Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELIO TOLD. I J Schoolboy Stabbed to Death— NatitMtoH Guard to Be Reorganized on Lines—Troops Are to Return —Miclk<s igan City Prison Plant to Cloaca 3 ■ Ip Dee Patterson, a 14-year-old boy, W4M killed by Fred Dimp, a schoolmat<£-'9H years old, at Petersburg. Both boys vverS| the sons of prominent families, and murder has thrown the town into the wild 3 est excitement. The boys had a difficulty in school and renewed the gtnijM rel after they were dismissed in the even|S ing. Patterson met Limp on the street, few words passed, when Limp dnete/te knife from his pocket and slashed PatteM son across the throat, severing the lar vein. Patterson ran almost a squaria after being cut, pursued by his assailant|| When he fell to the ground Limp turned i and attempted to make his escape, but| was captured. The Patterson boy livedH but a short time after being cut and nevcqß regained consciousness. Plans for Indiana Militia. j The first move toward the reorganise tion of the Indiana National Guard haa? been made by the selection of EvausviUte Terre Haute, Frankfort, Vincennes, New| Albany, Madison, South Bend, Lafayette,] Fort Wayne and Indianapolis as the cities ' to Contribute the companies for their re* spective districts. The new organization! will be formed by equal congressional district apportionment. The cities to supply the companies for the sixth and eighth! districts have not been selected yet, bat j they will probably be New Castle and Anderson. Indiana Troops Coining Home. In pursuance of the administrative pol-J ; icy of bringing home all the ' troops for muster out in anticipation of • the exchange of ratifications of the treaty ! ■ of peace with Spain, orders have beep ; issued for the muster out at Savannah,! Ga., of the 160th regiment of Indiana'. I volunteer infantry, now at Matanzas. The! regiment will be brought home as soon as \ a troopship is available and kept at Sa-< vannah until warmer weather. Will Clow Its Prison Plant. The George E. T. Dodge Company, the ; Michigan" City branch of the Phelps, ' ' Dodge & Palmer Company of Chicago, j ■ who have manufactured boots and shoes , in the State's prison at Michigan City for; . the last eighteen years, are finishing up what stock they have on hand, tory to moving their outfit to Chicago. Within Our Borders Glanders among horses near Dogs are butchering many sheep aroundl 1 Marion. Pendleton will have water works am i electric lights. Brooklyn mills have passed into a receiver’s hands. Evansville proposes a municipal i lighting plant. Will See, Logansport, broke his leg ; while playing ten pins. I Esther Stillebower, 14, Bartholomew County, fatally burned. Madison County has gained $600,000 in wealth during the past year. Henry Osler, Kokomo, slugged the other night and touched for $6.20. Pastors’ association, Kokomo, has de1 dared against slot machines. Daniel Minneman, found unconscious with his head fractured at Osgood. Mcßeth lamp chimney factory, Elwood, has resumed operations with 500 cm- | ployes. ■ Wm. Wright, prominent Gibson County farmer, is dead. He had been married just two weeks. Timothy Rayel, switchman in the Pennsylvania yards. Fort Wayne, killed by falling from a car. Another hatch of Laporte citizens has been arrested, and it cost each S2O for keeping an unlicensed dog. Mat Peters, Tipton County, shot himself to death willfully. He was the fath-er-in-law of John McCreary, sheriff. Seven-year-old son of Steven Bolander, near Mohawk, accidentally shot and killed his 4-year-old sister with a target rifle, j Fourteen boys and girls from the Cincinnati orphans’ home were distributed among the good people of Windfall and vicinity. Verdict of “not guilty’’ in the case against Robert McCoy for killing George Newman, Greensburg, was received with cheers. Exchange of the Home Telephone Company, New Albany, burned during a wind storm. Fire caused by crossed wires or lightning. Loss $1,500. One of the biggest gas wells that have recently been drilled in that section is that of C. H. Croninger, on the cast edge , of Hartford City. The well has a tre- ’ meudous pressure. Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus Crumpacker of Valparaiso, parents of Congressmanj Crumpacker, observed the fifty-second anniversary of their wedding. They are 75 and 74 years of age respectively. A Princeton man climbed a ladder tn a roof to sweep off snow. The wind blew i the ladder over and he stood for half an hour in a howling blizzard before he could call attention to his predicament. The failure of the American Brewing ’ Company at Chicago forced the Columbia ■ Brewing Company of Logansport to the wall. The plant is valued at SIOO,OOO, and John G. Keip, its president, is re-1 ceiver. Receiver Malott of the Vandalia line s has turned over the forty miles of road from South Bend to St. Joseph, Mich., to the new owners, composed of New York and Connecticut capitalists, whose bid of SIOO,OOO for the property to protect them* selves when it was sold by order of theJ court was the only one made. Two masked men visited the home of; John Kissinger in Spencer County andJ beat him into insensibility upon his sisal to reveal the hiding place of his J money. Kissinger is a bachelor livings alone. He is supposed to have money about his place, i ‘ Clark Kidder and wife, Kokomo, nrej raising a baby on raw beef. It is IT months old. For a time it grew thin and’ij was expected to die. No kind of food <S| Sin