Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Natural Gaa Causes Flrca-What Hog Cholera Has Coat the Farmers-Grew-some Discovery by Railroad Men— Cruel Mode of Revenge. Marion had six fires the other day. Some were caused by increased pressure of the natural gas when the families were absent from home. One fire was in an empty dwelling which had contained no fire for a week, and was the work of au incendiary. The Kelley chair factory was slightly damaged. The most disastrous fire was the Boiler ice cream factory, which burned to the ground. The residence of Albert Boiler, the proprietor of the factory, also burned, together with all its contents. The family was rescued by the neighbors, who broke the doors do>vu and dragged them out of bed. Hog Cholera Costs Millions. A bulletin issued by the experiment station of Purdue University is to the effect that 900,000 hogs, valued at $5,000,000, have died in the State from cholera. The disease has been general over the State, but has subsided somewhat at the present time. During the past two years the station used 4,300 pounds of “guaranteed cholera cure” without finding a practical remedy in any one of them. Body In Box tent as Freirht. A mysterious box*bf storage freight was opened at Evansville at the Louisville and. Evansville and St. Louis freight house, and a dismembered body was found. The head, legs, arms and a portion of the trunk were found. The box containing the cadaver was skipped to “E. L. Thurman,” from St. Louis. No such party can be found in Evansville. Tie a Horse on the Tracks. James Hannon went to a social function in 'Monroe township. When he went to get his buggy to go home he found it chopped to splinters. The leather parts were stripped and the horse was gone. He found it later tied in the center of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad tracks. A barb wire fence was constructed around it. The train was due in fifteen minutes, Within Onr Borders. Terre Haute is reaching out after a tin mill plant. A female brass band is one of the institutions Waterloo is proud of. Brazil is being asked to vote a subsidy of $40,000 to a new big steel plant. A co-operative company for the manufacture of window glass will be located at Daleville. Samuel Musser, Morgan County’s oldest citizen, died pear Waverl.v. He was born April 14, 1799, in Virginia. A horse, which for many years has done duty at the Indiana reform school, recently died at the age of 30 years. > Rev. Henry C. F. Ewers, a retired Lutheran minister, dropped dead at his home in Fort Wayne of heart disease. A company which proposes to build an electric railroad between Indianapolis and Logansport has been incorporated. The jail at Summitville bnrned and Fred Boriin of Anderson, who had been incarcerated for drunkenness, perished. James Phipps, white, and Van Suggs, colored, were fatally burned by a terrific dust explosion in Terry mines at Clinton. Will A. Jackson, until recently a large manufacturer of carriages, committed suicide at Goshen by banging. No motive is assigned. The Christian organizations of Elwood are receiving donations looking to the" establishment of a home for friendless women in that city. Frank Spindler, the locomotive fireman who was scalded in the locomotive explosion on the Evansville and Terre Haute road, died at Evansville. John H. Carter, who has been in the dry goods and grocery business at Matthews for thirty years, sold out to Ralph Sutton of Hartford City. * Orders were telegraphed from Washington recently to Postmaster Spaugh of Hope, to put ou an additional carrier for tree rural mail in Hawcreek township. Katherine Vannest, one of the first women settlers of Vermilion County and daughter of the first white woman who crossed the Wabash river north of Fort Harrison, was buried at Clinton the other day. Mrs. Vannest was 86 years old. George Kuight, senior member of the firm of Knight & Knight of Zanesville, reported to the health officers at Fort Wayne that in two weeks hog cholera killed off between 1,500 and 2,000 hogs within a radius of three miles of his place. The Elwood Electric Street Railway has been sold to the Union Traction Company, of which Congressman Charles S. Henry is president. This company has already completed the line from Anderson to Alexandria, and the Council will immediately grant the company the right of wa# into Elwood. The body of Henry Nehf, the missing druggist, has been found in the ruins of the big fire at Terre Haute. Young Nehf s body was face downward, and on his left arm was the nozzle of the line of hose which had been carried into the building. His neck was broken, chest a:»d hips crushed and one leg broken. The body of Peter Vanderweit was found under the bridge of the Chicago Terminal Transfer Railway at Hammond. Accompanied by George Devries the young man had - left home and skated down the river to We*t Hammond, 111., where the ice gave way . Devries escaped, but Yanderweit was drowned. The wool growers of the State have elected the following officers: President, W. A. Guthrie, Ilupont; vice-president, Sidney Conger, Waldron; secretary, J. W. Robe, Green; as tie; treasurer, John L. Thompson, Gat City; executive committee, Howard Rheime of Ladoga, C. A. nowlaud and W. A. Bell, LaGrangc. A peculiar accident happened to a Monon passenger engine at Crawfordsvillo. The whistle sot turned around some way and, striking the water tank pipe, it was off and shot back through the end of the baggage car. At a meeting of the board of trustees of the State Normal School at Terre Haute, president Parsons was instructed to get bids for a fire escape for the new building. It was also decided to take out an additional $48,000 insurance. The trustees are carrying $102,000, but the buildings cost $250,000 and the contents are valued at $50,000.