Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THjN PAST WEEK. ■ v . ' : Bank Messenger Is Held vians Await the Second Sympathy from the President—serous Fire at Evansville. HH A messenger for the Exchange i>f Clmrubus-.o was robbed of $1,200 ih-B| bills the other night. He was sent to linnbia City to bring back $2,200 in Failing to reuun on the eveningXtrain, friends became alarmed and sent out searching party. He was found nt auHBl early hour the next morning lying roadside, badly injured, but SI,OOO of $2,200 was left on his person. His is that, failing to catch the evening for Churubusco, he had started to wanß home. When nearly at his destination he®| was assaulted by two men and robbed the money, but the robliers failed to the package of SI.<HK». which he had eealed in an inner pocket. M End of the World in a Year. A small colony of Moravians near Ltf®| Porte has taken heed of the words of Dr. J. T. Boyd, the I Moravian divine, who is predicting end of the world, and meetings are being M held nightly in preparation for the ing dissolution, Boyd’s conclusions arejß drawn from biblical sources. Nov. 1899; the Moravians believe, will witneMsH the end of the world. Boyd lays nmeh®| stress on his prophecy of a meteoric er. whii h the scientists have foretold loogiiß in advance of him. B Defrauded by Its Employes. B The Bowser oil tank works, one of tbttH largest manufacturing concerns of Forfiß Wayne, has been systematically robbed’B by trusted employes for months past an®B the peculations have just come to light.jß • •ne of the nu n would issue express orderSM and others would have them cashed in® Chicago, Indianapolis and Toledo, Ohio.;® Peculations amounting to nearly SIO.IMMXB have been ulleoveri d. blit the in has only just begun. B President McKinley Sends Synipathjri® Mrs. James Jones of Kokomo has re-jB reived a letter from President MeKin-B ley. Jones was the artilleryman killed*® by the premature discharge of a eannonM in saluting the presidential train when itß passed through there a few weeks ag®B The President expressed deep for the bereft family and sent a cheek ?25. . ■ Fireworks House Destroyed. ■ The wholesale candy, fireworks and gro-iB eery house of Broom A Co. wis destroyed® by tire at Evansville. The store was VHmß| tied at $(511,000. A continuous explosion of'® fireworks made the work of subduing flames exceedingly hazardous. |® Within Our Border*. South Bend's new court house $239,162.78. ' ■ Fifteen new gas wells have been <lrillet|® in the vicinity of Gaston. B Rural free mail delivery has been es-B tablished in Hamilton County. ■ Robert Lowe was shot and fatally® wounded by Janies Eden, Jr., a druggist*® at Bryant. ■ Joe Tolbert and Charles Finch had a® fight at Connersville and Tolbert shot his® adversary in the hip. ■ Private Frank M. Green, Company D,® ,161st Indiana, died in the division bos-® pital. Jacksonville, Flu. ■ The Indiana State Dairy Association® will hold its ninth annual meeting at® Mooresville Dec. 14 and 15. H At Kokomo, Frank Lewis, colored, was® killed by the cars by rolling off the depot® under the wheels while asleep. ■ Near South Bend, Lee Styles, a wealthy® farmer, was attacked by a bull he was® leading and received probably fatal in-® juries. B The city theater in Oswego was com*® pletely gutted by fire. Loss about $8,000.® uninsured. An amateur rehearsal was in® progress at the time of the fire. ■ Mrs. Edward Hilligoss, one of the old-® est residents of Madison County, living® north of Anderson, was killed by a train® on the Panhandle, as she was returning ittj® a buggy to her home after a trip to mar*® ket. B Herman Schaumann of Watertowaij® Wis., was found dead in his boat, which® was floating down the Kankakee river.® His gun had been accidentally discharged)® and the top of his head was blown off*® causing instant death. ■ William Hein., aged 55 years, of North® Manchester, committed suicide by hang*® ing in his barn. He was absent from the® house only an hour, when relatives in-® stituted a search and found him suspends® ed from one of the timbers. ■ Thieves entering the postoflice at Grav*® elton the other night aroused a dog, which® is kept in the room, and the postmaster® was brought out of his home near by.® Several shots were exchanged, but the® robbers escaped without injury and with® S3OO. The body of Miss Katie Hefferlin was® found in the Ohio river at Evansville. Miss® -Hefferlin disappeared from home two® weeks before, and her parents feared she® had committed suicide. She became de*® spondent because her lover broke an ete® gageinent with her. I A peculiar disease has broken out amohg® the horses in the north part Of Carr®® County, and several have died. The ani® mals’ throats become inflamed so that I they cannot swallow, and consequently I they starve to death. There seems to b«® no remedy for the disease. I Joseph Bedrd. in jail at Seymour, await® ing trial for the fraudulent collection.ano® appropriation of money for chiitch pur-® poses, was taken from prison late the® other night and severely whipped. Ttt|® victim is a negro, until recently unknotrijj® there, and in the “committee” were number of his own rare. 1 At Elko, William Ellison was shot ana® dangerously wounded by Janies Shields, a® Seventh Day Adventist, who was being® persecuted by several boys on account of® his religious belief. 1 Isaac N. Hoop, an insane man taken t<® the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the la® sane about six weeks ago, has escaped and® his whereabouts are unknown. His is in Madison County. ‘J At New Albany, Miss Leona Peem WU® shot and dangerously wounded by Chnjrldfl McCoy. The latter did not know the gW|® was loaded and the bullet entered her ate® domen and may cause death I