Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — RECORD OP THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OP THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS T€RSELY TOLD. . WM Awakens Only to Meet Death—Father | and Brother Gnard a Girl with Shot* Buna—Murderer Gets a Long Sen* tence-Industry for New Albany. I Miss Frances Leffler, the 10-year-old | daughter of George Leffler, a well-to-do farmer five miles northwest of Hartford | City, met death in a peculiar manner. The f girl, with her escort, Charles Banter, attended a revival meeting. They returned home lute, cold and tired. Sitting before , | the warm stove they soon fell asleep. Shortly afterwards the occupants Of the ' house were aroused by frantic screams. Banter awoke in time to see his sweet- | heart dashing out of the door all ablaze. | She was taken back to the house, und, after suffering three hours, died. She said that they had been sitting in front of the stove and fallen asleep. The wind 1 had blown the gas flame against her dress and ignited it, and that she was enveloped ; in flames before she was thoroughly awak- | cited.

£hotaiins Prevent a Wedding. Edward"Youeom secured a license to ! marry Miss Nancy Goodwin, the 14-year- i old daughter of John Goodwin, an influential farmer, living three miles south of Brazil. The license was obtained on an affidavit that the girl was of age. The ' wedding was set for a certain night. The girl’s father and brother were warned of the intended wedding and each secured a shotgun and vowed they would kill the first one who attempted to take Nancy from the house. One of the prospective groom’s friends attempted to conciliate the father, but was ordered to leave the premises at the point of a gun. Slayer Ordered to Prison. Fred Gillespy, better known ns Fred i Green, at Spencer, was sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two years nor more than twenty-one years for the | killing of Alonzo Stout, the divorced hus- ,1 bund of his sweetheart. Green and Stout 1 and the woman all lived at Bloomington. For a Big Plant at New Albany. | Chicago capitalists are contemplating the establishment at New Albany of the most extensive marine ways and strnc- 1 iural iron works in the Ohio valley, and | one among the largest plants of the kind J in the world. The proposed plant is to cost SI,<KHW)OO and will employ 2,000 men. p Within Our Border*. Kokomo now has a curfew law. j A water works plant will be built at Franktou. At Goshen, George P. Rowell, aged SO, died of croup. August Pillman, aged 50 years, dropped J dead at Chesterton. At Shelbyville, Cyrus Lambert, aged 50, was killed by a falling tree. At Waterloo, Douglas Kelly was almost instantly killed by a falling tree. A rescue home for girls and women has 1 beeie established in Terre Haute'.

Rev. John Grogan, Lafayette prjest, is dead of asthma and heart trouble. An electric light plant to cost $75,000 will be built by the city of Evansville. An electric railway will l>e bhilt from Orland to I'ort Wayne, via Waterloo. I William Rybolt and his two sons of Marion are the victims of poisoned canned meat. Contractor William Klink, aged 48, was thrown from a broken ladder and killed at : Elkhart. Edward C. Beardsley, vice-president of the Miles Medical Company, died at Elk* hart of heart disease. The Kokomo Conncil has passed a cur* few law, placing the age limit at 18 years and the hour 8 o'clock. 1 Three 13-year-old girls who ran away from the Children’s Home at Madison were found at Vevay and taken back. i| Mrs. Nora Piper, wife of a farmer south of Terre Haute, attempted suicide with;-; morphine because of the death of her child. The large plate glass factory in Elwood, after a shut-down of three weeks, has resumed operations. This plant gives employment to about 2,000 hands. The Terre Haute wheelmen are incensed over the passage of an ordinance by the Council fixing the amount of the license for wheels the same as for one-horse vehicles, sl. Rev. F. F. Dobson, who has been pastor of the Presbyterian churches at Cambridge City and Hagerstown for the past year, has accepted a call from the congregation at College Corner, Ohio, and will take immediate charge. Vigo County bonds, calling for $75,000m drawing 3% per cent interest, have been sold to Farson, I.each & Co. of Chicago at a premium of $450. The same firm.: recently purchased $29,000 gravel road bonds in that county, paying $595 premK> um. Five prisoners broke jail at Jefferson- .> ville., They were George Green, charged with murdering his wife; William charged with bigamy; William charged with larceny, and John Brown and Charles Riley, who were serving! short sentences for trivial offenses. George Johnson, aged 30, an employe of ] the.Vandalia shops at Terre Haute, at- i tempted suicide by cutting his throat witl| J a pocket knife. He was despondent be-;J cause he thought he would not recov«|| from “walking typhoid” fever, with which he had been afflicted for several Etta Fisher was granted a divorce Ittjj the Circuit Court of Madison County af] 5:10 the other evening and proceeded to'] immediately establish a new lightning] marriage record for Indiana. The decrewj was haudedVo her at 5:15. She immedi-J ately left the room. Four minutes later] she had secured a license nud at 5:25 and W. H. Knapp were husband an#] wife. I Rev. James Coleman, professor in the] preparatory department of Notre Dame] University, is dead. Father was 33 years of age. 1 A gray eagle measuring three feet ffwl head to tail and seven feet one inch troral tip to tip of its wiugs was shot by T -#l Hall at Greeneastle. I The United Brethren publishing bottdil now located at Mount Morris, 111., t|B| sent investigating committees to Elkhgjjfffl South Bend and Goslteu, with a view J removing the brethren headquarters frtUH the Illinois town to the djty offering best inducements for locatiou. 1