Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Pitched ITcnd Foremost Info a Fiery :M Furnace - College Singer* Danseri onsly Beaten-Frozs to Heath Under a Hedge. £ ’ As a north-bound Grand Ilnpids and ' | Indiana’passenger train was going into',; 1 ; the Pennsylvania yards at Fort Wayne ft collided with a rear end of a light freight engine. The freight crew jumped. Both engines were wrecked. Passenger. Engineer Frank Perry was terribly bruised, but no bones were broken. Fireman Geo. Crnbill had the firebox open at the time anil was pitched into it. While his clothes Were a sheet of flame he climbed back over the coal, took the cover off the engine tank anil dived into, the water. Al- ; though badly burned about the arms, he will Jive. Body Found Frozen. J. M. Hinkle was found frozen to death in a hedge by the roadside a mile east of Bloomington. He had been missing for three days, but nothing serious xvm thought of his absence. He lived on a farm in the neighborhood in which he was found and it is supposed that lie was on his way home when he fell into the hedge. Toughs Beat Glee Club Men. The Franklin College Glee Club gave a concert at Morgantown.* At the close oKv, the concert a gang of toughs levied upon the boys and severely beat them with clubs. Four of the singers were badly injured. Tlie assailants escaped. No cause is assigned for the act. Novel Plun for Paring Streets. The city of Anderson is negotiating to pave her streets on the plan adopted by the city of Norwich, N. Y., by which insurance companies build file streets and take policies on the lives of fifty or IUO citizens as payment.

Within Our Border 6. Considerable Shelby County corn is still uu husked. Elkhart cigarmakers are boycotting the non-union article. Moses Keeney, Danville, well-known horse breeder, is dead. Kempton wants to shake off village kilts and become a town. At Shelburn Mrs. Stephen Braceweli was found dead in bed. Coatsvil’o has caught the incorporation fever and a unts to be a town. Elwood has taken up the fight to prevent the piping of gas out of the State. The Ma.’kland flour mill, near Yevay, was completely destroyed by an explosion. Jas. Vaoeleave, 5(5, Democratic politician of Cfawfordsville, is dead of heart trouble.

Ambrose St rebel, driver of a bakery wagon at c’ort Wayne, was fatally injured by a Wabash flyer.

J. S. Jeter & Co., dry goods dealers iij Oakland City, failed. Liabilities are $5.000 and assets $2,000. William Reid, charged with murderirg Samuel Barker, of Beards town, 11!., was acquitted at Shelbyville. At Osgood, the divorce ease of Charlotte Cook vs. John 11. Cook was decided in favor of tile plaintiff and $1,500 given her us alimony. Monroe township is becoming known as “the bloody township,” because of the many murders and mysterious deaths in that section.

Theodore Comstock, 24, farmer near Fountainlown, jilted, shot himself, but the bullet did not strike his heart, us he had intended. At Cherubusco, Mrs. Eliza Nelson, who had been tick for some time, arose from her hod, aud, falling downstairs, was almost instantly killed. The Hardemeyer-llile steel manufacturing plant will lie located at Kokomo instead of Tipton, the latter town failing to put up .Tie guarantee.

A number of veterans of (he ehil war have star ed-Ao erect a suitable monument over the grave of Lincoln's mother, buried ne3r Lincoln City. Albert Loudermilk, Vincennes, ex-mail carried, took his life by cuttiug his throat with a rasor. He lost his place and then ran a saloon in Princeton at a loss. William Williams, who settled near Valparaiso ic 1833. is dead. He was 91 years old and had six sons in the civil war, all ol whom returned home nlive. At Mitchell Miss Mollie Danner, 32, died of starvation. She imagined she could not cat aud so refused. It was thought ste had cancer of the stomach, but a post mortem showed that organ in perfect eor dition. Fred Scoble, a prosperous merchant of Washington, upon retiring at night, complained of a severe pain in his faee and head. AfAr a time he fell asleep. In the morning the pain had disappeared, but upon making his toilet he discovered that his hair had turned white, in which condition it still remains.

Goshen police officials have received a letter from William Morau, alias “Slippery Jim,” the alleged fraudulent pension agent, now in jail at Grand ltapids. Mich., in which hr? makes startling disclosures, aqd these, if true, will serve to clear the mystery surrounding the murder of Jonathan Crumpacker while the latter was returning to Bristol from a trip in Michi-. gan on the night of Dec. 20, 1804. Moran claims that he was with the man who murdered Crumpacker, and, while giving no names, says the murderer is serving in the Jackson, Mich., prison a sentence which is about to expire. Farther, he states that Crumpacker was killed by his (Moran's) companion, and the two then relieved the dead man of his gold watch and money. The watch was thrown into the Elkhart river and the money was spent in having a “good time” at Michigan lake resorts. Waymansville had a $3,000 fire. Mrs. Minnie Wallace’s house, Chas. Seuttel’s drug store and Cass Deaver’s blacksmith shop all burned. The bucket brigade prevented a further spread. Frank Siple was oouvic&ed of murder in the first degree at Washington and senteueed to life imprisonment. lie was accused of giving morphine to Franklin P. Smith, causing the latter’s death. A new trial has been denied Mrs. Rebecca A. ltosenbarger, at Princeton. Judge Wellborn sentenced her to seven years in the reformatory on the charge of goisouing her son Alva two months as»