Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1896 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

NDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY i.-MI-i ' defalcation and Suicide by Bunker Kelley Amazes South gea^Fantlljr Near Anderson Who BaVc So FearNor Use for a Dentist South Bend la Puzzled, When .l-vsiah E. Kellcv tired a bullet into his heart, in the basement of his I onic, in South Bend. Thursday evening, he made full confession that he was a defaulter of the fnuds of the First National Bunk, Of which he wds assistant cashier, and with which he had been connected since boyhood. South Bend haa had more than its share of sensations concerning its hunks, but the discovery that Kelley was a defaulter, and his act of selfdestruction following the discovery of his guilt by the National Bank Examiner. John L. Vance, shook the business ns well as the social foundations of the community as they Had not been shaken before. If there was anybody in the honking business in South Bend in whom the people generally had entire confidence.'it was .losiah K. Kelley. The hank with which he had been connected since 1888 is one of the oldest and soundest institutions in the State. It was founded in IJW.T as "The State Bank of Indiana" and became a national bank in 1 Still, a short time before Kelley entered it a* nn office hoy. The only feature of the lameutablo incident, from which the owners of the hank and the business public generally can derive any gratification is that the defalcation, amounting in round numbers to $24,100, will in no wise cripple the bank nr even impair its credit. Have No Use for Teeth. A family of freaks was unearthed near Lapel, west of Anderson, Saturday. It consists of several people withonf a tboth. .tames Leonard is the father, He is past HO years of age, and has passed this much < f his life sound aud healthy without tbn assistance of u molar or even a baby tooth None never grew. Twenty years ago he married a woman who hud as firm a set of teeth as could be found. She Rtlll possesses them. They had four children, all of whom are full grown and perfect in regard to health, but who. like their father, never had a tooth in their heads. Their gums, however, came down much further than is ordinarily the ease and are hard and as firm ns bone. Mr. Leonard is able to crack nuts in his jaws without pain ami seems io get along fully na well u.< though he were possessed of a full set of teeth. The children’s jaws are quite as firm and strong. All are perfectly eontcifted, have no use for deutists and no aches or pains iu their jaws. They live on a farm and seldom go a wav from home. They are fairly well to do.

Alt Over the (Mate. A had wreck happened on the Lake Shore Road In the depot at Ohe*tert< o. A sand train run into n find stock train. All ♦ lie milmnon jumped, one being slightly hurt. One engine and a dozen cars were derholinlied and twenty bend of blooded cattle killed- Sand was piled up ten feet deep. v A serious epidemic of typhoid fever is prevailing in the vicinity of Oxford. Nine oi' the family of William Hibhs were stricken at one time, and the mother and one child died. Two other families were also stricken, and two case* are reported at Oxford, springing from impure water. For scvprnl weeks the Hibhs family wero unattended save hj/ the father BUd one >;ou, no great was the fear of. contagion by the neighbors. , , . Miss Sarah Blinn, the Terre Haute elderly spinster, lit whose ease a jury disagreed on a charge of insanity preferred hy her sister iu order to prevent her marriage with Widower Frank Combs, took Combs to Paris. 111., the other day and paid a preacher for marrying them. They had been refused a marriage lleenes at T< rre Dilute. On their return the boys in ‘he neighborhood of tho house gathered and gave the couple a noisy serenade. Once they left the house aud went to a hotel to spend the night. Combs objected lo the amount the clerk proposed to charge them and they left the hotel, ulthough Mrs. Surah stood ready, pocketbook ii* hand, to pay the hill. A strange case of poverty was disclosed in a Muncle justice court, the subject being n former well-known Chicago woman. Mrs. Alma Southgate recently purchased some second-hand furniture. She was the defendant in a replevin suit for failing to meet the payments. Her husimind was connected with the Philadelphia Record until he assumed charge of the Chicago TelegWrK and later established the Chicago Herald. Six year* ago tlie husband and wife had some trivial difference and separated. The woman went to Ottawa, 111., and then to Munele a year ago. She has worked at different occupations to support her children. She says she put in type the first word (“the") ever set in type for the Chicago Herald.

The County Commissioners of Adams (fount y have been* holding a special session in their office in Decatur. The purpose of the meeting was for examining and accepting the report of the officer* of the* county, including trustees, auditor, clerk and treasurer. The report* were all carefully examined' and found to lie correct and satisfactory, until they* came to the report of the treasurer* Daniel I’. Holds. His report was found to be wrong. He had, as alleged, charged the county with his per cent on rood taxes, and also other taxes, which the commissioners claim ho had no right to do. The' amount of the shortage may ran into the thousands. Mr. Bolds is one of the wealthiest and most prominent men in the county. He has been quite a large oil speculator. It is claimed by Bolds” friends that the shortage, which they say is only a misunderstanding, it due to. the fee and salary k»w which has been in force in this State the past year. Thieves robbed the postofficc at Wheatliehl Mondiiy morning, taking several hundred dollars' worth of stamps and a sum of money., Robberies, have been commitled at Demotte and Wheatfi(*ld .ajmost nightly for several weeks past.. WlHiam. Dfivis was shof by liis wife, l+izxle. Davis, at Red Cloud. Mrs. Davh* was a teacher jn a Sunday school, and. her .husband became jealous and declared that she only wefit to Sabbath school to meet the superintendent, with whom becharged she was intimate. The wife resented the charge and in the row she shot him. Pretty 18-year-old Maud Dusenbnry, of Ramona, was arrested at Brazil for stealing a team of horses and a buggy, which, she had with her. She was taken back to Ramona. This is said to be the third lime she has been implicated tn horse* stealing. . , , - , Ex-Secretary of the Navy “Undo Dick” Thompson, of Terre, Haute, ham entirely recovered from heat prostration; and feels as Weil as he has for several years and is ftiscuAsing the political utidH aiid questions 1 tff the- campaign with! us much vigor as he did half* a century jwo. His friends say it’ is out of. question that he coMjfl suheumb in a ye**i