Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Family Narrowly Escapes Death from Poisoned Coffee—Coal Strike Ended at Washington-Monopolists in Dog Show Business—State Law la Void. Alonzo Wallet, his wife and Mrs. Wallet’s sister, Mrs. Sarah Kline of Logan, Ohio, who was visiting at the Wallet home in Marion, were poisoned by drinking coffee made from a package found on their doorstep. A recent announcement in the local papers by a new coffee and tea house that they would furnish each house in the city with a trial package of coffee led Mrs. Wallet to believe that the package found was for trial, and she made enough for the family for breakfast. It is learned that the tea and coffee firm has ; not yet put out any samples. • i Miners Long Ftrike Ended. Indiana’s long coal miners’ strike was ; terminated at Washington by an agreement of the differences. The strike began ' nearly two years ago by the refusal of Cabel & Co. to pay for the removal of what is known as “dead dirt.” The agreement entered into now provides that the company shall adhere strictly to the Chicago national agreement; shall pay for the removal of “dead dirt” and put in one and one-fourth inch screens to take the places of the one and a half-inch screens. Corner on Dog Show Business. The Gentry Brothers, the great Indiana dog show managers, have run a corner on 1 the dog show business of the country by absorbing Sipe & Dolman, Sipe & Blake, Norris Brothers, Westlake Brothers, Sig Cannon and C. E. Rice. The Gentrys now own over 400 ponies, GOO trained dogs, 1 100 monkeys, eight elephants, three ze- \ bras and one goat. Their homes are at Bloomington. Snya State Law Ts Nall. At Indianapolis, Judge John H. Baker of the United States District Court decided that the assignment law of Indiana , had been suspended by the national bank- | ruptcy act. He holds that any title may : be declared null and void at any time hy an appeal to the Federal Court under the . bankruptcy act. Within Onr Border*. Columbus will have a city library. Brazil will have free mail delivery. Upland will have a window glass factory. Clark County peacli and cherry crop reported ruined. Bee industry injured by cold weather in Clinton County. Charles Pumfre, injured in a gas explosion at Marion, is dead. The Noblesville and Hartford City ricetrie railroad scheme is dead. Marion had a double wedding at which mother and daughter were the brides. The table factory of Stewart & Blakely, Shelbyville, damaged SIO,OOO by fire. A patent exchange has been established at Marion for the benefit of inventors. Albany is excited over a spotted fever case that has developed in a 10-ycnr-old child. Evansville and N’ewburg electric railroad will be extended to Uoekport, forty miles. Hamilton County farmers have organized a short-horn and polled Durham association. Cyrus C. Boyer. Waterloo, who had both legs cut off by a Lake Shore freight train, is dead. ■■ ■ ■ Henry Sutton. Marion, has gone for a two to fourteen years' visit with friends at Jeffersonville. At Terre Haute. Mrs. Eva Van Pelt was granted a divorce from Lieut. Van Pelt of the Salvation army, At the State meeting of Indiana foresters, Anderson, it was decided to admit women to the lodge on the same basis as men. Aaron Cox, a brakemnn on the E. & T. H., Evansville, was badly burned by a gas explosion. He entered a box car where there were some empty gasoline tanks with a lighted lantern. At Fort Wayne, the Randall Hotel, owned by Frank J. Stutosman, formerly of Chicago, has gone into the hands of a receiver. Stutesman owes about $15,000, of which $9,000 is in mortgage notes. A haunted house in Logausport is creating much excitement. The last occupants say there is something “queer” about the house, and that their furniture was disarranged at night, and the ghost broke canned fruit open. The yield bf maple syrup and maple sugar in northern Indiana this spring will be the heaviest in many years. Because of the severe cold the buds have not started and the sap for this reason is of much higher quality than usual. Oscar Felton struck Edward Vance, a fellow workman in the Uplaud sine works at Marion, with an iron bar, which crushed his skull. Felton escaped. Five shots were tired at him liy the marshal. Bloodhounds and a posse of uieu are after him. Stephen Glawser, a German farmer living two miles south of Poseyville, killed his wife and mother-in-law, Elizabeth Kincbloe, and after setting fire to the building shot himself in the heart, dying instantly. Glawser and his wife had lived on Mrs. lvinchloe’s farm since their marriage a year ago. They often quarreled over religion, it is said, Glawser being a Catholic and his wife a Protestant. There has later developed a strong belief among the farmers living around Poseyville that Stephen Glawser did not kill his wife and mother-in-law and commit suicide, as reported, but that the three were murdered and their house set on fire. A young man who formerly worked for Glawser on nis farm had a falling out with him and is said to have threatened to kill Glawser and his family. The young man has disappeared and cannot be found. Pearl Cutting, member of the lOOtlt Indiana, in Cuba, is in prison for writing a letter 1 to his parents in Decatur, in which he made threatening remarks concerning his officers. The letter was published. A supposed meteor found sticking in the roof of Henry Siscoe’s bam, Bmithviile, occasioned much excitement. It developed that it was only a piece of metal blown from the exhaust pipe of a Monon engine. -Michael Gerbrisk, father of thirty-two children, died in the Montgomery County poorhouse, without one of his children coming to see him. A son left funeral expenses with an undertaker some time ago.