Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1896 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY . * " told. Workmen at Valparaiso Find a Pack* ape of Majl Lost Thirty-six Years Ajo-Land Owteri Will Try to Reclaim Thousand*of Acres of Swamp, Lost Letters Come to Lipht. After having been lost for thirty-six years and, in early days, been the cause of many remptaints to the Pustoffice Department, a package of ninety-four letters was found the other day at the old Michigan Central depot in Valparaiso, now being dismantled. The letters were yellowish With age and some of them on the point of dropping to pieces. They were discovered in a barrel under a lot of rub'bieh. When Porter Station was the principal town of that section the postoffice was In the depot and all mail was received there and sent to its destination overland. From all parts of the country had the letters come, addressed to individuals and firms in that locality. They have been turned over to Poatofilee Inspector Letherman, and when possible will be forwarded to their destination. The others will be sent to tho dead letter office nt Washington. Plan to Reclaim 030,000 Acres. About 300 land-owners, representing the ownership of 000,000 acres in the Kankakee Valley, met at Hanna to elect directors and to discuss the best method of draining the valley. A eonunittre was elected as follows: A. E. Stowell, Kouts; D. W. Place, South Bend; Chas. Holmes, Walkerton; James Ixtug, La (’rosso; Charles Donaldson, Hamlet; Janies Gilchrist, Walkerton; Edgar Shilling, Hamlet. This committee was empowered to employ an engineer to make preliminary surveys and refer the proposed route and probable cost to the land-owners, they in turn to petition the County Commissioners to appoint appraisers to assess benefits. The cheapest method will cost several hundred thousand dollars, but it will reclaim land which is now largely valueless for agricultural purposes.

All Over the State. At Terre Haute the Northwest Indiana Conference voted —85 to o—in favor of admitting women. The other proposition, submitted by the Cleveland general conference, for equal lay representatjon, was carried by a vote of 53 to -15. Hugh Fisher, an Audersoh young tunn subject to epilepsy, has received peculiar treatment that has resulted in n remarkable cure. The disease has, it is claimed, been Iransmitte<|' to a pet dog, leaving its master free from all of tho symptoms. Mrs. Margaret Gather, one of the oldest ladies iij the, county, died at Anderson while shopping. Al her funeral Mrs. Bell Gather Elliot, of Winemac, one of her daughters, rode in a closed onb to and from the graveyard. As she was leaving the eftb, after returning home, sire dropped from the step, and before she could be taken into the house was dead. H. E. Sterling committed suicide nt tho Arlington Hotel, Richmond, where he registered from Chicago, his home. Some time ago his wife left him and went to the home of her parents in Richmond, and his object was to bring about a reconciliation, but this he failed to do. lie then rMtftrted to the hotel uiiM ended his life. He was not over 40 years of age, ami was a representative of the Winger Sewing’Machine Company. Tho large shaft of tho Isaac Mclntosh Coal Company at Caseyville w»» destroyed by five Friday. The Hames caught from the boiler in the shingle roof of tho boiler-noom and .spread to the tipple and blacksmith shop, totally destroying everything above ground and ruining tho valuable machinery’.* The danger signal was sounded and the 300 miners nt work underground escaped by the air course, The loss la about $5,000; ‘fully coverts! by Insurants*. There is evidence of a conspiracy to burn property In Greensburg, anil three attempts have already, been made. (’/Ulcers Meek and Sperry saw a num skulking in an alley Thursday night. They shallowed him and noon saw him enter the barn of M. D. Tacekett, clerk of the Decatur Circuit Court. They followed and saw him put some shavings on the hay, pour t> bottle of coal oil on, ami apply the nintob. They waited till the tire got a little. stdrt and then arrested the man, who proved to be George Israel. At. Laporte tjie Grand Jury has returned an Indictment .against Christian Ba - ker, a convict in the Northern Indiana prison, for arson, the charge on which ho is now serving a sentence. Baker escaped from prison nnd was recaptured. The.citizens of La Grange County, fearing that Baker would carry out a threat he had made to destroy property in retaliation for fancied wrongs, found an old statute which prescribed a penalty equal to tb.e original sentence the convict is serving, ns punishment, for an attempt to escape from prison. Baker was sentenced to serve ten years. This is the first case in tho /history of the Indiana courts brought under this statute.

Ever siuce the burning of the Hymera coal mining plant at Sullivan by incendiaries Pinkerton detectives have been working in thut locality, and Wednesday, two men were placed in jail there agaiuut whom damaging evidence has been secured. Some days ago John Boyles, living nt Linton, was arrested at Bloomfield on a charge of. drunkenness. While he was dissipating freely, it is claimed, he foil In with a stranger and the two became confidential friends, during which Boyles told him that he knew about the burring of the Hymera mines. The stranger repeated the conversation to others. Night Watchman Marlow, of the mints, was sent to Bloomfield to see if he eoUld identify Boyles, which he did nt once. Boyles, whose reputation is not the l>est, has been recommitted to jail. Ho has implicated an old man a med Thomas, and Thomas has also been arrested. George Southern, a business man of Burke, left his home Thursday morning and has not returned. He had about sl,500 With him at the time ahd suspicions are entertained that he has been foully dealt with. Father Gerald Wilson, assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Terre Haute, died of typhoid feter. He came from New York several years afco and had be4n very popular. Last spring he was selected to go to Rome' to be the American confessor there, but securedthe privilege of remaining at Terre Haute. , Glosser Brothers, general merchanta of Kingsbury, made an assignment to J. Vene Dorland. Assets, $2,500; liabilities, $3,500. Several years ago there came to Shelbyville a young man named Lev Jewett, w!> would relate nothing aboyt his fem?iky, but wh<* frequently said he h(id left home because he and his father could not agree. About four years ago he suddenly ' disappeared, ahd had been fortotten until ’When County Clerk Powers received a letter from J. H. Minegan inquiring if he w& s and string that a fortune,,swatted him Ur Carlisle Ky. He is thought t'd b<; somewhere in Ka*> * aß - .gal <» . ifo-> " •’