Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — RECORD OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK.

INDIANA INCIDENTS* TEnKfUf TOUDI ■ ' jr To Drain the Great Kankakf -|8 Narrow Escape for the Court ho use—Peculiar Accidettkfll I'aroer-Gis Supply Failinab 3||| The greatest drainage <listriduM| in Indiana will reclaim IS a,.-rv-* of Kankakee marsh Uiw *t|W tiufoci.L Kankakee, has charge ffocmariou of the district, and haaymS pevtiamoary work. Mr. Guford, with Nelson Morris of C’hieagUy SlteCby of Kentucky and the Baad.flj if's ~,f frown Point, owns most of te li>e reclaimed. In order to jurwtver owtlef tile Kankakee BSiiH have to be dredged and -Cisna'nee of more than forty tcslimated expense of dredging thflH| exceeds SSWVDtiX The land taflß rmLatoscd lies in Newton, Jasper aa|H Conmtiesv and at least half of it hH HEerge-I at present. When vrtEL be the best beet sugar groundMl yiMMry. it is said. m Plot to Wrejk Coarthononjlj The destruction of Cass ceutchouse at Logansport. was avijiß the timely arrival of Janitor Ginfifl tost the night the engine-room was bH tote aimd the water than in th«|H mas tmrned into a waste pipe. TljgH were Heft dry and bee ame red ho«| the persons in the vicinity were off the danger of an explosion 9 H wi.sbM have shaken the town and &mss of Life. Janitor Girard has been in the habit of entering by (M door, and when near the boiDec-room, always turned on which runs into the boiler. This tfl entered by another door, and, danger., quickly shut off the gas. • ■ ft town Skyward by Gw,*| Wilson; Broyles, a well-to-do siding near Gaston, was fatally fl wktt-e attempting to shut out theS| shat was forcing itself out of a foofl pipe in a natural gas wclL The miH Sieved he- had accomplished the ff-.h d'tshly ligated a match to near by. The gas ignited and * ce-jiort ff-dtowed. The pipes were twisted from the well and a volufl s~.i* * on ablaze, spurting many fee€S acr. with a great stream of s®g from the same hole. ehr-i-wn skyward with the explosto|fl| taaem off forty feet. ■ f»y* Gas Supply Is FailiagjH Geologist BUtchley says his rso-nai opinion the supply of afl ras in the Indiana gas belt will mI tcawt’ stoficieut for the catted there for more than two orfl years. He said that this is his bojjHj to the- heart off the gas belt itself, that reason he is laying particular* on, the ewuiE deposits of the State. ]9 arntral report he devotes nearly atffi 1-«**.» Jxijgvs to the coal fields. shoutSH the supply is inexhaustible and H grades. ■ Vitkin Our Border* I A rabbit weighing eighteen poQfIJH 4 feet •» inches long was killed n«jH krs&wsrg- H Chicago capitalists are being tefijfl to an effort to establish a t-.’-ry at Mari- hi. H A. F. Wttden of Goshen faitefl S 3 liabill: it's aud 126.000 asset* S'wriatikwa to real estate value* caul fail! cute-. I At Tmv Ilaette, the City CoaaJfl adopted a resolution to exempt frotfl asik>® for live years any munufadH arraui that win move to the city. 'mg Jasses -M. Addington, a farmetß Rtdgc-vtEte. attempted to drill a gafl ff-.i-r rnise- off hlaisctf and neighbors, $9 stea 1 struck a vein of oil which ytetfl barrv-K daily. ■ Ephraim Kergwein. the matri| naagtstrace who had a soft spot H heart for etoptog couples, is dead at m ■soiavtCEc. aged 6T years. lie exptrctffl Bright's disease. ■ At Marina. May Powell, aged isfl miiiitted suicide by taking Rough ml Her parents were divorced some tifljfl aad the- father married again. Thcfl hffe- had been very unhappy. 9 Ephraim Do-Urns, a prominent FU farmer, took a load of stock to Indtfl Ife recently, and. after disposing of jH ap-pe-ared. He is thought to have hijfl dde-t-aWe- money with him. 9 Alfred Garve-r. engineer of the 9 Pa-dtimg Gunpany at Fort Wayotfl MBBed by being caught in a revolvinj Sag and hurled against a brick wattJfl Sy e-te-ry Kme in his body was broke 9 The remains off a tramp, who,9 thought, was froaen to death, wefw9 to a Kara near New Albany, api® Bee-naoraimdiam found in his pocket it 9 pveso-1 his came was Thomas U. S«9 Chtcogw. 9 At Ne w Albany. Joseph Smith. on a charge off killing John King |9 coitat. UHL. was released, after thre-atecel to institute habeas corfwl ceedtßgs. The officers were cuafl they had the wrong man. 9 RohKers attempted to blow oJ safe- tt> By erty A Elrod's general St 9 IVkroi. The safe dad not yield t 9 charge of powder, but a big ho)a9 Mow* to the fioor and the windomjM shattered. A small sum was take*9 the cash drawer. 9 Sergeant Corregan of the Indifi|9 police force res»rued an entire raegtog to age from 2 to 30, ||9 gimests fr-wsa a burning resideocChS fire broke .«*t at 3 o'clock to the acd he- had them all out before the <9 pcartaaewt arrived. The marked S degrees below zero. Tktfl had nearly suffocated them, bast J aid of ladders and window shattefiM Ky carrying out the children, was bast. 9 The rim. stock and drying rooms 9 Standard Wheel Works plant at 9 llante were almost totally dcstrmH fire. e«tailing a loss of about f20,00H work w ill be resected in a few daya.9 total Dm* is coveted by iusnrance.iiS Throe rich nten have give* |SK|B raise the mortgage oo the PreshfiH of directors of W'itH^Tlwfl