Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — EXCHANGE NOTES. [ARTICLE]

EXCHANGE NOTES.

The Indianapolis News announces the appointment c f Walter K. Landis, of Grant county, brother of Congressman Landis of this county, as a member of the Porto Rican postal commission. This, we believe, fixes all the Landis boys with a soft government snap, and it will, no doubt, be hilarious news to those republicans

who for their work and time andji money spent in the campaign opl ’96 have been and are the recipj*|| ents of fair promises for their vices.—Carroll County Citizen. |jjj Mrs. Alary Wilkins, mother 001 Airs. Robt. Watson, isproliably the-;! oldest person in northern Indiana, | if not in the state. She celebrated. 1 her 99th birthday last Thursday surrounded by a score or more of relatives and friends. After din-1 ner Airs. Wilkins proposed a foot race with some of the younger | women present, -and proved to be* | too fleet for her opponents. Mrs, «| Wilkins was born in county of Ty- I rone, Ireland, in 3799, came to America in 1845. She is a re- '\ markably well preserved woman. * being able,to read without the Bid of glasses, her faculties are all intact and she still leads an active life. She certainly appears to have an excellent chance to pass the century line. Remington Press.

On Wednesday morning Mr. Frank Hershman, of Walker tp. f Jasper county, hitched up his team of horses to a wagon to drive to John Hershman’s to get a road scraper. To please his children and give them a ride he took three of them with him. His daughter, 8 years old, holding her 1 year old brother in her lap, was sitting on the spring seat while the third child was in the wagon box. Frank got the scraper and on his return home he stopped at the house of John Stalbaum, when suddenly the horses got scared and started with the wagon containing the children, down the road at breakneck speed. They ran about one hundred yards when the front wheels struck a tree, the horses broke loose and continued on their wild career, while the children on the seat were thrown forcibly to the ground, the baby breaking a leg and the girl was picked up for dead. Upon examination it was found that she was seriously injured, one eye being swollen to an enormous size and blood flowing from her ears. The child in the wagon escaped unhurt, Dr. H. G. Jones, who was called, reduced the fractured limb of the baby and tells us that there is hope of the girl's recovery and that the eye may possibly be saved.—Medaryville Advertiser.

Yirgie items received too late. Rails are laid on three miles of j the Gifford railroad. J. Al. Gardner was in Alonticello lon business Wednesday. The Flora bank robbers have not yet been apprehended. Good correspondence stationery, cheap at The Democrat office. Editor Healey of the Chalmers Ledger, was in the city yesterday. Bro. Clark of the Journal, made a business trip to Chicago on | Thursday. Gifford district onion growers ' can get but 15 to 20 cents per bushel for their onions. C. W. Duvall was called to South Bend last week by the illness of his brother Samuel. He returned Alonday and reported Sam as ! somewhat better.

We have a nice newsy grist of items from Surrey this week and trust our correspondent ‘will favor oui readers each week with items from that part of Jasper. The football season opened Wednesday at Riverside Park with a practice game between the city team and the High School boys. No fatalities, but Clias. Fidler of the High School team got his collar bone broken. Yesterday the Chalmers and Rensselaer teams held forth here. Score will be given next week.

Flora Siadla, an attractive young lady of sixteen, on last Monday filed an affidavit against Emmet Pullins, a prominent young man under twenty-one, before W illiam H. Churchill, a justice of the peace, charging him with being the cause of her ruin. The defendent filed his affidavit for a change of venue? and the case was sent to justice James A. Burnham, and in default of four hundred dollar bond the defendant languished in jail until Wednesday, when his father came to his relief. The case was tried on Thursday afternoon and the defendant was found to be the father of the unborn child and placed under six hundred dollar bond for his appearance at the next term of court. Miss Siadla on Thursday also filed her affidavit against Pttllins for seduction, and he filed an affidavit for a continuance, and the same was continued until Monday and he gave bond for his appearance at that time. James W. Douthit and Charles W. Hanley appear for the state and Jesse E. Wilson and S. C. Irwin for the defendant. -TEWa i Vr: