Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1898 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. ■ fl Kills His Little Girl Friend-Uphold*! the Indeterminate Sentence Act— State's Part in the Sprinish War— J Color Photography at Last. Little Mamie Brown, a child of 2 years, died under most peculiar circumstance*, g Her body was pierced through by a glanc- J ing bullet from a rifle in the hands of a boy friend. Willie Stroud. The aecident,J happened at the home of the parents of the hoy, three miles north of Peru. Wil- X lie, a hoy of 11, went to the yard with hi* ; rifle to shoot a chicken. His mother, lit- : tie Mamie and her mother went out to watch him. He brought the chicken down ; from the tree and Mrs. Brown took it to j the house to dress. Tlie two children and Mrs. Stroud followed. On the way Willie saw a bird on the dinner bell and stopped to try his skill in shooting it. He killed the bird. At the same instant little Mamie, who was a few feet behind, gave a scream. The bullet that killed the bird j struck the bell in such a manner as to be deflected to the child. Indeterminate Law Upheld. The Supreme Court has held that the indeterminate sentence law is not unconstitutional, as an ex-post-fneto law. John F. Davis, a one-armed soldier of Jeffersonville, was convicted of shooting with intent to kill and sentenced by the lower court to from two to fourteen years in prison. He appealed, holding among other. things that the indeterminate sentence law having been passed after the shooting was done could not he made to apply to his case without being an ex-post-facto law, and therefore unconstitutional. The Supreme Court decided against him. Bat the court 'reversed the case because the Circuit Court instructed the jury that a man has no right to defend himself with a deadly weapon against an attack by a person who has no weapon in his hands. Indiana’s War Record. The yearly report of the Adjutant General is a record of Indiana’s part in the war with Spain. It shows that 7,301 men and officers were mustered into the volunteer service from Indiana. There is also included a report of the Surgeon General, which gives the number of men cared for in hospitals in Indianapolis, after the return of the troops, at 378. Of this number 320 have been discharged. Six men died after they came hack to Indianapolis, three deaths being due to typhoid fever. two to malaria and one to pneumonia. New Process in l liotography. Will Free of Madison County has at last discovered a process which all photographers have been working on for years, of photographing on cloth and making colors fast and giving the cloth no discoloration. The Colors are so fast that they will withstand boiling water and are as dear cut as those of any photograph. The discovery will open a new line in fancy pillows. The first displays are made up in pretty pillows, the picture being about life size. Within Oar Border*. Near Peru a new oil field is being opened. Butter from peanuts is the product of a new concern at Kokomo. At Bourbon. Baugher & Lee’s big carriage works burned. The loss is slo,ooo. At Seymour, the livery stable owned by Knox C. Wilson was destroyed by fire; loss $1,500. Charles M. Stewart, prominent in insurance circles in Sullivan, died suddenly of heart failure. While hunting near Evansville, Ed. Gutting accidentally discharged his gun and killed his friend, Harry Minor. While returning from hearing mass said for her husband, Mary Doolan was ground to death by the cars at Shelbyville. Rivalry between two companies has caused a reduction in rates for residence telephone service at 50c a month at Salem. James Hitt, a farm hand at Fritchton, was run over by a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern train at Vincennes, and w r as instantly killed. Ilis body was cut in two.

A decision of the Circuit Court at Columbus is to the effect that foreign insurance companies doing a loan business in the State must first file their certificate of authority in the county where they purpose doing business. William Green, the oldest man in Indiana and perhaps in the United States, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Hurley, in Jonesboro. He was 111 years old and fought in the war of 1812 and with Harrison at Tippecanoe. Albert S. Higgins, a deaf mute, was assaulted by footpads on East Franklin street, in Shelbyville, and robbed of about Night Watchman John Williams found him unconscious with a bad gash in the back of his head. The thieves had partly disrobed him and dragged his body into an unoccupied lot. liobert McMillen. a widely known and well-to-do farmer of Cass County, shot himself through the neck with a shotgun. His body was found at the rear of the house where he had been living by himself. He left a note which stated he had left his pocketbook with a neighbor and that he wanted “Nannie” to have the ten and a half acres of land on which he lived. He referred to his niece, Nannie Moore of Elwood.

John Watts. ex-City Clerk of Marion, who retired from that ofliee after four years’ incumbency last September, is a fugitive from justice, and an investigation of the records in the office shows that he is short in his accounts $0,750. He was a worker in the Y. M. C. A. and was regarded as a man whose character was 1 above reproach. Mayor W. L. Golding filed an affidavit against Watts charging him with embezzlement, and a warrant was issued for bis arrest. j Charles W. Stapf, a well-known attorney, is dead at his home in Lawrenceburg. Charles Bouglmer, aged 75. is dead at his home near East Germantown. Jesse, aged 22, son of Emslie Burton of Georgia, was shot by John Flora, mistaking him for another man. A fend existed between Flora and Ab Jones of Mitchell, and Flora mistook young Burton for Jones. Flora, after a quarrel with Jones, waited in hiding behind a house with a shotgun. Burton, who resembles Jones in stature and dresa, came in sight and Flora, thirking it waa Jones, fired. Flora is iu tail. ' f • ‘ '