Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENCE [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENCE

RECORD OF EVENTSfIH PAST WEEIGI I Sparrows Poisoned in jfliM Bounty Offered by Miclflfl mantle Marriage of a Mufl —Farmer’s Fatal Trip. fl The State of Michigan 2 cents for every English spa<B turned in to the men are visiting northern Indß ami poisoning the birds by the! to get their heads to take to Jfiß Secret Marriage at Mwfl A secret marriage -that took! Muncie recently became knowjjß parture of Mr. and Mrs. Williaß for Florida, to spend the wintß honeymoon. Mr. Shiveley iafl Shiveley’s famous park near Mfl mit, where he owns a great isl property. They were married! large tree which was planted 1B pie forty years ago when they vB Mr. Shiveley is 60 and the bridß younger. fl Fatal Trip for a CoSfl George Cummings, a respecß of near Bedford, was caught on fl of the Southern Indiana Raß fatally injured. He was on hiafl a coffin for a neighbor’s daugtfl the accident occurred. The wfl torn to pieces and the horses mfl Within Our Bordera-I The public schools at Lagro fl closed owing to an outbreak ■ fever. I The Indiana oil market has fl to the 70-eent mark and proß jubilant. I Mrs. Ida Howard has sued ! dalia Railroad for $5,000 at (jfl ville on account of injuries recfl eollission near Waveland. ■ During a severe rainstorm Gfl Tom Fitzgerald, two despentfl Bunker Hill, sawed their way fl county jail and made their escafl Olley Jenness. a freight brafl the Chicago division, was killfl

Howard street crossing at Ulfl while attempting to make a coufl Lieut. Charles D. McCoy us ■ of Company A. 159th Indiana * died of typhoid, having contrachfl ease while in the service of his fl The interest of the late Iflß Dover of Anderson in the Amerifl Glass Conqwny of Alexandria fl to W. L. Kahn of Pittsburg fori The shoe store of W. E. Fitsfl Whiteland, containing rhe posttfl burglarized. About $75 worthl and some six or seven dollars taken. The homo of Banker A. Hartford City was The silverware was thieves left a note saying it and of no great value. The farmers of Sugar Vigo County, are adopting tires to be rid of the epidemic era. Within a few days hundred head have died. fl The men’s furnishing store owfl T. Moore & Co. of Mitchell into the other night and altout of clothing and shoes taken. fl| was used to haul the plunder. Mrs. Louis Brown and daugafl were dangerously injured by beinH from a carriage in a runaway fl ette. Louis Thelan aged 3. wail and his injuries may result fatalfl Benjamin McGuiness, a fl farmer, residing in the vicinifgr offl bany. took a dose of cremate jl in mistake for quinine while! from a chill and died in a few horn The steel-forge factory built afl in IS! >4 by a company headed by H ger, and which was sold last I Barber A Perkins of Ohio, is fl moved from Elwood to Titusvififl The large number of quail bril in spite of the law prohibiting ■ has incited the Fairmount Guu | offering a reward of $5 for anyl tiles an affidavit ami secures eoifl violators of the quail law. H The W. C. T. V. State eonvefl held at Lafayette. The counfifl tendents met to consider means isl ing the work and deciding ini church and schoolhouse nicetifl means of enlarging the membjfl Farmers in Wabash County reH the .fly is working great injwfl growing wheat. Seme fields Isl practically destroyed by the will ravage a large acreage offl sown grain unless cold weathfl soon. I The fifth annual bean dinner ,■ the Old Soldiers’ Association fl was a great success. The wesfl tine and the attendance large. | bushels of beans, four hundred fl meat and seven hundred poundfl tack were served. I The German Baptists held thel communion meeting recently at tfl church building, one mile west offl town. This was one of the nxfl taut meetings held by that denfl and many prominent ministers fl eral distant States were presentfl A sensational scene was creatfl Elwood jail when Mrs. Williafl came from Grestes and faced hetfl who had been fined $54.10 and afl for thirty days for enticing Irtfl Piel from her Orestes home. Mfl entered the jail and upbraided HI conduct and for taking $9.50 at 11 She worked herself into a frenzy-1 denly drew a 32-caliber revoltfl she pointed full at Houck’s brefl foot distant. Sergeant Moontfl forward and knocked the revolfl and took it from her. saving Hofl She was fined and Houck paid it ■ cash he had taken. I At Princeton. Arthur Swaifl shotgun seriously wounded fl George Harris. Swaim is It fl and was arrested by the polml after the Affair. I The Greensburg free street |fl with ten thousand people on tlfl Th brilliant display of up a week of festivities. Tbefl the merchants $15,000. I Howard Clark, who was wfl Louisville for murder and burg! his girl, Hattie Mahone, were Wl while resisting arrest on the Im| of the river, near Owensboro, ■■