Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — RECORD OF THE WEE[?] [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEE[?]

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERS||H told. ffl ■■ "■ * Highwaymen Captured at Waldron Depot Burned by cendiary - Fatal Train Wreck-fIH mill Boiler Explodes. MSB Late the other night the Kokomo ♦ad a battle with n gang of »n<i captured six. one of them gejttH| shot in the hip. They were shopkeepers on route home. The stolHj none.v was recovered. The men heir names as William H. Fisher, i Fisher and George Cook, 83 Erie Cleveland; William Myers, 1014 Fil j itreet, St. I.ouis; William Boyd, I David Roberts, Oneida, N. Y. WinH Fisher, the leader, was shot, the surrendering. They claim to be iron jetmakers recently employed at riety iron works, Superior street, and. H Work of Incendiaries at WaldrcMfi^B Fire destroyed the freight and .ffer depot at Waldron. The freight partment was tilled with goods, svhieh were consumed, some of them 1 ng very valuable. The town has ito protection except a few hand >rs. Citizens turned out and saved buildings. A tramp had been put off train there the day before, and '<> get even with the railroad eompanjM 1 he tire was undoubtedly of jrigin. | Two Men Killed in a Wreck. fl A south-bound freight train on the VaH lalia was wrecked at Honey creek by‘ thfl breaking of a coupling pin. When the enfl ?ine and forward section of the trail slowed up at the creek the rear sectlttfl crashed into it, demolishing five cars an| badly wrecking eleven others, killing twfl men who were riding on the bumpers. Th| men are supposed to be Albert Gibb Elkhart and John Metzler of Wakarusa.lfl Fatal Boiler Explosion. . The boiler in the sawmill owned a| l'homas Noitemeyer of Freelandsville exß ploded, killing (he engineer, Frank Jere| and seriously injuring Will Robbins an| lleorge Boyer. Jerel was blown aboz| thirty feet and was badly mangled. Ha leaves a family. 1 Within Our Border*. fl On account of diphtheria the schools all Royerton have been closed. I At Brazil. Newton Fisher shot and bad-1 ly wounded Charles Gross. 'll Jasper W. McLead was crushed to death! at Brazil by two sawlogs falling across hisl body. ’ I The Wood & Williams Company, furntj ture dealers in Terre Haute, have matfll an assignment. H John Powell, an alleged housebreakiH and thief, was shot while fleeing from police at Columbus. H J( “sse Reynolds of Oleau was accideflH ally killed by the discharge of a shotgnH while rabbit bunting. | Samuel Bates, employed at the co| mine at Fontanet, was killed by a fallin| tree which he was cutting. ■ The Standard Oil Company has aba| doned the attempt to run the indcpendenl companies out of Terre Haute. I Uniformed secret orders of Kokoa»| tieaded by the Knights of Pythias, havfl decided to build an auditorium. fl Tbe Indianapolis postoffiee receipts for September were $34,283, an increase of $1,402 over the corresponding month in 1897. ■ : The fifth pair of twins was born to Mr*| and Mrs. Luther Fish, living near Ander-. sou. The father is 42 and the mother 38 years old. The Salvation army was arrested for holding services on the streets at Colum- | bus. Some of the business men complain that it is a nuisance. Frank P. Wright, a farmer, living near Edinburg, has a variety of coffee bean; that matures perfectly and yields abun-• dually in this latitude. Farmers in Wabash County report that ♦he fly is working great injury to the grow- : ing wheat. Some fields have been practically destroyed by the insect. The fifty-eighth anniversary of the foun-J dation of St. Mary’s Academic Institute near Terre Haute was celebrated by the dedication of the new academy. Michael Murnaine. who mysteriouslj left Muncie three weeks ago and has been sought nfter by his grief-stricken mother, committed suicide at Worden, 111. Iu a petition for a divorce, Mrs. Frank Hasty of Huntington sets forth as valid grounds for a separation the fact that her husband would not take her to church. The farmers of Sugar Creek townshif are adopting drastic measures to be rid ot the epidemic of hog cholera. Within a few days more than 100 head have died. The shoe store of W. E. Fitzpatrick, at Whiteland. containing the postoffiee, wa* burglarized. About $75 worth of shoes and some six or seven dollars in cash wa* taken. Mrs. Alonzo Strong of Kendallville wa* accused by the postoffiee inspector of sending obscene matter through the mails. Before a warrant could be issued she had committed suicide. At Elwood, Robert Kuotts quarreled with his wife. While she was preparing to leave him he cut his throat with a razor, lie will probably die. They have beeu' married but five months! Fred Speyer, the young son of H. E. Speyer of Brazil, while riding his wheel, collided with a team and was badly injur ed. When he recovered consciousness it was discovered that he was totally blind. One of the most disastrous fires that ever visited Tipton broke out iu the business center. The flames were first seen in the clothing store of 1. Freymark and in a few minutes communicated with adjoining buildings. It is just made known that an attempt was made to wreck the Vandalia pay car the other morning a few miles west of Terre Haute. During the night th* section car house was broken open and tools were taken, with which the wouldbe wreckers disjointed two rails. The rails were separated slightly, but in a manner which would cause the wheels of a west-bound train to spread them apart. A special cast-bound train came along at the time the west-bound pay ear was expected. The train passed over safely, hot the jarring of the loosened rail* called ah tentiou to what hat}, been done. . Sg