognizant of their burglaries and had laid tho plans for the most of their crimes, hut had not actually participated in them. Tho Governor pardoned him on the recommendation of the prosecutor and others, who declare that the punishment was excessive. The investigation of .lames Shepp, Ollie Hall, and Thomas Duffy, of the Muncie fire department, by the Mayor and members of the City. Council, has been partially completed. James McCarty, a boy, principal witness for the prosecution, who alleges that ho awl Charles Sheets were harbored by the accused because of their willingness to steal chickens and other stuff, told his story to the investigating committee, giving a list of petty thieveries alleged to have been committed by himself and the firemen. The boy’s mother showed where goods had been purchased on her credit and taken to the firemen, this story being corrobated by the groceryman. The story told by McCarty Is denounced by Shepp, and the accused claim that the boy is lying to unload his offenses on them. The defense is yet to present its case. Oliver Martin, who was arrested for having set Geneva on fire, pleaded insanity, and at a court of physicians held at Decatur it was decided to send him to the Richmond asylum. Another incendiary fire has occurred at Geneva since he has been in custody. Typhoid fever seems to have taken a death hold on the family of Paul Gase, just north of Decatur. The eldest daughter died Saturday evening, the mother Sunday, and another child Monday. Four more children of the family are suffering from the disease and their lives are despaired of. At South Bend a gang of tramps held up one of their number and after, going through his clothes threw him in front of a Lake Shore passenger train. The man is badly injured and puy die. James McMan, transient, has been arrested for complicity in the affair. John Thompson, a harmless, eccentric old man, who hibernated in the courthouse at Greensburg, was found dead at the foot of the stairway, he having fallen and broken his neck. “Billy” Thompson, a local beggar, lives in the court-house basement, and jt is said that Thompson was on his way to rout “Billy” out, which he frequently did, when he fell. The deeeased was 60 years old