Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Aaa Lyons’ Debts Too Heavy—Attempt to Kill a Xigkt Watchmam - tfficcn for tbe Foresters—House Wrecked by Explosion of Natural Gas. Asa Lyons, who "has been conducting a butcher shop in Anderson for nearly a year*, has employed an attorney to file proceeding* in bankruptcy. He says that he » Indebted in the sum of" $218,000, his principal creditors being in Chicago, Omaha, Cincinnati, Austin. Fort Worth, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Winchester, Mancie and Anderson. Lyons says he lost heavily on Texas cattle raages, mainly because President Cleveland ordered the land cleared on which Lyons was herding 18,000 head of cattle. Cowardly Crime at Anderson. A cowardly attempt to assassinate John Hefferman. night watchman of the American Straw Board Company’s plant in Andreses. was made the other morning. Hef-ft-rmati was making the rounds of the factory. and in passing a window received the contents of a shotgun in the back of the- head. The night engineer summoned assistance, and the man, with an ugly wound, was removed to the hospital. Elected by Indiana Foresters. The State meeting of Indiana Foresters dosed at Anderson. The newly elected officers are: Chief ranger, C. W. Ennis, Union City; vice-chief ranger, J. W. Baity. Anderson; secretary, W. W. Wilson. Logansport; treasurer, W. L. Austill, Elwood; councilor, J. E. Teagarden. Anderson; auditors, W. F. Gephart, E"ansviße; B. H. Stiger. Terre Haute. The ■ext meeting will be held at Peru. Wrecked by Natural Gas. The residence of Mrs. Mary Nichter at Fort Wayne was wrecked by an explosion of natural gas. The pii>es were leaking and the gas ignited from a caudle which Albert Nichter, aged 15, carried into the cellar. The boy was fatally burned. Mrs. Nichter was slightly injured by flying bricks. ... Caakards Going to I’akotn. Eastern Indiana Dunkards held mass meetings the other day and formed colonies to go to North Dakota and carry on the national colonization scheme being worked out by the church. During the last three years 25,000 have boon colonized in the selected territory. Wit lx in Our Borders, At Anderson. Oliver Stevens, aged 18, jdted by Lillian Petty, aged 10, attempted suicide. At New Albany, William .Herbert, 24 years old, attempted suicide by shooting himself. .... Attorney fjjjfries B. Stuart is dead at Lafayette. He was president of the board off trustees of Purdue University. The sheds, baskets, lumlier, oil well outfit, etc., off the Peru Basket Works were burned. Loss $3,000, partially insured. Aa explosion of natural gas at Sway zee wrecked the building occupied by A. W. Fry. grocer. No one was seriously injured. The drag firm of T. H. Mitchell & Co., Washington, failed. Assets $12,000, liafctitties SU,COU. W. Q. Williams is assign*?. At North Webster, the" farm residence, tarn and granaries of A. J. Dillman were burned with all their contents. The loss » $15,00 >. At Marion, John Morgan, foreman of the Upland zinc smelter works, was caught between two freight cars and fatally crashed. A SO.OO*MXX> mortgage on the property off the Central Union Telephone Company in Indiana has been placed on record iu sixty counties. Sixty Indiana survivors off the Mexican war held their annual reunion at Indianapolis. J. B. Mulkey off Bloomington was elected president. Adolph Schleicher, an Indianapolis merchant. was killed in the Indianapolis Journal boilding by falling four stories through an open court. Frank Xolting. a Columbus grocer, swallowed bis false teeth while asleep and was unconscious and nearly dead when discovered by his wife. Vernon A. Caldwell, a Marion boy, has been brevetted by the Uuited States Senate for bis gallant action In the battle of El CaneV in the Santiago campaign. Cyras C. Boyer, an inventor of some , reputation in northern Indiana, wns struck by a lake Shore freight train at Waterloo. Both of his legs were broken below tbe knees. Four children of Jesse Hancock, four miles north of Kokomo, were attacked simultaneously with measles, diphtheria and scarlet fever, each of them having all three diseases at the same time. Daisy, a 14-year-old daughter, is dead. James Boyd fatally shot a Mr. Lemmon ■t Evansville. The families of the men resided in the same house. Mrs. Boyd and Mrs. Lemmon quarreled and came to blows. Lemmon attempted to nssist his wife, when Boyd shot him. Boyd was urrested. Joseph Mallory, a farmer of Dubois County, was taken to the insane asylum in Evansville. Mallory was bitten by a hog several days ago and has hydrophobia. He grants like a hog and tries to bite everyone who comes near him. It is necessary to keep him masked and shackled. Joseph Nurrenberg. a farmer living six mSes from Evansville, was taken in by gold brick men. Two strangers called at his house nod wanted to sell a gold brick. The farmer took the brick to a jeweler, who aid it was worth $1,700. Nurrenberg paid S2OO, but after the men were ! gone discovered they had given him a bogus brick. The men are said to have worked the farmers of Posey County for several thousand dollars. Rev. John Bettig, superintendent of the Reformed Orphans’ Home at Fort Wayne, swallowed a dose of carbolic acid by mistake and died in an hour. He was attending his wife, who was on her death* bed. Rev. Mr. Rettig was 08 years old and for forty years had been a clergyman. J. C. Vanatta, representing an Indiana aad Michigan syndicate, has purchased dock property at Michigan City. The contract will at once be awarded for the mull action of immense grain elevators, Michigan City will be made the shipping point for southern Michigan and wjrtbrew Indiana grain buyers-